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	ERPKIM Archive \| REUTERS: NATO prepares Kosovo force for possible unrest, December 03, 2004
		He said the current force was now better prepared for any violence, since several nations had lifted restrictions that limited the movement of their troops around the country and prevented some soldiers being used for riot control.
		Regarding the resolution of the Kosovo issue, he stressed the necessity of the implementation of European principles in the field of protection of minorities, decentralization and character and quality of the state border of the SCG with Albania, stated the SCG Foreign Ministry.
		Kosovo ought to be a multi-ethnic society in which human rights are respected and a solution to the issue of the province must be functional and permanent, British Defence Minister Geoffrey Hoon said in talks with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
	www.kosovo.net /news/archive/2004/December_03/3.html (3147 words)

	Nato force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a report on the rapid growth of sex-trafficking and forced prostitution rackets since Nato troops and UN administrators took over the Balkan province in 1999, Amnesty said Nato soldiers, UN police, and western aid workers operated with near impunity in exploiting the victims of the sex traffickers.
		International personnel in Kosovo enjoy immunity from prosecution unless this is waived by the UN in New York for UN employees or by national military chiefs for Nato-led troops.
		Criticism of the international troops in Kosovo follows a recent broader indictment of the Kosovo mission by the International Crisis Group thinktank, which called for the mission to be overhauled.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/may2004/050704natoforce.htm (622 words)

	The Use and Abuse of Military Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kosovo underscored a related limitation; although aerial bombardment over the course of some eleven weeks did help persuade Slobodan Milosevic to agree to NATO terms, it seems apparent that the threat of introducing ground forces made a greater impact.
		Both Iraq and Kosovo suggest that short of occupation, military force is not a very good tool for changing regimes, although a successful use of military force that weakens or humiliates an adversary can help bring about a political environment in which domestic opponents of the regime in question may be encouraged to act.
		In Kosovo, it would have been wiser to continue diplomacy and deal with a limited humanitarian crisis while looking for ways to weaken or topple the Milosevic regime, or to send in ground forces at the outset and prevent the displacement and killing.
	www.brookings.edu /comm/policybriefs/pb54.htm (2677 words)

	Kosovo civilian force is the embryo for an army: Thaci [Free Republic]
		Kosovo civilian force is the embryo for an army: Thaci SRBICA, Yugoslavia, Sept 22 (AFP) - The former political chief of Kosovar Albanian rebels on Wednesday told a crowd of about 1,000 ex-guerillas that the province's new civilian force would be the basis for an army.
		The so-called Kosovo Protection Corps, which will comprise ex-KLA guerrillas and is part of their demilitarization, "is the future of the Kosovo army, a defensive force" for the province, Thaci said.
		UN and Kosovo peacekeeping force (KFOR) officials have made it clear that the force is to be strictly a civilian force.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37ea3c334e36.htm (795 words)

	Operation Allied Force
		The multinational force was tasked by NATO to bring a swift end to hostilities committed by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against ethnic Albanians in the southern province of Kosovo.
		Kosovo is a very mountainous area, and with the peaks of mountains frequently enveloped by the clouds, air crews were careful about avoiding terrain.
		The fundamental factor in the conclusion of ALLIED FORCE was NATO's unity and resolve.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/allied_force.htm (4362 words)

	Air Force Link - Operation Joint Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Task Force Falcon is the nickname for the U.S. forces assigned to KFOR.
		Command of Kosovo Force's American Sector was passed from the 1st Infantry Division to the 1st Armor Division in a transfer of authority ceremony at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, June 20, 2000.
		Task Force Falcon is in Kosovo to enforce all aspects of the Military Technical Agreement, with a primary function of providing a safe and secure environment to the residents.
	www.af.mil /airforceoperationscenter/operationjointguardian.asp (449 words)

	Operation Joint Guardian
		The task force, after conducting a command post exercise and a mission rehearsal exercise during February and March, was declared mission-ready and deployed a command and control element forward to Camp Able Sentry, Macedonia.
		Forces from the U.S. and Greece composed the Initial Entry Force(IEF), with the headquarters built around the assault command post from the 1st ID and the Big Red One's Schweinfurt-based 2nd ("Dagger") Brigade Combat Team(2nd BCT).
		Task Force Falcon is currently the responsibility of the 1st Armored Division under the command of Brig.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/joint_guardian.htm (3974 words)

	UAVs over Kosovo - did the Earth move?
		Task Force Hunter was resourced to be able to have two air vehicles airborne at anyone time and the Predator unit is believed to have a similar mission requirement.
		Senior leaders loved having the ability to look at Kosovo from the safety of their office's in Mons and Washington but given the limited real-time capable UAV assets available it questionable if this was a valid use of them.
		Kosovo has provided western armed forces with a plethora of experience in the use of UAVs in a wide range of scenarios, ranging from supporting a strategic air campaign, sea surveillance, providing reconnaissance ahead of the NATO move into Kosovo and then participating in the peacekeeping effort in the newly liberate province.
	defence-data.com /features/fpage34.htm (3554 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Kosovo Force Prepares for Political Status Resolution
		CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo, Nov. 15, 2006 – National Guard troops deployed here are preparing to respond to any sudden resurgence of violence as a settlement nears regarding this breakaway republic’s political status, their commander told the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday.
		Darren Owens, commander of the Kosovo Force’s Multinational Task Force (East) and the Texas National Guard’s 36th Infantry Division, told Marine Gen. Peter Pace that the U.N. Contact Group assisting in the status talks hopes for a negotiated settlement by the year’s end.
		The task force, made up of 2,600 U.S., Greek, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Armenian and Lithuanian troops, is part of the 16,000-member Kosovo Force conducting peace-enforcement operations as that determination is made.
	www.pentagon.mil /News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2125 (1089 words)

	CNN.com - NATO strengthens Kosovo force - Mar 20, 2004
		NATO peacekeeping forces are trying to impose calm in the Serbian province of Kosovo, after ethnic fighting left 28 people dead.
		Russia's parliament passed a resolution condemning the failure of international organizations to stem the violence in Kosovo and said military forces from Serbia-Montenegro's government should be allowed to help defend the province's Serb population, AP reported.
		Kosovo is home to 2 million ethnic Albanians and fewer than 100,000 Serbs.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/20/kosovo.violence/index.html (752 words)

	The Current Bombings
		In brief, the threat or use of force is banned unless explicitly authorized by the Security Council after it has determined that peaceful means have failed, or in self-defense against "armed attack" (a narrow concept) until the Security Council acts.
		It is the right of "humanitarian intervention" that is claimed by the US/NATO in Kosovo, and that is generally supported by editorial opinion and news reports (in the latter case, reflexively, even by the very choice of terminology).
		Kosovo is therefore another illustration of (I): try to escalate the violence, with exactly that expectation.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/articles/9903-current_bombings.htm (2714 words)

	NATO & Kosovo: Operation Joint Guard
		Kosovo lies in southern Serbia and has a mixed population of which the majority are ethnic Albanians.
		NATO intervened in Kosovo to halt a humanitarian catastrophe and restore stability in a strategic region lying between Alliance member states.
		NATO forms the core of the international peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, or Kosovo Force (KFOR), in which some 46,000 military personnel from 39 countries are deployed.
	www.nato.int /kosovo/kosovo.htm (243 words)

	frontline: war in europe: a kosovo chronology
		The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) appears, and begins sporadic attacks against Serb authorities in Kosovo.
		After KLA attacks on police, Serb security forces massacre over 50 members of the Jashari family in the village of Prekaz.
		Serbian forces intensify their summer offensive, attack KLA and Kosovo Albanian villages in Drenica region, driving thousands into the hills.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/etc/cron.html (3581 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Safety - Europe - Kosovo
		Kosovo is a region administered under the civil authority of the U.N. Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
		The UNMIK police force (381-38-501-541) is largely a contingent of international officers who are working with and training local officers to carry out most normal police functions.
		It is strongly recommended that Americans in Kosovo have vehicles that are registered outside of Kosovo, to prevent problems in the event of an evacuation, as Kosovo license plates may not be accepted in neighboring countries.
	www.worldworx.tv /safety/europe/kosovo/index.htm (800 words)

	Operation Allied Force - NATO Air strikes against Yugoslavia
		Operation Allied Force was the military response of NATO to the 1999 Kosovo crisis, and the first major combat operation in NATO history.
		President Clinton has approved establishment and award of the Kosovo Campaign Medal and campaign streamers to recognize the accomplishments of our military servicemembers who participated in or were in direct support of the Kosovo operations within established areas of eligibility.
		The area of eligibility is the total land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Slovenia; and the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea north of 39 degrees North latitude.
	kosova.org /de/allied_force/index.asp (1424 words)

	1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (code-named Operation Allied Force by NATO) was NATO's military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that lasted from 24 March to 10 June 1999 and is considered a major part of the Kosovo War.
		The initial US forces established their area of operation around the towns of Urosevic, the future Camp Bondsteel, and Gnjilane, at Camp Monteith, and spent four months - the start of a stay which continues to date - establishing order in the south east sector of Kosovo.
		The main element of the operation was the air forces of NATO, principally drawn from the United States Air Force and the RAF as well as Turkish and Dutch Air Forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Allied_Force (4769 words)

	Italian General Takes Command of NATO Force in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Municipal elections are slated to be held in two weeks in Kosovo, which is a province of Serbia, the Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
		Cabigiousu said KFOR — an acronym for Kosovo Force — was committed to providing a secure climate before and during the polls.
		Among the milestones are a decreasing murder rate — down 40 percent — and a 25 percent drop in kidnappings and 60 percent drop in incidents of looting.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/10/16/165534 (275 words)

	NATO: NATO Moves Ahead on a Kosovo Force of 50,000 Troops
		Under the plan cleared by the 19 countries which make up the alliance, the peacekeeping force would not enter Kosovo until Serbian troops are withdrawn from the province, either as part of a formal peace settlement or because of the allies' relentless air attacks.
		NATO officials estimated that an invasion force could number more than 150,000 soldiers, and would have much more armored punch than the peackeeping unit, which is likely to include tanks and helicopters as well as many combat engineers and support troops.
		The alliance's decision on the force was taken under its "silence" procedure, which is designed to maximize the chances of achieving consensus.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/052699kosovo-nato.html (1371 words)

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		I militari del 7° reggimento Vega dispiegati in Kosovo con la task force Ercole comandata dal maggiore pilota Mauro Bloise stanno lottando contro gli incendi che devastano il sud-ovest della provincia amministrata dalle Nazioni Unite.
		Kosovo: il ritrovamento di oltre 90 chili di esplosivo vicino a Pec
		Kosovo: intanto le etnie di minoranza se ne vanno
	embedded.blogosfere.it (2087 words)

	CNN - Peacekeepers prepare to enter Kosovo - June 10, 1999
		The leader said the Yugoslav army and special police forces in Kosovo lost fewer than 600 men during the fighting.
		British or French peacekeepers were to be the first to enter Kosovo, their arrival expected within hours of the council's approval of their mandate.
		The peacekeeping force -- dubbed KFOR -- will be charged with protecting hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees who are expected to return home after fleeing during the conflict.
	kosova.org /de/allied_force/cnn/17.asp (1275 words)

	The Diplomacy: Clinton Phones Yeltsin to Urge a Kosovo Force
		So far, the Russians have insisted that a NATO-led force in Kosovo is untenable, in large part because Milosevic has condemned an outside force as a breach of Yugoslav sovereignty.
		An international security force designed to secure Kosovo after the bombing has forced all Serbian troops out, is the main element of five principles set down by NATO for the resolution of the conflict.
		By urging the Russians to sanction an international security force and become part of it, the administration was holding out the possibility of Kosovo remaining a part of Yugoslavia, administration officials said.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/042099kosovo-russia.html (1181 words)

	HELLENIC NATIONAL DEFENCE GENERAL STAFF PRESS OFFICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hellenic Contingent in Kosovo is part of the sector which is co-ordinated by the US Force, known as Task Force FALKON, has its own zone of responsibility and activity.
		During the whole period of the deployment and stay of the multinational forces in the Kosovo area, a search operation is in progress for weapons hidden in various areas, which may have been used in several operations by the army or paramilitary groups.
		The highly successful and constructive presence of the Hellenic Contingent in Kosovo is mainly due to the fact that it consists of cadre mainly and as a result the unit carries out its mission perfectly and Greece is projected both in the operations area and the international military for and organisations.
	www.hri.org /mod/english/military/eldyko/eldykoen.htm (2193 words)

	Force Protection, Inc. - advanced ballistic and blast-protected vehicles
		Force Protection, Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of ballistic- and blast-protected vehicles, which have been used to support armed forces and security personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots around the globe.
		Built for a variety of missions and designed for rapid adaptation, Force Protection's specialty vehicles provide the solution for a 360-degree battlefield where the "front line" is on all sides.
		Force Protection will continue to update interested parties as appropriate regarding the development and success of the vehicles.
	www.forceprotection.net (453 words)

	NATO Operation Allied Force
		Serb forces around the Kosovo border are divided into deployed forces, garrison forces, and reserve forces.
		The deployed forces have about 96 tanks, and the garrison forces have around 30 tanks in garrison.
		There is a concentration of Serb troops along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/kosovo (544 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Balkans
		The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo.
		This peace-enforcement force entered Kosovo on June 12, 1999, under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
		The monastery was set on fire and heavily damaged on Wednesday, March 17, during an outbreak of ethnic violence in Kosovo's major towns.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/balkans/workman.html (1884 words)

	Kosovo American force provides gifts, food for local children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This could be a typical weekend at most people’s homes; however, this was a special day for the children of the Pristina Mother and Child Center.
		As the children anxiously waited, the Kosovo Force vehicle pulled to the gate.
		“It’s important [that] we show the people of Kosovo we are not only here to do a job, but we really care about them and their future.
	www.af.mil /news/airman/1004/world4.shtml (453 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Bombers fly in for Kosovo force
		But the 1,200 international monitors of the Kosovo Verification Mission would have to be withdrawn from the province before air strikes could begin.
		A 1,800-strong international extraction force - including 390 British soldiers from the 1st Battalion, the King's Own Royal Border Regiment - is on stand-by in Macedonia in case they need rescuing.
		There is some agreement on political changes but the main sticking point is thought to be Serbia's refusal to allow a Nato peace-keeping force in Kosovo.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/283486.stm (388 words)

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