background preloader

Balkan Politics

Facebook Twitter

Lebanon, Bosnia among five new U.N. council members | Reuters.com. Republican Riot » Balkan-Muslim Gratitude: Fort Dix and Our Friends the Albanians. Last night the FBI arrested six Muslims who were planning a commando-style attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey, to “kill as many soldiers as possible,” authorities said. Four of the six men are Albanians, a fact that Fox News — which apparently thinks that “Yugoslavia” and “Albanians” are the same, and isn’t sure what those two things might have to do with “the Balkans” — reported thus: The Associated Press reported that those captured were nationals of the former Yugoslavia, but the law enforcement source told FOX News that not all of them are of Albanian ethnicity. Federal sources also said the group is from the “Balkans.”

The only clue we get from other news sources that the four “Yugoslavs” are Albanian, and from Kosovo, is in sentences like these, which appeared in an earlier version of an AP report: In 1999, [Fort Dix] sheltered more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia…After that war, refugees were allowed to return to the U.N. One killed in central Bosnia bombing. 27 June 2010Last updated at 21:46 The government described the blast as a 'terrorist' strike A bomb has exploded near a police station in central Bosnia, killing one officer and injuring at least five others, police say. The bomb caused extensive damage in the town of Bugojno, about 75km (45 miles) north-west of Sarajevo.

Security Minister Sadik Ahmetovic said it was a "terrorist act". Police say at least five people have been arrested in connection with the blast. Correspondents say it is unclear if a device was planted or thrown. Previous crimes "One policeman died of injuries, while six others were wounded, one of them seriously," a police official told the AFP news agency . The Bosnian national television channel, BHT, said one of those arrested was a man who confessed to planting the device. It said that the suspect was a member of the radical Islamic Wahabbi movement which is active in Bosnia and that he is already known by police for previous crimes. Serbia's Srebrenica apology - INSIDE STORY. Just one day after apologising for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Serbia is drafting a new declaration to commemorate their own victims of the Balkan wars. After 13 hours of heated debate, Serbia's parliament has finally passed the landmark resolution on Wednesday, condemning the massacre of around 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and admitting they should have done more to prevent the tragedy.

Approved by a narrow majority, Serb politicians apologised to the families of victims, but stopped short of calling the Srebrenica killings genocide. Is there more to this apology than meets the eye, and is it 15 years too late? Is it another manoeuvre by Serbia to improve their chances of joining the EU? This episode of Inside Story aired from Thursday, April 1, 2010. The Genocide Myth.