Word: albanian
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...more after Milosevic's regime fell in October 2000 and the new government let them inside Yugoslavia for the first time. Though the investigators complain they got more obstruction than cooperation, especially from the military, no one could cover up one incriminating new find: the bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims listed in one indictment were unearthed near Belgrade last...
...casualties." In Kosovo this meant that our pilots had to fly more safely than the passengers of some Third World airlines do. This was achieved by flying at an altitude that in effect precluded effective bombing of mobile targets. Meanwhile, small groups of Serbs with armored vehicles terrorized ethnic Albanian villages at will...
...strikes against two Libyan cities. The judge upheld claims that Libyan secret agents and embassy staff had planned the attack, but not that it was personally ordered by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. MACEDONIA New Constitution Macedonia?s parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments aimed at improving ethnic Albanian rights, ending weeks of wrangling over a Western-backed peace accord. Mediators hope the changes will defuse the seven-month-old crisis that began when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several...
After the 1999 Kosovo conflict, nato analyzed exhaustively its failures in information handling. Serb women were pictured dancing on the wing of a downed F-117 Stealth bomber before the U.S. Air Force even admitted its loss. It took military commanders four days to unravel why an Albanian refugee convoy at Djakovica was mistakenly bombed. nato learned painfully that speed and candor are crucial. But the Afghan campaign shows how lessons learned can be lessons ignored. Governments, too, abandon humility and lose their memories...
...Aviv to Novosibirsk was a terrorist act. U.S. officials said the Tupolev-154 may have been struck accidentally by a Ukrainian missile during a training exercise. MACEDONIA Plan in Jeopardy Macedonian police attempted to reoccupy several villages in the north of the country that had been held by ethnic Albanian rebels, but withdrew after meeting what one official called "a hostile reception." Western envoys in the country warned the government not to attempt to re-establish control in contested areas until more progress was made on a two-month-old peace accord. The government has yet to enact key provisions...