Birth of New Terror State?
November 11, 2003
By Toby Westerman
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NATO and the European Union may be responsible for the birth of a nation devoted to the active destruction of the West - including the United States -- and would be situated only a few hundred miles from the heart of Europe.
The new nation would be called Kosova, derived from its present legal name Kosovo. Kosovo is technically a province of the Balkan state of Serbia, but has been under NATO/UN control since the end of the NATO air war against Serbia in 1999. Kosovo's majority population is ethnic Albanian, with a dwindling Serb minority.
Most Albanian politicians want union with Albania and other Albanian areas in the region.
Terror experts believe that Albania is again being used for transit and terrorist training for operatives traveling from the Near East into Europe. Reports have come to light that Osama bin Laden's terror network trained members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1999, just prior to NATO's conquest of the Serb province.
The administration of President Bill Clinton actively sought independence for Kosovo/Kosova, along with the UN and a number of non-governmental organizations, according to Dr. Thomas Fleming, a leading authority on the Balkans and President of the Rockford Institute, a conservative think tank.
In view of continuing terrorist activities since September 11, the support for an independent Kosovo/Kosova has declined. "France and Germany are terrified of the progress of Islam in Europe," stated Fleming.
Gunrunning, drug trafficking, and the sale of women are all hallmarks of life in NATO/UN-controlled Kosovo. Most of the Serb population living in Kosovo before NATO/UN rule has been driven out. Serbs remaining in Kosovo are the targets of assaults, Serb property has been confiscated, and many Serb churches - some hundreds of years old - have been burned to the ground.
On November 5, 2003 the Serbian government issued a "White Book" detailing the involvement of leading Kosovo politicians and activists in the trafficking of drugs and humans.
The Serbs, however, still are the "bad guys in the black hats" in Balkan affairs, with international sympathy going to the ethnic Albanians, especially in the United States. "They have no natural constituency in the United States," said Fleming.
Fleming also stated that U.S. and European foreign policy traditionally opposed a dominant power arising in the Balkans, and that Western powers distrusted Serb intentions in the Balkans.
The Serbs also recall a religiously oriented Europe, Fleming stated.
"The Serbs remind Europe of what Europe of what it used to be - the Song of Roland, [the victory of Christian Europe at] Lepanto, the Christian warrior. The Serbs have their problems but they believe in something. They [the international community] want to replicate Santa Barbara, California over the entire planet," declared Fleming.
NATO attacked Serbia to defend the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo, following a series of high-profile media reports depicting Serb-perpetrated massacres against the Albanian majority living in Kosovo. At the time, Serbia was the major partner in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now reorganized as the Republic of Serbia - Montenegro.
After NATO's occupation of Kosovo, however, no evidence of mass killings of Albanians was found.
The "international community" has given technical reassurance through UN Resolution 1244 that Kosovo will remain part of Serbia, but NATO and UN administrators have provided Kosovo with all the necessary tools to achieve independence.
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