http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wrongtime/ en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:16:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390361/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390361/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:16:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364251/posts Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is applauded after being awarded an honorary degree in law from McGill University Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 in Montreal. Workers install a monument to former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Bill Clinton Boulevard in Pristina, Kosovo October 12, 2009. The government of Kosovo said that Clinton's statue will be unveiled next month, with the former president expected to attend the ceremony. Picture taken October 12, 2009. Former President Bill Clinton, right, makes remarks as filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and Linda E. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center look on during the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364251/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295506/posts What has to be the most pro-American country on the globe outside of North America celebrated its first birthday on February 17. If George W. Bush ever needs a near fully-friendly venue, he can travel to Kosovo. As can Bill Clinton, whose giant visage beams down on Bill Clinton Boulevard in the capitol city of Pristina. Kosovars love America and Americans, or at least the vast, vast majority of them do. I spent three days with the men and women of the 40th Infantry Division at its base at Camp Bondsteel this past week, and in long travels with various... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295506/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:05:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213730/posts SERBIANS marked the 10th anniversary of the start of a NATO blitz on the former federal republic of Yugoslavia on Tuesday with commemorations honouring over 3,000 victims. Air-raid sirens sounded at noon throughout the country, while schools opened classes with a minute's silence for the 89 children who were killed in the 78-day bombing campaign, which was initiated without UN security council backing. NATO claimed that it had launched Operation Allied Force in order to force then president Slobodan Milosevic to stop a military crackdown against Western-backed separatist insurgents in Kosovo province and pull out his troops. But the US... Morning Star Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213730/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:06:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204323/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States should not impose a cap-and-trade system to battle climate change this year because it amounts to a painful tax during a deep recession, a Republican lawmaker said Wednesday. "Now is not the time to put a national sales tax on every electric bill and every gasoline purchase," Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, who sits on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told reporters. "I'm open, as are several Republicans, to cap and trade, but it's getting increasingly difficult to think about it in the middle of a recession," said Alexander, who hails from Tennessee.... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204323/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:18:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202711/posts SKOPJE -- Skopje has no official information on the claims that there was trafficking of Albanians' organs through Macedonia during the Kosovo conflict. Albanian language media in Kosovo recently picked up articles in Macedonian papers in Albanian that the organs of Kosovo Albanians listed missing were "harvested and sold to Russians by Serbs". The Macedonian Interior Ministry (MUP) told the Beta news agency that this is the first time they have heard these allegations, and that there have been no demands for investigations. A similar statement was given by the Macedonian Foreign Ministry as well. The Albanian language daily Lajm,... B92 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202711/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:06:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060046/posts Belgrade, 11 August (AKI) – The deadly conflict between Russia and Georgia in the breakaway province of South Ossetia is an indirect result of Kosovo's declaration of independence in February, Serbian analysts and politicians said on Monday. “If there wasn’t a ‘Kosovo precedent’, as the greatest world powers headed by the United States called the secession of a part of Serbian territory, there wouldn’t have been a war in South Ossetia,” Oliver Ivanovic, Serbian government official in charge of Kosovo told the Belgrade daily Blic. Ivanovic said that Kosovo's example was “inspiring to South Ossetia, so they wanted to strain... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060046/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:11:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050825/posts 24 July 2008 Pristina _ The Islamic Community of Kosovo says that many Muslim states are to recognise Pristina’s independence from Serbia in the very near future. Naim Ternava, the head of Kosovo’s Islamic Community, said Thursday that this organisation is lobbying for the further recognition of Kosovo’s independence. “We are working hard, together with Kosovo’s institutions, to make sure many Islamic countries recognise Kosovo,” Ternava said. He made the comment after meeting Kosovo’s Parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on February 17, an act that has been recognised by 43 countries so far. However recognitions have... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050825/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:40:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037143/posts American Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton believes the United States committed a serious mistake when it recognized the independence of Kosovo. He fears such policy may escalate tensions in the Balkans. In an interview for the Russian news agency Interfax, Mr. Bolton remarked that Washington’s policy was on autopilot since the regime of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. But the situation has changed considerably after the democratic government took over, which, in Mr. Bolton’s opinion, makes support for Kosovo’s independence a pointless atavism. RUVR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037143/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:23:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025819/posts Kosovo Muslims arrest Serbs over t'shirts SERBIANNA June 3, 2008 Brothers Miomir and Milos Stojanovic from Gnjilane have been arrested on the regional road from Gnjilane to Bujanovac for wearing t-shirts saying Kosovo is Serbia, stated official of the Kosovo Ministry Milorad Todorovic. He told the Serbian news agency Beta that two youths were arrested and brought before the municipal prosecutor in Gnjilane. The Islamic judge decided that the brothers, who are Christian, must either pay 250 Euros each or to spend 60 days in jail. Serbianna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025819/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953209/posts Note From Ravnagora: Though written over 60 years ago, this essay resonates today. Like so much of what was happening at that time, particularly with regards to the Serbs, the fate of General Draza Mihailovich should have served as a harbinger to those who would be in charge of world events and their consequences in the future. ******************** THE MYSTERY OF MIHAILOVICH By Donovan Touche “TRUTH” London December 27, 1946 Was General Mihailovich a great patriot, foully done to death, or was he a collaborator? That is the mystery of Mihailovich. I would not have presumed to intervene in this... "Truth" (London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953209/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:51:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952677/posts As Kosovo goes, so goes northern Cyprus? That's the way the Turkish Cypriots see it. They can't see any distinction between the West's plans for a new "independent" state of Kosovo and the aspirations of Turkey for an independent Turkish Cyprus. It's just one more reason against the creation of a new state of Kosovo, where none has ever existed before. The real problem with these fanciful new "independent" states is that they are not independent at all. Both will be aligned with Islamic world, where freedom, individual liberties and respect for peaceful neighbors and non-Muslim minorities are virtually unknown... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952677/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:28:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877694/posts After my article exposing the farce of our Kosovo mission ran in American Legion Magazine last month, I heard from a soldier in Kosovo who was incredulous that someone was actually and finally talking about the region. I proceeded to publish two letters from him in this space, about his experiences and observations there, some of which confirm the free run that jihadists have in Kosovo, the fact that Albanians are being radicalized, and the notion that we should not have intervened in Kosovo as we did. Only there since November, the National Guard soldier stopped short of confirming the... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877694/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:58:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866272/posts And though he now stands accused of murdering Serb civilians nine years ago, as prime minister he aided U.N. efforts to protect the remaining Serbian minority in Kosovo. In a 37-count indictment, Haradinaj and his Kosovo Liberation Army unit are accused of a "widespread and systematic" campaign to intimidate, abduct, rape and murder Serb civilians and Albanians who refused to cooperate. His "Black Eagles" killed at least 40 people between March and September 1998 and expelled thousands more, the indictment says. One of Haradinaj's lieutenants and co-defendants, Idriz Balaj, is accused of some of the more grisly deeds, including slicing... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866272/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:06:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848492/posts BELGRADE – Serbs will never forgive the United States if it helps ensure Kosovo's Albanians win independence for the Serbian province, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Monday. In a bitter response to President George W. Bush's promise to Albanians that Kosovo would soon be independent, Kostunica said Serbia was 'justifiably disgusted' by U.S. policy, the official Serbian news agency Tanjug reported. The row over Kosovo's future deepened as the province marked the eve of the 8th anniversary of the June 12 deployment of 60,000 NATO troops who entered the territory from Macedonia as Serb forces withdrew to the north.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848492/posts#comment Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:18:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808860/posts 28.3.2007 16:10 SREBRENICA, (Tanjug) - Advisor in the Belgrade Documents Center for Investigating Crimes Against Serbs, Strahinja Zivak, has said that the Center has processed documents and gathered data proving that a total of 3,262 Serbs were killed by Muslims in the region of Srebrenica, Bratunac and the neighborhood from 1992 - 93. Tanjug http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808860/posts#comment Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785375/posts CERSKA, Bosnia (Reuters) -- The 18-year-old gunman who shot five people to death in a Salt Lake City, Utah, shopping mall was a survivor of the siege that ended in the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, a cousin said on Wednesday. Sulejman Talovic, who was killed by police after Monday's shooting spree in which he also wounded four people, fled his village with his family during the Bosnia war to Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected enclave, Redzo Talovic said. They spent two years in the town, during which Bosnian Serb forces besieged the enclave and Talovic's grandfather was... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785375/posts#comment Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:28:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782170/posts from Christopher Walker, Jerusalem About 40 Israeli volunteers have been fighting alongside the Serbs as a gesture of gratitude for Serb support for Yugoslav Jews against the Nazis in the Second World War. The existence of the Israeli fighters - they do not like the term mercenaries - was revealed by Ron Ben Yishai, an Israeli war correspondent who was injured by Kosovo Liberation Army sniper fire this week while reporting from the province for the Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot. The paper said that all the Israeli fighters had emigrated to the Jewish state from the former Soviet Union... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782170/posts#comment Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:43:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780898/posts Belgrade, Feb 7, 2007 – President of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Sanda Raskovic-Ivic stated last night that Kosovo independence is unacceptable to the Serbian side as the solution of the province's status, adding that there are realistic reasons for postponing the talks until after new Serbian parliament is formed. Raskovic-Ivic told RTS television last night that the government lost its legitimacy after the elections of January 21 and the Serbian President was the only legitimate representative who could meet with UN Special Envoy for Kosovo-Metohija Martti Ahtisaari when he presented his plan for the province's future status to Serbia.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780898/posts#comment Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:27:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778664/posts The United Nations emissary of Finnish and Common Market origins has yesterday reported back. He has in effect made Kosovo an independent state and separated it forever from Serbia. From now on it will be a crime to be a Serb, a Jew, or a Romany in Kosovo. Kosovo will be ruled by a Fascist, Islamist and brutal regime and the future for Muslim Kosovons will be more destitution, more brutality and the complete imprisonment of the mind by the “ideas” of Islamofascism. What a future the US cum EU Empiricists have managed to map out for this once beautiful... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778664/posts#comment Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776924/posts The comparisons of the destruction of Yugoslavia with the destruction of Israel are chilling and instructive. Israpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776924/posts#comment Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775792/posts “The independence of Kosovo is a reality, so we demand recognition of Kosovo’s international subjectivity without any delays,” said Agim Ceku, its Prime Minister. The main parties in the elections are opposed to independence for Kosovo, regarded as the cradle of Serb history and culture. Russia, Serbia’s traditional Orthodox Christian ally, has made it clear that it would not support any plan for Kosovo that went against Belgrade’s wishes. “Russia believes it is unacceptable that a decision on the status of Kosovo be imposed from the outside,” said President Putin on Sunday. As a permanent member of the UN Security... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775792/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775050/posts ... Now that plan is in chaos. Milorad Dodik, the premier of the Republika Srpska, the Serb part of Bosnia, wants the same right to self-determination as that exercised by Montenegro last year, and possibly by Kosovo soon. The latter analogy is a powerful one. If a province of Serbia can decide its own future, he argues, why not his fief? ... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775050/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774180/posts WASHINGTON -- Russia and the United States may be heading for another clash of wills as a United Nations mediator prepares to issue his recommendation today in Brussels over whether the province of Kosovo should break free from Serbia, a close ally of Moscow. U.S. and NATO peacekeepers are on heightened alert in Kosovo as U.N. Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari gives a closed-door briefing on Kosovo in Vienna, Austria, to the six-nation "Contact Group" trying to broker a diplomatic deal. Serbia has vowed to keep control of the province, whose overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian majority is demanding independence. Kosovo has been... World Peace Herald/ Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774180/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766731/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. diplomat in Washington said a solution to the future status of Serbia's mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province could be decided by April. U.S. Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told Voice of America that U.N. special envoy to Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari will begin a series of talks with Kosovo ethnic-Albanian leaders in Pristina and Serbian authorities in Belgrade soon after Serbia's parliamentary elections set for Jan. 21. Burns said he hoped the Kosovo solution could be found "one to two months" after the Serbian elections. He said Washington does not support any option nor... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766731/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:32:00 GMT