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| Kosovo: New security force targeted in grenade attack |
| 2009-01-24 |
| (AKI) - Kosovo's newly formed security force was targeted in a grenade attack in the north-western town of Pec, police said on Friday. Police said on Friday the roof of one barracks was struck by a mortar shell. There were no injuries but serious damage was reported and the barracks was almost destroyed in the attack late Thursday, police said. Investigations were continuing but no-one has yet been arrested for the attack. The attack came a day after the Kosovo Security Force replaced a 3,000-strong civilian emergency organisation formed out of the disbanded ethnic Albanian guerrilla force. Serbia -- which rejects Kosovo's independence and insists Kosovo remains a part of its territory -- has said it will file a protest with the United Nations against the new force, which it says is designed to intimidate the Serb minority in Kosovo. The Kosovo Security Force was formed this week from members of the former Kosovo Protection Force and the Kosovo Liberation Army which started a rebellion against Serbian rule in 1998. Majority ethnic Albanians declared independence from Serbia last February and Serbia is afraid that the KSF is the basis for a future army. Serbia continues to oppose Kosovo's independence, which has been recognised by 54 United Nations member states, including the United States and most European Union countries. Serbian president Boris Tadic has written to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, saying that the formation of the KSF was in violation of Security Council resolution 1244 according to which Kosovo officially remains a part of Serbia. The force consists of 2,500 lightly armed men recruited mostly from the KPS and trained by NATO forces stationed in Kosovo. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 activists dumped a truckload of garbage inside the gate and hosed down the walls of the compound with sewage... Now THAT'S how to treat the UN! Why haven't the people of New York City done that yet? Are they waiting for the unpaid bills from the United Nations to reach $1trillion before taking action? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-24 19:56 |
| #4 I don't remember if this was ever posted at rantburg: Michael Totten: Resisting The United Nations: Kosovo is the fourth country I've visited where the UN has or has had a key role, and in only one of them – Lebanon – is the UN not despised by just about everyone. In Lebanon the UN has so little power to make a difference one way or the other that any anger at the institution would largely be pointless. In Bosnia, though, UN “peacekeepers” stood by impotently while genocide and ethnic-cleansing campaigns were carried out right in front of them. The UN's Oil for Food program was thoroughly corrupted by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq at the expense of just about everybody who lives there. Kosovo, meanwhile, declared independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, but the elected government is still subordinate to the almost universally despised UN bureaucrats who are the real power. Many Kosovars insist the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is actually a dictatorship. Vetevendosje – “self-determination” in Albanian – was formed as a non-violent civil resistance movement against UN rule in a country that is supposed to be sovereign. Recently the European Union, which announced its own mission in Kosovo without being invited, was added to the list of opponents, but the UN remains the primary target. I attended one of Vetevendosje's rallies as an observer which began as a long march through the streets of Kosovo's capital Prishtina and ended at the United Nations headquarters where activists dumped a truckload of garbage inside the gate and hosed down the walls of the compound with sewage... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-24 15:25 |
| #3 The Kosovars are pro-American, Western oriented, and if left alone will thrive Can I interest you in Brooklyn bridge shares? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-24 14:59 |
| #2 Nope. It's the smartest thing we did there. The Kosovars are pro-American, Western oriented, and if left alone will thrive. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-24 10:47 |
| #1 Of the many Clinton crimes, enabling Muslim conquest of Kosovo is perhaps the most heinous. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-24 06:26 |