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To: John Hunt who wrote (30640)	3/25/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116764

Radical Serb leader calls on Serbs to strike on U.S. << LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj called on Thursday on Serbs around the world to ''strike against American interests as best they can,'' the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported. ''Each American, British, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch soldier, wherever he is encountered, is an enemy of the Serbian people and should be destroyed,'' the president of the Ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) told a news conference in Belgrade. >> abcnews.go.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (30640)	3/25/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Hi John, I have never known what to make of Nostradamus predictions but that bit about the 13 year freindship between USA and Russia has me concerned. Is this the start of escalation. Serbs shell Albania, attack Kosovo village By Leon Cika KUKES, Albania, March 25 (Reuters) - Serbian forces shelled two villages in northeastern Albania on Thursday and shot and wounded a border post commander after NATO bombed Yugoslav military targets, Albanian officials said. On the Kosovo side of the border, the ethnic Albanian village of Goden was in flames after being attacked by Serbian forces, according to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). "We confirm Goden is in flames. Our monitors (on the Albanian side) saw the Serbian forces round up the Albanian population in Goden and later heard gunshots," OSCE spokesman Andrea Angeli said in Tirana. Kudusi Lama, who heads the Second Infantry Division in Kukes, a border town in mountains 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tirana, said the frontier was "very hot", with Serbs shooting at Albanian soldiers, who did not return the fire. "The commander of the Dobrune military post was wounded at 0900 GMT by the Yugoslav side," Lama told Reuters. He said Albanian troops were showing restraint. "Now that NATO has intervened we should be very careful," Lama said. "But if they advance across the border it is clear to every commander he must shoot back." Albania is worried Serbia might seek to bring Albania into the conflict in Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians outnumber the Serbian population nine to one. In Tirana, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Edlira Birko said the post commander was shot in the hand by Serbian guards firing from Goden, 800 metres (yards) inside Kosovo. Birko said 13 artillery shells fired from Planik in Kosovo hit Albanian territory early on Thursday, some damaging houses in Tropoje village but causing no casualties. Earlier, an army spokesman in Kukes said Serbs had also shelled the village of Vucitol without causing injuries. NATO warplanes screamed over northern Albania en route to Yugoslav targets on Wednesday night, applauded by the Tirana government and news media which support ethnic Albanians in neighbouring Kosovo. "One hundred missiles against Serbia," a headline in the Albanian newspaper Koha Jone said. "Albania, one step from a state of emergency," the daily Gazeta Shqiptare said. Prime Minister Pandeli Majko welcomed the start of air strikes against Yugoslavia after President Slobodan Milosevic refused to accept a big-power peace plan for Kosovo. He said U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had assured him in a telephone conversation that "if Milosevic violates the sovereignty of Albania, he will face the determined position of the United States of America". Albania also fears an influx of refugees across the border. Last summer 20,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo fled to Albania to escape a Serbian military crackdown on separatists. reuters.com