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www.savekosovo.org Washington, August 30, 2006 Push for Kosovo independence reaches new low in credibility: Terror bomb attack in Mitorvica; UNICEF deplores child trafficking; U.N. "mediator" betrays his anti-Serb bias; additional German intelligence revelations about criminal activities of Ceku, Thaci, Haradinaj Editorial comment from the American Council for Kosovo: This week may have marked a new low in the vanishing credibility of the misguided effort to forcibly and illegally detach the province of Kosovo and Metohija from democratic Serbia. Among the key events and revelations: 1. A terrorist bomb attack on Saturday August 26 in Mitrovica, the largest Christian Serbian enclave left in Kosovo, left nine people injured, including a British policeman serving with the international administration and a pregnant woman from the Netherlands. KLA leader Hashim "Snake" Thaci later met with a top U.S. diplomat in Pristina and minimized the significance of the attack, which is just the latest illustration of the terrorist and criminality rampant in the province. 2. UNICEF reports that child trafficking is on the rise in southeast Europe, particularly in Kosovo, while "Serbia is a good example how to prevent child trafficking, because they are eliminating causes which make the children vulnerable," according to UNICEF regional director for southeast Europe, Maria Kalavis. UNICEF's regional director for South-Eastern Europe noted that the "traffickers themselves are very well organized, very flexible and very ruthless" -- and, it should be added, in Kosovo include leading figures in Muslim Albanian administration: Agim Ceku, Hashim Thaci, and Ramush Haradinaj. 3. The uproar in Serbia continues in Serbia regarding the biased, even racist, comment by UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti Ahtisaari, to the effect that "the Serbs are guilty as a people" for the problems of Kosovo. The comment has provoked wide condemnation from all sectors of Serbian society, including the government and the Church, for assignment of ethnic collective blame. Mr. Ahtisaari's spokesman has sought to explain that the remark has been "taken out of context." So what would be the context -- except that Mr. Ahtisaari let slip his real agenda as a mediator in supposed negotiations over Kosovo's future? 4. The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung on August 7 revealed more details about last year's analysis by the German intelligence service BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) regarding the criminal activities of Kosovo's Muslim Albanian leadership. Among other revelations: that Ceku, Thaci, and Haradinaj meet regularly with other crimelords at Pristina's Grand Hotel to manage their joint criminal operations. Taken together, these items leave the already threadbare pro-independence justifications in tatters. The U.N. mediator stands revealed as an advocate for conferring state status on a gang of criminals and terrorists posing as leaders of a responsible civil administration. Meanwhile, the same "leaders" -- major figures in the supposedly disbanded "Kosovo Liberation Army" -- continue management of their criminal enterprises, which include the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation. To the extent feasible, ongoing terrorist attacks simply are ignored or explained away. The now-complete lack of credibility of the pro-independence agenda is attracting ever greater attention. In the short term, this will likely mean a renewed push for getting a predetermined "final status" through as soon as possible, to forestall further examination of what really is going on in Kosovo. That push will stall, however, as Serbia's democratic government continues to reject the illegal and immoral demand that Belgrade accede to the creation of an Islamic rogue state in Kosovo and the eradication of the remaining Christian Serbs. Meanwhile, as more people in the relevant countries, principally the United States, begin to catch on to what is happening in Kosovo, the supposedly "inevitable" result is looking less and less likely. More news and commentary follows: 1. An August 29, 2006 Accuracy in Media report, "The Real 9/11 Conspiracy" by Cliff Kincaid. Kincaid writes: the Clinton Administration was allied with radical Islam when it waged a war on Serbia and the CIA was ordered to assist the Kosovo Liberation Army, some of whose members were trained by bin Laden. That was 1999-two years before 9/11. One of many stories about such connections appeared in the Washington Times on May 4, 1999, and was written by Jerry Seper. It said, "Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden...the KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's...bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports...The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA. Many border crossings into Kosovo by 'foreign fighters' also have been documented and include veterans of the militant group Islamic Jihad from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan." After 9/11, Dollars for Terror, an important book by Swiss television journalist Richard Labeviere, explained in detail what was happening and how it had backfired on the U.S. He presented the thesis that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden were nurtured by elements of the U.S. intelligence community, especially during the Clinton years. This is a shocking view, but it puts other developments in perspective, such as Clinton support for radical Muslims in such places as Kosovo and Bosnia before that. The book also suggests that Islamic radicals, who were present in the U.S. in the 1990s and training to fly aircraft, were tolerated because it was believed that they were going to hit targets in other countries, not the United States. In other words, the CIA was actively assisting the bin Laden network, thinking it would serve U.S. interests. This background is necessary to consider the revelations about Able Danger, the secret military intelligence network that had apparent knowledge of the 9/11 hijackers being active in the U.S. Despite congressional hearings on this matter, much is still not known about Able Danger and who knew what about the presence of the 9/11 hijackers on American soil. But we do know that Rep. Curt Weldon, who has done the most in Congress to get to the bottom of this intriguing story, is being targeted for defeat by a number of former Clinton Administration officials and former CIA official Mary McCarthy. They have all contributed to his opponent Joseph Sestak. Do they have something to hide? In this context, it is noteworthy that the CIA issued a January 2000 report that essentially whitewashed the nature of the KLA and claimed it was pro-American. The only public release of this dubious report came through Rep. Elliot Engel, in a posting on the website of the National Albanian American Council, which supports an Albanian Muslim takeover of the Serbian province of Kosovo. 2. An August 20, 2006 Adnkronos International article "Balkans: Chikd Trafficking on the Rise, UNICEF." Adnkronos International reports: Child trafficking in the countries of southeast Europe, particularly in Serbia's Kosovo province, has been on rise and is reaching worrying proportions, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. In a report, Action to Prevent Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe, released in London, UNICEF stated that said that many children were smuggled from southeast Europe into west European countries, "to be used in the sex trade, slavery or for begging".Kalavis praised Serbia's efforts in preventing child trafficking. "Serbia is a good example how to prevent child trafficking, because they are eliminating causes which make the children vulnerable," Kalavis concluded. 3. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Response to UN special envoy for Kosovo status talks Martti Ahtisaari's recent comments. Prime Minister Kostunica stated: Ahtisaari's statement that Serbs are guilty as a nation was quickly welcomed by the Kosovo Albanians who went along with it and threw an explosive device on innocent Serbian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica. For this crime, the responsibility rests equally on Albanian terrorists and representatives of the international community who, by their doing or non-doing, support and encourage the Albanians. At the time when negotiations are taking place in a hope of finding a just and sustainable solution for the future status of Kosovo & Metohia, it is shocking and of great concern that Ahtisaari, special UN Envoy, should issue such statements. His mandate is to facilitate negotiations so that a compromise, a historically just and legally founded solution would be found. But, Ahtisaari seems to be doing everything the opposite. 4. A German Express article. Express reported: Express reports on its front page that an article published in Berliner Zeitung - based on information by the German Intelligence Service (BND) -- states that Agim Ceku, Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj and Xhavit Haliti are involved in criminal activities in Kosovo. Berliner Zeitung portrays the current situation and the future of Kosovo as grim, referring to a report developed by the BND in 2005. Based on this report, Kosovo's senior local and international politicians are involved in organized crime and have no interest in a rule-of-law state. The goal of this organized crime network, the BND report says further, is to turn Kosovo into a "suitable political terrain" for their criminal activities. Seen from this perspective, according to the German newspaper, it will be difficult for the international community to "create genuine rule of law structures" in Kosovo. Even in the future, Kosovo "will have a key role as transition point of drugs towards Western Europe." 5. An August 29, 2006 Renew America column "Deception, Serbs, Islamic fascists, and a forgotten warning" by Mary Mostert. Mostert wrote: Orthodox Christian Serbs and Jews in Europe were slaughtered by the millions during the 20th century by Islamic, Christian and atheistic fascists and communists. Today Orthodox Christians and Jews, as a class or ethnic group, who survived the 20th century holocaust are portrayed in the media as the group that is responsible for ALL the problems in the former Yugoslavia or the Middle East while deceivers and murderers are treated as their victims.as millions follow self-proclaimed saviors of the media, in European capitols and the United Nations who proclaim world peace will somehow result if we only will placate and appease the masters of deceit who blow up their own children to kill Americans and Jews, behead Serbian monks, burn down Orthodox Christian Churches, put bombs in pizza parlors to kill teen-ager while claiming THEY are the ones being mistreated. While NATO and the European Union has not arrested any of the Islamic fascists in Kosovo who beheaded a monk and burned down over 150 Serbian churches, they seem to have convinced even many young Serbs that all will be well if they will only turn in Serb leaders who are accused of committing a genocide that strangely never produced dead bodies. Once those leaders are in the Hague, the promise is membership in the European Union - which is portrayed as the economic salvation for Serbs. Can world peace, be found through worldwide deception? I rather doubt it can. 1. The Real 9/11 Conspiracy By Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media - August 29, 2006 http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4821_0_2_0_C/ The so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which has been covered extensively by C-SPAN as well as Al-Jazeera, has confused many Americans and Muslims alike about the nature of the 9/11 attacks. This movement, which includes associates of Lyndon LaRouche, who openly supported Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf war, are telling us that the Bush Administration was really behind the 9/11 attacks and blamed them on the Arabs so it could go to war in the Middle East. Incredibly, polls shows that about one-third of the American people-and majorities of Muslims in many Arab countries-actually believe this disinformation. In reality, of course, as extensively documented by Al-Jazeera itself, Osama bin Laden's international al-Qaeda terrorist network planned and carried out the suicide hijackings. This information can be considered reliable because Al-Jazeera has been consistently shown to be an outlet for al-Qaeda propaganda with sources inside the terror network. Indeed, its Kabul, Afghanistan, reporter is now in prison because he was convicted of being an agent of al Qaeda linked to the 9/11 plot. While the Bush Administration can be criticized for ignoring warnings that an attack like 9/11 might occur, it is the Clinton Administration which can be accused of actually facilitating 9/11 by conducting a foreign policy that promoted the rise of radical Islam. We have looked at some of this evidence before, in an AIM Report published shortly after 9/11, but we must take another look because developments over the years have added to the case against the Clinton Administration. First, the Clinton Administration was allied with radical Islam when it waged a war on Serbia and the CIA was ordered to assist the Kosovo Liberation Army, some of whose members were trained by bin Laden. That was 1999-two years before 9/11. One of many stories about such connections appeared in the Washington Times on May 4, 1999, and was written by Jerry Seper. It said, "Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden...the KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's...bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports...The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA. Many border crossings into Kosovo by 'foreign fighters' also have been documented and include veterans of the militant group Islamic Jihad from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan." After 9/11, Dollars for Terror, an important book by Swiss television journalist Richard Labeviere, explained in detail what was happening and how it had backfired on the U.S. He presented the thesis that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden were nurtured by elements of the U.S. intelligence community, especially during the Clinton years. This is a shocking view, but it puts other developments in perspective, such as Clinton support for radical Muslims in such places as Kosovo and Bosnia before that. The book also suggests that Islamic radicals, who were present in the U.S. in the 1990s and training to fly aircraft, were tolerated because it was believed that they were going to hit targets in other countries, not the United States. In other words, the CIA was actively assisting the bin Laden network, thinking it would serve U.S. interests. This background is necessary to consider the revelations about Able Danger, the secret military intelligence network that had apparent knowledge of the 9/11 hijackers being active in the U.S. Despite congressional hearings on this matter, much is still not known about Able Danger and who knew what about the presence of the 9/11 hijackers on American soil. But we do know that Rep. Curt Weldon, who has done the most in Congress to get to the bottom of this intriguing story, is being targeted for defeat by a number of former Clinton Administration officials and former CIA official Mary McCarthy. They have all contributed to his opponent Joseph Sestak. Do they have something to hide? In this context, it is noteworthy that the CIA issued a January 2000 report that essentially whitewashed the nature of the KLA and claimed it was pro-American. The only public release of this dubious report came through Rep. Elliot Engel, in a posting on the website of the National Albanian American Council, which supports an Albanian Muslim takeover of the Serbian province of Kosovo. That report is an example of how the CIA was corrupted during the Clinton years. That corruption, of course, was carried forward into the Bush Administration when a faction of the CIA sent Joe Wilson to Niger, supposedly to investigate the Iraq-uranium link, and prompted a Justice Department investigation of the press when it came out in Robert Novak's column that Wilson's CIA wife had been behind the trip. The CIA, as AIM has documented, also played a curious role in the aftermath of the crash of TWA 800, concocting a cartoon for the Clinton Administration designed to discredit the eyewitnesses who saw a missile hit the plane. An explosion in the fuel tank was blamed for the crash, despite the eyewitness evidence. But 9/11 was not the first time that the policy had backfired on the U.S. It was during the Clinton Administration that the Iranian-directed bombing of Khobar Towers occurred, and, according to former FBI director Louis Freeh, the Clinton national security apparatus worked long and hard to prevent the truth from coming out. Freeh wrote, "It soon became clear that Mr. Clinton and his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, had no interest in confronting the fact that Iran had blown up the towers." Berger, of course, would later plead guilty to stealing national security information from the National Archives on what the Clinton Administration did-or did not do-to prevent 9/11. Berger was desperate to cover something up. We also know that, as part of his pro-Muslim campaign in the former Yugoslavia, Clinton pursued a controversial policy of enlisting Iranian help. A Senate Republican report confirms that the evidence shows that the Clinton Administration approved the shipment of Iranian arms to Bosnian Muslims. But this isn't all. Questions about a Middle Eastern connection to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City have never been put to rest. Clinton, however, preferred to blame domestic right-wingers, egged on by "hate radio." The media went along with his propaganda ploy. Was 9/11, like Oklahoma City and Khobar Towers, the result of a policy of cultivating Muslim extremists that backfired in a deadly way? The Bush Administration was caught off-guard by the events of 9/11, but President Bush had only himself to blame, having kept on Clinton's CIA director, George Tenet, whose fingerprints were all over the failed policy. Tragically, some of the misguided Clinton policies have been continued, such as the plan to create a Muslim state in Kosovo, to go along with the Muslim state already established with Iranian help in Bosnia. Bush should reverse course on that one-and fast. 2. BALKANS: CHILD TRAFFICKING ON THE RISE, UNICEF Adnkronos International - August 30, 2006 http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.335185458&par= London, 30 August (AKI) - Child trafficking in the countries of southeast Europe, particularly in Serbia's Kosovo province, has been on rise and is reaching worrying proportions, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. In a report, Action to Prevent Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe, released in London, UNICEF stated that said that many children were smuggled from southeast Europe into west European countries, "to be used in the sex trade, slavery or for begging". It noted that 1.2 million children were trafficked across the world annually, while 246 million kids world-wide were involved in illegal child labour. "We know that child trafficking within Kosovo borders is on rise," said UNICEF regional director for southeast Europe, Maria Kalavis. "Children are being recruited for certain jobs and forms of exploitation," she added. After visiting Romania, Moldova, Albania and Kosovo, the countries most frequently named in child trafficking, one of the reports' authors, Mike Dottridge, said that the trafficking could be fought only by "addressing root causes of the problem. The traffickers themselves are very well organized, very flexible and very ruthless, yet the systems that are in place to deal with them are inflexible and unharmonized," he added. Kalavis told the BBC it was absurd that UNICEF's presence in Kosovo wasn't felt more strongly, despite the fact that the province, whose majority ethnic Albanians demand independence, has been under United Nations control since 1999. "Kosovo's priorities have been so far the establishment of the rule of law and the reform of institutions" and we, "as UN agency caring for children want to point out that this area of protection has been neglected", said Kalavis. Kalavis praised Serbia's efforts in preventing child trafficking. "Serbia is a good example how to prevent child trafficking, because they are eliminating causes which make the children vulnerable," Kalavis concluded. 3. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Response to UN special envoy for Kosovo status talks Martti Ahtisaari's recent comments http://www.rts.co.yu/jedna_vest.asp?source=komentar&IDNews=159038 "Ahtisaari's statement that Serbs are guilty as a nation was quickly welcomed by the Kosovo Albanians who went along with it and threw an explosive device on innocent Serbian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica. "For this crime, the responsibility rests equally on Albanian terrorists and representatives of the international community who, by their doing or non-doing, support and encourage the Albanians. "At the time when negotiations are taking place in a hope of finding a just and sustainable solution for the future status of Kosovo & Metohia, it is shocking and of great concern that Ahtisaari, special UN Envoy, should issue such statements. His mandate is to facilitate negotiations so that a compromise, a historically just and legally founded solution would be found. But, Ahtisaari seems to be doing everything the opposite. "Several times so far, more or less openly, he suggested that compromise and negotiations are not necessary because there is only one solution, that being an independent Kosovo. This solution is in direct confrontation with the founding principles of international law. His latest explanation is that Serbs are guilty as a nation. In this manner, he joined the darkest men in human history who applied the concept of collective guilt on entire peoples. "Ahtisaari has not only violated the mandate entrusted to him by the UN, he has also violated international law, democratic values and historical facts. As seen many times in history, a dangerous precedent cannot be unique and non-repetitive. What is today endangering Serbia, could very well one day endanger many other countries and, indeed, the entire world. "That is precisely the reason why such devastating ideas such as Ahtisaari's must be given a proper and dignified response by the world's democratic opinion". 4. German BND Demonizes Leaders (Express) http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2006/0807/politik/0037/index.html?group=berliner-zeitung;sgroup=;day=today;suchen=1;keywords=BND;search_in=archive;match=strict;author=;ressort=;von=;bis=;mark=bnd Express reports on its front page that an article published in Berliner Zeitung - based on information by the German Intelligence Service (BND) -- states that Agim Ceku, Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj and Xhavit Haliti are involved in criminal activities in Kosovo. Berliner Zeitung portrays the current situation and the future of Kosovo as grim, referring to a report developed by the BND in 2005. Based on this report, Kosovo's senior local and international politicians are involved in organized crime and have no interest in a rule-of-law state. The goal of this organized crime network, the BND report says further, is to turn Kosovo into a "suitable political terrain" for their criminal activities. Seen from this perspective, according to the German newspaper, it will be difficult for the international community to "create genuine rule of law structures" in Kosovo. Even in the future, Kosovo "will have a key role as transition point of drugs towards Western Europe." These "multifunction persons," as BND refers to these politicians/criminals as, are using their political leverage to control the underground forces in order to strengthen their personal interests and create links in politics, economy and justice. The BND mentioned at least three such "multifunction" persons; PDK leader Hashim Thaci, PDK senior official Xhavit Haliti and AAK chief Ramush Haradinaj. Kosovo's current Prime Minister Agim Ceku, according to German Intelligence Service, is also linked to criminal activities of Kosovo Albanian mafia gangs. According to the BND, Ceku, Thaci and Haliti control Drenica region, and they regularly meet illegally at the Hotel Grand in Pristina to discuss their criminal activities. >From this BND analysis, reports issued by the so-called 'Homeland Security' a few months ago seem quite serious, concludes Express. 5. Deception, Serbs, Islamic fascists, and a forgotten warning By Mary Mostert Renew America - August 29, 2006 http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/060829 I am not a Serb. I am a garden variety American with ancestors from a variety of European nations - but no ancestors from Balkan nations. My interest in the issues involved in the break-up of Yugoslavia has been one of journalistic curiosity. Why do we never HEAR the Serbian side of any issue in the media? Where are the Serb spokesmen and historians? For ten years I've searched for the answers. I have asked Serbs questions about issues and have primarily gotten puzzled responses from them. Many have questioned me back: "Why are you telling the truth about Serbs? Are you really a Serb who has changed your name? Are you married to a Serb?" Somehow Serbs have maintained their traditional Orthodox Christian beliefs in spite of a 1000 year conflict with Catholic and Muslim neighbors. They also have been confronted with about 100 years of conflict with neighbors in a secular and atheistic 20th Century Europe. When I've asked Serb readers how come they maintained their faith in Jesus Christ, I've gotten puzzled and very short responses like: "It's part of the Serbian culture!" Yet, to me, a curious outsider, there seems to be some sort of deep-seated cultural memory among the Serbs that they themselves either can't or won't explain to the outside world. I finally concluded they had managed to survive hundreds of years of effort to force them to abandon their faith and adopt the conqueror's faith by teaching it within the walls of their homes and church to their children, and not talking much to "outsiders." So, I find young Serbs with a strong feeling of BEING a Serb, but who were brought up in a communist nation that discounted spirituality. Yet, they still feel "Serbian" and appear to be returning to their church in spite of 60 years of atheism in their schools. This seems to be true even among American Serbs - who still maintain a spiritual understanding that most secular, or even religious, Americans don't understand. That is why I asked Father Benedict the questions I asked and appreciated his answers. Then Genci Sala, who described himself as an "Albanian Islamic Fascist" read the interview with Father Benedict and angrily challenged me to print the "TRUTH" - i.e. the Albanian side of the Kosovo issue. >From a journalistic perspective, that was a golden opportunity. I was searching for "the real untold story" of the Kosovo situation. >From a religious history perspective, I thought that Father Benedict's answers to my questions) and the answers to the same questions by Genci Sala, gave a good example of the two "sides" of an issue the international community is about to decide: Is Kosovo really Serbian or Albanian territory? My first question for Father Benedict was: "Could you briefly tell our readers what was going on in Kosovo back in 1343 and why King Dusan built the monastery?" Father Benedict: "In the XIV century Kosovo was the central part of the Serbian state and Christian spirituality. Like all rulers of his time (the Middle Ages), Tsar Dusan also wished to have his own endowment, that is, to build a monastery in which God would be praised to the end of the time and in which the name of the founder would be mentioned on Holy Liturgies until the second arrival of Christ. He did that by founding a place near river Bistrica, two and a half kilometers away from Prizren." I was struck by the fact that Father Benedict matter-of-factly stated that King Dusan built "a monastery in which God would be praised to the end of the time and in which the name of the founder would be mentioned on Holy Liturgies until the second arrival of Christ." For secular Westerners of Europe and American, Islamic Fascists, anarchists, non-believers and even some Christian opponents of Orthodox Christianity, Father Benedict's response is meaningless. However, for those who still believe that Christ WILL return, His Second Coming is at least 663 years closer than when Holy Archangels Monastery was built. In fact a growing number of Christians are beginning to talk about the signs of the Latter Days as described in the Bible in Chapter 24 of Matthew when "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." That would be "the beginning of sorrows" when "they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." That seems to describe the Serbs and the Jews these days. They are, indeed, hated of all nations. However, non-believers, such as Genci Sala, scolded me for even asking the question. Sala wrote: Sala:"Question 1 is wrongly formulated, and very biased in an answer expectation. King Dushan never built any monasteries in Kosova. If he built any, then, never, and I repeat, never would it be the monastery mentioned there. "If you had at least the minimal historical education, you should have been well aware of the fact that Serbs weren't even close to Kosova at the time we're arguing." What actual international difference does it make which of these two people is telling this American journalist the truth? Well, it is the crux of the problem as defined today in International politics upon which an entire region's future appears to rest. Who actually BUILT all those churches and monasteries in Kosovo? Sala urged me to read an "independent source." Meaning, of course, an Albanian source. Since I've been doing just that for several years, that wasn't a difficult assignment. As recently as 2004 Holy Archangels Monastery was attacked and burned by " a large mob of Albanians approaching the monastery itself and chanting KLA, KLA. Why? Sala doesn't tell us. . So, what DO "independent sources" tell us about this area in the past 500-663 years? For over 500 years Kosovo was controlled by neither Serbs nor Albanians, but by the Ottoman Turks who kept census records. Who was living in Kosovo when Holy Archangels was built according to archeological and historic records? It was not the Albanians. A Turkish cadastral tax census in 1455 showed: about 80% of present-day Kosovo had 480 villages, 13,693 adult males, 12,985 dwellings, 14,087 household.. By ethnicity the population was listed: 1. 12,985 Serbian dwellings present in all 480 villages and towns 2. 75 Vlach dwellings in 34 villages 3. 46 Albanian dwellings in 23 villages 4. 17 Bulgarian dwellings in 10 villages 5. 5 Greek dwellings in LauĊĦa, Vucitrn 6. 1 Jewish dwelling in Vucitrn 7. 1 Croat dwelling The best independent testimony available as to WHO originally populated Kosovo and who actually BUILT all those churches and monasteries can be found in the actual government records of the occupying Ottoman Turkish empire. Those records support Serbian written history. Other independent records and research are from archeologists such as James R. Wiseman of Boston University in Massachusetts. His archeological studies support Serbian, not Albanian, claims concerning the history of Kosovo.. The only Albanian archeological evidence found so far in Kosovo go back only to the 19th century. Another independent source is a map provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency which shows the boundaries of Kosovo from 1196 AD to the present. Orthodox Christian Serbs and Jews in Europe were slaughtered by the millions during the 20th century by Islamic, Christian and atheistic fascists and communists. Today Orthodox Christians and Jews, as a class or ethnic group, who survived the 20th century holocaust are portrayed in the media as the group that is responsible for ALL the problems in the former Yugoslavia or the Middle East while deceivers and murderers are treated as their victims. The Kosovo Liberation Army was going door-to-door in Kosovo in 1999 ordering Albanians to flee - and then telling the world media the Serbs under the command of Slobodan Milosevic were driving them out. On Mt. Olivet nearly 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ was asked by his disciples when he would come again to earth. Jesus didn't tell them when, but did warn them to look for the signs of his coming and to "Take heed that no man deceive you." For more than a century most of the world seems to have followed one or another self-proclaimed fascist, communist or religious deceivers who have claimed they are the saviors who can bring peace to the world. We are seeing this deception again in the 21s century as millions follow self-proclaimed saviors of the media, in European capitols and the United Nations who proclaim world peace will somehow result if we only will placate and appease the masters of deceit who blow up their own children to kill Americans and Jews, behead Serbian monks, burn down Orthodox Christian Churches, put bombs in pizza parlors to kill teen-ager while claiming THEY are the ones being mistreated. While NATO and the European Union has not arrested any of the Islamic fascists in Kosovo who beheaded a monk and burned down over 150 Serbian churches, they seem to have convinced even many young Serbs that all will be well if they will only turn in Serb leaders who are accused of committing a genocide that strangely never produced dead bodies. Once those leaders are in the Hague, the promise is membership in the European Union - which is portrayed as the economic salvation for Serbs. Can world peace, be found through worldwide deception? I rather doubt it can. The American Council for Kosovo is an activity of Venable LLP 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. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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