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Belgrade, 1 August (AKI) – Bosnia's wartime president Radovan Karadzic may testify "embarrassing" secrets to the UN's Hague war crimes tribunal, a former senior international representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, said on Friday . "I believe Karadzic knows certain things which in any case aren’t pleasant for the international community,” Christian Schwarz-Schilling (photo) told German radio on Friday. “I suppose that he, having been involved in the events, will have to say some new things which were unknown until now,” Schwartz-Schilling said. Schwarz-Schilling, a German diplomat, was appointed High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the European Union's special representative in...

KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY Bosnia-Herzegovina produces Haj movie SARAJEVO, Jan 12 (KUNA) -- A documentary movie on Haj has been circulated in a ceremony here Friday, attended by a group of Bosnian pilgrims who have just returned from Haj in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Deputy Chairman of the Bosnian Supreme Muslim Council Ismet Spahic told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) here that the film aimed to introduce holy sites in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to teach how to perform the blessed rituals of Haj. The authority will distribute the movie among those Bosnians willing to travel to Makkah for pilgrimage in...

AP, January 04, 2007 Serbia asks UN for sovereignty protection BELGRADE (AP)--Serbia's prime minister sought support Wednesday from the United Nation's new secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, against granting independence to Kosovo, the separatist province whose future is being discussed in international talks. Vojislav Kostunica sent a letter to Ban asking that "the United Nations ensure inviolability of Serbia's borders, its sovereignty and territorial integrity." The southern province, populated mainly by independence-seeking ethnic Albanians, has been a U.N.- and NATO-run protectorate since 1999 when the alliance halted a Serb crackdown on the separatists. Seven years after NATO air strikes forced Serb...

In what is reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust when Hitler's Germany forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as a mark for extermination, homes of Kosovo's Christian Serbs have recently been marked with the same yellow bands that make the Christian symbol of a cross. Kosovo's Muslim Albanians have threatened violence if Kosovo is not granted independence and concerns are on the rise that these markings will aid the Muslims extremists during a pogrom of Christians that they threaten. (Photo November 2006)) http://www.serbianna.com/photo_2006/0189.html

Masked, armed persons reappear in Kosovo 7 December 2006 | 11:00 | Source: B92 PRIŠTINA -- The KPS stated that unidentified armed persons wearing masks have opened check points around the region. The Kosovo Police Service stated that these groups have been stopping people and asking for identification. According to police officials, the armed groups were setting up check points last night on village roads. Police quickly responded to calls from citizens. In a village near Ðakovica, there was gun fire exchanged between the armed group and police officers. There were no injuries and the armed assailants fled into a...

Arrogantly strutting around the opulent OSCE restaurant, on an upper floor of its Pristina headquarters, Richard Holbrooke cut an imposing figure. The “Balkan peace negotiator” whose bloody legacy stretched from Vietnam and Indonesia to Belgrade minced no words about US policy for the region. In front of the five heads of UNMIK he bellowed: “Forget multi-ethnic Kosovo. Forget Resolution 1244. We only signed that to get rid of the Serbs.”

www.rts.co.yu Radio Television Serbia, Belgrade Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:33 MUJAHEDDIN A THREAT TO B-H SECURITY Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) deputies in the lower chamber of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament have announced that they will vote against the Law amending the law on citizenship, which foresees the acquisition of B-H citizenship by naturalization. The adoption of this law would result in several thousand mujaheddin from Islamic countries gaining B-H citizenship despite the fact that during the war they committed horrific war crimes against the Serbs while fighting under the wing of the Bosnian Muslim B-H Army, warned SDS deputies. "Instead of...

Bosnia discrimates against dhimmis Once again, the Muslim world treats non-Muslims as second class citiznes or worse. So much for gratitutde for the help NATO (mostly the USA) provided against Serbia. From Ummah News Links: ... a new property restitution law in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina that officially discriminates in favor of the country’s Muslims. A law passed earlier this month allows people living in state-owned apartments that were nationalized under the former Yugoslavia’s socialist regime to purchase the dwellings. But the law – backed by lawmakers from the country’s Muslim majority – provides that any apartment previously...

As Bush stands firm in the Middle East, he capitulates in Europe By Julia Gorin Writing for an outfit called FamilySecurityMatters.org last week, Weekly Standard contributor and longtime champion of Balkan Muslims Stephen Schwartz describes an overnight bus ride from Kosovo's capital Pristina to a resort town in Montenegro: "A man behind me began speaking almost immediately and without stopping, in Albanian — which I understand…insistently focused on the nature of G-d (a favorite subject for Islamic fundamentalists), [and on] the nefarious influence of Sufis who thought they could reinterpret the faith, the evil intentions of Americans, Iraq, and bloodshed....

United Press International Front Page > UPI Page Corrupt Kosovo cannot be independent state Apr. 14, 2006 at 8:54AM A U.N. mediator says Serbia's southern Kosovo province has to eliminate corruption before it gains independence. Albert Rohan, U.N. negotiator in ongoing talks between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, said: "Corruption endangers the independence of Kosovo," Albanian-language media in Kosovo's major town of Pristina reported Friday. "There will be no independence unless corruption is contained. We do not want a state which has shortcomings from the very beginning," the Beta news agency quoted Rohan as saying. Kosovo Albanians, who make up 90...

Home / SEE Security Monitor / SEE Security Monitor: Serbia & Montenegro Premier seeks Islamic countries' help in building Kosovo's future November 17, 2005 YU Excerpt from report by independent internet news agency KosovaLive Prishtina [Pristina], 17 November: Kosova [Kosovo] Prime Minister Bajrami Kosumi asked the ambassadors from Islamic countries today to influence positively the creation of the state of Kosova. After a meeting with the ambassadors of several countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference accredited to Belgrade, Kosumi said that he had informed them about the preparations for the final stage of finalizing the independence of Kosova...

A spokesman for the police component of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) today said extreme violence was still a daily occurrence in the land as a consequence of the widespread presence of privately owned weapons. Briefing the press as UNMIK Headquarters in Pristina, police spokesman Derek Chappell said two murders had occurred in Prizren on 10 December. In both cases, the victims-both males, one aged 14 - had been shot by close family members as a result of disputes. One suspect, aged 17, is now being detained on a murder charge. "These two incidents tragically illustrate ...