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Bosnia's Serbs Threaten To Secede
AFP ^ | September 2, 2008 | staff

Posted on 09/02/2008 4:07:28 PM PDT by Diocletian

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1 posted on 09/02/2008 4:07:28 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: montyspython; kosta50; Hoplite; getoffmylawn; Bokababe; kronos77

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2 posted on 09/02/2008 4:08:55 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian
Go ahead. But murder anyone over it, and you all die.
3 posted on 09/02/2008 4:18:13 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: JasonC
Go ahead. But murder anyone over it, and you all die

I'm afraid independence is rarely won peacefully anywhere there Jason.

btw..you do realize the inconsistency in your high minded warning?

"mess up and we kill you all"...that's mighty thoughtful of you

4 posted on 09/02/2008 4:24:17 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama/Pol Pot 2008)
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To: Diocletian; neverdem; patton
In “related news” consider this tidbit:

Sarajevo, 2 Sept. (AKI) – A Canadian firm will begin exploring potential oil reserves in northeastern Bosnia worth an estimated 80 billion dollars, Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje said on Tuesday.

Preliminary research has indicated that some 50 million tonnes of crude oil may be lying near the northeastern town of Tuzla and further research will start this month.

Representatives from the Canadian company, Seedrock Capital Partners, are due in Bosnia this month to seek agreement on the terms of an exploration agreement with the government, the paper said.

Follow the money. Find out where the two territories are, you may find out what the impact of oil (underground) is on (above-ground) political posturing.

5 posted on 09/02/2008 4:36:42 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: JasonC

First thing: We aren’t (or we shouldn’t put American Soldiers’ lives) at jeopardy in the middle of another nation’s civil wars. Secondly, would you really advocate defending and Islamic Republic (in Europe) over Christian and traditionaly western Serbians?

Thirdly, I don’t want either side to kill anyone, but we need to have an ballanced approach IF the Muslims killing anyone I hope your response of “murder anyone over it, and you all die” would be the same if they committed atrocities!?
(otherwise it would allow the Islamics (some allied with Al Qaeda) and the European liberals to basically run over the rights of free citizens!


6 posted on 09/02/2008 4:44:38 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: JasonC

First thing: We aren’t (or we shouldn’t put American Soldiers’ lives) at jeopardy in the middle of another nation’s civil wars. Secondly, would you really advocate defending and Islamic Republic (in Europe) over Christian and traditionaly western Serbians?

Thirdly, I don’t want either side to kill anyone, but we need to have an ballanced approach IF the Muslims killing anyone I hope your response of “murder anyone over it, and you all die” would be the same if they committed atrocities!?
(otherwise it would allow the Islamics (some allied with Al Qaeda) and the European liberals to basically run over the rights of free citizens!


7 posted on 09/02/2008 4:44:39 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Diocletian
They will probably join Serbia, which will send in its army to protect them. Serbia will claim the Bosnian Serbs have the same right as the Kosovars.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

8 posted on 09/02/2008 4:49:12 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Of course, by doing that they would be accepting in principle the independence of Kosovo...


9 posted on 09/02/2008 4:57:09 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: goldstategop
"They will probably join Serbia, which will send in its army to protect them. Serbia will claim the Bosnian Serbs have the same right as the Kosovars."

I seriously doubt that.

Oh, the Bosnian Serbs might fight to join Serbia, because they don't want to live in a Muslim-dominated state. But Serbia isn't going to "send in its army to protect them", because Serbia is STILL paying for doing that during the Bosnian wars of the 1990's.

10 posted on 09/02/2008 5:08:42 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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11 posted on 09/02/2008 5:09:55 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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Maybe the Serbs will get a little help from the Russians. Do the Europeans want a fight with Russia over a little border changes? I think Not.


12 posted on 09/02/2008 5:24:21 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Maybe the Serbs will get a little help from the Russians. Do the Europeans want a fight with Russia over a little border changes? I think Not.


how should the russian help? they are not able to get there.
btw. we still have troops there.


13 posted on 09/02/2008 5:34:16 PM PDT by austrian
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To: Diocletian
They are de facto a separate state from Bosnia and a client state of Serbia and have been for more than a decade.

They have their own government and their own army.

They are discussing paper now. The facts have already been settled.

14 posted on 09/02/2008 5:54:53 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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They have their own government and their own army


sorry but you are wrong they serbs in bosnia do not have an own army nor do they have their own government.


15 posted on 09/02/2008 6:04:17 PM PDT by austrian
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The Republika Srpska has a president and a parliament and its own ministries and civil offices.

Its army, the VRS, may be theoretically part of the Bosnian Armed Forces - but it fought for years as a separate command and is, except for a few display units, still effectively a separate command.

The integration of this government and this military into larger Bosnia is mostly superficial.

16 posted on 09/02/2008 6:26:36 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

interesting. i didn´t know the fact that they have a parlament. but they do not have an army (at least anymore) i did some research and all i could find that they had to give up their army in 2006 under pressure of the EU. but they still have their own police.


17 posted on 09/02/2008 6:36:00 PM PDT by austrian
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To: JSDude1
Serbs are rat bastards allied to Russia and don't have a Christian bone in their bodies. They are nihilists murderers. If they merely want to run off and live by themselves with their fellow murderers, good riddance and don't let the door slam you in the backside on your way out into the darkness. But if they want to drag the civilized world into their feuds and their murder games, then slaughter them all and no one on earth will miss them.
19 posted on 09/02/2008 7:51:23 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: John Williams
That isn't even grammatical english, and it is the silliest sort of ad hominem, and it is factually challenged as well. I am an American patriot and a veteran and I brawl with howitzers. If Serbs have a death wish, side with Russia and be damned.
20 posted on 09/02/2008 7:53:26 PM PDT by JasonC
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