Flashback to Valuable French Allies in Kosovo

LA Times ^ | Friday, October 22, 1999 | PAUL RICHTER

[ma bell]

that tunnel was conduint upon a payoff to the bos muslis to enter and travel down it.

[ma bell]

we have another propoganda shill amongst us. please refute what he-she states. i am in tuzla and there is nothing of what he states. the church is nonexistant, Sara is a liar.

or,,,is this RBJoe reincarnated?

[norton]

"Nowhere was it shown that ALL the sides had their concentration camps, nor that all sides took part in atrocities against the civilian populace."

Well put and noted for record.

Nonetheless, the USA under William-the-slick bombed the wrong people, for the wrong reasons, and to the benefit of the very terrorists and islamists who hit us on 9/11. Kosovar muslims might be european by blood but they were then and are now motivated by the same fascist ideology that's fighting us today in the middle east.

[Hoplite]

they were then and are now motivated by the same fascist ideology that's fighting us today in the middle east.

The Albanian Christians would be very surprised to hear this, I'm sure.

Whatever - how much simpler to post what you think rather than spending the time to figure out what happened and then post with some semblance of a clue.

How many attacks have there been on US Soldiers in Kosovo Norton?

Proof enought that you don't know squat.

[FormerLib]

or...is this RBJoe reincarnated?

Could be, but Nazis are a dime a dozen. If he starts going on about how wonderful he is, we'll know it's Ol'BJ.

[FormerLib]

...the USA under William-the-slick bombed the wrong people...

Right on the money, norton. Of course, you'll really tick off the Islamonazis if you keep that up.

[ma bell]

can't write too much as i have the green moonies all around me in the cafe.

[FormerLib]

Understood. One or two of them might be able to read. Better to be careful, eh?

[ma bell]

yeah..their smoke is killing me as they watch soccor-fudball.

i'd like to know where Sara recieved his-her information regards to the church.

it is 80F and loving it here with a facial sunburn outlined with my rudy projects glasses.

i will videotape a few things as i am rigging mz vidcam to my bike so i can tape it while riding along with my dignified commentary. ))

[norton]

"Of course, you'll really tick off the Islamonazis if you keep that up."

I'm feeling successful already, note post 64.

[Sarajevo]

Well, well, Jebo ne Kral! We have a subject matter expert here!

This appears to be a church to me. It is also the one identified to me as a Serb Orthodox church in Tuzla by people who live in Tuzla. Of course, since I'm not a church-going man, nor a resident of Tuzla, I wouldn't know an Orthodox church from a Jewish Temple. If it is, in fact, NOT a Serb Orthodox Church, I would be happy to retract the statement. AND Please identify this building.

If the picture doesn't show, you can go to the URL below and look at the picture.

www.geocities.com/tuzla2000/PRAVCRKVA.htm

Now to get to several of your comments:

what do you need to know about the bosnian war?

Nothing. I know all I need to know about the Balkans conflict, mostly learned from my tenure in Bosnia.

it is not Bosnian muslims...it is Bosnian Serbian muslims

Call them what you will. The US military referred to the different ethnic groups as Bosnian Serb, Bosnian Croat, and Bosnian Muslim(Bosniak). This is to differentiate them from Yugoslavian, Croat, or Serb, Roma, etc. But now that you mention it, in the book "Croatia, A Nation Forged In War"(Marcus Tanner, 1997) the muslim population of BiH is referred to as Muslim Croats. We all know the Serbian point of view where the Muslim were traitors who submitted to the views of their Turkish overlords by converting to Islam, but isn't it overdoing it to hold a grudge for so long? After all, all three groups submitted to Tito (a communist).

i was hanging out with SFOR US Soldiers in Doboj during lunch this afternoon.

Are you an interpreter for the soldiers? Does the Screening Cell or C.I. know about this? I could think of better places to hang out than in Doboj. No NordPol BGDE, no beer, no reason to go to Doboj!

that tunnel was conduint upon a payoff

What payoff? Tell us more of the history.

we have another propoganda shill amongst us;is this RBJoe reincarnated{WRONG!}

the green moonies

I certainly hope this comment isn't about our troops

Sara is a liar.

Ma Bell, you should really learn to keep your sorrier comments to yourself. A statement such as this only exemplifies that you, like many of your countrymen, are a disgruntled Bosnian with an extreme lack of tolerance for those around you. Look at yourselves and ask why your fractured country has a rotational presidency, or why such a beautiful country is filled with people who hate each other over issues that occured 800 years in the past (i.e. the Serb loss to the Turks in Kosovo).

You should also look carefully at my earlier postings.I took pains to stay in the middle ground and not appear to favor any single group until "joan" proceeded to spout her Pro-Serbian rantings and called for reinforcements. As I stated, I hold nothing against Serb, Croat, or Bosnian Muslim. In fact, I have friends in all three groups who taught me quite a bit about your country. I prefer to think happy thoughts about them and the future they can provide for Bosnia.

Oh yeah, you should really apply the spell checker to your postings, unless you want to sound like a redneck KBR employee at Baza Orao

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Good post and discussion!

[ma bell]

nope, am an American of Serbian descent. they were finishing up as i pulled into doboj to check and send email at the internet cafe. they were at the hotel restaurant and was talking with the uppers for a short bit. i was short on time in reaching tuzla before dark, as the sunsets near 6.30p. you are right, Doboj is a wasted town, the girls arent even pretty.

i stopped by the Tuzla Serbian Church. I do stand corrected, it has reopened since i was here last year. when i am wrong, i admit it. i did stop by the previous night and a bosnian muslim supplied that information to me. very few Serbs attend service.

nope, not an interpreter. am a former marine and reawaiting a med eval to reenter service in the army reserve CA.

i am not going to bother w/spell check when i was on the bike for 12 hours in 75F weather.

sent you a pvt email