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Well, I was very surprised to find that, the ever so polite Jeeves, was not giving any Tribute to Memorial Day and those to whom this day is dedicated. I mean, he was ever so happy to have a Cinco de Mayo tribute and a Mother's Day tribute. Why, if you Mommys moved your mouse over Jeeves' picture on Mother's Day... he gave you a virtual bouquet. As a result of Jeeves rude behavior today, he has been dismissed as my information butler. Somethings I just WILL NOT excuse from a Butler... disrespect is one.Moderator, this is my first vanity,...

NATO troops say they have detained a Bosnian Muslim for spying on their base. Mon. Nov 18, 9:56 AM ET SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - NATO (news - web sites) NATO troops in Bosnia said Monday they have detained a Bosnian Muslim who was trying to spy on a U.S. base. An investigation revealed he also had an anti-tank weapon in his home. U.S. troops, who are part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force and are based in Tuzla, in northeastern Bosnia, have been investigating Sabahudin Fijuljanin since Oct. 26 because they saw him "surveil" their personnel and installations, a statement from U.S....

Medieval murder marks tragedy of Kosovo CHRISTIAN JENNINGS IN VELIKA GODEN, KOSOVO HAXJERE Sahiti was married on a Sunday, murdered on a Monday, and buried in the woods the same afternoon. Married life lasted less than 12 hours for her. It ended with the 20-year-old Kosovar Albanian woman lying dead on her family's living room carpet, with seven pistol bullets fired into her torso. The killer was her elder brother, Ismet. The murder was witnessed by her mother and brother. Her crime was supposedly not being a virgin on her wedding night, thus bringing the honour of her family into...

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF SERBIAN RETURN TO THEIR HOMES CELEBRATED IN OSOJANE August 15, 2002Metohija*, a land both holy and 'cursed'. *Metohija (from Gr. metohia - monastery lands) - traditional Serb name for the western part of today's UN adminstered Province of Kosovo, between Pec and Istok in the north and Prizren in the south. Out of 2,000 pre-war inhabitants today there are approximately 250 well-protected returnees, including 55 children, living in Osojane - About 60 people are still living in prefabricated tent-huts covered with nylon tarp By Radmila Loncar "You were most courageous and we know that bravery always bears...

KOSOVO AND METOHIJA LATEST NEWS FROM KLOKOT An attack planned and executed by a sophisticated terrorist network Gracanica, July 31, 2002 23:20 Representatives of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija visited today Klokot village near Vitina, in which 5 Serb houses were destroyed in a terrorist attack on Wednesday morning. The part of the village in which the destroyed houses were located has been evacuated today and the Serb residents moved to a more safer part of the village. SNC representatives were told by KFOR authorities that 4 Serb houses were completely destroyed and one more has been...

Belgrade - The special envoy of the UN Secretary General for Kosovo and Metohija( meaning lands belonging to the Monastery), Michael Steiner, speaking at a press conference in Belgrade on Friday, stated that everyone desiring to return to their centuries-old homes will be offered assistance. He said that the Italian Government has announced 3.5 million euros in assistance for returns to the Pec area, while the German Government will provide 1 million euros for returns to the area of Klina. Steiner stated that greater participation by Serbs is necessary in the Kosovo police and judiciary where, according to his estimate,...

June 28, 2002 New York, June 27, 2002 - Yugoslav Ambassador to UN Dejan Sahovic addressed a UN Security Council session, saying that despite some progress made in Kosovo-Metohija, much remains to be done to normalise the situation in the province. Sahovic pointed out that a large number of the murders and abductions of Serbs and other non-Albanians have occurred since the KFOR deployment in June 1999, adding that few, if any, perpetrators have been brought to justice. Bearing in mind that freedom of movement is still non-existent, the property of minorities has been confiscated and their cultural heritage destroyed,...

THE HALIFAX HERALD Monday, June 24, 2002 Serbian children living in the Pristina ghetto are escorted daily by an armoured NATO convoy to school eight kilometres away in the Serbian enclave of Gracanica. NATO's Kosovo mission failed Mitrovica, Kosovo - IT HAS BEEN three years since NATO troops first rolled into Kosovo and the last of the Yugoslav security forces withdrew from this embattled province. At that juncture, the western media hailed NATO's intervention as the "liberation of Kosovo" and a victory for Albanian Kosovars. Many misguided military analysts proclaimed the campaign to be "proof" that overwhelming air power alone...

SERBIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF RASKA AND PRIZREN COMMUNIQUE For immediate release SERBIAN ORTHODOX CEMETERY NEAR PRISTINA FOUND DESECRATEDPristina, June 24, 2002. Fr. Zoran Filipovic, the Serbian Orthodox parish priest from Babin Most and Milosevo, confirmed today to the Diocesan Information Service that the Serbian cemetery at Milosevo, 10 km north from Pristina, was found desecrated. On Saturday, June 22, Fr. Zoran and a group of his parishioners, escorted by KFOR, visited the cemetery at Milosevo village to perform the annual commemoration service. Upon arrival to the site they were shocked to see at least 70 tombstones desecrated. "There is almost...

Domestic violence - one safe place? Officer Jim Cooper has become a familiar face at the shelter. Although he comes by to check on all the women, he is particularly attentive to one: A 35-year-old Albanian woman, Luljeta. For Cooper, she has become something of a personal crusade. Luljeta's husband started beating her early in their eight-year marriage. The cables he used left scars on her back. After the sixth year he also began bringing other women into their home. Luljeta ran away twice, but each time her husband found her and brought her back. This time he has not...

SERB ORTHODOX NUNS AND MONKS STONED BY ALBANIAN MOB IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA Pec, May 7, 2002 In the early morning hours today, just after the midnight, unidentified muslim- Kosovo Albanians attacked by rocks a car with the nuns from the Patriarchate of Pec Monastery while they were entering the territory of Kosovo and Metohija from Rozaje (at Kulina Pass). The nuns in their kombi-van and the monks from Decani Monastery in their car were returning to Kosovo from the church celebration at Djurdjevi Stupovi, near Novi Pazar. Immediately after they passed the administrative boundary of the Province and were...

Memories of a Balkan Easter By Nikolaos A. Stavrou In 1952 two brothers escaped from Albania to Greece, eventually finding a home where displaced persons usually end up: in America. Almost half a century later, they decided to confront the ghosts of war and visited their ancestral home. This story about surviving World War II horrors has been tucked away in the memories of two victims, my brother Paul and myself. At age eight and nine, respectively, we became unwitting witnesses to the fury of Hitler's army as it passed through our village during Easter week 1944, leaving death and...

DESECRATIONS OF THE SERB HOLY SITES AT EASTER TIME Pristina, Belgrade, May 7, 2002 The chief of the UN Mission in Kosovo Micheal Steiner, COMKFOR Gen. Marcel Valenten and the Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi attended the Easter Liturgy at the Patriarchate of Pec Serbian Orthodox Monastery on Sunday morning. Rexhepi is the first higher ethnic Albanian official from Kosovo who attended an Orthodox Easter Liturgy in Kosovo after the war. The Kosovo PM spoke Serbian at the Patriarchate and sent his Easter greetings to all Orthodox Christians on Saturday evening. He said to the BBC program in Serbian that...

SARAJEVO, March 24 (AFP) - NATO-led troops raided the home of an Orthodox priest on Sunday as part of a campaign to hunt out illegally-held arms, but found no weapons, SFOR spokesman Scott Lundy said. Father Novice Cebic told AFP by telephone that around 15 people entered his home in the southeastern Bosnian town of Kopaci and searched the house for an hour as the priest's wife and three children stood by. They even looked in the washing machine, Cebic said. The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) said they were acting on a tip off and admitted finding nothing. SFOR has...

GLAS KOSOVA I METOHIJE, BELGRADE (THE HERALD OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA) Official publication of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren INTERVIEW WITH FR. SAVA: Father Sava, three years have already passed since the end of the war. Do you think that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija has improved? Even though the number of incidents is much smaller than before, the situation has not changed qualitatively and the Serb people, especially our monks, are still living deprived of basic rights and liberties. The Western media very frequently state that the number of murders, thefts and other crimes against...

REALITY MACEDONIA Sacrilege of St. Petka Church in Gostivar's village Galate Citizens of Galate, and wider Gostivar area were shocked after the attempt to blow up the church St.Petka. On the 9th of February, 15 minutes after midnight, unknown terrorists made an attempt to mine the church and destroy it. Yesterday, teams of Gostivar police and the sector for antiterrorism from Ministry of Internal Affairs, accompanied by NATO's "amber fox" troops and OSCE observers, inspected the crime scene. They discovered 400 grams of unexploded explosive with mine's capsule and slowly burning fuse on one of the windows of the ...

By Veronica Chapin Times-Union staff writer One person is dead and another hospitalized after a tractor-trailer crashed into a stalled car on the Fuller Warren Bridge early this morning, said Lt. Bill Leeper of the Florida Highway Patrol. Two brothers who had stopped to help leaped over the outside concrete barrier to avoid being hit, but one was unable to hang on to the wall and fell 50 feet. Sasa Vrcelja suffered a broken arm and internal injuries, Leeper said. He was still in surgery about noon today, according to a hospital spokesman with Shands Jacksonville. The semi was heading ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Sept 29 (AFP) - A Serb was killed in an ambush in eastern Kosovo on Friday, the police spokesman for the UN mission MINUK said Saturday. The 48-year-old victim, Trajan Stojkovic, was travelling with eight others near the town of Kosovska Kamenica when their vehicle was stopped by two men who opened fire, Dean Olsen said. Stojkovic was shot dead but nobody else was hit, Olsen said. The MINUK spokesman said he did not know if it was an ethically motivated murder. Kosovo Serbs have repeatedly been victims of attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists. Over 200,000 Serbs have ...

ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH DESTROYED IN TWIN TOWERS ATTACK New York - The terrorist attack against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that killed an estimated 5,000 people, also destroyed tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Churchlocated about 500 feet from ground zero. On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, Fr. John Romas, pastor, attempted to go to his church but was turned back by police. Wednesday, he was permitted to visit the site to view what was left of the church. "It would break your heart," he said of the devastation he witnessed. "It's one thing to see it ...

FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL IN DJAKOVICA The Story which does not reach front pages "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong" 1Cor 1:27 For two years after the war in Kosovo region six elderly Serb women in Djakovica defy the hatred which surrounds them by prayer and hope in God Poleksija Kastratovic (65) (Polexia Kastratovich) rang the bells of her little church as she would regularly do this sacred duty during the last 40 years. ...