More detail in due course.

The UK: Recently in the UK there have been warnings about the dangers of private planes being used as weapons by Islamic terrorists!

What does the University of Salford do?  Why, it supports a scheme to teach Muslim students to fly small aircraft!

Barking! Absolutely barking mad! And this scheme is sponsored by a supposed seat of learning - a University - in conjunction with a group that goes by the name of ‘Heartstone’, a UK-based non-profit organisation which builds understanding across different nationalities. Also involved are the Students’ Union and the Islamic Society and Federation of Students of Islamic Societies.

Not content with this stupidity, the organisers dare to use the “9/11″ and “7/7″ tragedies as the raison d’être for the whole affair is that these Islamic outrages have deterred the spirits of many young people, especially Muslims.

Honestly, you can’t make it up!

Read the full story below:

Students taught to fly

Neal Keeling 30/ 6/2008

STUDENTS are being encouraged to learn how to fly planes in a project by the University of Salford.

Eighty students from the University - mostly from Muslim, black and minority ethnic backgrounds - have flown a glider or trainer aircraft as part of the scheme.

The project - titled Festival of Flight - is opening doors and opportunities for students who have felt excluded from the world of flight due to their race and also aims to ground stereotype views of young people from black and ethnic backgrounds.

One student who took part is Rozaidah Abd Rahman, who co-piloted a two-seater plane in Scotland.

She said: “Flying was definitely an experience that I would not trade for anything in the world. It was just an amazing feeling when I was up in the sky. You get a different kind of excitement and a sense of freedom to go where ever you want to go.

“I really had the time of my life. When I landed I could not stop smiling and saying the word ‘awesome’. I personally recommend everyone to experience flying at least once in their life.

“Great moments are born from great opportunities. Festival of Flight will continue to give more opportunities like this to aspiring Muslim youth who have the passion, not just to fly but also to achieve their dreams in any other walk of life.

“The 9/11 and 7/7 tragedies have deterred the spirits of many young people, especially Muslims. This festival uses the theme of flight to open up their eyes, create a forum through which different people can who would otherwise not come together can meet and exchange ideas and experiences.”

Photo-exhibition

The project will go public a photo-exhibition which will be opened by Salford MP and Communities Minister Hazel Blears this Friday.

The exhibition is part of a festival of flight at the university which will also be attended by aircrew from the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force, light aircraft pilots and balloonists.

It has been organised by Heartstone, a UK-based non-profit organisation which builds understanding across different nationalities, Salford University Students’ Union and the Islamic Society and Federation of Students of Islamic Societies.

Heartstone photographer was given access to fly with frontline squadrons in the RAF and USAF capturing images taken flying across the Alps and even through a rainbow.

The Royal Norwegian Air Force also took part.

The festival will have four main themes: the exceptional skills of those who work within aviation; the construction of aircraft; the origins of flight; and aviation pioneers who fought prejudice.

The Festival of Flight photo documentary was launched in 2004 by Heartstone with the assistance of Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup via funding from BAE Systems and Rolls Royce.

It is being presented in the north west in partnership with Salford University.

Story source: Manchester Evening News

The West-East conflict in a microscope: Kosovo & population imbalance

Ioannis Michaletos 04 May 2008

The new situation arising from the unilateral Kosovo declaration of independence shapes a new reality that will have multitude and mostly negative consequences for countless nations across the globe. It is important also to illuminate around the existence of the Kosovo issue as a demographic one, shaped by the expansion of one group of people (Albanian Muslims) versus the other one (Serbian Christians). Moreover the existence of facts on the ground as resulting from the population growth of the former, signify a real precedent for other regions in the world.

In 1913 when Kosovo & Metojia became a part of the Serbian state the population of Christians exceeded 50% , whilst the Albanians counted around 350,000 souls, approximately 40%, the rest being occupied by Roma, Bosniaks, Turks and people of mixed origin. A generation later in 1948, after WW2 that resulted in the killings of 20,000 Serbs and the expulsion of some other 150,000 by the Nazi Albanian collaborators, the balance tilted in favor of the Albanians. In addition, the Tito administration willingly opened up the border up to 1949 and accepted 150,000 illegal immigrants in order to deliberately change the population makeup of the province as a counter-measure against the Serbs. Tito’s motto was “For a strong Yugoslavia we need a weak Serbia”.
Thus, in 1961 the Albanians numbered 650,000 people, and the analogy was 65% Albanians, 28% Serbians. From that period onwards a dramatic –And basically unexplained- population expansion derived from the Albanian community. In the mid-60’s the Albanian population had a 6.5 children per woman ratio, whilst the Serbians around 2.5. Although the second number is enough to replace the previous generation, it was much less and that resulted in a virtual takeover of the land by the Albanians. In 1981 just after Tito’s death and the start of the first rebellions in Pristina, the Albanians numbered 1.2 million, a 100% increase in less than 20 years. The pressure exercised by them against the Serbian farmers that took the form of homicides, arsons, rapes and vandalism obliged to an exodus a considerable part of the Christian populous.
Nowadays the Albanian population is estimated at around 1.8 million people, and one has to consider that a part of the population immigrated to Western Europe and Northern America during the past 15 years. In short the demographic imbalances altered the established order and of course the international intervention took advantage of this fact by initiating a round of land takeover from the Serbian state. The message that a neutral observer can get is the following: Population imbalances endanger national sovereignty therefore measures have to be taken to ensure that the Kosovo precedent does not apply to them.
In simple terms no prudent government would let its minority citizens reproduce to a pace that will ultimately lead them to declare themselves independent, or even worse form a state that will constitute a real threat against them. The intervention in Kosovo instead of making a positive contribution to the world stage will certainly raise the above issue and result to future minority massacres, forced abortions and ethnic cleansing of a grand scale. For the policy-makers who conduct their profession based on a pragmatic approache of every day life it is a notion perfectly understandable. Unfortunately modern day diplomacy seems to be hijacked to an extent, by radical elements that lead each and every nation towards a new age of barbarity.
In Kosovo the 1,500 Churches, Monasteries and pilgrimages constitute one of the “Holy places” of Eastern Orthodox Christendom on par with Mount Athos, Meteora, Constantinople (Hagia Sophia), Alexandria, Jerusalem, Ohrid and Mystras and other important regions. A 350 million strong Eastern Orthodox population is being subject to a humiliation of historical proportions, similar to that of the Ottoman conquest with two major differences: The Turks were far more tolerant and respectful towards the Christians than the modern-day Albanians and secondly the role of the West has been a total disappointment, to say the least.

The rest 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, Protestants and the Jewish communities are also negatively affected judging by the demise of their numbers in the world stage and the re-emergence of two cultural and social giants; the Arabic-Muslim one and the Confucian-Chinese one. Of course there are quite a few analysts that do not conform to the notion that the world was, is and will be divided in ethnic-cultural zones on which religion often plays a decisive role. It seems the everyday news and special broadcasts from the Middle East, Africa or East London- (-istan) haven’t still grasped their attention. Human history is a spiral never-ending procedure. On that basis everything is possible and nothing can be excluded at the end of the day.
Since 13/06/1999, 350,000 Serbians, Roma, Gorani and other were forced to flee from Kosovo. It was a flight of survival, considering the 1,500 homicides against Serbs in the coming months, up to early 2000. Around 80 UNESCO “protected” Christian monuments were blown up by the Albanians in front of the eyes of 40,000 KFOR personnel. It has to be stressed once more that even during the days of the Ottoman Empire and the numerous battles in the eparchy, nowhere close did the destruction of shrines came that close. This constitutes another issue having to do with the psycho-synthesis of the nationality that committed these acts and has a specific modus opperandi from the medieval ages and onwards. Another 1,300 Serbs were killed up to 2003, 80,000 houses and estates were grabbed by the Albanians along with 20,000 automobiles and 15,000 shops, barns and commercial property. Some other 30,000 houses were burned to the ground in well-organized arson a campaigns another method regularly exercised by Kosovo-Albanians over the 20th century. It is also interesting to point out the situation in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Until 1999, Serbians constituted some 20% of the population. Nowadays there is a mere 0.1% having being entirely wiped out. The declaration of Kosovo’s independence as a multicultural state-Without minorities- is one of the worst public relation campaigns that someone would advise the Albanian leaders in Kosovo. Certainly it is something that only certain State Dept. officials could explain.
In 2004 the last phase of the most recent genocide in a European soil (By Muslims against Christians) took place. In a space of 2 days, 27 Churches were burned to the ground, 7 Serbian villages, 40 people dead, 1,000 wounded and 4,000 refugees on their way to Serbia. The 17th of March 2004 constitutes a stigma for the United Nations and marks the imposition of the will of the fanatics that control Kosovo.
A state that is much interested in the Kosovo precedent and history is Israel. Up to 1987, Tel-Aviv controlled the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, having being victorious in five consecutive wars against its Arab neighbors. The start of the first Indifada, the population explosion of the Muslim Arabs, the dramatic appearance of international Jihad, and the relative decline of the Western (European) support to Israel poses a strategic-survival dilemma to the Israeli policy makers:
Should they try to push towards a conciliation approach towards the Palestinians and decide for a low key strategy against them; or to oppose all calls for bargain and form a strategy of a total war. That was the same dilemma the Serbians reached in the early ‘90’s. The firstly used the tactic number one and it failed. The second option was barely begun to be implemented in late 1998 and would have yielded total success bar the NATO air campaign in 1999. Note however the Kosovo is a province of the Serbian state therefore in contrast with the Israelis the Serbians are not in fear of “Being driven to the sea”. One certain conclusion is that countries such as Israel will invest considerable intellectual capacity in making concrete analysis based on Kosovo’s recent history.

The present day situation in Kosovo will lead ultimately to a division between the Serbian-controlled North and the rest of the province. That means that the multiethnic concept is dead and a new Christian-Muslim division line will be established. The only hope for the region is the assistance of the EU in creating the necessary conditions for an overall security framework for the Western Balkans. It is a gigantic task that has to face the USA-Russian antagonism, the internal EU differences, moves towards a “Great Albania”, the widespread poverty & corruption, and the presence of active Islamic groups. If there was a bet most would choose the option for another conflict in these lands. The Kosovo issue will soon become another frozen conflict that will erupt from time to time in accordance to the local geopolitical balances, the demographic shifts and the various economic interests. What will remain though is that Kosovo marks the first definite victory of the European Islam since the occupation of the island of Crete by the Ottomans in 1669. The difference was that then all the major European powers fought in unity.

NOTE: The role of religion is often omitted by many analyses on the issues of regional conflicts. By itself any religion cannot ignite a war, but one has to take into account that any religion is simply the outer appearance of a whole system of beliefs, norms and mentalities of particular groups of people that have been molded by historical events and have constructed collective archetypes and cultural icons. The mistakes made by Western policy makers will come to haunt sooner than latter, even if they aren’t aware of the stakes involved in the first place.

Sources:

1) Link to images depicting destroyed Churches in Kosovo:

http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=2
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=3
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=4
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=5
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=10
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=11
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=12
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=13
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=25
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=29
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=30
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=33
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=67
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=78
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=80
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=81
http://www.interfax-religion.com/kosovo/?id=82
2) RADIO FREE EUROPE Research, RAD Background Report/186
(Yugoslavia), 4 August 1983
EMIGRATION AND DEMOGRAPHY IN KOSOVO, By Steve Reiquam:http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/118-2-80.shtml

3) Counter Punch Magazine, March 4, 2008.
Kosovo and the Press, By MIKE AVERKO: http://www.counterpunch.org/averko03042008.html
4) The Hamilton Spectator, February 25, 2008
Kosovo — A dangerous precedent, By Michael Biljetina: http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/329935
5) Arutz Sheva -Israel National News.com-, February 25 2008
Kosovo and Us, By Atty. Elyakim Haetzni: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7790

6) University of California, Berkeley-Departments of Anthropology and Demography-
Anthropology Today 9 (1): 4-9, Feb 1993 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Demography and the Origins of the Yugoslav Civil War, By E. A. Hammel: http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gene/migr.html

7) Videos of cultural genocide in Kosovo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfGKT394gEI

youtube.com/watch?v=dfGKT394gEI&feature=PlayList&p=9CB60FFFC8874BCF&index=3

8) Excerpts from “Albanian Nazi troops in WW2 Launched a Wide Spread Terror Against Kosovo Serbs”
By Carl Kosta Savich: http://www.michaelsavage.com/kosovo-genocide.html

Supplement: Demographic indicators for Kosovo
I) EMIGRATION AND DEMOGRAPHY IN KOSOVO, By Steve Reiquam
http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/118-2-80.shtml
“498,000 (68.5%) in 1948; 647,000
(67.2%) in 1961;
916,000 (73.7%) in 1971;
and 1,227,000 (77.5%) in 1981. (Albanian population)

The Serbian population of Kosovo, in contrast, increased in only
absolute terms (171,000, 189,000, 227,000, and 228,000 in 1948, 1953,
1961, and 1971, respectively), while initially stagnating and then
declining in relative terms (23.6%, 23.5%, 23.6%, and 18.4%).
By 1981,
however, there were 209,792 Serbs in Kosovo, comprising only 13.2%
of the total population. Therefore, between 1971 and 1981, the number

of Serbs in Kosovo decreased by 18,472 in absolute terms.”
“The Montenegrin population of Kosovo increased during the first
three censuses after World War II (28,000, 31,000, and 37,000 in 1948,
1951, and 1961, respectively), while in 1971 and 1981 their total
population dropped first to 31,500 in 1971 and then to 26,000 in 1981.
In 1981 the Montenegrins accounted for only 1.7% of the total Kosovo
population.
The pressure exerted on Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanians, including “many
cases of physical attack, attempted rape, damage to crops, [and
the] desecration of Serbian monuments and gravestones,” has
created a tense atmosphere conducive to Slav emigration from the
area.”

II) http://www.vor.ru/Kosovo/history_eng.html

“Kosovo was annexed to Serbia after the Balkan war of 1912-1913 when the number of Serbs and Albanians was nearly equal. Albanians began to arrive in Kosovo in great numbers during the Second World War after the province was occupied by the Nazis. Thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins were forced to leave Kosovo while Albanians came to settle there from Albania.”

III) http://www.eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/20/1132.html

“Before WWII, there were approximately an equal number of Serbs and Albanians living in Kosovo”

IV) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/kosovo.htm

“By the time the Serbs reclaimed Kosovo in the Balkans Wars of 1912 to 1913, ethnic Albanians made up a significant portion of the population. They became a majority by the 1950s as their birth rate boomed and Serbs continued to migrate north”

Courtesy of a contact in America we are able to shed a little more light on the actions of certain Western governments over the Serbian province of Kosovo. It is in the form of a Memo sent (some time ago) to Gerhard Schroeder, then German Chancellor, by Bundestag member, Willy Wimmer.

The memo, along with an introduction are set out below. Once you have read the details you will be able to understand, in greater depth than ever before, just why events in Kosovo/Serbia matters so much, to all of us!

Introduction and analysis of the Memo are by,

Julia Gorin

In a recent article titled “Is Kosovo the End of Europe” Ash Narain Roy, of New Delhi’s Institute of Social Sciences, warned that “Kosovo’s independence has dealt a blow to the nation-state”.

Mr. Roy marvelled, as all Balkan watchers do, at the collective shrug that met “such a vital issue as the sovereignty of countries with minority populations, and the challenges to a basic principle of international law…Kosovo has created a new precedent and twisted international law that separatists all over the world would use to further their interests…Spain’s Basque and Catalan separatists have also welcomed Kosovo’s independence with a banner like, ‘Today Kosovo. Tomorrow Catalonia’.  Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia have also intensified their autonomy demands, an obvious road to independence…

“Kosovo is a dress-rehearsal for redrawing boundaries in Eurasia and the Middle East.  It is a new balkanisation, part of American and German geo-strategic plan, to tame Russia.  The goal is to drive a wedge in the Balkans to advance a spurious form of European integration.

A clear pattern is discernible. Since the former Yugoslavia was a thorn in the American-German flesh, it has been systematically targeted: 

• The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was a well-devised plan.
  
• It was no coincidence that Bosnia-Herzegovina was divided along ethnic and religious lines — Serb, Croat, Bosniak, Christians and Muslims.
  
• To these ethnic-religious divides have been added further sectarian divisions within Christianity — Eastern Orthodoxy versus Roman Catholicism.

“…Efforts are now on to establish a Greater Albania which will bring together what are now Albania and Kosovo as well as adjacent parts of Serbia and Montenegro, Western Macedonia and the north-western regions of Greece.”

Mr. Roy doesn’t know just how right he is.  Recently, a staggering memo from the year 2000 sent to Germany’s then chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, by Bundestag member Willy Wimmer — resurfaced, illuminating the West’s endgame in Europe for anyone “still trying to get at the bottom of the recent US-led unilateral declaration of Kosovo’s ‘independence’ completely outside of the UN framework, and America’s willingness to destabilize not just relations with Russia but the entire international order,” as Belgrade-based commentator Aleksandar Pavic put it in his March 12th article recalling the old correspondence:

How NATO Broke International Law in Drive to Match Rome’s “Greatest Territorial Expansion”

[A] strikingly frank letter to then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, of May 2, 2000, in the form of a report from a State Department/American Enterprise Institute-sponsored conference in Bratislava, Slovakia succinctly lays out the causes of NATO’s 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, the purposes behind NATO’s further enlargement toward the borders of Russia, and, most importantly from the aspect of global security, the US aim of undermining the international legal order…

The conference itself was held at a very high level, with several prime ministers, foreign ministers and defense ministers from Central European countries in attendance, along with high-level State Department, OSCE and NATO officials, and representatives of high profile international NGO’s and think tanks…including Richard Perle and Daniel Fried, current U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.

…Looking back at the events that have taken place since, and especially having in mind the…lightning-quick recognition of the new “state” [of Kosovo] on the part of the US and its closest, mostly Western allies, Willy Wimmer’s letter is not just a prophecy, but a roadmap…If there were any doubts as to the aggressive nature of the US-led policy regarding Kosovo (and Europe as a whole), the following letter will almost certainly dispel them. The same applies to all doubts as to whether [this]…represents not just a grievous but a deliberate violation of international law and the wrecking of the post-World War II European and global order.

The Memo!!!

Herr Gerhard Schröder
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Berlin, May 2, 2000

Highly esteemed Mr. Chancellor,

At the end of last week I had the opportunity to attend a conference in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava, jointly organized by the American State Department and the American Enterprise Institute (the foreign policy institute of the Republican Party). The main topics of the gathering were the Balkans and NATO enlargement.

The conference was attended by very high level political officials, as witnessed by the presence of a large number of prime ministers, as well as foreign ministers and defense ministers from the region. Among the numerous important points of discussion, certain themes deserve special mention:

1. The conference organizers demanded the speediest possible international recognition of an independent state of Kosovo within the circle of the allied states.

2. The organizers declared that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia lies outside of any legal framework, before all outside the Helsinki Final Act [on the inviolability of state borders – trans. note].

… 6. Without denigrating the importance of the Europeans’ after-the-fact legalistic interpretation, namely that the expansion of NATO’s tasks beyond the treaty’s legal domain in the war against Yugoslavia was just an exception, it is nevertheless clear that this represented a precedent, to be invoked by anyone at any time, and that many others will follow the example in the future.

7. It would be good, during NATO’s current enlargement, to restore the territorial situation in the area between the Baltic Sea and Anatolia [middle of Turkey] such as existed during the Roman Empire, at the time of its greatest power and greatest territorial expansion.

8. For this reason, Poland must be flanked to the north and to the south with democratic neighbor states, while Romania and Bulgaria are to secure a land connection with Turkey. Serbia (probably for the purposes of securing an unhindered US military presence) must be permanently excluded from European development.

9. North of Poland, total control over St. Petersburg’s access to the Baltic Sea must be established.

10. In all processes, peoples’ rights to self-determination should be favored over all other provisions or rules of international law.

11. The claim that, during its attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO violated all international rules, and especially all the relevant provisions of international law – was not disputed.

After this conference, at which discussion was quite candid and open, it will not be possible to avoid the importance and long-term ramifications of its conclusions, especially having in mind the competence of the participants and organizers.

It seems that the American side, for the sake of its own goals, is willing and ready to undermine, on a global scale, the international legal order, which came about as a result of the two world wars in the previous century. Force is to stand above law. Wherever international law stands in the way, it is to be removed.

When the League of Nations experienced a similar fate, World War II was not far off. The manner of thought that takes into regard solely its own interests can only be referred to as totalitarian.

With friendly regards,
Willy Wimmer, Member, German Bundestag and Vice President,
Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE

Note: 

The document was originally published in 2001 in the German government journal Blätter fur deutsche und internationale Politik, and last year it was reprinted in the Belgrade weekly NIN (Feb. 8, 2007). The comment preceding a slightly different translation here notes that “Wimmer is by no means a leftist activist. Not even a left-leaning critic of ‘American imperialism’.” At the time he wrote the memo, he was a defense policy spokesman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

No. 1, which called for the speedy recognition of Kosovo’s independence less than a year after the bombing ended, is significant because the international community specifically warned the Albanians not to get any designs on independence — just autonomy — and drafted UN Res. 1244 reinforcing Serbian sovereignty over the land, even leaving certain border-patroling responsibilities with Serbia. So it is actually a demonstration of Nos. 2 and 11 — that Yugoslavia is excluded from anything resembling the civilized norms of international relations and therefore nothing we sign with the Serbs has any binding effect. As U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke explained with a bellow in August 1999 to the five top figures of the UN Mission in Kosovo: “Forget multi-ethnic Kosovo. Forget Resolution 1244. We only signed that to get rid of the Serbs.”

No. 2, that “Yugoslavia lies outside any legal framework,” explains why Serbia is consistently excepted from all international norms of statecraft, why every protective rule that applies to every other nation doesn’t apply to Serbian-dominated lands, and why everything that the other ethnic regions are allowed to do — e.g., Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians and Albanians — the Serbs aren’t “allowed” to do.

No. 8, Serbia’s permanent exclusion from European development, explains why every time the Serbs bare their necks and fall in line with Western demands in order to reach for the carrot of EU integration, they still get the stick, and the next demand.

No. 10’s implementation is visible before our very eyes over the past two decades: “In all processes, peoples’ rights to self-determination should be favored over all other provisions or rules of international law.”

The memo explodes the propaganda about Serbia’s promised “European future.” As Nebojsa Malic put it, “No way those Islam-appeasing, welfarite cowards would ever want ornery cusses like the Serbs anywhere near them. Serbia’s territory, yes — but its people? Hell no.” Malic explains that the plan is to figuratively ‘kill off’ the Serbs, that is to “make them stop being Serbs, and become ‘Europeans’ or some such nonsense,” all the while killing off as many as collaterally possible. “Without Kosovo, the whole Serbian history stops making sense. And if one accepts the 1990s lie about the Serbs as genocidal aggressors, then the youth can be indoctrinated in being perpetually ashamed. Give it a decade or two, and the Serbs that remain won’t be any more Serb than their kin who adopted Catholicism or Islam in centuries past.” (A reference to Croatians and Bosniaks.)

A 2001 article that I’ve frequently linked, titled “It Began with a Lie,” also refers to Wimmer’s experience at the Bratislava conference:

[D]uring the live discussion following the rebroadcast of [a German TV] report on [the network] WDR…he mentioned a defence policy conference he attended in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, along with high-ranking representatives from Western Europe, the US and Eastern European countries “from the Baltic Sea to Macedonia”…Nevertheless, the strength of the report is that it unequivocally shows how the German government, which includes the Green party that was once at the fore of the pacifist movement in Germany, pushed through the first combat deployment of German troops since the demise of the Nazi regime. To achieve this aim, the government employed a propaganda apparatus that has also not seen its like since 1945.

As Wimmer pointed out in a September, 2001 interview with the Journal for German and International Policy (mentioned by Pavic above):

We should not lose sight of the fact that it was precisely Germany that started this unfortunate game, championing ethnically-based national states in the region. We should remember that Germany was the first to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. What still remains to be solved is why the Americans subsequently took up the German ethnic strategy…

… There are many indications that, for the Americans, the situation in the Balkans is a sort of compensation for the Middle East. They use the Balkans to compensate for failures in the Arab-Israeli conflict…the Americans are now trying to offer concessions to the Muslims in the Balkans, the ones in Bosnia and Kosovo. In a word, to Washington the Balkans are serving as a reserve territory or a testing ground where, they believe, they might still be able to reach agreement with the Islamic world.

Whatever “Big Brother” says must be followed unconditionally…May the case of Serbia be the last such case. For, if I believe that I can ignore international law whenever it stands as an obstacle to my interests, then I am leaving the door wide open to a new war in Europe.

After Serbia, i.e. Kosovo, we had clashes in Macedonia. Until then, we were constantly showering Skoplje [capital of Macedonia] with praises. They disciplinedly carried out all our demands. And then the West suddenly changed its policy and extended support to the Albanian armed rebellion. What message were we sending to the Macedonian government? That violence pays off.

…What remains for us after the bombing of Serbia? [Do we] bring down the edifice that has secured the peace for us in Europe since 1945 — which is precisely what the Americans are doing, either alone or with the help of the British…?

Finally, some mention should be made here of the relations between Western Europe and Russia. In the case they are normal and good, then that would raise the question of NATO’s continued existence. The Americans invented the conflict in the Balkans in order to prevent the Europeans from thinking that NATO is no longer needed.

A paragraph in the Byzantine Sacred Art blog summed the situation up: Long Planned Destruction of Serbia.

In the light of all the above, the latest statement by the US State Department’s Daniel Fried, barked from the KLA-cutthroats’ stronghold — Pristina — that “Serbia’s path to closer ties with the rest of Europe remains open”, and apparently, solely dependent on Serbia’s willingness to give up 15 percent of its territory, is nothing less than sadistic.

“The only barriers between Serbia and its European future are those it places for itself. They can block their own road, no one will block the road for them,” Fried mocked his victim.

Mickey Bozinovich at Serbianna also picked up on the Wimmer memo confirming the confounding pattern of Serbia complying with Western demands with the promise of European integration — but never actually being allowed to take any steps toward it:

European Union’s foreign ministers on Saturday agreed to help the pro-European camp in Serbia led by Serbia’s President Tadic in order to pave the way for its integration and that signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement which is a trade and aid pact and a visa-free agreement would help the pro-European forces at the May 11 elections in Serbia.

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said that May 11 election in Serbia are crucial in determining the future [course] of the country. “The result (of the elections) will produce radical consequences for the future development of Serbia and the Western Balkans,” Jeremic said, adding that “no one’s choice will be unaffected by the issue of Kosovo.”

In light of Wimmer’s letter, to many in Serbia such hopeful pronouncements by the EU appear as a deception. “It is rather impossible that our President [Tadic], besides so many of his advisers, not to be privy on [the] letter that Willy Wimmer wrote,” said [Kosovo Bishop] Artemije. “One has to be honest to his people and say it bluntly that… there is no European perspective” for Serbia.

Armed with our knowledge of the meeting that Wimmer attended, we have a damning context for perceptive assessments such as the one by Mr. Roy above, and one offered by Michalis Firillas, editorial staff member of Israel’s English-edition Haaretz:

Kosovo: Coming soon to a theater near you, which reminds us that Kosovo “was created not by accord but by force,” and goes on about the implications:

The fundamentals are simple because they are the building blocks of the international system by which the world has been organized and coordinated since the introduction of the UN and its charter in 1945. These are based on the concepts of statehood, inviolable sovereign borders, consensus and international agreements. Most important, it is a system that stipulates that UN member states decide who the new members in this club will be; on the basis of their decision, Israel was given the legal right to exist, as was Cyprus. Not so Kosovo.

…As such, Kosovo may be a watershed, ushering in a new era of international arrangements. Nonetheless, whether we decide to chuck out everything else that preceded it, in one juvenile swoop, or not, is up to us. Indeed, the most worrisome thing is that Kosovo may turn into an international precedent — something that clearly also worries its most fervent supporters, who emphasize at every turn that this is not the case. These assertions do not seem to assuage most UN members. Officials from Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Manila to Mexico City, are shaking their heads in disbelief. “Is it possible,” they wonder, “that we might find ourselves in Serbia’s shoes in a few years?” Perhaps.

…Neither war nor peace [is] inevitable, nor are they acts of nature. Mankind has sought to regulate both, through law, shared rules and consensus. Kosovo suggests that it is time for major readjustments, of the kind that are likely to challenge the sanctity we have so far attributed to the main building blocks of international systems: states and their sovereign rights.

Given what we now know about a very intentional overhaul of the international order being in the works, here again are the words of Serbian Unity Congress’s Washington chapter president John Bosnitch about Kosovo independence:

It has always been about repeating Hitler’s 1938 feat at MUNICH of getting the world’s leading democracies to agree to violate international law by ripping the majority ethnic German region of Sudetenland out of Czechoslovakia…It was indeed to cover [a] gaping hole in the US case that former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to inaccurately stand the 1938 Munich precedent with Hitler on its head by citing it as grounds for bombing Serbia. The Western media was able to dupe the Western public with that false parallel…[Hitler said] the Sudeten Germans needed independence because they were the “victims of Czech persecution,” a false claim that history has proven to be just as absurd as that made by the Kosovo Albanians today.

In 1999, Wimmer famously said, “Never before so few lied so thoroughly to so many, as in connection with the Kosovo war.”

And if we repeat the lie loudly and often enough, we arrive at today.

The person making this allegation is none other than the former Chief Prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Carla Del Ponte (illustration).. She has given details of suspected atrocities by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. Del Ponte’s book ‘The Hunt: Me and War crimes’ claims that before killing Serbs and members of other ethnic communities, Kosovo Albanians removed their organs to sell for transplants.

According to Swiss-born Del Ponte, who was a Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals and prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the kidnapped Serbs were given a medical test. Those who passed were treated well, fed and looked after until they were brought under the surgeon’s knife. From several concentration camps in Kosovo, they were then transferred to cities in the north of Albania. Their body parts were later flown to European destinations.

General Mamir Stayanovich was head of the intelligence service of the Serbian army during the war. He has no doubt that the claims in Del Ponte’s book will sooner or later be proven. The places she mentions as hidden operation rooms are in exactly the same location as the camps Albanians used for training soldiers.

“In these hospitals they decided amongst themselves what each commander of the Muslim KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) would have after victory. They decided who would make his money from drug dealing, who from weapons, and who from selling body parts. Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of Kosovo, was among them,” General Stayanovich claims.

There are more than 2,000 names on the list of missing Serbs. Sima Spasich is the leader of an organisation trying to discover their fate. He showed the pictures of body parts he filmed in 2003.

“Right after the war, when we understood that too many people had disappeared, I went to the K-For commanders and asked them where were the people, and they just shrugged their shoulders. Only after they saw Serbian people demonstrating and were afraid of their anger, they took me to some place,” Spasich said.

Families who once had a small glimmer of hope of finding their loved ones are now planning to sue Del Ponte. They claim she withheld this information for years - and in that way helped the criminals with their crime.

In addition, it is inferred that some directly involved in these alleged barbaric crimes or having profited from them, are now firmly ensconced in Kosovo’s EU-backed Muslim puppet regime!

Has the world gone crazy or is there a master plan that the super powers have in mind so intricate that the common people cannot comprehend? This is the question I have been asking myself during the last couple of weeks while following closely the development of the drama in Kosovo. The opinion that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence is illegal is shared by many countries in the world since it blatantly defies international agreements. For some inexplicable reason, the US and the big West European countries embraced the self proclaimed independence of this province in the Balkans inhabited by clans of ruthless terrorists. I am sure that many people are raising their eyebrows right now so I will provide some historical evidence to back my judgment since I know for a fact that many people not only in the US but also in Europe are grossly misinformed on this issue.

Tony Vladov from the Bulgarian daily newspaper Standard gives details on how the notorious Albanian organized crime originated from the traditional family clans. Since the fifteenth century those clans have used a system or rules called “kanun.” Similarly to the mafia, each of these families have been controlling and governing certain territory, which in many instances caused bloodsheds among clans. It’s suggested that even during the rule of the Albanian dictator Enver Hodja fifteen clans in Albania have been committing illegal contraband operations. Later these criminals expanded their operations and during the political turmoil of 1997 they establish total control of the organized crime in Albania. The same families created the Army for Liberation of Kosovo (AOK), with the simple agenda of making money from the financing of the war with Serbia and to conquer new territories inhabited by Albanians on the Balkans.

The war in Kosovo played a major role for the popularization of Albanian criminal contractors throughout Europe. Moreover, this changed the route of heroin transportation from the East to the West. Before the war, the drugs used to go through the channel Turkey-Serbia-Croatia and Slovenia. During the war the Albanians guaranteed the safety of the cargos in the military zone and thus achieve total control of the traffic. Immediately after the war, the ethnic Albanians and their fellow relatives from Kosovo were granted a statute of refugees and quickly dispersed throughout Europe. The biggest Albanian colonies put roots in Germany and Switzerland creating a monopoly on the heroin trade. All of the Albanians have always highly respected the clans’ hierarchy. For example, the Albanian leader in Macedonia – Ali Ahmeti is a nephew of Fazly Veliu, one of the founders of Albanian Army for Libaration of Kosovo. Furthermore, the Veliu family is closely related to the Djashari clan, which member is Haim Tachi himself. This same person, Mr. Tachi (then leader of the AOK) killed many civilian Serbs during the AOK infiltrations of sovereign Serbian territory. It is also curious that this individual is a close friend of the foreign policy team of the Clinton Administration – Madeline Albright, Richard Holbrook and Wesley Clark.

Until today Albania has been ruled by the terror of the lawless criminal clans and any judge who dared to intervene has being executed. What the world doesn’t know is that the fix idea of the Albanians of creating Great Albania is still alive and they are working hard for achieving it. Most families procreate at large scales trying to conquer territories demographically and later through bloodshed. Moreover, Albanians are spread all over Europe and especially in the criminal underworld. They are notorious for their effectiveness, unpredictability and incredible cruelty. Their main advantage to the other organized crime is the fact that they speak language nobody understands, their organization is based on family ties and if someone dares to speak out that person is being brutally murdered. In Europe, today the Albanian mafia is the main engine of traffic of drugs and humans, theft and falsification of passports, weapons and human organs trade, abductions, extortions and executions. In London these people control the entire network of prostitution, in Italy and Greece they deal with weapons and drugs’ smuggling. There are entire towns in Italy where the business is controlled by Albanians. In the US there are more than 150,000 Albanian immigrants from Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania.

Moreover, here is another interesting piece of information about the “unprivileged” Albanians. In 2002, soon after the invasion of Albanian terrorists in Macedonia, the local government presented a 79 page report to the CIA, which highlighted the collaboration of Albanians and Al Qaida on the Balkans. Since 1999 only in Kosovo there have been built 24 Wahabit mosques, 14 orphanages, and 24 elementary schools sponsored by the Wahabit network. The situation in Albania is similar where the religious leader is a disciple of the Wahabits of Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is a fundamentalist movement in the Islam and is the main inspiration for the terrorists from Al Qaida. Although this doesn’t mean that all Albanians will become terrorists, it poses a great danger to the world since there are conditions for the creation and spreading of terrorist cells in the Albanian society.

Why am I providing all this background information? I am just trying to explain why independent Kosovo is so dangerous for the cultural and social integrity of Europe. The Albanians and other Muslims for that matter have been refusing for years to integrate in the European society. The problems they have created in the UK, Italy, France, Germany, the Balkans and many other places are countless. The world saw what happened in Paris and Germany few years ago. Last year, Albanian refugees from Kosovo tried to commit a terrorist attack on an American military base in the US! In 2001 the AOK army invaded Macedonia and destroyed Christian monasteries from the 12th century. Thanks to these ‘peace” loving individuals we can’t bring liquids on the airplanes today. I can only hope that Turkey never gets to join the European Union or as Nicholas Sarkozy once said, one day we will have to explain to our children why Beirut and Damascus should be in Europe.

Based on all of the above facts I don’t understand why the US, France, Italy and Germany accepted the unilateral proclamation of independence of Kosovo. Is the memory of these nations so short or do they have a secret agenda? The US similarly to Russia actually has always tried to split countries and regions so it can have more power over them. The examples in history are many – the coup in Iran that brought to power the Ayatollahs, the war in Iraq, the bombing of Serbia in the 90’s. In the age we live in, however the time has come for the world powers to make a decision. Are they going to work together in order to promote and conserve western values, traditions and cultures and protect their people from the imminent threat of the dark force that is trying to undermine all things civil we believe in or are they going to use the Muslim card in the fight for power among themselves? Only time will show, but I truly hope that future generations in Europe don’t have to wake up every morning by the sounds of Muslim prayers and read re-written history books.

Diaro de America may be found here

Are they not aware, for instance, that since KFOR took responsibility for the province that around two hundred Christian churches, monasteries, shrines and other sites of worship have been systematically destroyed or otherwise desecrate, in what can only be seen as an organised campaign of cultural cleansing?

Can they really be unaware that quite apart from the great many Christians who have been murdered, raped, robbed and mutilated over the last nine years, that hundreds of thousands more have been driven from their homes and forced to flee for their lives by the adherents of the very religion that they go to such lengths to defend? Many would regard this as ethnic cleansing!

Do they seriously believe that Kosovo marks the end of Islamic expansion in Europe and are truly ignorant of Islamicist designs on adjoining areas of Serbia and Macedonia – both having very significant Islamic communities?

Do they really believe there will ever be peace in the Balkans whilst there are those amongst the Religion of “Piece” who, because of “recognition”, will now be encouraged to seek another piece of Serbia, another piece of Macedonia, another piece of Bosnia, another piece of Montenegro etc?

Is our Church, here in Britain, led by fools, ignoramuses or merely third-columnists?

A brief video, which touches upon “Greater Albania”, may be viewed here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrj-wkhwIUI&NR=1

An interactive document which lists some 76 Christian Churches and other sites destroyed, damaged or otherwise desecrated during the five months following the arrival of KFOR “peacekeepers” in Kosovo – but not the almost one hundred sites since – may be viewed here. http://www.kosovo.net/sk/crucified/default.htm

Readers should click on the name of the site in the table within the document to activate associated images and text.

What future our country with spiritual guardians such as these in place?

The blood thirsty warmongers of Washington, along with the self serving bureaucrats, and politicians of Brussels, and elsewhere, have now brought us closer to the brink of a major conflict, centred upon the Balkans, than at any time since the days of the cold war!

Here are two reports, one from the ‘AFP news agency’, and one from ‘Russia Today‘ that make this all too clear!

NATO envoy warns Russia could use force over Kosovo: report

MOSCOW (AFP)–Russia could resort to “brute force” if NATO or the European Union defy the U.N. on Kosovo, Moscow’s envoy to the military alliance said Friday, Interfax news agency reported.

Dmitry Rogozin

“If the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the United Nations,” Dmitry Rogozin said in a video link-up from Brussels.

“We too will have to proceed from the view that in order to be respected we must use brute force, in other words armed force.”

Russia’s “brute force” is ready: Moscow’s NATO envoy

The significance of Kosovo’s independence has gone beyond the diplomatic sphere - that’s the message from Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. In a world where the principle ‘he who has the power, has the right’ rules, Russia has “the brute force” necessary to protect its interests.

“Those states that supported Pristina find that they are making up an absolute minority. That means that today the European Union, if its members find common ground, and NATO, if it oversteps the bounds of its mandate, both will enter a conflict with the United Nations. And this is serious,” he said.

With the authority of the United Nations undermined, there is no strict and universal international law to safeguard global security, the Russian official believes.

“This is not only between Russia and NATO.This is a conflict of the whole system of international security. This is not a diplomatic, but a political issue. An issue of the future, about whether there are any proprieties in interstate relations or that one can follow the policy of ‘he who has the power has the right,” he said.

In this new world Russia has to rely on force to protect itself, Rogozin believes.

“Then it has its own conclusions for Russia. We too would understand that we need brutal physical force to make sure we are respected, understood and that others acknowledge our right to our own point of view - and the name of that force is military force,” he said.

Dmitry Rogozin was quick to qualify his words on the use of military force, saying it would only be used to protect direct national interests.

“Obviously, Russia will not take part in any kind of military operations in Kosovo, in the Balkans or outside its borders in general. Russia has enough political and moral authority to defend international law, and that’s what it’s doing. But when the issue touches its own national interests, its borders and attempts to repeat the Kosovo scenario on Russian territory, it will defend not only international law, but also its own sovereignty,” Rogozin said.
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/21258

The burning of the American Embassy, much criticised in the presson Thursday/Friday, could soon be an utter irrelevance.

When, oh when, is someone in a position of authority going to say enough is enough - No more British blood must be spilled in other peoples wars. Nor to aid the appeasement of Islamic advancement!

We do so because it more or less sums up the precarious position we all now find ourselves in as a result of the irresponsible recognition of Kosovo, as an independent “state”, by the EU, US and the so-called “International Community”. It is doubly interesting as the article is written from an American perspective - a perspective not so very different from our own as it happens!

Julia Gorin writes:

As Americans look quizzically at their TV sets while non-Muslim protestors in Europe torch a U.S. embassy, they should know that yesterday’s 200,000-person protest in Belgrade (whose members are separate from the fire starters) is the first time in two decades that Serbs are showing a glimmer of rational behavior–amid 20 years of the “free world” foisting terrorist neighbors upon them.

To put this in perspective, with advance apologies to any offended ethnic groups: How would Americans react if Latino gangs started ambushing police and killing government officials in California, and after a few years the U.S. sent in the troops because the gangs were outgunning the police force; following this, the gangsters started claiming atrocities—and so Russia and China bombed California and Washington in response to the “atrocities”; the foreign powers then occupied California for eight years while the gangs killed or expelled most of the non-Latinos in “revenge attacks,” then backed a declaration of independence for California as a Mexican-majority state that may just unify with Mexico?

The current state of affairs is a product of a concerted, single-minded, bipartisan American effort to turn Serbs into an enemy as the U.S. tries to make friends of its enemies in the region, always at Serbian expense. “Will Russia now become the leader of the Europeans who resist the Islamization of their continent?” Thomas Landen asks in the Brussels Journal. He notes that Moscow has called on the UN to annul independence, and a UN vote may be the only thing to save us from a new world war over this Balkan province, ignored by the media and public for eight years as insignificant, despite the Balkans’ history for setting off world wars.

“Indeed,” continues Landen, “what will Russia do if the 16,000 NATO ‘peacekeeping’ troops in Kosovo attack the Serbian army when it attempts to recover its breakaway province? If Russia intervenes, then 2008 might become the year that war broke out between Russia and NATO. America, the EU, Europe’s immigrant ‘youths,’ and Osama bin Laden would find themselves on one side, fighting Russia, China, and those Europeans who resist Islamization on the other.”

Who could have envisioned such a sorry state of affairs on September 12, 2001? The answer is: anyone who noticed that our Balkan policies didn’t change following 9/11. We are now several years post-9/11, yet our government is creating Muslim states in Europe and is about to engage the United States military against European Orthodox Christians who don’t want to live under Muslim rule.

When did it become the free world’s business to spread Shari’a law, as is always the upshot of any Islamicizing region?

The remarks upon Kosovo’s independence by the U.S. and the Organization of the Islamic Conference might as well have come from a joint statement:

Secretary General of the OIC declares support to the Kosovo Independence:

…Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu made the following remark…”…a very important event took place yesterday. Kosovo has finally declared its independence after a long and determined struggle by its people. As we rejoice this happy result, we declare our solidarity with and support to our brothers and sisters there. The Islamic Umma wishes them success…There is no doubt that the independence of Kosovo will be an asset to the Muslim world and further enhance the joint Islamic action.”

U.S. welcomes “Muslim state” in Kosovo:

“We think it is a very positive step that this state — Muslim majority state — has been created today,’ [Undersecretary of State Nicholas] Burns said Monday… Creating a Muslim-majority state in a region that is the cradle of the Serbs’ Orthodox Christian religion never was the driving force of US policy on Kosovo, [Council on Foreign Relations analyst Charles] Kupchan said in a telephone interview. “But it’s a fringe benefit.”

Bosnia Grand Mufti: U.S. Policy In Region Serves Muslims’ Interests:

In an interview with Islamonline on the sidelines at the “U.S. and the Muslim World” conference in Qatar, Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mustafa Ceric said that the U.S.’s policy in the Balkans serves the interests of the Muslims and of Islam.

This week merrymakers in Pristina waving Albanian and American flags shouted “KLA! KLA!” – the supposedly disbanded, heroin-financed “rebels” who trained in terrorist camps. “What is the point of fighting Islamism in Iraq,” asks the Brussels Journal’s Landen, “while at the same time one creates a free haven for Islamists on the European continent?” He adds, “The Jerusalem Post reported in 1998 that the [KLA] was ‘provided with financial and military support from Islamic countries,’ and had been ‘bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters or mujahedin [some of whom] were trained in Osama bin Laden’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan.’”

It is worth reminding the conservative blogosphere, which for nine years chose to ignore the region entirely or, alternately, bolster the jihadist pro-independence position, that they are helping implement a Clinton-era policy supported and co-financed by George Soros, which has been pursued from a pre-9/11 mindset. My fellow conservatives, you do not defend America or American policy when you support our pro-independence policy in Kosovo; you support Hillary and Bill Clinton, George Soros, and Osama bin Laden, who co-financed and co-trained the KLA troops that we and Germany co-financed and co-trained.

It is a rare thing to meet someone among the remaining 100,000 Christians of Kosovo who hasn’t had a close relative or friend slaughtered by the Albanian “non-Islamic” Muslims since our intervention, the selfsame Muslims to whom we’re granting Serbian territory. While Serbia and Russia fight to ensure these remaining Christians don’t have to live under Albanian-Muslim rule — either by partitioning the province, or by fighting the Albanians to keep the province within Serbia — the U.S. and its NATO allies will fight Serbia and Russia to make sure that Europe’s newest, U.S.-created Muslim state gets all the territory it demands.

If this doesn’t worry you, and you’d rather make an exception in your jihad views for an area because it fits in with a more comfortable, manufactured Cold War context, then be prepared for the adverse consequences.

What we’ve set ourselves up for is dealing with still more gangsters and terrorists as we build an oil pipeline that runs from the Caucasus through the Balkans, when we could have worked with a willing Serbia on this from the very beginning — at much less peril to our interests and with a partner that had excellent intelligence and border security structures (before we dismantled the latter).

The rest of the world is sharply divided on Kosovo. Israel easily recognized some parallels to its situation, and is therefore withholding any recognition of independence. Helping cement its position on that were the following recent headlines:

Palestinian Aide Suggests Kosovo a Model: RAMALLAH, West Bank — “The Palestinians should follow Kosovo’s example and unilaterally declare independence if peace talks with Israel fail, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday…”

Kosovo is Already Here.

If Kosovo Can Be Free, Why Not Palestine?

Like clockwork, the implications not just for Israel, but for the rest of the globe became immediately clear:

Kosovo sparks other independence claims.

Separatist Moldovan region wants to have Kosov style independence.

Corsican separatists “delighted” over Kosovo.

Ex-Soviet separatist regions take heart from Kosovo.

Salahuddin congratulates Kosovo people. Urges world to ensure Kashmiris get freedom.

US, Germany Cautious on Kosovo as Separatists Call for Action.

These are no longer the 1980s and ’90s. It is not OK to view this, or Russia’s correct stance against our incorrect one, in a Cold War context. It is not OK to ally with Iran and deliver territory to al-Qaeda. It wasn’t OK in the 90s, either, and now we’ve buried ourselves deeper.

Given that we’re creating a mafia-run jihadist haven in Kosovo, whose U.S.-spawned statehood exposes our government’s disregard ultimately for its own citizens’ safety, not to speak of non-Muslims in Europe, how can we ever expect any other world power — never mind the jihadists — to care about American lives, and think twice before striking?

And still, the situation is not unfixable, as Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald advises:
There is no reason not to take Serbia’s side now. There is every reason — of principle and of Infidel self-interest–to take it. And then there is the larger scheme of things. Does it make sense, at this moment in history, to give Muslims the sense that they are on the march, that they are establishing beachhead after beachhead in Europe itself–even if, for all we know, that sense of triumphalism is based on a misunderstanding of the devotion to Islam of the Albanians (now “Kosovars”) in question? Assuming that the Chechens have a point (and they did have a point, considering the history of Stalin’s treatment of them), was that reason enough to support the Chechens against Russia, or should one have refrained from so doing, because of the larger context, in which any Muslim victory feeds the assurance that other victories are sure to come, that Islam is unstoppable?

Perhaps the rule should be, all over the Western and larger Infidel world, this: whatever makes the Umma happy, or the O.I.C. happy, is to be opposed for that very reason. That’s a rule of thumb…

We can still turn this around. Jim Jatras, the director of the American Council for Kosovo, advises to immediately begin new negotiations between Serbia and responsible representatives of the Albanian community, this time without preconceived results that sabotage any discussions, and consistent with international law.

…If only to keep the task of saving us from ourselves out of Russian hands.

The news that Germany was amongst the first EU states to recognise the recently “independent” Serbian province of Kosovo should surprise us not an iota. After all, wasn’t it the Third Reich that gave Kosovo’s Muslims the “nod” to ethnically cleanse the province of Christian Serbs in return for their “support”. Didn’t the Third Reich also promise Muslims an independent homeland based on those regions of Kosovo in which they were the majority – giving a “green light” to Muslims to ethnically cleanse as much of the province, that had been majority Serb for a thousand years, as possible!

Indeed, such was the support for the Third Reich amongst Muslims in Kosovo that by August 1941 alone, more than 10,000 Christian Serbs had been killed and between 80,000 and 100,000 Serbs expelled - while roughly the same number of Albanians from Albania were brought to settle in their place!

The Mufti of Jerusalem inspecting a
Muslim SS volunteer unit in the Balkans

The news that the premier nation of the EU “Fourth Reich” rushed to recognise  Muslim Kosovo could be construed as a fulfillment of a promise made by its predecessor, the Third Reich.

But is there a lesson in all this for us Brits?

After all, it was years of Muslim immigration into Kosovo that paved the way for Sunday’s travesty. Can we expect NATO troops to intervene in the West Midlands, West Yorkshire or Londonistan in years to come?

The imposition of a NATO “peacekeeping force” to keep warring communities of Muslims and non-Muslims apart, leading to the creation of EU recognised independent Muslim states in England?

How many Kosovan Serbs, we wonder, would have believed that their homeland would be stolen from them within the span of a single lifetime?

Clearly there are lessons to be learnt! We ignore them at our peril!

In an article entitled, ‘Independent’ Kosovo: A threat, not a country‘, published in WorldNet Daily, James George Jatras writes:

“Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking the rhetorical question: “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.”

That pretty much sums up the recent unilateral declaration of independence by Albanian Muslims in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Several countries, disgracefully led by the United States, have recognized Kosovo. Major media have hailed creation of the “world’s newest country.” But calling Kosovo a country doesn’t make it one.”

Read the rest of this insightful article here.

Another article that is essential reading for those wishing to fully understand what the events in Serbia mean, for all of us, can be found here in the ‘Brussels Journal‘.  The article explains most clearly the duplicity and lies surrounding this whole sorry saga!

Finally, another letter from our Serbian friend in Belgrade.  A letter written essentially too all those Brits who have posted comments of support for Serbia.

Your comments really have made a difference.  The BNP is proud of you all!   Thank you!

 And thank you, Mr Krgovic, for your part in helping us wake up the British people to what is being planned for them!

 Letter from Belgrade:

Thank you ALL for your support. I can’t find words to explain how much this article, but also your comments, means to me, but also to my fellow Serbs reading it today. You see when it comes to Britain, it’s very hard these days for an ordinary Serb to look past Blair, (Gordon)Brown, BBC, SKY…

Let me tell you that the FLAG IS ON THE WALL AGAIN. It only took few of your comments to reassure me of what that flag is all about. It’s not about Blair or (Gordon)Brown or Muslim Albanian terrorists, it’s about YOU, proud British folk, it’s about people ‘on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets, in the hills’, who will be there again if the need arise, and let us pray it never will.

Though it does not bring my land and my people back, everything I read here today gives me some hope. It’s hard times for Serbia and Britain alike. I can’t give up on Kosovo(Serbia), and I won’t give up on Britain! If my letter makes just one more Brit aware of how DANGEROUS EVER-GROWING UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION(especially Muslim) in Britain is, then it was worthwhile. Because, THAT IS WHAT KOSOVO IS ALL ABOUT.

Thank You again so much for Your understanding and Your support.

TAKE CARE, PICK BRITAIN UP, CHEERS!

Mr Krgovic, Belgrade, Serbia

This is another article on Kosovo, and it won’t be the last. Why? Because what is happening in Serbia right now is a perfect mirror of what WILL happen in Britain, and many other European countries, unless we all wake up, quickly!

Of course, we at the BNP want to give support and encouragement to the Serbian people. For they are as proud of their country, as we are of ours.

But it is also, undoubtedly, in our own interest to bring the truth of what is happening in Serbia to as wide an audience as possible. For this is our future, unless we oust the Quislings from Westminster, and start protecting the indigenous people of Britain from the next Jihad!

May we recommend to anyone seeking an alternative viewpoint to the selective “Serbophobic” pap churned out by the BBC and other British Establishment news agencies that they visit the Serbian government’s official English language news site HERE. We provide this link in the interest of affording some balance in the dissemination of news concerning the injustice recently inflicted on the ancient Christian nation of Serbia by the so-called “International Community”!

Having established a precedent with Kosovo, we can only wonder how long it will be before similar “International Community” backed “states” are established, through force of arms, in Britain and other European countries, having huge and inassimilable “minority” communities?

In addition we also present a video clip showing the destruction of a Serbian church in the district of Podujevo that occurred, we believe, some four years ago when it was then, as it is now, under the “protecton” of the ”International Community’s” KFOR military occupation force! This is certainly not the sort of news coverage you are likely to see on the BBC! View via this link

The same KFOR that is now going to guarantee the safety of Serbs still living in this safe haven for Muslim terrorists. If I were a Serb, in Kosovo, I’d be more than a little concerned!

Even so, we’d better all hope that, KFOR, really does do its job properly. For if they don’t, does anyone seriously expect Russia to merely sit back and watch!

Perilous days ahead for all of us!

Would you be able to answer what is written below, without feeling deep shame and anger? Shame that it is our own leaders who are now loudly championing the establishment of a Muslim state within Europe. And anger that, right now, we are powerless to put things right!

Here’s the letter I refer to, sent by an ordinary man, who is finding it difficult to understand why Britain has betrayed him.  Read and weep:

Dear Mr Brown,

I’d like to thank you on your kind letter and for your support in these difficult times for my country and my people.

First, I must explain you my reasons for paying any interest in British politics(nation, county…):

I was lucky enough to be born with congenital heart defect. Lucky because this unfortunate fact introduced me to Great Britain from very, very young age. In 1981 when I was just 2 and a half years old I was referred to London for a surgery and was successfully operated on by Dr James Taylor (then) of Great Ormond Streed Hospital For Sick Children. Also, my uncle who was in Kings Army during WWII fled before communists back in late 1940’s and was then living in Hounslow, West London. My late uncle was proud and honest Serbian patriot, and ’till his death grateful for everything Great Britain gave him (a refuge, new place to start…).

Because of these two facts I frequently visited Britain as a very young kid, but also later as a teenager. Needless to say, I fell in love with your way of life, your set of values, your sense of democracy, but perhaps most of all of how proud all of you were of your Queen and your Country.

Throughout my life(I always lived in Serbia) I always spoke of Britain with respect and love, doing my best to bring your culture, your history and your set of values closer to all of my Serbian friends, co-workers, relatives… Since we are both European Christians, both fighting on the same side during two great wars of XX century, since we have somewhat similar sense of humor, this wasn’t very difficult task until mid 1990s…

Story of two flags

When I was 5, my uncle bought me a Union Jack at Shepherd’s Bush market. I took it back to Belgrade and it was on the wall of my room ever since. I didn’t took it down when British pilots bombed Serbian army fighting mujahedeens in Bosnia (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazm all slaughtered Serbs fighting along side Bosnian Muslims, they later slammed themselves into the World Trade Center, 9/11 official report http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf). I didn’t took it down even when British pilot bombed Serbian Army, but also civilians and TV stations all over Serbia. I didn’t took it down because for me that flag represented much more then Tony Blair and his criminal aggression.

Last time I was in London, last June for England v Brazil game, I bought same Union Jack for my wifes’ younger brother who was always fascinated with Great Britain. He put in on the wall the second I gave it to him and I promised to take him with me next time I visit UK. Like me when I was young(er), he always dreamed of watching England play on Wembley.

Yesterday, as I watched in horror scenes from Pristina, I saw Albanian Muslims flying Union Jacks along side pictures of Muslim terrorists who killed and molested Serbian women and children. For the first time in 24 years, with tears in my eyes, I took the Union Jack off my wall and carefully tucked it in my closet. I simply have no more arguments to defend my love for Britain before my friends and I was too proud to allow myself to be associated in any way with what that flag represented in Kosovo yesterday.

I went to my wifes’ brother place later and I found him sitting alone in his room staring hopelessly into Union Jack on the wall. He asked me: “What did we ever do to them to distroy our country in this way?”. I couldn’t say a word, I ran out of answers.

The sad thing is that Serbs AND British suffer from the same people. Blair and Co. brought as much harm to Britain as they did to Serbia. I can’t blame British people because if I watched BBC long enough even I would become anti-Serb!

Once again, thank you for your kind support and I wish British people and British National Party best of luck in days and years to come.

Stay well, keep Britain Great.

Regards,

Krgovic

Belgrade, Serbia

Remember, these events were only possible because Islamic immigrants were able to swamp the indigenous people of Kosovo, making them aliens in their own land.

Couldn’t happen here though, could it? Don’t you believe it!

It’s finally happened! The Serbian province of Kosovo, has declared itself independent.

Now watch as the politicians and media ‘luvvies’ all rush to welcome this destabilising move - which wouldn’t have been possible without the full backing and support of America and the European Union - listen and read as they all enthuse about their creation!

Then remember that what is being celebrated today, is not anything to do with an oppressed people claiming their freedom. Freedom has damned all to do with it, despite what our lying ‘establishment’ will tell you!

Rather, it is the successful takeover of part of a Christian country by a bunch of Islamic terrorists, and Albanian thugs. Aided and abetted by useful dupes who are themselves being manipulated by their puppet masters, pulling strings as ever behind the scenes!

What we are left with is an embryonic Islamic state in the Balkans. It will cause destabilisation throughout the region. Expect Russia to react badly to what has taken place today for they have the most to lose, in the short term. In the medium to long term though, we are all going to be losers. For Islamics will now move to put pressure on other lands where they have large minorities. Their aim, as always to force the whole world to accept their medieval pseudo religious belief system.

After today, the future balkanisation of other countries, including Britain, is no longer a flight of fancy.

It will happen, unless you turn to the BNP: The last remaining political party willing to stand up to the growing Islamic threat within this country!

Don’t scoff! Seriously, who else is there?

You can read about the day’s events in Serbia/Kosovo in the Reuters News Agency report below!

Kosovo declares independence from Serbia

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia.

Serbia responded immediately by calling its mainly Albanian breakaway province a false state and condemning the United States for supporting it.

The proclamation was made by leaders of Kosovo’s 90 percent ethnic Albanian majority, including former guerrillas who fought for independence in a 1998-99 war which claimed about 10,000 civilian lives.

“We, the leaders of our people, democratically elected, through this declaration proclaim Kosovo an independent and sovereign state,” said the text read out in parliament by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

“This declaration reflects the will of the people.”

All 109 deputies present at the session in the capital Pristina voted in favour with a show of hands. Eleven deputies from ethnic minorities, including Serbs, were absent.

Kosovo is “an independent, sovereign and democratic state”, parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi announced after the vote.

Jubilant Kosovans in the snow-covered city had begun celebrating the night before in advance.

But in Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica branded the southern region “a false state” in a televised address to his nation just minutes after the vote in Pristina.

He said Kosovo was propped up unlawfully by the United States which was “ready to violate the international order for its own military interests”.

Serbs vow never to give up the territory, in which their history goes back 1,000 years, but which has been a ward of the United Nations for nearly nine years. They can do little to stop it, but their one big-power ally Russia stood by them.

Russia said it was calling for U.N. Security Council consultations over the independence declaration.

The West supports the demand of Kosovo’s 2 million ethnic Albanians for their own state, nine years after NATO went to war to save them from Serbian forces.

LAST YUGOSLAV SECESSION

Kosovo will be the sixth state carved from the former Serbian-dominated Yugoslav federation since 1991, after Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Montenegro.

It will be the world’s 193rd independent country but Serbia says it will never win a seat at the United Nations.

Serbs in the north of Kosovo will reject independence, cementing an ethnic partition that will weigh on the new state for years to come. Fewer than half of Kosovo’s 120,000 remaining Serbs live in the north, while the rest are in scattered enclaves protected by NATO peacekeepers.

The United States and most EU members are expected to quickly recognise Kosovo, despite failing to win United Nations Security Council approval — blocked by Russia last year.

The EU will also send a supervisory mission to take over from the current U.N. authorities.

Thaci sought to reassure Serbs, saying “Kosovo is the homeland of all its citizens”. He said Kosovo was committed to a Western-backed plan for independence, supervised by the European Union and providing guarantees for the Serb minority.

The EU, which on Saturday endorsed a police mission to Kosovo, will meet on Monday to discuss the secession.

The United States and most EU members are expected to quickly recognise Kosovo, despite failing to win a new Security Council resolution sanctioning the move.

Snow blanketed Pristina after a night of early celebration with thousands of Albanians pouring into the streets ahead of schedule. Banners proclaimed “Happy Independence”.

“Today, a new life begins. The past should not be forgotten, but it belongs to the past, and should be forgiven,” the Kosovo daily Koha Ditore wrote.

“This is the happiest day,” said Tahir Bajrami, an elderly Kosovo Albanian who flew from New York to join the celebrations. “We were prisoners, but this marks a new beginning.”

(Writing by Douglas Hamilton; editing by Richard Meares)

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KOSOVO - THE BALKANS TODAY, THE WEST TOMORROW……

KOSOVO –  – What happens when a government loses control of immigration and gives special preference to immigrants for political reasons.

By Edward Spalton February 2008

“A PART OF THE WORLD WHICH PRODUCES MORE HISTORY THAN CAN BE CONSUMED LOCALLY” - Winston Churchill, writing of the Balkans

“…..substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the Rambouillet Accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia…” UN RESOLUTION 1244 (Annex 2, item 8)

Showing any sympathy for the present plight of Serbia is swimming against the tide of received opinion, which was largely generated by the successful propaganda of the West, particularly concerning Bosnia and Kosovo. The demonization of Serbia was taken to grotesque proportions and, in general, faithfully and uncritically repeated in the mainstream media. So, for many people, their “default setting” is that Serbs were uniquely wicked and brutal to their erstwhile fellow Yugoslavs in pursuit of a “Greater Serbia”.

This narrative is a grossly inadequate basis from which to make an appreciation of Serbia’s present situation. As the weight of repetition of the “demon Serb” theory is so overwhelming, I will be putting the contrary case whilst conscious that no side in the unhappy disintegration of Yugoslavia was guiltless of atrocity.

At this area of the world’s surface, where the tectonic plates Of Islam, Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity collide, one could start the story at least as far back as the Fourth Crusade but it is only necessary to go back to the Second World War to form a coherent picture of what has happened in Kosovo. It had always been a heartland of the Serbian Church and national consciousness, containing churches as important as Canterbury, Salisbury and Winchester are in England.

The Axis powers favoured Albanians and arranged for a large part of the Serbian population to be expelled from Kosovo (*1) and replaced by Muslim Albanian immigrants. This was the beginning of the now overwhelming Albanian majority in the province. At the end of the war, Marshal Tito agreed with his communist comrades in Albania that the incomers should remain in new Socialist Yugoslavia and prevented the expelled Serbs from returning.

The communist takeover after the war was bloody in the extreme. Not only were wartime scores settled but there were wholesale massacres of those deemed to be “enemies of the people.” The new masters made as sure as they could that there would be no competition with their leadership from the former elites. The bien-pensant, leftish world came to regard “non-aligned” Yugoslavia as a more moderate version of socialism than the Soviet variety but it was certainly not so at its inception nor for many years thereafter.

Tito’s treatment of the Serbs was conditioned by two considerations – firstly that many Serbs had backed the royalist Resistance (the Chetniks) under General Mihailovic and secondly that Serbia should not dominate the new Yugoslavia, as it had done before the war. The communist partisans’ civil war with the royalist Chetniks had been fought at least as vigorously and dirtily as the war against the German occupiers.

To reduce Serbian influence, he drew the boundaries of the constituent republics, so that large numbers of Serbs would live as minorities in Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere outside Serbia. Whilst these borders were more or less local government boundaries, it was not such a burning question. Yet these were the boundaries which the Western powers would later recognize as the borders of sovereign states – states furthermore with aspirations to Serb-free, racial and religious purity.

A sort of political correctness was enforced in socialist Yugoslavia in which multiculturalism between and within the constituent republics was officially maintained. The basis of the state was a form of Marxist class outlook which was supposed to predominate over cultural and linguistic differences. The slogan was “unity and brotherhood.” .In some ways this appeared to be reasonably successful. Intermarriage between different cultural groups was quite common and the atheist stance of the authorities tended to mask religious differences. Perhaps Gordon Brown’s late conversion to official “Britishness” is a faint echo of this.

As testified by Mitar Balevic at the Hague tribunal, Kosovo was different - subject to Albanian agitation for an ethnically pure state from the 1950s onwards. There were large scale demonstrations on Albanian Flag Day in 1968 and Serbs were persecuted throughout the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. There were murders, expulsions and rapes, as well as desecration of churches, exclusion from public employment and medical discrimination at Pristina Hospital – especially in the maternity department. Between 1961 and 1981, the Albanian population doubled and the Serbs declined from being one quarter to one sixth of the population.

Tito granted local autonomy in 1974 but this only increased the Albanian appetite for driving out the Serbs. The Serbian alphabet was banned and Serbian school text books destroyed. Some 20,000 Serbs fled after the riots of 1981. After the death of Tito in 1980, German foundations and institutes, deniable instruments of government policy (*2), were prominent in supporting the Albanians. Their efforts were increasingly supplemented by the German Secret Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) which fostered the separatist movements in all parts of Yugoslavia.

It was against this background that Slobodan Milosevic went on 24th April 1987 to speak at Kosovo Polje, holy ground in the Serbian national story – the battlefield where the Serbs went down to glorious defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1389 – The Field of the Blackbirds.

This speech has been consistently misrepresented in the West as a sort of declaration of war on the mostly Muslim Kosovo Albanians but that is a total untruth (*3). Milosevic’s words were shot through with the Yugoslav brand of multicultural Political Correctness. “Protect brotherhood and unity”…. “nationalism always means isolation from others, being locked in a closed circle and stopping growth”…

He exhorted people to “emerge from a state of hatred, intolerance and mistrust” whilst making clear that there would be no ethnically cleansed Kosovo, from which all Serbs would be expelled.

That may have been one cause of Albanian outrage. Until then, they had been consistently successful in working towards that aim. The other famous incident on this occasion was an attack by Kosovo-Albanian police on some of the Serbian crowd which provoked Milosevic’s remark “Nobody should beat you”. This was reckoned to be very un- PC in the vocabulary and discourse of “unity and brotherhood”. Apart from that, he appealed for calm. Yet time after time, this speech is represented in the West as the provocative ravings of an extreme nationalist.

A couple of quotations from separatist leaders supported by the West make an interesting comparison.

“Genocide is a natural phenomenon in keeping with the human-social and mythological divine nature. It is not only permitted but even recommended by the Almighty…for the maintenance and spreading of the One True Faith” (*4) FRANJO TUDJMAN – first President of post war Croatia, who also said “Thank God, my wife is nether a Jew nor a Serb”. (Mrs. Thatcher later accepted a decoration from him).

And

“There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic institutions. The Islamic movement must and can take power as soon as it is morally strong enough, not only to destroy the non-Islamic power but to build a new Islamic one”. (*5) ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, first President of Bosnia- Hercogovina, eulogized at his funeral by Paddy Ashdown as the father of his people. With Ashdown’s approval, Bosnian war dead were officially classified as “shahid” – martyrs in the Jihad against the Infidel.

So, a clerico-fascist and an Islamic extremist were supported by Western intelligence agencies, governments and armed forces as bearers of “European values” to the benighted Balkans. To do this, the EU member states broke their obligations under the UN charter and the Helsinki Accords by which they had guaranteed to accept existing national borders in Europe. They recognized Slovenia and Croatia diplomatically. This was done principally at Germany’s instigation and the German government regarded this sudden about turn by the other EU states as a triumph. The Foreign Minister was cock-a-hoop “By this, Germany has regained diplomatically everything lost in Eastern Europe as a result of two world wars”. It opened the way for the new “Drang nach Osten”.

The pretext for the later air war on Yugoslavia was based on the accusation that Serbs were committing genocide against the largely Muslim Albanians in Kosovo. It undoubtedly was an unpleasant, dangerous time. Statistics from the period before the war suggest that an Albanian in Kosovo was about as likely to meet a violent death as an ordinary inhabitant of Washington DC at the same period, whereas a Serb was around twelve times more likely to come to an untimely end.

The Kosovo Liberation Army was known to police authorities all over Europe as a major criminal organization, deeply involved in drug smuggling and human trafficking.

Yet both the German and American governments contributed to its training and arming for Kosovo’s “liberation”. Its commander from 1998 (later prime minister of Kosovo in 2006) was one Agim Ceku, a former Yugoslav army captain who first became a general in the HVO (Croatian Army). Assisted by access to all NATO intelligence on Yugoslav forces and with the aid of NATO airpower, he was a very successful commander, responsible for the expulsion of around 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia in “Operation Storm”(1995). He also appears to have had command responsibility at the time of the Medak Pocket massacre where Croatian forces fired on Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. They later discovered the evidence of the massacre for which nobody has been brought to book. An Interpol warrant exists for Ceku’s arrest.

Wartime “information” from NATO told us that at least 100,000 young Albanian men from Kosovo were missing, presumed murdered. Yet the Spanish forensic team, sent to look for mass graves was gravely embarrassed. In late 1999 its leader complained that he and his colleagues had become part of “a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machine because we did not find one, not one mass grave”. The Wall Street Journal concluded that NATO stepped up its claims when it saw “a fatigued press corps drifting towards the contrary story – civilians killed by NATO bombs… The war in Kosovo was cruel, bitter, savage. Genocide it wasn’t”.

The Spanish forensic team found 2108 bodies in 1999. The killing did not stop with the end of the war. According to a report in the Sunday Times 420 Albanians were killed between June 1999 and March 2000, as the KLA dealt with perceived traitors. In the same period 1041 non Albanians (mostly Serbs) were killed. The “protection” offered by KFOR and their KLA allies was distinctly shaky. Serbs have continued to “disappear” or be found dead since, yet nobody has been brought to court, let alone convicted. In the same period (1999-2008) some 150 Orthodox Serbian churches have been destroyed and some 300 mosques have been built with funds from extreme Saudi Arabian Wahabi organizations. Like Bosnia-Hercegovina, where some 1500 foreign Mujahedin have settled as Bosnian citizens, Kosovo has become part of the “green wedge” of Muslim territories pushing closer to the gates of Vienna.

In spite of its experiences at the hands of the West in general and EU powers in particular, there is considerable support for membership of the EU in Serbia. The recent re-election of Boris Tadic as president (with 50.57% of the vote) is an indication of this. Pro EU Serbs think that the EU is “modern” and a safe place to be. Given Serbia’s former demonization, isolation and pariah status, it is easy to see the attraction of this. Then their clinching argument is “It is inevitable”. But the narrowness of Tadic’s victory shows that there is a large body of opinion which is by no means reconciled. Tadic has talked tough for domestic consumption but, if he runs true to form, he will succumb to EU blandishments.

Will the EU dispensation eventually make former Yugoslavia into an area of harmony and cooperation? How stable is the EU/NATO-imposed settlement? Is it a settlement or merely an armistice until some shift in the balance of great powers? In the map which follows, Great Britain, “Britoslavia”, is divided up, approximately as Yugoslavia was. It does not quite match the regionalization plans of John Prescott but would have much the same effect in reducing the independence, defensibility, security and international influence of the inhabitants of these islands.

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 K