Mr. O'Reilly, your article is a fresh positive face in a sea of negativity that has overcome the international media with regards to articles on the progress in Kosova.

It should also be noted that the international community has stacked the odds against the Albanians, creating the "standards before status" nonsense in order to slow down the inevitable road to independence. It is no secret to the Albanians, that Europe along with Russia have conspired through the United Nations to derail their hopes, this is a common centuries-old practice after all. The illegally annexed lands of the Albanian people and their inhabitants will not be oppressed, and it is only a matter of time before this powder keg that Europe helped create, begins to erupt.

As for Ramush Haradinaj, he has a modern day hero to the Albanians, his family has bled and fought for the land the Albanian inhabit, and the political progress made in the past five years would be negated in a matter of minutes through his arrest.

The Serbian political machine is one that the West fails to understand. It is one of the most deceitful, manipulative in the world, ranging as far as falsifying history to enrage the masses, and even using the Orthodox Church to create alliances and influence inhabitants of other nations. The Serbians have falsified history, and created inaccurate perceptions of the reality on the ground.

Kosovo is not lost to the Serbs, for it was never really theirs, and the will of the people must be determined by the people. We are in the same position that the World Powers were during the Congress of Berlin in 1913. Hopefully, the world has learned from its mistakes and will avoid them, granting the Albanian people the land they illegally stripped away from them a century ago. They created the bomb in the Balkans, now it is time to see if they repeat the mistakes of 1913, or begin the 21st century anew, giving the oppressed Albanians of the Balkans their rightful position in their historical homeland. The Albanians want what was theirs, nothing more, nothing less.

Mr. O'Reilly, please tell us what is not true in the following article. :
Who is Ramush Haradinaj?

Ramush Haradinaj, born on July 3, 1968 in the village of Glodjane, municipality of Decani, is not only a criminal but a terrorist and perpetrator of war crimes!

Terrorism and crimes of Ramush Haradinaj

Namely, in 1996, under the watchful eye of Albanian officers, Haradinaj completed terrorist training and upon completion took part in the opening of logistical bases for terrorists in the cities of Kuks and Tropoi in Albania. From these bases he and a group of trustworthy associates continuously injected weapons into Kosovo and Metohija.

In mid-1997 he illegally entered the country [the Federal Republic of [Yugoslavia] and together with his brothers, Daut and Skeljzen, organized terrorist attacks on police departments in the villages of Rznic, municipality of Decani, and Ponosevac, municipality of Djakovica, as well as against refugee camps in Junik and Babalac. In the beginning of 1998 he formed a terrorist group in Glodjane which according to his orders conducted ambushes and harrassment of Serbs and Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia. In March 1998 this group carried out an attack on a police patrol in the village of Glodjane and on that occasion killed policeman Miodrag Otovic.

In April of the same year Haradinaj established the Metohija headquarters of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army and a special unit called the Black Eagles, promoting Idriz Balaj aka Toger as its commander. Under the leadership of Ramush Haradinaj, the Black Eagles kidnapped and brutally murdered approximately forty Serbian civilians, including Slobodan Radojevic, Milos and Milica Radunovic, Darinka Kovac, Novica Vujsic, Zdravko Radunovic. Some of the bodies were recovered from Lake Radonjic (Radonjicko Jezero) and from water wells in the villages of the muncipality of Decani.

Crimes against compatriots

Terrorists under the command of Ramush Haradinaj did not kill only Serbs but also Albanians. Thus the aforementioned commander of the Black Eagles Idriz Balaj Toger killed Agim Ibrahimi, a taxi driver from Djakovica, at the end of 1998. At the end of 1999 the Black Eagles of Ramush Haradinaj abducted Vesel Mursij and four other ethnic Albanians who were thereafter kept imprisoned in the Dukadjini building in Pec. Vesel Murisi managed to escape and the other four men were killed. Their bodies were thrown into the Beli Drim River. Dzafer Djuka, a political official from Pec, was among the victims.

That the terrorists under Ramush Haradinaj's command killed and abused Albanian civilians, too, was proven in a trial conducted against Ramush Haradinaj's brother, Daut, who has already been sentenced by the UNMIK judiciary for crimes committed against Albanians in June 1999 and is currently serving a prison term. Since we know that Daut was the deputy of his brother Ramush in the Metohija headquarters of the terrorist KLA, if we follow the principle of command responsibility the line leads directly to Ramush Haradinaj. Unfortunately, the principle of command responsibility has not been respected in this instance, i.e. the international community has once again implemented its double standards, leaving Ramush Haradinaj untouched by justice.

German general Claus Reinhardt (KFOR commander Oct 1999-Apr 2000) and Ramush Haradinaj shaking hands in Prishtina. According to Dnevnik they have close cooperation.

Organizer of ethnic cleansing

Ramush Haradinaj is the organizer of ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians from the areas of Pec, Decani and Djakovica. The main perpetrators of these activities were members of the Black Eagles under the commander of Toger. For example, in order to intimidate the Serbs and destroy signs of Serb life and history on the territory of Metohija, the Black Eagles torched the Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Donji Ratis.

Ramush Haradinaj organized the murder of Zahir Zemaj

Haradinaj described his terrorist activities in an autobiographical book in which he of course hides the killing of Serbian civilians and his compatriots. He has gone so far as to organize, in June 2003, the murder of Tahir Zemaj who testified regarding his crimes before investigators of the Hague tribunal. The murder of Tahir Zemaj on January 4, 2004 on Ramush Haradinaj's orders was carried out by the Elsani brothers - Agim, Avni, Cerim, Adem and Ahmet - together with Sali Lajic and Florim Ejupi aka Mazul and Luli.

However, evidence against Haradinaj for his crimes did not disappear with the murder of Zemaj. It is in the possession of the Republic of Serbia, which is currently conducting a case against Haradinaj before the district court in Pristina, presently located in Nis, for terrorist activities, murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Evidence has also been provided to the Hague tribunal which has so far failed to issue an indictment against this proven criminal.

Organization and financing of terrorist activities in south central Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia

Haradinaj continued to conduct terrorist activities even after the arrival of itnernational forces in Kosovo and Metohija and is deeply involved in Albanian terrorist activities in south central Serbia. Thus, for example, Malic Ndrecaj was sent on his orders to the district of Vitina to organize the terrorist Albanian National Army. Today Haradinaj is also especially active in acquisition of weapons and secret training of Albanian terrorists from south central Serbia which is being conducted in the villages of Kosovo and Metohija near the administrative line.

Haradinaj is also involved in the operations of Albanian terrorists in the Republic of Macedonia and providing financial support to Nazim Haradinaj, who provided weapons for the Albanian terrorists in Macedonia. Following the orders of Ramush Haradinaj, until the moment of his arrest by Kfor in July 2002, his brother Daut was directly involved in organizing the terrorist Albanian Liberation Army and participated in clashes with security forces of the Republic of Macedonia.

Ramush Haradinaj acquires the financial means for terrorism through criminalactivities.

Murder and intimidation of political opponents

Ramush Haradinaj does not flinch from murdering his political opponents. Thus the Eslani brothers together with the notorious Toger followed his order on January 17, 2002 and liquidated DSK deputy Ismajl Haradnaj and attempted the murder of Ramiz and Sadik Murici from Pec, both DSK supporters. As well, the Elsani borthers in 2002 following Haradinaj's order liquidated his former bodyguard Avni Elezaj, who was supposed to testify regarding Haradinaj's conflict with the Musaj family and Tahir Zemaj.

Under the patronage (command) of the Haradinaj brothers, prison camps (detention centers) were formed which functioned from 1997-2003 in the following locations: Likovac, Orlate, Malisevska Banja, Jablanica, Smonica, Ozrim, Glamocer, Rakoc, and Kodralija. As an epilogue to this, left behind them were mass graves in the following locations: Brekovac, Ljubizda, Pec NN cemetery, Piskote, Radonjicko Jezero, Goden, Rakoc, etc.

It is estimated that the number of their victims (of all nationalities) may exceed three hundred people, largely civilizans.

It is estimated that Ramush Haradinaj is directly responsible for the abuction of over four hundred people (1998-2002) of all nationalities.

It is estimated that three groups for stalking and liquidation under his direct command are comprised of about 30 people specially trained for this type of task. The punishment for disloyalty or disobedience of members of the Kosovo Police Service or Kosovo Protection Corps is death and his groups are responsible for multiple murders of Albanian members of the KPS and translators.

Threats and intimidation of members of UNMIK (political and police organizations) as well as their "lobbying" (bribery) also fall under the domain of the work of Haradinaj's groups. All Albanian leaders in the Kosovo Police Service must obey Haradinaj. He is the logistical mastermind behind all Albanian National Army operations and an active participant in its organization and planning. His men have been appointed municipal mayors and, paradoxically, are also members of negotiating groups for displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija (giving them access to Serbian and UNMIK plans).

In districts under his direct control, he has the most contact with members of Italian Kfor and also controls the entire UNMIK judicial system in Pec. He is behind attacks on Serb returnee villages near Klina (Bicha). His groups is also responsible for the hushed up murder of three members of UNMIK police in the village of Citak in 2003. Haradinaj also has the most developed and organized operative intelligence netweork in Kosovo, which also covers zones of interest in central Serbia and throughout the territory of Montenegro. His intelligence network also supports the increasingly strong illegal network of associates and sympathizers of the Party of Democratic Action (based in Pec with local branches in Rozaj, Plav and in the Sandzak.

Al Q'aida connection

As far as Ramush Haradinaj himself is concerned, it is well to keep in mind a fact presented before the U.S. Congress on December 13, 2000 by Ralph Machek, the deputy director of the Criminal Intelligence Administration of Interpol - that Muhamed al Zavahiri, the brother of Dr. Ajman Zavahiri, the leader of the terrorist organization Egyptian Jihad and ideologue of al-Q'aida, commanded an elite unit of the terrorist KLA during the time of the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija. What Machek failed to mention was that this unit was a part of the military policy of the terrorist KLA for the region of Metohija under the command of Daut Haradinaj, while the commander of all units of the terrorist KLA for the region of Metohija was Ramush Haradinaj.

Even after the arrival of international forces in Kosovo and Metohija the Haradinaj brothers continued to nurture their connections with Islamic terrorists. In October 2001 on orders of Ramush Haradinaj his brother Daut visited Sofia where he met with the aforementioned Muhamed al Zavahiriji and discussed further tactics and activities by Islamic terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija and the Republic of Macedonia.

It is not known whether al-Q'aida continues to count on the further services of the Haradinaj clan, first and foremost, on Ramush Haradinaj, a proven champion of the terrorist ideology of Islamic extremists.

Mr. O'Reilly may be right that Ramus Haradinaj is an intelligent and personable man, but this doesn't change the fact that he is a war criminal, as documented in the previous post by Ana.

Mr. O'Reilly claims that "Belgrade knows that Kosovo is lost", but didn't bother to explain that if Kosovo is lost, it's beacuse of the constant persecution and oppression of the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija, which dates back to Turkish and Nazi occupation, communist purge, illegal immigration from Albania, and NATO occupation nowadays.

I hope Mr. O'Reilly will not claim one day that Southern parts of the US are lost for US because Spanish speaking population is a majority there.

I would like to point out some basic fact's and not myths. First off, the article say's the Mr. O'Reily has visited Kosovo many times in recent years. Its obvious that the Albanians there have also filled his pocket's, for the purpose of articles like this. Let us not forget, the only reason the U.S. is there is because of the crude oil! This pipline will eventually come out of Albanian to the Adriatic. I guess it makes sense to take their side from a U.S. Gov't standpoint. Albanians of Kosovo have made NATO troop's there look the other way by providing them hooker's from Bulgaria, Romania, etc., and also drugs. Majority of these soldiers are not older than 23yrs old, and would love to have free drug's and hooker's, while the Albanian's keep smuggling their weapon's, drug's, and stolen car's. Let's us not forget how the U.S. sent the Virgina based MPRI (retired U.S. generals) to Croatia, to help organize the Croat Army before Operation Storm in Krajina. Let us also not forget how the U.S. turned the other cheek when Arabic terroists were secretly flown in via Saudia Arabia to the coast of Croatia, to help their 'brother' Bosnian Muslim's. Let's also not forget that Albanians from the U.S. helped smuggle weapons into Albania under the elias of some Hunting Club in Tirana. So, what do you expect a normal person to do? Stand back and watch their civilians and police get killed every other day? This article is pointless, since Mr. O'Reilly's pocket was filled with green. It is sad, but what goes around comes around. Kosovo is not a done deal, not by a long shoot.

Yes indeed Mr Haradinaj & co are very intelligent people, they managed to turn Kosovo into the most ethnically pure state/province in Europe all in the name of humanity, what im impressed most about is that these peace loving human rights fighters are so caring that they are even exporting their poison & hatred to traditionally peaceful multicultural regions in the Balkans, eg Macedonia, presevo just like their fascists grandfathers who also engaged in barbaric ethnic cleansing policies during world war II, the only differance between today and World War II is that these same human rights loving fascists were receving support from the lovely Nazis where as today they are receiving support from EU/NATO and the USA.....

As per this comment

"Haradinaj, in particular has long been the object of their attentions: He is widely known to have been an outstanding military strategist who inflicted very serious casualties on the Serb military and paramilitary machine."

The only casualties Mr Haradinaj was good at inflicting was blowing up lonely police patrols 15 meters in the air with land mines and murdering innocent village people in a brutal manner so that they can provoke the Serb Army into a brutal response and then cry foul and that someones human rights are being violeted....

Make no mistakes about it, Mr Haradinaj & co are drug dealing murderous thugs who have no respect for human rights or life itself,, I can see it in the country where I come from Macedonia, before we got invaded from Kosovo 2001 under the eyes of UN/NATO/USA/EU Macedonia was a relatively peaceful place a so called bastion of peace in the balkans.... but things have changed since the human rights fighting peace loving KLA Mr Haradinaj & thugs decided to export their love to Macedonia, since 2001 we now have had MACEDONIAN policemen being murdered and mutalated making sure a open casket funeral not viable, we've had 600 year old churches blown up and vandalised, we've had MACEDONIAN civillians tied together and blown up and for the ones that survived, they were previllaged enough to have the initials of the names of local UCK/KLA commanders carved in their bodies while being sober, we've also had dams turned off, people of the town of kumanavo had to go with out water for 50 days, we've had MACEDONIAN children blown up while playing with mines, we've had MACEDONIAN teenagers shot DEAD with Machine guns while playing Basketball, we have had many MACEDONIAN civillians gone missing to never be found by loved ones, for the ones who were found well... one Macedonian man of 80 years young had his head removed from his body, gotta love those peace loving KLA/UCK/NLA/ANA/KCP and what ever they like to call themselves, we also now have people walking around with kalishnikovs, women being kidnapped and forced into prostitution, we have children running ethnic pitched battles in schools, we have people being intimidated into leaving their homes...

We have absolute chaos and anarchy in Macedonia now, you even have ex KLA/UCK/NLA/ANA/KCP occupying villages and demanding some kind of compensation for inflicting horror on other people and demanding jobs in the Police force and army of Macedonia...

Could you imagine what would happen to me if I took up arms and occupied a town in Australia and demanded money and a job in the police force??

But in the Balkans its called fighting for HUMAN RIGHTS.... and if your lucky enough and you have engaged enough murderous activites, you too can become a prime mister of a ethnicall clean province

Perhaps Mr. Haradinaj's career move from a terrorist to Prime Minister offers a genuine solution in War On Terror- Osama Bin Laden should be offered a position of Prime Minister in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

Just like Mr. Haradinaj, Mr. Bin Laden also has cooperated closely with CIA in the past, and also has an impressive terrorist curriculum and international terrorist connections.

Since Mr. Bin Laden lacks Mr. Haradinaj's valuable work experience as a night club bouncer, he will have to enroll into The John F. Kennedy School of Government to upgrade his diplomatic skills.

If his ally could do it, Mr. Bin Laden can do it too.

I had expected a vituperative reaction to my piece on Ramush Haradinaj (Kosovo on a Knife-Edge), but the reaction exceeded expectations.

Readers might like to visit www.kosovo.com. This is the official website of the Serbian Orthodox church in the diocese of Raska and Prizren. (It is also the source of the cut and paste contribution from “Ana”). Imagine for a moment substituting the word “Jew” for “Albanian” and you begin to understand the depth of racist hatred peddled by the venerable clerics and their fellow-travelers. Another race-hatred site worth a look, if you like this kind of thing, is www.serbianna.com.

This is more than a pity; it is a tragedy for Serbs and Albanians alike. Alongside a catalogue of vicious lies about Ramush Haradinaj the clerics of Prizren put on record much that is true about the unacceptable conditions in which many Kosovar Serbs now live. But how can reconciliation be possible when lies are so freely mingled with truth.

It is interesting however that at the same time that my piece excites such bilious reactions, Belgrade’s foreign minister, Vuk Draskovic, is striking an altogether more realistic note. Speaking in Tirana on Wednesday last, Draskovic said "we can not change the historical past, but we can change our common future." Any intelligent observer of Kosovo’s politics, who also knows a little about European history, can see that a Haradinaj-led government offers real potential for a lasting settlement that will ensure the rights of Kosovo’s Serbs. Perhaps we are now seeing the first signs of a realistic rapprochement between Pristina and Belgrade.

The issues at stake in the Balkans have too often been clouded by irrational responses to individual personalities. For Kosovo the issue is very clear. Belgrade has, since 1980, systematically and brutally excluded Kosovar Albanians from participation as equal citizens with their Serb neighbors. The atrocities committed against the Albanian population in the mid- to late-nineties by the police, army and paramilitary thugs of Milosevic rank with the greatest crimes of the twentieth century. The international community recognized, in a very practical way, the right of the Albanian people to defend themselves, just as the international community now recognizes that stability in the region requires the independence of Kosovo in a close alignment with Europe and enjoying mutually respectful relations with Serbia.

Mr. O'Reilly substitute the word "Jews" for "Serbs in all the anti-Serb writings of the past fifteen years, and see what you get.

Mr O'Reiley is spot on when saying "But how can reconciliation be possible when lies are so freely mingled with truth".
Without the truth, there is no justice, without justice, there is no lasting peace.

Take for example Mr. O'Reiley's claim that "Belgrade has, since 1980, systematically and brutally excluded Kosovar Albanians from participation as equal citizens with their Serb neighbors."

In reality, after 1980, Albanians occupied top positions of Yugoslav State, Communist Party, Federal Parliament (Fadilj Hoxha was President of collective federal PResidency, Sinan Hasani was member of Presidency, ALi Shukria was President of Communist Party Presidency, more than 10 Albanians were diplomats and so on). One has to wonder why Mr. O'Reiley made this claim if he cherishes truth. If this is "brutal exclusion", one has to wonder what fair representation is -perhaps what is happening in Kosovo today? It is interesting to note that the term "Ethnic cleansing" came into English usage after Albanian phrase "ethnically clean Kosovo"(i.e. clean of dirt such as Serbs, Roma, Jews, Gorani and others who are not Albanian) popularized in the 1980's by Albanian political elite.

Other claim, "The atrocities committed against the Albanian population in the mid- to late-nineties by the police, army and paramilitary thugs of Milosevic rank with the greatest crimes of the twentieth century" is even stranger.

According to Prof. Rummel, over 200 MILLION people were murdered by brutal regimes in the 20th century. Some of the greatest crimes of 20th century are mass crimes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, Armenian genocide, The Holocaust, Rwanda, Nagasaki, Dresden. List is long. Before the NATO war in 1999, some three thousand (3000) people were killed in Kosovo province - 2000 Albanians and 1000 Serbs. Ranking two thousand (2000) killed Albanians (mostly KLA members) among "the greatest crimes of the 20th century" is either slick political marketing or total lack of moral judgment.

After the war, more than 1000 Serbs and 1000 Albanians were murdered by KLA thugs in Kosovo, who acted under the orders of Mr. Haradinaj and other KLA leaders. I doubt Mr. O'Reiley would rank these 2000 killed among “the greatest crimes of the twentieth century".

Last but not least, innuendo used to project the Hitler's racist treatment of Jews on Albanians to equate Serbs with Nazis
is factually incorrect and morally wrong and borders on HOLOCAUST DIMINISHING. During WWII, Serbs, like Jews, were the victims of NAZISM. During WWII, Albanians in Albanian Waffen SS Division Skenderbeg took an active role in The Holocaust. Sixty years later, their descendants made Kosovo JUDENREIN.

These three claims were not made by an uneducated hick, (or even by Australian KLA/AL Qaeda David Hicks) but by NDI consultant who advises others on international policies. Peddling part truths and lies is not a way to achieve lasting peace. I believe that this article as well as subsequent reaction, warrants more thorough inquiry than 'vituperative reaction' on an obscure website.

Alternatively, it can serve as a platform to elect David Hicks for Prime Minister of Australia. Like Mr. Haradinaj, Mr. Hicks also has murdered civilians with KLA and has excellent connections with Al Qaeda.

O'Reilly makes Ramush Hardanaj to be an unblemished Albanian hero and Serbs to be evil liars who distorted history. His perspective is one-sided. Such issues are never one-sided.

The Serbs claim to Kosovo is no more than the Jews claim to the land of Israel except that Serbs have been resident there continuously for centuries whether as a minority or majority. Pec is to them as Rome is to the Catholics, Jerusalem is to the Jews, Mecca is to the Muslims., Constantinople (Istanbul) is to Orthodox Christians until it was taken from them by the Ottomans. These attachments are all based on deep religious sentiments, not politics, and should be respected. Kosovo has less religious significance for the Albanians than the Palestinians have for the land of Israel. .Muslim Albanians and Palestinians look to Mecca.

If Hardanaj is an unblemished hero who fought for the rights of the Albanians as O'Reilly claims, then Milosevic is an even greater unblemished hero to the Serbs for having stood up for their rights in his speech at Kosovo on the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo. Milosevic tried to keep as much of Serbian populated lands in Croatia and Bosnia as part of Serbia when Yugoslavia disintegrated. This is not the same as Germany annexing the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and Silesia from Poland, both German-majority areas. Serba did not try to seize land from Hungary or Romania, sovereign states. If Kosovo deserves independence, then the earlier unilateral declarations of independence by Republika Krajina and Republika Srpska should also be restored and recognized. If these must remain part of Croatia and Bosnia, then so must Kosovo.

The "International Community" should either keep Kosovo as part of Serbia, or divide it to encompass all the Serbian holy sites within Serbia, even if much of the holy places have already been demolished by Albanians in the face of KFOR's presence. Partition of Kosovo may salvage some of the priceless historical Serbian Christian churches and monasteries that still remain. They are not interested in the minerals of Kosovo.

Mr. O'Reilly, have you ever tried, to check whether, what you call “a catalogue of vicious lies about Ramush Haradinaj [by] the clerics of Prizren” are really lies? Have you checked the list of missing Serbs, the list of those who were beaten, and expelled from their houses and now live in run down elementary school gymnasiums, the list of the destroyed churches - all that Father S. Janic put on the site, before you wrote that Father S. Janic is putting vicious lies on kosovo.com? If you haven’t, I think Father S. Janic should sue you in the court of law.

As for Vuk Draskovic he comes from the same flock as you do.

Even The New York Times, which you cannot accuse of being pro Serbian, has doubts about your hero Haradinaj.

December 24, 2004
EDITORIAL - For Fair use only

A Poor Choice in Kosovo

Five years since international administrators took control of Kosovo, the situation in that badly bloodied Balkan province remains intractable. The choice of a new prime minister illustrates some of the reasons why: Ramush Haradinaj, a former guerrilla leader, was questioned by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia only a couple of weeks before he was picked to lead Kosovo's government, and he may soon be indicted for war crimes. If the Kosovars want to show that they can run an independent country in which the Serbian minority will be safe, this is a bad way to do it. Yet President Ibrahim Rugova forged a political alliance with Mr. Haradinaj, and the United Nations' administrator of Kosovo did not block it.

It is hardly likely that the Serbian minority in Kosovo, or the Serbian government in Belgrade, will have anything to do with Mr. Haradinaj. They accuse him of committing atrocities in the Decani region of western Kosovo as a commander there of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the guerrilla army that battled Serbian forces in the late 1990's. Mr. Haradinaj has denied any wrongdoing, but K.L.A. fighters were reported to be responsible for killing Serbs and Albanians suspected of collaborating with Serb rule.

Whatever hopes the United Nations had for starting talks on Kosovo's future next year are effectively stalled. If Mr. Haradinaj is indicted, the problem will get worse: Kosovar Albanians who voted for him will be enraged. Yet the alternative - shelving a potential indictment because the target is prime minister - would weaken the credibility of the international tribunal.

The United Nations may have been unduly optimistic on the future of the Kosovo talks. But if there is to be any chance of bringing the Albanians and Serbs together, both the Kosovars and the United Nations have to understand that putting people like Mr. Haradinaj forward as their leaders only sets the clock back.

Michael wrote: ... "Imagine for a moment substituting the word “Jew” for “Albanian” and you begin to understand the depth of racist hatred peddled by the venerable clerics and their fellow-travelers. Another race-hatred site worth a look, if you like this kind of thing, is www.serbianna.com."

Yes. In case of Albanians one would indeed need to "imagine" the depth of racist hatred if one would substitute the word "Jew" for "Albanian".

However, in Serbian case there is no need to imagine. The scope of Albanian ("international community" and the western media) hate and racial discrimination against the Serbs in Kosovo [and not only in Kosovo] has been far from imaginative. It is real and deadly! So much so that Albanian/ Islamic terrorists try to eradicate every tail of Serbian heritage in Kosovo starting with Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries and finishing it with expulsion and killing of almost every Serb living in Kosovo.

Instead of being outraged with the scope of devastation and destruction of hundreds of Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries and the expulsion and killings of over two hundred thousands Christian Serbs by Albanians in Kosovo; instead of being outraged that we have handed over Serbia's Holy land, Serbian Jerusalem, the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church, to KLA narco-terrorists and Bin Ladin's followers in Kosovo, O' Reilly celebrates them as heroes and liberators.

You are pointing finger in the wrong direction, Mr. O'Reilly. Look at yourself in the mirror and you'll see who is the one who hates the most.

By the way, you haven't told your readers what was not correct in the article posted by me about Ramush Haradinai.

Could it be that the story is true?

O'Reilly says that Serbs have lost Kosovo, and this amazing political clairvoyance of this author makes me wonder why hasn't this man used this extrasensory geopolitical omniscience so to provide solutions to some more pressing political problems of the world and instead chooses to waste his clairvoyant talent on a petty terrorist and killer desirous of some political legitimacy.

For all of the whitewashing you are doing on that Albanian thug, Mr. O'Reilly, the fact remains that Haradinaj is a KILLER and your article glorifies him.

Perhaps O'Reilly is demonstrating his hidden morbid fetish for cadavers so he found a Balkan killer that has already provided some feisty ability to create them aplenty... and 99% of killer covet and in O'Reilly's case he covets Kosovo.

Mr O'Reilly the Albanians have one objective and thats create an ethnically clean state in the Balkans for Albanians, and there is nothing scientific about that, and they will more than likely acheive this objective, its one organization under one leadership with one goal

And as for the so called evil serbs... then how do you explain the ethnic violence in Macedonia which was initiated by the peace loving Albanians of Kosovo?? isnt Milosevic in jail? and arent the serb super bad paramilitary thugs in Serbia????

Let me guess your response.. It was a magical spill over incident from from kosovo which has no real explanation really..

Since your such an Balkan expert, I would strongly suggest that you come to Macedonia and visit a town eg Ohrid where the population is 90% Macedonian and 10% Albanian and see how the Albanians live and then go to a town eg Tetovo where the population ratio is 90% Albanians and 10% Macedonian and see how the Macedonians live... As simple as that

In summary, Haradinaj and co have only one objective, and that objective is being realised with absolute violence....

As for propaganda, well you should no best, im assuming you orginate from some Anglo nation, the masters of propaganda....

eg where are the WMD in Iraq????

I have to agree with Mediawatcher:

"Perhaps Mr. Haradinaj's career move from a terrorist to Prime Minister offers a genuine solution in War On Terror- Osama Bin Laden should be offered a position of Prime Minister in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan."

After reading texts like Mr. O'Reilly's one can only conclude that terrorism works. Only naive Serbs still hope for some kind of "justice" from great powers of "international community". Wouldn't want to think what could happen if they give up on that hope. Last time they accepted methods that "work" it didn't turn out that well for the "civilized world". You know, when that Duke couldn't stand the Princip(le) and whole hell broke loose.

I was interested to see the level of vitriol leveled at Michael for writing this article - curious how some people seem to think that making personal attacks will prove their point, when in fact all it does is divest them of any credibility. I'd like to see a sensible response disagreeing with this article, for interest's sake if nothing else.