Thursday, March 03, 2011

US Service personnel need to be traveling with body armor.

...The U.S. has launched (click title to entry - thank you) an FBI-led investigation into the shooting and officials told ABC News it is too soon to determine whether the attack was an act of terror and if the suspect acted alone. However, a senior U.S. intelligence official told ABC News the attack was likely terror-related.
Uka is another "dot in the matrix" of a rising threat of fundamentalist terror originating in the Balkans, the official said. Another man from Uka's home town in Kosovo that was among those arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, on terrorism charges in July 2009....

The Kosovo Independence is a complicated picture.  Can't really say Russia is incorrect, but, the question becomes 'when' if ever does independence happen?

December 08, 2009
By Dragan Stavljanin, Ron Synovitz
PRAGUE/THE HAGUE -- The United States  (click here) has urged a UN court not to raise doubts about Kosovo's statehood, arguing that Pristina's declaration of independence has brought stability to the Balkans and has offered people across the region a European future.But Russia, a staunch ally of Serbia, told the same court today that recognizing Kosovo's statehood would send the wrong signal to militant separatists around the world.

Kosovo, formerly a province of Serbia, unilaterally declared independence on February 17, 2008, after long and difficult UN-brokered talks between Belgrade and ethnic-Albanian officials in Pristina broke down.

Since then, more than 60 countries, including 22 of the EU's 27 members, have recognized Kosovo's independence....