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To: mark502inf

You can't possibly be that naive about Muslims. I've had to patrol through western Makedonia, which is Albanian muslim and pacifist is not something they are. Besides, Kosovo is only the Serbian homeland, so why should they care?


8 posted on 03/01/2005 12:02:35 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
You can't possibly be that naive

jb6, post 5 is history, not opinion--it's what happened. After the loss of autonomy under Milosevic, the Albs tried a shadow government & peaceful resistance in Kosovo under Rugova--the person they elected as president. However, when their situation was ignored at the Dayton Accord in 95, the KLA was formed by those who decided that a pacifist strategy would not work. It started slow & small until two events--the collapse of Albania next door in 97 let loose a flood of looted weapons & the 1998 Jashari family massacre in Drenica galvanized popular support for the KLA.

13 posted on 03/01/2005 4:16:42 AM PST by mark502inf
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To: jb6
I've had to patrol through western Makedonia

When & in what capacity? I spent quite a bit of time there myself.

14 posted on 03/01/2005 4:20:22 AM PST by mark502inf
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