And just as you were despairing at the criminal folly of the M.O.D., over its abuse of our Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan - it gets worse!
This time it’s blithely talking about the possibility of the British Reserve Battalion having to go to Kosovo in support of the EU’s plans to launch a police and civilian mission to Serbia’s breakaway province later this month.
With this in mind it’s worth remembering that Russia has just issued a very strong warning to the of the United Nations General Secretary against approving the EU’s plans - full report here
Is there anything, that these, jobsworth’s, will not force upon what’s left of our forces????
And let’s not even get started on what a British General is doing supervising a gang of ‘reformed(?)’ Muslim terrorists in the first place!
British General helps shape security structure in Kosovo
6 Feb 08
M.O.D. source 
Major General Martin Rutledge
For the past nine months a British General has been supervising the Kosovo Protection Corps - the descendants of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who were once viewed as either terrorists or freedom fighters depending on the point of view. As Kosovo’s Final Status draws ever nearer, the General’s charge could hold the peace of the volatile region in the balance. Report by Danny Chapman.
A member of the KPC on a mine clearing exercise in Kosovo
[Picture: MOD]
The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), transformed into an unarmed civilian emergency organisation, called the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), in the wake of the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
Originally made up from Kosovo’s majority Albanian ethnic population, the KLA started life in the mid 1990’s as a paramilitary group seeking independence from Serbia. The 1999 conflict followed, ending with NATO intervention and a resulting peace settlement that left Kosovo under the United Nations’ protection and supervision.
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) still governs the province, and will do so until a short time after the expected supervised independence declaration (which is likely to be imminent). Thereafter an EU mission will take over as part of the UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisarri’s final status plan.
KPC Co-ordinator
Working for UNMIK, with a team of four British military personnel, as the KPC Co-ordinator, is Major General Martin Rutledge. The post was set up in 2002 to ostensibly run a quasi ‘Ministry of Defence’:
In its current guise the KPC undertakes civil contingency tasks such as second-line fire fighting and rescue response. Under the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo’s independence, it is proposed that the KPC is stood down and a new security structure is formed, known as the Kosovo Security Force. This will be made up from about half the current KPC membership, and initially have a very similar role.
“The overall situation in Kosovo is always unpredictable. It must be prudent for NATO and UNMIK to work on the assumption that the Reserve Force may well deploy as there is certainly plenty of potential that the security situation could deteriorate.”
British Reserve Battalion
The possible security ramifications that independence may bring could lead to the British Reserve Battalion which is on standy as part of the UK commitment to the NATO pan-Balkans Operational Reserve Force, deploying to Kosovo:
KPC’s role in independence
But the reaction of the KPC to any trouble that may flare up could be one of the central factors in the next phase of Kosovo’s future, as General Rutledge explains:
It is partly for these reasons that NATO and in particular the UK, by providing the post of KPC co-ordinator, have invested so much time and effort to maintain the KPC’s confidence, continued good behaviour and commitment to the final status proposals. More optimistically, General Rutledge adds:
Kosovo’s economy
But the political issues with Serbia are, according to General Rutledge, in some respects a superficial problem. The key underlying issue, which could subsequently push the security situation over the edge, is the dire state of the economy, which includes very high levels of unemployment, regular shortages of electricity, water, heating and rising food prices:
Against this economic background the Ahtisaari plan for the KPC to be disolved is a big concern to its ordinary soldiers, or “members”. Unemployment for some of the youngest age groups in Kosovo is up to 70 per cent and the average wage is only about 200 euros a month anyway:
“There are plenty of people in the KPC who have seen the impact of inter-ethnic conflict and have no wish to go back to it … They aspire to be members of a new force that is professional, democratic and open to all elements of Kosovo society.”
For the KPC’s leadership though, the carrot of a potential wider security role for a professionalised force, the KSF, is an attractive proposition:
Humanitarian Roles
In order to help with their development, and keep them busy, the KPC has undertaken a number of humanitarian projects within the umbrella of security sector reform, overseen by General Rutledge and funded by the UK.
These include rebuilding Serb housing, abandoned in 1999 but now being repopulated by minority groups, delivering medical aid to isolated minority communities and providing the only mine clearing capability in the country.
The KPC are also Kosovo’s second response fire fighting capacity, filling in for the local fire fighters, when they can’t cope. The KPC helped contain severe forest fires last year which was an important boost to their confidence and their reputation both locally and with the international community.
The KPC currently acts as a second-line fire fighting and rescue response force in Kosovo
[Picture: MOD]
The Future
The Ahtisaari proposals see the KPC (and in time the KSF) continuing more or less as they are until some time in the future when they may have the opportunity to take on broader security roles, not appropriate for the police or other agencies. Safeguarding Kosovo’s military security, meanwhile and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be undertaken by NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR). But this is something that the KPC it seems are reasonably content with:
General Rutledge is handing over to Major General Caplin in March 2008. It is likely that the functions of his office will endure for some time:
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How the hell does Europe even dare to do this! This is like that muslims wanted to do their own country in England or in any country in the world! It can’t be done! Kosovo is Serbian!
Best regards from Slovenia!Keep up the good work guys! Cheers!
Is there a plan to keep all our armed forces well away from this country so as to make the eventual Muslim take-over that much easier?
I am glad the Russians are flexing their very considerable muscles on the Kosovo issue and I know which side I will be for (and possibly on) when the fighting starts. The muslim loving EU and US have totally lost their way in the world. What has this world come to even, when I feel more Russian than British? I almost feel like fleeing to Russia over this Kosovo issue! That could never happen could it? Never ever say never!
Sounds like the EU plans to take over the world, starting by helping the Muslims to steal part of Serbia!
Every state set up by politicians in the past and present has ended in blood shed. Israel and Iraq past examples and now Kosovo. EU non elected officials are now trying to part it from Serbia. Do these morons never learn. All countries in these ludicrous experiments need foreign soldiers to keep the factions apart. all at out expense and for evermore.
I completely agree with iiwn on this
Haha I’m laughing because of how truly frightening this situation is becoming. It makes sense in a way that Muslims could declare a Jihad but I don’t think the government are behind this-they are just scared little idiots who don’t want to say ANYTHING against the Muslims because that’s where they get all their precious little votes from now.
As for sending more troops to foreign places, it just goes to show that this Government have not GOT A CLUE! They can’t control immigration, our economy is on the verge of collapse, we are in a war we never needed to be in and the only people who care about the country are labelled nazis or racists.
What people need to realise is that this party will improve Britain as a whole, their policies say it all. Those who call them (or us) Nazi scum and fascists do so because of fear and ignorance. Sure enough there probably are nazi sympathisers or supporters in the BNP and I personally think they should be kicked out. That said, I know for one I absolutely hate Nazism and what it represents. I do however love this country and its history. Thats why I am voting BNP.
A little off the point I know but this is the only place where I can talk truly about my feelings.
It was disgusting that this country had part in helping muslims steal part of another country,What happens when they want independence in bradford or birmingham,no doubt brown and his labour cronnies and voters will say yes ok have it we dont want it.
Why are the armed forces not telling brown to go spin,its about time they told him they are taking over this country until a government can be found that is not all treasonous.
Surely their is someone high up in the forces that has this country at heart and can see what is happening that could get together enough other officers to take over ,I believe the soldiers ,sailors and airmen in their charge would follow without hesitation,Surley they are not all corrupt yet.
POLITICIANS OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU ARE GOING TO BE KICKED OUT AT THE NEXT ELECTION.YOU ALL HAVE FAILED THIS COUNTRY IN EVERY WAY.WE THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION SHALL ENDURE.
My son served in our forces in Kosovo a few years ago, he was asked by a young Serb whose village he was protecting against Albanian attack, why we were attacking the Serbs who were only trying to defend Serbia against the Albanian islamic invasion of their land. It had been going oon for years and leapt forward after our intervention in Bosnia. The Serbs were being pushed out or ethnically cleansed by Albanian terrorists. Surely the Serbs are entitled to defend their country, or perhaps like us , NO, as long as the invaders are Muslim, just roll over, INSH ALLAH, it is the will of god! NO WAY, My forebears , myself and my son fought for this land and its way of life , Not to just rollover for a bunch of primitive mediaeval thugs!
Are our soldiers being deliberatley sent away to die, kept away from Britain while the liblabcomeu/islam axis commits its foul treason?
What the hell is going on here!
ILOVEENGLAND: Earlier tonight I have posted exactly your sentiments under the article titled “Troops dangerously overstretched”. So that’s two of us
who now realise what must be done
if Britain is to be saved from certain death at the eleventh hour.
There must surely be many other
members (and visitors) who think the same as we do. If all you like minded thinkers out there believe, as we do, that even with so little time left, our armed services can still mount a decisive defence of
their country against its the
traitors and invaders bent on its
destruction, don’t just think it - POST IT!
What was good for Slobodon Milosevic at den haag should be the same for Tony Blair and Bush. But of course it’s Winners justice. Milosevic was only trying to save his country from the Muslims.And where are all those Albanians that the west love so much. Running UK brothels and importing underage girls to fill them with. I expect Labour love this as most are perverts got to keep them happy.
Click on this link for a must see little interview about the delights that an independent muslim albanian Kosovo has to offer the world…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAz6PW_h2k&feature=related
It’s hard, to say the least, to see how major trouble may be avoided in this situation, which is about to reach crisis point.
Imagine ethnic Moslems took over Kent or Worcestershire, or Wales or Scotland or Ireland. Imagine they drove out the native population and burned or desecrated the churches. Picture, if you can bear to, foreign troops from countries that are supposedly your friends, occupying your land and basing themselves at say, Glastonbury or Canterbury - for the purpose of reinforcing the ethnic cleansing and cultural replacement that has taken place.
That’s how it must feel to a Serbian. Kosovo is to Serbia, what Avalon is to Britain: a semi-mythical land which they consider to be the ‘cradle’ of their civilisation, but a real land nonetheless.
How would you react, when Wales or Scotland were officially separated and declared ‘independent’, in the hands of people you consider foreigners, who follow an alien religion and culture? I suggest you would be on the defensive, to put it mildly.
It’s not a mystery why Russian bombers have been buzzing our airspace and flying over U.S. aircraft carriers. They are trying to tell us something: ‘Hands off’. Whatever you may think about Russia, on this issue, who can blame them? We’re surrounding them with missile bases and expanding NATO left, right and centre, we actively encourage and support the creation of a new Moslem state in Europe, then we wonder why they get upset!
Kosovo today, Britain tomorrow. As people have said above, there won’t be any troops left to deal with similar problems here at home - because they’re all too busy elsewhere, fighting other people’s wars. Nice plan. Fortunately, I retain 100% confidence in the perception and intelligence of those in charge of the British Army, and they will only allow their strings to be pulled for so long.
The European Union may be partly responsible for terrible events which will soon be upon us, and most of the population won’t have a clue what it’s about.
These are exactly the things that happen, when you tread all over people’s independence and cultural identity, and their land. That’s why people become nationalists. It’s why we don’t want to be part of the European Union.
This is, for sure, off the subject, but could be good for the people to read. FROM ADNKRONOS.COM:
Kosovo: Serbia probes human organ sales Belgrade, 27 March(AKI)
Serbia is investigating reports that Kosovar Albanians [Muslims (ed.)] have been selling human organs of kidnapped Serbs [Christians (ed.)] to western countries, including Italy, since the 1998-99 Kosovo-Serbia conflict. The Belgrade Daily Press said on Thursday that a protected witness, known as K-144, had made the allegations to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte.According to the International Red Cross up to 3,000 Serbs have been reported missing or killed since 1999 and 200,000 fled the province. The paper said the Serbs kidnapped by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), were transported to northern Albania where their internal organs were allegedly removed and then sold in Italy and western countries.
The KLA was a paramilitary guerrilla organisation that sought independence for Kosovo from the now defunct Yugoslavia and later Serbia in the late 1990s. Serbian prosecutor for war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, confirmed that his office was investigating the reports. “We are verifying the reports that in 1999 two trucks of kidnapped Serbs were transported to Albania,” Vukcevic said. “We received these reports from the ICTY.” Del Ponte, who recently left the post of chief prosecutor, is to release a book entitled “The Hunt” in Italy in April 2008. She reportedly admitted that ICTY investigators came across information that kidnapped Serbs had been transported to Albania and their organs were sold in the west. Del Ponte is said to have frequently complained that UN officials in Kosovo were uncooperative in investigating crimes against Serbs. The media quoted K-144 saying that at least 100 Serbs whose organs had been taken out for transplantation have been buried in the northern Albanian town of Burrel. The papers said at least 400 kidneys and other organs were removed for sale in the west and the victims were left to die. Semsi Sulja, a spokesman for the Kosovo Protection Corps, a civilian emergency service group composed mainly from former KLA fighters, said there was no truth to the claims. “Anyone can write what they want, but there is no truth in it,” he said. Ahmet Isufi, a spokesman for the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AFK), said Del Ponte’s claims were “absurd”. “These are political accusations which could be seen by anyone, not just by politicians,” he said.
AFK leader Ramush Haradinaj is currently standing trial before the ICTY for crimes against Serb civilians. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February with the support of western powers, but Belgrade is fighting a diplomatic battle to retain the province.