Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

You do not show pictures of Serbs doings in Kosovo

    Q: of all the pitchers yuo do not show what the serbs are doing in kosova.and why would a army go fight a war with old mem and woman that have no tanks and big guns.

    The first question has an easy answer: we show the pictures we have. We are not a news agency, we have no reporters, and, besides, you can see those pictures in any newspaper. We are reluctant to use pictures from Yugoslav state media sources, until we check somehow that they are what they claim to be. We are reluctant to show the pictures from Western media as well, because they're mostly from NATO sources, and they have an at least equal record of telling what they like to tell.

    Besides, it's Kosovo and Metohija. Albanian iredentists like to forget the "Metohija" part, because "metoh" means "monastery land". And they never had any monasteries in Kosovo. They're mostly Muslim.

    Why would a terrorist organization start a war with an army which has tanks and cannons? They knew many of their people would get hurt when they started, but they didn't care - it was for a "noble cause". They have the media serving them, so it seems like the Yugoslav Army is shooting women and elderly people. If we trusted media that much, we'd be led to the conclusion that only NATO is killing the refugees: the only dead Albanians we saw on TV were the convoys bombed by NATO.

    We think the Army is mostly defending the borders, and air space - and fighting the KLA. It's possible that the paramilitary units (on either side) is not that careful when choosing its targets.

opie, mail.zebra.net