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A related story from Reuters:

Solana Says Kosovo Albanian Parties Need Purging
Thu Mar 25, 8:49 AM ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Kosovo Albanian political parties must purge themselves of extremists suspected of helping to direct anti-Serb violence that rocked the U.N. protectorate last week, the EU's foreign policy chief said on Thursday.

Javier Solana told reporters in Brussels he could not "give names and addresses" of who was responsible, but intelligence showed certain groups had laid plans to take advantage of the first spark of trouble.

Riots broke out and 28 people died after three Albanian boys drowned in unexplained circumstances, but NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers and U.N. police were stunned by how quickly the violence spread and later concluded it was orchestrated by Albanian extremists.

"It was not completely spontaneous," Solana said, a day after he held talks in Pristina on Wednesday with Kosovo Albanian leaders.

"That is...very serious because those people who were already organized probably belonged to political parties which have responsibilities.

"And the leaders of those parties have to come out and say very clearly...and very strongly that this is not possible."

Albanians want independence for Kosovo from Serbia. The European Union (news - web sites) is the main source of aid for the impoverished province, where the unemployment rate is 50 percent.

Together with the United Nations (news - web sites) and the United States, the EU will decide whether Kosovo has met democratic standards before determining its final status.

Serbia says the major powers have finally woken up to the fact that hardline elements among Kosovo Albanians who were rescued from a harsh Serb crackdown in 1999 by NATO bombing could threaten U.N. and NATO personnel.

A U.N. policeman and his Kosovo Albanian partner were shot dead late Tuesday in an ambush -- the first peacemakers to die since Kosovo's new wave of violence erupted a week earlier.

Gee, I wonder who these "certain groups" could be? Teehee.

And notice how the boys who had once been reported as "driven into the river by Serb men" or "a Serb man" or "a Serb dog" or "Serb children" (depending on which version one was reading) are now reported as having "drowned in unexplained circumstances."

Also notice, in the orginal AFP article posted above: "NATO jets bombed Serbian forces to end a crackdown on the province's separatist ethnic Albanian majority."

It's no longer "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing" nor even a "brutal crackdown." It's just a "harsh crackdown" or even plain old "crackdown" now.

And has anyone else noticed how the media no longer calls them "Kosovars" or even "Kosovar Albanians" or "ethnic Albanians"? Now they're just "Albanians".

Things that make you go "hmm."

hmmm, indeed. Always read last two paragraphs first, to see the inserted guideline.

And guideline indeed changes. Kosovo is regularly called Serbian province. Population figures are reduced to 1,800,000 from 2 mil. Big lie shrinks gradually.

There is undclared war going on down there. Two UN police officers, one from Ghana, one from Phillipines were assasinated. Albanians have took weapons to the street and showed they are not disarmed.

NATO is now in the same position as Milosevic in 1996 and follows the same tactics of doing nothing and hoping the problem will go away by itself. It won't. It will get worse. Media reports only encourage terrorists and their sympathizers (majority of population)