Post by berschneider on Apr 18, 2004 5:53:06 GMT -5
While Serbs and Albanians riot in the streets, occupiers are busy killing each other indoors over Iraq.
(Russian speakers have a descriptive expression which can roughly be translated as fire in a lunatic asylum during an earthquake. I think this news piece is very revealing of what American style future holds for the Evil Empire's allies).
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4855762
By Shaban Buza
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Jordanian were shot dead in Kosovo Saturday when emotions over Iraq apparently boiled over into a gunbattle between members of the U.N. law enforcement mission.
U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said two U.S. police officers and a Jordanian were killed and 10 Americans and one Austrian wounded in the shooting.
The lethal firefight between fellow members of the U.N. force was unprecedented in five years of peacekeeping in Kosovo, where police of some 30 nations make up the international force of around 3,500.
The 10-minute shootout took place in the U.N. compound in ethnically divided Mitrovica -- a city that is more commonly the scene of clashes between Serbs and Albanians, in which U.N. police and NATO troops intervene to keep the peace.
Initial reports that the shooting centered on a detention center in the compound were inaccurate. But the U.N. said the dead and wounded included both police and prison staff.
The deputy head of the Serb hospital in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, said one of the dead was an American woman, who was hit along with four female U.S. police colleagues.
U.N. police sources said four Jordanian police officers had been arrested in connection with the shooting, but could give no further details on the cause.
A police source said it began with a row over Iraq. Singh said the U.N. was still investigating the possible motive.
The multinational U.N. police force is backed by the NATO-led KFOR military mission numbering about 20,000 troops.
(Russian speakers have a descriptive expression which can roughly be translated as fire in a lunatic asylum during an earthquake. I think this news piece is very revealing of what American style future holds for the Evil Empire's allies).
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4855762
By Shaban Buza
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Jordanian were shot dead in Kosovo Saturday when emotions over Iraq apparently boiled over into a gunbattle between members of the U.N. law enforcement mission.
U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said two U.S. police officers and a Jordanian were killed and 10 Americans and one Austrian wounded in the shooting.
The lethal firefight between fellow members of the U.N. force was unprecedented in five years of peacekeeping in Kosovo, where police of some 30 nations make up the international force of around 3,500.
The 10-minute shootout took place in the U.N. compound in ethnically divided Mitrovica -- a city that is more commonly the scene of clashes between Serbs and Albanians, in which U.N. police and NATO troops intervene to keep the peace.
Initial reports that the shooting centered on a detention center in the compound were inaccurate. But the U.N. said the dead and wounded included both police and prison staff.
The deputy head of the Serb hospital in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, said one of the dead was an American woman, who was hit along with four female U.S. police colleagues.
U.N. police sources said four Jordanian police officers had been arrested in connection with the shooting, but could give no further details on the cause.
A police source said it began with a row over Iraq. Singh said the U.N. was still investigating the possible motive.
The multinational U.N. police force is backed by the NATO-led KFOR military mission numbering about 20,000 troops.