Arbitrariness in Power
By www.german-foreign-policy.com
Because of a Serbian UN initiative, Berlin’s Kosovo policy is threatened with serious defeat. Belgrade is requesting that the UN General Assembly petition the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) for an advisory opinion on Kosovo’s secession from Serbia. The Assembly is expected to vote on Wednesday. Germany was unsuccessful in mobilizing [...]
Sarajevo, Al Qaeda Safe Haven
Oct 1st, 2008 | By De-Construct.net | In Current
Al Qaeda Butchers Freely Cruising through Sarajevo
“According to the documentation of German Interpol and Austrian War on Terror Police Department, the highest representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina [Muslim-Croat] federation Haris Silajdzic and Bakir Izetbegovic, as well as Hasan Chengic, were the key organizers of the crimes committed by the [...]
Bosnian Serb, Croat politicians deplore Muslim army chief’s sentence
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - September 15, 2008, Monday
Bosnian Serb and Croat politicians have voiced dismay at the three-year prison sentence passed by the Hague tribunal on the wartime commander of the Bosnian Muslim army, Gen Rasim Delic, on 15 September.
Delic is the former Commander of the Main Staff of the Army of the Republic [...]
The Color of Failure
D&FA 07,8-08 ed The Color of Failure.doc (16KB)
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, July-August, 2008
Early Warning, By Gregory R. Copley
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy is published by the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), Alexandria VA.
www.StrategicStudies.org
THE END OF WORLD WAR II saw the triumphal Western powers - particularly the United States - embark with hubris [...]
Organ trade Albania (Spiegel magazine)
“Spiegel” about the trade of kidnapped Kosmet Serbs’ organs
glassrbije.org - News
22 September 2008. 17:32
German SPIEGEL weekly writes about a village near the Albanian town of Burrel, and about the cellar of a house, where according to former Hague Chief Prosecutor Cara del Ponte, the body organs were taken out of the kidnapped Kosmet Serbs. Del [...]
US to insist on Kosovo independence
US to insist on Kosovo independence. The General Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, John Sitilides, says Washington will continue to encourage Serbian EU entry, but will insist on Kosovo independence irrespective who wins the Presidency.
Sitilides said that there would not be many big differences between future Republican candidate John McCain or Democrat [...]
Serbia, Russia, and the Pax Americana in South Eastern Europe
By Du?an Relji?
Harvard International Review
http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1753/
Two decades have passed since the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia began destabilizing southeast Europe, but there is still little reason to proclaim that the region has reached the point of no return for ethnic conflicts and wars. Until recently, many pundits blamed the unresolved issue of Kosovo [...]
Karadzic immunity & Clinton election ploy 1996
D&FA 8-31-96 I-FOR, Karadzic immunity
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, August 31, 1996
En Clair
I-FOR Peaks At 53,000 And Now Declines
The NATO-led “Implementation Force” (I-FOR), created to provide a 60,000-man multinational force to police the Dayton-Paris Peace Accords on Bosnia-Herzegovina, signed in late 1995, never reached its force total and is already declining in numbers at [...]
Balkan military update
Belgium transfers second Wielingen-class frigate to Bulgaria
The second of three Belgian Navy Wielingen-class frigates, the ex-BNS Westdiep , was officially transferred to the Bulgarian Navy by the Belgian Ministry of Defence at Zeebrugge Naval Base on 22 August. The delivery to Bulgaria of the renamed Gordi follows a pre-transfer sanitisation and pre-handover training of the [...]
Revenge of the Balkans
By Gordon N. Bardos -National Interest-
Gordon N. Bardos is assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
The National Interest is published by The Nixon Center
08.28.2008
Strategic shortsightedness—defined as mistaking problems and issues of secondary or tertiary importance for those of vital importance, and being unable to foresee the predictable [...]