'Body Found' After US Embassy Riot

[maddezmom]

Source: SKY

'Body Found' After US Embassy Riot
By Sky News SkyNews - 22 minutes agoA body has reportedly been found in the US embassy in Belgrade after rioters set an office on fire during a massive protest against Kosovo's independence.

Serb police had not been protecting the building, which was closed and boarded up following violence earlier in the week.

Black smoke billowed out of the embassy in the capital city.

Papers and chairs were thrown out of the windows and burning doors were wedged in their frames.

One protester climbed up to the first floor of the building, ripped the Stars and Stripes off its pole and briefly put up a Serbian flag in its place.

Some rioters also jumped up and down on the embassy balcony and waved a Serbian flag, as the 1,000-strong crowd below cheered them on, shouting "Serbia, Serbia".



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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. These are the kinds of things that can lead to another war

oh wait, we have a primary... who cares about a potential major crisis :sarcasm:

[PassingFair]

3. Hope it wasn't an Archduke or anybody important....n/t

[ohio2007]

2. the burnt body probably was one of the trespassers

the building was boarded up earlier in the week. Unless it was a homeless person that previously broke in

[OzarkDem]

4. Clinton fixed it, Bush is letting them break it

There is a cabal of wealthy right wing GOP'ers who are sympathetic to the Serbs and have waited a long time to undo the peace accords that Clinton put into place.

[ohio2007]

6. The accords called for several independent states,including Kosovo

after the breakup of Yugoslavia. This was a long time simmering

[Muttocracy]

5. Biden press release on it

One would think he was kind of busy today, but this came out late afternoon/ early evening. He says they're supposed to be protecting our embassy...


February 21, 2008
Press Release

BIDEN Issues Statement on Attack on U.S. Embassy in Belgrade

Washington, DC – Today, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement on the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade:

“Serbia has an international obligation to protect the United States Embassy in Belgrade. Serbs should invest their energy in reforming their country’s institutions and modernizing its economy, not degrading their nation this way.”

[ohio2007]

7. Charred body was a protester

US Embassy Attack Victim Was Kosovo Refugee

Zoran Vujovic had travelled to Belgrade with his brother and friends to demonstrate against Kosovo`s unilateral independence declaration.

The charred body found inside the US embassy of Belgrade after it was set ablaze by rioters earlier this week was a young Serbian man whose family had fled Kosovo, reports said Saturday.
The remains of Zoran Vujovic, a 21-year-old student from Serbia's second city of Novi Sad, were identified by his father after he failed to show up after the attack on the US embassy on Thursday night, said the daily Blic.


Vujovic, who was also named in the Alo and Kurir tabloids, had travelled to Belgrade with his 20-year-old brother Lazar and friends to demonstrate against Kosovo's unilateral independence declaration, made on Sunday.

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http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=126151