illuminati
02-09-2006, 04:40 PM
The Kosovo Liberation Army is an unlikely catalyst for NATO's first attack on a sovereign nation (Yugoslavia) in its 50-year history. Just a 1995, the KLA was a tiny, militant splinter group that wanted Kosovo's independence from Serbia, at a time when most of the province's residents had more modest political ambitions.
Due to its small size, modest equipment and lack of popular support, the KLA was never seen as a serious threat.
However, in 1997 it began killing Serb police and civilians and others etnic groups in Kosovo who collaborated with the Serbs. It also drove Serbs entirely out of some areas.
In February 1998, the government struck back. Yugoslav president Milosevic sent troops into the areas controlled by the KLA, such actions provoked riots in Pristina, the Kosovar capital, suporetd by USA, EU and OSCE Mission lead by William Walker, former CIA analist.
By the first week of March, the Yugoslav and Serbian forces had wiped out what was believed to be the core of the KLA, a single family in the village of Prekaz headed by rebel leader Adem Jashari.
While the Serb-led offensive drove the KLA out of virtually all its strongholds, it also encouraged a massive flow of weaponry from neighboring Albania in support of the rebels.
And it encouraged militants to attack Serb soldiers and civilians as a way of escalating the conflict and drawing in NATO to back them up.
In September, NATO issued an ultimatum to halt the fighting. Belgrade appeared to back down, withdrawing some of its troops.
When the KLA fighters returned under cover of the cease- fire, the guerrilla group had changed. Many analysts saw it as better organized and certainly better armed than ever before.
It had also changed its tactics to reflect its strengths and exploit its enemies' weaknesses.
In January, the KLA took eight government soldiers hostage, triggering new violence.
Within days, the killing of KLA members in the village of Racak, condemned as a "massacre" by international observers (Wiliam Walker, OSCE) on the scene, galvanized Western opinion. A consensus grew in NATO that the two sides would be forced into a peace agreement, either by moral suasion or military force.
When the KLA (supported by USA Clinton administration) signed onto the peace accord that NATO had written in Rambulliet (France1999)-- and which contained provisions that Milosevic had rejected out of hand -- they won their battle for de facto NATO support.
Milosevic declared he would rather be bombed than give up Kosovo to NATO ultimatum and allow NATO troops to deploy there.NATO response was bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegero) in march 1999...
After bombing of Serbs in Croatia, and Serbs in Bosnia, this time the target was Serbia ....
http://www.imcnews.com/kosovo/kla.jpg
http://www.markswatson.com/kla-mudzahedin.jpg
http://www.serbia-info.com/g3/images/110399oslani-kla-r-m.jpg
http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2001/02/12/_slike/Uck.jpg
http://www.balkanpeace.org/beginner/assets/KLA.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1705000/images/_1706306_hicks_afp_300.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/370000/images/_371609_kla150.jpg
http://ardmoreite.com/images/061799/soldiers.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/bosnia/jan-june99/kosov006.JPG
CULTURAL HERITAGE
in
KOSOVO and METOHIJA PROVINCE
DAMAGED or DESTROYED
byKosovo Liberation Armysince arrival of International Forces (June, 1999)
http://http://www.yuheritage.com/kla_map.htm
http://www.yuheritage.com/elements/zone.gif
http://http://p.vtourist.com/1/1381263-KLA_Kosovo_Liberation_Army-Serbia_and_Montenegro.jpg
Due to its small size, modest equipment and lack of popular support, the KLA was never seen as a serious threat.
However, in 1997 it began killing Serb police and civilians and others etnic groups in Kosovo who collaborated with the Serbs. It also drove Serbs entirely out of some areas.
In February 1998, the government struck back. Yugoslav president Milosevic sent troops into the areas controlled by the KLA, such actions provoked riots in Pristina, the Kosovar capital, suporetd by USA, EU and OSCE Mission lead by William Walker, former CIA analist.
By the first week of March, the Yugoslav and Serbian forces had wiped out what was believed to be the core of the KLA, a single family in the village of Prekaz headed by rebel leader Adem Jashari.
While the Serb-led offensive drove the KLA out of virtually all its strongholds, it also encouraged a massive flow of weaponry from neighboring Albania in support of the rebels.
And it encouraged militants to attack Serb soldiers and civilians as a way of escalating the conflict and drawing in NATO to back them up.
In September, NATO issued an ultimatum to halt the fighting. Belgrade appeared to back down, withdrawing some of its troops.
When the KLA fighters returned under cover of the cease- fire, the guerrilla group had changed. Many analysts saw it as better organized and certainly better armed than ever before.
It had also changed its tactics to reflect its strengths and exploit its enemies' weaknesses.
In January, the KLA took eight government soldiers hostage, triggering new violence.
Within days, the killing of KLA members in the village of Racak, condemned as a "massacre" by international observers (Wiliam Walker, OSCE) on the scene, galvanized Western opinion. A consensus grew in NATO that the two sides would be forced into a peace agreement, either by moral suasion or military force.
When the KLA (supported by USA Clinton administration) signed onto the peace accord that NATO had written in Rambulliet (France1999)-- and which contained provisions that Milosevic had rejected out of hand -- they won their battle for de facto NATO support.
Milosevic declared he would rather be bombed than give up Kosovo to NATO ultimatum and allow NATO troops to deploy there.NATO response was bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegero) in march 1999...
After bombing of Serbs in Croatia, and Serbs in Bosnia, this time the target was Serbia ....
http://www.imcnews.com/kosovo/kla.jpg
http://www.markswatson.com/kla-mudzahedin.jpg
http://www.serbia-info.com/g3/images/110399oslani-kla-r-m.jpg
http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2001/02/12/_slike/Uck.jpg
http://www.balkanpeace.org/beginner/assets/KLA.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1705000/images/_1706306_hicks_afp_300.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/370000/images/_371609_kla150.jpg
http://ardmoreite.com/images/061799/soldiers.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/bosnia/jan-june99/kosov006.JPG
CULTURAL HERITAGE
in
KOSOVO and METOHIJA PROVINCE
DAMAGED or DESTROYED
byKosovo Liberation Armysince arrival of International Forces (June, 1999)
http://http://www.yuheritage.com/kla_map.htm
http://www.yuheritage.com/elements/zone.gif
http://http://p.vtourist.com/1/1381263-KLA_Kosovo_Liberation_Army-Serbia_and_Montenegro.jpg