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Pristina. Uniformed and armed individuals were stopping vehicles and asking travelers for identification on Sunday night on the road leading to the southern Kosovo village of Dubrava, the Albanian daily Koha Ditore reads, cited by the Serbian Blic. Eyewitnesses told the daily that on Sunday night, between 11 and 11:30 pm, these armed units set up control point on the road leading to Dubrava. Witnesses say that the unit members told travelers that they could freely tell the police about them. Urosevac police official Agim Demiri confirmed that several reports came in from people claiming that unidentified soldier asked them...

BELGRADE, PRISTINA, BRUSSELS -- Tuesday – Russia has taken a firm position at the beginning of negotiations on the final status of Kosovo, insisting that the solution must be the result of an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Pristina yesterday presented his country’s position on Kosovo to President Ibrahim Rugova as identical to that of the Contact Group, saying that negotiations on status must go hand-in-hand with the establishment of international standards in the province. Rugova said after the meeting that Pristina insists on direct recognition of independence which, he says will calm the...

PRISTINA -- Tuesday – Uniformed and armed individuals were stopping vehicles and asking travellers for identification on Sunday night on the road leading to the southern Kosovo village of Dubrava, according to Albanian language daily Koha Ditore. Eyewitnesses told the daily that on Sunday night, between 11 and 11:30 pm, these armed units set up control point on the road leading to Dubrava. Witnesses say that the unit members told travellers that they could freely tell the police about them. Urosevac police official Agim Demiri confirmed that several reports came in from people claiming that unidentified soldier asked them for...

DJAKOVICA -- Monday – A bus with forty Serbian people inside was pelted with stones while trying to visit a cemetery in Djakovica this weekend. The Serbian refugees from Djakovica visited the Orthodox cemetery located near the village. Many of the monuments that have been desecrated recently have been successfully restored and a fence has been put in place around the cemetery. A commemoration ceremony for the deceased was held in front of what remains of the Holy Prince Lazar church. While the Serbian refugees were visiting the grave sites, several cars drove around the cemetery grounds playing Albanian music...

02 Nov 2005 15:49:05 GMT Source: Reuters By Matthew Robinson PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Nov 2 (Reuters) - An armed group in Kosovo has given ethnic Albanian leaders until the end of the week to declare independence from Serbia, according to a communique published on Wednesday. In an escalation of hardline rhetoric as the United Nations-run province of Serbia enters U.N.-led negotiations on its future, the warning published in two Pristina newspapers threatened "many difficulties" for Kosovo parliamentarians if they fail to act on the will of the people. The communique was signed by a group calling itself the Army...

AN ANALYSIS Why Clinton Bombed the Serbs - A National Disgrace Few American Even Know Nor Care About 1. To appease the Islamic world for our daily bombing of Iraq. President Clinton wanted to prove to the Muslim world that we really cared and that we were willing to destroy a Christian people to prove it. 2. The Saudis wanted the first Islamic country in the belly of Europe, and Clinton wanted cheap oil and Saudi money. The Saudis had signed a letter of intent to buy $6 billion worth of Boeing aircraft. The day after we bombed the Serbs...

SKORENOVAC, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- Col. Zoltan Dani was behind one of the most spectacular losses ever suffered by the U.S. Air Force: the 1999 shooting down of an F-117A stealth fighter. Now, for the first time since that night six years ago, the former Serbian commander of an anti-aircraft missile battery has consented to speak publicly to Western media about the circumstances surrounding the unprecedented downing of a U.S. stealth plane. The hit on the radar-evading plane on March 27, 1999, during the 78-day NATO campaign over Serbia, triggered doubts not only about the F-117s, but also about the entire...

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has urged the UN Security Council to continue monitoring the situation in Kosovo, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko said, "Moscow has always advocated the key role of the UN in every stage of the Kosovo settlement. Monitoring of the situation in Kosovo should be continued." Yakovenko told a news conference in the Russian capital that Monday's UN Security Council session on Kosovo had adopted a recommendation by the UN Secretary General to begin negotiations on the status of Kosovo, designed to provide fair standards, equal rights,...

22 October 2005 -- Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said today that he would never accept independence for the republic's UN-run Kosovo province. Kostunica was speaking shortly before leaving Belgrade for New York, where he is expected to attend a key UN Security Council session on Kosovo on 24 October. The Security Council is expected to announce the start of UN-mediated talks to determine the future status of Serbia's volatile province. Kosovo, formally part of Serbia, has been an international protectorate for more than six years and its majority ethnic Albanian population overwhelmingly favors independence for the region. But Kostunica...

Complexity of war crimes case against ex-Yugoslav president convinced Iraqi prosecutors to condense Saddam charges THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Three years and eight months into the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, the courtroom still crackles with explosive outbursts. ...The prosecution of Mr. Milosevic and 125 other people by the 12-year-old tribunal is creating a body of law that many legal experts say will serve as a guide for future war crimes tribunals worldwide. Iraqi judges and officials from war crimes tribunals newly established in Africa and the Balkans have consulted court officials recently.

The Hague: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic showed a video Thursday of the international community's high representative to Bosnia apparently inspecting weapons held by the Kosovo Liberation Army in September 1998. In the video, Paddy Ashdown advises a man dressed in KLA uniform to be "careful" with the hand grenades. Milosevic, being tried for war crimes here, described as a "scandal" the weapons inspection by Ashdown, who at the time was deeply involved in monitoring the conflict. The former officer in Britain's Royal Marines and former member of the British parliament should not have been so closely involved with a...

MOSCOW, September 27 (RIA Novosti) - Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said Tuesday the Hague trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, indicted for war crimes in the Kosovo War, was biased. Primakov, who also served as head of intelligence and currently is president of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said at the presentation of his new book, which comprises transcripts of Russian defense evidence at the Hague Tribunal: "It is hard to speak about the court's objectivity. The Tribunal is targeting a guilty verdict for Slobodan Milosevic." Primakov appeared as a defense witness at Milosevic's trial,...

Text of report by Udo Ulfkotte entitled "Security circles: Indications of a third London terror cell", published by German news agency ddp on 12 September September 12, 2005 --Frankfurt am Main: There are indications that the Al-Qa'idah terror organization has an intact network operating in the Balkans. Sources within the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) intimate that both the Madrid terrorists, and some of those who perpetrated the London bombings, had "contacts with Bosnia". These sources told ddp news agency that European intelligence services had "vague indications that another terror cell controlled from Bosnia is preparing a new attack on London"....

Brutal killing of two young men stirs fresh complaints about alleged inactivity of international police. Kosovo Serbs are demanding better security from international troops after the murder of two young Serbs at the weekend in an isolated enclave in the territory. Some local representatives have said that if they do not receive firm guarantees about their security, they will go ahead with plans to draw up their own self-defence guards. Ivan Dejanovic, 24, and Aleksandar Stankovic, 28, were shot dead on August 29 on the road from Strpce to Urosevac/Ferizaj, 80 kilometres southeast of Pristina. The men were killed when...

Weapons and explosive confiscated in July was intended to be used during the funereal of John Paul II. Police found 11 rocker launchers, explosive C4, detonators and other material. Arms were smuggled from muslim Bosnia via Zagreb, Croatia. Five persons were arrested and police found connection between "cells" of wahabi extremists that lives in the village of Gornja Maoca, Brcko. Operation begins with arrest of Redzematovic Seid, Bosnian muslim member of Youth active Muslim". He has been accused of planning to commit “suicide” attack during the funeral. After London attack the Interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu emphasized "the coming from threat...

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Serbs were killed and two wounded on Saturday night when their car was shot at in southern Kosovo, a local political leader and police sources said. Serbs have been the target of frequent attacks in Kosovo by the ethnic Albanian majority since the end of the 1998-99 war, which led to the withdrawal of Serb forces from the southern Serbian province and the arrival of a U.N. administration. The four Serb men were fired on from another car shortly after 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) as they drove near the town of Strpce near...

wAS IT NOT CLINTON WHO SENT TROOPS TO KOSOVO AND ARE THEY NOT STILL THERE? I would like to know how the cindy sheehan feels about the trrops being still there.

CNSNews.com) - International intervention to halt the persecution of Christians in Kosovo is a "complete failure," according to a former diplomat and other political analysts who briefed Capitol Hill staff late last week, pointing to the destruction of 150 churches and the simultaneous construction of 200 mosques. The new mosques are funded by "Wahhabist nations," the diplomats said, raising the specter of radical Islam incubating on the doorstep of Europe in a province rife with illegal arms and narcotics trafficking. The religious persecution is also part of a political strategy of violence, which if rewarded in the granting of independence...

(CNSNews.com) -- A violent video showing the desecration of a church and the murder of a Serbian soldier is one of many "jihad" videos currently making the rounds in Western countries to raise funds for Muslim terrorists, according to counter-terrorism experts interviewed by Cybercast News Service. The graphic footage, stamped Sept. 16, 1995, was videotaped approximately two months before the Dayton Peace Accords, which brought an end to the civil war in Bosnia. Darko Trifunovic, deputy director of the Center for Security and Investigation of Terrorism at the Belgrade Institute for Political Studies, provided Cybercast News Service with a copy...

NATO chaplains and Serb nuns in Kosovo are to launch on Monday a cleanup of a 15th century monastery burnt during the worst outbreak of ethnic violence since the province's war. The Devic monastery was among dozens of Serbian Orthodox churches and other religious sites that were burned and damaged in March last year when ethnic Albanian extremists targeted Serbs in a wave of attacks that killed 19 people and left thousands homeless. The chaplains will be led by Lt. Gen. Yves de Kermabon, the commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping force. Kosovo has been administered by a United Nations mission...