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2007-11-09 Europe

Macedonia: Clashes 'signal wider unrest' - 6 ethnic Albanians killed

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Posted by mrp 2007-11-09 10:45|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 More on the events at the Radio Free Europe site : LINK

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In spite of the police description of the operation as an anticrime crackdown, others say it has broader implications.

Biljana Vankovska, a professor at the Institute for Defense Studies in Skopje, says that the police found more -- and more dangerous -- weapons than an ordinary criminal gang would possess. The police, Vankovska says, announced that they would need several trucks to transport the seized weapons, which include rocket-propelled grenades and other sophisticated equipment.

Vankovska also says that, while the group involved in the clash may indeed take part in criminal activities, they behave more like a guerrilla movement. Their members wear black uniforms, and last week they set up informal checkpoints on mountain roads in the area where they operate.

And Vankovska says that "the past relations between Kosovo fighters and [ethnic Albanian] Macedonian fighters are still very close."

Posted by mrp 2007-11-09 12:11|| 2007-11-09 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 How long before NATO troops arrive to assist with the expansion of ~~the European Caliphate~~ Greater Albania?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-11-09 12:52|| 2007-11-09 12:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Quagmire. Get our troops out of the Balkans now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-09 12:54|| 2007-11-09 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I've said it before and I'll say it again. Though I did not know it at the time I know it now. The USA was wrong to back the Kosovo muslims against the Serbian Christians. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Too late now to take it back. And we're (the USA) only compounding the problem by backing an independent Kosovo.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-11-09 13:58|| 2007-11-09 13:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Word, MZ

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-11-09 14:23|| 2007-11-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#6 MarkZ, back then you only knew what the MSM told you. The shame is that Tony Blaire and Bill Clinton didn't know better.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-11-09 14:35|| 2007-11-09 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The Radio Free Europe article link (again)

LINK

Posted by mrp 2007-11-09 15:14|| 2007-11-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 WAFF.com >IHT.com > Bishop of Greek Orthodox Church in Thessaloniki calls for Greece to take back large Greek-antiguitous = historically [ancient]Greek parts of Macedonia and former Yugoslavia; + PARAMILITARY LEADER WARNS SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ABOUT TO SPLIT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-09 21:31|| 2007-11-09 21:31|| Front Page Top

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