American Council for Kosovo - News from the American Council for Kosovo http://www.savekosovo.org American Council for Kosovo - News from the American Council for Kosovo 4.2.2012. en 2006-2012 American Council for Kosovo Talk of ‘Arab Spring’ in Russia Reveals Washington’s Misguided Agenda http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=9&leader=0&sp=584 A Google English-language search of 'Arab Spring' and 'Putin' yields almost seven million hits. A large proportion of them originate in the hopes of American officials, think tanks, and NGOs that the supposedly 'democratic' movement boiling through the Arab world will soon reach Russia.

Notable was the Tweet by a Republican Senator known for his anti-Russian views and hostility towards current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: 'Dear Vlad, the Arab Spring is coming to a neighborhood near you.' The not-so-subtle message is that Putin might end up like Hosni Mubarak – or like Muammar Qaddafi.

Such expressions horribly misread the relevant facts both in the Arab countries and in Russia.

The disorders in the Middle East are hailed by the administration of President Barack Hussein Obama, and by many U.S. Republicans, as a triumph of American policy and the march of human freedom. Washington acquiesced in (and perhaps aided) the removal of our longtime clients in Tunisia, Yemen, and even Egypt, where Mubarak represented America's best guarantee for Israel's security. Now, in concert with Turkey's Islamist and neo-Ottoman leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, we are witnessing the region-wide rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood as the supposedly 'moderate' alternative to even more radical Salafist elements.

Islamic extremism has been the tool and beneficiary of American policies for decades, not only in our recent support for supposed Arab 'democratization' but in a series of armed interventions supposedly on behalf of Muslim peoples. First, in Afghanistan in the 1980s, in alliance with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan we supported the anti-Soviet jihad of Osama bin Laden and played midwife to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Later, in the Balkans, we sponsored al-Qaeda's and Iran's protégés in Bosnia and Kosovo, where the establishment of two Muslim-dominated 'countries' in the heart of Europe is touted by American officials as a noble achievement. Then came Afghanistan (again) and Iraq, followed recently by NATO's armed intervention in Libya.

Old habits die hard. Notwithstanding the al-Qaeda boomerang that hit America on September 11, 2001, and repeated attacks on Americans by (presumably grateful) Muslims from Kosovo and Bosnia, Washington is still certain it can control the jihadist genie and direct it on a selective basis. As the region to Russia's south becomes increasingly radicalized, so will the internal danger to Russia in the Caucasus. (And, it should be noted, to Ukraine in Crimea.)

Whether intended by Washington or not, the result of each intervention has been the same: Sharia law, anti-Christian violence, and diminution of the status of women. The majority of Kosovo's Serbian Christian population has been uprooted from their homes, under the complacent eyes of NATO occupiers. Most of Iraq's million-strong Christian community, which was relatively secure under the secular socialist Saddam Hussein, has been terrorized into emigration. Egypt's 10 million Copts now face the same fate, as will Christians in Syria if Washington can overcome Moscow's resistance to a Libya-type operation against the government of Bashar Al-Assad. (Meanwhile, no unsightly democracy breaks out to inconvenience our jihad-funding friends in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies.)

In short, U.S. support for supposed Arab 'democratization' is either cynical geopolitics or a complete misreading of the internal dynamics of Islamic societies. Possibly, it is both.

Likewise, calls for an Arab Spring in Russia are doubly misplaced. First, they have nothing to do with any genuine U.S. desire for democracy, in Russia or anywhere else. As in the Arab world, 'democracy' is a codeword for geopolitical subservience to Washington, plain and simple. However valid Putin's reelection to the presidency will be, western capitals are ready to denounce it as illegitimate and to cheer on a mobilization in the streets. This will have nothing to do with how democratic the vote is, just the fact that Putin believes that Russia has legitimate national and regional interests and is prepared to defend them. Contrast that to Washington's approval of Boris Yeltsin's 'democratic' theft of the 1996 elections. Or of our oh-so-legitimate Saudi friends, who tolerate no elections at all. Or of the interchangeable 'Kosovo Liberation Army' gangsters and organ-traffickers who run the pseudo-state administration in Pristina.

Second, it doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone in Washington that Russia is not a Middle Eastern country. Yes, there likely will be controversy over the conduct of the elections and perhaps their results. Yes, some people may take to the streets to protest claimed violations of legal process, and there may be some merit to their charges. (Such developments are expected even in what we like to call with too much self-flattery 'developed' democracies. Hasn't anyone noticed the 'Occupy' disorders in the United States? Riots in Greece?) As Russia continues to find her own way after the agony of the 20th century, this is to be expected.

But no matter how much money and effort western governments and NGOs put into it, what we won't see is a violent, intolerant religious ideology seizing power under the guise of democracy, as we see in the Arab countries. Anyone in Washington who thinks so has yet to learn the first thing about Russia.

]]> Failed Social Engineering in the Balkans http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=9&leader=0&sp=581 The end of the Cold War removed the most important constraint on Washington's tendency towards empire. Since then no country has gone to war more often than America. Yet the only conflict with any degree of necessity was Afghanistan -- initially going after al Qaeda. And none of these adventures has turned out particularly well.

One of Washington's great failures has been the Balkans. The region is of no geopolitical significance to America and should have been left to NATO's European members. If they, like Otto von Bismarck, did not view the Balkans to be worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier, then the U.S. certainly had no reason to get involved.

Yet a dozen years ago Washington bombed Serbia, which had neither attacked nor threatened any NATO member. Western nations which over many centuries fought bitter conflicts against the hint of secession went to war to support independence for the territory of Kosovo.

The status of Kosovo, historically Serbian but with a majority ethnic-Albanian population, remains unsettled. Belgrade refuses to accept the amputation of 15 percent of its territory, Russia has blocked Kosovo's entry into the United Nations, and a majority of countries, including five of the European Union's 27 members, refuses to recognize Kosovo. Violence recently erupted in Kosovo's north, where the ethnic Serb majority remains loyal to Belgrade.

Unfortunately, the international forces, both KFOR, a NATO force under German command, and EULEX, a European police mission, have continued the West's policy of "the Serbs always lose." When Serb-dominated Yugoslavia broke up two decades ago, the German government accelerated the process by prematurely recognizing the breakaway nations of Slovenia and Croatia. Alas, recognition without guarantees for Croatia's large ethnic-Serb population ensured a bloody war when the latter sought to break away in turn.

The result was a conflict in which the U.S. backed the Croat majority and trained the Croat military, which committed war crimes and large-scale ethnic cleansing. Washington also used air power to hold together Muslim-dominated Bosnia despite the desire of both Serbs and Croats to secede. That artificial country remains a European protectorate ruled by a "high representative" whose main job is to suppress any popular expression contrary to the will of his masters in Brussels.

Allied sympathy for those desiring to escape territories with Serb majorities continued for Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. That the Milosevic government was brutal is without question, but more than enough atrocities were committed to go around. And the West consistently turned a blind eye when Serbs were being murdered and displaced.

Nowhere has that been more evident than Kosovo. Although a U.S. diplomat called the Kosovo Liberation Army -- since charged with selling the organs of Serb prisoners -- "terrorists," the allies suppressed any squeamishness and lent the rebels their air force, bombing for 78 days and killing hundreds or thousands Serb civilians, possibly as many as the number of Kosovars who died in two years of guerrilla war before NATO's intervention. The Albanian majority then mirrored earlier Serb brutality by kicking out around a quarter of a million ethic Serbs, Roma, and non-Albanian Muslims. Earlier this year the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe admitted that the allied intervention had "led to numerous human rights violations and [had] not produced lasting solutions for the underlying problems."

Then ensued years of stalemate, capped by faux negotiations in which the allies decreed that Kosovo must be independent, with only the details of Serbia's capitulation up for discussion. Belgrade's refusal to acquiesce was attacked as obstruction and in 2008 Kosovo declared its independence.

The would-be country has received poor international reviews and its prime minister was attacked by the Council for Europe for heading a "mafia-like" organization. No surprise, Serbs living in the city of Mitrovica north of the Ibar River wanted no part of majority ethnic-Albanian state. They created parallel institutions linked to Serbia and continue to resist rule by Pristina.

Washington and Brussels remain intransigent. The West has decided on Kosovo's boundaries. The ethnic Serbs are supposed to do what they are told and submit to the kindness of those accused of dismembering Serbian prisoners for profit. So what if some of the people running Pristina are the same people who as guerrillas killed Serbs? And the same people who in 2004 encouraged a second round of violence against the beleaguered minority population?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently lectured Belgrade on the need to recognize Kosovo if the former wants to join the European Union. Although five EU members refuse to do so, Chancellor Merkel insisted that Serbia ratify its own dismemberment to win a place in Brussels.

Almost as emphatic was the European Commission, which issued a new report concluding that "Serbia would be in a position to take on the obligations of membership in the medium term." There was, however, an important "but." Belgrade needed to cooperate "actively with EULEX in order for it to exercise its functions in all parts of Kosovo." The Commission added: "All sides need to play their part in defusing tension in northern Kosovo and allow for free movement of persons and goods." This means turning the ethnic Serbs in Kosovo's north over to a government which they have never accepted.

Kosovo's status recently took on new urgency. Belgrade put an embargo on goods to Kosovo back in 2008; this summer Kosovo's government decided to retaliate by banning Serb products, even to the north. That required extending Pristina's writ to the Serb-Kosovo border to block intra-Serb trade. Local Serbs responded with roadblocks, which they offered to dismantle if KFOR and EULEX stopped transporting Kosovo government customs officials northward.

It was a reasonable request. Former American diplomat Gerald Galucci noted that KFOR's mandate is peacekeeping, not politics; the force "is supposed to prevent security problems and contain or reverse provocations such as Pristina's police ploy." But now NATO's misnamed peacekeeping force has "stepped outside its UN Security Council mandate in deciding to enforce the requirements of the institutions in Pristina," he explained.

KFOR claimed that it simply desired to promote "unconditional freedom of movement," but what it really meant was enforcing the rule of ethnic-Albanians over ethnic-Serbs. In fact, some allied officials had hoped to solve the problem a different way. An earlier KFOR commander, Frenchman Lt. Gen. Xavier de Marnhac, pointed out that on average ethnic Albanians are younger than ethnic Serbs, so "there will be some kind of biological end to the problem here because, you know, one of the populations will simply disappear." However, this means waiting. To speed up the process KFOR used tear gas and pepper spray on Serb protesters, turning itself into a de facto security force for Pristina.

But the Serbs refused to retreat and the barricades remain. The result is deadlock. Kosovo's interior minister, Bajram Rexhepi, declared: "We will not step back in our legitimate efforts to control all of our territory." Dragisa Milovic, mayor of the Serb-dominated municipality of Zvecan, said: "We want to be part of Serbia -- nothing more, nothing less."

The answer is negotiations, serious talks without a predetermined result. An obvious deal would be for Kosovo to leave the majority-Serb areas with Serbia in exchange for Belgrade's recognition of Pristina. The benefits of ending the cold war between Kosovo and Serbia are obvious. Even if the West remains committed to Kosovo's independence, there is no reason to back Pristina's most extreme territorial ambitions. If self-determination is good for ethnic-Albanians, it also is good for ethnic-Serbs.

The architects of today's geopolitical mess naturally recoil in horror at any proposal to repair their handiwork. Doing so, argued Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper, of the Century Foundation and Public International Law & Policy Group, respectively, would "tempt fate, and further violence, by opening the partition door for the ethnic groups of Serbia." The same principle, they object, would apply to Bosnia, where both Serbs and Croats would prefer to leave the artificial nation imposed from outside.

However, it is a bit late to worry about "ethnic-based partitionism." After all, that was America's and Europe's conscious policy in the 1990s: Croats, Slovenes, Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Kosovar Albanians all got their own nations, with attention paid to neither the larger federal state without nor the various minorities within. No one gave much thought to precedent, in Europe or elsewhere.

Moreover, years of insistence by Washington and Brussels that the ignorant locals shut up and do what they are told has failed. So long as the allies attempt to impose unrealistic settlements, preserve artificial states, and maintain divided polities, the region will be unstable. As my Cato Institute colleague Ted Galen Carpenter pointed out, the problem is that the governments and nations promoted by the West lack legitimacy with large sections of their populations. Reconciliation will remain distant so long as foreigners insist on social engineering irrespective of local sensibilities. A policy of forced cohabitation is bound to generate resentment and ultimately violence.

In any case, America has no reason to be involved in this fight. Washington need not choose among the Balkans' competing ethnic factions. All have demonstrated xenophobic nationalism. All have brutalized minorities within their midst while insisting that their rights be respected. If Serbian forces committed more atrocities, it is largely because they had greater opportunity to do so.

The U.S. should allow Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and others to take over the problem. As Carpenter observed: "The broader message to the Europeans should be: Don't even think about calling on Washington to help bail you out of your folly -- especially after you've spurned the last best chance for a peaceful, equitable resolution of the Kosovo problem."

Intervening in the Balkans always was a mistake. With the U.S. so busy elsewhere, it is time to declare this region to be a European responsibility.

]]> NATO still getting it wrong in Kosovo http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=9&leader=0&sp=579 In the three years since Kosovo, urged on by the United States, declared its unilateral independence, there has been no final resolution of this long-festering wound in the heart of the Balkans.

After the expulsion of the Serbian military from Kosovo in 1999 there was a systematic purging of the non-Albanian population and a rampage of revenge killing, and destruction.

In March, 2004, the Albanian mobs burned or dynamited more than 204 Christian churches and monasteries - some of them heritage structures dating back to the 14th century. This veritable orgy of devastation was accomplished under the watchful eyes of NATO troops who did nothing to stop the violence.

On Sept. 15, the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Pristina, the capitol of Kosovo, and again repeated the usual refrain that NATO was there to maintain a secure and safe environment and emphasized that "We will continue to do so - firmly, carefully, and impartially."

Less than two weeks after his departure from Kosovo on Sept. 27, his impartial NATO troops opened fire with live ammunition on a crowd of Serbian civilians demonstrating against the establishment of Kosovo customs posts along the border between Serbia and northern Kosovo, effectively cutting them off from Serbia proper. At least six of the demonstrators were wounded. The standoff continued over the weekend.

This incident took place at the same time our NATO leaders were vigorously protesting the shooting of protesters in Syria and Yemen.

So far, there have been no apologies from the NATO leadership and no demands for a full inquiry.

Kosovo, since its so-called liberation from Serbia, has become a failed state with massive unemployment, crime and corruption prevalent, and a leadership deeply involved in the importation of heroin and arms, and human smuggling - not to mention serious allegations about the harvesting of human body parts.

Nevertheless, Kosovo is the stepchild state of the U.S.-led NATO powers, and therefore must be seen to be a success. NATO cannot admit to failure.

After all, we are told 80 countries have recognized its independence. Little mention is made that there are 113 countries of the United Nations who refuse do so - including Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Slovakia - all members of NATO.

There is a larger than life statue of president Bill Clinton in Pristina. Shortly after the occupation of Kosovo the Americans constructed the enormous Camp Bonsteel. Kosovo is their baby and at all cost it must be accepted as a sovereign state. Unfortunately, the costs are high and may well spell the demise of NATO as a respected champion of the rule of law and democratic freedom.

Canada was involved in drafting Article 1 of the North Atlantic Treaty that stated that NATO would never use or threaten to use force in the resolution of international disputes and would always act in accordance with the principles laid down by the United Nations Charter. Alas, we never hear anything more about Article 1.

After the collapse of the Soviet empire, Article 1 came to be seen by the United States as an obstacle in preventing NATO (read the United States) from intervening in out-ofarea disputes and in using force to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives, frequently under the guise of humanitarian intervention.

The first opportunity of doing this was the bombing of Serbia on the false grounds that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was planning to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of its majority Albanian population and that genocide was taking place there.

Without consulting the United Nations and in violation of its own treaty, NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days and nights and was successful in tearing away an integral part of that country's territory.

The United States and some of the NATO countries, including Canada, have gone further by recognizing the declaration of independence of Kosovo, despite UN Resolution 1244 that reaffirmed Serbia's sovereignty over that province.

By doing so they have opened Pandora's Box and issued an open invitation to the many groups and tribes around the world aspiring for their own state to do so by simply declaring independence. Can anyone really blame the Palestinians for expecting anything less?

James Bissett is former Canadian ambassador to the former Yugoslavia.

]]> Our Tax Dollars at Work – NATO Troops in Kosovo Open Fire on Serb Protesters! http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=9&leader=0&sp=578
U.S. and German soldiers in Kosovo

September 27, 2011: Today, NATO forces in Kosovo opened fire on Serbian demonstrators protesting efforts by KFOR (NATO's 'Kosovo Force') and the ironically designated European Union 'rule of law' mission ('EULEX') to force Serbs to submit to the illegal Albanian Muslim 'authority' posing as an independent government in Priština. As summarized by retired U.S. diplomat Gerard Gallucci, who formerly served in Kosovo:

On September 27, the NATO force in Kosovo (KFOR) lost completely its guise as UN peacekeepers and became a repressive, lawless military occupation force. After seeking to use force to remove peacefully maintained barricades and to close a alternate road used by northern Kosovo Serbs, some locals apparently threw stones at the KFOR soldiers who then responded - in "self defense" - by firing at the otherwise defenseless Serbs, wounding at least six. The NATO action ought to be thoroughly investigated by an independent body to verify whether or not war crimes were committed. KFOR and EULEX ought to stand down and stop trying to change the political reality on the ground through such bullying and repressive measures before they provoke real violence.

At this time, writes Gallucci, 'Details about the day's events remain somewhat unclear. Various reports have suggested that the NATO shots fired were either rubber bullets or live ammo. It is also unclear whether the soldiers involved were German or perhaps American or Polish.' But make no mistake: if not for a political green light from Washington, NATO would not have taken the initiative of authorizing violence to remove Serbian barricades.

This latest escalation follows weeks of rising tensions since late July, when Hashim 'Snake' Thaci – so-called 'prime minister' of Kosovo, mafia kingpin, war criminal, and organ-trafficker – placed illegal checkpoints on the administrative line between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, in a bid to force Serbs in northern Kosovo to submit his illegal administration. Incredibly, KFOR and EULEX, in violation of their 'status neutral' mandate under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, which is the only legal authority for their presence in the province, have backed up Thaci and his criminal cronies. The question now is, does this latest resort to violence mean NATO has decided on use of force – in the pattern of the genocidal 1995 'Operation Storm' in the Serbian Krajinas with the help of U.S. mercenaries – to impose a final solution on Serb resistors to the the Albanian Muslim administration? Or will public attention force them to back off?

No less dismal than the spectacle of American and other NATO soldiers acting as enforcers for Thaci & Co. is that of Serbia's supine 'pro-western' government, under President Boris Tadic. Aptly dubbed 'Vichy Serbs' by writer and analyst Vojin Joksimovic, Tadic and his government, seeing their own citizens under fire on their own national territory, can think only of stepping up 'technical negotiations' with the Priština-based terrorists. For that reason, in a Joint Statement of the All-Serbian National Council 'Serbs Rally Together,' on September 17, 2011, Kosovo Serbs declared (in part, read the full statement here):

WHEREAS we are committed to the ideal of freedom and inspired by our sacred spiritual heritage of Kosovo but mindful of our future generations, while never forgetting our obligation to respect the will and the sacrifice of our glorious ancestors who created Serbia and left it for us to preserve,

WHEREAS, determined to stop and prevent further dismemberment and occupation of Serbia and united under the blessing and leadership of His Grace Bishop Artemije, we have resolved and hereby announce to Serbia and the international community our resolution as follows:

KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ARE UNDER OCCUPATION

The Belgrade regime of Boris Tadic considers the occupying powers his partners; it negotiates with them, draws up agreements, pacts and treaties, but always to the detriment of the Serbian nation as a whole and, particularly so, to the detriment of the Serbs who live in Kosovo and Metohija.

If the Serbs could call their enemy by its rightful name-OCCUPIER-and the conditions under which they have been living in Kosovo and Metohija for the past 12 years-OCCUPATION-then they would do as one does under occupation: they would endure and fight until the end, until the liberation.

We give notice to NATO and to Albanian terrorist occupying powers in Priština that we do not recognize any agreement or treaty they have signed or will sign with Tadic and his coalition. Treaties concluded during occupation through blackmail and trickery have always been considered invalid.

We particularly want to point out that we shall not tolerate further threats, attacks on our security and efforts at assimilation of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. Those who have done this or are planning to do so will soon be confronted with legitimate forms of self-defense.

We remind our people that no shame is attached to being under enemy occupation, but it is certainly shameful to praise the occupier or collaborate with him. Not only is it shameful, it is a sin against our ancestors who had fought for hundreds of years to liberate Kosovo and Metohija from centuries long Turkish occupation.

It now remains to be seen who will prevail: the Serbs of Kosovo and Metohija, who have declared themselves against occupation of their country, or their occupiers: the Albanian Muslim separatists and their NATO and EU enablers in Washington, Brussels, Berlin, London – and worst of all, in Belgrade.

The blackest deeds occur when the perpetrators believe no one is watching. Most Americans have long since forgotten about Kosovo, and about the Balkans in general. Today, how many Americans remember the 78 days of 'humanitarian' bombing in 1999 by the Bill Clinton administration on behalf of the Thaci's 'Kosovo Liberation Army' – a gaggle of jihadists and Albanian Mafia kingpins? How many recall George W. 'the Decider' Bush's announcement in 2007 in Tirana, Albania, that to please our Islamic 'allies' in the 'War on Terror,' he would simply proclaim, on no authority whatsoever, 'enough's enough, Kosovo's independent.' (And then the grateful Albanians stole his watch!)

Almost no one.

But the fact that few Americans remember doesn't change the fact that at this very moment, under the authority of President Barack Hussein Obama, NATO – acting in our name, and supported by our tax dollars – is bringing force to bear against Christian people living in their own country, to force them to submit to hostile Muslim occupation and to accept their eventual extinction.

James George Jatras
Director, American Council for Kosovo
Washington, September 27, 2011

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We keep hearing that "the Russians can't be more Serbian than the Serbs" when it comes to Kosovo and Metojiha. Well, they certainly can be, and have been, more Serbian than the ersatz "Serbs" holding power in Belgrade today!

Several days ago, the Russian Ambassador in Belgrade, Aleksandr Konuzin, attempted to shame the shameless, demanding to know from the silence of the Serbs taking part in an officially organized gathering, why none of them spoke up in defense of their own country. "Are there no Serbs in this room?," Konuzin exclaimed at one point, speaking "in an emotional manner and raising his voice." According to reports, he later angrily left the gathering (opened that morning by President Boris Tadic, and organized by the Fund for Political Excellence and the European Movement in Serbia) in disgust.

Another kind of answer to the Ambassador's question was given this week, when Bishop Artemije of Ras and Prizren – already forcibly exiled from his eparchy by the actions of Belgrade collaborators with NATO governments – was forcibly prevented from delivering food aid to Christian Serbs under siege by the Albanian Muslim separatists and their NATO and EU backers. But as noted below by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, he was laid hands on 'not by Croatian elements in KFOR, not by Albanian terrorists led by their organ and drug-trafficking masters whom the EU and NATO love so much, but by the Serbian authorities themselves'!

As the siege of the Kosovo Serbs continues, we know who is against them, including their own government. The question is, who is on their side? And more importantly, when will the rest of Serbia cease to stand by and watch this outrage continue? Until Serbia has a patriotic government that is willing to look out for its own people's interests in cooperation with Russia and the majority of the world's countries (China, India and Pakistan, Iran and Israel, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, South Africa, Mexico, Nigeria, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Thailand, Congo, Egypt, almost all of Latin America, almost all of Africa, not to mention Spain, Romania, Cyprus, Slovakia, and Greece), – nothing good can happen in Kosovo, and the reign of the drug, weapon, slave, organ trafficking KLA jihad terrorists and their enablers in Washington, London, Berlin, etc., will drag on.

http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/21-09-2011/119113-serbia_authorities-0/

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What is worse, the Bishop was the victim of police brutality. Not only was he physically prevented from entering Kosovo i Metohija, but he was forcefelly removed to Belgrade. Instead of enjoying the freedom of movement to visit his people in the diocese of Serbian Kosovo, his freedom of movement was denied to him, not by Croatian elements in KFOR, not by Albanian terrorists led by their organ and drug-trafficking masters who the EU and NATO love so much, but by the Serbian authorities themselves.

Serbia's authorities side with whom?

There are times when a wave of madness sweeps through the international community, times when things cease to make sense any more, when logic is defied and when we question whether everything and everyone has lost their sanity. In northern Kosovo, foreign forces are colluding against Serbs and what are the Serbian authorities doing?

The answer to the question is crystal clear: they appear to be working with them. True, the European Union must have presented a long and humiliating list of demands to Belgrade, yet the capacity which the Serbian authorities demonstrate in their resilience and stamina as they stand bent over with their trousers down, is staggering.

The latest incident happened yesterday as the Serbian Orthodox Bishop Artemije carried food aid for the Serbs barricading their checkpoints in the Serbian privince of Kosovo, together with a group of Orthodox monks and nuns... and the vehicles in which they were travelling were intercepted by the Serbian police who stated they did not have the right to cross the checkpoints.

How can the Serbian police prevent Serbian Orthodox monks crossing into Kosovo and Metohija, which is under international law a province of the Republic of Serbia?

What is worse, the Bishop was the victim of police brutality. Not only was he physically prevented from entering Kosovo I Matohija, but he was forcefelly removed to Belgrade. Instead of enjoying the freedom of movement to visit his people in the diocese of Serbian Kosovo, his freedom of movement was denied to him, not by Croatian elements in KFOR, not by Albanian terrorists led by their organ and drug-trafficking masters who the EU and NATO love so much, but by the Serbian authorities themselves.

Apart from this incident, other groups of monks were prevented from travelling to Kosovo. They were surrounded by the police and forced to turn back. This is the freedom and democracy exercised by President Boris Tadic's Serbia today. Yes, the world has gone stark raving mad.

To the Serbian authorities - bend over further, your masters will enjoy it more.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=09&dd=15&nav_id=76407

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Konuzin accused NATO and its troops in Kosovo, KFOR, of "at this point violating (UNSC) Resolution 1244, because they wish to bring Kosovo customs and soldiers to the border with Serbia, while no participant in the forum is mentioning that". He further stated that there were people in Serbia ready to sell economic facilities to "anyone but not to Russians", even though they were aware this would mean the demise of those facilities. After addressing the panel for some 15 minutes, the diplomat angrily left the event that brought together ministers of several European countries, foreign policy and security experts, and journalists.

Russian envoy asks: Are there no Serbs here?

BELGRADE -- Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin on Thursday voiced strong criticism of the participants of the Belgrade Security Forum who came from Serbia.

The diplomat accused them of not defending their own country's interests when it came to Kosovo.
"Are there no Serbs in this room?," Konuzin exclaimed at one point, speaking "in an emotional manner and raising his voice", according to reports.

The panel of the forum that the Russian envoy was attending was dedicated to global security changes.

Konuzin accused NATO and its troops in Kosovo, KFOR, of "at this point violating (UNSC) Resolution 1244, because they wish to bring Kosovo customs and soldiers to the border with Serbia, while no participant in the forum is mentioning that".

The ambassador continued to say that interests of Serbia will be defended by Russia and Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic at the meeting of the UN Security Council later in the day, and added that "here in this room there is nobody defending Serbia's interests".

He further stated that there were people in Serbia ready to sell economic facilities to "anyone but not to Russians", even though they were aware this would mean the demise of those facilities.

After addressing the panel for some 15 minutes, the diplomat angrily left the event that brought together ministers of several European countries, foreign policy and security experts, and journalists.

The forum, which was opened this morning by President Boris Tadic, was organized by the Fund for Political Excellence and the European Movement in Serbia.

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