-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: U.S. Troops Shot At In Kosovo [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [What a reassuringly bland, vague, non-committal, > evasive tone the following report has. Nowhere is it > hinted that the snipers could possibly be members of > the KLA - I repeat, the KLA - who were armed and > trained by U.S. and other NATO military and > intelligence personnel since 1995, at the very moment > the Dayton Peace Accord was being negotiated. The > Western propaganda mills, notwithstanding how > thoroughly they've succeeded in misleading and > stupefying their respective populaces, would have a > difficult time explaining this about face. So the > press wire services will simpy allude to certain > anonymous malefactors taking shots at the > 'peacekeepers.'] > > Gunmen Fire on U.S. Forces in Kosovo > by FISNIK ABRASHI > Associated Press Writer > PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Gunmen fired on U.S. and > Polish peacekeepers in Kosovo as they were patrolling > the rugged mountains near the border with Macedonia, a > U.S. army spokeswoman said Tuesday. > NATO-led peacekeepers returned fire and suffered no > injuries in Monday's gunfight, the first since a joint > U.S-Russian patrol came under attack in December, said > Capt. Alayne Cramer, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in > Kosovo. No suspects were detained. > The attack occurred southwest of the Kosovo village of > Krivenik, where an Associated Press Television News > producer, Kerem Lawton, was killed during a mortar > attack March 29. The source of that mortar attack is > under investigation. Both ethnic Albanian insurgents > and Macedonian government troops fighting each other > in the area in March have denied responsibility. > Peacekeepers have stepped up patrols in the border > area in recent weeks, netting arms caches and > discovering what appeared to be a camp used by > extremists. Peacekeepers sought to prevent ethnic > Albanian guerrillas from using Kosovo as a staging > ground to launch attacks in Macedonia, where the > insurgents are fighting for more rights. > Just nine miles along the border to the north, > peacekeepers cordoned off the wreckage of a British > helicopter that crashed in heavy rain Monday. Two > people died and five others were injured. > There was no indication of any hostile fire, said Maj. > Fergus Smith, a spokesman for the British contingent > serving in Kosovo. > Despite the unease along Kosovo's borders, Serbia -- > Yugoslavia's larger republic -- is moving ahead on > drafting a framework for self-government that should > allow elections this year, a senior U.N. official > said. > The announcement comes just days after Yugoslavia's > President Vojislav Kostunica and Kosovo's U.N. > Administrator Hans Haekkerup agreed that the Serbs > should take part in the working group drafting the > self-government framework. > Jean-Marie Guehenno, the undersecretary-general for > peacekeeping, said the working group has already laid > out the skeleton structure of a framework for > self-government. > Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador, Dejan Sahovic, also > demanded security guarantees for the Kosovo Serb > participants and demanded ''guarantees concerning > equal participation.'' > On Monday, Guehenno told an open U.N. Security Council > meeting that ''serious measures to tackle law and > order are beginning to bear fruit,'' but that he did > not hold out hope for a return of Serbs and allied > ethnic minorities before the election. > U.N. administrators and NATO-led peacekeepers have > been in charge of Kosovo since June 1999 after a > 78-day NATO bombing campaign forced Yugoslav troops to > withdraw and ended then-Yugoslav President Slobodan > Milosevic's attacks on separatist ethnic Albanians. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
