Friday, February 22, 2008

Serbs set U.S. Embassy office ablaze, killing 1



Go to Free Republic originalBELGRADE, Serbia -- Angry Serbs broke into the U.S. Embassy and set fire to an office Thursday night as rioters rampaged through Belgrade's streets in a day of mass protest against Western support for an independent Kosovo.

At least 150,000 people rallied in Belgrade, waving Serbian flags and signs proclaiming "Stop USA terror," to denounce the bid by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority to create their own nation out of what Serbs consider the heartland of their culture.

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