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To: ABrit; Great Dane
So educate me, whats wrong with Kosovo?

Let the education begin. Make sure you read all the linked articles.

BIN LADEN GATE

70 posted on 04/01/2002 8:54:05 PM PST by Spar
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To: Spar
Thanks for the post, but I already knew al Qaeda were bad guys and Clinton was a defective President.

What I want to know is why "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of human happiness" is ok for the US, but apparently not ok, according to many on this site, for the Kosovars.

71 posted on 04/02/2002 12:26:08 AM PST by ABrit
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To: Spar;vooch
One days report, copied from the federation of American Scientists site. 02 October 1998

TEXT: KOSOVO DIPLOMATIC OBSERVER MISSION DAILY REPORT, SEPT. 30


(Compiled from daily reports of U.S. element of KDOM) (600)



(The following KDOM Daily Report was compiled by EUR/SCE
(202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo
Diplomatic Observer Mission and released by the Bureau of European and
Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S.
Department of State, Washington, DC, September 30, 1998.) KDOM Daily
Report
September 30, 1998 This morning at about 10:30 a vehicle operated by
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hit a land mine 2
km. southeast of Likovac (near the site where a Canadian vehicle hit a
mine on September 14 and a Serbian police vehicle was destroyed,
killing five, on September 26). One doctor was killed and two others
injured. The fatality was an ethnic Albanian; the injured, another
Albanian and a New Zealander. A U.S. KDOM team was nearby at the time
of the explosion and able to provide assistance, including arranging
for Serbian authorities to provide a medevac helicopter to pick up the
injured and move them to the Pristina hospital. KDOM performed a
preliminary investigation of the alleged massacre of 14 Albanian men
in Golubovac. An alleged eyewitness told the team that, while Serbian
police attacked the village (see KDOM Daily 9/29) another group
tortured, mutilated, then shot the 14 victims whose bodies were buried
in the woods 2 km. east of the village. KDOM saw the site, pools of
blood in the dirt, tools allegedly used to stab the victims, and some
small-caliber shell casings. Residents of the area told KDOM of the
surrounding hills being littered with large numbers of bodies. KDOM
could not substantiate these reports. IDPs [internally displaced
persons] in the Suva Reka region told KDOM that the Serbian offensive
there began on September 26. First with artillery then infantry, the
Serbians forced an estimated 20,000 villagers from their homes and
into the mountains. A convoy of 240 IDP vehicles fleeing the offensive
was stopped and attacked by Serbian police on September 27, according
to IDPs. KDOM located the remains of the convoy on the Vranic Road and
noted that 150+ of the vehicles were burned or destroyed. The IDPs
traveling with the convoy were detained for 24 hours without food,
water, or facilities. IDPs also alleged that some women in this group
were sedated, beaten, and raped. Some of the men were reportedly
tortured, and one old woman and three children died during the
detainment. Local authorities told KDOM that several villages (Vic,
Kastanenevo, Biti, and Izhance) southwest of Urosevac were attacked by
VJ [called for translation] and police forces without warning on
September 28. 2,500 local residents reportedly fled to Urosevac. UNHCR
teams were in Likovac, Pec, Prizren, and Orahovac today, and a small
convoy delivered supplies to IDPs in the area east of Komorane. The
German NGO Kinderberg surveyed medical facilities in the Paragusa
valley where approximately 45,000 people reside (including 35,000
IDPs). The prevalent problems remain diarrhea, pediculosis, scabies,
and infectious diseases. Supplies of vacines in the valley are low.
KDOM visited the F.R.Y. ["Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"]
humanitarian relief center in Glogovac where the director said they
had been in operation for 3 months. KDOM noted that, as of 9:55 am
seven people had visited the center for supplies. All had ethnic
Albanian names. KDOM noted approximately 300 IDPs living in the open
near Golubovac. (End of document)


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72 posted on 04/02/2002 1:20:53 AM PST by ABrit
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To: Spar
Let the education begin. Make sure you read all the linked articles.

LOL, somehow I don't think ABrit really wants to get educated, some people find it too hard to admit they were wrong.

79 posted on 04/02/2002 6:48:46 AM PST by Great Dane
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