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Major said the soldier had been on duty in front of a partially built Christian Orthodox church when he was shot.

Interesting choice of words. Note the author didn't say partially re-built. There is always an effort to distance any association of violence and destruction from Clinton's wonderful allies, the KLA Albanians.

Yesterday, a German; today a Brit. Info regarding both is very hush-hush. Hmmm, are some bin-Laden sympathizers trying to open a Balkan front?

"Interesting choice of words. Note the author didn't say partially re-built. There is always an effort to distance any association of violence and destruction from Clinton's wonderful allies, the KLA Albanians."

Actually, I think the words are correct. I don't think there's been any (or hardly any) rebuilding of Orthodox churces in Kosovo.

I'd bet this is a church that was probably being built before the war, and has been frozen in its half-built state for three years.

I seem to remember an article by Tim Judah (who seems to hate the Serbs) about British sort of camping out within a half-built Orthodox Church & watching some popular British TV program there. Perhaps this was the very same church he was describing. It almost seemed to me that Tim Judah enjoyed seeing the church being used that way.

An update on what happened here

The important lines being "

Head wounds

Mr Hain later told the BBC's Newsnight: "Obviously this is a tragedy for his family and for him clearly, but it doesn't appear to have been as a result of a hostile act.

"He died as a result of wounds to the head but it wasn't in action or from a sniper."

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Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Found the article I remembered! Do you think it is the same church?:

unfinished Serbian church

It is one of the most surreal yet symbolic scenes of the post-war Balkans. Every night a faint glow can be seen through the windows of the great, unfinished Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in the centre of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
But the gentle light comes not from candles, ghosts or angels. Inside the church is a large tent. And inside the tent are three Royal Marines commandos. If you come at the right time, they will all be sitting on their sofa clutching mugs of tea and watching EastEnders. A fourth will be outside keeping guard, making sure the church is not razed by Kosovo's Albanians who see it as a symbol of a past and a people they hate.
Three weeks after Slobodan Milosevic fell from power, and a week before Kosovo's Albanians cast their votes in their first internationally supervised free election, everything and nothing has changed here. While there is little doubt British troops will be watching EastEnders and protecting Kosovo's Serbian churches and churchgoers for years to come, it is also clear the events in Belgrade have altered the political landscape…