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Subject: Fw: Kosovo’s dirty secret: the background to Germany’s Secret Service affair
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 5:43 AMSent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:46 AMSubject: CRG: Kosovo’s dirty secret: the background to Germany’s Secret Service affair
... In addition, the country has a government and state apparatus that are notoriously corrupt and are closelylinked with organised crime. According to a report by the Berlin Institute for European Policy, produced lastyear on behalf of the German army, drugs, human trafficking and arms smuggling, theft, robbery and car crimeare the only increasing and profitable sectors of the country’s economy. ...... “The German report is particularly critical of the role of the US, which had obstructed European investigations andwhich had been opened up to political extortion by the existence of secret CIA detention centres in the groundsof Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo,” ...... Whatever the case, one thing the affair of the arrested BND agents has already made clear is that the Germangovernment’s first foreign combat mission in the postwar period—and the enormous sums of money it has pumpedinto Pristina—have helped to establish a regime that Germany’s own secret service regards as a centre for thetrafficking of drugs and women throughout Europe. As Jürgen Roth writes in Weltwoche, the Kosovan-Albanianclans are today “a leading criminal force, in particular in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.” ...Kosovo’s dirty secret: the background to Germany’s Secret Service affairCentre for Research on Globalizationby Peter Schwarz Global Research, December 1, 2008 The arrest of three German secret service agents in Kosovo exposes the sort of society that has been developed with German and American support in this former part of Yugoslavia—one mired in corruption, organised crime and secret service plots.The affair began on November 14, when a bomb exploded outside the office of the European Union special representative, Pieter Feith, in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. The building was damaged but no one was hurt. Immediately afterward in a neighbouring building, a German man, Andreas J., was observed and questioned by the Kosovan security forces, and unmasked as an agent of Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Secret Service). This is according to the public prosecutor’s office. German sources, however, claim that Andreas J. only came to the scene four hours after the explosion to take photographs.Normally, such secret service affairs between friendly governments are settled quietly and discreetly, usually by the departure of the unmasked agents. Not so in this case. Last week, the police arrested Andreas J. and two additional BND agents, accusing them of having planted the bomb at the EU’s International Civilian Office (ICO) building.The case has received enormous attention and has led to a diplomatic crisis between Berlin and Pristina. Pictures of those arrested were shown on Kosovan TV and on the front pages of the press, complete with rumours whose source was thought to be the office of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. It was claimed that the public prosecutor’s office possessed a video showing Andreas J. throwing the explosive device at the ICO building. However, various witnesses who claim to have seen the video say it is not possible to clearly identify anyone on the tape. Thaci, for his part, completely denies any involvement and says the whole affair is a matter for the allegedly independent Kosovan justice system.Speculation has since been rife about the background to the case, but it is doubtful whether it will ever be clarified. Kosovo is a jungle of rival secret services. In this regard, it resembles Berlin before the fall of the Wall. The US, Germany, Britain, Italy and France all have considerable intelligence operations in the country, which work both with and against one another. Moreover, in this country of just 2.1 million inhabitants, some 15,000 NATO soldiers and 1,500 UN police officers are stationed, as well as 400 judges, police officers and security officers belonging to the UN’s EULEX mission.In addition, the country has a government and state apparatus that are notoriously corrupt and are closely linked with organised crime. According to a report by the Berlin Institute for European Policy, produced last year on behalf of the German army, drugs, human trafficking and arms smuggling, theft, robbery and car crime are the only increasing and profitable sectors of the country’s economy. Conservative estimates put the annual monetary turnover of the mafia at approximately €550 million. This represents a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product, which is artificially inflated by enormous international transfers. Kosovo has become a “poly-criminal multifunctional region,” with Kosovo playing an important role, particularly as a transit country for Afghan heroin.The German government has denied any involvement by the three BND agents in the attack on the ICO building and called such accusations “absurd.” And it is indeed difficult to discern a motive for the BND to organise an attack on an institution in which the German government is involved.However, secret service expert Erich Schmidt Eenboom, a long-time observer of the BND, thinks differently. In an interview with Junge Welt he was convinced that the BND agents had committed the attack to increase pressure for a faster transition to full sovereignty in Kosovo. However, he was unable to provide any proof.On the other hand, the question arises why the Thaci government would court an open conflict with Germany, which after the US is the second largest financial backer of Kosovo and ranks among the most important advocates of its independence.Most German commentators describe this as an act of revenge—an interpretation that clearly originates in senior government circles. Over many years, Kosovan politicians, and in particular Prime Minister Thaci, have been angered by the BND’s criticisms linking high-ranking politicians with organised crime, contrary to the position taken by the CIA.One bone of contention was a 67-page BND analysis about organized crime in Kosovo, produced in February 2005, and reported by Frankfurt journalist Jürgen Roth the same year in Weltwoche. The report accuses Ramush Haradinaj (head of government from December 2004 to March 2005), Hashim Thaci (prime minister since January 2008) and Xhavit Haliti, who sits in the parliament presidium, of being deeply implicated in the drugs trade.According to the BND report, “Regarding the key players (e.g., Haliti, Thaci, Haradinaj), there exists the closest ties between politics, business and internationally operating OC [organized crime] structures in Kosovo. The criminal networks behind this are encouraging political instability. They have no interest in building a functioning state, which could impair their flourishing trade.”Thaci is one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and in 1999 led the Albanian delegation to the Rambouillet conference, which established the pretext for the NATO war against Yugoslavia. At this time, according to the BND report, Thaci controlled a criminal network “active throughout Kosovo.” In 2001, the report claims, “there were direct contacts with the Czech and Albanian mafia.” In October 2003, Thaci was “closely linked to extensive drugs and arms trafficking” with a clan that was also accused of money laundering and extortion.The BND report says of Haradinaj: “The structures around Ramush Haradinaj, based on family clans in the area of Decani, are engaged in the entire spectrum of criminal, political and military activities, which substantially influence security conditions throughout Kosovo. The group consists of approximately 100 members and is active in smuggling arms and drugs and in the illegal trade of goods liable to customs duty. In addition, it controls local government organs.”In December 2004, Haradinaj, who was considered a protégé of the US, became prime minister of Kosovo. However, he had to resign in March 2005 because the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted him for crimes against humanity. Among other things, he was accused of the forceful abduction of civilians, kidnapping, unlawful detention, torture, murder and rape. He was acquitted in April 2008 for lack of evidence, after nine out of ten prosecution witnesses died violently and the tenth withdrew his statement after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt.The Berlin Institute for European Policy report cited above also repeats the accusations against Thaci. Real power in Kosovo lays with 15 to 20 family clans who control “almost all substantial key social positions” and are “closely linked to prominent political decision makers,” the report states.Weltwoche summarises the results of the study, saying, “The current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is specifically incriminated.” It goes on, “‘Keyplayers’ like Thaci are responsible for ‘the close links between politics, business and internationally operating mafia structures.’ The political recognition accorded Thaci and other representatives of the Kosovo Liberation Army has given former terrorists a previously unsurpassed authority. Former criminals have won a reputation as politicians abroad, and enjoy parliamentary immunity at home, and the protection of international law abroad. This enables them to operate largely unchallenged in Kosovo and to put pressure on political opponents with the help of—officially forbidden—party secret service operations.”In the meantime, the influence of the mafia gangs extends to the staff of NATO’s KFOR peacekeeping force and UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). According to Weltwoche, UNMIK is also jointly responsible “for Kosovo becoming a ‘centre of the international trafficking of women,’ particularly young and under-age prostitutes. In some estimated 104 brothels, which are mostly situated on the outskirts of town by a gas station, the ‘international’ customers are among the best. High demand has made a ‘significant contribution to the growing local trafficking structures.’ In the past, several secret internment camps for women were established.”It is interesting that the report by the Berlin Institute for European Policy also refers to substantial tensions between German and American bodies. “The German report is particular critical of the role of the US, which had obstructed European investigations and which had been opened up to political extortion by the existence of secret CIA detention centres in the grounds of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo,” writes Weltwoche. “Doubts are growing about the American methods and also as a result of the ‘serious’ description of a high-ranking German UN police officer that the main task of UNMIK’s second in command, American Steve Schook, is ‘to get drunk with Ramush Haradinaj once a week’.”These tensions have obviously grown considerably, with several articles suggesting that the CIA could have played a role in the arrest of the three BND agents.There are also still further hypotheses as to why Pristina became involved in an open conflict with Berlin. One concerns the European Union’s EULEX mission, to be expanded by the end of the year from 400 to 1,900 legal and police officers to replace UNMIK and develop Kosovo’s legal structures.On the one hand, this disrupts the affairs of the criminal clans, which have largely been able to function undisturbed since the completely overworked judicial system faces a backlog of approximately 40,000 legal cases. On the other hand, in order for the European Union to obtain a UN mandate for EULEX, the EU has agreed with Belgrade that the authorities in Pristina will have no control over the police and courts in the Serbian inhabited Kosovo north. Pristina sees this as a first step towards the secession of these areas and therefore rejects the agreement.Another theory reasons that Pristina is really only interested in BND agent Robert Z., one of the three arrested, whom it claims was implicated in the murder of KLA commander Ekrem Rexha in 2000.Whatever the case, one thing the affair of the arrested BND agents has already made clear is that the German government’s first foreign combat mission in the postwar period—and the enormous sums of money it has pumped into Pristina—have helped to establish a regime that Germany’s own secret service regards as a centre for the trafficking of drugs and women throughout Europe. As Jürgen Roth writes in Weltwoche, the Kosovan-Albanian clans are today “a leading criminal force, in particular in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.”In turn, this organized criminality serves German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble as a pretext to curtail fundamental democratic rights and to demand new powers for the police and secret service.Germany’s Green Party bears a special responsibility for this development, justifying the return of German imperialism to the Balkans with clichés about human rights and self-determination. In reality, it is a case of economic interests and geopolitical power. The result is a completely ruined society, in which criminal and corrupt elements set the tone.
Comunicato stampa – Pisino, 17 novembre 2008
Sul media croati del 9 novembre c.a. e pubblicato un testo dal titolo: «Alemanno: La Croazia non può entrare nell'UE fino a quando non avrà riconosciuto lo scempio delle foibe». Ai sensi della Legge sull'informazione pubblica, vi preghiamo di pubblicare il seguente Comunicato dell'Associazione combattenti antifascisti e degli antifascisti della Regione Istriana, approvato alla seduta tenutasi il 17 novembre c.a. a Pisino:
Il sindaco di Roma, Gianni Alemanno, ex neofascista, attivista ed oggi partner di coalizione in quota Alleanza Nazionale, partito “post fascista”, ha dichiarato che la Croazia non potrà entrare nell’Unione Europea fino a quando non avrà ammesso che sul suo territorio è stato commesso il tragico massacro delle foibe.
L’assessore romano alla Pubblica istruzione, Laura Marsilio, ha aggiunto che Roma incoraggerà le scuole ad organizzare dei viaggi per i propri alunni a Trieste, a Pola e in Istria, dove essi avranno l’occasione di conoscere la “civiltà istriano – dalmata”.
È evidente che il sindaco di Roma e la sua Laura Marsilio non sanno o non vogliono sapere che le foibe furono un’idea fascista (brevetto fascista) e furono praticate innanzitutto dai fascisti vicino a Dignano (S. Fosca), cosa che abbiamo ribadito più volte. Ma a questo neofascista romano dobbiamo
ribadire che le foibe sono il prodotto di delitti pesanti e feroci commessi dai criminali fascisti ai danni dell’innocente popolazione dell’Istria, prima e in special modo dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. La guerra è di per sé una grossa tragedia per tutti quelli che la vivono, quando le persone si uccidono a vicenda. La storia ha dimostrato che non esistono guerre senza peccati, e che vi muoiono anche persone innocenti.
Tutti gli eserciti del mondo, in tutte le guerre, usano gli abissi, le foibe, volendo liberarsi quanto prima delle vittime cadute. Molti combattenti antifascisti finirono nelle foibe: soltanto in Istria, non sappiamo dove siano i resti di oltre duemila combattenti caduti e alcune migliaia di vittime del terrore fascista. Il sindaco Alemanno e la sua Laura non penseranno mica che i fascisti, i nazisti e gli altri sciagurati abbiano scavato le tombe ai combattenti caduti della Coalizione internazionale antifascista?
Tutta la loro natura criminale e l’odio nei confronti dei cosiddetti “sciavi” – espressione usata ingiuriosamente dal regime fascista rivolgendosi agli Slavi – si sono dimostrati nella loro totalità quando intere forze fasciste mussoliniane della Repubblica di Salò (di cui il signor Alemanno è erede), nella zona operativa adriatica, si sono messe a fianco della spaventosa e malfamata offensiva nazifascista di Romel “Wolkenbruh”. Allora agendo brutalmente in Istria, in soli otto giorni all’inizio dell’ottobre del 1943, i carnefici nazifascisti uccisero 2500 persone di cui la maggior parte innocenti, fra i quali molti bambini, donne e anziani; anzi, gettavano i bambini nel fuoco, cavavano loro gli occhi mentre erano ancora vivi, violentarono e massacrarono molte vittime, diedero fuoco a molti villaggi,
case e ville di campagna e condussero 6.877 cittadini nei campi della morte.
I signori Alemanno e Laura Marsilio non sanno queste cose, anche se le dovrebbero sapere, come pure la popolazione italiana, costantemente infettata dalla questione delle foibe e dalle menzogne.
Se non ci fossero stati questi e precedenti delitti, il genocidio ai danni della “razza inferiore slava”, come ci caratterizzava Mussolini, e le torture brutali dei fascisti in Istria, affermiamo fermamente che non ci sarebbero state neanche le foibe; di ciò in Italia si tace, e si evita cocciutamente di parlare alla popolazione italiana delle barbarie commesse da parte delle armate italiane d’occupazione.
Nelle foibe istriane finirono gli incalliti fascisti che commettevano il genocidio e che il popolo aveva condannato durante il conflitto. Ammettiamo che al tempo della guerra e nei giorni di anarchia siano state possibili anche delle vendette di singoli, per le quali però il movimento antifascista di liberazione popolare non può essere responsabile, perché i combattenti antifascisti non avevano nessun motivo di uccidere gli innocenti, e neanche lo facevano.
Disponiamo dei nominativi di 808 criminali italiani di guerra con i numeri dei loro dossier, proclamati come tali dalla Commissione internazionale delle Nazioni Unite e che non hanno mai risposto dei crimini commessi. Neanche le autorità italiane hanno chiesto scusa a questi nostri luoghi e alla popolazione che qui vive. Invitiamo i signori di Roma ad inchinarsi davanti alle nostre vittime e ad iniziare, col nostro popolo, un dialogo costruttivo di rispetto reciproco, tolleranza e convivenza, in un buon vicinato, perché il destino ci ha messo gli uni di fronte agli altri, anche nel futuro.
Cogliamo l’occasione per esprimere il nostro disappunto nei confronti del potere attuale nella Repubblica di Croazia, come pure dell’ambasciatore a Roma, Vidosevic, che non si esprime in merito a queste pesanti calunnie a carico della Croazia e di parte della sua popolazione.
Per la Presidenza dell’Associazione combattenti antifascisti della Regione Istriana, Tomislav Ravnic
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PRIOPĆENJE PREDSJEDNIŠTVA SAVEZA ANTIFAŠISTIČKIH BORACA I ANTIFAŠISTA ISTARSKE ŽUPANIJE
Fojbe su prvi »prakticirali« fašisti kod Vodnjana
Za predsjedništvo SABA-e Istarske županije, Tomislav Ravnic
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www.resistenze.org - popoli resistenti - croazia - 28-11-08 - n. 252
Di nuovo minacce dei postfascisti alla Croazia
dal quotidiano “Zadarski list”, Zara, 13 novembre 2008
Da: mariarasc @ libero.it
Data: 02/12/2008 10.55
Ogg: I: Con richiesta di pubblicazione
Trieste, 28.11.2008
Comunicato stampa - con richiesta di pubblicazione
Giovedì 27 novembre si è tenuta nei locali della Bibliotaca nazionale slovena e degli studi di Trieste una riunione di dipendenti degli enti primari sloveni in Italia al fine di discutere delle conseguenze dei tagli previsti nella legge finanziaria per i finanziamenti statali per gli enti primari degli sloveni in Italia (art. 16 della legge 23/2/2001 n° 38). La somma si ridurrà dai poco più di 5 milioni di euro stanziati nell'anno 2008 per l'attività di oltre 20 enti primari e di una miriade di enti ed associazioni minori, a poco più di 4 milioni di euro per l'anno 2009, per arrivare a poco più di 3 milioni nel 2011. Va sottolineato che tale riduzione avviene dopo 18 anni (a partire dal 1991) in cui, seppur in base a leggi diverse, l'ammontare nominale degli stanziamenti per le istituzioni della minoranza slovena è rimasto sostanzialmente uguale. I tagli prospettati significano non solo mettere a repentaglio un numero non idifferente di posti di lavoro, ma anche il pericolo reale della totale scomparsa di enti, istituzioni ed organizzazioni che sono partimonio non solo della comunità slovena, ma dell'intera comunità multiculturale della regione.
Di fronte al progetto di drastica riduzione di fondi di per se insufficenti i dipendenti degli enti in questione (Editoriale Stampa Triestina s.r.l. di Trieste, Societa’ cooperativa a.r.l. Most di Cividale del Friuli (UD), Societa’ cooperativa a.r.l. Mladika di Trieste, Societa’ cooperativa a.r.l. Novi Matajur di Cividale del Friuli (UD), Societa’ cooperativa a.r.l. Goriška Mohorjeva di Gorizia, Societa’ PR.A.E. - Promozione attivita’ editoriale s.r.l. di Trieste, Istituto sloveno di ricerche - Slovenski raziskovalni inštitut (SLORI) di Trieste, Teatro stabile sloveno - Slovensko stalno gledališče (SSG) di Trieste, Biblioteca nazionale slovena e degli studi - Narodna in študijska knjižnica (NŠK) - di Trieste, Centro musicale sloveno “Glasbena matica” di Trieste, Centro sloveno di educazione musicale - Slovenski center za glasbeno vzgojo “Emil Komel” di Gorizia, Unione dei circoli culturali sloveni - Zveza slovenskih kulturnih društev (ZSKD) di Gorizia, Centro culturale sloveno - Slovenska prosveta di Trieste, Unione culturale cattolica slovena - Zveza slovenske katoliške prosvete (ZSKP) di Gorizia, Unione delle associazioni sportive slovene in Italia - Združenje slovenskih športnih društev v Italiji (ZSŠDI) di Trieste, Associazione “Kulturni dom Gorica” di Gorizia, Associazione culturale “Kulturni center Lojze Bratuž” di Gorizia, Associazione Casa dello studente sloveno - Združenje slovenski dijaški dom “Srečko Kosovel” di Trieste, Associazione Casa dello studente sloveno - Združenje slovenski dijaški dom “Simon Gregorčič” di Gorizia, Associazione Združenje Kinoatelje di Gorizia, Unione economica e culturale slovena – Slovenska kulturno gospodarska zveza (SKGZ) e Confederazione delle organizzazioni slovene Svet slovenskih organizacij (SSO) partecipanti alla riunione hanno sottolineato la necessità di una azione unitaria e hanno deliberato, come primo passo, di avere quanto prima un'incontro con i vertici delle organizzazioni di riferimento degli sloveni in Italia (SKGZ e SSO), con i consiglieri regionali sloveni, con la senatrice Tamara Blažina e con il deputato Ettore Rosato al fine di fare il punto della situazione, delle iniziative in atto e di quelle possibili da mettere in pratica per impedire l'attuazione dei tagli. L’incontro si terrà lunedì 1 dicembre alle ore 20.00 presso il Prosvetni dom di Opicina.
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