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Originally published at 2.0: The Blogmocracy as Ignoring the Cesspool in Bosnia and Kosovo At Our Peril

By 1389AD

Under the radar

While we are all worrying about Kagan confirmation hearings, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the near-worldwide economic collapse, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear threats, and the Gulf oil leak, the cesspool of jihadism in the Balkans goes nearly unnoticed. It stays off the radar screen, not only in the socialist mainstream media, but also in outlets such as Fox News and most of the conservative blogosphere. And when it is mentioned, likelier than not, Serbs are blamed for violence committed by their jihadi enemies.

Why is this important?

It’s important because, for over a decade, the US and its NATO allies have devoted tremendous effort to helping the Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims to set up jihadi strongholds in the Balkans. The Balkans jihadis are quite simply the local branches of al Qaeda in Europe. At the same time, we claim to be fighting al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you try to fight on both sides of the same war, only one things is certain: you will surely lose. And so we will. This foreign policy is not merely evil, it is completely insane. But don’t expect the media to tell you this, considering that the media played such a key role in getting the US into this untenable position to begin with. Were the mainstream media, or for that matter, anybody in the US or NATO military or governments, to admit the truth about what has been going on in the Balkans, widespread shock and disbelief would ensue. It’s anybody’s guess what would happen next.

The Muslim-controlled parts of the Balkans form a stronghold from which jihadis can easily smuggle drugs, weapons, money, propaganda, and people into the rest of Europe, and from there to the US and just about anywhere else.

See for yourself:

• Five Employees of Islamic Charity Arrested in Kosovo on Terrorism Charges
  

  Kosovo police arrested five members of an Islamic humanitarian organization suspected of “criminal activities.”

  The five suspects were associated with a humanitarian organisation called Iskrenost (Sincerity).

  The arrests took place late on Friday in the southwest city of Prizren in an operation in which 120 police officers were deployed. Berisa said police confiscated a large quantity of weapons during the operation, including automatic rifles, pistols, ammunition and uniforms.

  Since the Bosnian war, Jihadists have often operated under the guise of humanitarian organizations from Islamic countries and several such charities have been banned in Bosnia. …

• Bosnia: Jihadists bomb police station; analysts state the obvious and warn of more to come
  

  As is so often the case with the Balkans, analysts are quick to attribute the problem of jihadist activity to the influence of “Wahhabism,” though without accounting for why the Wahhabists’ teachings resonate so readily with what we were told were peaceful, secularized, tolerant Muslims. To suppose otherwise, of course, raises the specter of there being something about Islam, even among our modern, moderate “friends and allies” that is not of the Wahhabists’ invention, but nonetheless generates acts like the one described below.

• Albanian’s January Killing Spree in Finland Originally Reported in England as done by “Kosovo Serb”
  

  … However, I am going to post about the January killing spree in Finland, because I remembered that the source who sent it to me wrote the following: “I noticed one of the British channels first announced that the killer was a ‘SERB KOSOVAN’ when the news just started to unfold.” …

• British News: the “Serb Kosovans” Ibrahim and Islam Shkupolli
  

  … In a post last week about an Albanian mass killer at a Finnish shopping mall, I mentioned that a British news channel (whose identity I’m trying to ascertain) referred to the perpetrator as a “Serb Kosovan.” Thanks to my source on this, “Serbstvo,” we have the actual video of the reporter saying this. Not the anchorwoman, but the male reporter in the field (whose name I could only discern as Roger Thomas) made the “mistake” even though the shooter’s name is clearly Ibrahim Shkupolli. Thomas isn’t even tipped off by the very next frame of his package after his mis-identification, which goes to a Shkupolli cousin in Kosovo, whose first name is “Islam.” …

• Bosnians Always Impugn Themselves
  

  In February there was a major police action in the notorious radical stronghold of Gornja Maoca. Located at the juncture of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, and near a major roadway, this town briefly became a focus for investigators immediately after 9/11, and has come up repeatedly as a problem since. (Including as the nexus of the planned rocket attack on world leaders at Pope John Paul II’s 2005 funeral, which naturally went virtually unreported.) Here is what happened in February:

  Bosnia: Police raids target radical Islamist stronghold …

• U.S. Tries to Restore Serbian Sovereignty ofer U.S.-supported “Independent” Kosovo
  

  Did anyone else catch this gem last week from North Carolina’s WRAL news site:

  Report: Judge denies extradition of Triangle terror suspect

  Raleigh, N.C. — A European judge has ruled that a man arrested in Kosovo last week will not be extradited to the U.S. to face charges that he aided a suspected terrorism ring in the Triangle.

  Bajram Asllani, 29, an ethnic Albanian and native of Mitrovic[a], Kosovo, was convicted of terrorism in Serbia and was under surveillance in his home country when he was arrested Thursday following an extradition request from the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He faces charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons.

  Judge Agnieszka Kolowiecka-Milar of the European Union Rule of Law Mission denied the extradition request, ruling that Kosovo doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S., according to Bulgaria-based FAN TV. Prosecutors were relying on a 2001 agreement between the U.S. and Serbia, but Kosovo has since declared its independence and isn’t bound by that agreement, the judge ruled.

  …

By 1389

It’s time to stir the pot some more

My last post on the brouhaha at Grouchy Conservative Pundits (GCP) was harshly worded indeed, but nonetheless it was not harshly worded enough. I haven’t rattled enough cages yet. Until I start getting some hate mail, enraged comments in all kinds of languages, and maybe even some juicy death threats, I never know if I’m getting my message out, rather than just preaching to the choir.

Lots of people talk about respect…

Talk is cheap. If you’re going to play that game with me, you’ll have to ante up. I believe in giving respect ONLY where respect is due. People who want my respect have to earn it, and they cannot earn it by spewing flagrant and undeserved disrespect toward me and others, as did “Mike C.” and “Rayra” on GCP.

Intellect alone is not deserving of respect; it depends on what people do with it. I have known many people far more intelligent than those two, and who behave far better.

Current or former military service (assuming these people are who they say they are, and I have my doubts) in and of itself is not enough to earn my respect either; there are just as many despicable people among the military and former military as there are everywhere else. I had a recent ex-boss of that description; he was, and is, a crook who treated me like dirt and then got rid of me by transferring me to another position where I would not be paid as much as my contract specified, simply because I didn’t play along with his chicanery in manipulating department budgets. That ex-boss was one more example of the fact that the most consistently untrustworthy people out there are the ones who always talk the loudest about “having someone else’s back.” Yeah, right…with a knife between the ribs.

As far as military personnel are concerned, don’t even get me started on those US military who willingly took part in the bombing of the Serbs during the Kosovo War, or who failed (and still fail) to protect the lives, property, and freedom of the Serbs in occupied Kosovo. Every officer involved should have resigned their commissions. Those who failed to resign have genocide on their consciences, though I doubt that any of them will ever admit it.

Is he or isn’t he? Only his gardener knows for sure

As I said, I cannot determine for sure whether or not “Rayra” is a plant. It’s just as likely that “Rayra” is merely a deeply angry, confused, frightened, and mentally and emotionally unstable individual who is too impulsive to think anything through, can never admit being wrong about anything, sees no reason to learn to control his temper, has no respect for women or anybody he considers to be weaker than himself, has no interest in where anybody else is coming from, and lashes out blindly at anybody or anything that he sees as a threat to his ego or to his self-centered world view. Or he could simply be an outright psychopath; I’ve had the misfortune to be acquainted with a few of those too.

For obvious reasons, I would never WANT somebody like “Rayra” even to claim to be on my side. He is more a danger to his friends, such as they are, than to his enemies.

But whether “Rayra” is actually a plant isn’t the most important concern here. The point is that, whether “Rayra” intends it or not, his intemperate and misguided remarks further the interests of expanding the corrupt and tyrannical use of federal government power.

Why do so many people hate Russia?

As I mentioned in my earlier post, a truly irrational hatred of Russia is rife on GCP, and anybody who says a word in favor of Russia becomes a target. I have reason to believe that Russia is not only far less of a “despotism” than the US, but also it runs the country in the interest of its own citizens, its economy is growing instead of collapsing, it respects Christianity, and its leaders are loyal to their own country. Russia is nothing like its portrayal in the mainstream media.

We are acquainted with an American expat who has lived near Moscow for many years, and we get some information about what is going on in Russia from the inside. Also, one of our friends is an amateur astronomer who travels all over the world whenever there is an eclipse. He’s a rock-solid conservative Republican and has been so for many decades. He went to Russia the last time there was an eclipse there, and he liked it so much that he seriously considered blowing off the eclipse-viewing to spend more time traveling in Russia and meeting Russians.

No, I don’t agree with everything that the Russian government does, just as I will never agree with everything that any government does. We live in a fallen world and all governments are fallible. But I can well understand why, at this stage, Russia is a rival of the US and not an ally. Yes, Russia COULD have been an ally, but Americans blew the opportunity through our own selfishness and ambition. The carpetbaggers that came over to Russia from Harvard and the liberal think-tanks after the Berlin Wall came down inflicted incredible damage; they are the ones to blame for letting the oligarchs and gangsters take hold for as long as they did. Since that time, Putin and Medvedev have made considerable inroads against the oligarchs and gangsters. They’ve also instituted a flat tax that is not excessively high, they collect it even-handedly, and unlike the US, they don’t double-tax Russian citizens earning money overseas. If they’ve had to play rough against the Chechen jihadis and the media whores and NGOs that support the jihadis, then good for them.

I understand that many people continue to harbor suspicion and hatred against Russia as a result of the heritage of the Cold War. I myself was as ardent a supporter of the US during the Cold War as anybody could be. However, in the present day, such hatred against Russia is counterproductive and it sinks to the level of irrational bigotry. I haven’t observed the same degree of opprobrium leveled at China, our other Cold War enemy, even though China is much less free than Russia, China is not primarily a Christian country, China is more of a rival to us than Russia is, and the remnants of communism persist much more strongly there.

Pot, meet kettle

I would no more condemn Putin for having been in the KGB in the distant past, than I would condemn George H. W. Bush for having headed the CIA, which has done little to protect us, and much to get us into needless trouble. At least Putin is a Christian who has repented of whatever wrongdoing he has committed in that regard. Can you imagine an American president ever repenting of anything? I sure can’t. I doubt that we’ve had a real Christian president since Ronald Reagan, despite numerous photo-ops intended to prove the contrary.

Anybody can see that we have an even bigger mess in the US. What inroads has our federal government made against the Latin-American drug gangs, the SEIU, George Soros and his circle of oligarchs, the traitors at the New York Times and CNN, the traitors in the State Department, the commies in our universities, the crooks who run Detroit and Chicago, and last but not least, the jihadis that infest every corner of the US?

Shooting the messenger

Of course, it sent many people on GCP into fits of outrage to hear me say that Russia, despite its current rivalry with the US, has been cleaning up its internal messes, while the US has been sinking into an abyss. Their response was to shoot the messenger.

And why do so many people hate the Serbs?

There is plenty of evidence that they hate the Serbs over at GCP. This is ironic, considering that GCP was founded by people banned from Little Green Footballs, and considering that I was banned from Little Green Footballs for supporting the Serbs. Their antipathy toward the Serbs also serves to explain some of their hatred toward Russia, simply because the Russians have made some efforts to help the Serbs.

The US government, along with NATO and the EU, is still doing everything it can to destroy the economy and livelihood and what little remains of the sovereignty and culture of the Serbs, in order to help the jihadis to create a stronghold in the Balkans. And that includes the US military. I don’t even want to think about how many people on GCP might have been personally involved in one way or another. That’s between them and their Maker.

This foreign policy is not merely stupid, it sinks to the level of treason. The whole purpose of throwing the Serbs under the bus is to curry favor with the Saudis and other Muslim oil-producing nations. A lot of good that has done us! We would have done better just to colonize them and take over and de-Islamize the Middle East just as we once de-Nazified western Europe. As anybody could have predicted, like every other bunch of totalitarians, the jihadis are inherently evil and they will always bite the hands that feed them, which is what led to 9-11.

Does that statement surprise you? In case you don’t know, Osama bin Laden travels on a Bosnian Muslim passport granted to him by the late Alija Izetbegovic, who was literally a Nazi. It is not appropriate to invoke Godwin’s Law here, because we’re talking about an actual Nazi of the Third Reich. Notice that I do not call Izetbegovic an ex-Nazi, in that he was a lifelong unrepentant Nazi who recruited for Hitler as a young man. And the US government sided with Izetbegovic in the Bosnian War.

This collaboration with the jihadis in the Balkans has been going on ever since Reagan left office. I have grave doubts about the moral worth of the American people for consistently electing governments that support our enemies in this way. How am I supposed to be loyal to a government that is collaborating with our enemies? If I had been in Norway during the Second World War, should I have been loyal to Vidkun Quisling?

I harbor a faint hope that enough people in some state, somewhere in the US, will see the light in time to secede from a Quisling federal government that is deliberately laying us open to our enemies, so that at least some part of the US will be salvaged. If the turnaround doesn’t happen very soon, long before the 2012 election, it will be too late, and the America that we thought we knew will exist in name only.

Some will insist on remaining under the US federal government no matter what, so that their livelihood (and maybe their lives) will be bled away to support a socialist/jihadi federal tyranny that has chosen to represent not “American exceptionalism” or the “city on a hill” but the worst of all possible worlds. That’s their choice, but let them not claim their willful blindness as moral superiority.

Blog admin 1389 received the following article from Stella Jatras.

Justice seems as far away now as it was then.

“Since Mitrovica is in the news, I’m sending this out again for those who might not have read it. – Stella”

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras4.html

Other Side of an Ugly Story

by Stella L. Jatras
Special to Antiwar.com
9/6/00

I have followed with great interest the events in Kosovo this past year and I was particularly intrigued by both accounts written by Officer Vincent duCellier that were published in the Washington Times. Officer duCellier, a former Maryland police officer, has selflessly volunteered his time and separation from his family to command the prison in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The first article appeared as a touching letter written to his wife titled, “Lessons of a lifetime,” dated as a 3 August editorial. The second article published in The Metropolitan Section of the Times is dated 21 August and titled, “‘We are the police’ in war-torn Kosovo, Maryland cop learns the value of America from volunteer mission,” and was almost identical to the first article, which aroused my curiosity as to why the Washington Times would give second coverage to identical reports in so short a time. This is in response to Officer duCellier’s observations as a police officer commanding the Mitrovica prison in Kosovo.

Officer duCellier alluded many times in both letters to the “hatred that is clearly evident between Serbians and Albanians.” However, what appears to have made the greatest impression on him, and perhaps exposes his pro-Albanian sentiments, was the tragic fate of a young 16-year old Albanian boy who was totally paralyzed on the right side as the result of a beating by the Serbian police a year earlier, which left him with only limited use of his left side. Officer duCellier writes, “He is Albanian. This was his crime, and so the Serbian police under [Slobodan] Milosevic broke his neck.” I certainly do not defend this act of cruelty, but Officer duCellier neglected to relate even one of the incidents where Serbs were the victims.

A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY

Unfortunately, there are many tragic stories such as the one told by Officer duCellier. As an example, the tragic death of the Bulgarian staffer working for the U.N. civilian mission in Kosovo who was shot and killed after his first day on the job. (AP, U.N. Official killed in Kosovo). The AP writes: “According to Inspector Gilles Moreau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, now serving with the UN in Pristina, a group of ethnic Albanian youths followed him and asked him what the time was. When Krumov replied in Serbian, the youths began to kick and punch him. A large crowed gathered, separating Krumov from his colleagues. “‘All of a sudden, a shot was heard, the crowd dispersed and the body of Mr. Krumov was on the ground, lifeless,’ said Inspector Moreau. Krumov had been shot in the head.”

And what was this young man’s crime, I would like to ask Officer duCellier? The Guardian of 13 October 1999 writes that “Mr. Krumov, a Bulgarian, was killed because he spoke a simple phrase in Serbian.” I repeat: “He spoke a simple phrase in Serbian.”

Another example of injustice was done to a Serbian man and his two sons who spent over a year in prison [was it in Officer duCellier's prison?] after having been accused of killing an ethnic Albanian. The Washington Times reported on 9 August that a “Serbian man, two sons acquitted, slaying case seen as test of Kosovo justice for minorities.” [LOL. "Kosovo justice for minorities?"]. An Associated Press article on 21 July writes, “the murder trial of a Serb man and his two sons, accused of killing an ethnic Albanian in a shootout in Kosovo, took a dramatic turn Friday when the trial judge said American troops confirmed they killed two people at the scene that day. Judge Patrice De Charette said the admission was contained in a 103-page report submitted by U.S. authorities Friday to the court trying Mirolub ‘Mirko’ Momcilovic, 60 and his sons Jugoslav, 32, and Boban, 25.” Is this what Officer duCellier considers to be justice by keeping innocent Serbian men in prison for over a year before being released?

Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi, the U.S. soldier who received a life sentence without parole for killing an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian girl while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, bragged to his fellow soldiers that he was going to pin this one on the Serbs. If the Sergeant had not taken along one of his buddies while in the process of dumping his young victim’s body in a field, innocent Serbs would be rotting in jail for the rest of their lives at this very moment and Sgt. Ronghi would be walking around scot free to perhaps rape and murder another young girl and blaming it on Serbs, and why not? After all, the name of the game is, “blame it on the Serbs!” when considering the Serbs have been accused of other atrocities for which they were not guilty.

Sgt. Ronghi was not dragged before the dock at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as is done to Serbs who, unknowingly have been secretly declared as war criminals and kidnaped under some of the most bizarre circumstances such as kicking down the door of a Kosovo Serbian medical center and yanking the patient from his hospital bed at 2:45 a.m. A military spokesman said that the man had been wounded by a British KFOR soldier during rioting in the Serbian enclave of Gracanica, just south of the provincial capital, after a grenade attack on a Serb market there. Father Sava of Decani Monastery, emphasized that he did not wish to address whether the patient should have been arrested or not but he condemned the manner in which this was done, calling it “unprecedented and unacceptable” and added, “We cannot tolerate this anymore! This kind of behavior on the part of British KFOR show us that the international forces are an occupying force, not peacekeeping forces acting in accordance with the UN Resolution.”

Another assault by ethnic Albanians on Serbs was reported by Associated Press on 5 December 1999 when an American Professor from Berkeley was murdered. AP reported, “NATO peacekeepers and U.N. police only realized later what had happened: A crowd of ethnic Albanians had pulled [Professor] Basic, his 51-year old wife and her 74-year-old mother from the car, flipped it over and set it on fire. The mob kicked, punched and pummeled them. Basic was shot. Firecrackers were jammed in the mouths of the terrified women. Basic died en route to the hospital. The two women suffered critical injuries and remain hospitalized in the Serbian city of Nis.” The Associated Press also reported that “His [Professor Basic] face looked as if it had been dragged across gravel. The medic who was present began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but couldn’t hear Basic’s breathing over the crowed’s shouting. He ripped open the man’s shirt. That’s when he saw the bullet’s entry wound.”

But why am I not surprised at the Gestapo method of apprehending those bearing the Scarlet Letter “S” for Serb? Didn’t this sort of Nazi-type thuggery happen in the wee hours of the morning when storm troopers broke into the home where young Elian Gonzales was being protected by his Cuban Miami family from being returned to “Papa Castro?” Were Bosnia and Kosovo merely rehearsals for what occurred on that early morning raid in Florida?

I would like to ask Officer duCellier, are the KLA/Albanian thugs who committed these atrocities in his prison, or in any other prison for that matter? When incidents of this sort occur, most ethnic Albanians are questioned and then released without spending any time behind bars, unlike Serbs who are detained in prisons even after they have been proven innocent. The question should then be raised, where was the outrage from Professor Basic’s congressman and senators over his violent death and the brutality displayed against his family? Did that act of Albanian barbarity not warrant some condemnation?

R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post Foreign Service reported on 12 June, 2000, “The killer stood ankle-deep in the mud of a stream bed on Sunday night two weeks ago and poked his AK-47 through a metal fence covered with camouflaging vegetation. He was close enough to get a clear view of 4-year-old Milos Petrovic and four Serbian men milling in front of the tiny grocery in this Kosovo village. Milos had come for an ice cream cone with his uncle, but his presence was no deterrent to the gunman who fired 21 shots at the group and then fled along the stream. Milos’ head was nearly gone, and two of the men also died quickly. U.S. troops flew the others by helicopter to a base camp for surgery.” The report continues:

“The dead were among the more than 500 people who have been slain in Kosovo since NATO peacekeeping troops and U.N. officials arrived here one year ago to begin reconstructing this war-ravaged, ethnically riven Serbian province. In the last five weeks alone, more than 55 other serious, ethnically motivated crimes have been committed against Kosovo’s minority Serbian population.” Very recently, two hand grenades were thrown at a group of people in the Serb area of Kosovo, wounding ten Serbian children ranging from the ages of five to 15. Are any of the Albanian terrorists who committed these atrocities languishing in Officer duCellier’s prison?

NATO TERRORISM RESULTS IN AMPUTATIONS FOR INNOCENT CIVILIANS

Acts of brutality by NATO’s use of stun guns against the Serbian population resulted in the amputation of limbs. As reported in the Associated Press of 16 March, 2000, “Seizing control of a key bridge in a first step to reunite this ethnically divided city, NATO peacekeepers clashed Wednesday with angry Serbs in a confrontation during which two people lost limbs to stun grenades.” It continues: “At least 15 Serbs and an undetermined number of peacekeepers and journalists were injured. Nine of the injured were hospitalized, said Dr. Radomir Jankovic, a chief surgeon at the Serb-controlled hospital. A mother of three and a diabetic man each had one foot amputated because of injuries suffered when stun grenades fired by French peacekeepers exploded near them, Jankovic said.” Have charges been brought against the French peacekeepers for inflicting such pain and suffering on their Serbian victims? Agence France Presse reported that “a 70-year-old Serbian woman was dragged out of her house after being savagely beaten by unidentified assailants, the UN’s refugee agency in Kosovo said on Friday. The agency seized on the attack as an example of the ‘horrific lack of community initiative’ demonstrated by the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian community in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren when it came to dealing with hate crimes. The woman was attacked in her Prizen home before her assailants dragged her outside and left her in the street.” AFP reported from Pristina on 27 August that “a Kosovo Serbian child was killed and three others seriously injured when a car hit them Sunday, UN police spokesman Richard Graham told AFB. A car leaving the scene was stopped by KFOR peacekeeping troops and two Kosovo Albanian men were arrested by UN police in relation to the incident,” and in another case, Fr. Sava reported that on the same day the Serbian child was killed, a 75-year-old Serb from Crkvena vodica was also killed by a machine gun fire from an unindentified car which immediately disappeared in direction of Albanian dominated Obilic.

As Patrick J. Buchanan says, “What is goin’ on here?”

Again, I would like to ask Officer duCellier, have any of these Albanian thugs been jailed and brought to justice? What was the Serbian child run down by a car, or the machine-gun death of the 75-year-old Serb guilty of other than being Serbs?

Jerry Seper of the Washington Times wrote on 4 May 1999, “KLA rebels train in terrorists camps, Bin Laden offers financing, too.” During the first two months of KFOR’s occupation, more churches were destroyed by America’s buddies, the KLA mafia, than under 500 years of the Ottoman Empire, and the destruction of Serbian holy sites continues while Congress remains silent unlike their passionate display of condemnation on the floor of the House of atrocities allegedly committed by Serbs. It seems our good Congressmen couldn’t get on the floor fast enough to denounce alleged Serb atrocities. While all traces of Serbian churches and monasteries are being eradicated, the United Arab Emirates’ defense minister has offered to build 50 mosques in Kosovo at his own expense. (Reuters, 20 August).

I cannot stress frequently enough and strongly enough that the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has somehow been magically morphed into the peaceful Kosovo Protection Force, was armed and trained in Osama bin Laden’s camps and are engaged in sex slavery, (“Sex slave trade thrives among Kosovo troops,” London Times, 5 February 2000), prostitution, (“Kosovo’s Flesh Trade, the San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 2000), kidnaping, murder and drugs (“Albanian drug dealers and trafficers are flourishing in post-war Kosovo,” by Imer Mushkola in Pristina, 23 May, 00). This is the nature of the KLA beast, and now that they have almost succeeded in ridding themselves of the Serbs, Roma, Jews and non-Albanians, they have already begun to kill their own. And after they have rid themselves of unwanted ethnic Albanians, who’s left to target? You guessed it – American GIs. Isn’t it comforting to know that our politicians and media have made a pact with these thugs on behalf of the American people? Christopher Lane and Benjamin Schwartz of the Washington Post say, “We were Suckers for the KLA,” but were we? I think not. We have known all along exactly what our agenda was – to rid the world of those pesky Serbs and to take over their assets.

In an incredible report, the Washington Times of August 22, World Section headlines, “Violence against minorities no longer stuns Kosovo.” It goes on to say, “Violence against minority groups is so common place it appears to be regarded as normal, often met with a resigned shrug of the shoulders from U.N. police officers and members of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (Kfor) peacekeeping.” The “civilized” community was more than willing to accept some retribution, some form of revenge by ethnic Albanians against the minorities who were left in Kosovo, as though two wrongs DO make a right, but the question should be asked over and over again, revenge for what? Retribution for what? And for how long? More and more reports are finally beginning to surface that there were no mass graves in Kosovo, nor was there a genocide and that rumors of atrocities committed by Serbs had been greatly exaggerated. The BBC World Service reported on 17 June, 2000 of the huge arms find in Kosovo and writes that K-For British-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have uncovered the largest store of illegal arms found since fighting ended in the province a year ago. Six tons of arms have so far been removed from the bunkers. “You’ve got enough here to start a small war,” said British Major Simon Marr. AP further substantiated ownership of the cache of weapons when it wrote, “NATO said Friday that a huge cache of weapons including mortars, mines and machine guns found last week belonged to the Kosovo liberation Army.” Are these arms violators serving time? Not in Officer duCellier’s prison, I would venture to guess.

Am I to assume that as a “volunteer,” Officer duCellier is not being financially rewarded other than having the satisfaction of helping to keep order in a prison in Kosovo? Is it compassion alone that he feels the need to extend his services in Kosovo until September of 2001? If so, he is certainly to be commended for his humanitarian desire to bring law and order to a lawless nation, one created by NATO and our politicians. Or is it possible that there is a $$$$ factor which enters the picture? Officer duCellier states that there are “36 International Police Officers on my staff and 65 detainees in the jail. The detainees are mostly Serbians [a little over half, he states] accused of various war crimes such as mass murder, [apparently, charges of killing just ONE ethnic Albanian is considered to be "mass murder," such as in the case of the Serbian father and sons], genocide and arson top the list. They each profess to be innocent. The Roma here face similar charges, while the Albanians are charged with minor theft, weapons possession and attempted murder.” “Minor theft? Weapons possession and attempted murder?” It appears that KLA/ethnic Albanians who commit atrocities such as raping a Serbian nun while Kosovar rebels looted her monastery after NATO troops refused a mother superior’s plea for protection, or “Grannies” who have been targeted for special horrors, such as decapitation, drowning in bathtubs, stabbing or raped, [their crime of being Serbs], are considered to be lesser crimes than those allegedly committed by Serbs accused of “mass murder,” [mass graves that have been proven to be non-existent?] Or “genocide,” yet the Wall Street Journal reported, “War in Kosovo was Cruel, Bitter, Savage; Genocide It Wasn’t,” (31 December 1999). Could it be that Serbs in Officer duCellier’s prison are accused of war crimes that do not exist?

Bob Djurdjevic’s Truth in Media (TiM) reported on 14 August that “Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo Albanian terrorist-in chief and (thus) Madeleine Albright’s good pal, attended a gala luncheon on Monday (Aug. 14) at the Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles. A TiM source who was also there said that when Albright and Bill Clinton showed up, “before they spoke, Thaci went up to Albright, had a brief talk, and then kissed twice on the cheeks.” It was during her last visit to Kosovo that Madeleine Albright was greeted with kisses from Thaci, after he had just executed six of his officers. It appears that Senator Lieberman shares views of Madam Albright, for it was he who said, “The United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles…Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.” (Washington Post, April 28, 1999).

By now, we have all heard the joke of how the war in the Balkans began. During a meeting of Madeleine Albright with the all-male NATO ministers, she asked the question, “Well gentleman, do we make love or do we make war?” Of course, the answer was unanimously for war.

And what a lovely war it is, Officer duCellier. Money and all.

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 became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. 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. She is the author of the “Open Letter to General Michael Short,” which antiwar.com carried on 11/3/99, “From Camp Swampy to Camp Bondsteel!” on 4/6/00, and “Srebrenica – Code Word to Silence Critics of US Policy in the Balkans” on 7/31/00.

by Stella L. Jatras

Senator John McCain is in a fight for his political career and it is extremely important that the Serbian people remember the incredible harm that Senator McCain inflicted on the Christian Serbs in Kosovo. It’s now Payback Time!

Let us review:

• In 2000, Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com) exposed Senator McCain’s extreme position in his commentary entitled, “McCain and the KLA Connection.” Raimondo writes, “Naturally, the American media, which made itself into the willing instrument of the War Party during the Kosovo conflict, is reluctant to uncover the fact of McCain’s connection to Albanian extremists.”
• In a 2008 report, Fred Quigley writes of McCain’s support of Izetbegovic’s harbouring bin Laden in Bosnia: “McCain and Biden have a clear record of supporting Nazis in the past 15 years and there is every indication that Obama with his links to Brzezinski would be very similar in approach.” McCain was involved up to his eyeballs as was Biden in the courting of Bin Laden.
• In the 2008 commentary published in Tucson Citizen of 1992, Major Richard Felman writes, “John McCain Snubs American WWII Vet saved by Draza Mihailovich and his Serbs, it took me almost seven years to get an appointment with him. While expressing sympathy for our effort, McCain told me he could do nothing. Instead of calling for the investigation I requested of our serious charges – withholding the truth from members of Congress and using taxpayer funds to disseminate communist propaganda are federal offenses – he told me the only way to get at the truth would be for me to write the 435 members of the house of Representatives and get a majority of them to support our effort. I thought the reason the people of Arizona elected politicians was to represent them in Washington.”
• In 2008, Joseph McMillan published his commentary in the Intellectual Conservative, asking, “Is there Anything McCain Could Do to Persuade Me to Support Him? Yes, One Thing: Kosovo!!!!” McMillan continues, “Kosovo’s recognition by the United States and other European allies like Britain, Germany and France has handed to Islam a victory it has been denied for the last millennium – an Islamic foothold in Europe. Anyone who has read my articles on John McCain will know that I have an intense dislike of the man. So what could he do to change my view of him, and get my support? He could reverse the Bush Administration’s recognition of Kosovo. Should he do that, I would certainly take another look at him, and even regard him as a man with some insight into what we are really facing from the Islamic threat.”

I have merely touched the tip of the iceberg regarding Senator McCain’s unexplained animosity towards the Serbian people. It is NOW or NEVER!!!!!

I strongly urge you to support J.D.Hayworth and rid the Serbian people of Senator John McCain once and for all! Here is your chance to say, “It’s payback time for McCain’s support of the Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists. You can contact J.D. Hayworth at info@jdforsenate.com or (602) 357-0000.

From the Perspective of a Lifelong Republican

By CzechRebel

Well, if you want to consider the 21st century to have begun January 1, 2000, it would be a tough choice between Clinton and Bush, as Clinton’s last thirteen months in office were pretty hideous. More traditionally, though, we have considered the year ’01 to be the actual beginning of each century. From that perspective, while Clinton’s last three weeks in office were no improvement over the rest of those eight years, the damage he managed to do in that time period was trivial by comparison.

But if any president in the next 92 years really wants to look worse than George W. Bush, he or she is going to have to work pretty hard at destroying the Republican Party; promoting the socialist agenda in the United States; aiding and abetting Islamic terrorism; planting “time bombs” in the economy that are set to go off after he or she leaves office; promoting tyranny against the American people; destroying our relationship with the one nation on the planet that has most in common with us and that has the strongest reasons to be our ally; and last, but certainly not least, supporting a criminal gang of Islamic terrorists in establishing a stronghold in the Balkans.

Destroying the Republican Party

In January of 2001, an historic event took place. Or so we thought. A supposedly conservative Republican became President with the backing of a conservative Republican Congress. What could have been better? Cut taxes, raise revenue, promote business growth, provide jobs, cut federal regulation, recognize States’ rights. But George W turned out to be no Ronald Reagan.

We got some temporary tax cuts, slow to take effect and all too quick to expire. Most notably, the draconian death tax, enacted right out of the Communist Manifesto, will spring back to life soon after Bush leaves office. And every Republican in Congress was told to be a “good Republican” and back the President’s plan rather than hold their ground and insist on something better – so such legislation passed.

George W let Ted Kennedy, one of the leading Senate Communists in all but name, write an education bill that firmly entrenched left-wing propaganda into our youth “re-education camps” – otherwise known as “public schools.” And every Republican in Congress was told to be a “good Republican” and back the President’s plan; so such legislation passed.

The list goes on and on. The end result is that Republicans looked more and more like socialists, and less and less like Conservatives, and – surprise! The party lost the Congressional majority that countless Conservatives had worked decades to achieve.

If George W does not get invited to speak at Democratic convention this summer, it will be a sign of the Democrats’ ungratefulness. After all, no one has done so much to bolster the Democratic Party since FDR!

Promoting a Socialist Agenda

You would think that allowing legislation that cuts taxes for a few years, only to bring them back with a vengeance, not to mention the “No Child Left to Grow Up Without Socialist Indoctrination” legislation, would be enough. But not for George W, he stood by passively and allowed a major frontal assault on freedom of political speech in the form of the McCain-Feingold Act. Yes, THAT McCain – he is an enemy of the freedoms that this blog seeks to protect. Under the new law, the leftist news media can say what they will, but all other will be under the gun of government-controlled censors. It’s ironic – and obviously no accident – that John McCain seems to be one of the three finalists to replace George W as America’s next dictator.

George W let pork-barrel spending run wild, and in doing so, he has betrayed the legacy of his party, and he has betrayed the principles of limited government embodied in the Constitution he swore to uphold. Thirty years ago, everyone knew that the Republicans were fiscally conservative and many leftists feared their rise to power would finally doom socialism in America. Would that it were so!

Twenty years ago, we had already seen some hypocrisy from a Republican-controlled Senate. Even so, Ronald Reagan’s veto pen had pretty much kept the GOP’s image intact, no matter who was in control of Congress. However, in this decade, little boy Bush did not even have the guts to veto his own Republican party’s pork-barrel spending. Now, there is no longer any major party in America that Eugene Debs would have hesitated to embrace. Thanks, George W!

Of course, if George W had ever bothered to read the Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation that preceded it, he would have known that the primary task of the federal government is, and has always been, to secure the homeland. No, like a true socialist, this Georgie Porgie el presidente created a new bureaucracy to do the job that he had already taken an oath to do. Now we have a Department of Homeland Security, multiplying layers of bureaucracy, providing another arena for turf battles, and putting even more roadblocks in the channels of communications. Just try getting rid of that outsized and pointless boondoggle. No matter how well, or indeed how poorly, the DHS does its job – that department will remain in power. So we have more bureaucrats, more spending, more taxes to support it and more socialism, thanks to the present US dictator.

Aiding and Abetting Islamic Terrorism

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists flew four kamikaze missions against US targets. George W was either too stupid to notice that fact that the terrorists were Mohammedans, or he simply wanted to aid and abet their cause. But then, his family is in the oil business. If he forgets for an instant which side his bread is buttered on, they’ll remind him.

So George W sidestepped the issue. He declared war on “terrorism” rather than on the terrorists themselves and their hate organization, which we allow to masquerade as a religion. Make no mistake about it, Islam and religion, as the rest of the world defines religion, have nothing in common. You don’t see Baptists hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. You don’t see Jains strapping on suicide belts and walking into places were they can kill innocent civilians. You don’t see Hindus killing people for having left their faith. You don’t see Buddhists blowing up trains in Spain. You don’t see Jews getting all bent out of whack because someone makes a political cartoon that includes Moses.

But you do see followers of Mohammad doing all these things, and other heinous things besides. And it happens often. George W. had a golden opportunity to expose Islam for the hate organization that it is now, and has been for 1400 years.

Yet, he praised Islam after 9-11. Instead of interning the enemy, as FDR had the courage to do during World War II, he invited one of them to pray with us right after the horrible event. It should surprise no one that the imam he invited, Hamza Yusuf, turned out to be no moderate at all, but a radical Wahhabist convert who played George W for all he’s worth. And then there’s George W’s other friend, Imam Hassan Qazwini, closely linked to various Islamist organizations in the US.

He even aided and abetted the relatives of Osama bin Laden in their efforts to leave the US, post 9-11. We must agree with our liberal friends on one thing they often say – though not for the reasons they claim. George W. is, in fact, a terrorist, because he aids and abets terrorists.

Economic Time Bombs

1389, the primary admin of this blog, has a degree in economics, and she would not allow the following data to be posted on this blog if she were not 100% certain that it is true. High taxes discourage economic activity. It’s the working poor, those of modest income, those who are in debt, and most of the middle class, who really suffer when taxes are high. When taxes are low, economic activity is stimulated and those at the bottom benefit the most from those opportunities. (Politicians like to talk about “soaking the rich” – but when was the last time a poor person hired anybody? And anyway, rich people will never pay that much in taxes, no matter what you do. They are comparatively few in number. Moreover, they are mostly smart people and that is why they are rich!)

Bush could have insisted that his tax cuts, especially the estate tax cuts, must remain permanent. He did not. After all, “we can always do that later.” Well, later came and no one has been in a tax cutting mood. Income taxes will increase. Estate taxes will revert to what they had been, back in the day when you could still get something for a dollar or so. Tax shelters and estate planning will prevent the rich from losing anything. Middle class families, especially small businesses and family farms, will suffer, as they always do when taxes go up.

Historians don’t always understand economics, so they may even make George W look as though he was a “good president” for the economy. But unless someone steps to the plate, which seems mighty unlikely, economic woes are soon to follow.

Anti-Semitism

We’re tired of hearing the widespread myth that “the Jews” control the media and American thought, and that, because of their influence, US policy is highly pro-Israel. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. The US is no ally of Israel, not by any stretch of the imagination. Israel had no problem caring for itself before America supposedly became its “ally”. Witness the way Israel defended itself in 1948, 1967 and 1973. American became its “ally” and convinced it to give back territory. (Note that Israel never asks the US to give Texas or California back to Mexico.) Anybody with normal powers of observation can figure out that, ever since the Carter Administration, it’s petrodollars that have been doing the talking.

Israel is a tiny strip of land surround by Islamic states. Only 7/24 vigilance and sheer determination to survive secures this Jewish homeland. The Arabs have many countries in which to live. Yet, a number of these Arabs have been camping out in Israel – mostly in the hopes of a better economic future than what was available in Muslim-controlled lands – and calling themselves “Palestinians.” Well, the Romans did start calling Judaea “Palestine” and anyone living there when it was called that – including Christians and Jews, had they thought in those terms – would have had every right to call themselves “Palestinians.” But that cannot make “Palestinian” an ethnic identity any more than living in New York City could create an ethnic identity of New Yorkers.

Yet, George W still insists on squandering tax dollars on financial aid to the Palestinian terrorists, who are our enemies. He even supports providing them a terrorist base so they have a safe haven from which to kill more Jews. Calling it a “homeland for the Palestinians” is like calling the area around Auschwitz a homeland for the caretakers of a concentration camp.

Make no mistake about it, support for a Palestinian “homeland” is vile anti-Semitism, and serves as proof that George W is every bit as anti-Semitic as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

Anti-Patriot Acts

It is clear to anyone who has at least half a brain, or who has any reading comprehension ability at all, that radical Islam has declared war on the US. Osama bin Laden’s fatwa against the US was in the news well before 9-11. And there was no question about what he meant – none at all. He meant to destroy us, and his followers still mean to do exactly that. And the only way to change their minds is to defeat them.

In World War II, after the Empire of Japan perpetrated an act of war on the US, Japanese-Americans who remained loyal to the Emperor of Japan, and other Japanese-Americans who wished to remain on the West Coast, were watched very carefully. Many were interned. Those who were decidedly in support of the Japanese war efforts were even held as foreign enemies. We won the war and very few of them bothered to complain. They knew what was at stake and they were willing to help the US war effort in that fashion.

FDR never even thought of stripping all Americans of their basic rights and their financial privacy. But George W has done exactly that. Much as I detest FDR, I have to say he was a better man than George W in this regard.

The Holy Land of Kosovo

George W promised to remove US troops from the Balkans, and to honor the treaty with the Serbian people that ended the 1999 Kosovo War (a/k/a the Kumanovo treaty or UN Security Council Resolution 1244). Did he keep his promise? No way! Camp Bondsteel is still alive and well. The Serbs should have known better than to trust the US to honor a treaty. Ask any American Indian. Once you disarm, withdraw, or abandon your struggle in any way, the tendency is for the US to keep whatever the other side gave, and to keep on doing whatever it had been doing. We had expected George W to be a man of character and to keep the agreement with the Serbs. But clearly, little boy Bush has no character.

According to the Kumanovo treaty that ended the 1999 Kosovo War, the Serbs had the right to move their forces back into Kosovo to protect their church property and to protect their people who had been abandoned when the KFOR peacekeeping troops took over that war-torn Serbian province. The Serbs were willing to fight to the finish, perhaps to the last living person, to keep Kosovo as part of their homeland.

When the Clinton Administration had so depleted the American conventional arsenal that the security of US interests elsewhere had been severely compromised, Clinton and company finally agreed to Slobodan Milosevic’s original terms of peace. For some reason, the same wonder weapons that allowed the US to devastate Saddam Hussein’s forces in the 1991 Gulf War were making little, if any, dent in Serbia’s commitment to keep Kosovo as part of Serbia. Yet, the dumb-dumb son of the earlier President Bush, who claimed to be a Christian himself, never could understand that Christian people of Serbia were very committed to keeping the most important part of Serbia as part of Serbia.

Well, yes, it may be hard for anyone who is not a Serb to understand the importance of Kosovo to the Serbian people. Kosovo is the place where the Serbian people pledged themselves and one another to serve the Lord. That is not a familiar concept these days! It may even be impossible for anyone who is not an Orthodox Christian to understand it fully. However, it would be liking telling any Christian—be he Roman Catholic, Protestant or anyone else who adheres to the traditional definition of the faith, as agreed upon in the Seven Councils—to preach the Gospel, but to leave out the part about God walking on Earth as a mortal man and the part about Jesus Christ rising from the dead. There simply would be nothing left.

Kosovo is Serbia. Those words are embedded in the heart of every Serb I have ever met, and trust me, I have met many of them. To a Serb, Serbia is Kosovo – just as, to a Serb or any other Christian, the Gospel message is our Lord coming to Earth as a mortal man and Jesus Christ having risen from the dead.

Yet, because of George W’s love for the pseudo-religion, or rather, the expansionist totalitarian ideology, of Islam, George W recognized the claim of radical Mohammedans that Kosovo should be torn away from Serbia and placed under the rule of a criminal gang of thugs who were nothing less than the local branch of al Qaeda.

The Friend of Terrorists

Clearly, George W. Bush prefers Islam over Christianity. He prefers helping al Qaeda to honoring his oath of office and his pledge to uphold the Constitution. He is obviously working on behalf of al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists, both in the Israel and in the Balkans. In siding with terrorists, he has become one himself.

So, we must agree with our liberal friends on this one point – though our reasons are, of course, very different. We at 1389 Blog consider George W. Bush to be every bit as much a terrorist as those nineteen quasi-human wastes of protoplasm who flew hijacked airliners into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

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• Category Link: Articles by CzechRebel on 1389 Blog
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• Category Link: Balkans for Dummies Series on 1389 Blog
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• Category Link: Articles about Orthodox Christianity
• Category Link: Articles about Serbia
• Never Knew that the Church was Orthodox
• What Happened in 1389?
• Kosovo News and Views Roundup 2/23/08
• Serbianna News (feed widget available; see 1389 Blog sidebar)
• AFP: Man Killed At US Embassy In Belgrade Was Serb Student
• AP: UN shoots at Kosovo Serbs
• AP: Serbia hunts down rioters
• AFP: Czech President Fears Post-Kosovo Separatist Snowball
• Israel Matzav: Kosovo: First they came for the Jews?
• Daily Record – George Galloway: We’re On The Brink Of A Balkan Bloodbath
• Chronicles – Serge Trifkovic: Kosovo as a Symbol of Anti-Postmodernism
• Chronicles – Serge Trifkovic: Kosovo: A New Day of Infamy for a New Century
• Political Mavens – Julia Gorin: The Serbian “Myth” of Greater Albania Strikes Again
• Doctor Bulldog and Ronin: Kosovo Recognition a Tricky Question
• Dhimmi Watch: Fjordman: Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo
• “NATO has become the aggressor”: The Case of Kosovo and Metohija, by Bishop Artemije
• Victory or Death: Kosovo
• Victory or Death: London Demonstration
• Victory or Death: Towards Renewal and Renaissance

Albert Einstein:

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Kosovo Establishes Islamic Heroin Republic With EU & US Blessing

Caliphate News Networx & Al BeBeeCeera report LIVE:

Young ethnic Albanians (Muslims) celebrate Kosovo’s coming independence in Pristina yesterday. Check out the keffiyeh on the right.

Atlas Shrugs has more

Too Late: EURABIA is happening right now!

Thanx to the despicable Willie Cl*tman, who bombed the Christan Serbs in order to curry favor with Arab-Muhammedans, the Balkan-Mujaheddin will now move towards the final solution For now, we run these articles again:

• Kosovo: Islamic Heroin Republic With America’s Blessing?
• Kosovo Mon Amour: Willie Cl*tman’s Shameful Legacy
• Ethnic Cleansing Threat To Serbs in Kosovo

Bin Laden Mosque in Kosovo:

• Jihad against the Jews
• Wahabis: Replacing last of Kosovo deported Jews
• “Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this.”
• Kosovo, Mon Amour P1

Why are the Serbs – whom apart from the Jews were the major victims of the Holocaust during World War 2 – being cast as the perpetrators of genocide while the real perpetrators of genocide – the Islamofascists loyal to Alija Izetbegovic – are being cast by the corporate media, the US, NATO and EU governments as “the victims”?

Why was Naser Oric – the Islamofascist commander of Srebrenica and perpetrator of a massive genocide against Serbian men, women and children in Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 – given only a 2 year sentence for this monumental crime against humanity and allowed to walk free from NATO’s Scheveningen ICTY prison: the former Nazi SS dungeon for patriotic Dutch resistance fighters against the Germans during World War 2 in The Hague, Holland?

Israpundit has more.

History of Jihad against the Serbs, Croats, and Albanians
[1389 to 1920]

Update:
The “morally superior” Lizard King will never know where it’s at

Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.

Kosovo Serb Migration before Ottomans, 18th c.

Illustrated P.I.G.: ‘Can’t see blood’ on LGF

Lost in Lala-land:

Charles Johnson:

‘I’m not sure whose side to root for in the ethnic Albanian, Kosovo-Serbia morass—there are killers on all sides—and today’s news from Kosovo leaves me with mixed feelings: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.’

May as well join the Koz Kidz, Charles, what’s the difference?

If the Lizard King doesn’t know which way to root that means the Lizard Army is rooted, no?

A Lizard comment:

‘They seem to be very pro-America.’

America enabled them. Just because they wave American flags means exactly nothing. Now just go there and wave some Muhammad cartoons, and watch them love you…

FoxNews Slide show

Another one:

‘Can’t be all that bad. Very few cultures that don’t have blood on their hands…. ‘

Right. that makes us all equal. Forrest Gump has spoken!

Killgore Trout, chief of the Lizard brain police, has the right spirit:

‘Can we start recommending deletion of comments denying Serbian war crimes?’

Here Charley, a link just for you:

Fleeing Serbs

Looting Muslim Female

Atlas Shrugs: Cl*tman bombed the wrong people

Bush is no better. But this was torture:

Dancing with terrorists. Not too bright…

Madeline Albright:
“It’s Wrong for US to use Terms Like Islamic Terrorists or Fundamentalists”….

(Thanx to Zip)

Sucking up to terrorists:

Photo above: Secretary Alb***h greets Hashim Thaci, UCK leader August 1999, after the war

Update (Dveri Srpske):
Serbs demonstrate in front of US Embassy in Belgrade yesterday

Julia Gorin:
Islamic Countries will be First to Recognize Independent Kosovo

Israel Matzav:
Why Israel’s supporters should care about Kosovo

Strong American support for the independence of Kosovo is detrimental to Israeli interests. The US position is based on the view that a solution to long-standing conflict can and should be imposed on the parties by outside powers. In addition, the new state’s creation seeks to award part of a nation’s territory to a violent ethno-religious minority; futilely hopes to curry favor with the Islamic world through appeasement; effectively gives a fresh impetus to the ongoing growth of Islamic influence in Europe; and denies the fact that the putative state’s leaders are tainted by terrorism, criminality, and well-documented links with global jihad. Most importantly, it betrays a cynically postmodern contempt for all claims based on the historical rights and spiritual significance of a land to a nation. (More…)

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More:

• Kosovo: The Bush Rush to an Islamic State in Europe
• United States and United Nations help steal Kosovo
• After the Holocaust, we Asked God: “How, Lord, oh HOW Could this have Happened? How could the World Let this Happen?
• Kosovo Gains Independence
• Pro-Albanian Blog: “Albania is Free!” (OOPS!)

From the video description:

WARNING: This video contains some strong language and graphic elements. It is intended for a mature audience.

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Each day, I see events unfolding around the globe that cause me concern. Yet most of the people I encounter seem to be oblivious, or at best, only peripherally aware of the grave threats facing our nation – and civilization as a whole.

Our enemies are counting on our short attention spans, our over-confidence and our stubborn complacency to keep the blinders on our eyes until it’s too late.

Each day, the future of freedom and democracy in Europe seems bleaker… and the United States is already taking steps down the same path.

It’s time to wake up.
We are at war!

American Alienation

Disclaimer:

1389 Blog has posted this video because it makes many vital points – especially about the failure of the US and other western nations to acknowledge, investigate, and respond to suspicious incidents.

That said, we vehemently disagree with George W’s handling of foreign policy – though not for the same reasons as the liberals disagree with it. We claim – and we have repeatedly provided the facts to back up this claim – that GWB has, all too often, appeased jihadists when he should have stood against them.

More:

• California Theft Ring Bust Yields Remote-Detonated Bombs
• More articles about incident tracking and reporting

Bush Administration defies Russia over Kosovo independence

…in order to help America’s jihadist ENEMIES, no less!

As we have discussed many times previously, this would mean violating international law to hand over part of Serbia to a jihadist/narcoterrorist drug gang that also happens to be the local branch of al Qaeda. Aid and comfort to the enemy, anyone?

And here are the immediate consequences:

Byzantine Sacred Art Blog:
Serious Warnings West Either Ignored or Played Down

Russia Ready to Use All Means Available

“In order to protect its own and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its allies, if the need arises, Russia will use its armed forces, along with the nuclear weapons,” said Chief of the General Staff or Russian Federation Armed Forces Yuri Baluyevsky on Saturday, according to RIA Novosti.

“We do not intend to attack anyone, but we consider it necessary for all our partners in the world community to clearly understand that to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia and its allies, military forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons,” Baluyevsky said at a military conference in a remark broadcast on state-run cable channel Vesti-24, according to the report also carried by the Associated Press.

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”
- Euripides

What does the GWB administration not understand about, “If we have to nuke you to keep you away from our allies, we will!”

The US military and the usual experts and pundits fail to realize just how much the Russian military has modernized in the past few years. They also forget that, unlike the US military, the Russian military has not overextended itself into commitments all over the world.

The upshot? GWB is bungling toward another Cuban Missile Crisis, but he would be foolish indeed to expect the same outcome this time around.

More:

• Julia Gorin reveals what is actually happening in Kosovo:
  U.S.-Driven Kosovo Policy: UN and NATO Command act as Terror’s Extension
• 1389 Blog articles about Kosovo