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Not too sure how much discussion Bush has had with Congress in choosing to recognize Kosovo as an independent entity, I am of the deep conviction that this latest decision is wrong.

Having just returned from Serbia not long ago, I think it would seem that the US, specifically the Clinton administration, entered the Balkans conflict on the wrong side. 

Most Americans have been given a shadowy view of the parties involved with that conflict.  I am being polite, of course.  More to the point, the ethnic Albanians are by and large Muslim.  Albania has its own country, but a sizable group immigrated, super-populated and then violently drove the Serb population from the region with the assistance of the likes of Iran and Osama bin Laden.

An Unholy “Marriage of Convenience”

In addition to the dispatch of Western special forces, Mujehadeen mercenaries and other Islamic fundamentalist groups (financed inter alia by Iran and Saudi financier Osmane Bin Laden) have been collaborating with the KLA in the ground war.

“[B]y early December 1997, Iranian intelligence had already delivered the first shipments of hand grenades, machine-guns, assault rifles, night vision equipment, and communications gear… Moreover, the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK [KLA] commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran...58.

Bin Laden’s Al Qa’ida allegedly responsible for last year’s African embassy bombings “was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists”.59

Anyone familiar with the region recalls the historic Russian-Serbian ties in the area and that the causis belli that sparked WWI was the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, provoking Czar Alexander mobilizing the Russian Steamroller (as its massive army was then known), which in turn provoked Kaiser Wilhelm to activate

This next article refers to a report by then Republican Larry Craig.  While I disagree with Craig’s bathroom shenanigans, I would hope that the work he did with his pants on remains viable.

The Times’ comparison of treatment of the KLA with that of the African National Congress (ANC)—a group with its own history of terror attacks on political opponents, including members of the ethnic group it claims to represent—is a telling one. In fact, it points to the seemingly consistent Clinton policy of cultivating relationships with groups known for terrorist violence—not only the ANC, but the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Irish Republican Army (IRA)—in what may be a strategy of attempting to wean away a group from its penchant for violence by adopting its cause as an element of U.S. policy.

By the time the NATO airstrikes began, the Clinton Administration’s partnership with the KLA was unambiguous:

“With ethnic Albanian Kosovars poised to sign a peace accord later Thursday, the United States is moving quickly to help transform the Kosovo Liberation Army from a rag-tag band of guerrilla fighters into a political force. . . . Washington clearly sees it as a main hope for the troubled province’s future. ‘We want to develop a good relationship with them as they transform themselves into a politically-oriented organization,’ deputy State Department spokesman James Foley said. ‘We want to develop closer and better ties with this organization.’

-- March 31, 1999
The Kosovo Liberation Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties?
From ‘Terrorists’ to ‘Partners’

Setting the Way-back machine it was the Serbs who were at the forefront in fighting the Turks from entering Europe proper.  They suffered numerous defeats and occupations by the Turks, ultimately winning victories and their independence from them, but it seems an unholy alliance of the Clinton Administration with Islamic terrorists have rolled back those victories in the historic battlefield province of Kosovo.

Why the Bush administration has continued with the US troop involvement in that region and certainly forcing separation of a Christian province to benefit Islams’ further encroachment into Europe defies logic.

Like so many times in the past, the Serbs fight against Islam seems to be alone and against the efforts of the rest of the Christian world.

How the Russians will react to these developments remains to be seen.

SOME ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Serbia owed justice in Kosovo

Kosovo split illegal: Putin

Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority insists on independence

The rapid population growth of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, and the simultaneous fall of the Serbian and Montenegrin population in the province, was accompanied by a proportional level of indoctrination concerning ideology, culture and economy. The ethnic Albanians were being linked to all that came from Albania in a blatant and undeniable way. Furthermore, nobody — political leaders, intelligentsia and even simple ethnic Albanians — made any effort to hide it. Even textbooks were obtained from Tirana, and on the first page of the book of ABC’s for first-graders there was a picture of the Albanian leader Enver Hodxa with the motto “Our motherland is Albania”. This is what Enver Hodxa used to launch a fierce attack against Yugoslavia in his speech at the Albanian Worker’s Party congress in 1981 — the fact that the Albanians are living “divided” in three former Yugoslav federal entities: Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Hodxa openly asked a change of the status of Kosovo and Metohija and anticipated the existence of a plan for creating a new geopolitical situation in this part of the Balkans.

The plan essentially had three phases: in the first one Kosovo and Metohija were to be given the status of republic within the framework of the Yugoslav federation; the second phase was to be used to integrate all territories inhabited by ethnic Albanians in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia in a compact and ethnically defined federal unit within Yugoslavia; it was to leave the Yugoslav federation either with a referendum on independence or with the use of violence, armed rebellion and secession; the third phase was to cover the unification of the secessionist republic and Albania, the mother-country. Obviously, in order to secure the approval of the international community, the broad and coordinated efforts were to be used to influence the international public opinion and political factors and secure their consent and legitimacy for the “democratic decisions and resolutions of the Albanian majority in occupied territories”. In view of this plan mass demonstrations were set up by ethnic Albanian secessionists and — in spite of the efficient government measures to suppress political and nationalistic passions — they had a strong echo among the Albanians in Albania and those living abroad.