A possible reason why they're torching the Belgrade embassy.

[reprehensor]

The US and the EU are backing a man with known links to organized crime and drug-trafficking as the head of the Kosovo goverment.

It's apparently not going over too well.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8055

Kosovo: The US and the EU support a Political Process linked to Organized Crime
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is part of a criminal syndicate

Our orientations are clear. The building of the state of Kosova, economic development, economic and social well-being and rigorous measures against corruption, organized crime and negative behavior, so we can have improved security and integrate Kosova into European Union structures. (Hashim Thaci, chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Prime Minister of the Kosovo provisional government, former KLA leader and known criminal)

The PDK, led by Hashim Thaci, former Kosovan Liberation Army commander, took control of many municipalities after the war. The party has close links with organized crime in the province. (The Observer, 29 October 2000)

Mr. Thaci, nicknamed "the Snake" during his KLA days, is a sharp-suited 32-year-old former rebel commander with poor oratory skills, links to organized crime and a determination to preserve relations between his party and the United States (The Scotsman, 20 October 2000)

I know a terrorist when I see one and these men are terrorists," (US Special Envoy and Ambassador Robert Gelbard)

"The KLA is tied in with every known Middle and Far Eastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol, and nearly every European intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug syndicates that lead right to the KLA,..." (Michael Levine former official of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA))

Hashim Thaci founded the "Drenica-Group" an underground organization that is estimated to have controlled between 10% and 15% of all criminal activities in Kosovo (smuggling arms, stolen cars, oil, cigarettes and prostitution). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_Thaçi">Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia

The US, the EU and the UN are supporting a Kosovo government headed by a known criminal, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

The position of Prime Minister was created under the "Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG)" established by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)

Under UN mandate, the purpose of the provisional government was "to provide 'provisional, democratic self-government' in advance of a decision on the political status of Kosovo.

What this signifies is that the United Nations has not only set the stage for an "Independent" Kosovo government in violation of international law, it has also installed a Kosovo government integrated by the members of a criminal syndicate. All three Kosovo Prime Ministers, Ramush Haradinaj, Agim Ceku and Hashim Thaci are war criminals.

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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8055



I know it would piss me off...

[endarkenment]

1. Kosovo was the ancient serbian homeland.

I suspect that having a bunch of foreign powers carve this region out of Serbia might have caused a fair amount of nationalist anger among Serbs.

[bigbrother05]

2. Doesn't look like to many are following this

but I found this
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/25/business/pipe.php
It's about Russia taking ownership of the pipeline that runs through Kosovo
Article is from Jan 25 08

[bigbrother05]

3. I also remember that

German chancellor Schroeder, and Putin went into the Oil Business after Schroeder lost his last election, and I think Tony Blair also joined them, can't offer a link, just from memory

[AFA]

4. This has been going on for a long time...

For instance, as early as July 12, 1982, Marvine Howe reported to the New York Times that Serbs were leaving Kosovo by the tens of thousands because of discrimination and intimidation on the part of the ethnic Albanian majority:

"The nationalists have a two-point platform," according to Beci Hoti, an executive secretary of the Communist Party of Kosovo, "first to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania.

http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?11440S

Good article from Diana Johnstone