Occupation of Serbia Not Part of KFOR Mandate
El Mundo: Spain to Withdraw from Kosovo Province
Spain should terminate its participation in the KFOR mission, said on Wednesday the influential Spanish El Mundo daily, which also said that the majority of Spaniards were urging their country's withdrawal.
Judging by a survey made public in the daily, 85 percent of Spaniards are in favor of the withdrawal of Spanish troops from southern Serbian province of Kosovo.
KFOR—From Peacekeepers to Occupiers
"Since the authorities in Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, KFOR's task has completely changed," El Mundo said.
"The mission at this moment has no legal basis. It was initially envisaged that KFOR would be a peacekeeping mission in the region, and there was no plan for it to become an occupation force that should subjugate the Serbian minority to the ethnic Albanian majority and to a policy of fait accompli," the daily said.
Spain has over 100 troops in Kosovo-Metohia province as part of NATO's contingent. The Pristina separatists announced independence unilaterally, which has been recognized by some European countries, but not by others, among which Spain remains firm in refusing to legitimize Washington-imposed dismemberment of sovereign UN member state.
Recommended: NATO's big blunder: Action in Kosovo one of the great outrages of our time, by Peter Worthington (Toronto Sun); After Kosovo, the Deluge, by Ian Bancroft (Guardian, CiF); Kosovo is Munich, by Julia Gorin (Republican Riot); NATO Used Disproportionate Force Against Serbian Civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica, World News Australia (News.Sbs.com.au); Kosovo and Washington’s Strategic Agenda for Europe and Eurasia, by F. William Engdahl (Engdahl.OilGeopolitics.net); Tell Them The Truth, by David Truskoff (CounterCurrents.org); Kosovo’s Dark Meaning, by George F. Will (NewsWeek)
Comments
The begining of the turnaround soon the truth will come out and many more countries and people of the West will become disillussioned with there leaders in particular the Americans will see that Clinton's and Bush's
rhetoric about going to war for freedom and anti terror do not match the results and outcomes. They will look for a president who will be able to bring both character and economic stability back to their whithouse they will look to Obama. This is a man who see's what is true and what is a product of lobbyist greed and lies. Serbia has long suffered and been labelled with crimes that has been actually perpetrated to it. This persecution suffering and sorrow will bring Serbia untold prosperity and joy. The world will recognize and be in aure of how many times this nation, a small nation of brave can see evil, stand in the way of evil and bring evil to it's knees no matter how big the foe. To all by brethren you will never walk alone.
CCCC 4 LIFE
Posted by: Milivoj | March 20, 2008 05:42 AM
I think that USA geopolitical strategy will stay the same. As it was all this 50 years.
One who killed the dragon, become the dragon.
Obama or anyone else... It does not matter.
Dragon will stay the dragon until he die
Posted by: Dmitriy | March 20, 2008 02:32 PM
I agree with Dmitriy. I only outcome I want to see is the one that demands the Albanians to pack up and go back to their land called Albanian. I am sick of "talks" these talks are responsible for this independence. Do not be fooled by Obamas slick talks he is a perfect representations of a fox in sheep’s wool. Ever since WW1 America has been sticking its nose in other business. Yes America was involved in WW1 not in the public eyes but rather in the private. they had a big influence in WW2 supplying the Germans with weapons, yes I wrote it right Selling weapons to both sides equals big profit. I do not trust any thing that some out of American government’s mouth. If the American people are smart they will over take their government officials but if they are dumb they will live a life of hell.
Posted by: dejan | March 20, 2008 03:37 PM
Clinton lied about sniper fire
March 25, 2008 - 10:15AM
Hillary Clinton's election campaign said she "misspoke" last week when she said she had landed under sniper fire during a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia in March 1996. The Obama campaign suggested it was a deliberate exaggeration on Senator Clinton's part.
Senator Clinton often cites the goodwill trip she took with her daughter and several celebrities as a part of her foreign policy experience.
During a speech last Monday about Iraq, she said of the trip: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
According to an Associated Press story at the time, Senator Clinton was placed under no extraordinary risks on that trip. And one of her companions on it, comedian Sinbad, told The Washington Post he has no recollection either of the threat or reality of gunfire.
When asked Monday about the New York senator's recent remarks on the trip, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson pointed to Senator Clinton's previous written account in her book, Living History, in which she described a shortened welcoming ceremony at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Senator Clinton wrote: "Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find."
"That is what she wrote in her book," Mr Wolfson said. "That is what she has said many, many times and on one occasion she misspoke."
The written account in Senator Clinton's book contradicts the comments she made last Monday about the welcoming ceremony.
Just after her speech last week, she reaffirmed the account of running from the plane to the cars when she was asked about it by reporters at a news conference. She said was moved into the cockpit of the C-17 cargo plane as they were flying into Tuzla Air Base.
"Everyone else was told to sit on their bulletproof vests," Senator Clinton told reporters. "And we came in, in an evasive manoeuvre. There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened."
A spokesman for rival Barack Obama's campaign questioned whether Senator Clinton misspoke, saying her comments came in what appeared to be prepared remarks for her speech on Iraq. The Obama campaign statement contained a link to a text of Senator Clinton's speech that is still posted on her campaign Web site including the account of running to the cars.
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a written statement that the Bosnia story "joins a growing list of instances in which Senator Clinton has exaggerated her role in foreign and domestic policymaking".
The Obama campaign statement also links to a CBS news video taken from her Bosnia trip and posted on YouTube, which shows Senator Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, walking across the tarmac from a large cargo plane, smiling and waving, and stopping to shake hands with Bosnia's acting president and greet an 8-year-old girl.
"This is something that the Obama campaign wants to push cause they have nothing positive to say about their candidate," Mr Wolfson said yesterday in the conference call.
AP
Posted by: Milivoj | March 24, 2008 06:26 PM