Turkey blocking NATO-EU effort in Kosovo
United Press International – USA
ANKARA, Turkey, March 4 (UPI) — Turkey has blocked the European Union from using NATO assets to bolster its mission in Kosovo. The major issue for Turkish …
www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/03/04/
turkey_blocking_nato-eu_effort_in_kosovo/4849/

Jeremi? urges countries to reconsider Kosovo decision
B92 – Serbia
He called on the countries that have recognized the unilaterally declared Kosovo independence to rethink their decisions and appealed to those that have not …
www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yy
yy=2008&mm=03&dd=04&nav_id=48150

Sovereignty and secession: Kosovo’s false independence
Daily Illini – Champaign,IL,USA
By Brenda Kay Zylstra Several weeks ago Kosovo formally declared its independence from Serbia. Kosovo, an international protectorate of the United Nations …
www.dailyillini.com/home/news/2008/03/04/OpinionColumns/
Sovereignty.And.Secession.Kosovos.False.Independence
-3249396.shtml

Crisis in NATO over Kosovo
Turkish Daily News (subscription) – Ankara,Turkey
The European mission that will take over the administration of Kosovo, which declared its independence last month, has become a bone of contention not only …
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=98017

Serb police officers in Kosovo demand return to UNMIK command
Southeast European Times – MD,USA
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Serb police officers in Kosovo walked off the job Friday (February 29th) demanding to remain under UNMIK command instead of the Kosovo …
www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_
GB/features/setimes/newsbriefs/2008/03/02/nb-02

In North Kosovo Track Dispute, UN “Will Not Tolerate” Serbian …
Inner City Press – Bronx,NY,USA
While it seems to many that the UN is remaining strikingly quiet about troubles in Northern Kosovo, including a reported shooting at UNMIK’s headquarters …
www.innercitypress.com/un1kosovo030308.html

Serbia never to recognize Kosovo independence, says FM
Xinhua – China
GENEVA, March 3 (Xinhua) — Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic stressed here on Monday that his country will never recognize Kosovo as an independent …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/04/content_7711156.htm

For Kosovo, history depends on which historian you ask
Guardian – UK
I agree with Noel Malcolm’s rebuttal of Serb demonstrators’ slogans stating that “Kosovo is Serbia” (Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian, G2, February 26). …
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/04/kosovo.serbia

The global game that is Kosovo & Metohija
International Analyst Network – NY,NY,USA
The current government of the still-illegally declared independent Kosovo is heavily influenced by the organized crime groups, maintained links with the …
www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1800

Raising tensions, Serbia reclaims stretch of rail line in Kosovo
International Herald Tribune – France
AP MITROVICA, Kosovo: Serbia reclaimed control of a 50-kilometer stretch of rail line in northern Kosovo on Monday, a senior official said, in defiance of …
www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/03/europe/balkans.php

European Institutions’ reactions on Kosovo independence
eGov monitor – London,UK
Kosovo’s Assembly declared independence last Sunday in a climate of dignity. In its declaration, Kosovo committed itself to fully respect extensive rights …
www.egovmonitor.com/node/17302

Serbia, Kosovo: Twitter Use
By Veronica Khokhlova
Twitter Facts writes about Twitter use in Serbia and Kosovo.
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/04/serbia-kosovo-twitter-use/

Kosovo is Serbia
By Svetlana
Serbia today reclaimed control of a 50-kilometer (30-mile) stretch of rail line in northern Kosovo, after Serb railroad workers blocked passage of a freight train on the line, refusing to work for Kosovo’s railway company and demanding …
byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008/03/kosovo_is_serbia_1.html

Free Kosovo, Week 2: soft landing = soft partition
By Richard Gowan
It’s all gone a bit quiet on the Kosovo front. The violence of week one has given way to… well, not very much really. When the most exciting piece of news is that Serbia has “retaken” a massive 30 miles of railroad in the north of the …
www.globaldashboard.org/conflict-and-security/
free-kosovo-week-2-soft-landing-soft-partition/

Metropolitan Kirill is concerned over the future of Orthodox …
By 01varvara
Circles in the Moscow Patriarchate are concerned over the future of Orthodox shrines in Kosovo after its UDI from Serbia. When asked by the Vesti TV channel if there is a danger of their destruction as a result of the UDI of Kosovo, …
02varvara.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/metropolitan-kirill-is-
concerned-over-the-future-of-orthodox-shrines-in-kosovo/

Welcome to Kosovo, the Next Failed State?
By By Brijit(By Brijit)
Kosovo declaring independence was a bad idea, Kramer argues, but the United States’ support of it was an even worse one. Even if Kosovo doesn’t degenerate into a disaster like Sudan or Somalia, it sends a terrible message to separatist …
www.brijit.com/abstract/18082/Welcome
-to-Kosovo,-the-Next-Failed-State

3/3/08

Topolánek: Czechs will recognise Kosovo
Prague Daily Monitor – Prague,Czech Republic
By ?TK / Published 3 March 2008 Prague, March 2 (CTK) – The Czech Republic will eventually recognise Kosovo’s independence, but some conditions must be …
www.praguemonitor.com/en/285/czech_national_news/19414/

The Politics of Religion in Kosovo
New Kosova Report – Gothenburg,Sweden
By Besnik Sinani – Respectable international news outlets keep telling us time and time again that Kosovo is the heartland of Serb spiritual heritage, …
www.newkosovareport.com/20080302689/Views-and-
Analysis/The-Politics-of-Religion-in-Kosovo.html

Kosovo makes bad law for possible Scottish secession
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Sir, Anthony Aust, a former legal adviser to the Foreign Office, and John McInally are right that Scotland is not Kosovo in relation to potential membership …
www.ft.com/cms/s/52f397c8-e8c4-11dc-913a-0000779fd2ac.html

‘They will do all they can to turn Kosovo into a jihadist camp in …
WorldNetDaily – Grants Pass,OR,USA
By Jerome R. Corsi Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has enjoyed strong support from a lobbyist group that backs the Kosovo Liberation …
worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57678

Kosovo’s Deputy PM Maraj In Istanbul
Turkish Press – Plymouth,MI,USA
ISTANBUL – Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Rame Maraj as well as Environment& Regional Planning Minister Mahir Yagcilar arrived in Istanbul on Saturday. …
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=217843

Kosovo: A system enforcing imperial power will be resisted
Taipei Times – Taiwan
And now Kosovo’s declaration of independence has given them a banner to rally the disillusioned to a cause that gripped the imagination of many Western …
www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/
archives/2008/03/02/2003403685

Kosovo and its likely fall back on Sri Lanka /India
Asian Tribune – Bangkok,Thailand
The message from Kosovo is very clear. The ‘concern of the US and the European Community for the Albanians in Kosovo’ is greater than the concern of the …
www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/9868

‘Independence’ for Kosovo
Asian Tribune – Bangkok,Thailand
Its seventh division has just taken place with Kosovo, a UN protectorate, declaring itself free of Serbia on February 17. But Belgrade on its own cannot do …
www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/9863

Czechs to recognise Kosovo – Topolanek
Czech Happenings – Pragues,Czech Republic
Prague- The Czech Republic will eventually recognise Kosovo’s independence, but some conditions must be fulfilled, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek told the …
www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=299882

Engineering Independence: Kosovo and Panama
EuropeNews – Helsingør,Denmark
By Carl Savich US backers of Kosovo independence have stated that the illegal secession of the Serbian province of Kosovo was a “unique” and special case. …
europenews.dk/en/node/7888

Swedish Neo-nazis Arrested Near Kosovo Demonstration
By Bad News(Bad News)
The neo-Nazis were on their way to disrupt a demonstration by 400 Serbs protesting Kosovo’s independence. The neo-Nazis, members of the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR), were stopped by police on their way to
Myntorget in the Gamla …
badnewsfromsweden.blogspot.com/2008/03/
swedish-neo-nazis-arrested-near-kosovo.html

Kosovo Cowboys and Caracas
KOSOVO, VENEZUELA, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, ETC. by Charles Hardy I watched four teenagers burst out laughing as they read the headline, “US…
pacificfreepress.com/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=2352&Itemid=81

The Utility of Denial
By Joshua Trevino
The argument for Kosovar independence, inasmuch as there is one, rests upon a two propositions: first, that ethnic groups per se deserve sovereignty; and second, that Kosovo experienced a unique and sui generis oppression that merits …
www.nixonblog.com/?p=174

Comment on Serbia, Kosovo: Lack of Trust by Alan Jak?i?
By Alan Jak?i?
If people considered this issue, it would take discussion of Kosovo onto a whole new different level. A level virtually neglected by politicians, not greatly explored by onlookers, and rarely – if ever– considered by the very people of …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/29/serbia-
kosovo-lack-of-trust/#comment-1398446

Local reactions to Kosovo independence
By editor(editor)
The New York Times on 24 February ran an article, “Upheaval Over Kosovo’s Independence Echoes in a New York Enclave” by Anthony Ramierez, which features reactions by Serbs in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. Down the Jersey Shore, …
nycslav.blogspot.com/2008/03/local-r
eactions-to-kosovo-independence.html