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Tensions rise as Serbs push into Kosovo
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/21256 ^

Posted on 02/22/2008 6:19:41 PM PST by jhpigott

February 22, 2008, 23:17 Tensions rise as Serbs push into Kosovo http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/21256

Kosovo border police have reported Serb tanks are taking positions near the Kosovo-Serb border. On Friday, police in Kosovo's northern city of Mitrovica have been holding off thousands of Serb protesters who were trying to cross the bridge dividing the Serb and ethnic Albanian sides of the city.

Hundreds of ethnic Serbs have arrived in the province to show their support for the Serbian minority living there. Kosovo authorities have already introduced restrictions preventing Serbs from entering the region.

Police have been given the green light to use tough measures to keep any rioting under control but apart from isolated incidents, the rally passed off peacefully.

Authorities feared a repeat of the overnight violence that gripped the Serbian capital Belgrade, killing one and injuring around 130. The violence has also resulted in damage to a number of Western embassies.

In Belgrade President Boris Tadic has called on the Council for National Security to discuss the situation in the country.

He said there was no excuse for violence and nothing could justify Thursday's unrest.

Meanwhile, Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, says alliance officials in Kosovo should not overstep the bounds of their mandate.

“Some high-ranking NATO officials are giving orders that are obviously inconsistent with their authority, such as an order to block the border in northern Kosovo, where mostly ethnic Serbs live. This means that Kosovo Serbs are cut off from Serbia itself. If the Albanians decide to break away, that doesn't mean they can seize someone else's property and citizens.

The thing is that the Serbs in Kosovo, who were previously citizens of their country, suddenly do not know who they are - Kosovars or inhabitants of an independent territory. Besides, we're disturbed by reports, although it needs checking, that some NATO military chiefs are considering whether to stop representatives of the Serbian administration entering Kosovo. This is not in their mandate. For us, the main thing is that NATO shouldn't intervene in politics, but stick to a neutral position on Kosovo, as it always did,” Rogozin said.


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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

Thanks for being so informative on this thread.


61 posted on 02/22/2008 8:29:59 PM PST by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: CondorFlight

It’s like telling black people in our country to ‘just get over it’.


62 posted on 02/22/2008 8:33:15 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: jhpigott
I hope this time we have the good sense to stay out of it and let the chips fall where they may. Last time Russia stayed out of it because they were nearly bankrupt and had a weak leader. Now they are rolling in money, have Putin at the helm and have rebuilt their military. They very well may jump in on the side of the Serbians if the US or Europe attack...

It's situations like this that lead to World Wars...

63 posted on 02/22/2008 8:34:41 PM PST by apillar
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; jeffers; All

more coup rumors circulating in Belgrade

http://www.serbianna.com/


64 posted on 02/22/2008 8:50:53 PM PST by jhpigott
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To: apillar

Love this comment made by Nicholas Burns today. You can see that the Serbs are being offered to appease the muslim world by the US. Doesnt make me proud.

‘During a briefing on Kosovo after its declaration of independence, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns welcomed the recognition of this step by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and hence, by the governments of its member countries. He said: “And we think it is a very positive step that this Muslim state, Muslim majority state, has been created today.”


65 posted on 02/22/2008 8:52:47 PM PST by oilfieldtrash
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To: jhpigott

The Serbs are nuts. They’ll back down in the face of NATO firepower — don’t forget that NATO kicked their asses in 1999.


66 posted on 02/22/2008 8:53:03 PM PST by Poundstone
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To: apillar

Will someone tell me why did President Bush take this position? This situation doesn’t make any sense to me at all!


67 posted on 02/22/2008 8:55:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Poundstone

Correction: We are NUTS!


68 posted on 02/22/2008 8:57:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: jhpigott

Condy Rice and Bush want the Serbian people to sit by and watch the stolen lands become an terror haven for radical islam:

In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was time for Serbs to accept that Kosovo is no longer theirs. She also suggested it was time to drop centuries of grievance and sentimentality in the Balkans.

“We believe that the resolution of Kosovo’s status will really, finally, let the Balkans begin to put its terrible history behind it,” Rice said Friday. “I mean, after all, we’re talking about something from 1389 — 1389! It’s time to move forward.”

Shame on them


69 posted on 02/22/2008 9:00:51 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Sadly, party loyalists and the Bush rump swabs are in denial.

Perish the thought, of course, that we point out that Clinton's Wilsonianism in Kosovo paved the way for Bush's in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, etc. etc.

70 posted on 02/22/2008 9:04:18 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: raygunfan
"milosevic was right....."

Vukovar.

Look it up.

71 posted on 02/22/2008 9:09:43 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (New York Times Endorsed!!!)
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To: jhpigott
"If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans."

- Otto von Bismarck.
72 posted on 02/22/2008 9:24:58 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: jhpigott

Great link,,,TANKS a bunch(no pun),,,

I wonder just who “ordered” the tanks to the border,,,

From what I’ve seen the UN only has APCs,,,

IMHO : If Spetsnaz is used by Russia,they will over-run

that place in a day or three,,,Nothing to stop them,,,

I see no reason for them to bluff...


73 posted on 02/22/2008 9:37:57 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
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74 posted on 02/22/2008 9:47:41 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=327919


75 posted on 02/22/2008 10:13:26 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: oilfieldtrash
‘Rice said it is time for Serbs to accept that Kosovo is no longer theirs. She also suggested that it also time to drop centuries of grievance and sentimentality in the Balkans.’

Stupid b!tch.

This would be akin to telling Americans to accept that Lexington-Concord Bridge now belonged to Mexico, and to just let it go.

These state department people can't REALLY be this stupid, can they? CAN THEY??

Could it be they hope to embroil us in another war to help us miss the economic meltdown that is about to engulf this nation?

76 posted on 02/22/2008 10:25:50 PM PST by JOAT
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To: oilfieldtrash

After that statement Michelle exclaimed “I’m proud of my country for the second time in my adult life.”


77 posted on 02/22/2008 10:28:10 PM PST by baa39 (Help Sgt. Evan Vela! DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: jhpigott

I wouldn’t blame em.

We screwed them like Last Exit to Brooklyn.


78 posted on 02/22/2008 10:29:22 PM PST by wardaddy (The fact that a radical like Obama can get nominated here makes me ashamed for my nation.)
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To: Richard Kimball

“What I want to know is why we keep doing the terrorist’s work for them”
Whadda yah mean “we” Kimoshabe ??

Answer => GWB and Friends (Rice,Merkel,Blair, the line starts back there somewhere in 1973)in NWO have it in for all Godly folks as they serve a evil force hellbent on destruction and domination and bad things for the USA and Isreal and ..... us.
So... is GWB an ally of the Saudis OR and American president who has betrayed his country and its’ people OR some alien vector sent here to do the bidding of the Master OR ??
See what happens when you ask the right Q’s !!


79 posted on 02/22/2008 10:29:41 PM PST by buffaloKiller ("No liberal is my brother, under the skin they are Orcs. Serving and doing evil endlessly.")
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To: jhpigott
suddenly do not know who they are

Oh they know all right. They just don't like it.

Give it 5 years, 10 max and Kosovo will be part of Greater Albania, Muslim protestations notwithstanding.

80 posted on 02/22/2008 10:32:50 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (Don't blame me - I voted for Fred and am STILL a FredHead!)
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