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Pastimes : Kosovo
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (2360)4/7/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: D. Long   of 17770
 
I posted before on the subject of the distorted nature of this sort of timeline. Again, the KLA did not exist prior to 1997. Again, Albanian resistance to Serbian authority did not begin until police units began brutalizing Albanians (as condemned by the UN) and Kosovo autonomy was revoked. Your revisionism does not stand to the records. I also reiterate, it is no doubt suspect that the average ethnic Albanian Kosovar would have supported an extreme militant group such as the KLA unless Serbian actions drove them. Even just prior to the bombing, the KLA held far less popular ground swelling support than your scenario would suggest.

I am not denying the extemism of the KLA, nor the high probability that they had ambitions far beyond that of the average Albanian Kosovar. But to assert that they are a part of a vast conspiracy is a bit much to swallow. Certainly they would have done far better at resisting if they were aided by such professional killers as Iran could supply, and the fact that they werent shows clearly and in their miserable amateurism in combat in 1997 & 98. And certainly Iran and Turkey would have taken a much stronger affront to their current plight. Last I heard, there has been less than a trickle of Muhajeddin to Kosovo. Not much for a puppet Radical Muslim State. Heck, even the Hezbollah could have kicked Serbian butt.
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