The only trouble is that Mr. Bush and Mr.Blair do not think the KLA is equal to Jihad. According to them KLA is a liberation army and its leaders are not terrorists because they do not oppose to their politics.
Zoran Djuric > From:: "sparta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [dezevski_sabor] Fw: New York Times calls for Kosovo "limited > autonomy," not independence; expansion of Iranian influence; calls for > Greater Albania under Islamic fascist leadership in Kosovo > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:00:45 -0400 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: American Council for Kosovo > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:50 PM > Subject: New York Times calls for Kosovo "limited autonomy," not > independence; expansion of Iranian influence; calls for Greater Albania > under Islamic fascist leadership in Kosovo > > > > > > > www.savekosovo.org > > > > > > Editorial comment: A growing chorus of international policy experts and > opinion makers, now notably joined by The New York Times, realize that > Kosovo?s provisional institutions are failing to govern responsibly in the > Serbian province, making Kosovo independence impossible. As rampant > criminality (trafficking of humans, weapons, and drugs), endemic > corruption, Muslim Albanian violence against Christian Serbs and other > non-Albanians, and the looming threat of jihad terror continue to pervade > Kosovo?s society and its provisional institutions, it can be expected that > others will come to the same conclusion reached by The New York Times - ?a > carefully conditioned form of limited autonomy [is the] most promising way > to encourage further progress? in Kosovo. > > > > Also policy makers should take note that Iranians are cultivating Muslims > near Kosovo. The American Council for Kosovo has been warning that > forcibly and illegally detaching Kosovo from democratic Serbia would lead > to further regional destabilization, encouraging radical elements in nearby > areas. To illustrate the point, as reported by Iran's MehrNews, Iran's > ominously named Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO) recently > hosted in Tehran a delegation of Islamic leaders from the Serbian region of > Sanjak, just north of Kosovo. Sanjak, which was part of the Kosovo > district during the last period of Islamic rule before 1912, would be a > primary zone for further radical expansion if Kosovo becomes an independent > rogue state. > > > > The prospect that such an independent Kosovo would become a beachhead for > further expansion of what President Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, and others > have described as Islamic fascism is becoming increasingly inescapable with > the recent comments by a high official in Albania that Kosovo independence > would be a step to further claims against Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, > and Greece. The United States must not help facilitate the creation of the > menace of an Islamic "Greater Albania" -- or really, a "Greater Kosovo" > dominated by the criminal and terrorist leadership in Pristina. > > > > The New York Times editorial and media coverage detailing the Iranian > cultivation of Muslims near Kosovo and calls for a Greater Albania under > Islamic fascist leadership in Kosovo follow below. Included are: > > > > 1. An August 18, 2006 New York Times? editorial, ?Navigating Kosovo?s > Independence.? The New York Times opines: The original plan was for > Kosovo?s political leaders to demonstrate their ability to govern > responsibly before formal discussions of sovereignty could begin. They > haven?t really done so, although they have made some grudging moves under > international pressure. Yet as a practical matter, Kosovo?s international > wardship cannot be extended indefinitely. The most promising way to > encourage further progress is by moving ahead to a carefully conditioned > form of limited autonomy. The most critical issue, now as ever, is > guaranteeing the rights of the ethnic Serb minority. Any independence > arrangement will have to assure minorities a substantial role in > government, particularly in sensitive areas like the Justice Ministry. > > 2. An August 24, 2006 FrontPageMag.com article ?Kosovo risks ?ethnic > cleansing? again-rights group? by Julia Gorin. Gorin writes: Kosovo is > dominated by thugs who have attacked Serbs 186 times just since getting the > green light for final-status talks last October? The UN is planning to > evacuate tens of thousands of Serbs the moment we hand Kosovo to the > terrorists this year. ?Serbia is going to have to accept Kosovo > independence? is code-speak for the West buckling under to terrorism in the > Balkans as usual. It?s all the more unconscionable, given that today we > know the London and Madrid explosives came from Kosovo? by saying that > Serbia will be better off ?living in peace with a new Kosovo? [is] Just > like [saying] Israel will be better off living ?in peace? with a Hamas-led > Palestine?While fugitive Serbian war criminals are fixated on, Albanian war > criminals are allowed to enjoy political careers. Notice that no such > criticism is raised about Kosovo?s prime minister Agim Ceku ? a former KLA > commander who is indicted in Serbia for command responsibility in terrorist > killings of over 600 Serbs, Roma, Albanians and others, including > beheading, torture, mutilation, and abducting more than 500 people, most > presumed dead. The KLA, meanwhile, trained in al-Qaeda camps prior to our > 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. When America is leading a global war on jihad > terror, it?s difficult to understand how Secretary of State Condoleezza > Rice warmly greeted this wanted terrorist in Washington this summer. We > cannot fight terrorism with one hand while abetting it with the > other?Although the intelligence community is fully aware of the Kosovo > threat, our political leaders and media are denying it?Terror aside, the > criminal rackets (sex slavery, the heroin trade) in Kosovo are closely > linked to the KLA leadership that dominates the local Albanian > administration operating under UN auspices, and are already a menace to > Europe. If organized crime is uncontrolled under UN and NATO supervision, > how will Kosovo?s independence improve things when the racketeers become > the sovereign government? > > 3. An August 20, 2006 MEHRNEWS.com report, ?Serbian Islamic society leaders > meet IIDO director.? MEHRNEWS.com reported: Senior leaders of the Islamic > society from the Muslim region of Serbia?s Sanjak held talks with the > Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO) Director Hojjatoleslam > Seyyed Mehdi Khamushi here on Sunday. > > 4. An August 23, 2006 BBC Monitoring Service report of FoNet news agency, > Belgrade, ?Serbia alarmed by Tirana official's remarks on Albanian > unification.? FoNet news agency reported: Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk > Draskovic today assessed that the Albanian prime minister [Sali Berisha] > had sent a direct message to Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro that these > states in their current borders were not "natural creations" and that until > 2013 all Albanians now living in five states would be united in a "natural > Albania?? "As the Serbian minister of foreign affairs, I am asking the > Contact Group for Kosovo, the European Union, USA, NATO, the UN Security > Council and [UN special envoy] Mr Martti Ahtisaari the following question: > Is it not, after all, certain that the destruction of Serbia's territorial > integrity, by giving Kosovo the status of independence as a gift, directly > leads into a Balkan drama of dangerous and unforeseeable proportions?" > Draskovic asked. He noted that stability in the Balkans was defended > primarily by protecting the existing borders in the Balkans, adding that he > had been constantly warning about this key fact in the past and he was also > warning about it now. "What they do not understand in Tirana or they cannot > understand is that Albania would be the final victim of the insensible and > dangerous project of independent Kosovo. Economically superior, a state of > Kosovo - not Albania - would become pivotal in uniting ethnic Albanians > into a single state - not into a greater Albania but rather into a greater > Kosovo. This could only happen if other Balkan states whose territory is > threatened stand aside and watch," Draskovic warned. > > > > 1. Navigating Kosovo?s Future > > > > The New York Times ? August 18, 2006 > > > > <a > href=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/opinion/18fri3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/opinion/18fri3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a> > The 1999 war over Kosovo left the former Serbian province in political > limbo, postponing the question of possible independence for another day [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/