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SARAJEVO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb Republic Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said on Tuesday his people did not see their future in Bosnia, which they have reluctantly shared with the Muslim-Croat federation since war ended in 1995. A lingering Bosnian Serb secessionist sentiment has been revived after Montenegro's independence vote in May and is expected to become much stronger if Serbia's Albanian-dominated, U.N.-run province of Kosovo becomes a sovereign state this year or next. "The dominant feeling among the people in the Serb Republic is that they don't see the Serb Republic in Bosnia in the long run," Dodik...

8 September 2006 | 13:31 | FOCUS News Agency Washington. Serbia’s President Boris Tadic stated yesterday evening that during all his conversations with US officials, including with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he felt there was an overall opinion that Kosovo should receive some kind of independence, Serbian online edition Mondo informs. “Such an opinion is felt in all Washington conversations and Serbia should know this. On the other hand Serbia is defending its position – of opposing Kosovo’s independence and of preserving the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country - with legal means,” Mr. Tadic told RTS....

"The main goal of the symposium is to shed light on how Islam spread in these territories based on undisputed historic facts," professor Morina told IOL. PRISHTINA — The Islamic Community of Kosova (ICK) and the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Prishtina (FIS) will co-organize on September 16-17 an international symposium celebrating 600 years of Islam among Albanians. "The main goal of the symposium is to shed light on how Islam spread in these territories based on undisputed historic facts," professor Qemajl Morina, one of the organizers, told IslamOnline.net. Debates about this issue and the role of Islam among Albanians...

Ahtisaari said that a group of experts will visit Belgrade shortly and he hopes that they in Belgrade will show a positive attitude to these proposals. During the press conference, Ahtisaari dismissed the charges of the Serbian delegation that during his Aug 8 with them he told them that the Serbs are guilty as a nation.” Particularly, Ahtisaari said that the Belgrade authorities should understand that the Milosevic policy (historical legacy) should be taken into consideration during the determination of Kosovo status and that “each nation in the world has its guilt and must pay for it.” The Serbian side...

BELGRADE -- Milorad Dodik said that an independence referendum for the Republic of Srpska is unavoidable. According to the RS Prime Minister, the referendum is unavoidable because of the inability to keep Bosnia-Herzegovina unified in the long-term. Dodik said that one of the essential conditions for the RS remaining in Bosnia-Herzegovina is for the Federation’s government to give guarantees that it will not fall into the clutches of radical Islamic politics. Dodik said that the Kosovo discussions are being followed closely in Banja Luka. “Kosovo separating would spark people in the RS to think of having equal rights for us...

Serb interior ministry and paramilitaries responsible for Meja deaths, says prosecution witness. By Caroline Tosh in The Hague (TU No 464, 18-Aug-06) A prosecution witness told the trial of six Serbian and military officials charged with war crimes in Kosovo that the Yugoslav military did not intend to kill hundreds of people during their 1999 operation in the village of Meja. Meja features in the indictment against former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, former deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia Nikola Sainovic, former chief of staff Dragoljub Ojdanic, and police and army generals Sreten Lukic, Nebojsa Pavkovic and Vladimir Lazarevic. They are...

Forensic experts have excavated over 1,000 bodies from a mass grave in the village of Kamenica in eastern Bosnia.

The Balkans have historically been the key battlefield between Islam and European civilization since the battle at Kosovo, where the Ottoman Turks clashed with the Serbs in 1389, to the present. At its apex, the Islamic tide reached and was stopped at the gates of Vienna (1683). It was finally pushed out in the Balkan War of 1912, when the combined armies of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria were stopped at the Gates of Istanbul (Constantinople) by the intervention of the great European powers of that period. In reality we have fought on the side of our enemies. As in...

The Bosnian government is bringing to a close five months of work reviewing how some 1,500 people - most of them fighters who came to Bosnia from Muslim countries during the 1992-1995 war - gained Bosnian citizenship. ... The 1,500 naturalized Bosnian citizens were given until last week to provide all documents used to gain Bosnian citizenship between 1992-1996. ... The Syrian-born Abu Hamza is also among those who are facing deportation. He arrived in Croatia in the early 1990s as a student and moved to Bosnia at the beginning of the war. Investigators say he lied on his citizenship...

Having yielded to the blackmail of the Kosovo Albanian nationalists and drug dealers, Western patrons of Kosovo’s independence encourage them. If these patrons prevent them from translating the ideal of a ‘pirate republic’ into reality, they will come under pressure as well. But why should they give up their bad habits? The Kosovo criminals already feel quite comfortable in Europe without any ‘ticket’ and control a big portion of the black market of drugs, weapons and prostitution. Belgrade authorities will not accept Kosovo’s ‘independence’. In olden times Kosovo was the cradle of Serbian statehood — a shrine of national history,...

Tbilisi seems to be extremely concerned over what it calls “a sudden” and “worrisome” change in Russia’s position over Georgia’s territorial integrity, which was demonstrated by President Putin’s recent statements and Russia’s stance during discussions of the Abkhazian conflict at the UN Security Council on January 31. Speaking at an annual press conference in the Kremlin on January 31 President Putin reiterated that a “universal principle” should be applied while dealing with ‘frozen conflicts’ and Kosovo can serve as a model for resolving conflicts in post-Soviet space. “If some one thinks that Kosovo can be granted full independence, than why...

In his memoires, one chapter is named "Kosovo" In that chapter, Yeltsin is chritisysing milosevic, and descriving Clinton somweath as hawk, threatening that "Milosevic is about to kill thousands of people" and that soon 2,5 million (!) people would be turned into refugees if NATO wouldnt interfere. Clinton husteled Yeltsin that "Milosevic will destroy liesons between West and Russia (!) if NATO don`t attack MOST IMPORTANT FOR USA: Yeltsin talked with Shirac, he explained to Yeltsin that USA stand is that USA is in charge in the world, and that France is against it, but for time being, USA have...

When the four-star retired general walked into Loeb Playhouse for his speech Tuesday night, he didn't head directly to his seat in the front row next to Purdue President Martin Jischke. Instead, he walked down the aisle pausing at each row, shaking hands, looking each person directly in the eyes and saying "Hi, I'm Wesley Clark." This is not the expected greeting most would expect from someone of Clark's stature former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2004 presidential election. But this is how the 2006 Sears Lecture Series began....

ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/01/06) – A source in the Bosnian State Prosecutor’s Office has told ISN Security Watch that British anti-terror investigators are due to arrive in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, this week to investigate a Bosnian link to the 7 July bombings of London’s transport network that killed 52 people, including the suicide bombers. The high-ranking source said the British investigators were interested in four British citizens of Afro-Asian origin who had been under surveillance in Bosnia, one of which is believed to be the brother of one of the London suicide bombers. British anti-terror investigators are scheduled to...

Tyson Foods Inc. has fired 8 percent of its workforce at its Harrisonburg plant, all immigrant workers who could not verify their employment documents, company officials said. The company earlier this month suspended 63 workers and gave them until last Friday to prove their legal status in the U.S., or face permanent dismissal. By Monday, 42 workers were fired for submitting falsified employment documents, said company spokeswoman Libby Lawson. She said the rest were found to have proper paperwork and were allowed to return. Two, however, decided to quit and find other employment, she said. "We were very disappointed," Lawson...