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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (2360)	4/7/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 17770

Yes this dispute goes much deeper than the news is showing us ,On the CBC TV special they talked to the old Yugoslav farmers in Kosovo ,they are concerned with the ethnic cleansing these invading peoples have done to them over the years ,there is a group in the mountains called the black tigers ,who haveshot their share of serb police over the years,well armed and very dangerous ,no country can carry on normal day to day with this leg of the kla operating ,when the police try to find them ,were do they hide ,of coarse in the villages in these good peoples houses that are now complaing because they are kicked out .the kosovons had very large families in order to push out the yugos and take over their land .there is so much hate built up ,it will never be cured now and the US is only making worse by using this kind of force sam

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (2360)	4/7/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to 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authority did not begin until police units began brutalizing Albanians (as condemned by the UN) and Kosovo autonomy was revoked.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.