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Leaving Athens

On our last day in Athens as I was checking email I struck up a conversation with an American guy next to me. He had been on a U.S. city Police Force seven years when he applied for a job with the United Nations police force as a peace-keeper in Kosovo and one of 600 American officers in the country who each get $91,000 a year. Once they sign on they are not allowed to quit.

He talked about the French officers who have “no standards” and protect the Serbs when they try to cross the border even to the point of recently preventing officers from the U.S. from rescuing several Polish officers who had been mortally injured in a grenade attack. Apparently, the French have a vested interest in protecting the Serbs, he says, and the American officers have a “deep hatred” of the French officers because of it. He also said the UN was doing absolutely no good in the country-just keeping people who have hated each other since the 1700’s apart from each other.

He had been on leave in Athens for a week but was already sick of being ripped off by the local merchants.



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