Macedonia below is not the Greek Macedonia, but the <b>FYROM: Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia</b>. Its people are Slavic like the rest of Yugoslavia. I believe the <b>capital</b> of this new splinter nation of former Yugoslavia <b>is Skopje</b>, if I recall aright.
<b>The US and NATO purposefully made a huge mistake and realised it back in 2001.</b>
Note how the 'innocent' islamic ethnic Albanians turn out to be terrorists in sheep's clothing. (Surprise, surprise)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/32277
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NATO strikes at Kosovo gunmen</b>
Mar 9, <b>2001</b>
US-led peacekeepers drove ethnic Albanian gunmen from a hamlet they had used to attack Macedonia, a step towards halting fresh Balkan violence which has alarmed the international community.
In another blow directed against the gunmen, NATO has agreed to let Serbian security forces into a buffer zone adjoining Kosovo and Macedonia to stop guerrillas in the zone linking up with those harrying Macedonian forces.
Neighbouring Bulgaria also stepped in, promising to send "hundreds of tonnes" of military supplies to help Skopje in its fight against the shadowy group that has threatened to bring a decade of Balkan ethnic conflict to a hitherto peaceful country.
<b>Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica accepted NATO's plan to let Serb troops into the zone along the Macedonian border but accused the alliance of leaving Belgrade to pick up the pieces of a problem he said NATO had fomented.</b>
(As always, Serbs have to save the day. They've been doing this since the expansionist islamic j-had of the middle ages.)
Macedonia raised the alarm two weeks ago after a clash between its security forces and ethnic Albanian gunmen who had occupied Tanusevci on the border with majority Albanian Kosovo, under international protection since 1999.
A week later the crisis escalated when three of its troops were killed, two of them by a landmine well inside the country.
NATO, which leads the international peacekeeping force KFOR based over the border in Kosovo, said it would beef up patrols on its side but could not cross over to help.
<b>Gunmen move out </b>
On Thursday KFOR moved right up to the border, into a part of the village of Tanusevci it called upper Mijak, where it found the gunmen's hastily-abandoned headquarters in a school building well stocked with food and explosives.
"We have just concluded a successful operation by eliminating a safe haven for armed groups here in Kosovo," US Brigadier General Kenneth Quinlan, commander of Kosovo's Multinational Brigade East, said in nearby Debelde.
As far as the confused local Albanians were concerned, the peacekeepers had crossed into Macedonia.
"I don't want to be a citizen of Kosovo. I am a citizen of Macedonia," said 55-year-old villager Bajram Sinani.
Unlike their ethnic kin in Kosovo, most of Macedonia's Albanians feel their future lies in improving their position inside the state, rather than breaking away. <b>But the gunmen could stir a revolt if the violence spreads.</b>
(The ethnic albanian islamics in Macedonia of course don't want to move into Kosovo being prepared specially for them - the Kosovo muslims never moved into Albania either - but want to stay put in Macedonia, so that their numerous islamic offspring can in future claim FYROMacedonia too.)
Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said at first officials thought the Tanusevci group were criminals but then realised it was "more complex".
One soldier told Reuters the Macedonian forces were itching to hit back at the gunmen, who they have had in their sights for weeks, but were held back by the politicians. So far only one of some 200 in the group has been reported killed.
(Must be psecular politicians. Islamic gunmen can do all the damage they want, but Macedonian law enforcement is curbed from fighting back.)
The peacekeepers said they had injured two gunmen on Wednesday after taking control of most of Mijak and had detained seven, of whom two had been freed after checks.
But the skirmishes continued. The Macedonian Defence Ministry said several dozen men had come out of Tanusevci and attacked its watchtower during the night from the direction of Malino to the east. The Macedonian forces returned fire and suffered no casualties.
<b>Mountain borders</b>
Diplomats say the main problem is preventing the guerrillas operating freely across the unmarked mountain borders between Kosovo, Macedonia and southern Serbia.
Three Yugoslav soldiers died on Wednesday north of Presevo in southern Serbia, just outside the buffer zone running from the Macedonian border in the east around Kosovo's boundary with the rest of Yugoslavia.
<b>Barely two years after fighting Yugoslavia to defend ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the West is this time lining up with Belgrade - under a new, reformist leadership - to limit ethnic Albanian nationalism.</b>
(That's how it always is: international support is for the 'poor innocent victimised' islamic terrorists. Once everyone helps them, they expand their terrorist activities, until even their staunch supporters realise they'll not be sated.)
"France and Germany condemn the extremists' violent action on the northern border with Macedonia and the Presevo valley, which is aimed at destabilising the region," the two countries' foreign ministers said in Paris.
<b>NATO Secretary General George Robertson said a "controlled return" of some Serb forces would be permitted to a zone they were expelled from by NATO when Slobodan Milosevic was in power.</b>
(See, everyone trusts Serb forces. In reality the western powers know they are <i>generally</i> reliable and well-behaved. But since the same powers wanted Yugoslavia broken up, they had to make the Serb forces into monsters in the media so the international viewers would condone the US siding with Croatia and the islamic Albanian terrorists.)
<b>NATO said only police and army border guards would be allowed in, not regular army troops. Kostunica accepted the plan, but accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing" aspirations of a Greater Albania because it was too concerned for its own troops' safety.</b>
(Islamic plans in place: aspirations of Greater Albania. Once they have Kosovo, they will not end their thirst for land, converting kafirs/kafir death.)
"KFOR is abandoning protection of the border and is inviting our army to be in the crossfire," he told a news conference.
Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said NATO's move showed the gunmen were counterproductive. "It is a good example to the Albanian extremists how they are damaging Albanian interests," he said.
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<b>The US and NATO purposefully made a huge mistake and realised it back in 2001.</b>
Note how the 'innocent' islamic ethnic Albanians turn out to be terrorists in sheep's clothing. (Surprise, surprise)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/32277
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NATO strikes at Kosovo gunmen</b>
Mar 9, <b>2001</b>
US-led peacekeepers drove ethnic Albanian gunmen from a hamlet they had used to attack Macedonia, a step towards halting fresh Balkan violence which has alarmed the international community.
In another blow directed against the gunmen, NATO has agreed to let Serbian security forces into a buffer zone adjoining Kosovo and Macedonia to stop guerrillas in the zone linking up with those harrying Macedonian forces.
Neighbouring Bulgaria also stepped in, promising to send "hundreds of tonnes" of military supplies to help Skopje in its fight against the shadowy group that has threatened to bring a decade of Balkan ethnic conflict to a hitherto peaceful country.
<b>Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica accepted NATO's plan to let Serb troops into the zone along the Macedonian border but accused the alliance of leaving Belgrade to pick up the pieces of a problem he said NATO had fomented.</b>
(As always, Serbs have to save the day. They've been doing this since the expansionist islamic j-had of the middle ages.)
Macedonia raised the alarm two weeks ago after a clash between its security forces and ethnic Albanian gunmen who had occupied Tanusevci on the border with majority Albanian Kosovo, under international protection since 1999.
A week later the crisis escalated when three of its troops were killed, two of them by a landmine well inside the country.
NATO, which leads the international peacekeeping force KFOR based over the border in Kosovo, said it would beef up patrols on its side but could not cross over to help.
<b>Gunmen move out </b>
On Thursday KFOR moved right up to the border, into a part of the village of Tanusevci it called upper Mijak, where it found the gunmen's hastily-abandoned headquarters in a school building well stocked with food and explosives.
"We have just concluded a successful operation by eliminating a safe haven for armed groups here in Kosovo," US Brigadier General Kenneth Quinlan, commander of Kosovo's Multinational Brigade East, said in nearby Debelde.
As far as the confused local Albanians were concerned, the peacekeepers had crossed into Macedonia.
"I don't want to be a citizen of Kosovo. I am a citizen of Macedonia," said 55-year-old villager Bajram Sinani.
Unlike their ethnic kin in Kosovo, most of Macedonia's Albanians feel their future lies in improving their position inside the state, rather than breaking away. <b>But the gunmen could stir a revolt if the violence spreads.</b>
(The ethnic albanian islamics in Macedonia of course don't want to move into Kosovo being prepared specially for them - the Kosovo muslims never moved into Albania either - but want to stay put in Macedonia, so that their numerous islamic offspring can in future claim FYROMacedonia too.)
Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said at first officials thought the Tanusevci group were criminals but then realised it was "more complex".
One soldier told Reuters the Macedonian forces were itching to hit back at the gunmen, who they have had in their sights for weeks, but were held back by the politicians. So far only one of some 200 in the group has been reported killed.
(Must be psecular politicians. Islamic gunmen can do all the damage they want, but Macedonian law enforcement is curbed from fighting back.)
The peacekeepers said they had injured two gunmen on Wednesday after taking control of most of Mijak and had detained seven, of whom two had been freed after checks.
But the skirmishes continued. The Macedonian Defence Ministry said several dozen men had come out of Tanusevci and attacked its watchtower during the night from the direction of Malino to the east. The Macedonian forces returned fire and suffered no casualties.
<b>Mountain borders</b>
Diplomats say the main problem is preventing the guerrillas operating freely across the unmarked mountain borders between Kosovo, Macedonia and southern Serbia.
Three Yugoslav soldiers died on Wednesday north of Presevo in southern Serbia, just outside the buffer zone running from the Macedonian border in the east around Kosovo's boundary with the rest of Yugoslavia.
<b>Barely two years after fighting Yugoslavia to defend ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the West is this time lining up with Belgrade - under a new, reformist leadership - to limit ethnic Albanian nationalism.</b>
(That's how it always is: international support is for the 'poor innocent victimised' islamic terrorists. Once everyone helps them, they expand their terrorist activities, until even their staunch supporters realise they'll not be sated.)
"France and Germany condemn the extremists' violent action on the northern border with Macedonia and the Presevo valley, which is aimed at destabilising the region," the two countries' foreign ministers said in Paris.
<b>NATO Secretary General George Robertson said a "controlled return" of some Serb forces would be permitted to a zone they were expelled from by NATO when Slobodan Milosevic was in power.</b>
(See, everyone trusts Serb forces. In reality the western powers know they are <i>generally</i> reliable and well-behaved. But since the same powers wanted Yugoslavia broken up, they had to make the Serb forces into monsters in the media so the international viewers would condone the US siding with Croatia and the islamic Albanian terrorists.)
<b>NATO said only police and army border guards would be allowed in, not regular army troops. Kostunica accepted the plan, but accused KFOR of "stimulating instead of curbing" aspirations of a Greater Albania because it was too concerned for its own troops' safety.</b>
(Islamic plans in place: aspirations of Greater Albania. Once they have Kosovo, they will not end their thirst for land, converting kafirs/kafir death.)
"KFOR is abandoning protection of the border and is inviting our army to be in the crossfire," he told a news conference.
Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said NATO's move showed the gunmen were counterproductive. "It is a good example to the Albanian extremists how they are damaging Albanian interests," he said.
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