Posted on 02/02/2003 2:44:14 PM PST by Destro
Serbia Wants Its Troops Back in Kosovo in Case of Iraq War
VOA News
02 Feb 2003, 20:24 UTC The Serbian government has asked NATO for permission to send its troops back to Kosovo in case of a war in Iraq.
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic says Serb troops would fill any security vacuum in the province if NATO withdraws its soldiers for military action against Iraq, although there are no immediate plans to do so.
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since 1999, after a NATO-led air campaign ended then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on the region's ethnic Albanian majority.
A senior advisor to Kosovo's Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi criticized Mr. Djindjic's request. He said that any tendency to return Serbian forces to Kosovo would be an attempt to destabilize the province and the whole region.
Some information for this report provided by AP.
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Or just quid pro quo?:
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As Mick Jagger sang Tiiiiiiime is on my side--yes it is.
Croatian neo-Nazis are hardly Christian paladins.
Bottom line-Croatia and the Muslims (Bosnian and Albanian) had a working alliance with Islamist forces like al-Qaeda and Iran and..hehehe..NATO.
If you knew about the state of paralysis within the JNA high command at the time (which was still very much multi-ethnic), then the (self/)'employment' or paramilitaries is not so strange. Most of the paramilitaries were local. The JNA units which were haemmoraghing men and materiel could not be relied upon to follow orders (of which they recieved very few). If somehow you think that there would have been no paramilitaries if Milosevic hadn't 'employed' paramilitaries, they you don't understand the nature of the conflict and the dark history of Yugoslavia.
You don't need to be organized and told to go and kill all Croatians/Serbs etc. if you just got unofficial news that your relatives have been slaughtered. Many of the crimes committed never made it to the Western press, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist. If Croatian Mig-21 pilots could still 'defect' to Zagreb at the time, who would have stopped Serbs from forming their own units to protect their own villages/avenge crimes against their own? Even if the Serbs came directly from Serbia, most have relatives.
By its' nature, civil war is very messy. When there is a power vacuum, many people are either forced, or willing to take decisions/actions that are totally out of experience (I'm not necessarily talking about Milo). If the state can't protect you, then what is to be done. The Serbs, like the Jews refused to be victims again.
What happened in the SFRY is not some Rwanda 'we're going to slaughter everyone' routine and 'it's my idea' (which the West did absolutely nothing about), but a literal bloody mess right from the start and made far more bloody by outside hands.
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I agree with you but the Euros have long since capitulated to the forces of the left and Islamofascist tyranny.
As for the border, it will take some doing, but the Greek Turkish border is an anomaly. Turkey like the Soviet Union needs to fragment and lands returned to Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, etc that were forcefully taken along with the lives of millions.
Unfortunately with the corrupt leftist Greek government in power now that won't happen.
Of course the vast majority of Albanians are never going to accept this, but that's not going to change anything. Even Dole and McCain's powerful pro KLA lobby won't change anything. The KLA has shown itself to be a murderous bunch of thugs which are running the province of Kosovo as a smuggler's paradise. The whole of Europe has been affected by the high rate of crime and no European government is about to support independence (even Blair).
"Re-establishing entire control over Kosovo is a double-edged sword, as the international community won't allow that to happen."
Djindjic has it right though - the troops may well be needed elsewhere in the world pretty soon. I think that it is a possibility that there will be a handing back of control to the Serbian government in Kosovo, but it is bound to spark off major trouble from the KLA. The 'international community' would have to be prepared to support the transition realistically and work with the reformed Serbian government.
Hello,again,dear LenS!
Please,enlighten us all:
How many Christian Slovenes were "slaughtered" in Slovenia?By Serbs or by ,at that time, mainly multinational JNA(Yugoslav Peoples Army)?
How many other Christians were "slaughtered" by the Serbs?It seems to me that in former Yugoslavia everybody was shooting at everybody,but,unlike the bestial Serbs who were "slaughtering" others,other sides were commiting a "justifiable homicide",right?!
Do you know the number of dead Albanians in Kosovo,FBI information?
Do you know who had killed majority of civilians there in 98-99?
Do us a favour and shut your chauvinistic mouth!
I think you are off your rocker, pal, for posting "history accroding to CNN" (which is almost as bad as "history according to Steven Spielberg"). Would you mind quoting from Miloshevich's speech at Gazimestan (the 600th anniversary speech) where the CNN statement about "Serbian chauvinism" is obvious?
And what the heck does your Croatian friend's mother in Belgrade have anything to do with this? I siggest you sober up before you start posting. Please, it's embarrassing.
In other words, all of the above.
Knowing the "other team"s infrastructures thoughts is priceless.
Let's see... The Seljuks won the battle of Manzikert back in 1071, Fatih Sultan Mehmet took Istanbul in 1453, Turks have been living in Cyprus since 1570, and you want to dismantle Turkey in its entirety.
Do you really want us to believe that you're not obsessed with a bloodlust to revenge these ancient, ancestral squabbles?
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