Serbia president: UN allowing Albanian media to promote terrorist groups

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Tadić warns about promoting terror4 October 2007 | 10:43 -> 18:19 | Source: B92, BIRN BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- President Boris Tadić warned KFOR and UNMIK today that Albanian media in Kosovo may be promoting terror organizations.

He was reacting to last night's broadcast by Kosovo's public television of an interview with a group the UN designated to be terrorist.

According to the president, the video constitutes for a new threat of violence and intimidation of the Serbs in the province.

“It is also an attempt to affect the negotiating process over the future status of Kosovo.”

“I believe that the ethnic Albanians do not wish to see the March 17, 2004 incidents repeat again,” Tadić said in a statement.

During his recent visit to New York, Tadić informed foreign officials about the existence of armed terrorist groups in northern Macedonia.

Kosovo's public broadcaster Wednesday aired "dramatic footage" of a terrorist group in the province, BIRN said earlier Thursday.

RTK broadcast an interview with members of the Albanian National Army, ANA, an armed group branded as terrorists by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK.

According to RTK the footage was filmed near the Kosovo – Serbia proper administrative boundary, in the municipality of Podujevo.

A group of masked armed men in black uniforms were shown patrolling one of Kosovo’s most important highways and checking vehicles that were passing by.

”Seeing the serious threat… that Serbia will again do an invasion in Kosovo, we decided to prepare and to open our eyes better”, one of the masked armed men told RTK.

Beatrant Bornneau, spokesperson of NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, told RTK that they would react furiously "in case they would locate the ANA militia."

“There’s no place for any more violence in Kosovo”, Bornneau was quoted.

Members of the Albanian National Army, known also as AKSH, were seen in the territory periodically after the conflict ended in 1999. They have taken responsibility for several bombing incidents in Kosovo since then.

Through press statements ANA has also threatened with attacks and all out war in Macedonia demanding unification of Albanians from Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania.

This is the first time that any ANA armed and uniformed members were filmed and broadcast in Kosovo.

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This clearly shows the idiocy of american polcies. The UN and NATO will do nothing and when Serbia reacted to such groups in the 1990s they decided to bomb Serbia. Yet, I'm pretty sure if some Mexican terrorist group fighting for the southern united states to be given back to Mexico were to start doing similar things in America the U.S. would launch many times worse then Serbia did.

I am sick and tired of these groups in and around KiM.
Where do these Albanina extremists and terrorists stop? They are the cause of all instability in that region. When they don't get what they want, then they to pretend to be some freedom fighters, but they are far from that. They are only terrorists and there is no other way of dealing with them, because we will be facing these terrorists for years to come unless we deal with them now. Let the Serbs patroll and control these islamic fundamentalist that threaten our civilized world.

What is even worse is that UN (and by association NATO) recognize the ANA as being a terrorist group, yet in 2001 they forced the FYROM government in Skopje to negotiate with these terrorists tyo end the civl war there. Hopefully this time the people in Skopje will not negotiate with terrorists, but that is hard since former members of this group are part of government and the Albanians are a big minority there.

Sooner or later, the Western powers that are determining the fate of the Balkans will have to realize that groups like the ANA pose threats to the entire regional stability of the area and need to be targetted with the same degree of determination as the Taliban and al Qaida.

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Another article I found on the subject, it is apparently the same material except in this post a reference is made to the fact that the ANA plans to spread violence into Montenegro and FYROM.

Armed Groups Patrolling Kosovo

03 10 2007 Pristina _ Kosovo`s public broadcaster, RTK, aired on Wednesday night dramatic footage and an interview with members of the Albanian National Army, ANA, an armed group branded as terrorists by the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK.

According to RTK the footage was filmed near the Kosovo – Serbia border in the municipality of Podujevo. A group of masked armed men in black uniforms were shown patrolling one of Kosovo’s most important highways and checking vehicles that were passing by.


”Seeing the serious threat… that Serbia will again do an invasion in Kosovo, we decided to prepare and to open our eyes better”, one of the masked armed men told RTK.


Beatrant Bornneau, spokesperson of NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, told RTK that they would react furiously in case they would locate the ANA militia.


“There’s no place for any more violence in Kosovo”, Bornneau said.


Members of the Albanian National Army (Armata Kombetare Shqiptare) known also as AKSH, were seen in the territory periodically after the conflict ended in 1999. They have taken responsibility for several bombing incidents in Kosovo since then.


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Through press statements ANA has also threatened with attacks and all out war in Macedonia demanding unification of Albanians from Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. This is the first time that any ANA armed and uniformed members were filmed and broadcast in a national TV station in Kosovo.


Kosovo is being administrated by the UN since 1999 when NATO bombs made the Serbian authorities withdraw from the territory. Its political status is due to be resolved in an internationally mediated negotiations process between Kosovo and Serbia politicians.