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British soldier dies after being shot in Kosovo "in front of a partially built Christian Church"
AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | Tuesday December 18, 6:18 AM | AFP

Posted on 12/17/2001 2:00:00 PM PST by Pericles

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To: bob808
Found the article I remembered! Do you think it is the same church?:

unfinished Serbian church

It is one of the most surreal yet symbolic scenes of the post-war Balkans. Every night a faint glow can be seen through the windows of the great, unfinished Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in the centre of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.

But the gentle light comes not from candles, ghosts or angels. Inside the church is a large tent. And inside the tent are three Royal Marines commandos. If you come at the right time, they will all be sitting on their sofa clutching mugs of tea and watching EastEnders. A fourth will be outside keeping guard, making sure the church is not razed by Kosovo's Albanians who see it as a symbol of a past and a people they hate.

Three weeks after Slobodan Milosevic fell from power, and a week before Kosovo's Albanians cast their votes in their first internationally supervised free election, everything and nothing has changed here. While there is little doubt British troops will be watching EastEnders and protecting Kosovo's Serbian churches and churchgoers for years to come, it is also clear the events in Belgrade have altered the political landscape…


21 posted on 12/17/2001 3:07:58 PM PST by joan
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To: Poohbah
Personally, I think we should just exterminate EVERYONE in the Balkans and announce a new land rush. There are exactly ZERO good guys in the region.

The Serbs are the closest thing to normal, decent people in the region; Albanian Kosovars are the kind of people who give white trash a bad name. I can understand why Klinton liked them since they generally behave like an archetypal democrat voting block but I'm damned if I can think of any reason for anybody else to like them.

22 posted on 12/17/2001 3:12:52 PM PST by medved
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To: Pericles
Europeans are slow but eventually they will understand the reality about Islam too.
23 posted on 12/17/2001 3:13:45 PM PST by MaxwellWolf
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To: Pericles
You can bet money there is an muslim terrorist finger print on the trigger.

They have such clever ways of saying thank you to their NATO allies for 77 days of bombing CHRISTIANS.

24 posted on 12/17/2001 3:14:41 PM PST by gitmogrunt
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To: medved
The Serbs are the closest thing to normal, decent people in the region

If they're the closest to being "normal" and "decent," then you've just proved my point--the stuff they complain about now, THEY did when they were winning. "Wipe them out. ALL of them."

25 posted on 12/17/2001 3:15:30 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: joan
Do you think it is the same church?

Great memory you have. It very well could be. I doubt too many new churches would have been under construction, seeing as how Serbs were being driven out of Kosovo.

26 posted on 12/17/2001 3:17:36 PM PST by bob808
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To: AnnaZ
:-(
27 posted on 12/17/2001 3:18:56 PM PST by Mercuria
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For the love of all that's decent, will you please put that thang back in your PANTS and stop WAVING IT AROUND??
28 posted on 12/17/2001 3:21:39 PM PST by Mercuria
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"Wipe them out. ALL of them."

So basically you are saying that you are so against (alleged) ethnic cleansing you feel we should ethnically cleanse all of them. Is that about it?

29 posted on 12/17/2001 3:25:40 PM PST by bob808
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To: Mercuria
But I'm not especially decent...

Especially on this. I completely detest all of the various groups in the Balkans, because they have this habit of whining about Action A when it's taken against them and then turning right around and doing the same thing to the other guy whenever they can.

30 posted on 12/17/2001 3:26:05 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
You are one sick person.
31 posted on 12/17/2001 3:26:33 PM PST by Leonora
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They apparently have a big problem with ethnic cleansing when it's done to them, but they just LOVE it when they do it to everyone else. Basically, as far as I'm concerned, they've given up their right to be called "human beings" and should be wiped out like the vermin they are, and the land given to better-behaved folks.
32 posted on 12/17/2001 3:27:38 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: Pericles
Another KLA Albanian Terrorist murder.
33 posted on 12/17/2001 3:29:01 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: Leonora
No, just disgusted by the double standard shown here by most posters on FR. They love Serbia (and ignore what they were doing 1991-95) and hate Albania (for doing the exact same things the Serbs were doing earlier).
34 posted on 12/17/2001 3:29:05 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
You have no idea what you are talking about, do you? That's what happen to people who watch CNN too much.
36 posted on 12/17/2001 3:32:22 PM PST by Leonora
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...they've given up their right to be called "human beings" and should be wiped out like the vermin they are, and the land given to better-behaved folks.

Funny, though - you sound just like one of them.

37 posted on 12/17/2001 3:32:48 PM PST by bob808
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To: Poohbah
Personally, I think we should just exterminate EVERYONE in the Balkans and announce a new land rush. There are exactly ZERO good guys in the region.

The real culprits here are the Moslem Albanian terrorist swine and not he Yugo Christians.

Kosovo is just a mini microcosm of what the Moslems will do to Christendom if they are afforded the opportunity?

X42, NATO and Maddy Albright gave the Albanians such an opportunity and nothing but carnage has resulted on the part of, and by the of the poor oppressed Albanians?

38 posted on 12/17/2001 3:33:02 PM PST by zbogwan2
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To: Mercuria
For the love of all that's decent, will you please put that thang back in your PANTS and stop WAVING IT AROUND??

LOL, Best reply yet.

39 posted on 12/17/2001 3:35:17 PM PST by Great Dane
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The Serbs never did any ethic cleansing in the first place!

It's a big fat lie that the media, the government and people lie you tell over and over. And it's a complete lie!

The FBI went there and investigated for over a year and never found the tens of thousands of mass graves that your buddy Clinton, Albright and the other Clinton administration scum lied and said existed.

Most of the bodies found were people and policemen who the KLA had murdered or members of the KLA who were killed while attacking people or in shoot-outs with the police and Army.

And your sick animal communist Albanian KLA terrorist friends and Clinton destroyed 100's of the oldest Christian churches in the world! Many were 800 to 1000 years old! You should be ashamed to be taking the side of these murdering monsters!

40 posted on 12/17/2001 3:37:08 PM PST by t-shirt
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