George Tenet, attuale capo della CIA, e' di origine
albanese: sua madre "ha lasciato l'Albania meridionale alla fine della
Seconda guerra mondiale, a bordo di un sottomarino britannico,
per sfuggire al comunismo... Lei e' un vero eroe. E' con queste
esperienze di vita e di valori in mente
che io spero di guidare la nostra comunita' di intelligence..."
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 24/2/1999).
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LOTTA INTESTINA NELL'UCK:
FERITO IN UNO SCONTRO A FUOCO TRA FAZIONI TERRORISTICHE,
IL CAPOBANDA RAMUSH HARADINAJ PROTETTO DALLE TRUPPE USA VIENE
TRASFERITO IN UN OSPEDALE MILITARE AMERICANO
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> Zëri, Kosovo Albanian daily, on page five carried the story of Sadik
> Musaj, who claims to have thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers,
> who he said came with about 40 people to attack his family.
>
> MUSA FAMILY: WE WERE ATTACKED
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> Zëri on page five carried the story of Sadik Musaj, who claims to have
> thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers, who he said came with about
> 40 people to attack his family.
>
> "It was about 0100 hours, I was at that moment in the bathroom. One
> brother was awake, while the other part of the family was asleep. They
> came with 10-15 vehicles, there were 7-8 jeeps and other vehicles. One
> jeep had Tirana license plates; there was also a red Audi. There were
> about 40 people. They came from all directions through both gates and
> over the wall. Ramush Haradinaj was the first, accompanied by Daut,
> Lieutenant Idriz Balaj, Faton Mehmetaj, the self-proclaimed chief of
> security for Dukagjin area. A brother saw them from inside and told us
> to wake up because we are
> surrounded by the KPC. I was only half-dressed and I came out the door.
> Ramush directed the laser weapon at me and told me: 'Don't move or you
> and your family will be liquidated,' then Daut and the Lieutenant
> reacted and together with Faton Mehmetaj and Bekim Zekaj, they
> surrounded me."
>
> "I considered myself dead, but I knew that someone from my family was
> killed, because the automatic weapons hit the windows. At the moment I
> had revolvers and automatic weapons on my head. I took the grenade the
> Lieutenant held in his hand, and he was left with the ring. I quickly
> went backwards, Bekim Zeka (Daut's bodyguard) directed his weapon at me.
> I removed his hand quickly; the bullets hit the wall and I jumped
> quickly on the other side, I hided behind the car and threw the bomb. It
> was a matter of seconds. The bomb exploded near the chair and from its
> explosion Ramush, Daut and others were wounded, who are probably being
> treated privately. Then there was a lot of firing from automatic weapons
> and different arms, and another bomb exploded. All this lasted two
> hours. My brother jumped from the stairs and scuffled with one of them,
> took his automatic weapon. He had a revolver in his hand and after a
> scuffle he luckily escaped. Then they started to withdraw. Later they
> withdrew the wounded with much difficulty. During all this time, the
> firing never stopped from both sides. Then, I came to the street to stop
> somebody to inform KFOR and UNMIK. First came UNMIK and later KFOR. This
> lasted from 0100 to 0300 hours. When people from UNMIK came, they
> verified the event, saw the blood of the wounded and somewhere they
> found the official permit of Ramush. After the search, they verified the
> blood was theirs and that we were attacked in our yard," said Musaj.
>
> As for the reasons of this attack, Musaj explained: "My brother, Sinan
> Musaj, was a member of the Bukoshi Army. KLA members abducted him
> together with Rexhe Osaj, Bashkim Balaj, Rame Idrizi and Vesel Muriqi on
> 24 June of last year. Only Vesel managed to escape from Ratish. He made
> detailed statements to UNMIK and KFOR on who made the 'arrest'. After
> the event, we immediately informed the Italian Carabinieris, KFOR,
> UNMIK, and political parties. KFOR investigated, for example in Ratish.
> They checked a couple of wells, even experts of The Hague were there.
> After the 'arrest' of these soldiers, among them our brother, these
> families went to Ramush's father, including our father and uncles, but
> Ramush's father said he was not
> interested, and that 'if you have any business, you should address my
> sons'. He said that nobody asked him for these things. We were at
> Ramush's family two days before the event, and he didn't want to speak
> about this case. Our elders told Ramush's father that our sons were
> fighting against the Serbs and it is not important whose soldiers they
> were. Our brother, Ismet Musaj, was in Dubrava prison, where he was
> wounded during the Serb massacre when 160 people were killed, and then
> he was in Pozarevac prison, from where he returned a month and a half
> ago. We were all in Switzerland and contributed with money and other
> things. During the war our father and one brother were here. At this
> time, when we could hardly wait to be liberated, Ramush Haradinaj comes
> and attacks us at one in the morning, in the presence of ten women and
> children".
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> Transcript of an article published in yesterday's Bota Sot, taken from
> the Albanian magazine Tema, which claims to uncover secret documents of
> the KLA Secret Service. The paper also provides facsimiles of some
> documents
>
> BOTA SOT - Kosovo Albanian Daily
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> KLA SECRET SERVICE PERSECUTED ALBANIAN POLITICIANS
>
> The so-called secret service of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seems
> to have persecuted a list of politicians and renowned names from Albania
> and Kosovo, who were regarded as an impediment to its takeover of the
> armed movement in Kosovo. A series of documents discovered a few months
> ago in the house of one of the heads of the former secret service of the
> KLA, provide evidences of execution lists and a scheme of persecution of
> Albanian opposition politicians in Tirana and people close to Rugova in
> Pristina.
>
> The list contains names of 15 principle authorities of the opposition in
> Albania, politicians, journalists and people with influence in the
> Democratic League of Kosovo, headed by Ibrahim Rugova.
>
> The coded list is compiled according to precise rules of a secret
> service. First, the list is compiled in one copy and the following
> subject has a code which corresponds to pseudonyms of the monitors who
> are coded with the name "eagle". On the other side, the coded names of
> subsequent persons have a corresponding pseudonym in Albanian with a
> word determined by the KLA Secret Service.
>
> List no. 7, for example, is a list joining the pseudonym of a person to
> combinations of people who follow him. List no. 8, has only the code of
> the followed person, which is explained in the list no. 7. On the other
> side, different persons kept both lists and it as very difficult for
> different persons to know everything about the list.
>
> In the list coded as "List no. 7", the pseudonyms of the persons of the
> subjects are given. For example, Ibrahim Rugova "the scarf", Sali
> Berisha "Zani", Azem Hajdari "the democrat" etc. This list was given to
> people who were following them, but not the complete one (?) The
> complete facsimile was signed by Bislim Zyrapi, chief of KLA Secret
> Service.
>
> At least three persons from that list were executed, while another was
> heavily wounded. The reasons might not be directly linked to this
> activity, but at least in two cases, in the murder of Enver Maloku and
> journalist Ali Ukaj, it seems that this mysterious illegal organization
> is involved. Documents which came to our office from sources close to
> persons who on behalf of KFOR confiscated a house of a senior KLA
> official in Pristina, make believable the assumptions that this
> organization was getting even with its political opponents in Kosovo,
> where Enver Maloku and Sabri Hamiti were the main ones. In addition, the
> murder case of Ali Ukaj, one of the first KLA activists who didn't
> accept the KLA to be taken under the control of the Albanian Secret
> Services (SHIK) in Tirana, is also clear. Consequences of this policy
> were very grave. The Albanian resistance was weakened and the risk of an
> eventual civil conflict as present. The armed people, on behalf of the
> KLA, used military might against their political opponents, by
> preventing in a way, a perfect military organization in Kosovo and a
> serious, dignified preparation for war.
>
>
> -----------------------
> ANNEX:
> -----------------------
>
> June 25, 1999
> NEWS YORK TIMES
>
> Kosovo's Rebels Accused of Executions in the Ranks
>
> By CHRIS HEDGES
>
>
> he senior commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who have a signed
> agreement with NATO to disarm, carried out assassinations, arrests and
> purges within their ranks to thwart potential rivals, say current and
> former commanders in the rebel army and some Western diplomats.
>
> The campaign, in which as many as half a dozen top rebel commanders were
> shot dead, was directed by Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants, Azem
> Syla and Xhavit Haliti, these officials said. Thaci denied through a
> spokesman that he had been responsible for any killings.
>
> Although the United States has long been wary of the KLA, the rebel
> group has become the main ethnic Albanian power in Kosovo. Rebel
> commanders supplied NATO with target information during the bombing
> campaign. Now, after the war, the United States and other NATO powers
> have effectively made Thaci and the KLA partners in rebuilding Kosovo.
> The agreement NATO signed with Thaci, for example, envisions turning the
> KLA into a civilian police force and leaves open the possibility that
> the KLA could become a provisional army modeled on the U.S. National
> Guard.
>
> While none of the KLA officials interviewed saw Thaci or his aides
> execute anyone, they recounted, and in some cases said they had
> witnessed, incidents in which Thaci's rivals had been killed shortly
> after he or one of his aides had threatened them with death.
>
> "When the war started, everyone wanted to be the chief," said Rifat
> Haxhijaj, 30, a former lieutenant in the Yugoslav army who left the
> rebel movement last September and now lives in Switzerland. "For the
> leadership, this was never just a war against Serbs -- it was also a
> struggle for power."
>
> Thaci's representative in Switzerland, Jashae Salihu, denied accounts of
> assassinations. "These kind of reports are untrue," he said. "Neither
> Thaci nor anyone else from the KLA is involved in this kind of activity.
> Our goal has been to establish a free Kosovo and nothing more."
>
> The accusations of assassinations and purges were made in interviews
> with about a dozen former and current Kosovo Liberation Army officials,
> two of whom said they had witnessed executions of Thaci's rivals; a
> former senior diplomat for the Albanian government; a former police
> official in the Albanian government who worked with the rebel group, and
> several Western diplomats.
>
> But the State Department Wednesday challenged some aspects of these
> accounts. "We simply don't have information to substantiate allegations
> that there was a KLA-leadership-directed program of assassinations or
> executions," James Rubin, the State Department spokesman, said.
>
> Rubin said he could not exclude the possibility that the rebel leaders
> were somehow tied to the killings. But he said department officials had
> checked a wide range of sources in the past 24 hours and could not
> confirm the accusations.
>
> A senior State Department official and a Western diplomat in the
> Balkans, citing intelligence reports and extensive contacts with KLA
> officials inside and outside Kosovo, said they were aware of executions
> of middle-grade officers suspected of collaborating with the Serbs, but
> said they had no evidence to link those killings with Thaci.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said, however, that Thaci is
> legendary in the region for ruthless tactics.
>
> "Thaci has engaged in some pretty rough intimidation" of officials in a
> rival party, the diplomat said, "but none of them have been killed." He
> added: "There have been detentions, and the victims allege beatings. We
> cannot prove that. Thaci, according to them, was in charge of the team
> that detained them and was in charge of the interrogation and personally
> threatened them.
>
> "Thaci has a reputation for being pretty tough," the diplomat continued.
> "Haliti and Syla are not known for their sweet tempers. This is a rough
> neighborhood, and intimidation and assassinations happen."
>
> Former and current KLA officials also charge that a campaign of
> assassinations was carried out in close cooperation with the Albanian
> government, which often placed agents from the Albanian secret police at
> the disposal of the rebel commanders.
>
> Rubin said the State Department did not have any information to suggest
> that the KLA leadership directed an execution program in conjunction
> with the Albanian security services.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said he knew of at least two
> Albanian secret police officers who were fighting with the KLA. "The two
> officers are brigade or battalion commanders, and they've been in the
> field fighting," the diplomat said. "They're volunteers from Albania."
>
> Albania has long waged a campaign to unite with Kosovo, a Serbian
> province where Albanians are in the majority. Such unification was
> briefly achieved during Fascist occupation in World War II and was held
> out as a goal by radical groups financed and backed by Tirana in the
> later part of the century.
>
> Indeed, the close relationship between Thaci and the Tirana government,
> which has a reputation for corruption and has been linked by Western
> diplomats to drug trafficking, is one of the factors that disillusioned
> many former fighters who were interviewed in Germany, Switzerland and
> Albania. The fighters said they had fought to create a more Western,
> democratic state, free from Albanian influence and control.
>
> The Albanian minister of information, Musa Ulqini, said that there was
> "never any violation of our constitutional law." He added: "The Albanian
> government has relations with all of the political and military forces
> in Kosovo, but it insists that these forces unite and speak with one
> voice."
>
> Two former rebel leaders and a former Albanian police official,
> interviewed in Tirana, said that Haliti, who is officially Thaci's
> ambassador to Albania, was working in Kosovo with 10 secret police
> agents from Albania to form an internal security network that would be
> used to silence dissenters in Kosovo.
>
> Thaci, 30, has named a government, with himself as prime minister, and
> denounced Ibrahim Rugova, who for nearly a decade was the self-styled
> president of Kosovo and ran a successful campaign of nonviolent protest
> after the Serbs stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989.
>
> Thaci has long ties to radical groups that called for the violent
> overthrow of the government in Belgrade. He joined a clandestine
> organization known as the Kosovo Popular Movement that existed on the
> fringes of Pristina University.
>
> The group was financed and backed by the Stalinist dictator of Albania,
> Enver Hoxha, until his death in 1985. Its members, including Syla, whom
> Thaci appointed his defense minister, and Haliti have become the core of
> the leadership that dominates the Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> Violence has long swirled around Thaci, whose nom de guerre was Snake.
>
> In June 1997, in an incident that many in the underground guerrilla
> movement found ominous, a Kosovar Albanian reporter who had close links
> with the movement was found dead in his apartment in Tirana, his face
> disfigured by repeated stabbings with a screwdriver and the butt end of
> a broken bottle.
>
> The reporter, Ali Uka, was supportive of the rebel movement, but he was
> also independent enough to criticize it. At the time of his death, he
> was sharing his apartment with Thaci.
>
> Thaci inspired fear and respect in his home base of the central Drenica
> region in Kosovo as he organized armed units and carried out ambushes
> against Serbian policemen. In the early days of the rebel uprising, in
> March 1998, Thaci moved about from his hometown of Broja in a small
> compact car with a few bodyguards and wore an unadorned camouflage
> uniform.
>
> There were persistent reports at the time that he personally carried out
> executions of Kosovar Albanians whom he had branded as traitors or
> collaborators, but no witnesses have surfaced.
>
> Thaci was involved, along with Haliti, in arms smuggling from
> Switzerland in the years before the 1998 uprising, say current and
> former senior rebel commanders.
>
> Thaci and Haliti both have wives and children in Switzerland, although
> Haliti has formed a new family in Tirana, where he has a large villa and
> close links with senior government leaders, say former and current rebel
> officials in Albania.
>
> When the uprising began, and money and volunteers flooded into Albania
> from the 700,000 Kosovar Albanians living in Europe, Thaci and Haliti
> found themselves in charge of thousands of fighters and tens of millions
> of dollars.
>
> The arms smuggling mushroomed into a huge operation that saw trucks
> loaded with weapons, most bought from Albanian officials, headed for KLA
> camps on the border. By the war's end, former and current KLA officials
> estimate, the KLA. paid $50 million to Albanian officials for weapons
> and ammunition.
>
> In April 1998, a KLA commander who transported many of the weapons, Ilir
> Konushevci, was ambushed and killed on the road outside Tropoja in
> northern Albania. A few days earlier, in a heated meeting with senior
> commanders, he had accused Haliti of misusing funds, according to
> commanders who were present.
>
> The commander had charged that Haliti was buying boxes of grenades at $2
> apiece and charging the movement $7 for each grenade. The killing,
> although it took place in a rebel-controlled region in northern Albania,
> was blamed on the Serbs.
>
> Other killings of rebel commanders and political rivals ascribed to
> Thaci are attributed to a struggle to consolidate control and eliminate
> potential challengers.
>
> "Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thaci's career," said Bujar
> Bukoshi, the prime minister in exile in Rugova's administration, which
> is often at odds with the KLA. One Western diplomat, citing intelligence
> reports, said that Thaci planned an unsuccessful assassination attempt
> on Bukoshi last May. "Thaci has a single goal and that is to promote
> himself, to be No. 1," Bukoshi said.
>
> As the rebels suffered reverses on the battlefield in the summer and
> fall of 1998, in large part due to inexperience and a lack of central
> command, they turned to Kosovar Albanians who had served in the former
> Yugoslav army.
>
> The most experienced was a former colonel named Ahmet Krasniqi who had
> organized some 600 former officers, most living in Switzerland and
> Germany, to join the fight. Krasniqi had surrendered his garrison in
> Gospic, Croatia, in 1991 rather than defend Slobodan Milosevic's regime
> in Belgrade.
>
> Krasniqi had the blessing of Bukoshi, who allowed him to pass on $4.5
> million to the KLA raised by Rugova's administration. He swiftly set up
> training camps in the border region and formed special units. Bukoshi
> named him commander of a rival military structure known as the Armed
> Forces of the Kosovo Republic. The effort to join the armed struggle was
> a belated attempt by the Rugova administration, which had swiftly lost
> political support in Kosovo, to regain credibility by playing a role in
> the "liberation" of the Serbian province.
>
> Thaci and Haliti accepted the money and the trained volunteers,
> integrating them into KLA units, but began to thwart Krasniqi's attempt
> to build an independent military force. In June 1998 the KLA, which
> controlled the border, began to divert or block arms being taken over
> the mountain to these rival units fighting around Pec and Decane. As
> tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate
> Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian
> officials interviewed in Tirana.
>
> They said that in the middle of September 1998, Albanian police stopped
> Krasniqi and several aides and confiscated their weapons. Krasniqi's
> office in Tirana was raided by about 50 policemen and emptied of guns
> and munitions. On Sept. 21 at 11 p.m. on the way back from a restaurant
> in Tirana, Krasniqi ran into a police checkpoint about 300 yards from
> his office, according to a former KLA commander who was with Krasniqi.
> Krasniqi and his two companions were again frisked for weapons, and
> their vehicle was searched. The two cars behind Krasniqi, which carried
> aides, were not allowed through the checkpoint.
>
> When Krasniqi and his two companions got out of their gray Opal jeep
> they saw three men emerge from the shadows with black hoods over their
> faces. The men, speaking in an Albanian accent that distinguished them
> from Kosovar Albanians, ordered the two men with Krasniqi down on the
> ground.
>
> "Which one is it?" asked one of the gunmen, according to one of the
> commanders who was prone on the asphalt.
>
> "The one in the middle," said another. The gunmen, who held a pistol a
> few inches from Krasniqi's head, fired a shot. He then fired two more
> shots into Krasniqi's head once he fell onto the pavement.
>
> American officials also had reports that the KLA killed Krasniqi, but
> said there were also subsequent, conflicting reports from the region
> that he was killed by disaffected members of his own unit.
>
> After Krasniqi's death, former KLA commanders said, the killings, purges
> and arrests accelerated. KLA police, dressed in distinctive black
> fatigues, threw into detention anyone who appeared hostile to Thaci.
> Many of these people were beaten.
>
> One commander, Blerim Kuci, was taken away in October 1998 to a KLA jail
> and hauled before a revolutionary court. He was held for weeks on
> charges that he was a Serb collaborator and then suddenly released in
> the face of a large Serb offensive and allowed to rejoin the fight.
>
> "I saw an accused collaborator tried before a revolutionary court and
> then tied to the back of a car in Glodjane and dragged through the
> streets until he died," said a former KLA officer in Albania, who asked
> not to be identified. A senior State Department official and a Western
> diplomat in the Balkans confirmed this account.
>
> As NATO bombs fell on Kosovo this April, two more outspoken commanders,
> Agim Ramadani, a captain in the former Yugoslav army, and Sali Ceku,
> were killed, each in an alleged Serb ambush.
>
> Although a former senior rebel officer in Tirana said that Thaci was
> responsible, a Western diplomat contends that that Ceku was killed by a
> Serb sniper. He said that his contacts indicated that Ramadani was
> killed in battle, but those contacts did not mention an ambush, or
> politically related killing, in either case.
>
> The former KLA officer said, however, that rebel officials had told Ceku
> that he and his lieutenant Tahir Zemaj should leave the movement, but
> the stubborn Ceku had refused to depart. Zemaj, however, fled to
> Germany. "Tahir knew they were serious, and he got out," said the
> officer said. "Sali stayed, and he was killed."
>
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INTRAETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS
PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) Ramush Haradinaj, who has been
wounded
and transfered to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, is the third most
important figure in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the
socalled Kosovo Liberation Army, after Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku, and
he
is the leader of the thirdbiggest party of Kosovo Albanians.
Representatives of the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK in Pristina
and
the international force KFOR on Monday again failed to give any details
about this latest incident, in which Haradinaj was wounded, but the
facts
are gradually being revealed to the Pristina public.
The general conclusion here is that Haradinaj was wounded in a
conflict among Kosovo Albanians with a definite political and criminal
background.
Regarding political reasons, experts on the situation in
Pristina
and elsewhere in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province claim it is a
wellknown fact that there is rivalry between Thaci and Haradinaj. Both
men
are trying to impose themselves as leaders of Kosovo Albanians. It was
just
a matter of time when their dislike of each other would culminate.
The sources said the criminal background was the rivalry
between
certain bands of Kosovo Albanians not only concerning a division of the
spoils from smuggling drugs, weaponry, automobiles and many other
things,
but also concerning control over smuggling routes into and through this
province.
Intraethnic Albanian conflicts are something new in Kosovo and
Metohija, in addition to ethnic Albanian terrorist actions against the
KFOR.
It is evident that the announced elections are a good
opportunity
for ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists to legalize even further
their criminal activities in the province. And in all the chaos,
everyone
is trying to get something for themselves.
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UCK-Gangster als Volksheld und großer Politiker
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Dienstag eröffeneten UCK-Terroristen im amerikanischen Sektor des
Kosovo mit automatischen Waffen aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto das Feuer
auf einen orthodoxen serbischen Priester und zwei Seminaristen, die ihn
begleiteten. Alle drei wurden später schwer verletzt am Straßenrand
gefunden. Pflichtgemäß zeigte sich der umstrittene UNMIK-Chef und
Serbophobe Bernard Kouchner von dem Mordanschlag "auf den religiösen
Mann" geschockt wobei er jedoch sofort wieder Worte fand um die Aktion
der UCK "moralisch" zu relativieren: Es sei nicht hinnehmbar, daß "diese
Art von Rachemord ein Ersatz für die Gerechtigkeit ist". ("Serb priest
wounded in Kosovo drive-by shooting", PRISTINA, Yugoslavia Reuters Jul
12 2000 1:56PM ET)
Für Kuchner scheint es jedoch nicht mehr erwähnenswert, wenn - wie am
Montag geschehen - einer der letzten, im albanischen Teil Mitrovicas
verbliebenen Serben vor seinem Haus halb tot geschlagen aufgefunden
wurde. Vier Albaner waren bei im eingedrungen, hatten ihn nach draußen
geschleift und als abschreckendes Beispiel für alle anderen Serben
schwer verletzt liegen gelassen. Mit Schädelbasisbruch wurde er
schließlich ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. ("Serb Severely Beaten in
Albanian Area of Divided Kosovo Town", BELGRADE, Jul 12, 2000 - Agence
France Presse. Wen wundert es da, wenn sich die serbische Minderheit im
Norden der geteilten Stadt vehement gegen die von den Albanern verlangte
"Freizügigkeit in der ganzen Stadt" zur Wehr setzt.
Inzwischen gibt der Mord von Sadri Xhekaj, einem bekannten
UCK-Terrorist, Anlaß zu neuen Spekulationen über einen Bandenkampf
innerhalb der UCK. Der Bericht der UNO-Polizei im Kosovo vom Mittwoch
dieser Woche liest sich wie folgt: "Ein albanischer Mann wurde von einem
anderen, der Polizei bekannten albanischen Mann mit einem AK-47
Sturmgewehr ermordet, als er auf der Terrasse eines Restaurants saß. Der
Verdächtige näherte sich dem Opfer und stellte ihm eine Frage. Dann
feuerte er drei Schüsse auf das Opfer ab. Niemand sonst wurde verletzt."
Sadri Xhekaj, der mit dem ehemaligen stellvertretenden Kommandeur des
Kosovo-Schutz-Korps und Bandenchef Ramush Haradinaj eng befreundet war,
war sofort tot.
Der Zwischenfall geschah um die Mittagszeit in Decani, im Südwesten des
Kosovo. In der als Schmuggel- und Banditenzentrum bekannten Region ist
anscheinend ein offener Krieg zwischen unterschiedlichen UCK-Klans um
die kriminelle Vorherrschaft und ihre Pfründe ausgebrochen. Ramush
Haradinaj, der im Mai die Partei "Allianz für die Zukunft des Kosovo"
gegründet hatte, liegt zur Zeit im US-Army-Krankenhaus im bayerischen
Landshut, wohin ihn seine fürsorglichen amerikanischen Freunden zu einer
schwierigen Operation ausgeflogen hatten. Letztes Wochenende war er bei
einem Versuch, mit Hilfe seiner Bande ein Mitglied eines rivalisierenden
Klans zu kidnappen, bei einer Schießerei verwundet worden war. Der
Überfall auf das Haus von Sadik Musaj, Anführer des befeindeten
Familienklans, fand letzten Freitag in Streoc statt, etwa fünf Kilometer
nördlich von Decani, wo am Dienstag Haradinajs Freund auf der
Restaurantterrasse erschossen wurde.
Bezeichnend für den respektvollen Umgang der NATO und UNMIK mit den
UCK-Gangstern und Terroristen sind die Berichte westliche
Nachrichtenagenturen, die den Gangsterboß Ramush Haradinaj als
"Volksheld" beschreiben. AFP behauptet sogar, daß "westliche Beobachter
ihm (Haradinaj) eine große Zukunft in der Kosovo-Politik vorausgesagt"
hätten. ("Ally of injured political leader shot dead in Kosovo",
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Thursday, July 13 2:20 AM SGT , original Source,
AFP, 12 2000, AFP) Die Tatsache, daß Haradinaj im Mai in mehrere
Auseinandersetzungen und Kämpfe mit russischen Kosovo-Truppen verwickelt
war, in deren Folge es zu einer Reihe von Gewehrfeuer-, Granaten- und
Raketenangriffen auf russische Basen kam, scheint dabei nicht zu zählen.
("Kosovo Leader Flown to Germany As Plot Thickens", by Andrew Gray,
STREOC, Yugoslavia, Reuters, Sunday July 9 10:31 AM ET
Der Fall ist für die NATO besonders brisant, weil er für die
bevorstehenden lokalen Wahlen das Gespenst bewaffneter
Auseinandersetzungen zwischen verschiedenen ethnisch-albanischen Gruppen
heraufbeschwört. Allerdings ist es unwahrscheinlich, daß die K-FOR
Ramush Haradinaj wegen des bewaffneten Überfalls und des
Kidnappingversuchs von Sadik Musaj verhaften wird. Die Gefahr, dadurch
womöglich einen lokalen Aufstand der UCK gegen die NATO zu provozieren,
ist zu groß.
Saarbrücken den 13.7.00
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SULLA PROTEZIONE OFFERTA DALL'ESERCITO USA AL TERRORISTA HARADINAJ:
http://www.hq.c5.army.mil/News/archives99/sep99/bondsteel.htm
Subject: [stopnato] [TW] The 67th Combat Support Hospital to
have new page soon!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:54:59 -0400
From: "ES LaPorte - Abolish NATO! Webmaster"
Dear friends :
I am pleased to announce that the 67th Combat Support Hospital and its
star patient, Ramush
Haradinaj, will soon have a new home page.
The 67th Combat Support Hospital, as of now, does not have it's own web
page and neither does
Ramush Haradinaj.
But that will change. . .
In the next week you can watch their homepage - which will have its own
guestbook soon, go up
at the URL below.
I feel that as an American, it is important that the public see just how
their tax money is being
spent funding the Kosovo mission and helping poor unfortunates like
Kosovo Albanian "leader"
Ramush Haradinaj .
There are millions of Americans without access to basic heath care, but
the 67th Combat Support
Hospital's efforts at helping poor unfortunate Mr. Haradinaj, should
show the American people
that there are some more important things, like helping Kosovo mobsters
recover from the results
of their criminal behaviors.
http://www.abolishnato.com/medical.care.for.KLA.mobsters.htm
Watch this page go up and KFOR, NATO, the United States Army and mostly
the 67th Combat
Support Hospital, will be proud!!!
Perhaps Americans and "our NATO allies" would want to donate more for
this cause!
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http://www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
http://www.abolishnato.com/PAIN,and.OUTRAGE.htm
http://nettoilet/users.com/bondsteelmed/
http://nettoilet.com/users/bondsteelmed/poor.mobster.htm
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Article from the Bondsteel Med site - spoof of real article from Army
News Service!
Have a good laugh!
Combat Support Hospital accomplishes mission of cleaning up KLA members
after feuds, not
guilty about it.
by Cpl. Chris DeHart
CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Army News Service, Aug. 30, 1999) -- While the
67th Combat
Support Hospital here relies on medical evacuation units to transport
anyone in a state of medical
emergency, they are a means to an end, with the end being decided on the
trauma tables of the
CSH emergency room. This is what make the mission of NATO's KFOR proud.
Americans,
although some have no access to basic health, can feel proud that their
US government and
military is expending money and manpower providing scott-free health to
KLA mobsters like
Ramush Haradinaj, under the KFOR mission.
"Our main goal is saving lives, especially those of good natured, KLA
mobsters, like Ramush
Haradinaj. We try to get the patient stable enough, in the case of
international patients, to have
the host nation facilities take care of them until they are well again.
The majority of patients we've
seen have been Kosovar, as they have more favor than even our own
American citizens back
home, under orders of Secretary General Lord Robertson," said Maj.
Jimmie Keenan, chief nurse,
after a not-so-typical busy morning. The workload that morning included
four trauma patients,
two being closed head injuries, as well as sick call patients. Even the
sick call patients must wait
until the staff is through attending to Kosovar Albanians patients.
Keenan explained that although they can handle a lot of different
trauma, such as chest or
abdomen, head injuries are beyond their current ability and are referred
to either Pristina or Skopje.
Recently, the Camp Bondsteel facility saved and gave free aid to Ramush
Haradinaj, a KLA
mobster who's criminal activity got him quite beat up.
"We average one to two trauma patients a day. We are approaching our
50th trauma patient since
the hospital opened July 14. A lot of this is due to Kosovo simply not
having the level of care for
dealing with trauma patients in this sector. Also, the civilian
hospitals in Gnjilane, Urosevac, and
in some other areas (of Kosovo) have trouble getting the supplies
necessary to handle the number
of patients requiring treatment," Keenan said. "We know that there are
many Americans without
access to basic health care, but we here at KFOR, as well as our
Secretary General Lord
Robertson and the 67th Support Combat Hospital feel that the Kosovar
Albanians come first, so
they do."
"So what," she went on to state. " I would rather be here than in
America. If some Americans
cannot get care and suffer in pain, Ramush Haradinaj is a nice talkative
fellow and is more
deserving of free health care than most Americans. After all, HE is
liberating his country, and it is
NATO, KFOR's and the 67th's mission to aid them if - well - they get
hurt. So - the best doctors
nedd - no must - be part of the KFOR mission, not wasted in Germany or
America."
The team can't rest after the emergency room is clear of patients,
according to Keenan. Whether
they get sent to the operating room or transferred to another facility,
the trauma teams must
immediately prepare for whoever may come through the door next. There is
triage, but preference
is given to Kosovo "Liberation Army" members over civilian Ablanians,
and over Serbs. "The KLA
members are even given preference over our own American citizens,"
Keenan said, with a smile.
"Although we haven't had to work on many of our own soldiers, you never
know if the next patient
coming in will be one of ours, and we have to be ready," she said.
According to Keenan, there are four trauma bays within the ER fully
equipped and staffed with
trauma teams. Each team consists of a physician, a registered nurse, a
licensed practical nurse, a
medic and either a nurse anesthetist or a respiratory therapy
technician. All for the benefit of our
KLA allies, espically cleaning up after the blood feuds. This is NATO
ans KFOR's policy."
Medic Spc. Jacob Rusk said this is drastically different from what he
did in the rear -- an
instructor for setting up deployable hospitals.
"I went from setting up hospitals to helping run a trauma table for the
our KLA mobster allies. It is
a very drastic change but good experience," Rusk said. "I used to be
just a front-line medic, but
now I hold my own with the doctors, nurses and technicians and mobsters.
I have seen more and
done more than any other (medic) has, for being in a non-combat
situation. I really did like serving
Mr. Haradinaj, he was so nice and talkative." As far as America's - and
NATO's -concern with
putting Kosovar Albanians, giving them free treatment while some
American suffer without
access to any health care, Spc. Rusk replied with a grim, "So what,
screw 'em, the Kosovar
Albanians come first, that is NATO's policy and it is a good one."
(Editor's note: DeHart is a propagandist with the Task Force Falcon
Public Affairs Office.)
Bondsteel Med.
The one, only and official homepage of the
Camp Bondsteel Medical Facility!
www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
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Dear friends :
I have just gotten off the phone with the Senate Relations Committee
in International Relations.
When I asked why US military personal were being used to treat KLA
narcoterrorists
for their injuries, when there are a lot of medical charities that could
take care of these scumb -bags, I was "blown off!"
This was even after I pointed out that I had served in the US military -
and that I - an American citizen - have NO access
to the same medical care!
The Committee headed by Jessie Helms.
450 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel. (1) 202 - 224-4651
Fax. (1) 202 - 228-1339
And if anybody has can dig up the e-mails on Mr. Helms.
ES LaPorte
"Abolish NATO!" Webmaster
www.abolishnato.com
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Mr. Ramush Haradinaj injured during Incident
in Pec Region
Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA narcoterrorist, was injured during
an blood feuding brawl in Pec region last night. Details of
the incident are still sketchy at this time, But what is know is
that this criminal is recieving FREE medical care from the
smokin' - jokin' - tokin' bunch of cigar-loving Harvard grads at
the 67th CSH.
Mr. Haradinaj requested medical assistance earlier in the day.
The man was intoxicated and fell and hurt his poor head. A
KFOR Italian helicopter was dispatched to bring Haradinaj to
Camp Bondsteel.
He arrived around 2:30 p.m. and is currently receiving a medical
evaluation at the Combat Support hospital, this despite
the fact that American citizens have NO access to the same level
of care as this narcoterrorist! As of 4 p.m. KFOR US
Medical officials reported that Haradinaj is being treated for a
two-inch (2") laceration that is not considered life
threatening.
These same KFOR US medical doctors, if here in the US, in a US
hospital, would refuse to give the same to their own
citizens. Narcopimps DOES pay.
KFOR Online Editorial Note: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj is a former
narcoterrorist of the Kosovo "Liberation Army" (KLA) of
the Rrafshi i Dukagjinit area, and the current leader of the
"AAK" - a political party in Kosovo., another gang of outlaw
blood feuding scumb. Also Mr. Ramush Haradinaj has been warned,
through a supporter living in England, to stay on the
Eastern side of the stupid Atlantic, as he would be safer in
Kosovo than in America!
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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albanese: sua madre "ha lasciato l'Albania meridionale alla fine della
Seconda guerra mondiale, a bordo di un sottomarino britannico,
per sfuggire al comunismo... Lei e' un vero eroe. E' con queste
esperienze di vita e di valori in mente
che io spero di guidare la nostra comunita' di intelligence..."
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 24/2/1999).
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LOTTA INTESTINA NELL'UCK:
FERITO IN UNO SCONTRO A FUOCO TRA FAZIONI TERRORISTICHE,
IL CAPOBANDA RAMUSH HARADINAJ PROTETTO DALLE TRUPPE USA VIENE
TRASFERITO IN UN OSPEDALE MILITARE AMERICANO
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> Zëri, Kosovo Albanian daily, on page five carried the story of Sadik
> Musaj, who claims to have thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers,
> who he said came with about 40 people to attack his family.
>
> MUSA FAMILY: WE WERE ATTACKED
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> Zëri on page five carried the story of Sadik Musaj, who claims to have
> thrown a grenade at the Haradinaj brothers, who he said came with about
> 40 people to attack his family.
>
> "It was about 0100 hours, I was at that moment in the bathroom. One
> brother was awake, while the other part of the family was asleep. They
> came with 10-15 vehicles, there were 7-8 jeeps and other vehicles. One
> jeep had Tirana license plates; there was also a red Audi. There were
> about 40 people. They came from all directions through both gates and
> over the wall. Ramush Haradinaj was the first, accompanied by Daut,
> Lieutenant Idriz Balaj, Faton Mehmetaj, the self-proclaimed chief of
> security for Dukagjin area. A brother saw them from inside and told us
> to wake up because we are
> surrounded by the KPC. I was only half-dressed and I came out the door.
> Ramush directed the laser weapon at me and told me: 'Don't move or you
> and your family will be liquidated,' then Daut and the Lieutenant
> reacted and together with Faton Mehmetaj and Bekim Zekaj, they
> surrounded me."
>
> "I considered myself dead, but I knew that someone from my family was
> killed, because the automatic weapons hit the windows. At the moment I
> had revolvers and automatic weapons on my head. I took the grenade the
> Lieutenant held in his hand, and he was left with the ring. I quickly
> went backwards, Bekim Zeka (Daut's bodyguard) directed his weapon at me.
> I removed his hand quickly; the bullets hit the wall and I jumped
> quickly on the other side, I hided behind the car and threw the bomb. It
> was a matter of seconds. The bomb exploded near the chair and from its
> explosion Ramush, Daut and others were wounded, who are probably being
> treated privately. Then there was a lot of firing from automatic weapons
> and different arms, and another bomb exploded. All this lasted two
> hours. My brother jumped from the stairs and scuffled with one of them,
> took his automatic weapon. He had a revolver in his hand and after a
> scuffle he luckily escaped. Then they started to withdraw. Later they
> withdrew the wounded with much difficulty. During all this time, the
> firing never stopped from both sides. Then, I came to the street to stop
> somebody to inform KFOR and UNMIK. First came UNMIK and later KFOR. This
> lasted from 0100 to 0300 hours. When people from UNMIK came, they
> verified the event, saw the blood of the wounded and somewhere they
> found the official permit of Ramush. After the search, they verified the
> blood was theirs and that we were attacked in our yard," said Musaj.
>
> As for the reasons of this attack, Musaj explained: "My brother, Sinan
> Musaj, was a member of the Bukoshi Army. KLA members abducted him
> together with Rexhe Osaj, Bashkim Balaj, Rame Idrizi and Vesel Muriqi on
> 24 June of last year. Only Vesel managed to escape from Ratish. He made
> detailed statements to UNMIK and KFOR on who made the 'arrest'. After
> the event, we immediately informed the Italian Carabinieris, KFOR,
> UNMIK, and political parties. KFOR investigated, for example in Ratish.
> They checked a couple of wells, even experts of The Hague were there.
> After the 'arrest' of these soldiers, among them our brother, these
> families went to Ramush's father, including our father and uncles, but
> Ramush's father said he was not
> interested, and that 'if you have any business, you should address my
> sons'. He said that nobody asked him for these things. We were at
> Ramush's family two days before the event, and he didn't want to speak
> about this case. Our elders told Ramush's father that our sons were
> fighting against the Serbs and it is not important whose soldiers they
> were. Our brother, Ismet Musaj, was in Dubrava prison, where he was
> wounded during the Serb massacre when 160 people were killed, and then
> he was in Pozarevac prison, from where he returned a month and a half
> ago. We were all in Switzerland and contributed with money and other
> things. During the war our father and one brother were here. At this
> time, when we could hardly wait to be liberated, Ramush Haradinaj comes
> and attacks us at one in the morning, in the presence of ten women and
> children".
---
> Transcript of an article published in yesterday's Bota Sot, taken from
> the Albanian magazine Tema, which claims to uncover secret documents of
> the KLA Secret Service. The paper also provides facsimiles of some
> documents
>
> BOTA SOT - Kosovo Albanian Daily
>
> July 11, 2000
>
> KLA SECRET SERVICE PERSECUTED ALBANIAN POLITICIANS
>
> The so-called secret service of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seems
> to have persecuted a list of politicians and renowned names from Albania
> and Kosovo, who were regarded as an impediment to its takeover of the
> armed movement in Kosovo. A series of documents discovered a few months
> ago in the house of one of the heads of the former secret service of the
> KLA, provide evidences of execution lists and a scheme of persecution of
> Albanian opposition politicians in Tirana and people close to Rugova in
> Pristina.
>
> The list contains names of 15 principle authorities of the opposition in
> Albania, politicians, journalists and people with influence in the
> Democratic League of Kosovo, headed by Ibrahim Rugova.
>
> The coded list is compiled according to precise rules of a secret
> service. First, the list is compiled in one copy and the following
> subject has a code which corresponds to pseudonyms of the monitors who
> are coded with the name "eagle". On the other side, the coded names of
> subsequent persons have a corresponding pseudonym in Albanian with a
> word determined by the KLA Secret Service.
>
> List no. 7, for example, is a list joining the pseudonym of a person to
> combinations of people who follow him. List no. 8, has only the code of
> the followed person, which is explained in the list no. 7. On the other
> side, different persons kept both lists and it as very difficult for
> different persons to know everything about the list.
>
> In the list coded as "List no. 7", the pseudonyms of the persons of the
> subjects are given. For example, Ibrahim Rugova "the scarf", Sali
> Berisha "Zani", Azem Hajdari "the democrat" etc. This list was given to
> people who were following them, but not the complete one (?) The
> complete facsimile was signed by Bislim Zyrapi, chief of KLA Secret
> Service.
>
> At least three persons from that list were executed, while another was
> heavily wounded. The reasons might not be directly linked to this
> activity, but at least in two cases, in the murder of Enver Maloku and
> journalist Ali Ukaj, it seems that this mysterious illegal organization
> is involved. Documents which came to our office from sources close to
> persons who on behalf of KFOR confiscated a house of a senior KLA
> official in Pristina, make believable the assumptions that this
> organization was getting even with its political opponents in Kosovo,
> where Enver Maloku and Sabri Hamiti were the main ones. In addition, the
> murder case of Ali Ukaj, one of the first KLA activists who didn't
> accept the KLA to be taken under the control of the Albanian Secret
> Services (SHIK) in Tirana, is also clear. Consequences of this policy
> were very grave. The Albanian resistance was weakened and the risk of an
> eventual civil conflict as present. The armed people, on behalf of the
> KLA, used military might against their political opponents, by
> preventing in a way, a perfect military organization in Kosovo and a
> serious, dignified preparation for war.
>
>
> -----------------------
> ANNEX:
> -----------------------
>
> June 25, 1999
> NEWS YORK TIMES
>
> Kosovo's Rebels Accused of Executions in the Ranks
>
> By CHRIS HEDGES
>
>
> he senior commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who have a signed
> agreement with NATO to disarm, carried out assassinations, arrests and
> purges within their ranks to thwart potential rivals, say current and
> former commanders in the rebel army and some Western diplomats.
>
> The campaign, in which as many as half a dozen top rebel commanders were
> shot dead, was directed by Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants, Azem
> Syla and Xhavit Haliti, these officials said. Thaci denied through a
> spokesman that he had been responsible for any killings.
>
> Although the United States has long been wary of the KLA, the rebel
> group has become the main ethnic Albanian power in Kosovo. Rebel
> commanders supplied NATO with target information during the bombing
> campaign. Now, after the war, the United States and other NATO powers
> have effectively made Thaci and the KLA partners in rebuilding Kosovo.
> The agreement NATO signed with Thaci, for example, envisions turning the
> KLA into a civilian police force and leaves open the possibility that
> the KLA could become a provisional army modeled on the U.S. National
> Guard.
>
> While none of the KLA officials interviewed saw Thaci or his aides
> execute anyone, they recounted, and in some cases said they had
> witnessed, incidents in which Thaci's rivals had been killed shortly
> after he or one of his aides had threatened them with death.
>
> "When the war started, everyone wanted to be the chief," said Rifat
> Haxhijaj, 30, a former lieutenant in the Yugoslav army who left the
> rebel movement last September and now lives in Switzerland. "For the
> leadership, this was never just a war against Serbs -- it was also a
> struggle for power."
>
> Thaci's representative in Switzerland, Jashae Salihu, denied accounts of
> assassinations. "These kind of reports are untrue," he said. "Neither
> Thaci nor anyone else from the KLA is involved in this kind of activity.
> Our goal has been to establish a free Kosovo and nothing more."
>
> The accusations of assassinations and purges were made in interviews
> with about a dozen former and current Kosovo Liberation Army officials,
> two of whom said they had witnessed executions of Thaci's rivals; a
> former senior diplomat for the Albanian government; a former police
> official in the Albanian government who worked with the rebel group, and
> several Western diplomats.
>
> But the State Department Wednesday challenged some aspects of these
> accounts. "We simply don't have information to substantiate allegations
> that there was a KLA-leadership-directed program of assassinations or
> executions," James Rubin, the State Department spokesman, said.
>
> Rubin said he could not exclude the possibility that the rebel leaders
> were somehow tied to the killings. But he said department officials had
> checked a wide range of sources in the past 24 hours and could not
> confirm the accusations.
>
> A senior State Department official and a Western diplomat in the
> Balkans, citing intelligence reports and extensive contacts with KLA
> officials inside and outside Kosovo, said they were aware of executions
> of middle-grade officers suspected of collaborating with the Serbs, but
> said they had no evidence to link those killings with Thaci.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said, however, that Thaci is
> legendary in the region for ruthless tactics.
>
> "Thaci has engaged in some pretty rough intimidation" of officials in a
> rival party, the diplomat said, "but none of them have been killed." He
> added: "There have been detentions, and the victims allege beatings. We
> cannot prove that. Thaci, according to them, was in charge of the team
> that detained them and was in charge of the interrogation and personally
> threatened them.
>
> "Thaci has a reputation for being pretty tough," the diplomat continued.
> "Haliti and Syla are not known for their sweet tempers. This is a rough
> neighborhood, and intimidation and assassinations happen."
>
> Former and current KLA officials also charge that a campaign of
> assassinations was carried out in close cooperation with the Albanian
> government, which often placed agents from the Albanian secret police at
> the disposal of the rebel commanders.
>
> Rubin said the State Department did not have any information to suggest
> that the KLA leadership directed an execution program in conjunction
> with the Albanian security services.
>
> The Western diplomat in the Balkans said he knew of at least two
> Albanian secret police officers who were fighting with the KLA. "The two
> officers are brigade or battalion commanders, and they've been in the
> field fighting," the diplomat said. "They're volunteers from Albania."
>
> Albania has long waged a campaign to unite with Kosovo, a Serbian
> province where Albanians are in the majority. Such unification was
> briefly achieved during Fascist occupation in World War II and was held
> out as a goal by radical groups financed and backed by Tirana in the
> later part of the century.
>
> Indeed, the close relationship between Thaci and the Tirana government,
> which has a reputation for corruption and has been linked by Western
> diplomats to drug trafficking, is one of the factors that disillusioned
> many former fighters who were interviewed in Germany, Switzerland and
> Albania. The fighters said they had fought to create a more Western,
> democratic state, free from Albanian influence and control.
>
> The Albanian minister of information, Musa Ulqini, said that there was
> "never any violation of our constitutional law." He added: "The Albanian
> government has relations with all of the political and military forces
> in Kosovo, but it insists that these forces unite and speak with one
> voice."
>
> Two former rebel leaders and a former Albanian police official,
> interviewed in Tirana, said that Haliti, who is officially Thaci's
> ambassador to Albania, was working in Kosovo with 10 secret police
> agents from Albania to form an internal security network that would be
> used to silence dissenters in Kosovo.
>
> Thaci, 30, has named a government, with himself as prime minister, and
> denounced Ibrahim Rugova, who for nearly a decade was the self-styled
> president of Kosovo and ran a successful campaign of nonviolent protest
> after the Serbs stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989.
>
> Thaci has long ties to radical groups that called for the violent
> overthrow of the government in Belgrade. He joined a clandestine
> organization known as the Kosovo Popular Movement that existed on the
> fringes of Pristina University.
>
> The group was financed and backed by the Stalinist dictator of Albania,
> Enver Hoxha, until his death in 1985. Its members, including Syla, whom
> Thaci appointed his defense minister, and Haliti have become the core of
> the leadership that dominates the Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> Violence has long swirled around Thaci, whose nom de guerre was Snake.
>
> In June 1997, in an incident that many in the underground guerrilla
> movement found ominous, a Kosovar Albanian reporter who had close links
> with the movement was found dead in his apartment in Tirana, his face
> disfigured by repeated stabbings with a screwdriver and the butt end of
> a broken bottle.
>
> The reporter, Ali Uka, was supportive of the rebel movement, but he was
> also independent enough to criticize it. At the time of his death, he
> was sharing his apartment with Thaci.
>
> Thaci inspired fear and respect in his home base of the central Drenica
> region in Kosovo as he organized armed units and carried out ambushes
> against Serbian policemen. In the early days of the rebel uprising, in
> March 1998, Thaci moved about from his hometown of Broja in a small
> compact car with a few bodyguards and wore an unadorned camouflage
> uniform.
>
> There were persistent reports at the time that he personally carried out
> executions of Kosovar Albanians whom he had branded as traitors or
> collaborators, but no witnesses have surfaced.
>
> Thaci was involved, along with Haliti, in arms smuggling from
> Switzerland in the years before the 1998 uprising, say current and
> former senior rebel commanders.
>
> Thaci and Haliti both have wives and children in Switzerland, although
> Haliti has formed a new family in Tirana, where he has a large villa and
> close links with senior government leaders, say former and current rebel
> officials in Albania.
>
> When the uprising began, and money and volunteers flooded into Albania
> from the 700,000 Kosovar Albanians living in Europe, Thaci and Haliti
> found themselves in charge of thousands of fighters and tens of millions
> of dollars.
>
> The arms smuggling mushroomed into a huge operation that saw trucks
> loaded with weapons, most bought from Albanian officials, headed for KLA
> camps on the border. By the war's end, former and current KLA officials
> estimate, the KLA. paid $50 million to Albanian officials for weapons
> and ammunition.
>
> In April 1998, a KLA commander who transported many of the weapons, Ilir
> Konushevci, was ambushed and killed on the road outside Tropoja in
> northern Albania. A few days earlier, in a heated meeting with senior
> commanders, he had accused Haliti of misusing funds, according to
> commanders who were present.
>
> The commander had charged that Haliti was buying boxes of grenades at $2
> apiece and charging the movement $7 for each grenade. The killing,
> although it took place in a rebel-controlled region in northern Albania,
> was blamed on the Serbs.
>
> Other killings of rebel commanders and political rivals ascribed to
> Thaci are attributed to a struggle to consolidate control and eliminate
> potential challengers.
>
> "Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thaci's career," said Bujar
> Bukoshi, the prime minister in exile in Rugova's administration, which
> is often at odds with the KLA. One Western diplomat, citing intelligence
> reports, said that Thaci planned an unsuccessful assassination attempt
> on Bukoshi last May. "Thaci has a single goal and that is to promote
> himself, to be No. 1," Bukoshi said.
>
> As the rebels suffered reverses on the battlefield in the summer and
> fall of 1998, in large part due to inexperience and a lack of central
> command, they turned to Kosovar Albanians who had served in the former
> Yugoslav army.
>
> The most experienced was a former colonel named Ahmet Krasniqi who had
> organized some 600 former officers, most living in Switzerland and
> Germany, to join the fight. Krasniqi had surrendered his garrison in
> Gospic, Croatia, in 1991 rather than defend Slobodan Milosevic's regime
> in Belgrade.
>
> Krasniqi had the blessing of Bukoshi, who allowed him to pass on $4.5
> million to the KLA raised by Rugova's administration. He swiftly set up
> training camps in the border region and formed special units. Bukoshi
> named him commander of a rival military structure known as the Armed
> Forces of the Kosovo Republic. The effort to join the armed struggle was
> a belated attempt by the Rugova administration, which had swiftly lost
> political support in Kosovo, to regain credibility by playing a role in
> the "liberation" of the Serbian province.
>
> Thaci and Haliti accepted the money and the trained volunteers,
> integrating them into KLA units, but began to thwart Krasniqi's attempt
> to build an independent military force. In June 1998 the KLA, which
> controlled the border, began to divert or block arms being taken over
> the mountain to these rival units fighting around Pec and Decane. As
> tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate
> Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian
> officials interviewed in Tirana.
>
> They said that in the middle of September 1998, Albanian police stopped
> Krasniqi and several aides and confiscated their weapons. Krasniqi's
> office in Tirana was raided by about 50 policemen and emptied of guns
> and munitions. On Sept. 21 at 11 p.m. on the way back from a restaurant
> in Tirana, Krasniqi ran into a police checkpoint about 300 yards from
> his office, according to a former KLA commander who was with Krasniqi.
> Krasniqi and his two companions were again frisked for weapons, and
> their vehicle was searched. The two cars behind Krasniqi, which carried
> aides, were not allowed through the checkpoint.
>
> When Krasniqi and his two companions got out of their gray Opal jeep
> they saw three men emerge from the shadows with black hoods over their
> faces. The men, speaking in an Albanian accent that distinguished them
> from Kosovar Albanians, ordered the two men with Krasniqi down on the
> ground.
>
> "Which one is it?" asked one of the gunmen, according to one of the
> commanders who was prone on the asphalt.
>
> "The one in the middle," said another. The gunmen, who held a pistol a
> few inches from Krasniqi's head, fired a shot. He then fired two more
> shots into Krasniqi's head once he fell onto the pavement.
>
> American officials also had reports that the KLA killed Krasniqi, but
> said there were also subsequent, conflicting reports from the region
> that he was killed by disaffected members of his own unit.
>
> After Krasniqi's death, former KLA commanders said, the killings, purges
> and arrests accelerated. KLA police, dressed in distinctive black
> fatigues, threw into detention anyone who appeared hostile to Thaci.
> Many of these people were beaten.
>
> One commander, Blerim Kuci, was taken away in October 1998 to a KLA jail
> and hauled before a revolutionary court. He was held for weeks on
> charges that he was a Serb collaborator and then suddenly released in
> the face of a large Serb offensive and allowed to rejoin the fight.
>
> "I saw an accused collaborator tried before a revolutionary court and
> then tied to the back of a car in Glodjane and dragged through the
> streets until he died," said a former KLA officer in Albania, who asked
> not to be identified. A senior State Department official and a Western
> diplomat in the Balkans confirmed this account.
>
> As NATO bombs fell on Kosovo this April, two more outspoken commanders,
> Agim Ramadani, a captain in the former Yugoslav army, and Sali Ceku,
> were killed, each in an alleged Serb ambush.
>
> Although a former senior rebel officer in Tirana said that Thaci was
> responsible, a Western diplomat contends that that Ceku was killed by a
> Serb sniper. He said that his contacts indicated that Ramadani was
> killed in battle, but those contacts did not mention an ambush, or
> politically related killing, in either case.
>
> The former KLA officer said, however, that rebel officials had told Ceku
> that he and his lieutenant Tahir Zemaj should leave the movement, but
> the stubborn Ceku had refused to depart. Zemaj, however, fled to
> Germany. "Tahir knew they were serious, and he got out," said the
> officer said. "Sali stayed, and he was killed."
>
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INTRAETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS
PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) Ramush Haradinaj, who has been
wounded
and transfered to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, is the third most
important figure in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the
socalled Kosovo Liberation Army, after Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku, and
he
is the leader of the thirdbiggest party of Kosovo Albanians.
Representatives of the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK in Pristina
and
the international force KFOR on Monday again failed to give any details
about this latest incident, in which Haradinaj was wounded, but the
facts
are gradually being revealed to the Pristina public.
The general conclusion here is that Haradinaj was wounded in a
conflict among Kosovo Albanians with a definite political and criminal
background.
Regarding political reasons, experts on the situation in
Pristina
and elsewhere in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province claim it is a
wellknown fact that there is rivalry between Thaci and Haradinaj. Both
men
are trying to impose themselves as leaders of Kosovo Albanians. It was
just
a matter of time when their dislike of each other would culminate.
The sources said the criminal background was the rivalry
between
certain bands of Kosovo Albanians not only concerning a division of the
spoils from smuggling drugs, weaponry, automobiles and many other
things,
but also concerning control over smuggling routes into and through this
province.
Intraethnic Albanian conflicts are something new in Kosovo and
Metohija, in addition to ethnic Albanian terrorist actions against the
KFOR.
It is evident that the announced elections are a good
opportunity
for ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists to legalize even further
their criminal activities in the province. And in all the chaos,
everyone
is trying to get something for themselves.
---
UCK-Gangster als Volksheld und großer Politiker
(von Rainer Rupp)
Am Dienstag eröffeneten UCK-Terroristen im amerikanischen Sektor des
Kosovo mit automatischen Waffen aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto das Feuer
auf einen orthodoxen serbischen Priester und zwei Seminaristen, die ihn
begleiteten. Alle drei wurden später schwer verletzt am Straßenrand
gefunden. Pflichtgemäß zeigte sich der umstrittene UNMIK-Chef und
Serbophobe Bernard Kouchner von dem Mordanschlag "auf den religiösen
Mann" geschockt wobei er jedoch sofort wieder Worte fand um die Aktion
der UCK "moralisch" zu relativieren: Es sei nicht hinnehmbar, daß "diese
Art von Rachemord ein Ersatz für die Gerechtigkeit ist". ("Serb priest
wounded in Kosovo drive-by shooting", PRISTINA, Yugoslavia Reuters Jul
12 2000 1:56PM ET)
Für Kuchner scheint es jedoch nicht mehr erwähnenswert, wenn - wie am
Montag geschehen - einer der letzten, im albanischen Teil Mitrovicas
verbliebenen Serben vor seinem Haus halb tot geschlagen aufgefunden
wurde. Vier Albaner waren bei im eingedrungen, hatten ihn nach draußen
geschleift und als abschreckendes Beispiel für alle anderen Serben
schwer verletzt liegen gelassen. Mit Schädelbasisbruch wurde er
schließlich ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. ("Serb Severely Beaten in
Albanian Area of Divided Kosovo Town", BELGRADE, Jul 12, 2000 - Agence
France Presse. Wen wundert es da, wenn sich die serbische Minderheit im
Norden der geteilten Stadt vehement gegen die von den Albanern verlangte
"Freizügigkeit in der ganzen Stadt" zur Wehr setzt.
Inzwischen gibt der Mord von Sadri Xhekaj, einem bekannten
UCK-Terrorist, Anlaß zu neuen Spekulationen über einen Bandenkampf
innerhalb der UCK. Der Bericht der UNO-Polizei im Kosovo vom Mittwoch
dieser Woche liest sich wie folgt: "Ein albanischer Mann wurde von einem
anderen, der Polizei bekannten albanischen Mann mit einem AK-47
Sturmgewehr ermordet, als er auf der Terrasse eines Restaurants saß. Der
Verdächtige näherte sich dem Opfer und stellte ihm eine Frage. Dann
feuerte er drei Schüsse auf das Opfer ab. Niemand sonst wurde verletzt."
Sadri Xhekaj, der mit dem ehemaligen stellvertretenden Kommandeur des
Kosovo-Schutz-Korps und Bandenchef Ramush Haradinaj eng befreundet war,
war sofort tot.
Der Zwischenfall geschah um die Mittagszeit in Decani, im Südwesten des
Kosovo. In der als Schmuggel- und Banditenzentrum bekannten Region ist
anscheinend ein offener Krieg zwischen unterschiedlichen UCK-Klans um
die kriminelle Vorherrschaft und ihre Pfründe ausgebrochen. Ramush
Haradinaj, der im Mai die Partei "Allianz für die Zukunft des Kosovo"
gegründet hatte, liegt zur Zeit im US-Army-Krankenhaus im bayerischen
Landshut, wohin ihn seine fürsorglichen amerikanischen Freunden zu einer
schwierigen Operation ausgeflogen hatten. Letztes Wochenende war er bei
einem Versuch, mit Hilfe seiner Bande ein Mitglied eines rivalisierenden
Klans zu kidnappen, bei einer Schießerei verwundet worden war. Der
Überfall auf das Haus von Sadik Musaj, Anführer des befeindeten
Familienklans, fand letzten Freitag in Streoc statt, etwa fünf Kilometer
nördlich von Decani, wo am Dienstag Haradinajs Freund auf der
Restaurantterrasse erschossen wurde.
Bezeichnend für den respektvollen Umgang der NATO und UNMIK mit den
UCK-Gangstern und Terroristen sind die Berichte westliche
Nachrichtenagenturen, die den Gangsterboß Ramush Haradinaj als
"Volksheld" beschreiben. AFP behauptet sogar, daß "westliche Beobachter
ihm (Haradinaj) eine große Zukunft in der Kosovo-Politik vorausgesagt"
hätten. ("Ally of injured political leader shot dead in Kosovo",
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Thursday, July 13 2:20 AM SGT , original Source,
AFP, 12 2000, AFP) Die Tatsache, daß Haradinaj im Mai in mehrere
Auseinandersetzungen und Kämpfe mit russischen Kosovo-Truppen verwickelt
war, in deren Folge es zu einer Reihe von Gewehrfeuer-, Granaten- und
Raketenangriffen auf russische Basen kam, scheint dabei nicht zu zählen.
("Kosovo Leader Flown to Germany As Plot Thickens", by Andrew Gray,
STREOC, Yugoslavia, Reuters, Sunday July 9 10:31 AM ET
Der Fall ist für die NATO besonders brisant, weil er für die
bevorstehenden lokalen Wahlen das Gespenst bewaffneter
Auseinandersetzungen zwischen verschiedenen ethnisch-albanischen Gruppen
heraufbeschwört. Allerdings ist es unwahrscheinlich, daß die K-FOR
Ramush Haradinaj wegen des bewaffneten Überfalls und des
Kidnappingversuchs von Sadik Musaj verhaften wird. Die Gefahr, dadurch
womöglich einen lokalen Aufstand der UCK gegen die NATO zu provozieren,
ist zu groß.
Saarbrücken den 13.7.00
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SULLA PROTEZIONE OFFERTA DALL'ESERCITO USA AL TERRORISTA HARADINAJ:
http://www.hq.c5.army.mil/News/archives99/sep99/bondsteel.htm
Subject: [stopnato] [TW] The 67th Combat Support Hospital to
have new page soon!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:54:59 -0400
From: "ES LaPorte - Abolish NATO! Webmaster"
Dear friends :
I am pleased to announce that the 67th Combat Support Hospital and its
star patient, Ramush
Haradinaj, will soon have a new home page.
The 67th Combat Support Hospital, as of now, does not have it's own web
page and neither does
Ramush Haradinaj.
But that will change. . .
In the next week you can watch their homepage - which will have its own
guestbook soon, go up
at the URL below.
I feel that as an American, it is important that the public see just how
their tax money is being
spent funding the Kosovo mission and helping poor unfortunates like
Kosovo Albanian "leader"
Ramush Haradinaj .
There are millions of Americans without access to basic heath care, but
the 67th Combat Support
Hospital's efforts at helping poor unfortunate Mr. Haradinaj, should
show the American people
that there are some more important things, like helping Kosovo mobsters
recover from the results
of their criminal behaviors.
http://www.abolishnato.com/medical.care.for.KLA.mobsters.htm
Watch this page go up and KFOR, NATO, the United States Army and mostly
the 67th Combat
Support Hospital, will be proud!!!
Perhaps Americans and "our NATO allies" would want to donate more for
this cause!
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http://www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
http://www.abolishnato.com/PAIN,and.OUTRAGE.htm
http://nettoilet/users.com/bondsteelmed/
http://nettoilet.com/users/bondsteelmed/poor.mobster.htm
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Article from the Bondsteel Med site - spoof of real article from Army
News Service!
Have a good laugh!
Combat Support Hospital accomplishes mission of cleaning up KLA members
after feuds, not
guilty about it.
by Cpl. Chris DeHart
CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Army News Service, Aug. 30, 1999) -- While the
67th Combat
Support Hospital here relies on medical evacuation units to transport
anyone in a state of medical
emergency, they are a means to an end, with the end being decided on the
trauma tables of the
CSH emergency room. This is what make the mission of NATO's KFOR proud.
Americans,
although some have no access to basic health, can feel proud that their
US government and
military is expending money and manpower providing scott-free health to
KLA mobsters like
Ramush Haradinaj, under the KFOR mission.
"Our main goal is saving lives, especially those of good natured, KLA
mobsters, like Ramush
Haradinaj. We try to get the patient stable enough, in the case of
international patients, to have
the host nation facilities take care of them until they are well again.
The majority of patients we've
seen have been Kosovar, as they have more favor than even our own
American citizens back
home, under orders of Secretary General Lord Robertson," said Maj.
Jimmie Keenan, chief nurse,
after a not-so-typical busy morning. The workload that morning included
four trauma patients,
two being closed head injuries, as well as sick call patients. Even the
sick call patients must wait
until the staff is through attending to Kosovar Albanians patients.
Keenan explained that although they can handle a lot of different
trauma, such as chest or
abdomen, head injuries are beyond their current ability and are referred
to either Pristina or Skopje.
Recently, the Camp Bondsteel facility saved and gave free aid to Ramush
Haradinaj, a KLA
mobster who's criminal activity got him quite beat up.
"We average one to two trauma patients a day. We are approaching our
50th trauma patient since
the hospital opened July 14. A lot of this is due to Kosovo simply not
having the level of care for
dealing with trauma patients in this sector. Also, the civilian
hospitals in Gnjilane, Urosevac, and
in some other areas (of Kosovo) have trouble getting the supplies
necessary to handle the number
of patients requiring treatment," Keenan said. "We know that there are
many Americans without
access to basic health care, but we here at KFOR, as well as our
Secretary General Lord
Robertson and the 67th Support Combat Hospital feel that the Kosovar
Albanians come first, so
they do."
"So what," she went on to state. " I would rather be here than in
America. If some Americans
cannot get care and suffer in pain, Ramush Haradinaj is a nice talkative
fellow and is more
deserving of free health care than most Americans. After all, HE is
liberating his country, and it is
NATO, KFOR's and the 67th's mission to aid them if - well - they get
hurt. So - the best doctors
nedd - no must - be part of the KFOR mission, not wasted in Germany or
America."
The team can't rest after the emergency room is clear of patients,
according to Keenan. Whether
they get sent to the operating room or transferred to another facility,
the trauma teams must
immediately prepare for whoever may come through the door next. There is
triage, but preference
is given to Kosovo "Liberation Army" members over civilian Ablanians,
and over Serbs. "The KLA
members are even given preference over our own American citizens,"
Keenan said, with a smile.
"Although we haven't had to work on many of our own soldiers, you never
know if the next patient
coming in will be one of ours, and we have to be ready," she said.
According to Keenan, there are four trauma bays within the ER fully
equipped and staffed with
trauma teams. Each team consists of a physician, a registered nurse, a
licensed practical nurse, a
medic and either a nurse anesthetist or a respiratory therapy
technician. All for the benefit of our
KLA allies, espically cleaning up after the blood feuds. This is NATO
ans KFOR's policy."
Medic Spc. Jacob Rusk said this is drastically different from what he
did in the rear -- an
instructor for setting up deployable hospitals.
"I went from setting up hospitals to helping run a trauma table for the
our KLA mobster allies. It is
a very drastic change but good experience," Rusk said. "I used to be
just a front-line medic, but
now I hold my own with the doctors, nurses and technicians and mobsters.
I have seen more and
done more than any other (medic) has, for being in a non-combat
situation. I really did like serving
Mr. Haradinaj, he was so nice and talkative." As far as America's - and
NATO's -concern with
putting Kosovar Albanians, giving them free treatment while some
American suffer without
access to any health care, Spc. Rusk replied with a grim, "So what,
screw 'em, the Kosovar
Albanians come first, that is NATO's policy and it is a good one."
(Editor's note: DeHart is a propagandist with the Task Force Falcon
Public Affairs Office.)
Bondsteel Med.
The one, only and official homepage of the
Camp Bondsteel Medical Facility!
www.abolishnato.com/KLA.mobsters.care.htm
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Dear friends :
I have just gotten off the phone with the Senate Relations Committee
in International Relations.
When I asked why US military personal were being used to treat KLA
narcoterrorists
for their injuries, when there are a lot of medical charities that could
take care of these scumb -bags, I was "blown off!"
This was even after I pointed out that I had served in the US military -
and that I - an American citizen - have NO access
to the same medical care!
The Committee headed by Jessie Helms.
450 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel. (1) 202 - 224-4651
Fax. (1) 202 - 228-1339
And if anybody has can dig up the e-mails on Mr. Helms.
ES LaPorte
"Abolish NATO!" Webmaster
www.abolishnato.com
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Mr. Ramush Haradinaj injured during Incident
in Pec Region
Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA narcoterrorist, was injured during
an blood feuding brawl in Pec region last night. Details of
the incident are still sketchy at this time, But what is know is
that this criminal is recieving FREE medical care from the
smokin' - jokin' - tokin' bunch of cigar-loving Harvard grads at
the 67th CSH.
Mr. Haradinaj requested medical assistance earlier in the day.
The man was intoxicated and fell and hurt his poor head. A
KFOR Italian helicopter was dispatched to bring Haradinaj to
Camp Bondsteel.
He arrived around 2:30 p.m. and is currently receiving a medical
evaluation at the Combat Support hospital, this despite
the fact that American citizens have NO access to the same level
of care as this narcoterrorist! As of 4 p.m. KFOR US
Medical officials reported that Haradinaj is being treated for a
two-inch (2") laceration that is not considered life
threatening.
These same KFOR US medical doctors, if here in the US, in a US
hospital, would refuse to give the same to their own
citizens. Narcopimps DOES pay.
KFOR Online Editorial Note: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj is a former
narcoterrorist of the Kosovo "Liberation Army" (KLA) of
the Rrafshi i Dukagjinit area, and the current leader of the
"AAK" - a political party in Kosovo., another gang of outlaw
blood feuding scumb. Also Mr. Ramush Haradinaj has been warned,
through a supporter living in England, to stay on the
Eastern side of the stupid Atlantic, as he would be safer in
Kosovo than in America!
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