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Ilija and Blaguna Trajkovic don't think much of democracy. Forced by an ethnic Albanian mob to leave their home in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, last March, and then obliged to stand by as the 19th century Serbian Orthodox church they had taken care of was torched, the Serb couple now live in a shipping container in the enclave of Gracanica, south of Pristina. In the past month, successive international delegations have urged the Trajkovics and 130,000 other members of the Serb minority living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional...
...Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO peacekeepers to French Lieut. General Yves de Kermabon. Then she flew to Kabul to meet troops under French Lieut. General Jean-Louis Py, who last month took charge of NATO's 10,000-strong peacekeeping...
...Clark’s larger record in the Balkans without blemish? Hardly. Leave aside his various mistakes in Kosovo, such as his ordering British Gen. Sir Michael Jackson to advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...
...force is made up of various nationalities. Even friends don't always agree. There are no closer allies than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...
...region did not become a hotbed of militant Islam is thanks in part to U.S. intervention. But the battle for hearts and minds isn't over. "America's national interests are in the Balkans as much as in Iraq," says Enver Hasani, a law professor at the University of Pristina. "This region is still easy prey for terrorist activities." Some U.S. troops will likely remain in Kosovo for a few more years. The province is "still a big issue" for us, says a senior U.S. State Department official. And the region will continue to attract veteran U.S. diplomats capable...