Serbs Set Fire to US Embassy
Charles Johnson
Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 10:43 am PST • Views: 319
Armed Serbian “youths” in Belgrade have attacked the US and German embassies, and the US embassy is on fire.
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Scores of protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday and set some rooms on fire in protest at Kosovo’s independence.
Police were not protecting the building which had been closed and boarded up after rioters stoned it earlier in the week. Black smoke billowed out of the embassy.
Papers and chairs were thrown out of the windows, with doors wedged in the window frames and burning.
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 protesters jumped up and down on the embassy balcony, holding up a Serbian flag as the crowd below of about 1,000 people cheered them on, shouting “Serbia, Serbia”.
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