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Serbia has been betrayed by the world. From this day forward, all "nationhood" is liable. No nation is safe, no ethnicity is secure--except those being used to destroy others. Today, Sunday, February 17, 2008, the Albanian Mohammadans (Muslims) living in the Serbian province of Kosovo have declared themselves an independent nation. They have the full support of Europe and the United States. Only Russia opposes the move, based on some dim, past notion that Serbia is part of the once grand "Soviet Union." BadEagle.com has been a faithful supporter of Serbian nationhood and sovereignty. With numerous journal entries and many...

Dear Serbia Letter to a Friend…. By: Richard Byrne So you’re almost alone now. Like Garbo. Except for Kosovo. And Kosovo is leaving soon. I think you know that already. And when Kosovo leaves, you will be alone at last. Is this really what you wanted? And, if not, how did it happen? Why do all your neighbors look the other way now? The only group that really does want you is the European Union. It finds you geographically irresistible. And still you push the EU away. Why? Do you really prefer to flirt with Russia? I’m writing this letter...

After winning a delay in the diplomatic push to grant Kosovo independence from Serbia, Russia looks likely to win some major Serbian companies, too, sparking claims that the Balkan country is trading economic assets and influence for diplomatic support. Over the months to come, Serbia plans to privatize its state energy company, . . . Serbia's government recently decided to reopen a tender for the country's largest copper mine, RTB Bor, following lobbying from Russian metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska and President Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.

First it came loudly and clearly through the State Department when on May 15 in Moscow, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Kosovo will never again be a part of Serbia." Then, in late May, George Bush himself came out in favor of the so-called Ahtisaari Plan for the Serbian province of Kosovo, named after its creator, Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, by which that province is to gain independence under "international supervision," a view he has now restated at the G-8 Summit of the world's leading industrial states in Germany....

The effort by the US to cram an independent Kosovo down the throats of the EU and Russia, not to mention the victim of this international hi-jacking – Serbia - has almost run its intended course. First of all, we saw how prestigious US-influenced, or controlled, “think tanks” such as the International Crisis Group (ICG) and the Rand Corporation floated the veiled threat that the Kosovar Albanians would no longer accept UN supervision of their tiny impoverished province; that they would again take up arms to achieve their independence. By Wes Johnson Next, the UN was enlisted to seek a...

TRUTH in the David Hicks affair remains as elusive as ever after fresh allegations this week from inside the US military that the Guantanamo Bay commissions are so seriously flawed that a fair trial is impossible. The most damaging blows yet to the commissions -- still supported by the Howard Government -- came from three US Air Force prosecutors involved in the trials who have quit the investigation in protest. One, John Carr, said the process appeared to have been rigged and that the first four cases -- including Hicks -- had been been "handpicked" and would not be acquitted....

Belgrade, 2 July 06. (Tanjug) – The Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija announced that UNMIK Chief Soren Jesen-Petersen “leaving Kosovo in an armored vehicle”, showed that the international community did not fulfill its basic task for seven years, such as the creation of elementary security conditions of free living and freedom of movement. “Petersen’s earlier statement, stated that he is leaving Kosovo for private reasons. Before his departure he clearly stated slogans on behalf of Albanian lobbyists who use all means in the fight for independence of the Serbian southern province”, states the Center at the Sunday announcement. Coordination...

A visitor touches the monument to the Kosovo Albanian guerrillas killed during the 1998-99 war in Serbia's southern province, in the village of Morina, 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of the capital Pristina, June 20, 2006. The U.N. Security Council is due to hear the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, on Tuesday, REUTERS/Hazir Reka

(Brussels, DTT-NET.COM)- A prestigious think-tank said that Kosovo’s independence must be imposed on Serbia, because of impossibility of reaching any agreement between Kosovan Ethnic Albanians and Serbian authorities on the future of UN administrated province. “To create a stable Kosovo, the international community must dare to impose independence rather than attempt finessing Pristina and Belgrade’s differences with an ambiguous and unstable settlement,“ International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report published on Friday. ICG says that agreement between all parties remains desirable in theory, “it is extremely unlikely that any Serbian government will voluntarily acquiesce to the kind of independence,...

he US yesterday made the case for offering Serbia incentives to reach agreement in negotiations over the final status of Kosovo, while setting out the possibility of independence for the province if the ethnic Albanian majority accepted compromises to accommodate its Serbian minority. Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state, told a Senate hearing the US was neither championing independence nor autonomy for Kosovo. But diplomats said his testimony was a clear signal the US looked favourably on independence, under certain conditions. In what diplomats also called a significant policy statement, Mr Burns made clear the US had no objection to independence...

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Although I find in general most people, even many Serbs, accept the indictment of Milosevic as proof of his guilt, from time to time I check out the transcripts of his trial that are posted on my website. It usually seems to me that most of the judges in the case have generally favored the stories presented by the Muslims of Kosovo or Bosnia and have frequently cut Milosevic or his witnesses off in mid-sentence while the prosecution's case seems to get progressively untenable. In the past several weeks, beginning July 1, 2005, almost exactly four years into the Milosevic...

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A controversial resolution on independence for Serbia's southern province of Kosovo has been withdrawn from the US Congress House International Relations Committee. The resolution had been proposed by Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and deputy Tom Lantosh. B92 learnt this morning from the office of the Serbian president that it was withdrawn after the State Department intervened.

The EU Must Take Over Kosovo By Doug Bereuter and Thomas D. Grant* Wall Street Journal August 25, 2004 A spasm of violence orchestrated by ethnic Albanian extremists in Kosovo this spring put paid the notion that the troubled Balkan province is ready for full self-government. Yet a stumbling U.N. administration has failed to foster the institutions and economic stabilization that are essential if self-government ever is to be achieved. Caught between its own unreadiness and the disappointments of the present form of international tutelage, Kosovo needs a fresh approach. As the international community faces a decision on Kosovo's status...

The United Nations is facing some of its most intense scrutiny over the administration of Kosovo. Serbs and ethnic Albanian leaders -- barely in dialogue with each other -- see the UN as unfit to run the province. UN Security Council members are pressing for policy changes to maintain their goal of a multiethnic entity. A number of outside experts, meanwhile, regard the council's mandate for Kosovo as an inherent contradiction that must be revised soon. United Nations, 13 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- When Soren Jessen-Petersen takes over on 16 August as the UN's sixth administrator of Kosovo, he will...

In 2001 two events at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague put the subject of genocide in the former Yugoslavia back on the front pages of newspapers. Firstly, Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic was convicted of genocide against the Muslim population of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the first conviction at the ICTY for this gravest of crimes. Secondly and more spectacularly, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was indicted and put on trial for genocide against the Muslim and Croat population of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a whole. These events at the ICTY inflamed the bitter...

Explosives found near UN building From correspondents in Pristina, Serbia-Montenegro 07mar04 POLICE and NATO-led peacekeepers found explosives placed close to the UN mission headquarters in Kosovo early today after receiving a bomb threat. The homemade bomb was found in a black sports bag by a fence adjacent to the UN mission headquarters' parking lot in the centre of the province's capital, Pristina, said UN police spokesman Derek Chappell. The find was made after police received a phone call tipping them off that a bomb had been planted near the UN building, he added. "The sports bag was found to be...

10:20 LONDON, March 9 (Tanjug) - South East Europe Stability Pact co-ordinator Erhard Busek said on Monday it is necessary for the members of the European Union (EU) to coordinate their policies on Kosovo, since the United States (US) has already decided that the province should become independent. The US determination is clear. It advocates an independent Kosovo, while EU members are divided on this issue and have not yet declared themselves, Busek told London-based BBC.

BELGRADE -- Monday – Five years after the alleged massacre in the Kosovo village of Racak which eventually led to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta, who led forensic investigations into the case, has said for the first time that Serb security troops were also killed. Ranta told B92 today that she had received information about the death of Serb troops in Racak in 1999. “I was told there victims of both Serbian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army murdered in Racak on Friday, January 15, 1999. I didn’t see the list of Serb victims. I was...

    PRISTINA, Kosovo -- U.N. police vehicles still clog the streets of Kosovo's capital. U.S. troops patrol other cities to deter violence and help people feel secure. In smaller towns, NATO vehicles guard the Orthodox churches of Serbs to prevent desecration by Albanian Muslims. Armored personnel carriers still rumble down the highways.     People who ponder how much time the United States and the international community will have to commit to rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq might want to consider this. More than four years after U.S.-led NATO forces intervened successfully in this riven Serbian province, Kosovo remains today like a...

In long conversations over neat whiskey, marked by scores of cigarettes, sometimes in a cold, blacked-out Kosovo, even in the United Nations headquarters that was once the seat of Belgrade's administration in Pristina, Nadia was, above all, honest about what was possible and what was not. Blunt, refreshingly cynical, she spoke openly about the realities of Kosovo: the criminality of the Kosovo Liberation Army; the fraud of its "transformation" into a supposedly disarmed civilian conservation corps; the hapless optimism of the Clinton administration; the endless reluctance of the Security Council to finance its responsibilities in Kosovo; the wounded, malign nationalism...