Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does claim is that American intelligence has taken down more than two dozen of bin Laden's cells in the past two years. In the summer of 1998, the U.S. got wind of a serious plot against the U.S. embassy in Tirana, Albania, evacuated the facility and worked with Albanian authorities to corral the suspects. Last fall in Germany, local authorities arrested a man thought to be bin Laden's head of procurement in Europe, allegedly on the prowl for weapons of mass destruction. And earlier this month, acting on a tip, Jordan rounded up 13 terrorists with possible links...
...military base is built to withstand a Klingon attack, the Secret Service is edgy. A report published last week noted that there are as many murders in Kosovo today as there were in the months prior to the NATO campaign, but now Serbs are the main victims. Kosovo Albanians are purging the province of Serbian culture: license plates are being blacked out, accents dropped, and street signs lengthened to show Albanian pronunciation. A U.N. worker was shot three hours after arriving in Pristina last month for speaking Serbian. How should Clinton pronounce the name of the place? He has already...
...Redundant Steaks' web page reveals another of Vaux's hobbies--basketball. As a member of the varsity team at the University of Chicago, Vaux once appeared in Sports Illustrated. Apparently a career in basketball wasn't in the cards, however. "This coach was awful. I learned a few Albanian curses from him, but that was his only useful function...
...course, Albanian might mean something to Vaux, who speaks five or six languages. "Badly. And I'm not good at accents. I can read about 20 languages. But this is not the focus of linguistics these days. People focus on the structure of languages instead of learning how to speak them well...
Kelmendi expressed that what she most desired as a reporter and a founder of the first Albanian language radio station in Kosovo was an exchange between journalists in the United States and Kosovo to help resolve their conflicts...