[Jane_N]

Excellent reading from someone that just came back from Kosovo!

[marlon]

F'em let France help them!

[thoughtomator]

As a complete surprise to the entire international community, riots broke out all over Kosovo.

Funny, it wasn't at all a surprise to me. Muslims on one side, dead innocents on the other... what's so surprising?

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Interesting article, thanks for posting that.

In some ways "Peacekeeping" is the toughest military task of all.

[Jim_Curtis]

Whoda thunk it? The Democrats and their Euro ilk side with bin Laden to commit genocide on the innocent Christian Serbs so as to allow the Jihadis a foothold in Europe and now we are surprised that the Jihadis aren't trying to get along with the remaining Serbs who managed to survive Clinton's depleted uranium/carpet bombings?

[Jane_N]

You all might want to read this analysis written by a Swedish Kfor General who just got back Kosovo

[drypowder]

NATO, under Bill Clinton's lead, supposedly stopped the ETHNIC cleansing by bombing the hell out of the Serbs. He obviously missed a few. Thanks Bill, you SLIME BAG.

[Jane_N]

Just thought you might want to read this analysis written by Swedish Brigadier Anders Brännström, who was until recently brigade commander in Kosovo.

[dfwgator]

Gee, who couldn't have seen this coming?

[MarMema]

Thanks Jane, BTT.

[jpsb]

Only a complete fool, would have thought that the Albainians halted there efforts to drive the Serbs out of Kosovo.

Kosovo is lost to the nation of Islam, Italy and Greece are next.

[Honorary Serb]

When I travelled to Kosovo in October last year I believed as did the entire international community that the situation in Kosovo was stable. Everybody deemed that Kosovo was ripe within a near future to live in a multiethnic society where the different population groups could live together. It was therefore planned to reduce KFOR drastically, to reduce the international police force correspondingly and to hand over power and competences to local institutions.

On 17 March that illusion was broken very clearly and brutally.

WRONG! Well over a hundred Serbian Orthodox churches (plus at least one Albanian Protestant church) were destroyed by the KLA/UCK--THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM before March 17, 2004. And well over 200,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians (plus who knows how many pro-Yugoslav and/or anit-KLA Albanians) were cleansed from Kosovo BEFORE March 17, 2004--most of them in 1999!!

Like most Americans, I remember where I was and what I was doing when the planes hit on 9/11. I also remember where I was on March 17, 2004. I was exactly where I belonged--at a Lutheran Lenten communion service. Among other things, we sang St. Patrick's Breastplate, because it was St. Patrick's day. (St. Patrick is a saint for both Lutherans and Orthodox, as well as Roman Catolic Irish.) What a letdown and a grief it was when--soon thereafter-- I found out what the UCK was doing!!

On another, related subject: Welcome, Srebrenica Squak! All I can say is AMAZING!!!!

[mark502inf]

Good article.

The absolute majority of Kosovo Albanians are of course like in other parts of the world honest citizens who aspire to a good life for themselves and their families. I have many good friends among Kosovo Albanians. And I can testify that that friendship is often warmer and more intense then with many of my Swedish friends. We must, however, not disregard the a genuine and encompassing suspicion and aversion against Serbs is found in the Kosovo Albanian population. And let me, for the sake of completeness add that a corresponding suspicion, aversion and in addition fear of Kosovo Albanians is found in the Kosovo Serbian population

About sums it up.

[Nennsy]

Thanks for ping Jane.
I found in today's press an article which complements this one.

Platzer: Organizers of March violence have military training (Danas/Beta)

The Commander of Austrian KFOR contingent Chris Platzer has assessed that persons with military training stand behind the March violence in Kosovo. Platzer told the Vienna based daily Die Presse that KFOR had certain operational problems: "We did not have enough troops to deal with that many demonstrators. They were organized in a way that had lead to a simultaneous escalation of violence at several different locations, enabling them to block our reserves," Platzer explained. He said that the organizers had kept their plans in total secrecy: "It was obvious that a single organization whose members had military training, was standing behind the unrest."

[DCPatriot]

The sad truth nobody is willing to talk about is the need for a bit of ethnic cleansing in Iraq.

Forced sterilization is the only non-violent way to deal with it. Nobody dies...so the Left should rejoice. Shouldn't it?

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Young Werther]

Yeah, but do you believe this, given the "true lies", (Sorry Arnold), that will be forthcoming in the slickmeister's tome!