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------------------------------------original message-------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sparta <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:40 PM Subject: Ltr in response to "It's Time To Let Kosovo Be Free." The New York Post Letter to the editor(s) 7 August 2007 I totally agree with Muhamet Hamiti's "It's Time To Let Kosovo Be Free," (7 August). I agree that Kosovo Albanians should be free to finish the job of eradicating Serbia's culture, language and religion in Kosovo. I agree because the Kosovo Albanians are now the majority, having reached that majority by illegally crossing from Albania into Christian Kosovo, and even though over 150 churches and monasteries have been destroyed, Serbian priests have been beaten or murdered, and hundreds of thousands of Serbs ethnically cleansed from their Jerusalem right under the noses of KFOR, why shouldn't the Albanian thugs be rewarded? Why shouldn't Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim Ceku be rewarded for, according to Jane's Defense Weekly, masterminding two of the grizzliest episodes of slaughter against the Serbs in the Yugoslav war - that of The Battle of the Medak Pocket, when, in 1993, Canadian soldiers, (The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry), in trying to stop the further slaughter of Serbian civilians, young and old, were attacked by Croatian forces who were committing the war crimes, and in Operation Storm, where no fewer than 5,000 Serbian civilians were murdered and over 250,000 Serbs were driven from (let's call it what is was, ethnically cleansed) their ancestral Krajina homeland, and "the deliberate shelling of civilians, rape, and systematic arson." At one time, there were 40,000 Serbs living in Pristina, the capitol of Kosovo. Today, there are 150 Serbians, mostly elderly, too terrified to leave their two compounds without NATO escorts for fear of being killed by Albanian mobs. Ethnic cleansing at it's best. Former UNPROFOR commander, Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie summed it up best when he said, "The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world." After 9/11, President Bush said that we will do whatever it takes to defend our country against the [Muslim] terrorists, yet we denied the Serbs the right to defend themselves against the same enemy that we are fighting today. Am I being cynical? You bet! Articles such as the one from Muhamet Hamiti published in your newspaper are particularly offensive and painful, and it, unfortunately continues the myth that the Kosovo Albanians deserve independence. If granted, Kosovo will become an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the heart of Europe and, along with Muslim Bosnia, a center for jihadist activities. Stella (I also forwarded to the editors in another email the photos of the KLA and Saudi Arabian mujahedin holding the heads of Serbs. What do you want to bet that I don't hear from them???? :-) As a career military officer's wife, Stella Jatras has traveled widely and has lived in many foreign countries where she not only learned about other cultures but also became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. With the advent of the war in Bosnia, Mrs. Jatras immediately recognized the bias of the Western media and the Clinton administration's flawed foreign policy in the Balkans and began her efforts to present to the American people a more accurate view of that tragic situation. Her letters and articles have been published in The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic, The Patriot- News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Chronicles, The Stars and Stripes, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of magazines and periodicals such as ODYSSEY, AHEPAN, and The Hellenic Voice. In addition her writings have had worldwide distribution via the Internet such as Citizen Soldier and Jihad Watch. Stella Jatras lived in Moscow for two years (where her husband, George, was the Senior Air Attaché), and while there, worked in the Political Section of the US Embassy. Stella has also lived in Germany, Greece and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty countries.
