Syria tension now invades U.S. sports: No. 1 player: Crisis 'awakens memories' of 1999 bombing in Yugoslavia

 

As Congress prepares to debate the escalating crisis in Syria, the rising tensions have reached into the U.S. Open tennis event under way on Long Island.

The men’s No. 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, confessed to WND that the Syrian crisis “awakens memories.”

“It is like yesterday,” he said referring to the 1999 NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia.

Djokovic’s concerns are part of a mosaic overshadowing this year’s final grand-slam event.

Once an oasis immune from the events outside the USTA National Tennis Center , the 2013 Open championships have seen fallout from the continuing tensions.

While there are few participants from the Middle East, there are many, like Djokovic, from the former Yugoslavia which found itself the target of a combined U.S./NATO bombing campaign in 1999 similar to the one now being threatened against Syria by the Obama administration.

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