17.6.2010 by Lupo.

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Terrorist

Kosovo
Belgrade, October 02, 2001 - Fifty mojahedin have been camping at a
terrorist training centre in the village of Ropotovo near Kosovska
Mitrovica northern Kosovo for some time now. According to the
Belgrade-based daily Glas javnosti, Zajman Zavahari is the most
notorious Islamic instructor among them - he is the brother of the
head of Usamah Bin-Ladin’s special forces.
The mojahedin have arrived from Afghanistan, Algeria and other
Islamic states, the daily reports, and adds that veterans of the wars
in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo-Metohija are among them.

Members of the newly formed Handzar Turkish word for curved dagger
Division are training in the same centre and preparing for terrorist
operations in the Raska district [southern Serbia], in northern
Kosovo and Montenegro.

“A great number of members of Albanian terrorist organizations from
Kosovo and Macedonia have been trained in the centre - members of the
Kosovo Liberation Army KLA, UCK in Albanian, Liberation Army of
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja UCPMB in Albanian, National
Liberation Army NLA, UCK in Albanian and Albanian National Army. They
are mainly being trained by former JNA Yugoslav People’s Army
officers, Albanians who joined the Croatian forces in the 1990s,”
Glas javnosti reports.

The village of Ropotovo is in the zone of responsibility of Kfor’s
Kosovo Force US troops, near the administrative border between Kosovo
and southeastern Serbia.

http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=3530&s_word=

Skender Destani: ‘Belgrade Has Shown Goodwill To Southern Serbia’
Skender Destani: ‘Belgrade Has Shown Goodwill To Southern Serbia’
Bujanovac | 03 December 2009 | By Nikola Lazic

Presevo politician defends Coordination Body, but warns it can achieve little until Serbs join local government in Presevo and Bujanovac, making them truly multi-ethnic authorities.

Both Albanian and Serbian political leaders from Southern Serbia have voiced objections to the work of the government taskforce, the Coordination Body for southern Serbia. However, Skender Destani, speaker of the local assembly in Presevo and leader of the Democratic Union of the Valley, believes that through this body the government is showing it has the will to solve the problems facing ethnic Albanians.

Professor Destani is a member of the presidency of the Coordination Body, which the government founded after armed conflict erupted between Albanian insurgents and the security forces in 2000 and 2001 in the problematic border region. It aims to promote communication between local and central authorities and so reduce the potential for future conflict. He believes the Coordination Body has achieved considerable progress in Presevo, although he admits that some tasks are running late.

Q: How much money is coming from the Coordination Body?
A: Of around million Euros, allotted for investment in Presevo this year, around 80 per cent has come through the Coordination Body. The money is arriving undisturbed and regularly, and the Coordination Body is meeting its obligations.

Q: Where is the money being invested?
A: Mostly in infrastructure and roads. Beside that, Presevo will soon get a central square whose construction is costed at 255.000 Euros. We got most of the money from the Coordination Body.

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/interviews/24141/

South Serbia Albanians Eye New Faculties with Suspicion
Medvedja | 15 December 2009 | By Zoran Kosanovic

Medvedja
Belgrade presents new Albanian-language university facilities as a vital boost to an under-developed region – but some local politicians aren’t satisfied.

Each working day between 7 and 10 am, student Albert Aliu wanders the streets of the small town of Medvedja, waiting for his lectures at the Faculty of Economics.

The faculty is one of the two newly founded higher educational institutions in South Serbia where ethnic Albanian students can hear lectures in their mother tongue for the first time.

“I have only one bus and it reaches Medvedja at 7am. I have nothing to do till the beginning of lectures, so I walk around,” the freshman from the nearby village of Tupale told Balkan Insight.

Strolling round at those hours, Aliu meets only the street dogs that run around between the billboards advertising the benefits of the various international organisations that have assisted in the reconstruction of infrastructure in Medvedja.

However, external assistance has not been on a sufficient scale to remove the greyness from the centre of one of the poorest towns in Serbia, with a population of around 10,000, a stumbling economy and from where people constantly migrate to other towns.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/analysis/24412/

Shooting with albanian terrorist im Preveso ( 1 2)

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17.6.2010 by ctstmaser.

15/06/2010

Greece, followed by Cyprus and four other EU members, are the countries with the highest percentage of clean surf within the 27-nation bloc, according to a European Commission survey.

(AFP, Euobserver, EurActiv - 11/06/10; Reuters, Euroalert.net, European Commission - 10/06/10)

Almost all of Greece’s coastal and inland swimming areas that were monitored last year met the EU’s highest quality standards, the European Commission (EC) said in an annual report published last week.

According to the 36-page survey, only three of the 1,273 Greek seaside sites covered in the assessment did not comply with the 27-nation bloc’s tough “guide values”, and just one fell short of the minimum, or mandatory values.

The country’s four freshwater swimming areas that were also checked against a set of physical, chemical and microbiological parameters last year were found to be fully in compliance with the more stringent quality standards. On the basis of those findings, the EC concluded that, on average, 99.8% of the “bathing waters” in Greece met the guide values.

But, it also noted that another 830 Greek swimming sites were not included in the report due to incomplete samplings, caused by delays in the commissioning of the monitoring programme.

The EC’s Quality of Bathing Water report — which was released on June 10th — was conducted during the 2009 season and covered a total of more than 20,000 seaside, lake and river sites in the EU member states.

The survey showed that 96% of Europe’s coastal waters and 90% of its inland swimming areas complied with the EU’s minimum water quality standards last year. While both figures are slightly lower than those in 2008, they also show the significant improvement achieved since 1990, when 80% of Europe’s seaside swimming areas and only 52% of the freshwater ones were within the norm.

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http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2010/06/15/feature-01

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