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The American Council for Kosovo is an independent U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a better American understanding of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija and of the critical American stake in the province's future. The Council's mission is to make accurate information and analysis about Kosovo available to officials of the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government; to think tanks, media, NGOs, religious and advocacy organizations; and to the general public. In particular, the Council’s educational activities will generate a heightened American awareness that an independent Kosovo – forcibly and illegally detached from Serbia, as is now being contemplated by the international community – would be harmful to U.S. national interests and to European and global security.

Important Notice Concerning Fraudulent “American Council for Kosova“ Website:
It has come to our attention at the American Council for Kosovo that there still may be some confusion about an unauthorized mirror site, created by persons styling themselves the "American Council for Kosova." This deceptive site closely patterns the appearance of the genuine American Council for Kosovo site (www.savekosovo.org) but with a pro-Albanian separatist, anti-Serbian, pro-Kosovo independence message. Indeed, suggestions even have been made that we at the American Council for Kosovo are also behind the mirror site in order to "work both sides of the street," on the pro-Albanian side as well as the pro-Serbian side.
Nothing could be further from the truth! The pro-Albanian "Kosova" site appeared within days of our creation of the genuine American Council for Kosovo site. Its purpose was clearly to detract from the effort we had launched on behalf of the Christian Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija under the guidance of Vladyka Artemije. It is characteristic of the pro-separation advocates that they are afraid to engage on the facts and international standards concerning Kosovo -- both of which favor the Serbian position -- and need to stoop to cheap tricks and deception in a feeble attempt to undermine our increasingly successful message. In that sense, we take their efforts -- which, given the activity of the fraudulent site, clearly are quite well-funded -- as a compliment to our work and evidence of increasing fear on the Muslim Albanian side that the the pro-separatist agenda is in deep trouble.
We at the American Council for Kosovo have been asked (1) why we did not preempt the available internet addresses for the fraudulent site, and (2) why we don't take legal action to shut them down. The short answer is that doing so would take away time and resources from our own activities, which given the formidable opposition we still face, we cannot afford to spare. Conversely, we are confident that intelligent readers, if they do chance across the fraudulent mirror site will soon see it for what it is: just more of the dishonest and misleading "Kosova" propaganda to which the world has been subject for the past decade and more. We ask the critical reader to make the appropriate comparisons and dismiss the fraulent mirror site to the oblivion it so richly deserves.
Media requesting further information about this matter may contact press@savekosovo.org

December 2006

Islamic Terror in Kosovo

U.N. wants probe into Kosovo prison break-out

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source: Reuters

By Matt Robinson

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - The United Nations wants an independent inquiry into Kosovo's top-security Dubrava prison after seven inmates -- including convicted murderers and terrorists -- escaped with the help of their guards.

Five prison guards have been charged with aiding Saturday's break-out, and four other people have been arrested on suspicion of providing covering fire for the escape outside the prison walls with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.

The U.N. mission in charge of Kosovo since the 1998-99 war said on Wednesday it wanted to hold "an independent evaluation of conditions at the Dubrava prison." The probe would try to "ascertain all the facts and ensure there are safeguards in the future to avoid anything else like this happening again," said spokesman Alexander Ivanko.

Among those who escaped were Saudi-born Ramadan Shyti, who is wanted on murder and terrorism charges in neighbouring Macedonia, and Lirim Jakupi, who is believed to be a leader of the shadowy Albanian National Army.

The United Nations, which has around 1,300 police officers in the province, has no direct role at the prison. But the escape is an embarrassment for the mission and the 16,000-strong NATO-led peace force.

One of those who broke out was armed with a pistol, while another was making his seventh escape from prison.

A Kosovo police spokesman acknowledged the convicts might already have slipped across the province's porous borders into neighbouring Macedonia, Montenegro or Albania. A NATO spokesman said Alliance forces could help with the manhunt if necessary.

The breakaway Serbian province has been run by the United Nations for the past eight years, since NATO bombed Serbia to drive out Serb forces and halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians in a two-year war against guerrillas. Ninety percent of Kosovo's 2 million people are ethnic Albanians, who want independence from Serbia.

Tensions are running high as the West struggles to keep its promise to back independence in the face of total Serbian opposition, strongly backed at the United Nations by Russia.

Serb-Albanian talks are set to resume later this month in Vienna, but NATO allies fear a unilateral declaration of independence and possibly violent unrest if there is no breakthrough by the end of the year.

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