A CHOICE OF THUGS:

Crime, terror flourish in 'liberated' Kosovo: Ethnic cleansing, smuggling rampant under UN's aegis (Isabel Vincent, December 10, 2003, National Post)

Four years after it was "liberated" by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al-Qaeda sympathizers, say security officials and Balkan experts.

Though nominally still under UN control, the southern province of Serbia is today dominated by a triumvirate of Albanian paramilitaries, mafiosi and terrorists. They control a host of smuggling operations and are implementing what many observers call their own brutal ethnic cleansing of minority groups, such as Serbs, Roma and Jews.

In acting against the Serbs the West acted against its own best interests. We sided with the wrong thugs.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 10, 2003 9:17 AM