[ALBSA-Info] Dr. Rugova at The Daily Telegraph

[Besnik Pula]

Anyone faintly familiar with Rugova's writings will find it hard to believe
that this article was actually authored by him. It doesn't even appear as if
he got some editorial help by someone with foreign policy expertise to
spruce up his own drafts, rather it seems like Rugova's name was simply
stuck on an article written by someone else.

Rugova's not known to make these kinds of PR stunts so I wonder who's trying
to prop him up. Perhaps now after Flora Brovina's piece in the New York
Times someone in Rugova's camp feels like he should make an appearance in
the Western press as well. And as if there are no grave problems in Kosova,
just after an election, the likely future president finds it necessary to
speak about the policy dilemmas over the military campaign in Afghanistan
while most Kosovars spend over half of their day without electricity. Very
encouraging.

-Besnik

> THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
> November 20, 2001, Tuesday
> 
> Pg. 24 
> 
> 
> Bombing stopped Milosevic: it will stop bin Laden, too Ibrahim Rugova sees
> many parallels between the misguided criticisms of Nato's worthy campaign in
> Kosovo and those being levelled today
> 
> By Ibrahim Rugova
> 
> 
> The rapid collapse of the Taliban after weeks of bombing reminds me of
> Slobodan Milosevic's sudden capitulation in 1999. The military operation in
> Afghanistan is far from over, but otherwise the parallels are many.