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Kosovo Serb died at U.S. embassy
B92 ^ | Staff

Posted on 02/23/2008 2:18:46 PM PST by Bokababe

BELGRADE -- Zoran Vujović, 21, has been identified as the victim in Thursday's fire at the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.

Vujović, whose family now resides in Novi Sad, was a Kosovo Serb, forced out of the province when he was 12 years old. His identity was determined through DNA analysis, a spokesman for a district court in Belgrade said.

The exact cause and circumstances of his death were not given, according to agencies' reports. Vujović's charred body was recovered from the embassy, which was vandalized and set on fire Thursday, after several hundred rioters attacked the building, while a mass peaceful rally was ongoing in Belgrade.

The post mortem, conducted at the Belgrade military clinic, VMA, took 12 hours Friday. But the identity could not be confirmed, since even the bones of the victim's arms and legs were completely burned, reports say.

He was first identified by his father, Milan Vujović, who recognized some of the personal belongings that were recovered, including his son's gold chain. The DNA analysis later confirmed this.

His parents reported Vujović missing late Thursday. On Friday, the victim's father was looking for his son in MUP detention facilities, thinking that he may have been detained during the unrest.

The Vujović family were expelled from Čaglavica, near Priština, in July 1999.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: embassy; kosovo; serbia; wot
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To: montyspython

And I bet our State Dept will heartily approve.


61 posted on 02/23/2008 3:54:23 PM PST by isrul
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To: trumandogz

And the Jihadists attacked our homeland on 9/11 so why the hell are we rewarding them with a new base of operations in Kosovo.

It is pure idiocy!


62 posted on 02/23/2008 4:00:12 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: trumandogz

I can find you 1000 rioters in DC who will gladly attack a US embassy.

This says nothing about the Serbian people, particularly as the Serbian police move to arrest the rioters.


63 posted on 02/23/2008 4:01:21 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Bokababe

In a colloquial sense, I tend to think of “terrorists” as those who deliberately target innocent people for death and destruction to achieve some political purpose. You know, like Al Quaeda. (spelling?)

In this sense, I would call the attackers on the embassy rioters, looters, and arsonists. I haven’t heard that anybody in this specific group was deliberately targeting American embassy personnel for death/injury??? (Or did they?)


64 posted on 02/23/2008 4:02:21 PM PST by Molly K.
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To: Grimmy
Someone please help me out.

Why in the world did we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from the Chinese, leaving us in hock to them, and why did we spill God knows how much American blood in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan to keep out Al-Qai'da, if we're now going to create a bridgehead for them in Kosovo, straight into the very heart of Eastern Europe????

Beam me up, Scotty!

65 posted on 02/23/2008 4:02:21 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: FormerLib

I never said the Serbian people as a whole did this but rather a group of terrorists. And I do not care about the terrorist’s religion while they burn an American Embassy to the ground.


66 posted on 02/23/2008 4:03:29 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: inkling
They both use the same fascistic tactic of violence and brute nationalism.

Ya know, dude, brute nationalism may be the only thing standing between us and Greater Azatlan. I don't know about you but I don't want my children growing up in Mexico Norte.

67 posted on 02/23/2008 4:05:08 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: isrul

“What must they do to get us to stomp them?”

Kosovo became a go-to place for jihadi before 9/11 and continued to be so and still is.

It’ll devolve its way into the usual pusspot and need a thorough draining before this war is over.

Sure they’ll demand, and they’ll get, for awhile. But it’s already known to produce nasties and that’s only going to get worse now. Something bad enough to demand the sternest sort of attention will come out of Kosovo. That’s a given.

Now, Serbia is seperated from all liability and any possible responsibility on that day. And, the Serbs will be in the position to say a real loud “We frickin TOLD YOU SO!!”

It’s not so hard to see what has been taken away by slow degrees over a century plus, to be returned after a good dose of having the dirt beat out of it.

If it is true that the Serbs have signed on with the Iranians for their “protection”, and with the Serbs seeming to work toward giving the Rus a reason to play the trouble maker, I’m really leaning toward a screw em all position.

Not that what I’ve got to say on this or any other issue matters to anyone but me. But, there it is.


68 posted on 02/23/2008 4:05:44 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: trumandogz

What do you expect, we are supporting AQ there.

Pray for W and Our Troops


69 posted on 02/23/2008 4:06:14 PM PST by bray (Go InSain)
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To: trumandogz
And George W. Bush recognized the State of Kosovo.

And George W. Bush thinks every illegal alien is a strong believer in family values.

70 posted on 02/23/2008 4:06:43 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: montyspython
Yep, thank God we helped those terrorists in Bosnia or they never would have been able to help knock those two towers down. /s

Huh! and I was told it was the CIA setting up bin-Laden in Afghanistan that did it.

71 posted on 02/23/2008 4:08:23 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Never say yer sorry, mister. It's a sign of weakness)
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To: inkling
An act of war is bombing a sovereign nation for almost 80 days. As an American, I don't support what they did. But I must say that I would consider the embassy, of any nation that bombed the US for almost 80 days and supported the confiscation of part of my homeland, a fair target.

We made war on the Serbs and we should consider ourselves fortunate that they were helpless targets or we may have had to pay a price for our "bombs for peace" rampage.

72 posted on 02/23/2008 4:09:48 PM PST by isrul
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To: E. Cartman

re: #65.

Donno. Probably because our foreign policy magnates have always been a load of euro-wannabees who couldn’t provide a functional solution to any problem more complex than what to have for breakfast?

I’m not trying to say this is all a good thing, and what silver linings I may see I’m having to put a hella lot of creative effort into seeing... but.. its done.

Maybe we get lucky and it turns into a honey trap surrounded by the type of cultures that don’t play so nicey nice with barbarian scumbags once they get their fight on.


73 posted on 02/23/2008 4:11:08 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Hildy
Exactly. That doesn’t mean you support their actions.
74 posted on 02/23/2008 4:15:36 PM PST by isrul
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To: bray
Pray for W and Our Troops

No, pray for our country and our troops...and pray to God that he keeps us safe from more of that inarticulate, half-witted patrician's idiocy.

75 posted on 02/23/2008 4:15:53 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: Bokababe
"What you are selectively ignoring is that several hundred thousand peaceful Serbs protested and then went to church afterward to pray. About a hundred, in a separate group set fire to our flag and our embassy -- and yet they are the only ones anyone notices. One of them died to do it, how much blood to you want from them for protesting our insane Islamofascist-loving policies? And how much of our boys blood is it worth to defend the Crescent against the Cross in the Balkans?"

Sounds like the excuse trotted out by the anti G-8 crew "we ae peaceful, It was just a small group not associated with us, don't even know who they are, But it's really the evtl of Capitalism that forced them to do it"

76 posted on 02/23/2008 4:17:07 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Never say yer sorry, mister. It's a sign of weakness)
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To: Grimmy

I actually hope you are correct. I just don’t have much faith in the ability of the West to act.


77 posted on 02/23/2008 4:21:10 PM PST by isrul
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To: isrul

right.


78 posted on 02/23/2008 4:26:49 PM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: inkling
Who knew we had so many “Blame America Firsters” on FR...

Many more than I am comfortable with, from what I have been reading of the postings on this topic. I am suspecting some of being sleeper trolls.

79 posted on 02/23/2008 4:29:21 PM PST by La Enchiladita (don' need no steenkin' tag line....)
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To: trumandogz

I don’t condone it either. But I understand it.


80 posted on 02/23/2008 4:29:33 PM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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