THE BALKANS: Albanian Guerillas in Serbia Again

strategypage.com ^ | November 12, 2001 | Q & D Headlines

[Pericles]

THE BALKANS: Albanian Guerillas in Serbia Again

November 12, 2001; Serbian sources reported an ethnic Albanian woman and her four-year-old son were badly hurt in an attack in southern Serbia near the town of Bujanovac. Gunmen opened fire on the family while they were traveling in their car. Serb authorities blamed the attack on ethnic Albanian extremists who have reappeared in the south. The Serbs contend a splinter extremist group wants to sow trouble and prevent (quote) “the integration of the Albanian community” into Yugoslav political institutions.

[Pericles]

Wait for the snows to fall and the pass at Kacanik to close. Camp Bondsteel checkmated.

[Pericles]

KOSOVO: Prisoners of Fear (The US Military in Kosovo)

[DTA]

Here is where rubber hits the road:

Quote:

By the authority vested in me as President and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Authorization for Use of Military Force Joint Resolution (Public Law 107-40, 115 Stat. 224) and sections 821 and 836 of title 10, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Findings.

....

d) The ability of the United States to protect the United States and its citizens,
and to help its allies and other cooperating nations protect their nations and their citizens,
from such further terrorist attacks
depends in significant part upon using the United States Armed Forces to identify terrorists
and those who support them, to disrupt their activities,
and to eliminate their ability to conduct or support such attacks.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 13, 2001. end quote

[bob808]

This article is a bit brief, but does anybody know how they came to the conclusion that this was a "guerilla" attack and not just criminal activity?

[FormerLib]

...does anybody know how they came to the conclusion that this was a "guerilla" attack and not just criminal activity?

Because there is only a distinction between an Albanian guerillan and an Albanian criminal, hence there is no difference.

[Pericles]

In an earlier post I reported that Muji's from Al-Qaeda and Chechnya were moving into this area. One of the tip offs on who they were was that these Muji did not know Serbians from Albanians, i.e. they were new to the area. Yugo and FYROM intel services informed NATO of this but were ignored and told that those were not Muji's but hairy Albanians.

If you need the links I will look for them.

[Pericles]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/571657/posts Macedonian Group Warns of Violence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/567883/posts NATO to FYROM: Those rebels are hairy Albanians not Osama bin Laden's mujahideen

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/568667/posts 12 Macedonians taken hostage and there is shooting in the vicinity (Al-Qaeda's Winter Front forms)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/568750/posts 3 Macedonia Police Feared Killed, 12 Taken Hostage by Albanians (Al-Qaeda's Balkan Front Forms)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/568350/posts Macedonian Soldier Wounded (The First Round of Al-Qaeda's Winter Offensive)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/568186/posts Albanians Stall Macedonian Vote on Peace (So Al-Qaeda can move in forces for the winter offensive)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/573709/posts Explosion Rocks Macedonian City "ethnic Albanian militant group claimed responsibility"

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ah, embrace Muji's even if they nuke you. I wonder what is the use for them after their boss Osama destroyed WTC. do they enlist as Turkey's Janisseries(?sp) ? Which European country is on crosshair this time ? How about France ?

[Vojvodina]

It's true. I've just read that the Shiptars have fired a few grenades at a police checkpoint. The fire came from the village of Muhovats (which is in the Presevo Municipality).