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Well if you're not going to mention that, I won't mention how the Macedonian Government spent a couple of weeks trying to expel the ANA from Aracinovo through force of arms and, having failed, requested the intercession of the US to move the rebels away from Skopje.

Sorry hoplite...looks like your head is up your ass AGAIN. US forces under direction of state dept traitor James Pardew intervened to rescue what was left of the KLA(al qaeda) and US mercenaries trapped at Aracinovo and about to be annihilated totally by the Macedonians. Everyone knows Trajkovski is merely a state dept puppet hanging in there to collect his pension. Everyone also knows that you're just a phoney islamic bullshitter and no one takes you seriously.

PiP PiP, nice pics--thanks for putting the link on your posts.

Kimosabe--The KLA does not equal either Al Qaeda or U.S. mercenaries! In fact, a significant driver in the decrease in hostilities in FYROM after 9/11 was the desire of UCK leadership NOT to be seen as linked in any way with Al Qaeda or Islamist terrorism. While there were a few ethnic Albanians who returned from the USA to fight with the KLA, they came of their own volition--and, again, it is not is the interests of the USA in any way to encourage more violence and ethnic separatism in the Balkans--where is the motivation of the USA to hire mercs, support the guerillas, etc?

The problem the Macedonian government had with the ethnic Albanian extremists in Macedonia, to include at Aracinovo, was in large measure a problem caused by a poorly trained and led Macedonian military. Because they had a short-term conscript Army with few professional NCOs or junior officers, they had little ability to conduct effective movement or fire & maneuver with small units---which is exactly what is necessary against an enemy holed up in towns or fighting guerilla style. So the Macedonians resorted to firepower-intensive solutions; tanks, attack helos, arty. The result was little harm to the Albanians who would just reposition, but lots of collateral damage that was widely reported and shown throughout Europe on TV. Consequently, although in the spring of 2001 virtually every European country was openly supporting FYROM in its fight against the ethnic Albanians, by summer public opinion and government attitudes had changed and the pressure was on FYROM to negotiate on relatively unfavorable terms. The inability to militarily defeat or at least take away the initiative from the Albanian extremists was a failure, not of the Macedonian soldiers or because of US "state dept traitors", but of the senior Macedonian political-military leaders who did not properly train or organize their army.

It's strange that anti-American propaganda formulated for a domestic Macedonian audience should have such a long half life in America itself.

No worries - there is about as much proof for your chosen version of events at Aracinovo as there is for the 9-11 truck bomb at the Pentagon. All that remains is for you to figure out why you were suckered by one and not the other.