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...maintained by the West left the republic almost defenseless against Serbia and Croatia. But Kosovo played out very differently, and would be a tough nut for Bin Laden to crack. "Nobody ever found any Bin Laden links to the KLA in Kosovo," says Calabresi. "Both the KLA and the Albanian government were aggressive about keeping the mujahedeen out of the conflict because of Washington's concerns. Although Bin Laden might find a sympathetic ear among some of the more hard-line ethnic-Albanian nationalists unhappy with the outcome in Kosovo, he hasn't had much access, and although they...
...Pressure in Washington has begun to mount for a cap on U.S. involvement, as the potential for violent outbreaks grows in the divided town of Mitrovica and in ethnic-Albanian communities just across the border in southern Serbia. That's made Kosovo one of the few areas in which the U.S. is enthusiastic about the planned European Union military force, which Washington hopes will eventually take over a mission that may well require a permanent commitment. "It's perfectly fair for Robertson to say that the region is more stable now that there are thousands upon thousands of NATO troops...
...NATO have been supporting the KPF, a unit composed almost entirely of former Albanian guerillas...
NATO leaders are publicly asking Milosevic to show restraint and privately warning Albanian leaders to use their influence to stop the insurgency. Last month nato Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark met with Sami Lushtaku and other former K.L.A. leaders. Says Lushtaku: "He looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Back off. Control your people.'" The nightmare scenario for nato is a massacre by Serb police, a flood of refugees and attendant publicity that would be hard for nato to ignore. Then Presevo really could become Kosovo...
...secretary won't necessarily disavow any knowledge of his actions, but James Rubin's visit to Kosovo may well be Mission Impossible. Madeleine Albright's spokesman visited the divided town of Mitrovica on Monday, a day after warning Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders to end violence in the territory or risk a U.S. withdrawal. But despite having assiduously cultivated relations with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the wake of the war, Washington may have little leverage over them. "Despite the formal disbanding of the KLA and the presence of the peacekeepers, violence against Serbs and other minorities hasn...