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1 posted on 06/05/2004 7:56:57 AM PDT by Jane_N
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To: Jane_N

Quagmire


2 posted on 06/05/2004 8:04:04 AM PDT by pitinkie
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"It was not clear how the suspected gunmen managed to drive in and out of the village undetected. The NATO-led peacekeeping mission KFOR re-established permanent checkpoints on the outskirts of the Serbian town"

Maybe the U.N guards were busy drinking,or raping locals.


3 posted on 06/05/2004 8:04:05 AM PDT by Redcoat LI (You Can Trust Me , I'm Not Like The Others.....)
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The story with a few more details as reported by aljazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/46CF4656-65B5-4385-8FE7-D753F037A9F7.htm

Arrests in Kosovo over boy's death
Saturday 05 June 2004, 13:04 Makka Time, 10:04 GMT

A 16-year-old Serb boy has been killed in a shooting in Kosovo and police have arrested two Albanian suspects in connection with the violence.

Shots were fired on Saturday from a vehicle at a group of young Serbs standing near a hamburger store in the Serb town of Gracanica just outside Pristina, said United Nations police spokesman Malcom Ashby.

Police later stopped a suspect vehicle and seized weapons, he added.

It was the first serious incident since the UN protectorate was engulfed in riots in mid-March in the worst ethnic violence in five years of international administration.

Local Serbs immediately gathered and blocked the road which links the capital Pristina with the eastern part of Kosovo - as they did in the enclave of Caglavica in March after the drive-by shooting of a Serb there.

Recent violence

After a drive-by shooting three months ago, three Albanian boys drowned in a river after Serbs allegedly pushed them in, igniting inter-ethnic riots in which 19 people were killed and hundreds of homes set ablaze across the province.

The UN administration and the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping mission were caught off guard by the spasm of violence and came close to losing control.

UN administrator Harri Holkeri has since announced his resignation on health grounds and no successor has yet been chosen.

Saturday's murder came just a few hours before Holkeri's final trip to Kosovo to arrange a handover. The arrival of top international officials linked to Kosovo's future status has coincided with violence in the past. Two Serb boys were shot dead the day Holkeri arrived nine months ago.

Serbs were targeted in numerous revenge attacks after Kosovo was placed under UN-led administration in 1999 following an 11-week NATO-led campaign to halt Serb repression of the independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

Independence calls

Serbia has complained bitterly that the Serb minority, greatly outnumbered by Albanians demanding Kosovo's independence, is not being adequately protected and is proposing that their enclaves be made autonomous and protected by their own police.

The Western powers which ordered intervention in the Serbian province in 1999, are against its partition. But following the surge of violence in March, the issue of whether Kosovo will ultimately become independent or not is receiving far closer attention.

It is expected to come to a head by mid-2005.


4 posted on 06/05/2004 8:08:49 AM PDT by Jane_N (Truth, like beauty....is in the eyes of the beholder!)
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Excuse me but I have forgotten. Which side is Muslim and which side isn't?


5 posted on 06/05/2004 8:19:33 AM PDT by Winston Smith
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Time to re-fight that war...

This time, I hope we're on the right side.

Semper Fi


10 posted on 06/05/2004 10:23:24 AM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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The 2 arrested Albanians will be released within a week.

I'm surprised 30 more churches haven't already been burned down yet because of the arrests.

17 posted on 06/05/2004 4:17:39 PM PDT by getoffmylawn (why hasn't this thread been pulled yet? Clinton's gone. The Serbs have been rendered obsolete.)
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