18 Soldiers Wounded as Albanian Extremists Attack Church

ERPKIM ^ | 3/24/04 | ERPKIM

[Mark Felton]

Eighteen KFOR soldiers have been wounded during an attack by extremist Albanians on the church of the Holy King Uros in Urosevac. A Greek soldier has sustained second degree burns and three KFOR vehicles have been burned, KFOR advised on Saturday evening.

In a detailed report of events in Urosevac on Wednesday afternoon, it is reported that a group of about 500 extremist Albanians attacked the observation checkpoint guarded by Greek soldiers in front of the church in Urosevac with rocks and Molotov cocktails.

According to a statement issued from the U.S. military base Bondsteel, during the course of the evening about 200 Molotov cocktails, 15 grenades and large quantity of rocks were thrown at the soldiers and the church. Three KFOR vehicles were set on fire and two were damaged.

The violent demonstrators, the report adds, attempted to break into the church but were stopped by the soldiers who withdrew into the church but the attackers continued to throw grenades and Molotov cocktails. The attack continued even after the commanding officer of the Greek forces ordered the soldiers to fire warning shots into the air to disperse the demonstrators, who numbered between 1,000 and 3,000.

The attacks continued even after a Greek rapid reaction force unit evacuated the soldiers from the church. The attackers continued to throw Molotov cocktails at the vehicles of the rapid reaction force unit and began to disperse only after U.S. forces began to drop tear gas from helicopters to ensure the evacuation of the soldiers, the KFOR statement says.

[Mark Felton]

Does that equate to extremist muslims? Not up on that area....

yes. That is what the conflict is all about.

[exnavy]

" WWIII ..." Very good call, now if we could only get someone in gubmint to speak publicly on this.

[Mark Felton]

One thing for sure -- we are now engaged in a religious war where fanatical Islamics are on the offensive against the rest of the world.

yes. It is a religious war. It is a global civil war, and the battlelines are defined by ideology.

[b4its2late]

Ah, thanks. That's what I thought, though I didn't want to jump to conclusions without knowing. Why don't these reports tell it like it is instead of using words and phrases that muddle the story (but maybe it's just me)?

It seems like the wars that are going on now all have to do with islam.

[Joey Silvera]

There were lots of Greek mercenaries helping the Serbs torch villages and kill civilians in the '90s. So, what goes around comes around, not that that absolves the behaviour. Posting Greek troops there is like walking around black neighborhoods in Detroit at night with a members-only jacket and a confederate flag.

[DannyTN]

Apparently the UN is a much easier target than the U.S.

[DannyTN]

It seems like the wars that are going on now all have to do with islam.

Age of muslim wars

[Stagerite]

yes. It is a religious war. It is a global civil war

Civil war?

No way. Look it up.

Ours is an international religious war against Islamic fanatics.

[Robert_Paulson2]

as always.

[Robert_Paulson2]

"We correctly saved them from Milosevic's genocide"

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baloney.
It turns out that Milo was doing Europe a favor.
Nato should have awarded him a medal.

America allied with the wrong side.
Islam is the wrong side.
It is also the firing pin on 20 out of every 25 worldwide hot spots at any given time.

Nato should realign with the serbs and the ruskies to finish off the terrorists that ARE albanian islamists... as well as the same group of thugs in Chechnya.

Siding with the muslims should have been charged as a war crime. this was clintongs war... and he joined an alliance with the devil to cover his oval office blow jobs...

[Robert Drobot]

WWIII is a global civil war against Jews and Christians waged by an alliance of global socialists and Jihadists formented by the NWO using American taxpayer money.

[norton]

"The attacks continued even after a Greek rapid reaction force unit evacuated the KFOR soldiers from the church...and began to disperse only after U.S. forces began to drop tear gas from helicopters to ensure the evacuation of the soldiers..."

This goes right along with the quote from post number 27 ...."The Serbian Orthodox Church is today demanding that German KFOR troops be withdrawn from duty in for "incompetence" during the violence...they failed to save from destruction ten historic churches... Witnesses stated that the German KFOR troops did nothing to protect any of the sites..."

SO:
If the KFOR "peacekeepers" are no longer hiding inside, and an islamist mob wants to burn down an Orthidox church, it's not our problem, step aside, haul out the marshmellows and let 'em burn.

[Robert_Paulson2]

All those hundreds of thousands of murdered Muslims just were not there.

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remember the alleged "slaughter at Jenin" perpetrated by the Israelis according to the press and the pallies?

same group of lovely people who drove the war in kosovo against christians and in defense of the musli.

we need to pull out and let the serbs do what they will.

[sheik yerbouty]

Where is the@$^$#@@! UN and Kofi "Famous Anus" Anon now? Where is their outrage?

[sheik yerbouty]

Absolutely.

[getgoing]

Pull out...after we caused the mess? Not a moral decision. The war has started. At a minimum we need to provide intel (we provided the KLA phones/training); dig the trenches to bury the bodies & system upgrades to counter weapons we supplied (or encouraged others to provide) to our drug smuggling/baby selling rampaging X-friends.

Pres Bush should have long ago publicly reversed the Clinton policy. We are responsible for ongoing ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. We (USA IS NATO) never even considered enforcement of basic civil law, which would have established a lawabiding environment & locked up many of the trouble makers...sorry, that's policy of the USA in Kosovo. Conveniently, a war criminal was in Wash DC, meeting with the St Dept during the attacks. A war criminal we presumably protect & may well enable into office. To date, there has been no visible change in that policy.

Russia has the high ground, politically and with shipments of medicine & tents for the homeless.

[getgoing]

"If Senator Kennedy wants to talk about fraud [in relation to the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq], he ought to talk..... about what he and President Clinton told us in 1999 when they told us to bomb innocent Serbs, we'd find 100 thousand mass graves. Those mass graves were never found. They lied to the America people to justify the aerial bombardment campaign."
Congressman Curt Weldon (R) Pennsylvania
on 'Hardball with Chris Matthews'
NBC News, 19 September 2003

[Mamzelle]

I confess to being a latecomer to looking at Serbia-- the whole mess confuses the heck out of me. I could never understand why Europe sought our involvement when they never want to do anything about any problem.

But I've been reading since I saw the first shocking stories of the Orthodox Christian churches being destroyed and mocked during these past few days.

Some rather awful things are coming to light in my searches--there was a Republican opposition to our involvement during the Clinton admin--an opposition that was ridiculed and eventually overcome by the neoconservatives. Why they wanted to involve *themselves* I don't yet know.

Kissengers tried very hard to persuade the US not to bomb Serbia--and was called an appeaser by none other than William Kristol. The Weekly Standard wrote every week to promote the bombing. There were many drums being beaten--and Clintoon just went along with the loudest.