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The American Council for Kosovo is an activity of Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, LLC, and Global Strategic Communications Group, which are registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as agents for the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija. Additional information with respect to this matter is on file with the Foreign Agents Registration Unit of the Department of Justice in Washington DC.

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

Violence Against Christian Serbs and Their Holy Places

Armed Kosovo Albanians reportedly enter Serbia, fire shots at former Serb mayor

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source: BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom

Tuesday, 15 August 2006

[Announcer] A group of armed [ethnic] Albanians carried out an armed attack on the territory of Kursumlija municipality's village of Tacevac on the administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo just as former Podujevo Mayor Milovan Tomcic was out in his field with his family. Ljiljana Danilovic reports from Kursumlija.

[Reporter] According to the testimony of former Podujevo Mayor Milovan Tomcic, who was with his family in the field close to the administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo, a large group of armed Albanians penetrated around three kilometres into the territory of Kursumlija municipality in Tacevac village and carried out an armed attack.

Tomcic said that there was a barrage of fire from automatic weapons which lasted for about ten minutes. [Tomcic] I was barely 20 paces from the road when the shots were fired. Bullets started whistling above our heads. This was a real barrage of separate shots fired from several pieces of weapons and from a number of locations. At least five or six types of weapons were fired, but I managed to take cover.

[Tomcic's wife] When the barrage started getting fiercer, I told our daughter to get to the ground and start crawling. We managed to get close to a fence and then we climbed over it and got away.

[Reporter] The police went to the scene after the incident but an investigation was not carried out for security reasons. A spokeswoman for the police in Prokuplje, Jasmina Stamenkovic, confirmed that a group of armed Albanians had carried out an attack in the territory of Tacevac village.

[Stamenkovic] Members of Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force] were informed about the incident via our team for cooperation with Kfor so that they could undertake measures envisaged by the law.

[Reporter] Nobody was injured in this armed attack. We should say several dozens of armed attacks by Kosovo Albanians had been carried out in Kursumlija's Tacevac village over the past few years in which one local inhabitant was killed and several houses were torched.

Source: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbian 1500 gmt 12 Aug 06

Violence Against Christian Serbs and Their Holy Places

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