3 US citizens ordered back to prison in Montenegro

A Montenegrin court said Friday it ordered three U.S. citizens and seven other ethnic Albanians back to prison after convicting them of plotting a rebellion to establish an Albanian autonomous region within the Adriatic country.

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Americans convicted in Montenegro claim innocence

Two U.S. citizens convicted in Montenegro of plotting an ethnic Albanian rebellion in the country said in an interview Friday that they are innocent, and they accused the authorities of torture.

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Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor (Croatian Democratic Union) says her country is ready to prove its genocide lawsuit against Serbia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Many Albanians born in the 19th century are listed as voters for the June 28 general elections because they have not been declared dead, officials said on Thursday.

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In an atmosphere described as "more peaceful than in previous years", some headstones have been destroyed ahead of the religious holiday that sees Orthodox Serb Christians remember their dead and visit their burial places four times each year.

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A war crimes court today found four Serbian former policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.

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Slobodan Milosevic's police transported the bodies of slain Kosovo Albanians to Serbia during the war and buried them in mass graves to cover up atrocities, a former senior Serbian security officer said in court Wednesday.

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"Imagine what would happen to a handful of Jewish veterans of the Israel Defense Forces who tried to move from Tel Aviv to an Arab country to open a bistro and bar. In only a few countries could they even get through the airport without being deported or, more likely, arrested.

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Flashpoint Looms in the Balkans - Who will Douse the Flames?

Just as in every major conflict which has occurred in the Balkans over the past one hundred years, the igniting spark for the next one has failed to attract due attention from the world media.

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Serbia signalled today it would withdraw ambassadors from countries that recognise an independent Kosovo but insisted it would retain diplomatic ties.

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For four months, three diplomats tried to get the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians to find a compromise agreement. Both sides, though, proved unwilling to budge.

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Serbian and ethnic Albanian clans today control heroin flowing north out of Afghanistan, weapons smuggled through the Balkans, prostitutes trafficked from Africa to the alleys of Copenhagen; they mastermind the brazen armed robberies of security trucks ferrying cash, and have con …

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