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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the much talked-about Chris Wallace-Bill Clinton interview on Fox, Clinton made several pointed insistences to Wallace that "at least I tried" to confront terror. This of course implies that the Clinton administration gave a damn in the first place. But how does one reconcile that with the fact that this man allied us with al Qaeda in the Balkans? That Clinton had a tantrum over an obvious question asking why he didn't go after bin Laden, that he would consider such an interview a "hit job," is high comedy. This diva, unused to being challenged by the...

BELGRADE (AP)--Serbia's prime minister pledged at a military parade Saturday that his country will never give up Kosovo, describing the province as "the heart" of Serbia and vowing to prevent its possible secession. Vojislav Kostunica spoke as fighter jets flew low over downtown Belgrade, where virtually the entire state leadership attended a grandiose graduation ceremony for about 200 cadets from Serbia's Military Academy. Kostunica didn't threaten the use of force, but said that "Kosovo has always been and forever will remain within Serbia." Kosovo has been an international protectorate since 1999 when NATO bombing forced Serbia to stop its crackdown...

MUMBAI (ICNS) -- Muslim leaders in India have criticized a recent speech by Pope Benedict XII in which he made references to Islam. Some of them have demanded an unconditional apology from the Pope, saying his “blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammad” has offended Islam. Shia Muslim leaders in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Friday held a press conference condemning the Pope, and demanding an unconditional apology from him for issuing “a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammad.” Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawaad said that the Pope must tender an apology for running down the Prophet and thereby hurting the...

Nidhi Sharma - All Headline News Staff Writer Pristina, Serbia (AHN) - On Friday, a bomb placed under the Kosovo interior minister's car exploded early in the morning in an eastern town in the U.N.-run province. However, reportedly no one was hurt or injured in the blast. The explosion occurred a few hours before Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators in Vienna, Austria, resumed litigious U.N.-aided talks on Kosovo's future status. Kosovo's parliament speaker believes the explosion is in retaliation for the diplomatic talks.

Summary The United States appears to be attempting to strike a deal with the Serbs over the future of Kosovo and the Serbian government. The ultimate success of the deal is a long shot, but it is the best middle-ground option presented yet. Analysis Serbian President Boris Tadic visited the United States on Sept. 5-6. Serbian newspaper Blic reported Sept. 13 that, during his visit, Tadic was told that if Serbia can turn wanted war criminal Ratko Mladic over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague by November, the U.N. decision on Kosovo's independence from Serbia would be postponed...

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia toughened its stand on Kosovo Tuesday as parliament decided that a planned new constitution would refer to the disputed province as an "integral" part of Serbia, regardless of U.N.-led negotiations on whether to grant it independence. The parliamentary vote effectively ruled out Belgrade's consent if the international talks decide in favor of the majority ethnic Albanians who want the province to be independent. The talks began this year to try to resolve the future of Kosovo _ a province about the size of Connecticut that has been run by the United Nations since NATO launched a...

Since World War Two you have had three major conflicts in the Balkans involving Orthodox Christian communities and Islamic communities; this applies to Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo respectively. On all three occasions the United States supported the followers of Islam and maybe one day the same will happen to Orthodox Christians in Macedonia? Yet unlike the large Christian communities of Bosnia and Cyprus, it is the land of Kosovo which is being Islamized and Albanianized under NATO, the UN, and other international institutions who are meant to be neutral. The media in the West is once more turning a 'blind...

KLINA -- A recently built Serbian home in the village of Štupelj was blown up last night. According to Klina Municipal Coordinator Stojan Doncic, no one was in the house at the time of the explosion and there were not injuries or victims. The home was owned by Velimir Vasic. The house was built as part of the campaign of enticing the Serb refugees to return to Kosovo. Kosovo Protection Corps and UNMIK officials reported to the scene after the bombing attack.

12 September 2006 | 08:06 | FOCUS News Agency Podgorica. The police in Montenegro announced for international search five Albanians, four of which US citizens, who are suspected of terrorism, Serbian agency TANJUG informs. It is believed they had been planning a terrorist attack in Montenegro. However, officials of the international police force in Kosovo stated the request of Montenegro’s police has not yet been handed in to the authorities in Pristina but added that the police of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) will react immediately if such a request is filed.

BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Serbia's prime minister said parliament should adopt a constitution saying Kosovo province will never be independent. Addressing a parliamentary session Tuesday in Belgrade, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said the predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province "has always been and will be forever Serbia's component part," local radio stations reported. Kostunica said this had to be emphasized and written down in a new constitution currently being worked out. "For the state of Serbia, Kosovo will never be independent ," he said. The Serbian government and Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders have been having U.N.-led talks in Vienna since February...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility his country may veto a United Nations Security Council decision on the status of Serbia's southern province of Kosovo Mr. Putin told the Financial Times in an interview published Monday that if the solution is not acceptable to Moscow, Russia will not hold back from using its veto. President Putin said his government wants the rules of international relations to be applied to all regions equally. He said it would be wrong to apply one rule for Kosovo and others for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two breakaway regions of Georgia. Russia...

11 September 2006 | 12:09 | FOCUS News Agency Belgrade. The acknowledgement of the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal Carla Del Ponte that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) kills its potential witnesses against accused in war crimes is raising the question for the responsibility of all who have performed war crimes in Kosovo and will no be tried, Vecerne Novosti reports. The Hague Tribunal admits that is a sensitive topic and they are not apt to talk about that. But they acknowledge that without good witnesses protection there is no way to reach the truth. KLA and its ex...

A new videotape aired on Aljazeera television has shown Osama bin Laden and senior al-Qaeda members meeting some of the men who carried out the September 11 attacks against the US in 2001. The 90-minute video apparently shows bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, taking part in the planning and preparation of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people... The footage, first aired on Thursday, also shows Abu Hafsa al-Masri, al-Qaeda's then military leader, and Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, co-ordinator of the 9/11 attacks, meeting in al-Qaeda's training camps in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. The tape also says that a previous unknown...

PODGORICA, Montenegro Montenegro's police said Saturday they have arrested 20 ethnic Albanians suspected of terrorism and organized crime. The arrests in the villages of Tuzi and Malesije just south of capital Podgorica come a day before Sunday's first parliamentary elections since Montenegro gained independence from Serbia in a referendum in May. Police did not say what actions the group allegedly planned, but said they "represented danger for the people of Montenegro." The ethnic Albanian villages near the border with Albania are known smuggling routes for drug, arms and cigarette smuggling. Police said they uncovered a large number of weapons in...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Peter Herbert, a British human rights lawyer who visited Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe-bomber" in a U.S. jail in 2002. Herbert, who had no role in Reid's defense, was interviewed at his office in London. Here is the full transcript: Anderson: So you traveled to see him? (Watch the interview -- 3:04) ... Q. Well, you talked at length I believe and perhaps with more detail than you might have expected about what had happened that day and indeed why Richard Reid had been involved. When you asked him why young men...

"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...

BELGRADE -- Judy Butt of the Security Research Institute says Serbia’s desire to hold on to Kosovo may hamper its bid to join the EU. Judy Butt said in Belgrade that the Serb attempt to keep Kosovo within Serbia may complicate the process of joining the European integrations, but that Brussels never set giving up Kosovo as a precondition for an accelerated accession. “Serbia needs to deal seriously with the task of becoming a functional state that will accelerate its own integration with Europe. Serbia needs to ask itself will holding on to Kosovo speed up that process. It will...

Serbian President Boris Tadic says that during his visit to Washington this week, he will seek to explain to U.S. officials his country's opposition to independence for Kosovo. Mr. Tadic told reporters Tuesday he will tell American officials that granting the Serbian province independence would threaten the security and stability of the entire Balkans. He called the current Kosovo situation the result of the Serbian government's disastrous policies in the 1990s. The Serbian leader spoke at a Belgrade news conference shortly before departing for the United States. Mr. Tadic is to meet in Washington with top U.S. officials, including Secretary...

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...

As the United Nations tackles crises around the world from North Korea to the Middle East, it cannot ignore the Balkan region -- specifically the challenges facing Serbia. Seven years have passed since the U.N. took control of the Serbian province of Kosovo, and it will soon be time to make a permanent decision concerning its indeterminate status. ... The U.N. must not force a decision on Serbia that is unacceptable to its people and democratically elected representatives. A final decision must be a workable compromise and mutually acceptable to Serbia, ethnic Albanian leaders in Kosovo and the minority Serbian...