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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro – The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party on Friday condemned the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged media in Serbia to refrain from publishing them. The Radicals called the caricatures “offensive” to followers of Islam. The party said the cartoons, first published in Denmark, have led to a “justified revolt by Muslims everywhere who nurture the deepest reverence for Prophet Muhammad, founder of their religion and tradition.” The Radicals criticized the publication of the caricatures as “immoral” and appealed to Serbian media, which have so far reported on the worldwide controversy without publishing the drawings, to refrain from printing...

(Sarajevo, DTT-NET.COM)-Angry Bosnia Muslims have burned the Croatia’s flag in front of the country’s embassy on Wednesday afternoon, in a protest over Prophet Mohammed cartoon published in Croatian weekly magazine. Bosnia Muslim citizens on Wednesday have staged protests also in front of Norwegian, Denmark and France’s embassy in capital Sarajevo against the publishing of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in the media. Local media reported that some hundreds of Bosnian Muslims have gathered in a non-violent protest and called the authorities of EU member nations for public apology for the cartoons. Protesters have destroyed small paper flags of Norway and Denmark....

By Shaban Buza PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - The United Nations-run province of Kosovo can win independence from Serbia in negotiations this year if it shows enough democratic maturity, a senior British diplomat said on Monday. "The more the leaders of Kosovo can reach out to the other communities and show that Kosovo is a mature democracy, the more fully an independence can be delivered," John Sawers, the political director of the Foreign Office, told reporters after meeting Kosovo Albanian leaders in the capital, Pristina. The comments are in line with what diplomats have been saying in private for...

Kissinger Serbia's Advisor on Kosovo Talks? NEW YORK, 18 NOV 2005 -- Serbian Gov't is negotiating with former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger, hoping he will come on board and act as Serbia's chief advisor for the upcoming Kosovo talks, which will determine the future of this Serbian province, writes Belgrade-based weekly "Vreme". After years in diplomacy, Henry Kissinger retired and, in 1982, founded his own consulting firm "Kissinger & Associates", headquartered in New York City. He's been active as a geo-political analyst and a guest lecturer on university campuses the world over. Kissinger...

<p>MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Serbia on Sunday extradited to Spain a Moroccan man who is prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings last year that killed 191 people, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement.</p> <p>The suspect, Abdelmajid Bouchar, 22, arrived at a military airport near Madrid in the custody of four Spanish officers assigned to Interpol, the international police agency.</p>

Serbian government prepared to assist threatened population in US south Belgrade, September 9, 2005 – Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic today sent a letter to US Ambassador to Serbia-Montenegro Michael Polt, in accordance with the decision yesterday by the Serbian government to dispatch aid to the citizens of New Orleans. In a letter to the US Ambassador to Serbia-Montenegro, the Serbian government, the Serbian Ministry of Health and all state institutions, expressed preparedness to assist the threatened population in the US south, hit by hurricane Katrina. There exists a possibility to organise the recruitment of medical teams, consisting...

This video shows the execution of the Serbian man we read about earlier - FR thread here. Check the source link. The video is Windows Media Video and it's about 3.5MB in size. View at your own discretion.

Serb beheading picture published A Serb nationalist newspaper has published a picture of a Bosnian Muslim soldier beheading a Serb prisoner. The image was taken from a private video shot in the 1990s during the war. The international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has denied the paper's claims that the court refused to show the film because of its brutality. The publication comes a week after Serbian TV broadcast a video of Serb paramilitaries executing Muslim prisoners in Srebrenica 10 years ago. That video was screened at the international tribunal. At least 12 of the Serb paramilitaries featured...

Rape Suspect Surrenders Himself In SerbiaMay 27, 2005 10:48 am US/Central CHICAGO (AP) A man police allege took part in the videotaped rape of a teenage girl was expected to return to Chicago on Friday, days after giving himself up in Serbia after eight months on the run. Adrian Missbrenner, 20, and others allegedly videotaped themselves in December 2002 having sex with a 16-year-old girl during a party at the Missbrenner family's suburban Burr Ridge home. Authorities said the girl was too drunk to consent to the sex acts. Missbrenner disappeared eight months ago while free on bail. He surrendered...

Positive feasibility study brings Serbia-Montenegro on European path Belgrade – Serbian Prime Minister Voislav Koshtunitsa has expressed satisfaction with the fact that the European Commission has approved the Feasibility Study for Serbia-Montenegro, adding that the country has taken the first and decisive step towards its grand goal – full membership in the European family of nations. Koshtunitsa said that Serbia has been waiting for this day since October 2000, when it started the great job of including the country into European integration processes. “We have always belonged in Europe and we see the European Union as our common house....

Millions of metres of film could be lost forever As a country Serbia and Montenegro is neither large nor wealthy, and yet it has two of the biggest archives of newsreel and feature films in the world. But years of neglect and a lack of money mean that some valuable and unique items of visual history are now being lost. MORE

Next week, a delegation of American WWII veterans will be returning to the village of Pranyani, Serbia, where they will attend the unveiling of the monument erected in memory of "Operation Hilliard". During the summer and autumn of 1944, Serbian Royalist forces, under the command of Gen. Mihailovich, had saved more than 500 downed American pilots. According to the statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia & Montenegro, the delegation will arrive in Serbia on September 12 and will visit many other places where, 60 years ago, "they and their Serbian allies fought shoulder to shoulder against nazism...

Serbs May Help Patrol Afghanistan, but Qualms Abound By NICHOLAS WOOD PRESEVO VALLEY, Serbia and Montenegro — A convoy of jeeps sped though an Albanian village in southern Serbia one recent day. Inside, troops with their faces hidden by camouflage masks sat with their guns at the ready. The men were part of Serbia's gendarmerie, an elite paramilitary police force that routinely patrols this region in search what they call Albanian terrorists. In 1999 similar Serbian forces were bombed by NATO warplanes as they rooted out ethnic Albanian rebels — and killed ethnic Albanian civilians — in the neighboring province...

Nuclear shipment alarms Belgrade Serbia has flown 6,000 uranium rods - enough to make two nuclear bombs - back to Russia, in high-security operation that alarmed residents in the capital Belgrade. Helicopters hovered over the city and special police in gas masks guarded the route from the Vincha nuclear research institute to a local airport, as the transportation operation began early on Thursday. The Serbian Science Minister, Dragan Domazet, said city residents were in no danger, stressing that the operation had to be kept secret because of a risk of terrorist attack. "You always have to foresee everything, like...

Nothing New In Kosovo In The Occupied Province, Same Old TerrorOver the past couple of days, two prominent leaders of the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) have been arrested by the NATO forces occupying Kosovo. Rrustem Mustafa, better known as Commander Remi, is accused of torturing and murdering several people. Ramush Haradinaj was charged with "violent behavior" – a polite way to describe a shooting of a rival politician two years ago.Predictably, the arrests have been touted as a signal of NATO’s determination to "tackle armed extremism" in the province. They are, of course, nothing of the sort. Considering the...

Austria disco attack claimed A previously unknown group has said it carried out last weekend's attack on an Austrian disco in the city of Linz, police say. The claim - from a group calling itself the "Bosnian Cobras" - was in an e-mail sent to the daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung. The e-mail also included death threats against two of those wounded in the attack. Twenty-seven people were injured early on Saturday when an attacker rolled a hand grenade onto the crowded dance floor of a club popular with teenage Balkan immigrants. A transcript of the e-mail published on the...

MILOSHEVICH RISKS HEART ATTACK! A full health check on former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has found he is at serious risk of a heart attack and will need to rest. "The medical report describes the accused as a man with severe cardiovascular risks," presiding judge Richard May, told the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where Mr Milosevic is fighting charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Mr Milosevic, who is 60, has suffered from at least two bouts of flu since the trial started in February, causing proceedings to be suspended. However, he has conducted a robust...

Thus Spoke Djindjich (re. Serbia, attn. Balkan Front Freepers!)It would do us no harm to remind ourselves what certain politicians were saying when they were not in power. It would also be interesting to compare their earlier statements with their behaviour of today.  For this purpose, here are some of Prime Minister Djindjich's statements from his days as an opposition leader.  I will never go to Dedinye (synonym for ex-President Miloshevich's residence), nor will I fire people for different ideological views. (Blic, 2-3 NOV 1996) We ask that the government be changed at the ballot box, not by fraud. ...

Washington's relationship with Serbian PM Zoran Djindjich has seriously cooled off ever since the State Department got their hands on the information that the Serbian Government under Djindjich is the major organized crime enterprise in the Balkans. Business, personal and blood ties Prime Minister has with Stanko Subotich (Balkan Tobacco Czar), Drago Markovich, Vladimir Popovich (the Serbian Lavrenti Beria) and Ljubisha Buha have caused Washington to withdraw its support for Djindjich. Washington is of the opinion that supporting Yugoslav President is the right thing to do. Voislav Koshtunitsa, they say, might be a moderate Serbian nationalist but he's also...

Pulp RealityBalkans Theatre of the Bizarre  If, twelve years ago, someone had written a book about the Balkans wars that contained even a tenth of what has actually happened since, they'd have been laughed right out of every publishing house in the world. Truth, as Mark Twain remarked, really is stranger than fiction. That, alas, does not prevent so many events in the Balkans from seeming as if they rolled right off the pages of some cheap, trashy pulp novel. Here are just a few scenes from this theatre of the bizarre.The Serbian CircusThree days ago, a court in...