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Germany planning to pull out of Bosnia (Endgame)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/10/31/germany_planning_to_pull_out_of_bosnia/ ^

Posted on 10/31/2006 3:05:05 AM PST by kronos77

BERLIN -- Less than a week after he urged the German Army to play a more active role in resolving regional conflicts and fighting terrorism, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said Germany would begin as early as December to withdraw troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former republic of Yugoslavia that was ravaged by civil war from 1992 to 1995. Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend World RSS feed Reprints & Licensing Save this article powered by Del.icio.us More: Globe World stories Latest world news

It is the first time Jung has publicly raised the idea of pulling out of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where an international force has kept peace for almost 11 years. Germany has 850 military personnel in the 6,200-member force, which the European Union has commanded since late 2004.

Over the weekend, voters in Serbia ratcheted up tensions over Kosovo, the Serbian province dominated by ethnic Albanians, by approving a constitution that reasserts that the region is an indelible part of Serbia. United Nations officials, who have run Kosovo since NATO went to war over it in 1999, will face the challenge of balancing that against strong Albanian demands for independence by year's end.

During presidential elections this month, voters elected Bosnia's wartime foreign minister, Haris Silajdzic, as the Muslim member of the three-member presidency. Silajdzic has already upset Western diplomats, and particularly the Croat and Serb communities, by threatening to dismantle the Bosnian-Croat federation, a delicately ethnically balanced structure established by the 1995 Dayton accords, which brought an end to the Bosnian war.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristianity; bosnia; islam; wrongwar

1 posted on 10/31/2006 3:05:07 AM PST by kronos77
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

Even the Germans are leaving...
Its time to say good buye to Balkans.. allready


2 posted on 10/31/2006 3:06:37 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

Quagmire


3 posted on 10/31/2006 3:07:20 AM PST by jsh3180
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To: kronos77

Do you figure that it will end out peacefully?


4 posted on 10/31/2006 3:07:58 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Do you see a background picture on a FRhomepage? If not, can you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

If Serbs and Croates are smart enough to devide Bosnia anong themselves thus erasing islamic state in Europe. Yes it can end peacefully.


5 posted on 10/31/2006 3:13:37 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Silajdzic has already upset Western diplomats, and particularly the Croat and Serb communities, by threatening to dismantle the Bosnian-Croat federation, a delicately ethnically balanced structure

This house of cards will crash with a bang if the "peacekeepers" leave. - Perhaps it should.

After all, isn't Europe always admonishing us arrogant Americans that you can't just impose Western style democracy on a people who don't want it?

6 posted on 10/31/2006 3:14:59 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: kronos77

The moslems will never allow such a division "peacefully."


7 posted on 10/31/2006 3:17:26 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: kronos77

americans just doing the job the euroweenies won't!!!

didn't clinto say the US would be out of kosovo and bosnia by Christmas....but did not say what century!!!

all of the balkans will become muzzie as the onslaught to invade and take over eurabia continues!!!!


8 posted on 10/31/2006 3:17:44 AM PST by hnj_00
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To: bill1952

Than, lets not ask them... Just do it.


9 posted on 10/31/2006 3:21:50 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77
Croatia seems to be developing fast, so that could happen, though it seems improbable.
10 posted on 10/31/2006 3:22:00 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( wall. new FRhomepage. information revealed.)
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To: hnj_00
It works like this:

Its not Christmas yet, its Halloween, and for Christmas we will get drunk, and the next morning its 12 months till Christmas...
11 posted on 10/31/2006 3:24:18 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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Hey, you have my vote for that.


12 posted on 10/31/2006 3:30:12 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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After all, isn't Europe always admonishing us arrogant Americans that you can't just impose Western style democracy on a people who don't want it?

Touché! Although I am from Germany I have to admit that there is some thruth in that statement.

13 posted on 10/31/2006 3:33:48 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (De omnibus dubitandum.)
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To: bill1952

As I remember from history,
Rooselevt never asked Hitler :"Oh, Mr. Hitler, we are planing to land in nNormandy to liberate Europe from your psychotic nazi occupation, but we need your endorsment..."

LOL


14 posted on 10/31/2006 3:35:09 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

Do we still have American troops in the Balkans?


15 posted on 10/31/2006 4:06:56 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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I hope that was sarcasm...
Yep, USA have troopps protecting Muslim plans in balkans, in time of need when US troops are needed in Iraq to ... protect US troops from.. Muslims?


16 posted on 10/31/2006 4:13:21 AM PST by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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Actually no. I wasn't being sarcastic. I lost track and since we never hear about this in the press I thought they must be gone by now. Do the Europeans really want us to be maintaining order there? (now you have sarcasm)
17 posted on 10/31/2006 4:57:36 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: kronos77
This situation is a mess and getting worse. The only solution is to appoint Slick as a special envoy to go back in there, see where his original plan went wrong and knock some heads together. After all, it's been over a decade and his original "exit strategy" must have gone off the rails somewhere.Who better to fix it?
However, if he can't resolve the issue, I suggest he issue an apology. He's had lots of practice and is very good at it.
18 posted on 10/31/2006 5:18:48 AM PST by finnigan2
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>we never hear about this in the press I thought they must be gone by now

The cold gaze of the media does not land on democrat President's actions or their consequences.

Carter/NK & Iran, Clinton/Balkans.


19 posted on 10/31/2006 6:01:50 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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And just look at what they leave behind:

"Al-Qa'idah still has its cells in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and it will never leave this country. This is a statement that Bahraini Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad [name as received], a former Al-Qa'idah officer, has been repeating for years. Ali Hamad has been serving his sentence in the Zenica Correctional Centre since 1997....."

Yes, brilliant "success"!

20 posted on 10/31/2006 7:50:32 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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