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...Serb-dominated north of Kosovo, meanwhile, Kosovo Serbs descended on two border posts, torching one and blowing up the other, before NATO troops from the territory's 16,000-strong peacekeeping force arrived to take control of the posts. There were no casualties...
Still, Kosovo is no joke because instability in the Balkans tends to spread. It triggered World War I, not to mention a few smaller conflicts in the 1990s. The Kosovo war was a big deal in 1999, when President Bill Clinton instigated a NATO bombing campaign to defend Kosovo's Albanian Muslims and defuse a refugee crisis. Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip, accused Clinton of embroiling the U.S. in a "quagmire," of "involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo...
...Some local leaders took a huge responsibility yesterday," the French general in charge of NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo said on Wednesday after violent protests in northern Kosovo. "The leaders should think deeply of their responsibility when they trigger this type of demonstration...
...Serb-dominated northern part of Kosovo, meanwhile, Kosovo Serbs descended on two border posts, torching one and blowing up the other, before NATO troops from the territory's 16,000-strong peacekeeping force arrived to take control of the posts. There were no casualties. Local Serbian leader Marko Jaksic, the head of the self-styled Serbian National Council in the northern town of Mitrovica, justified the attacks, saying that Serbs will not tolerate "symbols of a monster state" on their territory...
...declaration of independence has been expected for months, the scale of the response - both among Serbs and by foreign governments opposed to the decision - has surprised many. It is not clear how long the protests will be sustained, but for many Kosovo Albanians, as well as U.N., EU and NATO officials in the territory, it has gone on long enough...