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To: sea_urchin who wrote (32427)	4/24/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Serle IMO, US/Britain have different objection...Among few it is naive view of even-handiness with Middle-East... Middle East Gulf Arabs aid Kosovo refugees UAE servicemen are helping with the humanitarian airlift in Albania By Frank Gardner in Dubai In the latest tragedy to beset the Balkans, there is little doubt where the sympathies of the Gulf Arab states lie. Watching the sufferings of their fellow Muslim Kosovars on television, Gulf Arabs have rushed to send donations through local Islamic charities. In Saudi Arabia, a country still in the grips of an economic downturn, citizens have donated more than $20m in cash as well as food and medical supplies. Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have all sent plane loads of aid while the Saudi Red Crescent Organisation has appealed to hospitals for medical volunteers. The UAE has also sent a mobile medical team to the region to treat exhausted Kosovo refugees, using mobile clinics equipped with X-rays. The head of the UAE's mission in Albania said that work was beginning on renovating a disused Albanian airport so it could take planes carrying up to 15 tons of supplies. The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Conference has been urging its 55 member states to increase their humanitarian support for the refugees. Anger at Serb attacks So far, all the public assistance to Kosovo Albanians in the Gulf has been strictly humanitarian. But many here in the Gulf are dismayed and angered by the continued attacks on Muslim civilians by Serb forces. When the Nato attacks on Yugoslavia began a month ago, they were roundly praised by some of the local Gulf press. As the Kosovo refugees continue to suffer, many here would now welcome an intervention on the ground. But with the US and Britain already seen by some as the aggressors in Iraq, there is also a reluctance to support a unilateral Western action that would lack the backing of the UN.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (32427)	4/24/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: gmccon	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 116764

I'm a VietNam era veteran ('66 - '69). If there was a draft today, I would protest Clinton's intervention in the Yugoslavian civil war. I would encourage my children to leave the country and seek asylum in Canada if they received draft notices. (Canadians are such hypocrites about that sort of thing, they'd go along with NATO, but take American draft dodgers, too.) One of the really sick parts of this whole thing is that Clinton would probably go to Moscow and protest this one, too, if he weren't trying to save his legacy by this particular vehicle. Draft Chelsea. I can't believe how sick my Country is.