Apologies to lbo-talk as this puts me overquota for today, but this is it for today and I felt that I should respond to David Welch's question.
The news about the likely Pristina assault and UCK/KLA resistance was buried deep in a Washington Post story this morning. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: David Welch <welch at cwcom.net> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:42 PM Subject: Re: more and more on Kosovo
>The British media has been reporting all day that large numbers of people
>are arriving at the Albanian border claiming to have been forceably
>evicted from Pristina and driven to the border in buses. Many newspapers
>made rather stomach churning comparisons with the NAZIs (sealed trains and
>so on) but the likely hood of a bloody battle in the capital seems more
>credible, perhaps I missed it in earlier messages but do you have a source
>for this report.
>
>On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 04:08:15PM -0500, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
>> Responses to three other posters today:
>> 1) Louis's account of the apparent collapse
>> of the UCK/KLA is significant. The more horrifying
>> aspect of this that he did not mention is what may
>> be about to happen in Pristina itself, the capital and
>> largest city of Kosovo. It had been immune to the
>> earlier struggles, with most of that in rural areas.
>> But apparently the UCK/KLA is holding out in
>> basements in Pristina and the Yugoslav military
>> is preparing for a house-to-house assault, being
>> prepared by a cleansing of the suburbs where snipers
>> might have used tall buildings, much as with the siege
>> of Sarajevo. This could be the endgame and could be
>> a really nasty business.
>