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| NATO, Germany Send More Troops to Kosovo |
| 2004-03-19 |
| NATO deployed more peacekeeping troops to regain control of Kosovo on Friday and warned it was prepared to take harsh measures against rioters as ethnic violence continued for a third day. At least 31 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in clashes that have triggered fears of a potential new conflict in the volatile Balkans. Among the injured were 61 peacekeepers, three of whom were seriously hurt this week, said Capt. Athanasios Zormbas, a NATO spokesman. In the Serb village of Svinjare just north of the provincial capital, Pristina, smoke billowed from houses set ablaze in fresh attacks in the worst unrest since Kosovo’s war ended in 1999. U.N. police described the overall situation as calmer than Thursday, when ethnic Albanians set Serb homes and at least 15 churches on fire. In revenge, Serbian nationalists set mosques on fire and threatened to retaliate with "slaughter and death." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Aris is neither Muslim, communist nor gay. However he does on occasion show twittery. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-19 4:19:59 PM |
| #6 Is there any way in which one could search old comments? Because I remember commenting on Kosovo a while ago, explaining why I had disagreed with the bombing there...and back then it was people here that were all "Now Kosovo is a multiethnic paradise" and stuff. TGA> We'll see. One thing is certain, that UCK needs to be crushed one way or another. whitecollar redneck> As opposed to my own "opponents" that never bother to parse my words at all, and at various points have just accused me of being Muslim, communist, gay or all of the above? |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-3-19 4:15:48 PM |
| #5 Aris, sorry but you are really fooling yourself. I'm afraid you are in for a rude awakening this summer. Whatever happens, it will have "Albanian and/or Bosnian islamist" written all over it. It's true that the UCK hasn't started out as islamist, but in the last years AQ and other terrorist groups control the radical factions. We'll better act fast in that region. This is not an "ethnic" conflict anymore... this is "organized crime meet islamofascism": indeed an unbecoming mix. The German BKA has the details. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-3-19 2:42:36 PM |
| #4 Jen, Aris never debates in good faith but parses the words of his opponents until he can accuse them of some racism/facsism/othernastyism or not being nice to puppies. If you're enjoying this by all means continue otherwise your just dumping gravel in the Grand Canyon (you'll never fill it up). |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-3-19 2:28:46 PM |
| #3 His timing and motion is way off! The shot is heaing backwards towards the stands! BOOM! |
| Posted by: Abu ShotPutter 2004-3-19 2:20:22 PM |
| #2 You asshat, AK--can't you even wait for me to make my own damn reply? I can speak for myself. And where are you posting from, Katsaris--America, Greece or the remnant of the old Soviet Russia? These Albanians have as much of a country as they ever should get---these are radicalized Muslims, funded and trained by Al Queda, just like the Chechens. The USA made 2 mistakes--we weighed in militarily on the wrong side because Clintoon was such a secret Marxist and America having joined in the battle, it attracted attention to the whole conflict, which also fit in with AlQueda's plans precisely. All day long on 9/11, I kept thinking, "How can Muslims say we never take their side when we stepped in for them in Bosnia and Kosovo?" |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-3-19 1:40:47 PM |
| #1 "Serbian nationalists set mosques on fire and threatened to retaliate with "slaughter and death." According to Jen, they can't be nationalists given how they already have a nation-state. The burning of mosques must *obviously* show that they are religious fundies instead striving for Christian domination. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-3-19 1:29:44 PM |