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Destro, the Gowans article is ridiculous. Neither, NATO, the US, or Canada are or were supporting the guerillas in Macedonia. On the contrary, they have supported the Macedonian govt with statements, diplomacy, financial aid, and military assistance funds and advisers. KFOR has patrolled the border with troops & UAVs to prevent illegal crossings. U.S. troops during that time have even had several skirmishes with Albanian guerillas crossing between Kosova and Macedonia. Blackhawks were used to insert, resupply, and extract some of the NATO/US troops vicinity the Kosovo-Macedonia border--the rumor that those helicopters were supporting Albanians started shortly later--I thought it had been put to rest when even the Macedonian military stated that it was baseless. Now, you can justifiably argue that KFOR did not use enough troops to do a good job of cutting off outside support coming through Kosovo, but that is much different than the utter B.S. about NATO/US support for the guerillas. That just did not happen. Ditto for the training of "private" armies and support for Albanian extremists in southern Serbia. Destro, the Albanian extremists were wrong and needed to be defeated, on that I agree, but you weaken your good points when you come up with this whacky conspiracy stuff.

Some of the information is baseless/clueless garble, but in the same proximity does ring true, albeit hollow in parts. All I can say is I recieved confirmation about the "ANA" extraction, the training and financing of the "KLA" by the US, dealings with the KLA to this day in coordination of a covert policy of ethnic cleansing of all Serbs from Kosovo. I stand by my sources to this day, I do not care what the "Internet" newsgroups/clippings/articles state. Nothing supplants the truth up/close and personal. I'm sure you understand what I am saying on that mark and hoplite. No one who has "served" understands what it AD is like/experience, as I use the military as a general example.

People write/gossip on what happened, what that unit "did" and how they are "barbarians" after an incident, i.e. What of the ones who know 1st hand, who knew some of the operators and such? On here, people such as Hoplite come right out and denounce those ppl as "traitors, Slobo-lovers, etc...". No, just reporting facts of eyewitness. :)