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Mittwoch, 30. September 2009

Kouchner: "Western Balkans belong in EU"

"Western Balkans belong in EU"
30 September 2009 | 10:55 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti
BELGRADE -- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says that Serbia and the whole region belong “without doubt in the EU.”

He told daily Večernje Novosti that the process of “unfreezing” in the Western Balkans had started with the warming of relations between Slovenia and Croatia, adding that “warmer” days would come for the rest of the frozen processes in the region, including the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between the EU and Serbia.

“The place of Serbia and the Balkans as a whole is, without any doubt, in the European Union and France's stand on this issue is well known,” Kouchner said, underscoring that the issues regarding the Interim Trade Agreement and the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) would be dealt with.

"The news is that there has been an ‘unfreezing’ between Croatia and Slovenia. There have been so many attempts by European officials to help resolve that problem, but, it seems, they’ll manage to come to an agreement on their own,” said Kouchner, adding that he hoped that all remaining issues in the region would move in the right direction bit by bit.

The minister stressed his support for an EU-Western Balkan conference, which was proposed by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

“It’s common knowledge that France has always been an advocate of the accession of all the countries in the Western Balkan region into the EU,” said Kouchner.

Dienstag, 29. September 2009

Das Ehepaar Salih Berisha trifft das Ehepaar Barak Obama

einlich für Deutschland, das der Kaspar Frank-Walter Steinmeier im Juli in Washington ausgeladen wurde, denn wer verschwendet schon die Zeit, mit Leuten die Null Aussenpolitik betreiben, sondern üblen Lobbyismus und als Billig Nachplabber Truppe der Geschäftemacher von Georg Soros, mit seinen Drogen- und Geldwäsche Kanälen. Das ist Deutsche Aussenpolitik auf Klein Kind Niveau, wo man auf das Niveau einer Bananen Republik mit Lobby Vereinen und Visa Verkauf für Mafia Clans zurück gefallen ist.
Heute ist das Auswärtige Amt, eine Ansammlung übler Ganoven, Lobbyisten wo Hirnlose das Sagen haben, welche Geschäfte machen, mit der Erfindung eines Anti-Terror Kampfes. Die Deutsche Politik, oder was man so nennt, hat auch zur Isolierung in der EU geführt.


Takimi Berisha-Obama gjatë sesionit të 64-t të OKB
Die gute Stimmung ist sichtbar!
Bundesregierung
Außenpolitik? Nein, danke
Die außenpolitische Bilanz der Großen Koalition ist miserabel. Im Ausland wird die internationale Enthaltsamkeit Berlins besorgt registriert. Von Christoph Bertram
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Außenminister Steinmeier könnte sich schon von Amts wegen nicht aus der Außenpolitik empfehlen. Aber ein eigenes internationales Profil hat er in seinen vier AA-Jahren nicht gefunden. Problembewusst und präsent war er immer, gewiss; alles, was der internationale Terminkalender vorgab, hat er abgearbeitet. Dennoch hat er keinen Bereich zu seinem eigenen gemacht.
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Außenpolitik? Nein, danke
Draußen jedoch wird die internationale Enthaltsamkeit Berlins besorgt vermerkt. Wisst ihr Deutschen denn nicht, wird da gefragt, wie sehr es auf euch ankommt, wie groß euer internationales Potenzial ist? Leider muss man darauf die Antwort geben: Die deutsche Regierung will es erst gar nicht auf die Probe stellen. Das wirtschaftliche und politische Schwergewicht Europas nimmt eine außenpolitische Auszeit und fühlt sich auch noch wohl dabei.
Gerhard Schröder suchte für die Bundesrepublik mehr internationale Mitsprache, schadete dem allerdings durch die Ruppigkeit seines Auftretens. Joschka Fischer wollte die Integration Europas vorantreiben und im Nahen Osten die dürftigen Friedenschancen verstärken, hatte aber mehr Gefallen an der Darstellung als an der Durchsetzung deutscher Außenpolitik.
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Was Kanzlerin und Außenminister allerdings bevorsteht, ist auch nicht angenehm: Ihre Unterlassensfehler muss die nächste Bundesregierung, wer immer sie stellt, ausbaden. Und das heißt: wahrscheinlich sie selber.
http://www.zeit.de
bertram
Christoph Bertram
© privat
ist Publizist; er war von 1974 an für acht Jahre Direktor des International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, danach 16 Jahre ZEIT-Redakteur, u.a. als Ressortchef der Politik. Anschließend übernahm er die Leitung der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik und blieb acht Jahre dort. Weitere Texte von ihm finden Sie hier !
aus albania.de

Der hoch kriminelle Veteranen Verband der UCK im Kosovo mit ABDYL MUSHKOLAJ und die Ethnischen Säuberungen im Kosovo

Faton Klinaku, war einer der aktiven Rädels Führer für die Ethnischen Säuberungen und Mord Progrome im März 2004 und weil das UN Justiz System im Kosovo nicht existiert, laufen solche Terroristen und Mörder frei herum und können ihre Nazi Parolen verbreiten.


Alle diese Verbrecher, welche wir hier aufführen laufen frei herum, obwohl genau diese Gestalten die Morde, Ethnischen Säuberungen im Kosovo im März 2004 organisierten und das abfackeln auch des Serbischen Bischof Sitzes in Prizren, weil die Bundeswehr zu feige war, ihren Verpflichtungen wie andere Nationen im Kosovo nachzugehen. Franzosen, Dänen, Spanier, Italiener machten damals von der Schusswaffe gebrauch, und konnten weitere Morde an Nicht Albanern verhindern. Die Deutschen Politiker hatten genau das verboten, weil Joschka Fischer und Steinmeier eben Partner dieser Kriminellen sind, wie die UNMIK Betrugs Ratten sowieso.

Heute setzt der primitive Verbrecher ABDYL MUSHKOLAJ, als Sprecher dieser rein kriminell agierenden Organisation, die Methode der Ethnischen Säuberungen im Kosovo fort.

Die Namen dieser Verbrecher Organisation im Moment von Muharrem Xhemajli geführt, wobei der Name von Xhemajli, auch für einen der dubiosten ausländischen Geheimdienst Verbindungen in den Medien 2004, bekannt wurde und auch schon davor. siehe unten!mmuharremxhemajli@veterani.net uharremxhemajli@veterani.net
muharremxhemajli@veterani.net 


muharremxhemajli@veterani.net



FAIK FAZLIU kryetar
FATMIR MEHMETI nënkryetar
AFRIM KULETA nënkryetar
FATON KLINAKU sekretar
FATMIR SHURDHAJ anëtar
HIDAJETE REXHA anëtar
NEXHMI LAJÇI anëtar
NASER BERISHA anëtar
HYSNI GUCATI anëtar
ABDYL MUSHKOLAJ anëtar
XHAVIT DAUTI anëtar

www.veterani.net/index5.html

Faton Klinaku, war einer der aktiven Rädels Führer für die Ethnischen Säuberungen und Mord Progrome im M-rz 2004 und weil das UN Justiz System im Kosovo nicht existiert, laufen solche Terroristen und Mörder frei herum und können ihre Nazi Parolen verbreiten.

The Kosovo Liberation Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties?

August 29, 2009
U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee - Larry E. Craig, Chairman - Jade West, Staff Director
March 31, 1999
The Kosovo Liberation Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties?
From ‘Terrorists’ to ‘Partners’



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FAS 









Albanian Secret Service Chief Fatos Klosi in 16.5.1999 in der “Albania” durch den Albanischen Geheimdienst Chef Fatos Klosi: KLA (UCK) is financed by Bin Laden



Der US Sonder Botschafter Robert Gelbard in 1998 bestätigt, das die UCK - KLA eine reine Terror Organisation ist u.a. auch bei den CNN Nachrichten.

Robert Gelbard im TV

29 August 2007 | 08:21 | FOCUS News Agency
Pristina. Any separation of Kosovo will have to be done in accordance with the international principles – the right to self-definition, ethnic principle or principle of the majority. But these principles should not be used only for Kosovo, but also for Presevo, /Southern Serbia/ , Macedonia and Montenegro. This was said by Faton Klinaku, Secretary of the Organization of the Veterans of the Army for the Liberation of Kosovo.
Where there are more Albanians – there will be Albania. This will happen if they start a separation of Kosovo. At the end of it all, such development is in our benefit, since all Albanian swill unite in a single country’, Klinaku said.
‘I whould also say that before 1999 the Albanians were the majority in Northern Kosovo, Klinaku said. After the war the UNMIK administration and the Kosovo institutions were absent from that part of Kosovo. This allowed Serbia to occupy these lands. In other words, if there is no separation, the situation before the war in 1999 should be taken into account, when the Albanians were a majority in Northern Kosovo.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n120634

Die albanische Frage

»Wo es Albaner gibt, dort ist unser Land«, lautet die im Kosovo weit verbreitete Auffassung, die nicht nur der Gesprächspartner Faton Klinaku, Vizepräsident der UCK-Veteranenorganisation OVL-UCK, vertritt. Auf einer in Großbritannien gefertigten Homepage der Bürgerinitiative »Vetevendosje« (»Selbstbestimmung«) fügen sich sieben Landesteile aus Serbien, Makedonien, Montenegro und Griechenland und der gesamte Kosovo gemeinsam mit dem »Mutterland« Albanien zur Vision eines Großalbanien zusammen.

Tatsächlich existieren albanische Siedlungsgebiete – außer in Albanien und Kosovo – in Serbien, Montenegro, Makedonien und Griechenland. Eine nach ethnischen Kriterien gezogene Grenze würde alle betroffenen Länder destabilisieren. Dennoch sehen auch gemäßigte Kosovo-Albaner – auch das mit einer gewissen Berechtigung – nicht ein, warum ihnen verwehrt sein soll, was den Deutschen erlaubt wurde. So vermerkt beispielsweise der Philosoph Shkelzen Maliqi auf die Frage, was er zu einer möglichen zukünftigen Vereinigung Kosovos mit Albanien sagen würde: »Ich befürworte diese Idee. Nach einer möglichen Unabhängigkeit des Kosovo kann zumindest eine Konföderation mit Albanien geschlossen werden. Für den Moment allerdings ist es verboten, daran auch nur zu denken.«

www.sopos.org/aufsaetze/46cc2c11b209a/1.phtml

Dies zu der UNMIK und EULEX Mission!

Aktuell wird eine besonders üble Geschichts Fälschung betrieben, denn die hier kurz erwähnten Albaner begannen sich erst in 2008 auf Grundstücken des Klosters Decani anzusiedeln, wie es nun mal diese Ganoven Bande auch in Albanien macht.


Die alte Methode der Ethnischen Säuberungen im Kosovo und das Sprachrohr des in München sitzenden Sprachrohrs der Albaner Mafia und seiner kriminellen Banden.


Um das Kloster in Decan wird eine Mauer gebaut Drucken
Geschrieben von Agron Sadiku
Samstag, 26. September 2009
Rund um das als serbisch definierte Kloster in Decan wird eine Mauer gebaut. Mit dieser Aktion werden Grundstücke und Gebäude von Albanern, ohne Entschädigung der serbischen Kirchenleitung übergeben. Darunter Grundstücke einer ehemaligen Imkerei. Zu den Vorgängen in der Gemeinde Decan erklärte Kolonel Abdyl Mushkolaj, Vorsitzender

des UCK- Veteranenverbandes: "Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass die serbisch orthodoxe Kirche einer der Hauptpfeiler des serbischen Staates in Kosova ist. Die Leitung des Klosters in Decan hat während des Krieges 1998-99 auf dem Gebiet des Klosters, paramilitärischen Einheiten des Arkan, Seselj, Legija, Frenki Simatoviqit und anderer Krimineller gesegnet und unterstützt. Das Kloster war eine Operationsbasis dieser Verbrecher.“ Jetzt werden Grundstücke und albanische Gebäude dem serbischen Klerus auf der Basis des Atisaari-Planes zugeschlagen. Rund 1000 Hektar Land usorpiert die serbische Kirche. Kolonel Mushkolaj, nennt das Projekt „friedensgefährdend“ und benennt die Mauer als „extrem schädlich für die Entwicklung in der Region Decan".

Der Athisaari Plan bezeichnet ,die orthodoxen Kirchen und Klöster als rein serbisch, statt sie als Eigentum aller Bürger Kosovas, unabhängig von ihrer Nationalität zu bezeichnen. Zu dem Bau der Bauer sagte Kolonel Abdyl Mushkolaj : „Wir fordern die sofortige Einstellung der Arbeiten für den Bau der Mauer. Wir fordern, dass die Kirche kein fremdes Eigentum sich aneignen kann. Das Gelände des ehemaligen Geländes für Bienenzucht muss sofort freigegeben werden. Die Kirche darf sich wirtschaftlich und politisch nicht in das Leben der Bewohner einmischen. Zudem wird das Bauvorhaben dem Gelände den Charakter eines Gefängnisses geben. Wir waren und sind für religiöse Toleranz, nicht aber für Enteignungen und die Schaffung von Sonderzonen.


Quelle http://www.albaniapress.com/lajme/9856/R...-i-Decanit.html

Aus der Mafia PR Stelle des Max Brym und seiner Albaner Frau aus München!

Hier wird der arachische Plünderungs, Betrugs, Mord und Immobilien Raub der Kosovo Banden

im Kosovo, Mazedonien und vor allem auch in Albanien verherrlicht und mit solchen Artikeln des Max Brym im Gedanken Gut von Adolf Hitler verherrlicht.

http://kosova-aktuell.de

Und das ist das Ziel: der Ethnisch reine Kosovo! mit Max Brym als Sprachrohr.



Adolf Hitler Groß Albanien und die aktuellen Pläne der Kosovo Terroristen, welche bekanntlich Partner von Bin Laden sind.

Aktuell Liste der Personen, welche in dieser Super Verbrecher Organisation mit Unterstützung der NATO Bomben und Terror Organisation etwas zu Sagen haben!

KËSHILLI DREJTUES:

SADIK MAKOLLI, XHEVDET MAQASTENA, HALIL BLAKAJ, MILAIM LIMONI,AVDYL MUSHKOLAJ ,ENVER HAJDARI ,NAZMI KRASNIQI , SADIK KONJUSHA, SADRI HOXHA, AHMET DAKU, SHABAN CURRI, SAFET GASHI, EJUP RUNJEVA, FEHMI MJEKU, HAJDIN BALAJ,AJVAZ KARPUZI , FATMIR SHURDHAJ, RAFET IBISHI, SMAJL ELEZAJ, BRAHIM MEHMETAJ, NASER BERISHA, EJUP KABASHI, GALIP SKERAJ, ISAK MUSLIU, HYSNI GUCATI, ALI BUZHALA, HALIM HALILI, IDRIZ ASLLANI, SOKOL POGA, NERGJIVANE AZIZI, HYDAJETE REXHA, FEHMI BAFTIU, AFRIM KULETA, MUHARREM XHEMAJLI , FATMIR MEHMETI, FAIK FAZLIU, FATMIR HUMOLLI, DAUT ILAZI, FATON KLINAKU, SHERIF KRASNIQI, BAHRI GASHI, HAXHI SHALA, XHABIR ZHARKU, XHAVIT DAUTI, QERKIN DUKOLLI, FATMIR SOPI, NASER SHATRI, GAZMEND BYTYQI, ENVER MAVRIQI, JAHIR DEMAKU, SHKUMBIN DEMALIJAJ



KRYESIA


Kryesia është organ ekzekutiv i Këshillit Drejtues së Organizatës.






















Muharrem Xhemajli Kryetar
Fatmir Shurdhaj Nënkryetar për çështje politike
Smajl Elezaj Nënkryetar për çështje organizative
Faton Klinaku Sekretar =  Massen Mörder und Killer von Alb. Zivilisten des R. Haradinaj
Abdyl Mushkolaj Anëtar
Naser Berisha Anëtar
Fatmir Mehmeti Anëtar
Daut Ilazi Anëtar
Xhavit Dauti Anëtar
Ali Buzhala Anëtar
Sokol Poga Anëtar
Hysni Gucati Anëtar
Hydajete Rexha Anëtare
Nerxhivane Azizi Anëtare
Ejup Runjeva Anëtar

Këshilltar i lartë juridik e politik i Kryesisë është Prof. Fehmi Baftiu.

November 24, 2004
 FORMER KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY MEMBER DENIES AL-QAEDA  INTELLIGENCE LINKS
Excerpt from report on interview with Samidin Xhezairi by Blerim Xhemajli and Zija Miftari: "Hoxha says he admires butterflies, birds, wants to make cartoons",
published by Kosovo Albanian newspaper Koha Ditore on 22 November 2004
Prizren, 21 November 2004: The German media have called him (Samidin Xhezairi, alias Hoxha) an informer of the German (Federal) Intelligence Service ( BND) , as well as a person linked to Al-Qa'idah and the CIA. In the meantime, he says that he is working on the production of the first cartoon in the Albanian language, as well as on filming the first Albanian-language natural science documentary on birds and butterflies.
There are also some assertions that he has fought in Chechnya, has trained in Afghanistan, and was a commander of a unit of mujahidin who operated in the region of Tetove (Tetovo) in summer 2001.
According to a confidential NATO report from 2002 quoted by the media, Xhezairi's task is to erect a branch of "God's Army" (Hezbollah) in Kosova (Kosovo), while his telephone number was also found among the confiscated documents of identified members of Al-Qa'idah.
In a conversation with Koha Ditore, Samidin Xhezairi, known for his participation in the two wars in Kosova and Macedonia, where he was nicknamed Hoxha, denies having connections with intelligence services and with the world's number one terrorist organization. He more or less denies everything that has been said about him over the past few days and earlier. "It is not true that I am an informer of the German Intelligence Service. I believe this answer is enough," he said, when asked whether it is true that he has links with this service.
Xhezairi has been accused of organizing the (March) riots in Prizren, Ferizaj (Urosevac) and elsewhere in Kosova. Meanwhile, based on a protocol of a taped conversation by the German Intelligence Service, which was never made public but was mentioned by German ZDF television, he told his partners in Ferizaj over the telephone to prepare for a hot party.
According to contradictory German journalist Hutsch, three weeks before the March riots Xhezairi called on his partners in the Ferizaj area to "stir up the atmosphere". A few days later, Hoxha concluded that everything was ready for a "hot party". However, while Hutsch refers to surveillance protocols, ZDF did not publish any facsimiles of those protocols. In the meantime, Xhezairi denies having connections with organizing the March riots, while he calls the conversation listened to by the German Intelligence Service a misunderstanding.
"Heute Journal quoted the following words heard when listening to my telephone: 'We need a bus.' Unfortunately this statement was sufficient for the intelligence services to say that the March events were organized. They forgot that on 17 March the hospital in Mitrovice (Kosovska Mitrovica) requested from Kosovars aid in terms of doctors, nurses and medicines. I was asked if there was a possibility to organize aid for the clinical centre. My answer was that, the moment you need aid, Prizren is able to help you with doctors, nurses and medicines," he said. He added: "This is just to illustrate what the intelligence services of foreign states in Kosova are using."
Furthermore, he denies having been questioned or his house having been searched by the police following the accusations that he is the organizer of these riots, although he is aware that his entire family and friends are being kept under surveillance.
Xhezairi states under constant surveillance since 1999
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http://www.globalresearch.ca 


Die Gruppe habe bei den Rebellen im südserbischen Presevo-Tal zueinander gefunden und wollte über Gewalt politischen Einfluss zurückgewinnen. „Maliq Ndrecaj, Emrush Xhemajli, Ali Ahmeti und Gafurr Elsi sind Namen, die viel über den Krieg im Kosovo sagen“, schreibt das gewöhnlich gut informierte Blatt. „Zwei Jahre später sind es diese Leute, die hinter dem Abenteuer von Tanusevci stecken.“ (dpa)http://www.netzeitung.de 

1998 bei den Terror Aktionen im Kosovo dabei

KOSOVA (bogus-trials – Ferizaj)
26 Albanians indicted
Ferizaj, 23 September (ARTA) 2000CET --
According to the Defense attorneys of the accused, the Deputy Prosecutor of the County of Prishtina, Dragomir Zhivic, filed criminal charges against 26 Albanian residents of Ferizaj.
Nine of them: Enver Topalli, Sylejman Bytyçi, Besim Abazi, Skënder Ferizi, Agim Reçica, Xhavit Zariçi, Ahmet Hoxha, Ylber Topalli and Haxhi Bytyçi, are in detention since June, whereas Ismet Sadiku, Xhabir Morina, Hilmi Reçica, Shaban Viça, Emrush Xhemajli, Hajdin Abazi, Sami Hajrullahu, Milaim Jashari, Ymri Ilazi, Xhavit Gashi, Avdurrahim Oruçi, Sinan Azemi, Ekrem Jashari, Qamil Xhemajli, Bashkim Reçica, Mentor Morina and Remzi Azemi are tried in absence. The majority of them stand accused of "terrorism", while Xhavit Zariçi, Ahmet Hoxha, Ylber Topalli, and Haxhi Bytyçi stand accused of "association for hostile activity".
According to the attorneys, the accusation included all of those "against whom an investigating procedure was opened, with the exception of Shaip Çerkini, who was released from detention yesterday".
The above mentioned are indicted, according to the accusation for "joining the hostile, terrorist organization, KLA, for a longer period of time (April-June), to establish, on 22 June, the `KLA Headquarters for the municipality of Ferizaj'".
Based on this crucial "argument" of the accusation, the attorney Rexhep Haxhimusa stated that "since the accused are indicted to have established the ‘Headquarters’ on 22 June, and they were arrested on 25 June - the odds of them to conduct the alleged act are self-explanatory".
The indictment also charges the accused for being the "authors of the explosions (that took place at the beginning of the year) in Gërlicë and in town". The attorney's on this case stated that "the investigating procedure was conducted without a professional defense, which is a direct violation of the legal provision. In addition, according to them "a special decision of the investigating judge, prohibited them from access to files and documents of the other cases".
While in detention, Rexhep Bislimi and Cen Dugolli, died as a result of the brutal tortures, whereas Ylber Topalli and Xhavit Zariçi were sent for recovery in the hospital of the Central prison in Belgrade.
The attorneys of these activists from Ferizaj already filed complaints "for exercising violence on them during the procedure of collecting their statements". The public opinion is well aware of the Destan Rukiqi case.
The attorneys added that the detained in the prison of Prishtina and in the prison of Gjilan "were extended the detention until 21 November".
http://www.bndlg.de





Das waren ganz billige Ganoven, welche von US Verbrechern angeheuert wurden, inklusive Ausbildungs Camps in Nord Albanien, welche von Bin Laden finanziert wurden.


Der damalige Britische Militär Attache John Crossland, machte hierzu klare Aussagen vor dem ITCY


MILUTINOVIC-PROZESS IN DEN HAAG*Zeuge John Crossland, einst britischer Militärattaché in Belgrad, erklärt die UÇK zur terroristischen Vereinigung und vergleicht sie mit der IRA
Die so genannte Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee, besser bekannt als UÇK, sei ein Instrument der USA gewesen, um den Präsidenten Slobodan Milosevic zu stürzen. US-Präsident Bill Clinton, seine Außenministerin Albright und Richard Holbrooke, US-Chefunterhändler für das Kosovo, hätten 1998 nun einmal beschlossen, in Belgrad einen Regimewechsel zu erzwingen, und deshalb jede Zurückhaltung gegenüber einer terroristischen Organisation fallen gelassen. Man habe die UÇK kräftig unterstützt, obgleich man über ihren Charakter und ihre Führer bestens informiert gewesen sei. Auch die westlichen Medien seien mit von der Partie gewesen, indem sie die UÇK als Befreiungsarmee gefeiert hätten. aus http://balkanblog.org

Und hier über den Westlichen Partner der NATO, den lt. Crossland "Schwer Verbrecher Ramuz Haradinaj"

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Crossland ist ebenso als Zeuge der Anklage für den am 5. März beginnenden Prozess gegen den ehemaligen UÇK-Führer Ramush Haradinaj gebeten und hat seine Aussage dem Gericht bereits in schriftlicher Form zugeleitet. Darin wird Ramush Haradinaj, der es nach 1999 immerhin bis zum Premierminister des Kosovo gebracht hat, einfach als Schwerverbrecher abgestempelt. Die Internationale Gemeinschaft, bedauert Crossland, habe von Haradinajs Verbrechen nichts wissen wollen, um ihn als Partner zu halten. Crossland: “Man wusste nämlich, dass Ramush Haradinaj und sein Bruder Daut die künftig wichtigsten Spieler in der Region Pec, Prizren, Decani und Dakovica sein werden.”
Im Prozess gegen die “Amselfelder Sechs” hat Crossland der serbisch-jugoslawischen Führung nicht nur das legitime Recht eingeräumt, gegen die UÇK einzuschreiten."

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Kosovo/occupation/images/KLA-in-USA.jpg

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  The New American




Danger! KLA in the U.S.A.

By William Norman Grigg
The New American
Vol. 15, No. 11
May 24, 1999




The New American "Backing the KLA is simply insane...

It's the same old story. Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan - drug traffickers, arms smugglers, anti-American terrorists. We later paid the price when the World Trade Center was bombed, and we learned that some of those responsible had been trained by us. Now we're doing the same thing with the KLA, which is tied in with every known middle and far eastern drug cartel...

These guys have a network that's active on the streets of this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."

Michael Levine,
a highly decorated former undercover agent
for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
author of Deep Cover and The Big White Lie
For fair use only
Published under the provision of
U.S. Code, Title 17, section 107.

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When Bill Clinton stopped in Detroit on April 17th on a fundraising visit, he met with a small group of Albanian-Americans at the Roseville Recreation Center. According to the Detroit News, a banner at the Roseville speech bore the logo of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Two days earlier, during an address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mr. Clinton offered an oblique reference to the KLA when he insisted that Serbian ruler Slobodan Milosevic had "not destroyed the armed opposition among Kosovars; indeed, [its] numbers and determination are growing." NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, offering a more poetic take on the establishment line, reported that the KLA is "rising like a phoenix from the ashes."
Part of the reason why the KLA's ranks are growing, reported the Chicago Tribune on April 1st, is forced conscription: Shortly after NATO began its bombing campaign, the KLA ordered all Albanian men of fighting age "to join its ranks within one month or face unspecified consequence."
Many male refugees, who had been driven from their homes at gunpoint, "made it to the Albanian border only to encounter checkpoints of the KLA," reported the Tribune.
"Travelers who slipped through said they saw men being pulled from buses by armed guerillas and sent to KLA training camps in the rugged hills nearby." There the conscripts are given one month of crude training before being thrust into battle.

Showcase Volunteers

Although the KLA has had to rely on press gangs to draft Kosovo Albanians into its ranks, it has attracted thousands of ethnic Albanian volunteers from Europe and the United States. Throughout émigré communities worldwide, reported the April 20th Washington Times, the call to enlist in the KLA "is considered obligatory for all men ages 18 to 55. Only those who are sick or who can contribute financially to the KLA are considered exempt." Albanian émigrés from Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Chicago, and other U.S. cities have repaired to the KLA banner, joining thousands more from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other European nations.
The KLA's recruit army has little military value; the shopkeepers, waiters, teenagers, and middle-age professionals who have volunteered will not turn the tide of battle against Milosevic's well-equipped paramilitary squads.
As with the Communist-organized "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" in the Spanish Civil War, the KLA's émigré army is a propaganda exercise intended to confer an air of romantic idealism to a movement dominated by corrupt terrorists.
The KLA's founders, reported Balkans correspondent Chris Hedges in the March 28th New York Times, were "diehard Marxist-Leninists (who were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist dictatorship next door in Albania) as well as descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II."
Hedges fleshes out his portrait of the KLA in an essay published in the May-June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs. "The KLA fighters are the province's new power brokers," Hedges writes. "Whatever political leadership emerges in Kosovo will come from the rebel ranks, and it will be militant, nationalist, uncompromising, and deeply suspicious of all outsiders."
The KLA's leadership cadres, according to Hedges, are "given to secrecy, paranoia, and appalling mendacity when they feel it serves their interests, which is most of the time."
The KLA's ideology displays "hints of fascism on one side and whiffs of communism on the other," continues Hedges, and its leadership includes the heirs and descendants of "the Skanderbeg volunteer SS division raised by the Nazis [who] took part in the shameful roundup and deportation of [Kosovo's] few hundred Jews during the Holocaust."
Such is the character of the group that, in Hedges' view, "represents the aspirations of most Kosovar Albanians," which is to create "an independent Kosovo now and a Greater Albania later." A map circulated among KLA supporters, including the Albanian-American Civic League (AACL), depicts a "Greater Albania" that includes not only Kosovo, but a slice taken from Serbia proper, in addition to portions of Montenegro, Macedonia, and Greece.
Despite repeated assertions from NATO that the war against Yugoslavia is intended to contain ethnic conflict, the alliance with the KLA effectively guarantees that the conflict will spread throughout the Balkans and beyond. Were Milosevic to relent and allow international "peacekeepers" to occupy Kosovo, the occupation force would be required to disarm the KLA, as specified by the Rambouillet framework.
The KLA has made it clear that it has no intention of relinquishing its arms or renouncing its irredentist aims. Indeed, the terrorist group has already expanded its campaign in Macedonia, which has been overrun by Albanian refugees. On April 22nd, Interior Minister Pavle Trajanov reported that KLA arms caches totaling 4.5 tons of firearms, grenades, and ammo have been discovered in several Macedonian locations.
The KLA has also reportedly recruited more than 1,000 "volunteers" from that country's refugee population.
Unless the Clinton Administration decides to support the KLA's drive for a "Greater Albania," a NATO "victory" over Milosevic would almost certainly presage another conflict with the KLA, which - as the success of its international fundraising and recruiting efforts illustrates - has a disciplined and tightly organized international network at its disposal. The KLA would be well positioned to bring its war home to America in the form of terrorism.

Narco-Revolution

As previously reported in these pages (see "Diving into the Kosovo Quagmire" in our March 15th issue [included here immediately following this article -Ed.]), the KLA is allied with Osama bin-Laden's international terrorist network and funded, in large measure, by Albanian organized crime - particularly heroin trafficking.
In 1994, when the insurrectionary KLA was still in its larval stage, France's Observatire Geopolitique Des Drogues, a counter-narcotics bureau attached to the European Commission, reported that "heroin shipment and marketing networks are taking root among ethnic Albanian communities in Albania, Macedonia, and the Kosovo province of Serbia, in order to finance large purchases of weapons destined for the brewing war in Kosovo."
A 1995 report from Kosovo published in the left-wing journal Mother Jones described how Kosovo Albanians committed to insurrection would work as "camels": "By the hundreds, they cross the mountains, lakes, and seas that comprise affluent Europe's outer frontiers - usually in the dead of night - carrying the mob's narcotics in one direction and its laundered money in the other."
"Here and in a half-dozen other Western countries," declared Pascal Auchlin, a criminologist with Switzerland's National Center for Scientific Research, "there is now an ant's trail of individual drug traffickers that leads right to Kosovo." In 1995, nearly 500 Kosovo Albanians were in Swiss prisons on drug-related charges, and more than 1,000 others were under indictment.
Many other "camels" were not so fortunate, noted Mother Jones: "Empty boats wash up, after howling Mediterranean storms, on the Spanish and Sicilian coasts. Decomposed bodies are discovered each spring in the Alps, when the seasonal thaw opens snowbound passes."
In the United States, wrote criminologist Gus Xhudo in the Spring 1996 issue of Transnational Organized Crime, Albanian mobsters have been involved in "drug and refugee smuggling, arms trafficking, contract killing, kidnaping, false visa forgery, and burglary."
Between 1985 and 1995, wrote Xhudo, "authorities estimated that 10 million U.S. dollars in cash and merchandise had been stolen from some 300 supermarkets, ATM machines, jewelry stores, and restaurants" by Albanian gangsters, a healthy cut of which was sent to fund "Greater Albanian" ambitions.
In Albanian gangs, reported Xhudo, "the basic command structure, reliant upon their politico-cultural experiences with communist rule, is one rooted in community party apparatus." A Leadership Council (whose membership, according to law enforcement officials, includes several leading Albanian politicians) directs the syndicate's international efforts through a decentralized chain of command.
Recruits into Albanian gangs "swear an oath of allegiance and secrecy, an omerta or besa (literally, promise or word of honor in Albanian)," Xhudo explained. The executive committee of each Albanian bajrak (or crime "family") provides "the requisite tactics and training necessary for conducting arms and drug smuggling, as well as sophisticated burglaries."
The hands-on work of the crime syndicates is performed by "crews" made up of four to ten members: "A-team" units trained in the use of sophisticated tools and communications gear, and "B-teams" who, "while lacking in sophistication make up for it in brutality and cunning."
In the mid-1990s, law enforcement officials in New York and New Jersey noticed that Albanian gangsters had dramatically improved their surveillance and counter-surveillance skills. This led some officials to suspect that former agents of the Sigurimi, the Communist Albanian secret police, had begun to train "crews" in this country.
Even without the Sigurimi's help, however, the Albanian mob had established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the world of narcotics smuggling. Xhudo wrote that "by the mid-1980s, Albanians were already gaining notoriety for their drug trafficking," playing a predominant role in the "Balkan Connection" through which passed up to 40 percent of the heroin sold on U.S. streets.

Narcotics Network

Asked by The New American about accusations that the KLA is implicated in drug smuggling and terrorism, Shirley Cloyes, the Balkan affairs adviser for the Albanian American Civic League (AACL), dismissed the charges as "absolutely preposterous" products of "Serb propaganda."
"These reports are quite baffling, and it is very, very disturbing that such propaganda has been given wide currency in the press," Cloyes declared. "As the atrocities of Milosevic's regime have been exposed to the public, the Serb propaganda machine has stepped up its rhetoric about the supposed connections between the KLA and drug traffickers and Islamic fundamentalists. There is simply no merit to any of these charges."
Former counter-narcotics agent Michael Levine, author of the exposés Deep Cover and The Big White Lie, begs to differ with Cloyes' assessment. "Backing the KLA is simply insane," Levine protests. Levine, a highly decorated former undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told The New American, "My contacts within the DEA are quite frankly terrified, but there's not much they can say without risking their jobs.
These guys [the KLA] have a network that's active on the streets of this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."
"It's the same old story," Levine notes. "Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan - drug traffickers, arms smugglers, anti-American terrorists.
We later paid the price when the World Trade Center was bombed, and we learned that some of those responsible had been trained by us. Now we're doing the same thing with the KLA, which is tied in with every known middle and far eastern drug cartel.
Interpol, Europol, and nearly every European intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug syndicates that lead right to the KLA, and right to Albanian gangs in this country."
In early April, the FBI announced that an anonymous fax had been sent to Serbian Orthodox churches across the country urging Serbian-Americans to carry out terrorist acts against members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Although the FBI subsequently dismissed the message as a "rant" rather than a terrorist threat, the incident still served to misdirect public attention, according to Levine.
"It's possible that a Serb might commit an act of terrorism, but the KLA's got a whole network up and running in this country, and they're in bed with Osama bin-Laden, who's shown that he intends to kill Americans and has the means to do it," Levine declares.
Robert Gelbard, the Clinton Administration's former special envoy for Kosovo, told Agence France Presse in February 1998 that the KLA "is, without any questions, a terrorist group." After this remark provoked criticism from the KLA's American partisans that it amounted to a "green light" for Milosevic to carry out repression against Kosovo's Albanian population, Gelbard clarified his point by telling the House Committee on International Relations that while the KLA had committed terrorist acts, it had never "been classified legally by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization."
In light of the fact that the KLA has been embraced by Osama bin-Laden, who has been identified by the Administration as the kingpin of global terrorism, this omission is a curious one indeed.
On August 24th of last year, shortly after U.S. cruise missiles struck supposed assets of bin-Laden's network in Sudan and Afghanistan, the Saudi terror chieftain's World Islamic Front (WIF) issued a communiqué urging its followers to "direct your attacks to the American army and her allies, the infidels."
Kosovo was listed among the locales in which the communiqué claimed the WIF had "achieved great victories" in recent years. In a November 30th dispatch from Pristina, Kosovo, The Scotsman reported that bin-Laden's operatives were active in Albania.
In addition, intelligence officials reported that "Mujahadeen units from at least a half dozen Middle East countries [are] streaming across the border into Kosovo from safe bases in Albania."

Complement to Bloodshed

As preparations for NATO's war in Kosovo proceeded, according to The Scotsman, the Clinton Administration asked the KLA "to distance themselves from so-called Mujahadeen fundamentalists." In exchange, the Administration held out the promise of political and military support.
According to the February 24th New York Times, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright promised the KLA leadership that in exchange for its signatures on the Rambouillet peace accord, "Officers in the Kosovo Liberation Army would be sent to the United States for training in transforming themselves from a guerilla group into a police force or a political entity, much like the African National Congress did in South Africa."
"We want to develop a good relationship with them as they transform themselves into a politically oriented organization," declared deputy State Department spokesman James Foley. "We want to develop closer and better ties with this organization."
Military cooperation between the KLA and NATO is already a reality in Kosovo. The Times of London reported on April 20th [1999] that KLA guerillas, using satellite communications systems, have been target-spotting for NATO bombing runs over the province.
"The intelligence is passed to Western `handlers' who relay the targets to the alliance, enabling NATO to claim that it has no `formal links' with the rebels," continued the Times. Some of those "handlers" are commandos from the British SAS Special Forces; others reportedly are from the U.S. Delta Force.
One British report suggested that Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI), the Virginia-based private military training firm, had been retained by the Albanian government to train and equip the KLA. MPRI spokesman Ed Soyster told The New American that while the firm has ongoing programs in Croatia, Bosnia, and Macedonia, "we've not been contacted by the Albanian government, and we're not going to get in the middle of that thing in Kosovo." Alluding to the KLA's background in drug smuggling and terrorism, Soyster said that "this group is something that we simply don't want to associate with" - an interesting assessment, given the firm's willingness to contract with unsavory elements in both Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Some KLA partisans in the U.S. are urging the Administration to dispense with "handlers" and arm the KLA directly. On April 21st, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the "Kosova Self-Defense Act," which would (in McConnell's words) "provide $25 million to arm and train members of the KLA" and "equip 10,000 men or 10 battalions with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up to 18 months."
McConnell told his colleagues, "Given Administration reluctance to deploy U.S. troops, there is only one option - the KLA must be given the means to defend their homeland." Congressman James Traficant (D-OH) has introduced a complementary measure in the House.
Not surprisingly, the AACL supports the proposal to arm the KLA - but only in combination with the deployment of U.S. troops, rather than as a substitute for such a deployment.
"Mr. President, how many Albanians must die before we do the right thing - namely arm the KLA, as we did the Croats in Bosnia - and committing NATO ground troops to stop the genocide and finish the job we started?" pleaded AACL director Joseph DioGuardi in a letter to Bill Clinton. Asked by The New American why American troops are necessary if the KLA can recruit Albanians from the diaspora to fight on the ground, the AACL's Shirley Cloyes replied, "Our position has always been that we should start with arming the KLA before we send in ground troops."
This is to say that the AACL - which is essentially the KLA's public relations organ - does not see arming the KLA as an alternative to shedding American blood on the ground in Kosovo, but as a complement to a ground campaign: The KLA gets U.S. arms to continue its irredentist campaign, and U.S. servicemen get the dubious privilege of dying on behalf of "Greater Albania" and, of course, the new world order.

KLA Map of "Greater Albania"

A "Greater Albania"

When the conversation turned to the question of the KLA's larger designs, Cloyes stuck close to her scripted talking points. "I have no time for talk about `Greater Albania,'" Cloyes emphatically told The New American. "The only quest for hegemony in the Balkans is Milosevic's quest for a `Greater Serbia.' You have only one land grab, and that's Serbia's grab of Kosovo." When asked if it is the KLA's intention to change existing borders in the Balkans, as the map distributed by the group suggests, Cloyes once again parried the inquiry by condemning "Serb aggression": "There are no borders to change. The only borders that have been changed were changed by Serbia." It will be interesting to see how this line of reasoning plays with those residents of Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece who live within the KLA-defined boundaries of "Greater Albania."
"In the end, it will come to this: Led by the KLA, Kosovo will separate from Serbia, whether by negotiations or by violence," concluded Christopher Hedges in his Foreign Affairs essay. "The grim reality is that we had better get to know the KLA - because it is not going away." It must be remembered that Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves to define policy alternatives for America's foreign policy elite. Thus, Hedges' essay could be taken as a summary of the official Establishment line.
"Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground?" asked George Washington in his Farewell Address. "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" The wisdom of Washington's warning to eschew damaging entanglements is underscored by the utterly demented determination of our ruling Establishment to knit our destiny with that of the KLA.
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  The New American





Diving Into the Kosovo Quagmire

By William Norman Grigg
The New American
Vol. 15, No. 6
March 15, 1999


For fair use only
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According to the Clinton Administration, U.S. military intervention in Kosovo is necessary to bring an end to a yearlong civil war, prevent a monumental ``humanitarian crisis,'' and prevent the conflict from spreading to Albania, Greece, Macedonia, and perhaps even Turkey. As we shall show, the Administration's public pronouncements are at odds with the truth.
The chief beneficiary of U.S. military intervention, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), is a terrorist criminal syndicate, Maoist in its ideological bent, hard-wired into the international heroin trade, and tightly allied with Osama bin Laden. Additionally, American servicemen deployed in Kosovo would serve under the operational command of foreign military officers. In brief, the mission would advance the cause of international narco-terrorism, help entrench the European network of the world's most notorious Islamic terrorist, and accelerate the erosion of U.S. sovereignty.
As representatives of Kosovo's Albanian population - including delegates from the KLA - and Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic met in Rambouillet, France to discuss "autonomy" for the province, Clinton Administration officials made it known that the President was prepared to deploy 4,000 U.S. servicemen to Kosovo as part of NATO's "Operation Joint Guardian." They also made it clear that they did not consider it necessary to obtain congressional authorization for the deployment.
In testimony offered on February 10th before the House International Affairs Committee, Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering defended Bill Clinton's unilateral decision to commit troops to Kosovo, claiming that "there is ample constitutional precedent for this type of action." While it is true that Congress on many occasions has abdicated its constitutional responsibilities in the face of presidential usurpation, such delinquencies do not constitute "constitutional precedent." Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA) underscored that fact, pointedly informing Pickering that "previous constitutional violations do not justify subsequent ones."
Congressman Pat Danner (D-MO) also found Pickering's presentation unconvincing, predicting, "We are indeed going into a second Bosnia" - and few congressmen on either side of the aisle are eager to deploy U.S. troops into another Balkan morass. "Three years ago, the President sent troops into Bosnia, promising they would be home in six months," observed Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) in his February 15th newsletter. "The years have passed, more than $20 billion has been spent, and our soldiers are still there. Very few seriously ask anymore when these troops are coming home - or even what it is they are supposed to be accomplishing."
In November 1995, as a means of compelling congressional acquiescence in his Bosnia deployment, Bill Clinton inserted a small advance contingent before unilaterally dispatching a force of 20,000 GIs as "peacekeepers." By doing this, Mr. Clinton was essentially using U.S. servicemen as hostages: Congress was unwilling to de-fund the Administration's unconstitutional venture lest it be accused of abandoning our soldiers in the field. A report in the February 12th Washington Post indicated that the Administration was prepared to pursue that strategy once again by kidnaping a 2,200-man Marine expeditionary unit deployed in the Adriatic and deploying them in Kosovo in advance of the main body of NATO "peacekeepers."
Using such time-honored tactics, Bill Clinton is recreating the circumstances that led to the Somalia debacle in 1993: U.S. troops assigned to a UN-supervised "peacekeeping" mission, under foreign command, deployed to a region in which no "peace" exists to be kept.

Maoist Movement

If there is a tract of land anywhere on the earth's surface less relevant to America's national interest than Kosovo, its name does not readily come to mind. Possessing an area roughly the same as that of Connecticut, the Serbian province displays, on a miniaturized scale, all of the characteristics of Bosnia. Serbs regard the province to be the spiritual home of Serbian nationalism, and many sites deemed sacred by the Serbian Orthodox Church are found in Kosovo. Of the province's two million inhabitants, roughly 90 percent are ethnic Albanians, of whom approximately 90 percent are Muslim.
As in Bosnia, ancestral grudges and grievances are a palpable reality in Kosovo, and have been inflamed by generations of social engineering by various ruling elites - Ottoman, Nazi, and Communist. Many within the ethnic Albanian majority favor independence from Serbia, with some seeking unification into a "greater Albania."
[NATO created] The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) did not exist before November 1997, when KLA guerillas disguised with ski masks appeared at the funeral of a teacher killed by Kosovo Serbs in the village of Drenica. The movement that coalesced into the KLA "was made up of militants who were fascinated by the unadulterated Marxism of [late Albanian dictator] Enver Hoxha," reported the French journal Liberation on January 21st. The KLA is "opaque in its structures [and] totalitarian in its methods," explained the French publication, and its commanders have "remained largely true to the Maoist origins of its founders." KLA frontman Adem Demaci is an unabashed disciple of Mao, and KLA cadres greet one another with an upraised fist - the universal Marxist salute.
However, as military affairs analyst Ben Works, director of the Strategic Research Institute of the United States (SIRIUS), observed, the KLA is not rigidly ideological. "The Maoist ideology is an important element, but the selling point for recruits is the group's militant Albanian nationalism," Works informed The New American. "Its chief appeal is to the ethnic Albanian Muslim population, and so its nationalism is couched in Islamic terms." The KLA's Islamic veneer helps explain the group's alliance with renegade Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, the notorious financier of anti-American terrorism.
"There's no doubt that bin Laden's people have been in Kosovo helping to arm, equip, and train the KLA," Works declared. "Bin Laden's the monster du jour, and here we are coming to the aid of his allies in the Balkans. There is a monster being created here, but in important ways it's a monster of our own making. Hardly a day goes by without a terrorism alert at some U.S. embassy that has been targeted by bin Laden's people, and the Administration's policy in Kosovo is to help bin Laden, through the KLA, extend his reach in Europe. It almost seems as if the Clinton Administration's policy is to guarantee more terrorism."
In his syndicated column for August 12, 1998, retired U.S. Army Colonel Harry G. Summers wrote that in Bosnia and Kosovo "we find ourselves championing the very Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups who are our mortal enemies elsewhere." The Washington Post noted that the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania might be connected to Albania's deportation of several members of an Islamic terrorist cell run by bin Laden. Several respected European journals, including London's Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, have reported that Iran is actively arming and supporting the KLA, and Iran's terrorist network has extended its reach into Italy by way of KLA-aligned ethnic Albanians residing there.

KLA Narco-Mafia

The KLA's baneful impact has already been felt in Italy, particularly with regard to narco-terrorism. "In just the first two weeks of January, there were nine murders carried out by KLA assets in Milan," Works informed The New American. "This is nothing new, by any means. The KLA is tightly connected to the Albanian mafia, which is one of the major sources of heroin in Europe, and is also heavily involved in all aspects of the vice industry."
As Ben Works pointed out in a February 4th analysis, the Clinton Administration-crafted plan to grant "partial autonomy" to a KLA-dominated Kosovo all but guarantees that the province "will find itself controlled by the gunmen of an international drug-dealing mafia masquerading as an idealistic liberation army." The narco-mafia from which the KLA was spawned has been deeply involved in drug trafficking since the early 1980s as a means of fueling political insurrection.
A 1994 report compiled by France's Observatire Geopolitique Des Drogues, which carries out counter-narcotics investigations on behalf of the European Commission, found that "heroin shipment and marketing networks are taking root among ethnic Albanian communities in Albania, Macedonia, and the Kosovo province of Serbia, in order to finance large purchases of weapons destined not only for the current conflict in Bosnia but also for the brewing war in Kosovo." The Kosovo headquarters of the Albanian drug network was identified in that report as Tropaja - a village on the Serbian-Albanian border that is a KLA stronghold. Large quantities of heroin from the embryonic KLA's narco-network were seized in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Greece, and profits reaped from drug dealing were used to buy weapons. The report noted that "Russian army barracks constitute an almost inexhaustible source of hardware for these networks."
Until his recent arrest, 35-year-old Agim Gashi, an ethnic Albanian from the Kosovo city of Pristina, was Milan's ruling drug lord. The Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on January 19th that Gashi "supplied his brothers in Kosovo with Kalashnikov rifles, bazookas, and hand grenades. He controlled the heroin market, and at least part of the billions he made from it was used to buy weapons for the `resistance' movement of the Albanian Kosovo community."
In one telephone conversation intercepted by Italian police, Gashi was overheard admonishing his Turkish heroin suppliers to continue shipments during Ramadan - "a violation of religious rules for the sake of a more important cause: `To submerge Christian infidels in drugs.'" Despite Gashi's recent arrest, the KLA's narco-allies remain atop Milan's underworld, and are accepting the homage of the older, established syndicates: "The old 'Ndrangheta families, the Mafia and the old Egyptian `lords' depend on the new masters of the drug market, acknowledging their authority."
U.S. soldiers called upon to enforce a "peace" accord that turns Kosovo over to the KLA might be interested to know that they are risking their lives on behalf of a criminal syndicate that for years has pumped heroin into the U.S. and threatened the lives of American law enforcement officials. The international Albanian drug syndicate that spawned the KLA played a prominent role in the "Balkan connection" heroin network. According to the Wall Street Journal for September 9, 1985, ethnic Albanian Mafiosi residing in New York City, the terminus of a heroin pipeline reaching back through Belgrade to Istanbul, were responsible for moving "25% to 40% of the U.S. heroin supply." Law enforcement officials also believed that the Albanian expatriates were "involved in everything from gun-running to counterfeiting."
Unlike other ethnic criminal syndicates - such as the Italian-American La Cosa Nostra - the Albanian narco-mafia was willing to make war directly on U.S. law enforcement officials. One U.S. Attorney active in prosecuting "Balkan connection" gangsters learned that a contract had been taken out on his life by an ethnic Albanian defendant, as well as upon Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan M. Cohen and Drug Enforcement Administration agent Jack Delmore. This was in harmony with the "Kanun of Lek Dukamejin," the 15th-century social and ethical code that defines Albania's culture. In the Albanian blood feud, "honor is cleansed by killing any male member of the family of the original offender, and the spirit of that victim cries out to its own family for purification," explains British historian Noel Malcolm in his 1998 study Kosovo: A Short History. Thus the contract applied not only to the law enforcement officials, but to the male members of their extended families as well.
Even after the Albanian mobster was convicted and sent to prison, an attempt was made to fulfill the contract, much to the puzzlement of the targeted U.S. Attorney. "After you have been convicted," he observed, "there is no rational reason to kill a prosecutor, except revenge." So spoke future New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, whose experience with the Albanian mob may influence his view of the wisdom of handing Kosovo to the KLA.

Waiting for an Alibi

The developments leading up to the Administration's announcement of a U.S. mission to Kosovo were projected with uncanny prescience in an August 12, 1998 analysis by the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee (RPC). The report noted that "planning for a U.S.-led NATO intervention in Kosovo is now largely in place.... The only missing element seems to be an event - with suitably vivid media coverage - that would make the intervention politically salable, in the same way that a dithering Administration finally decided on intervention in Bosnia in 1995 after a series of   'Serb mortar attacks' took the lives of dozens of civilians - attacks which, upon closer examination, may in fact have been the work of the Muslim regime in Sarajevo, the main beneficiary of the intervention."
"That the Administration is waiting for a similar `trigger' in Kosovo is increasingly obvious," observed the RPC report. Last July, the Administration had already described the "trigger" event it was seeking as a pretext for intervention. The August 4th Washington Post quoted "a senior U.S. Defense Department official" who told reporters on July 15th that "we're not anywhere near making a decision for any kind of armed intervention in Kosovo right now." The Post observed that the official "listed only one thing that might trigger a policy change: 'I think if some levels of atrocities were reached that would be intolerable, that would probably be a trigger.'"
The "trigger" was pulled on January 16th, when William Walker, the Administration official assigned to Kosovo with a team of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), announced that a "massacre" of more than 40 ethnic Albanian peasants by Serbian security personnel had taken place in the village of Racak. The January 20th New York Times observed that the Racak "massacre" followed "a well-established pattern: Albanian guerillas in the Kosovo Liberation Army kill a Serb policeman or two. Serb forces retaliate by flattening a village. This time they took the lives of more than 40 ethnic Albanians, including many elderly and one child."
However, as the French newspaper Le Figaro reported on the same day, there was ample reason to believe that Walker's assessment of the situation was made in "undue haste." Walker, the U.S. official who headed a 700-man OSCE "verification" team monitoring a cease-fire in Kosovo, accused Serbian police of conducting a massacre "in cold blood." According to Le Figaro's account, Serb policemen, after notifying both the media and OSCE officials, conducted a raid on a KLA stronghold. After several hours of combat, Serbian police announced that they had killed ten KLA personnel and seized a large cache of weapons. Journalists observed several OSCE officials talking with ethnic Albanian villagers in an attempt to determine the casualty count.
"The scene of Albanian corpses in civilian clothes lined up in a ditch which would shock the whole world was not discovered until the next morning, around 9:00 a.m.," reported the French newspaper. "At that time, the village was once again taken over by armed [KLA] soldiers who led the foreign visitors, as soon as they arrived, toward the supposed massacre site. Around noon, William Walker in person arrived and expressed his indignation." All of the Albanian witnesses interviewed by the media and OSCE observers on January 16th related the same version of events - namely, that Serbian police had forced their way into homes, separated the women from the men, and dragged the men to the hilltops to be unceremoniously executed.
The chief difficulty with this account, according to Le Figaro, is that television footage taken during the January 15th battle in Racak "radically contradict[s] that version. It was in fact an empty village that the police entered in the morning.... The shooting was intense, as they were fired on from [KLA] trenches dug into the hillside. The fighting intensified sharply on the hilltops above the village." Rather than a pitiless attack on helpless villagers, the unedited film depicts a firefight between police and encircled KLA guerillas, with the latter group getting by far the worst of the engagement. Further complicating things for the "official" account is the fact that "journalists found only very few cartridges around the ditch where the massacre supposedly took place."
"What really happened?" asks Le Figaro. "During the night, could the [KLA] have gathered the bodies, in fact killed by Serb bullets, to set up a scene of cold-blooded massacre?" Similar skepticism was expressed by Le Monde, a publication whose editorial slant is decidedly antagonistic to the Serbian side in any Balkan conflict.
"Isn't the Racak massacre just too perfect?" wondered Le Monde correspondent Christophe Chatelot in a January 21st dispatch from Kosovo. Eyewitness accounts collected by Chatelot contradicted the now official version of the "massacre," describing instead a pitched battle between police and well-entrenched KLA fighters in a nearly abandoned village. "How could the Serb police have gathered a group of men and led them calmly toward the execution site while they were constantly under fire from [KLA] fighters?" wrote Chatelot. "How could the ditch located on the edge of Racak [where the massacre victims were later found] have escaped notice by local inhabitants familiar with the surroundings who were present before nightfall? Or by the observers who were present for over two hours in this tiny village? Why so few cartridges around the corpses, so little blood in the hollow road where twenty-three people are supposed to have been shot at close range with several bullets in the head? Rather, weren't the bodies of the Albanians killed in combat by the Serb police gathered into the ditch to create a horror scene which was sure to have an appalling effect on public opinion?" ...
[T]he KLA is a Maoist insurgency well versed in classic urban warfare strategy. As urban warfare theorist Carlos Marighella explained in his Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerilla, the purpose of terrorism is "to intensify repression," resulting in draconian measures that "make life unbearable" for the subject population. When crackdowns come, wrote Marighella, terrorists must "become more aggressive, and violent heightening the disastrous situation in which the government must act...." The French newspaper Liberation described the KLA's tactics in nearly identical terms, pointing out that "for several months, the [KLA] guerillas have been pushing the Serbs across the fault line by multiplying their attacks against individual police officers. Thus, it tries to provoke a massive reaction by the forces of [Serb dictator Slobodan] Milosevic." Noted Liberation, "This strategy is classical" - and the staging of a phony "massacre" is a logical extension of that classic strategy.
None of this mattered once Walker had decreed that Serb police were guilty of "the most horrendous" massacre he had ever witnessed, and NATO warplanes were revving up for retaliatory strikes against targets in Serbia. The desired trigger incident was seized upon as a pretext for intervention. On January 30th, the NATO Council authorized NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana to use armed force to compel Serbian and ethnic Albanian delegates to "peace" negotiations in France to discuss a framework for Kosovo "autonomy."

Good for Business

Although public declarations by both the Clinton Administration and NATO officials have bristled with condemnations of, and threats directed at, the Serbian dictator Milosevic, he actually stands to benefit from U.S. intervention on behalf of the KLA. "Milosevic pretends to be a Serbian nationalist when it suits his interests, and he was actually propelled to power by exploiting the grievances of the Serb minority in Kosovo," a Senate analyst told The New American. "But he has been willing to sell out Serbs in Bosnia and in Krajina [in Croatia] when it has been necessary to cut a deal with the West. In fact, it has been to his advantage to do so, since it has helped him consolidate power by eliminating potential rivals."
In every Clinton Administration initiative in the Balkans, observed the August 12th RPC paper, "the key figure upon whose word the United States relies is none other than Slobodan Milosevic." In fact, some observers of the Balkan region describe Milosevic as both an "arsonist" and a "fireman" - giddily igniting fires that he volunteers to subdue. At least one moderate ethnic Albanian leader has referred to the Maoist, dope-running KLA as "a creation of Milosevic's security forces." The RPC paper asserted that "Milosevic has created a political symbiosis with the Kosovo Albanians"; they provide him with a convenient foil when he needs to posture as a Serb nationalist, just as intermittent threats of NATO air strikes give the dictator an ominous external enemy whose menace can rally his subject population and justify internal repression. Bill Clinton, after all, is not the only corrupt demagogue who knows how to "Wag the Dog."
The submerged entente between the KLA and the Milosevic regime is illustrated by the former's role in helping to elude NATO-imposed sanctions on Serbia. Noted the RPC paper: "Milosevic, as the distributor of scarcity, for years has relied heavily on Albanian organized crime operations based in Kosovo, which has long been a center of sanctions-busting. The fact that some of these same syndicates are no doubt funding the KLA has given Milosevic no reason to disrupt their mutually lucrative business interests." There is also no reason to doubt that deploying U.S. servicemen in Kosovo, however injurious to American interests, would, from the perspective of the KLA/Milosevic axis, be very good for business.

The Aztlan Factor

No assessment of the potential damage of the Kosovo mission would be complete without examining the precedent it would set. NATO - which is a military and political component of the UN - is preparing to intervene in a sovereign nation in order to carve out what will almost certainly become a new nation-state. The justification for this intervention is a particularly lurid specimen of alleged police brutality. Over the next few decades, as unchecked immigration from Mexico changes America's demographic realities, and as Mexican insurgents - many of whom are aligned with Mexican narco-traffickers - assume a militant posture akin to that of the Albanian KLA, the precedent set by U.S. intervention in Kosovo may become increasingly relevant to America. An independent "Kosova" (the preferred spelling for ethnic Albanian separatists) will almost certainly embolden Mexican radicals seeking to create an independent "Aztlan" in the U.S. Southwest.
"In 2020, Southern California will be predominantly Hispanic," noted retired U.S. Army Colonel David Hackworth in his January 29th syndicated column. "Imagine if California-born Hispanic leaders following the Kosovar rebel scenario convinced their followers that the home of the Rose Bowl Parade was theirs. They could argue, `This land belonged to our forefathers long before the English settled in Jamestown. They came with guns and took it from us. We're taking it back.'" A governor of California, or a U.S. President, who chose to deal forcefully with Hispanic radicals, would run squarely into the Kosovo precedent. Complicating things further would be the fact that America's military assets, if present trends continue, will be badly depleted from ongoing garrison duty in the Balkans, and wherever else our servicemen have been deployed on "peacekeeping" missions - thus leaving America at the mercy of the UN or its successor organization to keep the peace, on its terms, within the borders of our once sovereign republic.
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