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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (16931)	8/23/2000 4:04:58 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Respond to of 17770

violence... Emirati peacekeepers kill two Kosovo Albanians PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 22 (AFP) - Two Kosovo Albanians, a father and his son, died after they were shot by Emirati peacekeepers during a scuffle with an officer, officials said Tuesday. A spokesman for the Emirati batallion in the UN-administered Yugoslav province, Lieutenant Abdullah Said al-Falassi, said the soldiers had "acted in self-defence" after a group of four people stormed a checkpoint and tried to seize weapons from Emirati contingent, the Emirati news agency WAM reported. The incident happened late Monday at a KFOR checkpoint in the village of Svinjare, in northern Kosovo. "One of the Emirati soldiers fired warning shots towards the four people who continued their attack," Falassi said. "That's when one of the soldiers fired, acting in legitimate defense to protect his comrades." The chief spokesman for the KFOR multinational peacekeeping force, Major Scott Slaten, gave a different version of what led up to the shooting. He said that the two ethnic Albanians shot, aged 54 and 21, became aggressive with peacekeepers conducting "normal security operations at the checkpoint". "During the altercation, the men seriously assaulted a KFOR United Arab Emirate (UAE) officer. A KFOR UAE soldier intervened to protect his officer and fired several shots at the men," he said. The father died on his way to a hospital for civilians run by Moroccan peacekeepers in Mitrovica. The son was operated on in a French military hospital, but died Tuesday at around 2:00 p.m (1200 GMT), Slaten said. The Emirati soldiers form part of the French-led northern brigade of KFOR, a NATO-led force charged with security in the Yugoslav province since the end of Kosovo's 1998-1999 civil war. An investigation has been lauched into the incident, with officers from the main KFOR headquarters in Pristina joining colleagues in the French sector, Slaten said. UN police called to the scene said the scuffle apparently broke out after the ethnic Albanians "decided to ridicule the officers," according to UN spokeswoman Claire Trevena. The UN officers reported that the father had continued to behave violently after his son was shot and was then also shot, she said.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (16931)	8/24/2000 4:39:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I bet your Chinese wife's been through a couple of ID-checks by the Greek Gestapo, hasn't she? Anyway, here's yet another Chinese smuggling story: Yugoslav army working hand in hand with N'Dranghetta (Italian mafia) YUGOSLAV SOLDIERS IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLOT-MEDIA The Yugoslav army is investigating whether two of its soldiers were involved in a plot to smuggle a group of Chinese illegal immigrants into Italy, Belgrade media said on Monday. Police in neighbouring Montenegro arrested the two Yugoslav soldiers -- Corporal Zeljko Modosan and Captain Aleksandar Todorovic -- along with 25 Chinese people and another man in a van on Saturday, the Blic daily reported. "The Montenegrin police on Saturday night at the Stanisici (police) checkpoint near Budva discovered in a Yugoslav army van...a group of 25 Chinese citizens and a certain Dragoljub Vlaovic, from Podgorica, who were being transported for the purpose of an illegal transfer to Italy," the newspaper said. Vlaovic was the organiser of the illegal transport scheme, it said. The report said the two Yugoslav soldiers were suspected of having forged travel documents and putting military licence plates on the van transporting the migrants. "The Chinese were very exhausted by the trip and had to be given immediate medical assistance," the newspaper said, adding that the group had paid 500 German marks each. "Modosan and Todorovic have admitted that they transported the Chinese group from Podgorica with the intention to bring them to the coast, where a speedboat was supposed to wait to transfer them to Italy," the report said. The Yugoslav army said it would undertake its own investigation following the one conducted by police in Montenegro, Serbia's smaller sister republic in the Yugoslav federation. Army units in Montenegro controlled by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and police loyal to pro-Western Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic have over the past few weeks been involved in a number of smuggling incidents. © ABC News _________________ icare.to SOLDIERS IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLOT-MEDIA BTW, the Beijing-Belgrade smuggling has not been reported yet by our brave Yankee-bashing media.... No TV newscast, no press article (err... well, I haven't read a lot of news mags lately anyway...) has mentioned Milosevic's pet hobby --ie "Chinese imports". Wonder how the whole scam'll turn out.... I mean, our local Gestapo's been trained with "wog-mugs" only: the classic fallguy to get stopped for a routine ID-check is usually a Negro driving an old Mercedes with Dutch license plates --a North African Abdul can also fit the bill, of course (just remember the Karin Spaink story I brought to your notice a couple of months ago). Poles and other Eastern illegals, on the other hand, don't have much trouble sneaking in --they've got the Catholic lobby's blessing, after all. Yet, Chinese illegals are a whole'nother ballgame.... You can't just push them around or chase them down with bashing squads and the like --China's such a big market! If you want to sell them another TGV or three (High-Speed Train), or a couple of Airbus aircrafts, then you'd better treat them with some respect! I mean, not like a bunch of ginks.... Gus.