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To: MNI who wrote (13959)	8/8/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Jacalyn Deaner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Mark Heinrich is an idiot and if that is his synopsis and extent of his WRONG alalysis of Texas, his report filed with reuters must be also questioned. MNI, have you ever figured out how clintonista is fascist in his tendencies? I've given you two months to figure it out. for starters here is a clue - read the executive powers... BTW - I live in Texas, love Texas and love my Freedom; any government that takes away a persons right to protect itself from an imperialist, corrupt government is to be feared. Try reading the Constitution of the United States before cutting and pasting dribble from other parts of the world... Jacalyn

To: MNI who wrote (13959)	8/8/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

to: MNI from: truedog I read your report on the trouble in Kosovo and do not intend to vent my disdain on you but, that French officer done stepped on my toes. He, obviously, doesn't know the first thing about Texas.He must have read some old Ned Buntline dime novels and doesn't realize they are 100 years old and were fiction even then. Evidently, he is a typical French soldier because he chose to fight with a woman. TD

To: MNI who wrote (13959)	8/8/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: cody andre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

If the French troops put on Serbian uniforms and insignia, the attacks will immediately cease ...

To: MNI who wrote (13959)	8/8/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

KLA May Have Lost Control Of Its Ranks - KFOR Head 08:42 p.m Aug 08, 1999 Eastern EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The head of the international KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo said Monday that attacks on his soldiers at the weekend could mean the KLA guerrilla group had lost control over hard-liners. Lieutenant-General Sir Mike Jackson told the Scotsman newspaper in an interview that the KLA leadership needed to convince its ethnic Albanian supporters not to carry out revenge attacks against Serb civilians and peacekeepers trying to protect them. ''I can't say I'm fully confident that they (KLA) are in full control. They are going to have to work with their own people to show that they have a Kosovo now which is hugely different from the Kosovo they had three months ago,'' the British general said. ''They've got a great deal of what they fought for -- O.K. not independence -- but they have a free Kosovo which is almost the same thing.'' More than 10 people were injured at the weekend in grenade attacks aimed at ethnic Serbs in the troubled Serbian province. And French peacekeepers scuffled with KLA supporters in Kosovo's third largest city Sunday for the second day in a row when they tried to march on a nearby Serb enclave. Ever since the NATO-led return of ethnic Albanians to the province, there has been tension between the new U.N. administration and those within the KLA who feel entitled to rule Kosovo. Although it has been reluctantly disarming, the KLA has set up ''provisional governments'' in 25 of 27 provincial municipalities. The guerrilla group is reported to have been levying ''taxes'' and expropriating offices and flats. Jackson said he felt the KLA was simply adjusting to a new relationship with KFOR after initially viewing the peacekeepers as military allies against the Serbs, whose troops drove ethnic Albanians from the province earlier this year. ''Broken down is too strong (to describe the relationship)...it's changed and I think it's predictable it would change. When we entered Kosovo there was still fighting going on and without doubt the KLA had seen NATO and the air campaign as all part of what they were doing. But time's moved on,'' he said. Jackson said he was confident no breakaway faction of the KLA would try to take on NATO in a quest for outright independence of the province. ''We may get some difficulty with fringe hot-heads and we will deal with it. But for the KLA to do anything other than conform to the undertaking they have assigned themselves...would be the most foolish thing to do and I'm sure they are not going to be that foolish,'' he said. NATO allies have voiced hopes for a multi-ethnic society in Kosovo. U.S. officials believe Serbs now amount to less than five percent of the population, about half the pre-war figure of about 10 percent. Copyright 1999 Reuters