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U.S. Deems New Serbian Constitution a Positive Step

WASHINGTON, October 31 (FoNet) -- State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that the US supports the new Serbian Constitution’s adoption.

He said that the adoption of the new Serbian Constitution is a step ahead for the Serbian people.

McCormack said that the constitutional question was taken care of in a clear and rational way, based on the democratic process.

According to Voice of America, McCormack said that the adoption of the new Constitution is a big part of Serbia’s democratic process.

Solana Congratulates Serbia for Orderly Constitution Referendum

BRUSSELS, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday congratulated Serbia for the orderly referendum on a new constitution.

The EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy said in a statement that the adoption of a new constitution by Serbia was an important step in moving forward the internal reform agenda.

Beware of Problems Ahead

By James Bissett

From Tuesday’s (October 31, 2006) Globe and Mail

Serbian voters have approved a new constitution that, among other things, reaffirms sovereignty over Kosovo, which, since the bombing of Serbia in 1999, has been administered by the United Nations with the help of NATO troops. The weekend referendum result will further complicate efforts of Western policy-makers to grant independence to Kosovo since, to do so without Serbia’s consent, would violate the UN Charter on territorial integrity and inviolability of borders. Nevertheless, there have been indications that UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will soon recommend that Kosovo be separated from Serbia and become an independent country.

This would be a mistake.

For the past seven years, Kosovo has become one of the most dangerous places on Earth. It is the centre of heroin, weapons and human trafficking into Western Europe. Murder and abduction of non-Albanians are daily occurrences. Civil society is non-existent and living standards are equivalent to those of Haiti. There is evidence that Islamic extremists with al-Qaeda connections are a growing presence. In short, Kosovo has all the characteristics of a failed state.

Under the eyes of the UN and NATO, more than 200,000 Serbs, Jews, Roma and other non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosovo. Those who remain are in constant danger. And some of those encouraged by the UN to return have been murdered. The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Agim Ceku, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, has been accused of war crimes by the Serbs. He is the man who led Croatian forces in 1993 that overran Serbian villages protected by Canadian peacekeepers. When his fighters were driven out, the Canadians found that all of the civilians and animals in the villages had been slaughtered.

One of the crimes committed by the Albanian majority in Kosovo has been the razing of over 150 Christian churches and monasteries. Many of these churches dated back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Their destruction has been a deliberate effort to remove all semblance of Christian heritage in Kosovo. Shamefully, there has been no international outrage, no serious attempt to apprehend the perpetrators and no expression of alarm or protest on the part of Christian churches in the West.

The U N resolution that ended the bombing campaign against Serbia guaranteed that Kosovo would have a functioning civil society, democratic institutions, security for all citizens and respect for the rule of law. It called for the disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army and other armed groups. It provided for the return to Kosovo of limited numbers of Serbian security forces to guard the Christian Holy places. And it reasserted Serbia’s sovereignty over Kosovo.

Sadly, it seems the UN and NATO had no intention of honoring these commitments. These are hard facts and they stand as a testimony of failure. The performance of these two international institutions has been marked by duplicity, double standards and cowardice.

Independence for Kosovo would establish a dangerous precedent. President Vladimir Putin of Russia has already warned that a decision to grant Kosovo independence could be applicable to post-soviet territory .He has particular interest in regions of the former Soviet Union that have aspirations for independence. The most volatile ones are the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia; these two regions broke away from Georgia in 1992 and want independent status. Recognition of Kosovo independence would give them their precedent. And could result in bloodshed with serious implications for world security.

Bismarck, once said that the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Yet, he also predicted that, if there were to be another war in Europe, it would be because of some “damned silly thing” in the Balkans. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, sparking off the First World War, proved him right.

Ominously, there is again a strong possibility that another “damned silly thing” is taking place in the Balkans: the seeming determination of Western policy makers to grant the Serbian province of Kosovo its independence. In foreign policy, as in other human endeavours, you can’t get good results if you do dumb things.

Serbs Will Not Go Gently Into That Dark Night

Congratulating citizens of Serbia on successful adoption of the new constitution, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica used the opportunity to comment on the suggestion that Ahtisaari’s (i.e. Adolfsen’s) proposal is meant to pave the way for unilateral recognition of Kosovo province’s independence by the individual states. He warned that such a move would not be left without consequences and would directly impact Serbia’s relations with states that would recognize independence of southern Serbian province contrary to the will of Serbian nation.

Serbian Prime Minister underlined the conclusions of his latest conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to which it was agreed that the international laws and principle of inviolability of borders has to be respected and honored.

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A Post Scriptum to the yesterday’s entry.

I honestly believe many of the brutal awakenings that jolted Serbs out of our Brotherhood-and-Unity Stupor were worth suffering through, if for no other reason, then to get to know those few Bighearted Ones who are honoring Serbs with their friendship. And at the very time when being a friend to Serbs is one of the hardest things.

In other words:

• Downing the “invisible” F-117 Night Hawk Stealth Bomber: $100.-
• Masking tanks and fighter jets so NATO keeps pounding old stoves and painted cardboard: $1,000-5,000.-
• Getting a pro-Serbian ad published in American newspaper: $8,000-15,000.-
• Hiring a PR agency: $60,000-600,000.-
• Getting to know The Bighearted Few: PRICELESS!

Posted by Svetlana at 06:35 AM | Permalink

According to the latest information from Serbia, more then required 50 percent (54-56%) of the voters took part in the referendum for the adoption of the new Serbian constitution. The preliminary results are showing the new constitution is adopted by over 51.6 percent of positive votes.

While the self-styled Kosovo “prime minister,” war criminal Agim Ceku jumped the gun by starting preparations for celebration of the expected failure of the Serbian referendum, most citizens of Serbia throughout the country (including Kosovo and Metohija, where over 83 percent of non-Albanians voted in the referendum), are confident they will be the ones celebrating the new Serbian constitution tonight and tomorrow -- along with the bighearted few around the world who understand what is at stake and have the blessed ability to see further from their noses.

The new constitution defines southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija as an integral part of Serbia, thus making the surrender of this province an act of treason. More then half of the eligible voters in Serbia and 96 percent of those who voted have stood behind the enshrinement of this clause into Serbian highest legal document.

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My Way or Highway “Diplomacy”

The U.N. special envoy for Kosovo status “negotiations” Martti Athisaari (a.k.a. Adolfsen), along with every other Albanian lobbyist infiltrated in Western power centers and governments, and along with heads of U.S, Britain, Germany and France, seems to have changed his mind and decided not to declare Serbian Kosovo province independent.

Not because such move would represent the reward for ethnic cleansing through which Albanians have achieved the majority in the heart of Serbia. Not because it is immoral, illegal and criminal to amputate 15 percent of someone’s territory without blinking an eye or taking into consideration those whose territory is to be cut off. Not even because such move represents a dangerous precedent on the international scene, demonstrating that any ethnic/terrorist group willing to take up arms to occupy and secede part of any country will be awarded the territory they’ve been eyeballing and given a seat in the U.N.

No -- decency, ethics, international law, truth, justice... none of that matters.

The only reason why they will not grant outright independence to Albanian branch of al-Qaeda in Kosovo through the U.N. Security Council is that Russia and China might use their vetoes to block such decision.

In order not to have their decision vetoed, in order to avoid every possibility of having their decision vetoed, in order to have it their way regardless of the others’ objections and disagreement, Masters of the Universe will simply bypass the Security Council altogether and work on exacting independence for Kosovo Albanian al-Qaeda in a roundabout way.

Undermining the U.N.

Like this: Adolfsen will slap together another “resolution” that should replace the U.N. Resolution 1244, according to which Kosovo remains part of Serbia. The Adolfsen “resolution” will re-define Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija as a no-man’s-land, neither Serbian, nor Albanian. It will do so by leaving such definitions entirely out, thus clearing the path and removing the legal obstacle (from the U.N. side) for Kosovo Albanian terrorists to declare “independence” on their own.

The most cynical part is the fact that Adolfsen works precisely for Security Council, not for Kosovo Albanian jihadists, for Bin Laden or Iran’s Ahmadinejad. As a U.N. employee (“special envoy”), one would expect him striving to include his employer in the process of reaching the final solution, not to work on finding the best way to cut his bosses out of the picture.

One would also imagine that a U.N. employee, such as Adolfsen, would respect the current U.N. resolutions and uphold them, rather then sweating to figure out how to get rid of them. So, while Martti Ahtisaari is clearly receiving United Nations’ paychecks as a U.N. employee, the question whom is he actually working for remains open.

You Can Shove Your Vetoes

In short, Adolfsen is currently working on clearing the way for the same scenario used for former Yugoslav republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc.): they declare independence and then get “recognized” as independent states (i.e. Banana Republics) by individual governments of other states -- United Nations Security Council completely bypassed and reduced to a bunch of impotent observers that can shove their vetoes up where the sun doesn’t shine.

The exact same message was sent when Clinton-Albright decided to bomb Serbia in 1999. They figured Russia and China would object (imagine that!), therefore, they bypassed the whole U.N.-sham and talked to NATO instead -- the Brits were already hanging out of their butts anyway and Ze Germans were itching to jump in SS Luftwaffe again and finish what they started in Serbia in 1941. And, true enough, by then-calcified Cold War fossil NATO loved the idea! It has gotten invigorated, renewed and refreshed -- aggression works better then Viagra!

End the Charade!

But the point here is: what the hell is Security Council and United Nations there for then?! So that every thug eventually gets his flag displayed on a U.N. flag post?

If every time some bully is about to use Balkans as his toilet the U.N. Security Council gets bypassed so it wouldn’t prevent him from defecating in someone else’s backyard -- WHY DO WE HAVE IT?! What purpose does it serve in the first place?

Are the Security Council member-states with the power of veto allowed to have their say only on issues they can all agree on, or the ones nobody really cares for, like which tea is better, who makes the best running shoes and where can you get a good massage? What a bloody joke!

If that is how things are done, the United Nations is nothing but a colossal fraud, a facade erected to shield the Bully of the Day and help him impose his will, while the “International Community” is, supposedly, quietly behind it all. It’s not behind anything, it is impotent, incapacitated, castrated, rendered obsolete, that’s what it is.

Dismantle the whole thing now and give those millions of dollars poured annually into the pockets of U.N’s useless, fat, bloodsucking bureaucrats to the poor! Install the new bloody Fuhrer already and stop pulling the wool over our eyes with the whole “democracy” farce.

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Inventing Irrelevance

By Nebojsa Malic

On Saturday and Sunday, the citizens of Serbia are expected to vote in a plebiscite on the new constitution. In a rare display of political unity, the draft constitution was supported in the parliament by both the government and the opposition parties. However, remnants of the former DOS regime and the “non-governmental” organizations that support them have launched a campaign against the document; these Jacobins are assailing the constitution as “undemocratic,” and particularly object to its preamble, which defines occupied Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.

This, rather than any other feature in the constitution, is the real point of contention between those who seek its passage, and those in Serbia – and elsewhere – who would like to see it fail. Inclusion of Kosovo in the new Serbian constitution complicates the efforts to force Belgrade into giving up the territory NATO occupied in 1999 on behalf of ethnic Albanian separatists.

What Bothers the New York Times

The New York Times, a stalwart supporter of NATO’s 1999 war and a pillar of Empire’s Official Truth, launched a sloppy attack on the new Serbian constitution on Monday, calling the document “faulty.”

Despite mentioning “critics” of the constitution at least five times in the article, the Times’ Nicholas Wood comes up with only two: Omer Hadzimerovic, a regional judge, and Goran Jesic, mayor of a small town near Belgrade. There is not a single mention of the constitution’s loudest critics: DOS leftovers, such as Cedomir Jovanovic, Zarko Korac, Vladan Batic, Nenad Canak, and their micro-parties; or the Western-backed “human rights” groups and quasi-NGOs that endorse their political agendas.

It’s impossible to verify some of the claims the unnamed “critics” are making. The text of the proposed constitution is publicly available (found here, in Serbian, as a .pdf file), but the document itself has 206 articles (!) in nine sections. For the sake of comparison, the United States Constitution has seven articles and 27 amendments. Much of the language in the proposed Serbian constitution is vague, subject to external definition (what are “European values,” anyway?), and rather than providing a cornerstone for future legislation actually depends on it to be functional. In short, it’s a constitution of a decidedly modern, social-democratic welfare state, whose guiding spirit was not God, John Locke, or even Serbian tradition, but the bloated bureaucracy of the EU.

None of these bother the New York Times much, though. This part does:

“Whereas the province of Kosovo and Metohija is an integral part of Serbian territory, with essential autonomy within the sovereign state of Serbia, and that this position of the Province of Kosovo and Metohija obligates the government to protect and represent the national interests of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija, in all its internal and external political affairs….”

Given that the adoption of the constitution would cause new elections in Serbia and make the surrender of Kosovo an act of treason, the Times’ claim that the constitution “will not have any effect on Kosovo’s future” is not a statement of fact, but rather wishful thinking posing as such.

“My Albanian Friends”

The tough talk about the constitution’s irrelevance and independence’s inevitability seems calculated to soothe the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo, who are growing increasingly frustrated that their main political objective has not been achieved for over seven years, despite overwhelming Imperial support. In the past, they’ve taken that frustration out on the few Serbs who survived their ethnic cleansing in 1999. Now that most Serbs inconveniently live in barbed-wire enclosures guarded by NATO troops, they are targeting the UN and even NATO occupiers directly.

AFP reported last Friday that “a U.S. soldier from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR) was assaulted and injured by three civilians” at a gas station in Urosevac. As befits every other act of violence in Kosovo over the course of NATO occupation, the perpetrators were not identified. But as the mainstream media so helpfully reminds us daily, “ethnic Albanians are the overwhelming majority in the province.”

Perhaps this is what motivated Frank Wisner, U.S. envoy to the Kosovo talks, to appeal to “my Kosovar Albanian friends” (AFP) not to attack the Serbs during the referendum this weekend. [...]

Entire article by Nebojsa Malic, Inventing Irrelevance

Cartoon by Toso Borkovic

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Design Your Own Logo

Free Logo Maker is so much fun, I spent few hours playing with their Macromedia Flash pad, and had to be unglued from the computer screen by sheer force.

Go to the big orange button on the right of the linked page that says “Design it for Free”, it will open a Macromedia Flash pad where you should choose the “industry” for pre-designed graphic you can use to - finally! - create your trademark that was, if you want to be completely honest about it, deserved LONG TIME AGO.

From there on, you can follow the short instructions on the left, or go straight under the design area and dive into it: type the title of your site, company or your own name, all on a single line (like I did in the first example), or broken into two or three parts; pick the font you like (for each line of text) and play with the elements of your logo by creating different groupings, changing the size of each, angle (rotate) and colors.

If the image you chose has more then one element, you will be able to change the color of each. The trick in selecting different layers of one graphic is to click on it the second or third time -- the selection box will slightly change size, so you'll be able to juggle between layers.

As you know, the basic idea behind logo is that it should be fairly simple and easy to reproduce, while representing your particular brand or product through shape, color and style. I broke every one of the rules here because I just wanted to play, but if you want to be serious about things, don’t do as I did.

Instead, think of the look and feel that would blend with the design of your page and pick the color or two from those you are already using. For my blog the one with the candle on the above-right would make much more sense then Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa having a coffee.

But then again, you got to play sometime! (And pretend you’re a beautician or a hairdresser, or a... I don’t know, an all natural, no-genetically-engineered-produce farmer? The last one should cover it all.)

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False and True Power

When you go to worship the Lord in your bright and opulent church this Sunday, remember your Serbian brothers and sisters in Kosovo and Metohija who will offer their prayers and chants alongside yours, amidst the ruins of their glorious churches.

There are all sorts of news pouring in these days, about the new, even more fierce PR agencies hired by the Albanian lobbies to fight for the amputation of Serbian Jerusalem in Washington, Brussels and London; about their strong ties and support Kosovo Albanians are receiving from Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, about the United Nations’ and Western powers’ push for granting independence to Albanian jihadists, despite the fact they have achieved the “majority” in Serbian Kosovo through ethnic cleansing, illegal immigration from neighboring Albania and continuous terror of non-Albanians in the Serbian province over decades...

In the midst of so much pressure and psychological warfare, it is easy to forget the True Power is not in the hands of any single individual, organization or government, however powerful it may seem right now and that, however powerless each of us may feel, we are not merely observers.

St. Peter of Korisha Today, Westminster Abbey Tomorrow

Please do not allow yourself to be reduced to a passive recipient of the news -- act today, say and do the right thing, don’t let the future of Christian Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija be decided by the handful of overpaid, overrated administrators pushing the radical Islamic agenda through the major world organizations! Write to your elected representatives in the U.S., U.K., Canada and elsewhere.

By saying NO! to Kosovo independence, you are saying NO! to Kosovo ever happening in your country, to your children and your children’s children. Heed the warning Muammar al-Gaddafi issued to the world: “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe -- without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

Don’t let it happen -- Kosovo and Israel are not Serbian and Jewish problem alone, they should concern you too.

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Forget Multi-Ethnic Kosovo!

By Russell Gordon

Most respected [Nazi] party friend Lammers! I received your letter of April 29 together with the letter of the president of the central committee of the Second Albanian League of Prizren. At this time one Albanian SS division is being formed. As things now stand, I plan to form a second SS division, and afterwards an Albanian SS corps will be formed… Heil Hitler! Yours very faithfully,
H. Himmler

Arrogantly strutting around the opulent OSCE restaurant, on an upper floor of its Pristina headquarters, Richard Holbrooke cut an imposing figure. The “Balkan peace negotiator” whose bloody legacy stretched from Vietnam and Indonesia to Belgrade minced no words about US policy for the region. In front of the five heads of UNMIK he bellowed: “Forget multi-ethnic Kosovo. Forget Resolution 1244. We only signed that to get rid of the Serbs.”

It was a warm August 1999, and the official representatives of the “international community” remained coolly silent. Only one official, Dennis MacNamara, head of UNHCR spoke up, questioning why the UN took on the mission if the expulsion of the Serbs was a foregone conclusion. Holbrooke brushed off his inquiry; the other “dignitaries” remained quiet.

Neither Normal Nor Stable

The Serbian province of Kosovo is nearing the artificially imposed time limit for a “final decision” on its status as either an autonomous Serbian province, or an independent state, albeit an international protectorate. And indeed the “decision” has probably already been made, which will see another tragic human exodus.

The casual observer could be forgiven for attributing normalcy to present day Kosovo upon first glance. Pristina’s cafes are filled with reveling Albanian and international patrons. Perhaps a quarter of the cars in urban areas are late-model BMWs, Mercedes or Audis. Shiny new construction projects rise along many major roads and Albanian population centers. It appears that Albanian Kosovo is undergoing an economic boom. The Albanian flag waves proudly beside the Stars and Stripes, perhaps the only Muslim region where it does so. And a spirit of freedom pervades the majority Albanian society. But image is not reality – neither in media, nor in strategic issues. And Kosovo is neither normal, nor stable.

Making Official Policy of the U.S. Congress

Kosovo today is the nerve center of organized crime in Europe. The Kosovo Albanian mafia – whose capos are the ethnic Albanian leaders of Kosovo (Hashim Thaci, Agim Ceku, Ramush Haradinaj, and hundreds of others), and America’s allies – control most of the heroin, arms, and white slavery rings in Europe. Most of the luxury autos in Kosovo are stolen in central Europe, and given false papers; there are so many that prices are as low as 4000 Euros. Kosovo is the safe-haven for their laundered funds, often invested back into construction projects on real estate stolen from Serbs.

Kosovo Albanians have committed armed robberies in France with automatic weapons and RPG’s, and have overtaken the Sicilian Mafia in Italy, largely due to their ruthlessness, and closed society. Their criminal rackets stretch into London and throughout the US. Their money has bought off US senators and congressmen; their revisionist history and expansionist aims made official policy of the US Congress, and State Department. In Kosovo, their heroin labs are protected and heroin transported by units of the US military. During the Albanian insurgency of 1997-1999 (and through 2001 in Macedonia and Presevo), US Special Forces and British SAS armed, trained, and gave battlefield expertise to Albanian separatists waging brutal separatist campaigns in the region. During the war in Kosovo in 1999, the US military airlifted the Albanian UCK terrorists into some Serbian villages, where every civilian was slaughtered.

Entire article by Russell Gordon, Behind Kosovo’s Façade

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If you prefer graphic to plain-text links and would like to link to Byzantine Sacred Art Blog, you now have a choice of seven images, designed to fit different styles. You can either right-click on the image you like and upload it to one of the folders on your site, or just copy the code provided next to each image, paste it to the web page where you wish to have it appear and - presto! - your cool new graphic link is in place, while the image remains stored on my hosting server.

If you choose to save the image to your computer and host it on your site, you will also be able to customize it, add borders, shadows, or different effects to each image to make it fit your design better.

Otherwise, when you find the version you like, right-click on the form next to it, click on “select all,” then “copy.” “Paste” to your page and you’re done.

RUGGED Look

Air of MYSTIQUE

ORTHODOX Way

Art PLAY

ROMANTIC Touch

CITY Slick

No Image MINIMALIST

This is a two-part code, because it relies on a CSS styled hyperlink, beside the rest. If you don’t have an external CSS style sheet, copy the first code below and paste it between the <head> and </head> tags of your web page:

If you do have an external style sheet, or a part in the <head> of your page for the CSS style, you should then just use the styling of the link (I assigned it a “bblog” class, for Byzantine Blog, but you can name it however you wish.

Next, in the <body> part of the web page where you want to place the link, paste this part:

You can play with colors and other elements of the style until you get the exact look you want (pick some fancy colors with the Color Schemer and make sure you get the right HEX number for your code).

Have fun and thanks for the link -- as people click through, your web site will be listed on the main page of the blog, under the “Incoming Links,” so you’ll start receiving visitors from the Byzantine Blog in no time!

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Muslims from Sandzak Region Demand Autonomy

Novi Pazar, 23 Oct. (AKI) - Encouraged by Serbia’s breakaway southern province of Kosovo’s drive for independence, Muslims in the neighboring Sandzak region have taken steps towards regional autonomy. On the initiative of Sandzak mufti Muamer Zukorlic, five Sandzak Muslim political parties at the weekend signed a declaration demanding from Belgrade authorities to “start a dialogue to solve the status of Bosniacs (Muslims) in Serbia and the status of Sandzak region.”

Kosovo Muslims, who call themselves Bosniacs since neighboring Bosnia, with majority Muslim population, gained independence in 1992, complain they were neither consulted about nor participated in the drafting of the new constitution. “It is unacceptable that Serbia is defined in the first article of the constitution as the Serbian people’s state, ignoring the principles of European regionalism,” Sandzak Muslim leaders said in their weekend declaration.

Not Good if Serbia is Called Serbia

The new Serb constitution states that apart from Serbs, Serbia is also the state “of other peoples who live in it.” But Muslim leaders claim that the state symbols, including the national anthem, don’t take into account that “Serbia is a multinational and multicultural state.”

Sandzak Muslims share Kosovo Muslims’ opposition to Serbia’s new constitution, which while reaffirming Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo, does not define Sandzak’s status. One dissenting Muslim voice however came from Novi Pazar mayor Sulejman Ugljanin, leader of the Democratic Action Party, entered Serbian parliament on the list of president Boris Tadic’s democrats, but his deputies recently deserted Tadic’s ranks and are now supporting prime minister Vojislav Kostunica’s government.

Ugljanin, a dentist, is the only Sandzak Muslim leader who didn’t sign the declaration against the new constitution. Rather, he called on his followers to come out and vote at the referendum for the new constitution. “Put on your best clothes and turn out happily to vote for the new Serbian constitution, because it guarantees civil, minority and human rights,” said Ugljanin.

The Serbian parliament in September unanimously approved the new constitution, which still has to be confirmed at a referendum on 28-29 October. By stating that Kosovo is an “inalienable part of Serbia,” the document aims to thwart moves by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority - which have gained increasing support from the international community - to gain independence.

Muslim Media, Schools and Other Rights Not Enough

Sandzak was founded as a military district during Turkish occupation in 1451. Current estimates on the size of the Muslim and Serb populations vary, but Muslims form a significant group in the region. Local Muslims voted for autonomy at a referendum in 1991, but the referendum was declared invalid by the former regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Muslims, nevertheless, have their own media, schools and the right to the Bosnian language, which is similar to Serbian.

Mufti Zukorlic, spiritual leader of Sandzak Muslims, recently took steps to form a university in the region’s political and business centre, Novi Pazar, which sparked polemics even among Muslims, since there are already several faculties operated by Belgrade University. Another argument was that there is no point in opening a university by a spiritual leader, which wouldn’t have a multiethnic character, but that this should be done by the civil authorities.

Sandzak Radicalized by the Saudis

Sandzak has been one of the poorest areas of Serbia, but in the nineties it experienced a startling economic boom, thanks to private enterprise and small businesses mainly concentrated in the textile and footwear sectors. Novi Pazar’s population is mostly Muslim - over 65,000 - compared to around 20,000 Serbs. Inter-ethnic incidents have been on the rise lately.

Serbs claim a radical Islamist Wahhabi movement, financed with Saudi money, has been active in the region lately, contributing to ethnic tension there. Serbs say that Saudis have been paying Muslim women to wear Islamic robes and veil in public - contrary to the region’s traditions.

Novi Pazar is in the process of transformation into a modern city, but the ethos of the Ottoman empire lingers on: there is an old Turkish fortress and several oriental-style buildings. Ninety per cent of total trade in the city is done by private firms, and private companies employ half of the city’s 20,000 work force.

How political passions, even among the same ethnic group, could sometime get out of control was illustrated at recent municipal elections, when one Ugljanin’s councilman was killed at a polling place by a member of a rival Sandzak Democratic Party.

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Radical Islamic Kosovo, Iran’s Foothold in the Balkans

Source: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin

By F. Michael Maloof, Monday, 25 September 2006

Iran has been successful in supporting and extending its Shiite influence in Iraq and, most recently, in Lebanon. Now, the “Land of the Aryans” as the name Iran means has embarked on spreading its brand of Islamic radicalism into another region that threatens all of Europe: The Balkans. In the mid-1990s, Iran quietly began supporting the mujahadeen along side Osama bin Laden and Hezbollah in Bosnia. They succeeded in providing needed arms, financial support and other logistics to the Muslim militants fighting against the Serbs.

Iran and bin Laden then provided support to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration also supported. Today, Iran has successfully established a strong foothold in the Serbian-controlled region of Kosovo, a Muslim enclave. There even is talk that Kosovo could become independent, a development which is meeting strong Serb resistance.

Creating Another Rogue Terrorist State in Europe

Serbia’s pro-Western President, Boris Tadic, in early September 2006 visited the United States to take up this issue. Relations between the United States and Belgrade, however, remain strained due to former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, his military chief, remaining at large. Both have been indicted for war crimes. Along with Bosnia, Islamic extremists in an independent Kosovo could create a base from which all of Europe could be threatened. Concern at this level was last realized when the Muslims unsuccessfully sought to sack Vienna, Austria, on September 11, 1683, the so-called first 9-11. Following this unsuccessful effort, the Muslims were forcibly pushed back into the area which today constitutes the Balkan countries. This threat of Kosovo becoming a radical Islamic base to attack the rest of Europe also is apparent to one observer who recently was in Kosovo. One activist trying to prevent Kosovo from falling into the hands of Muslim war lords told G2B: “Unfortunately, there are some in Congress who would like to see this -- even if it means creating another rogue terrorist state in the heart of the Balkans.” He reported seeing a Saudi flag flying over a mosque alongside an Albanian flag. He also claims there is an Osama bin Laden mosque on Serbian soil. The spread of Iranian influence into the Balkans throughout the last decade in fact has received extensive U.S. assistance. This assistance was in the form of intelligence and logistical support which also went to Iranian and al-Qaida-backed militants. This development may have blinded U.S. policymakers to the threats of Jihad, or Holy War, that came from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden as early as 1998.

CIA’s Support for Mujahedeen in Former Yugoslavia

U.S. support for the Muslims in Bosnia also came from the person who is the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael V. Hayden. At the time, he was director of the U.S. European Command Intelligence Directorate, based in Stuttgart, Germany. According to a Dutch government report, Hayden “had access to virtually all intelligence” from the United States, United Nations and NATO. As a result, Hayden used his intelligence unit to allow so-called “black flights” of arms to Muslim forces during the Bosnian campaign in 1995. General Hayden was aware that these arms were assisting many of the foreign mujahadeen, which also were receiving support from Iran and bin Laden. According to a Dutch intelligence report at the time, the shipments included “weapons, ammunition, uniforms, helmets, new anti-tank weapons and Stingers.” These arms were said to have been dropped in Tuzla, shipped by land or air into Bosnia for the Bosnian Muslim army which included the al-Qaida-linked mujahadeen. After becoming the head of the National Security Agency in March 1999, Hayden then refused to clear the use of intelligence to halt continuing illegal shipments of arms to mujahadeen militants in the Balkans. Often, these arms were brought in discreetly by Muslim countries that were part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces sent in to prevent further violence. The arms then would go through Albania which had become a launch pad for Kosovo.

The Clinton administration followed up by providing strong support to the KLA, even though it was known that the KLA supported the Muslim mujahadeen. Despite that knowledge, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had the KLA removed from the State Department list of terrorists. This action paved the way for the United States to provide the KLA with needed logistical support. At the same time, the KLA also received support from Iran and Osama bin Laden, along with “Islamic holy warriors” who were jihad veterans from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Swiss journalist Richard Labeviere, in his book, “Dollars for Terror,” said that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden received help from U.S. intelligence community. Indeed, Chechen sources claim that U.S. intelligence also aided them in their opposition to Russia. Given that U.S. policy in the post-Cold War period has not only been anti-Russian but anti-Iranian, the United States worked closely with Pakistan’s predominantly Sunni Inter-Services Intelligence organization. Through ISI, the United States recruited Sunni mujahadeen by staging them in Chechnya to fight in Bosnia and later in Kosovo. The ISI also was instrumental in the creation of Afghanistan’s Taliban which gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and had strong ties to al-Qaida itself.

Kosovo, a Symbol of Islam Overpowering the West

Iran and Saudi Arabia which supports many of the existing Islamic militant charities view Kosovo as pitting Islam against Christianity. Reuven Paz of Haifa University in Israel and a leading expert on radical Islamic movements said that “all of the Sunni Muslim groups as well as Iran” see Kosovo as a symbol. “As Europe tries to unite, there could be a lot more unity between the Muslims on the margins of Europe,” Paz said. “There is potential that this unity could be used in a hostile way.” Western officials saw the goal of the now disbanded KLA as severing Kosovo from the rest of Yugoslavia and merging it with Albania. They also saw that an Islamic Kosovo could become a bridge for an Iranian sphere of influence. It would extend from Albania to Bosnia and Macedonia which also has a significant Muslim population. The Clinton administration approach was to create an independent Muslim Kosovo. A March 22, 1998, Times of London story reported that bin Laden and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had signed a pact on Feb. 16, 1998, in Tehran consolidating their operations in Albania and Kosovo. The intention was “to turn the region into their main base for Islamic armed action in Europe.” It now appears that the Bush administration is continuing the Clinton administration’s approach of creating an independent Muslim Kosovo state. Following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials in early September 2006, Serbian President Boris Tadic stated that there was an overall opinion that Kosovo should receive some kind of independence. If that turns out to be the case, the specter of an independent but Iranian-dominated Kosovo may not be far off.

F. Michael Maloof is a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Article also available at American Council for Kosovo

Posted by Svetlana at 10:13 PM | Permalink

U.S. Soldier Attacked in Kosovo Province

AFP reports on Friday, October 20 that, according to the US military, a US NATO soldier stationed in Kosovo was assaulted and injured by three men in the east of the province.

Since the agency has duly failed to mention the ethnicity of the three thugs (it must’ve slipped their minds), there can be no doubt the attackers are Albanian. If they were of any other nationality it would be published as a matter of fact; if they were Serbs, you would know about the attack before I did, and the very first word in the short news would be SERB. But, being that the eastern part of Kosovo province has been thoroughly ethnically cleansed long time ago, so much so it would be virtually impossible to find entire three Serbs there to put them together, the ethnicity, religious denomination and everything else known about the “three civilians” remains, predictably, hidden.

Unless one would prefer to think of them as of three ninjas, three vampires or three Martians, the most likely assumption one is left with, thanks to the fifteen years of diligent mass-media brainwashing, would be that three thugs are Christian Serbs.

God forbid your own news agency tells you that three Albanian Muslims have ambushed and attacked a U.S. soldier in the Kosovo province! That would be unheard of, border-line treason and betrayal of everything U.S.-led NATO has fought for, namely for Kosovo Albanian terrorists and criminals to freely terrorise, ambush and attack whomever they want, whenever they feel like it. And that’s exactly what they have been doing for decades.

No More Serbs? Let’s Terrorise Americans!

Up until seven years ago, Albanian Kosovo terrorists were ambushing, attacking, abducting, mutilating and killing Serbian policemen along with their Albanian colleagues responsible for keeping peace and order in the province, they were terrorising city mayors and other government officials, Christian priests, monks and nuns and other Serbian and non-Albanian Kosovo citizens. And that was perfectly alright, as long as the Serbs were politely putting up with the abuse and grinding their teeth in silence. When Serbian government finally got fed up with the lawlessness, crime and free-reigning terror, and started rooting the terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals and thugs out, all hell broke loose, and U.S. led NATO into a killing-the-Serbs-spree.

Despite the haughty claims of saving humanity from Serbian “barbarism,” what U.S./NATO actually achieved was to help Albanian terrorists finish the ethnic cleansing. As soon as NATO marched in the Serbian province, bringing with them truckloads of Albanian criminals, terrorists and jihadist mercenaries, the genocide of Serbs and all non-Albanians in the province went into a full swing, reaching crescendo in March 2004 Kristallnacht -- a monstrous orgy of violence and a veritable pogrom, under the very noses of the so-called international community. And Albanians are still not satisfied, not as long as there is a single non-Albanian in Kosovo province left.

Now, when the Serbs who could be ambushed and killed are getting scarcer to come by, Albanian terrorists rescued by the U.S. have turned to attacking the U.S. peacekeepers stationed in the province. So much for the whole “Merciful Angel” delusion and the myth of the “oppression” of the Albanians. We might soon hear Kosovo Albanians are now oppressed by the American peacekeepers, since they are already loudly complaining of being oppressed by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

In reality, it is any semblance of law and order that “oppresses” Kosovo Albanians, regardless of who is trying to enforce it -- Serbs, Americans, or the Swiss. That’s the problem with Albanians holding Serbian province under occupation today, as it was 7, 10, or 20 years ago. And until the “international community” understands this, they will never be able to claim they have brought peace to that corner of the world, no matter what they do and whom they sacrifice to appease the raging Albanians.

Kosovo Albanian Mafia Operating in Spain

Meanwhile the Spaniards, who don’t seem too amused with beating around the bush and playing the painfully choreographed PC game until the cows come home, are reporting that five Kosovo Albanian criminals were arrested for a number of warehouse robberies in Murcia and Almería.

The latest arrests are part of the continued efforts by the Spanish authorities to root out Kosovo Albanian mafia operating in Spain. In August 2006, Spanish police has arrested seven Kosovo Albanians connected to 150 robberies of Costa del Sol villas. This time around, though, Spanish press is hinting at even more serious troubles ahead, since the body found in a burnt out car suggests the killing linked to Albanian mafia.

For their part, Kosovo Albanians have not complained of being oppressed by the Spaniards in Spain -- not yet anyway, and at least not publicly -- but given the soft spot the Westerners keep showing them, no one should be surprised if the New York Times, Washington Post or London Times soon brings up the question of Albanian status in Spain. And if they happen to be a majority in one block of one city or in some building in the coastal part of Spain, perhaps they should be given some form of independence there too. We could call it democracy, or human rights issue, or a right to self-determination and self-government... or whatever.

Posted by Svetlana at 11:55 PM | Permalink

Wahhabi Safe Houses in Pristina, Kosovo

Report by the Defense & Foreign Affairs International Strategic Studies Association

A UN police surveillance operation conducted in Pristina, the provincial capital of the Albanian-occupied province of Kosovo, in January 2006 discovered that several French Islamists of Moroccan background, who had fled from the French police following the Autumn 2005 ghetto riots in France, were being protected in a “Wahhabi safe house” in the center of Pristina. According to the officer who took charge in the surveillance operation, the parents of the Albanian Wahhabi who allowed the men to hide there were terrified because of the kind of “responsibilities” the son had gotten involved with by joining the “brotherhood”.

A couple of months earlier, on October 18, 2005, a Turkish citizen (Erdogan T.) was arrested in his Albanian-licensed Jeep as he tried to enter the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) at the Kafasan border crossing on Lake Ohrid. He had one kilogram of cocaine, more than four kilos of heroin and a half kilo of hashish, all packed into 19 packages. The man said that the drugs were for the Turkish narco-market, noting: “Macedonia was just a transit zone.” But the drug movement in this east-west direction was a notable innovation, say Customs officials, because it represents a new path.

Jihadist Movements Funded by Albanian and Turkish Mafia

Both incidents showed the changing logistical patterns of two negative forces which are often controlled by the same people: the radical jihadist movement and the mafia business in drugs, firearms and human trafficking. The Balkans is becoming a fertile base for both to flourish, and it is clear that radical Islam and Wahhabist movements have been funded by mafia groups, especially the Albanian and Turkish ones.

First, radical Islamists looking to escape from the European Union by hiding in the Balkans are frequently encountered in all the Muslim-inhabited countries of the region. With EU passports, there is no need for them to acquire visas, and the perennially-corrupt and poorly-enforced borders of Balkan countries in any case make it easy for Islamists to take shelter.

Authorities in Macedonia claim that Islamists in the EU who are in danger of being expelled to their original countries in the Middle East have been using FYROM villages populated by Albanians and Macedonian Muslims (as well as Wahhabi strongholds in the capital, Skopje) to hide for the past two years at least.

Bosnian Mujahedin Shuffling to Avoid Deportation

And, a former intelligence officer in Skopje who was active during the Yugoslav wars claims that foreign mujahedin who remained in Bosnia following the wars “are being shuffled back and forth” between the countries, now that the US has urged the Bosnian Muslim Government to deport all former foreign fighters. However, jihadi chief Abu Hamza claimed publicly that if the Government did this, the mujahedin would rise up against the Muslim state itself.

Scandinavian Centers Coordinating Movement of Jihadists

This intelligence officer claimed that the movement of mujahedin between the Balkans and other corners of Europe with growing extremist populations was partially being done through the Albanian ports of Drac (Durres) and Valona (Vlore), “on lumber ships traveling to and from Norway and Sweden ... in these two countries, there are two centers of Islamic Relief, which is coordinating the movement of Wahhabi extremists from Scandinavia and the Balkans.” For the liaison within FYROM, the source claims, the Islamic NGO El Hilal, in Skopje, was involved.

Other routes for transit of mujahedin are through the mountainous areas of Macedonia and Albania, through Montenegro and its port of Bar, across to Ancona, Italy, and up to Milan, which is a major city for global jihadis with a diverse variety of nationalities represented. Milan has also long been a major city for Albanian migrant workers from the Balkans.

New Drug Routes Opening in Albania

Regarding the drugs trade, a very high-ranking official in FYROM’s Customs Administration stated privately to a GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs source early in 2006 several interesting developments.

While the traditional heroin route in this part of the Balkans was from Turkey-Bulgaria-Macedonia, this continues but is complemented by a new one coming from Albania-FYROM (and some cases, on to Turkey or Kosovo). Specifically, the drug route is a short stretch of road which straddles the northern edge of Lake Ohrid, coming from Albania at the Kafasan border crossing and passing through Struga (now Albanian-controlled), and along the western road leading north to Gostivar-Tetovo and then Skopje. From there, the highway continues past Kumanovo to Kriva Palanka on the Bulgarian border crossing of Devet Bajer. This has been the scene of several high-profile arrests in the past year implicating the Albanian-Turkish narco-mafias.

For example, a Macedonian border police action of November 28, 2005, resulted in the seizure of five kilos of heroin in a Turkish-owned passenger bus making the regular trip from Istanbul-Ohrid. One week earlier, the same bus company had been caught at Devet Bajer with 2,800 liters of hard alcohol. Previously, on November 9, 2005, an Istanbul-Struga bus traveling through Bulgaria was found with four kilos of heroin. A prime suspect in these operations was one specific company, Alpar Turism, which operates numerous buses between Turkey and Macedonia.

Deafening Silence of the Media

These seizures and resulting arrests exposed a network of Albanian drug dealers from Skopje, Kumanovo, and Struga, working together with Turkish citizens. Several months ago, police reported the arrest of two Turkish-origin FYROM citizens of the western village of Vrapciste, in separate cases involving people-trafficking in Tirane and heroin smuggling from Turkey.

The new drugs route through Albania has aroused concern. The Customs official told us that “last October [2005], at the Kafasan border, we started to see a big trend from Albania-Macedonia-Kosovo-Serbia, but the media doesn’t report this ... In one month 20 kilos of heroin was captured going through there; this is something big.”

According to the official, hard drugs like heroin and cocaine as well as synthetics were being supplied through Albania not only for export but now for domestic consumption. “In general, the people involved for consumption of heroin include a high number of Albanians ... this is because it is a ‘status’ issue, and users of cocaine are more from the upper-class [Macedonian] circles.” Thus, heroin is also cheaper.

The cocaine coming through Albania at Kafasan is South American, smuggled either directly on container ships at Vlore or else on small vessels with the cooperation of the Southern Italy Calabrian mafia, Ndrangheta, which enjoys close connections with the Albanian mafia according to Italian experts.

Posted by Svetlana at 05:41 PM | Permalink

Raining Frogs

If you live long enough, you might get to see a trial of an Albanian Muslim terrorist in the Hague.

Though plentiful and overpopulated in southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, Albanian Muslim terrorists’ trials for war crimes fall into the category of rare phenomenons, like the frog rains or Haley’s comet.

The “tribunal” has recently announced the trial of UCK/KLA commanders Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj “will apparently begin in February or March 2007.” It’s the “apparently” that is troubling -- one would think the trial either will or won’t begin -- and what “appears” today, may well disappear tomorrow. Keeping in mind we are talking about the rogue court with rigged rules here, what appeared on October 13, 2006 could disappear without trace by the February 2007. That is why each announcement and pronouncement concerning non-Serbs coming from the Hague has to be as cautiously and painfully worded as dancing on eggshells.

Crimes of Haradinaj’s “Black Eagles” Enveloped in Silence

Ramush Haradinaj was indicted in March 2005 for the crimes committed all the way back in 1998, before the staging of the Racak Hoax -- a frame-up designed to summon and justify the wrath of Clinton administration, unleashed in the 78 days of punitive merciless bombardment of Serbia by the U.S.-led NATO.

At the same time, the gruesome crimes of Haradinaj’s “Black Eagles” over the Serbian civilian population that took place in Kosovo before the Racak setup, have not succeeded in raising Clinton’s eyebrow, let alone the NATO armada Albanian White al-Qaeda was allowed to rent out.

Likewise, while the so-called Racak Massacre quickly became the most repeated call to bloodletting-rites in the Western media and the indisputable justification for raining death on Serbia for almost three months, Haradinaj’s, Ceku’s, Thaci’s and crimes of other KLA leaders and members were politely ignored by the Western mainstream media at the time.

Threats and Violence, Kosovo Albanian Only ‘Arguments’

Nevertheless, the very suggestion in 2005 that Ramush Haradinaj might be brought to trial for abduction, detention, deportation, ethnic cleansing, torture, inhumane acts, cruel treatment and murder of Serbian civilians, among other things, triggered the well known outburst of Albanian Muslim threats, warning of the “eruption of violence,” “serious trouble” and continued terror in the Kosovo province in case Haradinaj gets indicted.

The exact same threats are heard from Albanian white al-Qaeda occupying Serbian province whenever things don’t seem to be going their way. They are being repeated now again, due to the “international community’s” decision to postpone the Kosovo solution proposal for the next year. Bishop Artemije was quite right when he asserted that “threats and violence are their only ‘arguments’.”

According to the Sharia Law

Unlike the single Christian Serb indicted by The Hague, Kosovo Albanian terrorist Haradinaj was allowed a luxury to await the beginning of his “trial” at home, among his clan and gang members. Not only that, he was also permitted by the Hague and the UN officials to take active part in the political and public life of the Serbian province.

While each of the numerous Serbian indictees is immediately presumed guilty unless proven less guilty then initially assumed, Ramush Haradinaj whom British soldiers called a “psychopath” is obviously regarded as someone who wouldn’t hurt a fly, since he is allowed to parade in front of the media, give interviews and conduct his drug-dealing, human-trafficking “business” unhampered, as any upstanding Albanian Muslim terrorist and criminal presently occupying Kosovo and Metohija.

Considering The Hague’s appalling record in hypocrisy, double standards and mockery of justice, none of this is surprising.

While the Serbian eardrums are ringing daily from the incessant Western chanting of Ratko-Mladic-Radovan-Karadzic Maha Mantra, on the rare occasion a mujahedeen from former Yugoslavia does find himself on “trial,” he can confidently expect to be quickly and courteously released, no matter what.

Not because he is not guilty, but because he is a Muslim and non-Serb, therefore a designated victim, justified for torturing, raping and beheading Serbs. Because, in reality, Hague “tribunal” practices the Sharia Law, according to which a mere hearsay by any Muslim is sufficient to hang an “infidel,” while a Christian is most likely to die locked away and forgotten before managing to prove he is a victim, regardless of the hard evidence, forensic reports and all.

Posted by Svetlana at 08:08 PM | Permalink

“By Their Fruit You Will Recognize Them”

Billionaire George Soros, a Postmodern Villain has, according to the NewsMax, decided to “get disengaged from politics”.

Best known in North America as the man who invested over $25 million into an attempt to defeat President Bush in 2004 elections, Hungarian emigre is much better known in Europe as the Arch Villain who has helped destroy the better part of Eastern Europe. With his utterly bizarre “Open Society” project, supposedly established in order to “spread democracy” around the world, the wealthy rogue has been working for decades on wiping out every trace of decency and traditional values holding those societies together.

Siding with heroin dealers, homosexuals, traitors, abortion activists and degenerates, and advancing their cause through countless NGOs and corrupt media, Soros has managed to undermine traditional family values of the old European nations and enshrine the selfishness, promiscuity, immorality and greed as the supreme accomplishments young people should strive for. This is what Soros thinks democracy means.

And now, finally, he is disengaging from politics. From now on, he’ll only control the media, NGOs and small countries’ resources -- no more politics for this “philanthropist”! Enough is enough! He gave enough to the world, he can rest now and await the Nobel Peace Prize his good friend Marti Ahtisaari (a.k.a. Adolfsen) will nominate him for.

Just to show how fed-up with politics he really is, the Evil Incarnate donated another $75,000 to his other good friend, retired general Wesley Clark -- Soros’ candidate for the 2008 U.S. presidential elections.

While he’s “disengaging,” Soros is also actively engaged in establishing an American Jewish political lobby that will undermine support for Israel in the Democratic Party -- in fact, the lobby that will undermine Israel’s position in the U.S. in general. But that’s it, honest to Grand Architect of the Universe!

For now.

Posted by Svetlana at 11:54 PM | Permalink

Really, Really, REALLY... Unpleasant

Written by the eXile’s Mark Ames

This week’s edition of Newsweek features one of the most bizarre articles I’ve read in a long time. It’s called “Why Russia Is Really Weak,” and as the schoolyard-taunting title suggests, it’s a desperate attempt to convince Newsweek readers that Russia isn’t as strong as they think. Really. No, really, Russia really isn’t! Dontcha believe us?

It’s the “Really” in the headline that’s really, really revealing. Because it suggests nervousness on the part of the authors--a pair of academic beigeocrats with appropriate ethnic names: Rajan Menon and Alexander Motyl.

They’re nervous--they and the presumed Newsweek reading public--for the obvious reason that Russia is actually getting much stronger. As we know, the American way to react to unpleasant turns in events is to simply deny they’re happening, and then to posit their opposite, and leave it at that.

Russia wasn’t supposed to get stronger, certainly not on its own, without the West’s help. It just doesn’t make sense. Moreover, it’s somehow cosmologically wrong that Russia should become stronger right at the time when American power is in a freefall. That just ain’t right...so therefore, the authors offer a solution: cup your ears, close your eyes, and scream, “Russia is really weak! Russia is really weak!” and it’ll all go away, like a bad dream...

Oddly enough, the authors claim in the first paragraph that alleged Western “news stories” uniformly tout a “predictable theme”--that theme being Russia’s growing strength. Moreover, these Western media outlets are guilty of an even worse sin: they’re supposedly going farther by calling on Western leaders to “adjust to this new reality.” In other words: appeasement.

And now Newsweek is out to set the record straight.

Umm...what the fuck are Menon and Motyl talking about? What media outlets have they been smoking? And can I score some of that shit? Seriously, where are these alleged rah-rah-Russia articles appearing? In the Washington Post? The Wall Street Journal? The New York Times?

Entire article by Mark Ames, America’s Pathetic Putin-Envy

Cartoon by Nikola Otas

Posted by Svetlana at 09:52 PM | Permalink

Nicole Rent-a-Voice Kidman

On the same day Serbia was burying the remains of 29 civilians executed by Albanian terrorists and thrown into a Kosovo mass grave, Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman waltzed into southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija as a United Nations goodwill ambassador, “pledging to provide a voice for the troubled province.”

Not that she really knows it’s a province in the Serbian state, the Hollywood star thinks Kosovo is “a country”:

“I’m here ... to learn so that I can help your country at this crucial, crucial time for the future. To meet people, hear their stories and educate myself, and I suppose be a voice for you if you need it.”

It’s a good thing they took Nicole to Pristina straight from Rome, so she probably understands they did not leave the European continent. That’s a start.

Women’s or Terrorists’ Rights?

The actress was appointed a goodwill ambassador on January 26, 2006, for a U.N. organization that fights for women’s rights.

At the time, Kidman was saying it was her own “passion toward helping women” that motivated her to first call the United Nations and that, in her new role, she hopes to focus attention on violence against women.

Noeleen Heyzer, head of UNIFEM, called Kidman “a gift because she will use her visibility, her voice, her connections.”

Heyzer said there had been some progress for women but said, “Progress is too slow when we look just at the range of violence that has affected women’s lives, be it rape, be it abuse in the household, trafficking, because of traditional practices.”

This is all very good and would suggest Kosovo province is the best place Nicole Kidman could choose for her first stop as the UN’s goodwill ambassador for women, given the abysmal record Kosovo Albanians have set in white slave trafficking, forced prostitution and a wide range of women’s rights violations, ever since the UN/NATO wrestled control of the province from Serbia and handed it over to the terrorist KLA.

Abusers Need Support Too

Except now Nicole isn’t saying anything about women any more and doesn’t seem to be interested in the tragic fate of girls and women who have been forced into prostitution, trafficked and sold like potato sacks in Kosovo (up to 20 percent of whom, according to Amnesty International, are children below 14 years of age).

After shaking hands with “local leaders and diplomats,” including the current Kosovo “prime minister,” war criminal Agim Ceku, soaked in Serbian blood up to his eyebrows, Hollywood star is offering to be THEIR voice “at this crucial, crucial time for the future” of “their country.”

Apparently, Nicole Kidman hasn’t only changed her mind in deciding to lend her voice to Albanian terrorists and secessionists in Kosovo instead of battered and abused women, she has also agreed to plead the case for the men who have been battering and abusing those women, along with the rest of Serbs and non-Albanians in the Serbian province for the past seven years.

So, where did her “passion toward helping women” disappear meanwhile, in the few short months since she volunteered for the role of ambassador for women?

It must’ve been the kind of passion destined to fizzle out overnight, since advancing the case of terrorists, human traffickers and drug dealers, although much less endearing and gallant, just happens to be much more profitable.

Posted by Svetlana at 11:15 PM | Permalink

PRISTINA-BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- More than two dozen Serbian civilians, including women and children found in a mass grave in Kosovo, were laid to rest in Belgrade on Saturday after their remains were handed over to relatives.

The 29 bodies, including an 11-member Serb family executed by ethnic Albanian terrorists on June 17-19, 1998, were identified through DNA analysis and handed over Friday by U.N. authorities from the southern province.

According to the Associated Press, a few hundred people attended the funeral at the cemetery on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, mostly the victims’ relatives, but also families of the Serbs still missing from the conflict. So far, 212 Serbs have been exhumed in Kosovo and reburied outside the province, mostly in Serbian cities where their surviving family members fled during last seven years since the province has been under the UN control.

More than 2,000 Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians remain unaccounted for in what remains one of the most sensitive and emotionally charged issue for the Serbs.

Receiving this type of news and “packages” from the south of their country for decades has hardly helped persuade anyone in Serbia Albanian terrorists in Kosovo should be rewarded with the part of Serbian land, or with the seat in United Nations.

Volujak Mass Grave

In mid-April 2004, UNMIK representatives found remains of 21 bodies of Kosovo Serbs in a cave near the village of Volujak near Klina. The victims were reported missing in the summer of 1998.

The following video material includes updated materials of Gracanica’s Glas Juga journalists as well as materials from the archives of Ninoslav Randjelovic, who recorded talks with the families of the missing Kosovo Serbs from that area, which is today a firm stronghold of the terrorist UCK/KLA, Albanian Muslim “White al-Qaeda” occupying Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.

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Independent Kosovo Would be Cancer of Europe

MOSCOW, Russia, October 12 (Interfax) - An independent Kosovo would lead to an irreparable tragedy for all of Europe, Bishop Artemije of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija has said.

“I would compare an independent Kosovo to a cancer, which would affect all of Europe, not only the regions surrounding it,” Bishop Artemije said at a press conference at the Interfax main office in Moscow on Thursday.

In the seven years the peacekeeping contingent has been present in Kosovo, that province “has become a European black hole where crime, drugs, weapons, and human trafficking thrive,” he said.

“An independent Kosovo would become a base for extremist forces, and its separation from Serbia would lead to the complete elimination of the Christian community and all traces of the thousand-year history of Christianity in that area,” he said.

150 Churches Destroyed, 400 Mosques Built

Since the moment the KFOR contingent arrived in Kosovo, over 150 Orthodox churches and monasteries there have been destroyed. In the same period, over 400 mosques have been built in that territory with financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, he said.

In addition, 250,000 Serbs have been expelled from Kosovo, over 1,300 Serbs have been killed and about as many have gone missing, Bishop Artemije said. Tens of thousands of Serbian homes and hundreds of villages have been destroyed over this time, he said.

“The time of persecutions and fear continues for the Serbs and other non-Albanian ethnic groups,” he said.

Remains of Serbs Killed by Albanian Muslims in Kosovo

Tanjug reports on October 13 that representatives of the Commission on Missing Persons and over 100 relatives of Serbian victims gathered at the KFOR headquarters on the administrative crossing of Merdare on Friday to take over 29 coffins with the mortal remains exhumed from the mass grave in Kosovo-Metohija.

According to the news agency, the bodies of 11 members of the Kostic family and two of the Nikolic family from the village of Retimlje, as well as the remains of eight Serbs from the village of Opterusa and those of two persons of Serb nationality from Orahovac and Malisevska Banja respectively were exhumed from the mass grave.

All of the victims were first kidnapped by members of the terrorist, so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on June 17-19, and then thrown into the mass grave of Volujak cave, near Malisevo.

Losing the Right to Kosovo

Being that the main pro-independence “argument” of Albanian al-Qaeda holding southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija under siege and of their lobbyists in the West is that “Serbs have lost the right to claim Kosovo as their province” after the war with terrorist KLA in 1998-1999, how about facing the facts and admitting Albanian terrorists never had the right to a chunk of Serbian state in the first place?

For those who, contrary to all the common sense and reason, still like to think Albanian Muslim terrorists did have a right to secede part of someone else’s country, they have certainly lost the last shred of that “right” during the past seven years, while regularly supplying the world with the news such as the above, about the mass-graves for Serbs, abductions, tortures, murders and continuous campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted under the very noses of the “international community.”

No decent person with functional brain can fail to see Albanian Muslim terrorists have screwed up royally, like no one before, like no one else could -- they were supported by all the western power centers to wage the war against Serbs, they were touted as Serbian victims throughout the world, they were given the immense NATO air power to hijack Serbian southern province from Serbia, their crimes and terror were routinely swept under the rug and kept hidden from the public for over a decade, they have been supported by the Left, Right and middle through the seven years of murder, pillage and rape of Serbia, they have been allowed to wipe the Christianity off the face of Kosovo and keep building the mosques with Bin Laden’s, Iranian and Saudi money across Serbian Jerusalem...

All they had to do was PRETEND they are capable of common decency, sit still, stop abducting, torturing and killing non-Albanians, refrain from demolishing the last church and monastery standing and simply WAIT to be given part of Serbia on a silver platter. But they couldn’t do even that, no one managed to put a stop to their bestiality, brutality and savagery, not even for one week out of a decade of international servility in pandering to their will and wishes.

Now, they haven’t only lost the bare minimum of the good will generated by the tireless lobbying millions of heroin-dollars provided, they have clearly demonstrated they never were the victims to begin with -- on the contrary, they were attacking and victimizing others all along.

The only ones who have lost the right to a single handful of Kosovo land are Kosovo Albanians themselves, by behaving like a bunch of screwed-up, bloodthirsty, savage apes.

Posted by Svetlana at 10:43 PM | Permalink

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway Oct 13, 2006 (AP)— Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for pioneering the use of microcredit, the extension of small loans to benefit poor entrepreneurs.

Grameen Bank has been instrumental in helping millions of poor Bangladeshis, many of them women, improve their standard of living by letting them borrow tiny sums to start businesses.

Loans go toward buying items such as cows to start a dairy, chickens for an egg business, or cell phones to start businesses where villagers who have no access to phones pay a small fee to make calls.

“Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty,” the Nobel Committee said.

[...] Yunus founded Grameen Bank in 1976, after lending $27 out of his pocket to help 42 women in Bangladesh buy weaving stools.

“They got the weaving stools quickly, they started to weave quickly and they repaid him quickly,” said Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the committee.

“Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development,” the Nobel Committee said in its citation.

Today the bank claims to have 6.6 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women, and provides services in more than 70,000 villages in Bangladesh. Its model of micro-financing has inspired similar efforts around the world.

Though bankers in general are not exactly compassion personified, Professor Yunus seems to have put his whole heart and soul, along with the knowledge, into an admirable project worthy of the world’s recognition and $1.4 million award, certain to end in the right hands.

Congratulations!

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What Independence?

With a typically biased anti-Serbian slant, British Guardian reports today that now even the biggest advocate for the amputation of Serbian southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, Martti Ahtisaari (whose real name is Adolfsen), admits Serbian Kosovo will not be independent any time soon.

In an attempt to minimize the important news and muddy the waters, Guardian’s pen-pusher, helping himself to a few ratty metaphors (cat-out-of-the-bag, “hapless goalkeeper” and other pearls of cheap reporting), uses a lot of space and time to wrap it up in a bunch of nonsense and hot air, presenting his subjective, entirely irrelevant views as part of the story.

Nobody really gives a damn if Simon Something thinks no independence for Kosovo is a “bad news,” if he’s “unsurprised” with Serbia’s stance, or if he prefers to play down Russia’s firm opposition to Serbia’s dismemberment by calling it a “sympathy.”

But, as confirmed countless times through history, once you lose the war, every Tom, Dick and Harry suddenly feels he’s invited to throw his two cents in and rub your nose in it.

Simon’s power trips aside, the gist of the story is:

• Albanian main lobbyist in the UN, Martti Adolfsen, has confirmed Kosovo will not become independent any time soon.
• Russia remains firm in opposing the carving up of Serbia.

UN Mission in Kosovo, Albanian “Most Hated Enemy”

This will most certainly hit the Albanian Muslim branch of al-Qaeda occupying Kosovo and Metohija hard, since Kosovo Albanians have published a report by the UCK/KLA thugs a week ago (on October 6), which shows in clear-cut terms western powers do have reasons to fear for their troops stationed in the snake-pit of their KLA friends. Albanians have failed to offer the translation of white al-Qaeda’s set of threats, blackmails and war cries for a very good reason:

[Faik Fazliu, chairman of the UCK/KLA] said that the war associations had released a statement addressed to the people of Kosovo, the Assembly, the government, the Unity [negotiation] Team, the offices of the Quint [United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and France], UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo], and the UN secretary general, and their own members. He went on to say that the international community, as well as the Albanian factor, was playing games with our will and fate.

[...] “The Albanian people see the UNMIK staff with suspicion and as an enemy, not as an instrument for establishing a democratic system. There are so many instances of abuse by this institution, in collusion with the servile Albanian factor - abuses that have been very detrimental to Kosovo - that the people today see UNMIK as the most hated invader of Albanian lands,” Xhavit Jashari said, accusing UNMIK of ignoring the values of the UCK war.

Perhaps NATO troops stationed in Kosovo should now call on the Serbian army to rescue them from their Albanian Muslim rescuees, war criminals, thugs and terrorists. Call it a sequel to a “Merciful Angel” mission, because that story didn’t really end in 1999, it’s to be continued.

Cartoon by Blatnik

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“Directness,” New Euphemism for Racism

Most news agencies have reported that former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari (a.k.a. Adolfsen) is tipped to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace accord in Aceh, though he apparently faces “stiff competition” from Chinese exile Rebiya Kadeer and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.<