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Russia’s not happy about the creation of an illegitimate, Muslim state in Eastern Europe: [Article].
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An interesting take on the Kosovo "crisis" by Webster Griffin Tarpley.

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Brzezinski Seizing Control
Over US Policy In
Slow-Motion Coup
By Webster G. Tarpley
2-23-8


WASHINGTON DC -- Events of the past few days indicate that the Zbigniew Brzezinski faction of lunatic Russia haters have now won the upper hand inside the secret councils of the Anglo-American finance oligarchy, displacing the hitherto dominant George Shultz-neocon faction. Although George Bush and his cronies still occupy the White House, the policies that are being carried out are coming from the Brzezinski left CIA machine. Brzezinski has returned to public prominence in recent months due to his role as top establishment controller for the Obama campaign. But Brzezinski is not waiting for the outcome of the November elections to take over key parts of the US government. Brzezinski and his left CIA allies are already moving to assert their strategy, even as the neocons and their characteristic obsessions are moved to the back burner. The probability of an attack on Iran or Syria is declining, even as the danger of confrontation with Russia, China, and Pakistan * all much more dangerous targets to trifle with * increases exponentially.

1. KOSOVO - The independence of Kosovo has opened a new crisis front in Eastern Europe, with the potential for very nasty complications in regard to Russia. This is the essence of the Brzezinski anti-Russian policy. Kosovo independence is of course a flagrant violation of all existing norms of international law, most notably the Helsinki CSCE treaty of 1975 which finally put an end to World War II by declaring that all borders in Europe were to be considered final unless and until any changes had been agreed through mutual consultation of the interested parties. Since the Serbian government in Belgrade is vehemently opposed to Kosovo independence, the unilateral actions of the US, British, and NATO are the very essence of international anarchy. The new regime in Kosovo goes far beyond the usual kleptocracy of NATO puppets favored by Brzezinski and his circles. The new regime in Kosovo is essentially the terrorist KLA, an organization devoted to gun-running, drug-running, and trafficking in human slaves. The KLA is a Balkan version of Al Qaeda, and both are wholly owned creations of the CIA and British intelligence. With Kosovo independence, the US, British, and NATO stand ready to use armed force to defend the right of a terrorist gang to assert sovereignty over a segment of modern Europe. The criminal obscenity of this policy could hardly be greater, but for Brzezinski all methods are legitimate provided that they increase tension with Moscow, and in that respect Kosovo independence is already a glowing success.

2. US EMBASSY, BELGRADE - The attack on the US embassy in Belgrade, Serbia by gangs of drunken students is a classic Brzezinski operation. The tactic of having an incensed rent-a-mob of swarming adolescent patsies attack the US Embassy in order to gin up a crisis is one of Zbigniew's signature specialties. During the time that Brzezinski was running the foreign policy of Trilateral puppet Jimmy Carter, there were bloody attacks on the US embassies in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, both countries that featured prominently in Brzezinski's arc of crisis theory. Most famous of all was of course the attack on the US embassy in Teheran, Iran, which led to the taking of hostages and the huge international crisis which helped to doom the Carter administration to extinction at the polls. If US diplomats or State Department personnel are taken hostage anywhere in the world in the weeks and months to come, this must be attributed to Brzezinski.

3. SPACE WARFARE - The shooting down by the Pentagon of a US satellite over the Pacific is a very provocative military stunt designed to intimidate both Moscow and Beijing, who happened to be Brzezinski's immediate targets. This reckless and irresponsible action has raised the specter of an uncontrolled arms race reaching into outer space.

4. SYRIA - Zbigniew Brzezinski himself, fresh from addressing a retreat of House Democrats in Williamsburg Virginia, is now in Syria at the head of a RAND Corporation delegation. The purpose of this mission should not be construed as peace in the Middle East, although some foolish observers may read it in that way. Brzezinski's goal is immediately to lessen Russian influence in Syria, including the closing of certain naval facilities that the Russian navy has maintained in that country. In the longer run, Brzezinski would like to turn both Syria and Iran into components of the ring he means to forge around Russia for the purpose of the strategic encirclement of that rival superpower. Zbigniew's argument against the neocons is, why attack Iran and Syria, when you can turn them into kamikaze stooges, play them against Russia, and get rid of all of them that way? Europe and China are destined to play similar anti-Russian roles in Brzezinski's playbook.

5. BUSH IN AFRICA - President Bush may not know what he is doing on his current visit to five African countries, but Zbigniew Brzezinski knows exactly what the mission is. The Brzezinski policy is to foment destabilization and chaos in Africa under the auspices of the new United States African command (US-AFRICOM), all for the purpose of driving the Chinese out of Africa. As Zbigniew announced on November 30, 2007 in the Washington Post, he intends to cut off Chinese access to oil, other energy sources, and strategic raw materials on the African continent. Since the Anglo-Americans control the Persian Gulf by direct military occupation, this is tantamount to a policy of driving the Chinese in on Eastern Siberia. Brzezinski believes that if the Chinese cannot get their oil from Africa, they will be forced to attempt the military seizure of Russia's oil wells in the Far East, where there is much oil and very few Russians. Both Moscow and Beijing know exactly what Brzezinski is doing in this regard. This is the kind of harebrained scheming by Lord Astor, Lady Astor and Sir Neville Chamberlain which helped to bring about World War II. The idea then was to play Hitler against Stalin and get rid of both of them that way. When that blew up in the faces of the British, the result was World War II. This time, it may well be thermonuclear World War III.

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Keeping track of all the Zionist handy work that has taken place in the Balkans has always been a work out, glad Duke covered it so thoroughly this week, more on the origins of this conflict from the late great Dr. William Pierce below:





American Embassy Stormed in Serbia: Why are We Surprised?

By David Duke

No American, and I am no exception, can be happy to see an American embassy attacked and set on fire, the American flag ripped down and almost an entire nation hating the U.S. and the American people with every fiber of the their being.

But, looking at American history in Serbia, what exactly should we expect? Serbia has never been an enemy of the United States yet we have committed acts of war and terrorism against it. We have dispatched armies and invaded it, dropped bombs on civilian targets such as bridges, office buildings and power plants, and we have dictated what Serbia does within its own nation.

The present realities of Serbia and of Kosovo are the process of a long historical conflict. Kosovo is an ancient Serbian heartland that was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Empire with the collusion of Muslim ethnic Albanians. Historical realities of the age old conflict can be reflected in the genocidal statements of the Prime Minister of Albania made in Kosovo in June 1942. At a meeting of Albanian leaders of Kosovo he said,
“We should endeavor to ensure that the Serb population of Kosovo be – the area be cleansed of them and all Serbs who had been living there for centuries should be termed colonialists and sent to concentration camps in Albania. The Serb settlers should be killed.” (Bogdanović, Dimitrije. “The Book on Kosovo”. 1990. Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1985. page 2428. and Genfer, Der Kosovo-Konflikt, Munich: Wieser, 2000. page 158.)
Indeed, Christian Orthodox Serbians have been relentlessly killed, suppressed and cleansed since the time of the Turkish Ottomans. The ethnic genocide of the Serbians by Turks and their mostly Islamic Albanian allies along with a state-sponsored mass migration of Albanians into Kosovo enabled their present day majority.

In the 1990s the conflict came to a head with ethnic attacks against Serbians rising to a fever pitch along with calls for Independence. The nation then known as Yugoslavia struggled against this separatist movement and a radical guerrilla war against Serbians began in earnest by the KLA, The Kosovo Liberation Army.

It is not America’s business to decide anything about another country halfway around the world. But the cadre of Jewish globalists who control American foreign policy decided that Serbia had to buckle down to what President Bush, Sr. once described as the “New World Order.” Serbia was not in the orbit of the New World Order’s agenda, so the globalists aided and supported in every way possible the KLA guerrillas while at the same time decrying its “excesses.” Who were these globalists behind the American war on Serbia? The war’s architects are listed by Reason Magazine in the May 2004 edition in an article written after the first year of the Iraq War, called “Temporary Doves” . In it Matt Welsh those who he describes as the “architects of Kosovo.”
Temporary Doves, from Reason Magazine May 2004 –Matt Welch
So it is of pressing interest to see what the architects of Kosovo, and its predecessor campaign in Bosnia, have to say about Bush’s controversial war. As luck would have it, there are recent books from three key Yugoslavia warriors: Madeleine Albright, the Munich-haunted Czechoslovak émigré who was the most influential anti-Milosevic hawk in Clinton’s cabinet; George Soros, the Munich-haunted Hungarian émigré and billionaire philanthropist who was among the earliest and most influential nongovernmental voices to urge military action against Serb nationalists; and Wesley Clark, the retired supreme allied commander of NATO who directed the Kosovo War.
What the article did not mention is that Madeline Albright, George Soros and even Wesley Clark are all committed Jewish supremacists. Although few Americans were even aware of it, even a man thought of as a Gentile, Wesley Clark, hailed from a “long-line of rabbis who were of the Cohen priest class.
Wesley Clark’s Jewish Roots
Ron Kampeas Special to the Jewish Times
SEPTEMBER 18, 2003 Washington
…Wesley Clark knew just what to say when he strode into a Brooklyn yeshiva in 1999, ostensibly to discuss his leadership of NATO’s victory in Yugoslavia.
“I feel a tremendous amount in common with you,” the uniformed four-star general told the stunned roomful of students. “I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son — at least five generations, and they were all rabbis.”
…Apparently Clark, 58, revels in his Jewish roots.
He told The Jewish Week in New York, which first reported the yeshiva comment in 1999, that his ancestors were not just Jews, but members of the priestly caste of Kohens.
The “national security” apparatus of the Clinton administration was so Jewish it should have been labeled Israel’s National Security team. In fact the major Israeli newspaper, Maariv ran a story called “The Jews Who Run Clinton’s Court” on September 2, 1994, in which it boasted of the dominant Jewish makeup of Clinton’s advisers and cabinet. It quotes a prominent Washington rabbi to the effect that the government of the United States is no longer a government of Gentiles. It bears repeating:

The U.S. has no longer a government of goyim [Gentiles], but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term ‘government of goyim’ should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S.
The article boasts of their complete domination of the administration, and describes many top officials around the president, especially in national security and foreign policy as “warm Jews” upon whom Jews can always count to advance the Jewish agenda.
In the National Security Council, 7 out of 11 top staffers are Jews. Clinton had especially placed them in the most sensitive junctions in the U.S. security and foreign administrations: Sandy Berger is the deputy chairman of the council; Martin Indyk, the intended ambassador to Israel, is a senior director in charge of the Middle East and South Asia; Dan Schifter, the senior director and adviser to the president, is in charge of Western Europe;…
When warfare broke out in the mid 1990s between the Serbians under Milošević and the revolutionary Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Immediately the Jewish-influenced U.S. sided with Kosovo and waged a violent, yet undeclared war with Serbia. America’s Jewish foreign policy bosses then influenced Britain and ultimately NATO to go to war against Serbia.

An overwhelming, high tech American military force attacked not only the Serbian military forces within Kosovo and Serbia, but even bombed the civilian infrastructure throughout the nation of Serbia. City Bridges and power stations, civilian trains, and civilian buildings were bombed all over the country, even in the Serbian capitol of Belgrade. Such Bombings are routinely described by the Jewish media as terrorism when done by opponents of American policy, but when America does it, it is called “peace-keeping operations.” At the time it occurred I wrote about how sick to the stomach I felt seeing American bombs falling on a European capitol.

Imagine for a moment if the overwhelming Black majority in Washington, DC decided to break away from the United States and begun terrorist attacks and military operations to achieve that aim. Say the U.S. government moved to militarily block the revolt but a militarily superior nation halfway around the world then began to bomb New York and New Orleans and Los Angeles in support of the rebels. How would Americans feel about that nation? Perhaps in that light an American can begin to understand Serbian feelings toward us.

There a dozens of ethnic and religious wars within and between nations all over the world. America has no business taking sides and being involved in any of them. It is not our business nor in our real interests to do so.

Ironically, while we get involved in the terrible ethnic struggles around the world, America’s controllers are waging a self-destructive immigration policy that is relentlessly producing a multi-ethnic society which will inevitably produce the same dynamics of hate and violence that exist in so many nations with sizable ethnic and religious minorities. Ethnic conflicts are the primary source of wars and terrorism in the world, yet by allowing our borders to be open to massive legal and illegal immigration of non-Europeans the Jewish leadership of open immigration movements (read my articles on the supreme Jewish role in the open borders movement) are sewing the seeds of our own future conflict, of increased hatred and violence in the United States. In fact, the Jewish supremacists support massive non-European immigration as part of their ethnic “divide and conquer” policy in America just as they use divide and conquer today against Serbia and Russia.

Stephen Steinlight, the former head of National Policy for the largest Jewish organization in the United States, the American Jewish Committee put it very succinctly in an article for his fellow Jews,

For perhaps another generation, an optimistic forecast, the Jewish community is thus in a position where it will be able to divide and conquer and enter into selective coalitions that support our agenda. (see the entire quote and source in My Awakening and Jewish Supremacism)
You often hear from conservatives, “My country right or wrong.”

Yes, we love our country and our people whether they are right or wrong, but true patriots demand that our nation be right, not wrong. We demand that our nation truly acts in the interests of the American people, not in the interest of any foreign power or loyalty. Today, the most powerful foreign influence is Zionism and Jewish supremacism,, whether in serving Jewish economic and financial interests around the world or in putting Israel’s strategic interests in the Mideast or elsewhere over that of the United States.

America has become the enforcer of the Jewish-extremist agenda worldwide. Whether one speaks of the U.S. blackmailing of Switzerland to cave into the Holocaust bank extortion, American policy makers defending the Jewish Mafia, Oligarch robber barons in Russia, or the U.S. going to war against Iraq for Israel, or American support for Israel’s murderous invasions of Lebanon, or the planned Jewish Neocon war against Iran, America is thoroughly under the thumb of the Jewish supremacists.

They are initiating a new cold war and taking aggressive steps against Russia as evidenced by the placing of nuclear missiles on Russia’s doorstep because post-communist Russia is not fully under their control and blocks their control of the U.N. Security Council.

We have seen this process in other Eastern European nations who have emerged from the grip of Communism. The price Eastern European nations must pay for America’s support is their support for America’s war for Israel s in Iraq, and support for the Jewish-American agenda in the U.N. Jewish extremists have even used their power over NATO and the EU to blackmail Eastern European nations to make laws to imprison critics of Zionism as a precondition for membership, all in the name of fighting “anti-Semitism,” of course.

Here are some excerpts from two articles dealing with the issue:

As NATO Meeting Approaches, Light Shines on Handling of Jewish Issues
By Adam B. Ellick
NEW YORK (JTA) — Later this month, seven nations will clear a crucial hurdle toward full membership in NATO.
But as they embrace a military alliance that seemed unimaginable during the Soviet era, these nations — Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — will remain under close scrutiny to ensure they follow through on promises regarding “value issues,” including how they handle Jewish affairs. JTA - 11.05.2002

Bush Wages Unsung Battle Against Global Anti-Semitism
By: Martin Tolchin and Susan Tolchin
March 12, 2007 08:04 AM EST
…The White House required East European nations that sought to join NATO to offer concrete proposals to combat anti-Semitism in their countries. “I have to give a lot of credit to the Bush administration,” said Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs at the American Jewish Committee. “A major decision in NATO enlargement has been dealing with Jewish issues. The U.S. has repeatedly raised these issues.”

Because they control American policy and the military might of America, they seek an American empire overseas as an extension of their power. This empire does not serve the interests of the American people in any way. It costs trillions of dollars and only makes enemies of half the world to the United States. Our Jewish-extremist controlled foreign policy in supporting Israeli crimes against Palestine resulted directly in tragedy of the 9-11 attacks.

Jewish supremacists lead and control the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve, and are able to use these instruments to force nations to support Israel’s interests in the UN and in other international bodies.

They have gotten America involved in the internal affairs of Serbia in order to weaken a nation where Zionists have little influence, while at the same time make newly independent nations such as Kosovo, nations that must be completely dependent on U.S. military support and the thus dependent on the Jewish powerbrokers.

I do not believe in my nation right or wrong.

I believe that my nation should be right.

I believe that my nation must act for the true interests of the American people and not some powerful, extremist minority.

I believe that if America is free from the un-American influence over our American government and media, not only will the American people be free and much better off, but the world will be so as well.

It hurts my heart to see the American embassy be attacked and burned, the American flag being driven down to the mud.

It hurts even more to know that this has occurred because our great nation now embarks on policies against the best interests of the American people and against the best interests of many peoples around the world.

Let’s change America. Change is not simply to have a new set of Jewish-extremist advisers echoing Clinton’s years, nor should it be Obama’s international team headed by Dennis Ross, the same Jewish Supremacist who sabotaged the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference. Change will surely not come from the old set of Jewish extremists as evidenced by McCain’s carryover of the Bush, Israeli-First team.

Change can only come from Americans in all walks of life, in business, media, academia and government rising in a new consensus and demanding that America have the independence our forefathers fought, bled and died to win, an American government dedicated to the American people and not to any foreign power.

Let’s bring this truth to every American. Now.

DavidDuke.com






Hands Off Yugoslavia
By Dr. William Pierce
ADV Broadcast Date: 04-03-1999
http://www.natvan.com/internet-radio/ts/040399.ram
http://www.natvan.com/internet-radio/ts/040399.mp3

The national interests of the United States are not served by bombing Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to govern its internal affairs as it sees fit. The idea that the United States is "saving lives" by the bombing is especially ludicrous. Also fallacious is that the idea is that the United States is concerned about how a nation treats its ethnic minorities. The Turks mistreat the Kurds, the Israelis mistreat the Palestinians, and many African nations are in continuous ethnic turmoil, but we are not bombing them. The only reason the United States is unhappy with Yugoslavia is that Yugoslavia is a European country which does not want to follow the directives of the United Nations and join the New World Order crowd.




Why the Jews Want War

By Dr. William Pierce
ADV Broadcast Date: 04-10-1999[
http://www.natvan.com/internet-radio/ts/041099.ram
http://www.natvan.com/internet-radio/ts/040399.mp3

Dr. Pierce further discusses the situation in Yugoslavia. He discusses how the New York Times reported the conflict between Albanians and Serbs before the Serbs became the media's ultimate bad guys and the Albanians became the media's innocent angels.

More Dr. William Pierce HERE




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An interesting take on the Kosovo "crisis" by Webster Griffin Tarpley.




More here.

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The article is quite interesting.

Zbigniew Brzezinski like his close friend and former partner in crime Maggie Thatcher is a an extreme Rusophobe. I remember him back during the Bosnian war when he was calling for the complete annihilation of the Bosnian Serbs and even Serbia. He is of the opinion that the Islamic world and ZOG need to unite against Russia and Serbia. He uses conflicts like Chechnya and Kosovo to push his political agenda which is a one world government.
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It seems we just never can get rid of these characters: more power to "democracy" in the Kwa. Here it is nearly thirty years later and Woody Woodpecker is still calling the shots.

I do recommend the worthwhile read of the entire Rense article. It begins to clear away the fog surrounding the origins of the "magic nigger's" magic. What's really intriguing is the simple fact that Brzezinski is no kike, nor is he particularly sympathetic to kike interests. Yet, he would use a nigger-tool to accomplish his ends...
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UNITED NATIONS -- The international split over Kosovo grew more ominous Friday as Russia raised the spectre of using force to back its Serb ally's bid to retain the territory.

Russia's envoy to NATO warned both the Western military alliance, which has a 16,000-strong peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and the European Union against formally backing the ethnic-Albanian leadership's declaration of independence from Serbia.

"If the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the United Nations," said Dmitry Rogozin, alluding to Russia's position that a UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo does not authorize a unilateral move to independence.

"We too would then have to proceed from the view that in order to be respected, we must use brute force -- in other words armed force."

Mr. Rogozin spoke a day after a mob in the Serbian capital of Belgrade ransacked and torched the U.S. embassy during a 250,000-strong rally protesting the independence move and Washington's recognition of the breakaway state.

The EU has not collectively ruled on Kosovo's proclamation, but has pledged to deploy a 2,000-strong administrative-support mission to take over from the UN, which has run the territory since NATO's 1999 bombing campaign forced the Serb army to withdraw.

Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin said the United States and "other forces that supported Kosovo's proclamation should have been aware of the consequences of such a step."

While no one expects Russia would pit its forces against NATO's in the region, experts say such talk could encourage other violence on the ground.

"Bellicose language from the Russians is not helpful," said retired U.S. major gen. William Nash, who served as UN regional administrator in northern Kosovo in 2000.

"One fear is that acts of provocation can lead to retaliation that in turn escalates the whole circumstance."

Up to 10,000 of the two million ethnic-Albanians in Kosovo died when Serb forces under then-Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic swept through the province almost a decade ago. Since NATO tipped the balance of power to the ethnic Albanians, it's Kosovo's minority Serbs who've faced pressure to leave. Mr. Nash said that missing today is a "compensation package for both Serbia, as an entity that has lost a portion of its country, and the Serb citizens in Kosovo."

In Washington, the State Department demanded Moscow repudiate Mr. Rogozin's words, characterizing what he said as "cynical and ahistorical."

"We strongly advise Russia to be more responsible in its public comments toward Kosovo," said Nicholas Burns, the third-ranking State Department official.

"Russia is isolated this week . . . very few countries are supporting its position."

In fact, the world is almost evenly split over the issue, with countries' positions appearing to reflect their internal concerns.

Against a backdrop of sensitivity over Quebec, Canada is among more than 25 countries that have not said one way or the other whether they support Kosovo's move. Argentina, which seeks to end British rule in the Falklands, and Cyprus and Spain, which are faced with their own separatist movements, are among almost 20 countries that have ruled against recognition. They say the unilateral declaration sets a bad precedent.

Major emerging powers such as India and South Africa are among almost 10 countries that have expressed concern over Kosovo's move.

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica Friday called Thursday's violence a "great misfortune" that was "directly damaging to our fight to preserve (the) state."

But the Serb government also pressed ahead with a bid to reclaim control over at least northern Kosovo, which borders Serbia, and is where Serbs form a regional majority.

The government announced Friday, for example, that Serb judges and other judicial employees would abandon UN-run Kosovo institutions and return to Serb ones in the north -- an apparent effort to create parallel Serb institutions in the breakaway state.

At border crossings Friday, Kosovar police and NATO troops from France kept students from Serbia from entering Kosovo, saying they were "not citizens" and that they would be banned "pending further orders."

Inside Kosovo, members of the Serb minority have shown their anger by destroying UN and NATO property, detonating small bombs and taunting NATO and UN officials.

Russia said NATO needs to remember it is supposed to be neutral in the standoff.

The EU told Serbia it must protect the embassies in Belgrade.

The Canadian embassy in Belgrade was open Friday after being hit by stones amid Thursday's riot.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said the building, which is not far from the U.S. embassy, had not been a direct target of the violence.

Family of U.S. diplomats in Belgrade, meanwhile, prepared to leave the country until the security situation improves.

The United States also closed its diplomatic mission Friday in Banja Luka, an ethnic-Serb stronghold in Serbia's neighbour Bosnia, after Serb protesters, attempting to attack it the day before, clashed with police.

Kosovo's independence proclamation has raised concerns over the future of Bosnia which, since the 1992-95 civil war, has been split between the Muslim-Croat Federation and Republika Srpska, an ethnic-Serb region. The parliament in the Serb area this week claimed the right to also secede and join the Republic of Serbia.

Britain, France, Germany and Turkey joined the United States in quickly recognizing Kosovo's independence, declared last Sunday. The Belgrade embassies of all those countries were also targeted in Thursday's riots. The charred remains of a body, believed to be that of a protester, were found inside the U.S. embassy.



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