In July 1999, US Marines were in Gnjilane. There was an incident where Albanians were shooting at Serbs in their homes..in the downtown area, "I believe" was the location. anyway one or two of the Albanians made a fatal error, he started shooting or pointed his rifle at the Marine Patrol....needless to say, they lit his donkey up......
I believe the marine then, a year later in Germany, read about the trial in the newspapers and spoke to the press that it was he who killed the Albanian, not the Serbs, and that he told this during the briefing and investigation of the incident. Yet, the Serbs were held in a shed and orange jumpshoots for a year. And all the time the Albanians kept blaming the Serbs, but when the U.S. marine admitted it, they shut up, the liars.
The U.S. kept the information from the trial for a year. It doesn't say here, but it was the soldier who shot the Albanian himself who spoke up. At that point it became too obvious and known that the Serbs were innocent. So the U.S. couldn't keep the innocent Serbs locked up, as it wanted to and did do. Locking up innocent Serbs and letting Muslims rule the land and murder non-Muslims is part of the U.S. Balkans mission.
US troops blamed for Kosovo killingNew evidence presented to a court in Kosovo indicates that an ethnic Albanian war hero was killed last year by US soldiers, and not three Serbs who have spent a year in prison accused of the murder.
The new information was contained in a 130-page report submitted by the US authorities to the international court trying three members of a Serb family accused of killing Afrim Gagica on 10 July last year.
The presiding judge said the report revealed that US troops killed two armed ethnic Albanians in a shoot-out that day, instead of one as previously acknowledged.
Official sources close to the case said the Americans had now confirmed that the second person killed was Afrim Gagica.
Correspondents say it is unclear why the Americans did not supply the information earlier.
"These are obviously new elements and we have to discuss them," said the French presiding judge, Patrice de Charette.
Serbs' defence
The incident happened in the town of Gnjilane in south-eastern Kosovo, just a few weeks after Nato-led K-For peacekeeping troops moved into the province.
The Momcilovic family, who ran a car repair business in Gnjilane, say Mr Gagica and several other armed ethnic Albanians came to attack them in their home.
They told the court that Mr Gagica and the others had ordered them to come out into the street, and that when they refused a gun battle erupted.
US peacekeepers stationed nearby then intervened, they said.
Miroljub Momcilovic and his sons Jugoslav and Boban were arrested immediately after the shoot-out.
The court saw evidence from security cameras on Friday which the defence says supports the Serbs' case.
The judge said the court would discuss the new evidence when the trial resumes on Monday.
International concern
The US military said it had reopened the investigation after receiving an inquiry from the media, and had passed on the findings to the court.
Amnesty International warned in April that the trial - which began with a panel of ethnic Albanian judges who refused to admit the video evidence - risked being a serious miscarriage of justice.
The US military submission includes testimony from 35 US servicemen on duty in Gnjilane on the night of the shooting.