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To: Christopher Lincoln
What parts don't you believe - or don't you believe any of it?

The fact that she was in Kosovo and injured by bombing was reported by the BBC while the air war was still going on. Though, one thing to note, is her husband saying she has been fighting cancer since she was 17-years-old, so the part of the write up implying the bombing being responsible her cancer, operations and illnesses is deceptive as they were pre-existing conditions.

Times reporter leaves hospital

UK journalist injured in an apparent Nato air strike in Kosovo has left hospital, it has been confirmed.

The newspaper's correspondent Eve-Ann Prentice escaped from the attack, in which one person died, with only "light injuries".

The Times later said Mrs Prentice had decided to return to Belgrade and had sent a short satellite message to her colleagues.

Defence Minister John Spellar first revealed Mrs Prentice had left hospital at Monday's Ministry of Defence briefing. Nato had begun an investigation to determine if it had bombed the two-vehicle convoy of Western journalists travelling from Prizren to Brezovica, he said.

Driver and interpreter Nebojsa Radojevic, 28, died in the missile attack. Two other journalists were injured.

Mr Spellar told the Ministry of Defence briefing: "With regard to the journalist, we regret injuries to civilians and particularly those journalists who in difficult circumstances are trying to report the truth from Kosovo."

The defence minister also declined to comment on responsibility for the deaths of 11 people at a sanatorium in south east Serbia.

"I understand that Nato are conducting an investigation and will be making a statement later," he said.

Balkans veteran

The Times said it would consider whether Mrs Prentice should now return to Britain or remain in Yugoslavia to report the conflict.

"There are no immediate plans to pull her back, it depends on her physical condition and her own wishes," a spokesman said.

"We will consult with her when she gets to Belgrade, which will not be until tomorrow."

Her husband, Pat, said Yugoslavia's Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic, a friend of the correspondents, was keeping them informed of her condition.

Mr Prentice, who also works at The Times, said: "She has been in Bosnia, Croatia, Sarajevo, she has been everywhere. She is a veteran in the Balkans."

Mr Prentice, who was married to her for 23 years, said she has been fighting cancer since she was 17 years old. Her last operation to beat breast cancer was 18 months ago, he said.

"We are still trying to get through to the hospital," he said. "We keep getting told she wasn't badly injured, but we just don't know."

17 posted on 02/04/2006 2:02:28 PM PST by joan
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To: joan
By and large there is nothing to show that the Muslim world cared what happened to Bosnia. The only exception I know of was the Iranian government, which sent arms to the Bosnians. But the Iranians were probably motivated not by ideas of Muslim solidarity, but by the fact that Saddam Hussein, their enemy, was Milosevic's friend and ally.

There seem to be two different and contradictory stories of the Serbian Communists. The first has them hailing the Islamists as heroes and comrades; the second has them claiming, fantastically, to be fighting for Christianity.

You ask what part I don't believe; the answer is, indeed, pretty near all of it. I am suspicious of Ms. Prentice's eagerness to tell exactly the story most favorable to Milosevic. For certain I don't believe the bit about Osama bin Laden - she's a reporter, so why didn't we hear about it then? Some of her points are contradicted by ample testimony, some defy logic. Thus she tells us that the Kosovo Albanians fled because they were afraid of the KLA and the NATO bombing. Why then did the Serbs not flee although they had as least as much reason to be afraid as the Albanians; and why did the Albanians flee to Albania and not away from it?

78 posted on 02/04/2006 10:47:54 PM PST by Christopher Lincoln
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