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Albania Honors NATO's Shea

Foreign Affairs News
Source: Reuters
Published: 10/23/00
Posted on 10/23/2000 14:42:19 PDT by Antiwar Republican

Albania honours NATO’s Shea for Kosovo role

TIRANA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Albania awarded NATO spokesman Jamie Shea its Golden Eagle medal on Monday and thanked him for being "a face of truth and hope" during last year’s Kosovo war.

Shea, who became a daily fixture for Albanian television viewers and ethnic Albanian refugees here during NATO’s 11-week campaign to drive Serb forces from Kosovo, received his medal from President Rexhep Meidani at a ceremony in Tirana.

He joins U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former NATO military commander Wesley Clark on the list of personalities whom Albania has honoured for helping to end Serb aggression in Kosovo.

"I decided to award Mr Jamie Shea...for the distinguished contribution to the settlement of the Kosovo crisis, protecting the values of humanity, democracy, freedom and human rights," Meidani said.

He called Shea a protagonist in "the greatest media battle that the democratic world has waged" against former president Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia.

"Jamie Shea was one of the most well-known faces of this victory of humanity, the face of truth and hope for all those on the run from their homes, who suffered in the mountains and for the deportees in refugee camps," Meidani said.


1 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:42:19 PDT by Antiwar Republican
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To: vooch,zviadist,serb5150,honorary serb,askel5,hamiltonian,robbinsj - bring your own barf bag

ping

2 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:43:43 PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Shea, who became a daily fixture

Interesting turn of phrase.

3 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:46:24 PDT by aposiopetic
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To: aposiopetic

Interesting turn of phrase.

Yeah, kinda like he was a VCR that could be programmed.

4 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:47:20 PDT by dirtboy
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To: Antiwar Republican

SURPRISE!

5 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:50:13 PDT by Lent
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To: dirtboy

<"Mute">

6 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:51:00 PDT by aposiopetic
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To: dirtboy

I recall him as a consummate smart-ass who smirked as he reported mayhem and the deaths of thousands.

7 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:51:14 PDT by tracer
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To: dirtboy

I recall him as a consummate smart-ass who smirked as he reported mayhem and the deaths of thousands.

8 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:51:23 PDT by tracer
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To: aposiopetic

<LIE><SPIN><PREVARICATE>

Telling the truth is not an installed option on this model.

9 Posted on 10/23/2000 14:52:38 PDT by dirtboy
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To: Antiwar Republican

"Albania awarded NATO spokesman Jamie Shea its Golden Eagle medal ... "

This section was edited out, I found it after much searching:
"Previous recipients of the coveted award include famous dignitaries such as Josef Goebells in 1942 and Joseph Stalin in 1952." /end_sarcasm

10 Posted on 10/23/2000 16:22:54 PDT by downunder (shame_Jamie_shame@Nazi.org)
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To: dirtboy

[Jamie Shea] joins U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former NATO military commander Wesley Clark on the list of personalities whom Albania has honoured for helping to end Serb aggression [sic] in Kosovo.

Now that these three have earned the HIGHEST AWARD IN THE FASCIST WORLD, what about clinton? Blare? The Hillary! witch? James Rubin? The Amanpour witch? ad infinitum...

...protecting the values of humanity, democracy, freedom and human rights....

The neolithic, clan- and gang-ruled Albanian entity (one cannot call it a "state") wouldn't recognize humanity, democracy, freedom or human rights if they walked up to it and barfed on it, which they are about to do....

YECCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

11 Posted on 10/23/2000 16:40:10 PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: dirtboy

Mejdani has close family ties with the KGB. Through his wife. Don't know just how this fits in, but that is the latest information I have from Albania's anti-communists.

12 Posted on 10/23/2000 20:24:01 PDT by Zviadist
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To: Antiwar Republican

He called Shea a protagonist (sic) in "the greatest media battle that the democratic world has waged" against former president Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia.

"I agree that there was an information war. But it failed miserably -- Jamie Shea was a laughingstock throughout the West."

Pierre Hassner, Senior Fellow, Centre D'Etudes De Recherches Internationales, Paris

New Perspectives Quartery, Fall 1999

13 Posted on 10/23/2000 22:16:37 PDT by F-117A (They misspelled propagandist!)
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To: Antiwar Republican

Albanians would build a monument to Jamie Shea, but they don't have the money.

Hashim Thaci has money, though. Shea met with him a couple of times to receive a gratuity.

14 Posted on 10/23/2000 22:31:01 PDT by Ichabod Walrus
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To: Antiwar Republican

The NATO spokesman gets an award from a most backward country in Europe that worshipped Stalin the longest and that sank in chaos after a collapsed pyramid scheme.

That's truly a fit!

15 Posted on 10/23/2000 22:41:57 PDT by madrussian
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To: madrussian

...that worshipped Stalin the longest...

I believe they worshipped Chairman Mao even longer.

16 Posted on 10/23/2000 23:38:08 PDT by Pay now bill Clinton
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To: madrussian

LOL!

"Africa is a shame of human-kind" - Ben Hurion

Albania is a shame of Europe

17 Posted on 10/24/2000 00:52:24 PDT by RussianDude
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To: Honorary Serb

Now that these three have earned the HIGHEST AWARD IN THE FASCIST WORLD, what about...The Hillary! witch?

Don't forget Hillary won the Mother Theresa Award!

18 Posted on 10/24/2000 01:04:13 PDT by Born on the Storm King
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To: Antiwar Republican

Jamie Shea?! I will remember him for the famous phrase: "We deeply regret..."

19 Posted on 10/24/2000 04:43:58 PDT by Lect
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To: Antiwar Republican,vooch

Stop it! Stop it! How dare you lot defame the name of this man.

I, as a British subject feel proud to rank this man among my tribe. This man told bare faced lies day after day, knowing, that one day his children would find out via the Internet what a lying bastard he had been.

Tell me what has this man to look forward too in his old age. He deserves that Golden Eagle, and I know where I would like to, shove it!

20 Posted on 10/24/2000 10:36:18 PDT by SANDNES
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