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To: mark502inf; robowombat
Peter..... the battle you described was Serb Christian vs Croatian Christian.

Point taken and digested by me. I tried desperately to save face and shark up Albanian guerillas who had cast their lot in with the Croats.

Only a chief commander was known as an Albanian in that action. He threw his lot in with the Croats. He escaped war crimes charges,though a cruel adversary.

Anyway you are right. robowombat gives an excellent post on the Canadians. I now have learned more.

45 posted on 11/03/2005 4:14:16 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra
Peter, actually there was a prominent Kosovar Albanian who served as a Brigadier in the Croatian Army during that time--Agim Ceku. He is now the commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps; a sort of National Guard or Civil Defense force in Kosovo and the closest thing they have to an army. Other Albanians are known to have served in the Croatian Army during that time as well; not as separate elements, but as individual enlistees in regular Croatian units.

Croatia and Kosovo both had the common enemy of Serbia; plus Rugova--the Catholic President of Kosovo--and the influential Albanian Catholic Bishop Marko Sopi of Kosovo both had ties in predominantly Catholic Croatia Croatia; they at times used Croatian based radio stations to broadcast into Kosovo. And going back a little further, both Slovenia and Croatia used the 1989-90 Serb revocation of Kosovar autonomy and imposition of rule from Belgrade as part of their rationale for seceding from the former Yugoslavia. So there were some connections.

46 posted on 11/03/2005 5:14:19 PM PST by mark502inf
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To: Peter Libra

Medak pocket is even by Balkans standard unique event in sense that one Canadian citizen – Gojko Susak – ordered attack on Canadian soldiers. It is probably only time in Canadian history that one Canadian citizen led foreign troops against Canada. Unknown number of Croats and Canadians were killed/wounded that time. Canadian government still refuses to tell whole story but it appears that they took that attack very friendly. They did everything they can to kill the story. Of course, friendly media was on board. Ottawa didn’t even lodge a protest against Croats. They didn’t condemn Croats for crimes committed against Serb civilians. They did nothing to help their own soldiers. This is what they did for Canadian troops:
http://www.rense.com/politics4/troops.htm


60 posted on 11/07/2005 8:22:16 PM PST by zagor-te-nej (USS - United States of Serbia)
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