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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 23:28:46 GMT -5
I think its become more clear by the day that the only reason the US have meddled in Serbia is to try and ensure the Nabucco pipline went through Serbia and for the US to control said pipline. With the Russians jumping in and spoiling the party, its obvious that the US has been caught on the hop. Serbia was the key, which is why it then easier to bring the other countries on board after.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 10:21:17 GMT -5
Croatia 'Failing' to Arrest Nazis
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre building in Los Angeles01 May 2008 Zagreb _ Croatia has been criticised for a lack of political will in arresting Nazis for the second year in a row.
“There are no legal obstacles to the investigation and prosecution of suspected Nazi war criminals, but whose efforts (or lack thereof) have resulted in complete failure during the period under review, primarily due to the absence of political will to proceed and/or a lack of the requisite resources and/or expertise,” the Simon Wiesenthal Centre says in its report.
The Centre, named after a famous Nazi-hunter, gave Croatia a F-2 mark which means failure in practice. Australia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine also received the same mark.
The report particularly singled out Hungary for failing to apprehend a well known Nazi officer.
“The most disappointing result in a specific case during the period under review has been Hungary's failure hereto to bring to justice Dr. Sandor Kepiro, one of the officers who carried out the mass murder of hundreds of civilians in Novi Sad, Serbia on January 23, 1942 who was convicted but never punished for the crime and who was exposed by the Wiesenthal Centre living in Budapest in the summer of 2006,” the report points out.
Serbia, Austria and Poland received a C mark, reserved for countries with some but still insufficient results.
The top A mark was given to the United States, among 30 countries covered by the report from April 1 2007 to March 31 2008.
The only Croat on the Centre’s list of most wanted Nazis is Milivoj Asner, who was the police chief in the Croatian town of Slavonska Pozega, during the Second World War and suspected, according to the report, of having an “active role in persecution, deportation and deaths of hundreds of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.”
Croatia indicted Asner and in 2005 requested the then 92-year-old’s extradition from Austria.
Vienna “initially refused the request because he ostensibly held Austrian citizenship. But when it emerged that he had lost his Austrian citizenship, his extradition was refused on medical grounds,” said the report.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 10:16:04 GMT -5
Ruecker will be gone soon, so anything he says is not worth sh1t.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 10:12:51 GMT -5
Stay on track people. I will delete the next off topic remarks and thenclean up the previous off topic remarks.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 9:42:08 GMT -5
^ You will see the western nations taking young Albanian men to fight all over the world for them. At the moment the cost is huge for the government when a US serviceman dies in battle, whereas an Albanian will be cheap for them. Proudly we will go to any war the US goes into, its written in our oath. And you will be one of the first to die in the front lines. So off to Afghanistan you go. Or, there's that other tourist destination called Iraq. Has just as many extreme sports as Afghanistan.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 6:53:07 GMT -5
General Zivota Panic had a plan to move into Croatia and advance onto Zagreb, but it was never carried out, as the JNA would receive too much international attention. This is not the same thing that I was talking about. Actually two completely different set of circumstances and to mix the two would be to deny history. What you have shown here MiG is the contingency plan the JNA were about to use because there was a leadership vacumm in the Federal Parliament. When that happens, The JNA has only the constitution to guide it. The consitution gave the army the power to protect the Yugoslav borders. There were still elements of Croatian generals in the JNA at that time. What happened in Vukovar was the end rewult where the vacumm could no longer be breached and rogue elements sprang into being. As I said two different scenarios. Do your research Cikola as you continue to fail dismally every time.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 5:04:03 GMT -5
^ You will see the western nations taking young Albanian men to fight all over the world for them. At the moment the cost is huge for the government when a US serviceman dies in battle, whereas an Albanian will be cheap for them. So you think the Albanians will be willing to go without actually being in NATO. Novi, I think your right, they are dumb enough to do that.
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 4:22:14 GMT -5
i am glad you have my quote as your signature, however just because we never called ourselves illyrians doesnt mean we are not illyrians... and at least USA is taking independence seriously ahahahah Thats fine, the US isn't the whole world and their power is dwindling rapidly. Enjoy while you still can. ;D
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 4:12:25 GMT -5
Umm, are NATO looking to cut and run?
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Post by Fender on May 1, 2008 4:11:34 GMT -5
NATO "re-examines" Kosovo mission 1 May 2008 | 09:50 | Source: Beta BRUSSELS -- NATO has started re-examining its peacekeeping operation in Kosovo after the unilateral secession declaration, reports suggest.
The western military alliance's spokesman James Appathurai said in Brussels Wednesday that the ambassadors from the 26 member states have decided to discuss the 17,000-soldier strong mission, "in order to adjust to the development of the situation on the ground".
Appaturai said that the military leadership will use political guidelines to prepare a draft operational plan, "taking into account new tasks", Beta news agency said.
The NATO spokesman, however, did not make it clear what those tasks might be, but pointed out that "all that NATO does will be within its UN mandate and with full consent of the 26 members".
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 20:01:18 GMT -5
"Looks like Serbia is going to isolate it self even more." Isolation from who exactly, Kasso? Serbia will isolate itself from Kasso. ;D
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 19:59:32 GMT -5
Poor old Thaci. Not many are taking his independance seriously.
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 19:55:42 GMT -5
If this is only half true, the ramifications are going to be devestating for the EU and the current UNMIK administration.
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 5:53:46 GMT -5
Guehenno 'to Head' UN Kosovo Mission Email a friend Save article Print article Increase text size Decrease text size UN Headquarters in New York30 April 2008 Pristina _ Jean-Marie Guehenno, the chief of the UN’s peacekeeping operations may be the next head of the world body’s mission in Kosovo.
According to the Pristina daily Zeri, Guehenno, is potentially the future head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, although he will head it from New York.
Zeri cites diplomatic sources saying that “Guehenno has ambitions to be the head of the ‘reconfiguration’ process of UNMIK after June 15.”
UNMIK officials in Pristina recently say the mission is set to be adapted according to how circumstances evolve on the ground in a process known as ‘reconfiguration’ and will begin once the newly-adopted constitution of Kosovo enters into force after June 15.
Kosovo has been run by UN since the end of the 1998-1999 conflict between Serb forces and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority. Pristina declared independence from Serbia on February 17 despite opposition from Belgrade.
Although the European Union’s new law and order mission, EULEX has started its deployment to Kosovo, there is much confusion over whether it will be fully functional or what duties it will assume if the UN is still present in Kosovo after June 15. The UN says that “it will remain in Kosovo for as long as the Resolution 1244 is in force,” referring to the UN Security Council Resolution which has regulated the UN’s mandate in Kosovo since 1999.
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 5:21:39 GMT -5
To all you idiots who think that I am alone in my thinking and views, choke on this article. LOL ;D Croatian Spin Doctor Assists Serbian Party Ratko Macek29 April 2008 Zagreb _ A former Croatian government spokesman says he is helping a Serbian party in campaigning for the May 11 election. “I cannot say which party I work for, call me up after the elections,” Ratko Macek told business.hr news portal. The portal said that “by process of elimination” it had concluded that the party was the nationalist Democratic Party of Serbia, DSS, led by the outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. The DSS’s main competition, the pro-European Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic said Macek was not on their Public Relations consultants’ list. The opposition nationalist Serbian Radical Party also denied hiring Macek, adding only U.S. PR agencies led their campaigns. The portal said that the DSS has not either confirmed or denied the report that they sought help from Macek, who co-owns the MPR agency for political marketing and crisis communication. The agency's main client is the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. In January, when asked if his agency would cooperate with all centre-right political parties in the South-Eastern Europe, including the DSS, he said, "of course, Vojislav Kostunica is my friend." Though formerly holding a relatively low-profile political post of the spokesman, Macek is known to be one of the most influential HDZ members. He has been credited for the HDZ victory in the general elections in Croatia at the end of 2007 which secured Sanader's second term. LOLOne of the most quoted statements by Macek was given in an interview with Croatian daily Novi List in 2007, over Sanader’s apparent love for expensive watches. "One should not be in politics unless they own a house, two cars at least and euro 50,000 savings at least! Who would trust a prime minister who lives in a 30 square meters flat!" he said. Serbia’s coalition government collapsed in March due to differences between nationalist and pro-Western ministers over Serbia’s future relations with the European Union after the majority of member states recognised Kosovo’s independence. Croatia recognised Kosovo as an independent state last month. Last week Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic said Sanader was his personal model he would like to follow if his party won the May 11 vote. Read more: balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9678
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 5:04:12 GMT -5
“Russia wants de Kermabon as UNMIK chief” 30 April 2008 | 09:49 | Source: Beta PRIŠTINA -- Priština daily Zeri says that Russia has proposed that the elected chief of the EU mission to Kosovo Yves de Kermabon become head of UNMIK.
Zeri wrote yesterday that the current chief of the EU mission (EULEX) Pieter Feith should be the chief of UNMIK’s pillar responsible for economic development. However, according to the daily, this proposal was unacceptable for most Western European countries.
French Lieutenant-General de Kermabon assumed command of KFOR in September 2004, replacing German Army Lieutenant General Holger Kammerhoff and becoming the 9th KFOR commander since its deployment in Kosovo in June 1999.
According to the Russian proposal, the daily states, UNMIK would continue to perform its duties and would have the same authority even after June 15, when the Kosovo constitution takes effect.
Western European countries and the U.S. do not accept this proposal, the daily writes, because it veers away too much from Washington and Brussels’ original idea of EULEX taking over UNMIK’s powers and duties.
The proposal is unacceptable for them because it would mean all issues regarding Kosovo returning to the UN Security Council, which was unable to find a solution to the status crisis because of a lack of consensus between its members.
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Post by Fender on Apr 30, 2008 4:29:30 GMT -5
and there it is the final push that will force the partition of Kosovo. In my opinion they will realise that the SAA is not a big enough carrot and will do anything to influence the vote so deals will be done. Don't confuse the SAA signing and Kostunica's threats as the signal for partition. Don't mix apples with oranges in your thinking here. This is more of a signal to Europe that Kostunica is willing to take down half of Serbia - the side that votes for Tadic and his affiliated parties and the minorities of Serbia - than do the inevitable, recognize Kosova and start on the path to EU, for the sake of Serbia's future. You're completely forgetting that there's a recession going on in this world and there are food riots in Latin America and Africa. Oil is exchanged and valued with the US dollar. If you think what's going on this world has no influence on Serbia, you better think twice because when Belgraders wake up they'll be reading Moscow times, instead of listening to B92. isis, don't mix reality with your fictitious state of mind. Your interpretation of events is laughable at best. Keep it up, we are all amused by the workings of a 5 year old mind.
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Post by Fender on Apr 29, 2008 1:07:03 GMT -5
If Tudjman had walked away ... the JNA and the cetnik serbs would have reached Zagreb. That doesn't make any sense because Tudjman was defeated outright in Vukovar. Vukovar would have provided the perfect staging point for further incursions, but it never happened.
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Post by Fender on Apr 29, 2008 1:00:28 GMT -5
Its like you think that the Croats had full control of the consequences? The Croats copped it first, then the Bosnians and then the Albanians. Although I love how you left out the main protagonist in this debate. So you call demolition of a large town "jumping the gun"? Here you sound like that Sheik in Australia that says women who dress in skimpy clothing are to be blamed for being raped. I doubt you were advocating for Tudjman to fight with everything he had to defend Vukovar, or to take on the JNA with proper weaponry - Instead, I would hazzard a guess that you wanted the Croats to roll over and take it up the ass from the Serbs and be cleansed from their own territory. Your beloved Tito changed the constituion to avoid domination by one ethnicity - i.e. the Serbs. At the end of the day Tudjman won the end game. With all his criticisms, and there are many, he still dealt with the severing and occupation of 30% of his own territory plus UN arms embagoes and no initial outside help. He didnt sacrifice Vukovar, it was in line to get smashed by the Serbs regardless of what you may think. Where are the Croats to defend themselves on this bulletin board? This Fender surely cant claim to speak on behalf of Croats? Your response is typical of those that wish to shoot first and ask questions later. My point was and you just conveintly decided to ignore was to point out the futility in defending a town that couldn't be defended. Tudjman knew this, but still sent young boys to the slaughter. This is what your advocating. Once the shooting had died down, the Serbs held Vukovar for a couple of years but handed it back to Croatia in 1998. The main point here is that if Tudjman was smart, he should have left Vukovar alone because hindsight will tell you that the Serbs never intended on keeping it anyway. If Tudjman had walked away, he would have had a town handed back to him in better condition than what it is today, he would have spared countless lives of Croatians sent to their imminent death. But no, for you its smarter to send people on a suicide mission to prove a point that really didn't matter. So no Tudjman didn't really win as you like to put it. Whats a life worth when its sent to certain death.
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Post by Fender on Apr 28, 2008 7:08:35 GMT -5
^ AMBO is gone, and what, they are left with 5 billion dollars worth of minerals and some Albanian footsoilders they can use around the world? LOL
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