* JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION" (antiwar.com)
* I REPUBBLICANI ALBANESI SALUTANO MCCAIN (Albanian Daily News, FEB. 2000),
MCCAIN SALUTA LA NOMINA DI DEMACI A "LEADER POLITICO" DELL'UCK (AUG. 1998)
* Ritratti: MR AND MRS DIOGUARDI, CHE BELLA COPPIA! (stopnato@...)
* Flashback: LA LOBBY PAN-ALBANESE NEL CONGRESSO USA (B. Works)
* Per il testo dell'articolo "LA CIA HA SOSTENUTO L'ESERCITO
GUERRIGLIERO DEL KOSOVO", da noi gia' distribuito ieri, si veda pure:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/12/stifgneur02002.html
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JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION"
(sullo stesso argomento vedasi anche: TiM GW Bulletin 2000/3-1:
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html )
Antiwar.com
"Behind the headlines" - by Justin Raimondo
February 25, 2000
McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION
George W. Bush has been taken out to the woodshed by
the liberal for appearing on the stage at Bob Jones
University in this day and age, to even appear on a
platform provided by a politically incorrect group
or institution is enough to condemn a candidate to
perdition. And the McCain campaign was quick to
capitalize on it. But why isn't McCain subjected to the
same scrutiny? Please direct your attention to the
photo below [http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/mccain.jpg%5d:
the caption informs us that McCain is speaking at "a
pro-Kosovo, pro-McCain rally across the street from his
New York City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000.
McCain is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night." But who is the man on the right,
with the colorful KLA scarf and his big mouth wide open?
The caption-writer is mute on this point, but to anyone
who knows anything about New York's ethnic politics,
the face is all-too-familiar: it is none other than
former Republican Congressman Joe DioGuardi, now the
loquacious leader of the Albanian-American Civic League
(AACL) a group that not only actively represents the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in America, but whose
leader has become a spokesman for the most radical
fringe elements of the KLA.
"Republican presidential candidate Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to a pro Kosovo, pro
McCain, rally across the street from his New York
City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000. McCain
is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)"
WHO IS JOE DIOGUARDI?
DioGuardi is an extremist who lost his seat in
Congress because his growing preoccupation with
creating a "Greater Albania" did not exactly fit in
with the pothole-fixing skills that must be the first
concern of New York City politicians. Most
Albanian-Americans support independence for Kosovo,
and look with disdain and bewilderment at the US
government's official position that Kosovo is still an
"autonomous" province of Yugoslavia. But DioGuardi
goes one step indeed, several steps further, and
envisions a "Greater Albania." Visitors to AACL's
website ( http://www.aacl.com )are confronted with a
map of this Albanian Empire, which, as Doug Bandow of
the Cato Institute said in his testimony before Congress
( http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-db031099.html ),
illustrates "a breathtaking agenda," including as it
does "Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (along with
its capital, Skopje), southeastern Montenegro (along
with its capital, Podgorica), northern Greece, and
southern Serbia (north of Kosovo)." Alexander Cockburn's
comment on this outrageous map hit the nail on the head
( http://www.counterpunch.org/jatras.html ):
"When I first saw this map it struck a recollection of
something I had seen before. It occurred to me that it
is quite similar to one I have (printed by the State
Department in 1947) of interim territorial
arrangements during World War II. I can understand
that there is an element of hyperbole in critics'
calling NATO's air campaign "Nazi," but fail to see
what interest the United States has in helping to
restore the Nazi-imposed borders of 1943 or how this
helps preserve European stability."
THE KLA: A SHORT HISTORY
It is well-known that the original straight-arm salute
of the KLA was suppressed, by its CIA and German
intelligence handlers, in favor of a less controversial
American-style greeting. While one wing of the KLA
looks to the old-fashioned Stalinism of Enver Hoxha,
the Albanian Communist dictator who aided the early
student organizations that made up the Albanian
separatist movement, the other looks to the "Skanderberg
Division" of the Nazi SS, Albanians recruited by the
Germans to fight for Hitler's cause, for its political
antecedents. DioGuardi has been a vigorous publicist on
behalf of the KLA political commissar, Adem Demaci, a
militant who spent years in Yugoslav prisons. Demaci
denounced the Rambouillet agreement as a sellout and
(along with DioGuardi) rejected all negotiations on
principle. DioGuardi even wrote a letter
( http://www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9808/msg00080.html )
congratulating his fellow extremist when Demaci was
appointed chief of the KLA's political wing.
FOLLOW THAT GENIE!
Demaci, DioGuardi, and the KLA militants are now acting
on their dream of a "Greater Albania": this is the
meaning of recent events in Kosovo
( http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38b4490a4359.htm ).
Madeleine Albright is so frightened by the rising
demands of the pan-Albanians that she made a special
trip to Tirana to denounce the idea as "no more viable
than that of a Greater Serbia." But the genie is already
out of the bottle, and the question is: what will the
next Administration do?
A GREATER ALBANIA
As the KLA conducts its reign of terror in Kosovo,
driving out the Serbs and marching, in tens of
thousands, on the northern city of Mitrovica in an
effort to storm the last Serb bastion, John McCain is
standing alongside a man who is the chief apologist,
organizer, and fundraiser of the KLA in America, a man
who once declared:
"It is unfortunate that misguided European politics,
overly and unfairly influenced by Russia and Greece in
the early part of the twentieth century, resulted in a
partition of the Albanian nation so that more than
half the Albanians in the Balkans live outside the
state of Albania in hostile Slavic regimes, especially
Serbia and Macedonia. . . . With UDBA in Belgrade and
the Sigurimi in Tirana collaborating to buy, trick or
kill those Albanians with democratic aspirations, it
is no wonder that it has been extremely difficult for
seven million. Albanians to organize themselves as a
nation, or even politically within the five
jurisdictions in which they reside. While there is
some cooperation among political parties in certain
areas and across borders, true democratic,
independent-minded Albanian leadership has been
lacking and this has contributed to the divisions,
confusion, and betrayal of the Albanian cause in the
Balkans and in America."
CONSPIRACY THEORY
How's that for a conspiracy theory? According to
DioGuardi, all the nations of Europe conspired to keep
his people disunited. Naturally it is assumed that
every living ethnic Albanian must live in an Albanian
state, since, in the neo-fascist ideology of the KLA,
the State embodies the Race and must defend its
interests irrespective of current national borders.
And, oh yes, that's what we definitely need: more
"cooperation among parties in certain areas and across
borders," so as to spread the rabidly revanchist
ideology of the KLA and set the Balkans aflame.
THE DIOGUARDI-McCAIN CONNECTION
There they are, the two of them, DioGuardi and McCain,
side by side: one who would carve an Albanian empire
in the midst of the blood-soaked Balkans, and the
other who would be President of the United States. It
is a disturbing juxtaposition, to say the very least.
For if we can accuse poor Dubya of endorsing the
anti-Catholic rhetoric of the Bob Jones
fundamentalists simply by speaking at their
auditorium, then what are we to make of would-be
President John McCain appearing with a radical
Albanian nationalist who sees not only Belgrade but
also Skopje and Athens as the enemy? After all, this
is perhaps the wrong signal to the Macedonians, who
have so far enjoyed a fragile peace, and no doubt the
Greeks, our NATO allies, would be less than pleased.
And what of the Montenegrins, whose capital city
DioGuardi and the Albanian lobby covet, and whose
independence we are pledged to defend against the
alleged threat posed by Milosevic? If Bush must be
called to account for supposedly aligning himself with
the forces of intolerance in the US, for the sin of
appearing at Bob Jones U, then should we not call
McCain to account for sharing the platform with a
radical Albanian extremist and endangering the peace
of Europe
TURNING THE TABLES
Although the McCain campaign piously denied it, it has
since come out that they were responsible for phone
calls during the Michigan primary, run ostensibly by a
group called "Catholic Voter Alert," which demanded to
know why Bush had not disavowed the rhetoric of Bob
Jones and his flock about the church being "a Satanic
cult'! This from the campaign McCain piously described
to his followers as "one you can be proud of"! Well,
then, is it not time to turn the tables, and send out
a "Voter Alert" demanding to know why McCain hasn't
repudiated the rhetoric of Joe DioGuardi and his KLA
friends who want to ignite the Balkan tinderbox with
their crazed scheme to create an Albanian empire?
Indeed, this is a lot fairer than the alleged
Bush-Jones connection, because Bush has no history of
anti-Catholicism – the news of his sudden conversion
to the Jonesian doctrine that the Church is "the great
Whore" foretold in the Bible came as a bit of a
surprise. But McCain's apparent conversion to the
cause of pan-Albanian nationalism is far more
credible. For McCain was the most militant and visible
supporter of the Kosovo war, who demanded Clinton pull
out all the stops and send in the ground troops even
going so far as to introduce a Senate resolution that
went down to a well-deserved defeat at the hands of
his Republican colleagues.
THE KLA CANDIDATE
As General Wesley Clark, the US commander of our
troops in Kosovo, calls on NATO and Washington to send
in more troops – and I see, as I write this, that the
Marines are practically on the way the crisis in the
Balkans is approaching critical mass. The NATO-crats
are cranking up the propaganda machine, as the KLA
gets ready to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo
and proceed to the next stage of the ongoing struggle
for a "Greater Albania." Ideologues like Adem Demaci,
in Kosovo, and Joe Dioguardi, in America, want to drag
the US into yet another Balkan war, to "finish the
job" and completely dismember the remnants of
Yugoslavia – using the US and NATO as both their sword
and their shield. With a sympathetic President in the
White House, who remembers how much money and
political support was raised on that trip to New York
at a crucial time in his campaign, DioGuardi and the
KLA may yet see their expansionist dream realized.
With Serbia finally subjugated, Albania would be free
to expand, absorbing not only Kosovo but also
destabilizing Macedonia and threatening Greece.
HOW MUCH?
The last GOP presidential candidate to cash in on the
Albanian connection was Bob Dole: in May 1987, Dole
and DioGuardi attended an Albanian-American
fund-raiser in New York City that raised $1.2 million
for Dole's campaign and $50,000 for DioGuardi's,
according to journalist Diana Johnstone
( http://www.swans.com/library/art5/zig025.html ) and researcher
Benjamin Works. The caption accompanying the above
photo says McCain was in New York doing some
fundraising, and it is fair to ask: how much money did
he get from the Albanian lobby? As the great "reform"
candidate who denounces the influence of "special
interests" and the power of money in politics, McCain
had better tell us exactly how much the Albanian lobby
has thrown his way – and to what effect. Of all the
lobbyists in Washington, it is the "special interests"
represented by the agents of foreign powers that pose
the greatest threat to the integrity of the
Presidency. Joe DioGuardi, rabid Albanian nationalist
and chief American apologist for the drug-connected
totalitarians of the KLA, has spread the money from
his political action committees far and wide
( http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html ),
and no doubt McCain is also the recipient of his largess
but at what price to the American people? The McCain
campaign must immediately release the figures, and
give us some "straight talk" about the KLA-McCain
connection: how much did they get-and in return for
what? The American people have a right to know how
many American soldiers will be put at risk in the
Balkans in the service of paying off President
McCain's political debts.
ALBANIAN PANDERFEST
Republicans are screaming about the panderfest
presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton, at which Al
Gore and Bill Bradley outdid each other in denouncing
"white skin privilege," but what about McCain's
panderfest with the Albanian warmongers, who want to
drag the US even deeper into the Balkan quagmire? At
least Sharpton isn't demanding the that the lives of
American soldiers be put at risk.
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR
Naturally the American media, which made itself into
the willing instrument of the War Party during the
Kosovo conflict, is reluctant to uncover the fact of
McCain’s connection to Albanian extremists. The
inability or unwillingness of the Bush campaign to
call McCain to account on this question is due in
large part to its own commitment to the Albanian
lobby; their foreign policy advisor, Richard Perle,
was also an advisor to the Bosnian Muslims, who
enthusiastically supported the Kosovo war. The only
major candidate who has made opposition to the Kosovo
war – and opposition to the influence of foreign
lobbyists – a campaign issue has been Patrick J.
Buchanan, the likely Reform Party candidate. Buchanan
is the specter that is haunting this primary season,
with everyone and his brother claiming the mantle of
"reform" – but scurrying away from the vital foreign
policy issue, which only Buchanan has addressed. If
McCain, the would-be conqueror of the Balkans, is the
GOP nominee, then the Republicans, independents, and
Democrats who opposed that war and are horrified by
its frightening results will be driven into the
Reform Party column. Combined with the general
distaste for McCain among conservatives, this is the
one factor that those who prate about the
"electability" of the Warrior Candidate never discuss.
Once again, the Bush people are constrained from
making their best argument against McCain, this time
for fear of breaking the embargo on all discussion of
Buchanan and Reform as viable alternatives. The
impotence of the Bush campaign in the face of the
McCain insurgency is a function not only of the
shortcomings of their candidate, but of the
internationalism of his Establishment foreign policy
advisors and their instinctive fear of the Right. And
that, in the end, will be their undoing.
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Albanian Daily News
Albanian Republicans Salute McCain
TIRANA- Albania's Republican Party salutes American runner for US
President John McCain, a daily "Republika" reported on Thursday.
The results published up to now of the American presidential campaign
show that John McCain lies some 6 points ahead of George W. Bush,
pushing Albanian republicans to declare their sympathy to their American
counterpart.
Referring to recent meetings between Albanian republican leader Mediu
and John McCain in Washington D.C, the party's daily underlined that
bilateral relations between the two parties have experienced further
strengthening and enrichment.
Albania's Republican Party hopes that such relations will create a
positive impact both for the party itself and its voters.
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Kosova Crisis Center News <A
HREF="http://www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html">http:
>//www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html</A>
>________________________________________________________________
>Via AlBanian List
>August 22, 1998
>
> Adem Demaci
> Prishtina
> KOSOVA
>
> Dear Adem:
>
>The Albanian American Civic League is writing to congratulate you on your
>appointment as the leader of the political wing of the Kosova Liberation Army.
> As you said when you met with us in New York City in the spring of 1997, some time still had to pass before it would become clear who had integrity in the Albanian world and who did not, and some time still had to pass for the realization to take root that Albanians could not be liberated by the United States unless we fought on the ground for our freedom......We believe that you have the ability to lead the Albanian resistance in a courageous and uncompromising manner, and we want you to know that the Civic League is ready to support you and work with you in this important undertaking.
>
>As you probably already know, the Albanian American Civic League was the first organization in the Albanian diaspora to publicly support the Kosova
Liberation Army, both morally and financially. Most notably, we
successfully transformed the Congressional hearing on Bosnia last March into a hearing on Kosova--one in which, through our lobbying efforts, Clinton administration Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard was forced to concede that the KLA had not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. This produced an immediate change in the Western media's depiction of the KLA and stopped the attempt to criminalize it.
>
>[...]It has also been apparent to us that Serbia's activities have been aided
and abetted by the failed policies of the passive resistance agenda in Kosova-policies that misled Kosovar Albanians and prevented them from preparing themselves for war.
>
Tragically, these policies have been supported and promoted by Western government officials, such as America's Richard Holbrooke and Germany's
Klaus Kinkel, who by their actions have given the green light to Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of state terrorism.[...]
>
When you visited us more than a year ago now, you agreed that there has to
be coordination on both sides of the Atlantic and that, consequently, serious
groups in Kosova and in the West have to synchronize their work. We want
you to know that we have informed the KLA about our Congressional-based
strategy to stop the war against Albanians, beginning with the introduction of
resolutions by Senator Al D'Amato and Congressman Christopher Smith to
indict Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal in The Hague and with a campaign to stop the confirmation of Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations[...]
>
>Sincerely Yours
>[signature]
>Joseph J. DioGuardi, President
>For the Albanian American Civic League
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Disgusting! I saw a link titled "Indipendent Kosova - Why" and clicked on.
There was no text, just photos of killed Albanians. Many were from the
Racak "massacre".
So these are the arguments for an "indipendent KosovA".
But why not to writeto this scum Joe DioGuardi? Here is his curriculum
vitae with the e-mail at the end:
Born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20, 1940, Joseph J. DioGuardi
moved to Westchester County with his
immigrant parents, brother, and sister
in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham
Preparatory School, and in 1962
he graduated with honors from Fordham
University.
DioGuardi served for twenty-two years,
twelve of them as a tax partner, with
the international accounting firm of Arthur
Andersen & Co., one of the first
public advocates of governmental fiscal
responsibility. In November 1984, he
brought his extensive professional and
volunteer experience to Congress,
when he became the first practicing certified
public accountant ever elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in
sounding the call for truth in federal
budgeting, accounting, and reporting and in
bringing financial accountability
to Capitol Hill. He was the original author
of the Chief Financial Officer's Act,
signed by President George Bush in 1990, which mandated the
assignment of a CFO to each major
department and agency of the U.S. government. Charles Bowsher,
former Comptroller General of the General
Accounting Office, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate that
since the enactment of the bill, "we have
seen important progress in directly confronting serious financial
management weaknesses. "
DioGuardi has distinguished himself by finding bipartisan solutions
to difficult problems. On issues of local
concern, he founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island
Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which
secured vital increases in federal support for these embattled
waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic
Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer
Congressional Medals of Honor on
Black World War I and World War II military heroes, thereby
correcting an historic injustice. More recently,
he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force
for Port, Rail, and Industrial
Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's
manufacturing and transportation industries.
DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination
of oppressed peoples in the Balkans.
Since 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of
the Albanian American Civic League, he
and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania
in fifty years, and he helped open the
doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August
1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole
and six other U.S. senators to visit the two million Albanians in
Kosova under Serbian occupation. In
September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin
Gilman, chairman of the Committee on
International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to
discuss Albanian national security and
minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June
1997, Dio Guardi led a delegation to monitor
the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to
northern Albania to assess the
humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosova, at the request
of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a
nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government,
through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms.
The author of Unaccountable Congress: It
Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal
responsibility and public accountability. In August
1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American
Accounting Association, DioGuardi
persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal
budgeting and financial management. In
May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal
financial management reforms before
the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National
Association of Accountants). In April 1997,
the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in
Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the
national debt.
DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979,
the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in
1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government
Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of
Liberty Award from the New York
State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service
Award from the Westchester County
Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's
Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in
1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual
Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants,
Boston Chapter, in 1992.
You can contact Joe DioGuardi by email at jjd@...
Here is DioGuardi's wife c.v.
Shirley Cloyes
Balkan Affairs Adviser
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 18, 1950, Shirley
Cloyes was raised in Westfield, New
Jersey, and graduated from Westfield High School, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society. She holds a a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, and a Master of Divinity,
specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
Between her second and third year of graduate study, she studied the
Indonesian language at the University
of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya
Wacana University in Central Java, where
she developed and ran an interdisciplinary program on interethnic
relations and development.
In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with
German political theologian Dorothee
Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor.
Following the closure of the house in 1984,
she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and
women's studies at Orbis Books.
In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an
offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as
associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and
African studies, the Middle East,
women's studies, and controversial domestic and international
political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988,
she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995.
Some of the noteworthy titles that she
published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global
Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy,
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With
Malcolm X in Africa, England,
and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery,
and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in
America by H. Bruce Franklin.
In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book
on the causes and far-reaching
consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of
Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian,
and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former
Yugoslavia. That year she became the
Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She
has since written and lectured widely
about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight
trips to the region.
Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian
dimension of the Balkan conflict.
Following the hearing in February 1995, which included
representatives from
all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic
League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled
with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the
invitation of Albanian leaders there to
monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova.
The Macedonian government
attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a
student, wounding hundreds, and jailing
the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana
with DioGuardi and Congressman
Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International
Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul
to make the case for the
the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the
University of Marmara.
Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points
in the life of the Albanian nation. In July
1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the
House Committee on International Relations
and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation
and the Albanian Communists in
attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in
support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean
Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger.
In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes
worked with CNN to gain more
complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and
DioGuardi shifted the focus of a
Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from
Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the
questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of
the KLA as a "terrorist" organization. In
August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S.
foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of
Kosova" and "Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes
is the author of the Civic
League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the
Albanian National Question," which
examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of
creating a free and independent Kosova
and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans.
With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March
1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi
appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV
broadcasts. Since the war ended in June
1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to
Congress on postwar conditions.
Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998.
What a wonderful couple!
****************************************
Maria
MR JAVIER BERNAL wrote:
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>
> Great Albania's Project in Action!
>
> http://www.aacl.com
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Jul 5,1999
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By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute
Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with
the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew
something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the
story.
Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986
Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying
Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo
--that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully
operational.
Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House
Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee.
I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional
Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long
time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm.
Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then
vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping
some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia.
As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to
think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had
done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts,
pulling
Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s,
bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's
communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well,
pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic
nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo
who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United
States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the
cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while
purporting that "Greater Serbia" was the menace to European security and
not the post-fascist "Greater Croatia" and "Greater Albania."
Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their
work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a
sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s.
DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian
transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several
years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's
Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a
map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). His Political Action Committee
(PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and
individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the
demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its "pizza
connection" distribution ("inherited" from the Gambino crime family) and
money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors
listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big
pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with
American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress.
I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob
Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the
evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative
conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be "bought"
--that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War.
In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from
then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from
Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received
$50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back
further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign. It certainly continued from
1987 through to the present.
As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies
continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy,
Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around
Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush
and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States
Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving
representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the
massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds
of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One
Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic
Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the
Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." Much
of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian
American businessmen" Many of the campaign contributions have been
recorded legally," the investigator said, "but many are questionable.
But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to
push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia
and Germany-and it has not been
subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian
line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will
be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into
supporting the
Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open
bid for recognition as an independent state." Now, as to individual
contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals,
then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), "Soft Money"
contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the
time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown
paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able
retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988
election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy
Dole's
Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and
contributors.
In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia
and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have
simply been beguiled, others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come
from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or
Senate foreign
relations committees: Joseph Lieberman and Jesse Helms, Benjamin Gillman
and Tom Lantos. These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but
demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individual
declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way
to select candidates.
It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and
Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign
policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have
succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while
their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the
overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the
hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied
down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo, again attempting the kind of nation
building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti.
For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have
loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a
companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin:
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-198 0-98.html and
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html
KLA in the U.S.A.
"These guys [the KLA] have a network that's active on the streets of
this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia
relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're
the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according
to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."
In the words of a November 1997 statement issued by Interpol, the
international police agency, ``Kosovo Albanians hold the largest share
of the heroin market in Switzerland, in Austria, in Belgium, in Germany,
in Hungary, in the Czech Republic, in Norway and in Sweden.''
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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* I REPUBBLICANI ALBANESI SALUTANO MCCAIN (Albanian Daily News, FEB. 2000),
MCCAIN SALUTA LA NOMINA DI DEMACI A "LEADER POLITICO" DELL'UCK (AUG. 1998)
* Ritratti: MR AND MRS DIOGUARDI, CHE BELLA COPPIA! (stopnato@...)
* Flashback: LA LOBBY PAN-ALBANESE NEL CONGRESSO USA (B. Works)
* Per il testo dell'articolo "LA CIA HA SOSTENUTO L'ESERCITO
GUERRIGLIERO DEL KOSOVO", da noi gia' distribuito ieri, si veda pure:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/12/stifgneur02002.html
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JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION"
(sullo stesso argomento vedasi anche: TiM GW Bulletin 2000/3-1:
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html )
Antiwar.com
"Behind the headlines" - by Justin Raimondo
February 25, 2000
McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION
George W. Bush has been taken out to the woodshed by
the liberal for appearing on the stage at Bob Jones
University in this day and age, to even appear on a
platform provided by a politically incorrect group
or institution is enough to condemn a candidate to
perdition. And the McCain campaign was quick to
capitalize on it. But why isn't McCain subjected to the
same scrutiny? Please direct your attention to the
photo below [http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/mccain.jpg%5d:
the caption informs us that McCain is speaking at "a
pro-Kosovo, pro-McCain rally across the street from his
New York City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000.
McCain is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night." But who is the man on the right,
with the colorful KLA scarf and his big mouth wide open?
The caption-writer is mute on this point, but to anyone
who knows anything about New York's ethnic politics,
the face is all-too-familiar: it is none other than
former Republican Congressman Joe DioGuardi, now the
loquacious leader of the Albanian-American Civic League
(AACL) a group that not only actively represents the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in America, but whose
leader has become a spokesman for the most radical
fringe elements of the KLA.
"Republican presidential candidate Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to a pro Kosovo, pro
McCain, rally across the street from his New York
City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000. McCain
is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)"
WHO IS JOE DIOGUARDI?
DioGuardi is an extremist who lost his seat in
Congress because his growing preoccupation with
creating a "Greater Albania" did not exactly fit in
with the pothole-fixing skills that must be the first
concern of New York City politicians. Most
Albanian-Americans support independence for Kosovo,
and look with disdain and bewilderment at the US
government's official position that Kosovo is still an
"autonomous" province of Yugoslavia. But DioGuardi
goes one step indeed, several steps further, and
envisions a "Greater Albania." Visitors to AACL's
website ( http://www.aacl.com )are confronted with a
map of this Albanian Empire, which, as Doug Bandow of
the Cato Institute said in his testimony before Congress
( http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-db031099.html ),
illustrates "a breathtaking agenda," including as it
does "Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (along with
its capital, Skopje), southeastern Montenegro (along
with its capital, Podgorica), northern Greece, and
southern Serbia (north of Kosovo)." Alexander Cockburn's
comment on this outrageous map hit the nail on the head
( http://www.counterpunch.org/jatras.html ):
"When I first saw this map it struck a recollection of
something I had seen before. It occurred to me that it
is quite similar to one I have (printed by the State
Department in 1947) of interim territorial
arrangements during World War II. I can understand
that there is an element of hyperbole in critics'
calling NATO's air campaign "Nazi," but fail to see
what interest the United States has in helping to
restore the Nazi-imposed borders of 1943 or how this
helps preserve European stability."
THE KLA: A SHORT HISTORY
It is well-known that the original straight-arm salute
of the KLA was suppressed, by its CIA and German
intelligence handlers, in favor of a less controversial
American-style greeting. While one wing of the KLA
looks to the old-fashioned Stalinism of Enver Hoxha,
the Albanian Communist dictator who aided the early
student organizations that made up the Albanian
separatist movement, the other looks to the "Skanderberg
Division" of the Nazi SS, Albanians recruited by the
Germans to fight for Hitler's cause, for its political
antecedents. DioGuardi has been a vigorous publicist on
behalf of the KLA political commissar, Adem Demaci, a
militant who spent years in Yugoslav prisons. Demaci
denounced the Rambouillet agreement as a sellout and
(along with DioGuardi) rejected all negotiations on
principle. DioGuardi even wrote a letter
( http://www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9808/msg00080.html )
congratulating his fellow extremist when Demaci was
appointed chief of the KLA's political wing.
FOLLOW THAT GENIE!
Demaci, DioGuardi, and the KLA militants are now acting
on their dream of a "Greater Albania": this is the
meaning of recent events in Kosovo
( http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38b4490a4359.htm ).
Madeleine Albright is so frightened by the rising
demands of the pan-Albanians that she made a special
trip to Tirana to denounce the idea as "no more viable
than that of a Greater Serbia." But the genie is already
out of the bottle, and the question is: what will the
next Administration do?
A GREATER ALBANIA
As the KLA conducts its reign of terror in Kosovo,
driving out the Serbs and marching, in tens of
thousands, on the northern city of Mitrovica in an
effort to storm the last Serb bastion, John McCain is
standing alongside a man who is the chief apologist,
organizer, and fundraiser of the KLA in America, a man
who once declared:
"It is unfortunate that misguided European politics,
overly and unfairly influenced by Russia and Greece in
the early part of the twentieth century, resulted in a
partition of the Albanian nation so that more than
half the Albanians in the Balkans live outside the
state of Albania in hostile Slavic regimes, especially
Serbia and Macedonia. . . . With UDBA in Belgrade and
the Sigurimi in Tirana collaborating to buy, trick or
kill those Albanians with democratic aspirations, it
is no wonder that it has been extremely difficult for
seven million. Albanians to organize themselves as a
nation, or even politically within the five
jurisdictions in which they reside. While there is
some cooperation among political parties in certain
areas and across borders, true democratic,
independent-minded Albanian leadership has been
lacking and this has contributed to the divisions,
confusion, and betrayal of the Albanian cause in the
Balkans and in America."
CONSPIRACY THEORY
How's that for a conspiracy theory? According to
DioGuardi, all the nations of Europe conspired to keep
his people disunited. Naturally it is assumed that
every living ethnic Albanian must live in an Albanian
state, since, in the neo-fascist ideology of the KLA,
the State embodies the Race and must defend its
interests irrespective of current national borders.
And, oh yes, that's what we definitely need: more
"cooperation among parties in certain areas and across
borders," so as to spread the rabidly revanchist
ideology of the KLA and set the Balkans aflame.
THE DIOGUARDI-McCAIN CONNECTION
There they are, the two of them, DioGuardi and McCain,
side by side: one who would carve an Albanian empire
in the midst of the blood-soaked Balkans, and the
other who would be President of the United States. It
is a disturbing juxtaposition, to say the very least.
For if we can accuse poor Dubya of endorsing the
anti-Catholic rhetoric of the Bob Jones
fundamentalists simply by speaking at their
auditorium, then what are we to make of would-be
President John McCain appearing with a radical
Albanian nationalist who sees not only Belgrade but
also Skopje and Athens as the enemy? After all, this
is perhaps the wrong signal to the Macedonians, who
have so far enjoyed a fragile peace, and no doubt the
Greeks, our NATO allies, would be less than pleased.
And what of the Montenegrins, whose capital city
DioGuardi and the Albanian lobby covet, and whose
independence we are pledged to defend against the
alleged threat posed by Milosevic? If Bush must be
called to account for supposedly aligning himself with
the forces of intolerance in the US, for the sin of
appearing at Bob Jones U, then should we not call
McCain to account for sharing the platform with a
radical Albanian extremist and endangering the peace
of Europe
TURNING THE TABLES
Although the McCain campaign piously denied it, it has
since come out that they were responsible for phone
calls during the Michigan primary, run ostensibly by a
group called "Catholic Voter Alert," which demanded to
know why Bush had not disavowed the rhetoric of Bob
Jones and his flock about the church being "a Satanic
cult'! This from the campaign McCain piously described
to his followers as "one you can be proud of"! Well,
then, is it not time to turn the tables, and send out
a "Voter Alert" demanding to know why McCain hasn't
repudiated the rhetoric of Joe DioGuardi and his KLA
friends who want to ignite the Balkan tinderbox with
their crazed scheme to create an Albanian empire?
Indeed, this is a lot fairer than the alleged
Bush-Jones connection, because Bush has no history of
anti-Catholicism – the news of his sudden conversion
to the Jonesian doctrine that the Church is "the great
Whore" foretold in the Bible came as a bit of a
surprise. But McCain's apparent conversion to the
cause of pan-Albanian nationalism is far more
credible. For McCain was the most militant and visible
supporter of the Kosovo war, who demanded Clinton pull
out all the stops and send in the ground troops even
going so far as to introduce a Senate resolution that
went down to a well-deserved defeat at the hands of
his Republican colleagues.
THE KLA CANDIDATE
As General Wesley Clark, the US commander of our
troops in Kosovo, calls on NATO and Washington to send
in more troops – and I see, as I write this, that the
Marines are practically on the way the crisis in the
Balkans is approaching critical mass. The NATO-crats
are cranking up the propaganda machine, as the KLA
gets ready to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo
and proceed to the next stage of the ongoing struggle
for a "Greater Albania." Ideologues like Adem Demaci,
in Kosovo, and Joe Dioguardi, in America, want to drag
the US into yet another Balkan war, to "finish the
job" and completely dismember the remnants of
Yugoslavia – using the US and NATO as both their sword
and their shield. With a sympathetic President in the
White House, who remembers how much money and
political support was raised on that trip to New York
at a crucial time in his campaign, DioGuardi and the
KLA may yet see their expansionist dream realized.
With Serbia finally subjugated, Albania would be free
to expand, absorbing not only Kosovo but also
destabilizing Macedonia and threatening Greece.
HOW MUCH?
The last GOP presidential candidate to cash in on the
Albanian connection was Bob Dole: in May 1987, Dole
and DioGuardi attended an Albanian-American
fund-raiser in New York City that raised $1.2 million
for Dole's campaign and $50,000 for DioGuardi's,
according to journalist Diana Johnstone
( http://www.swans.com/library/art5/zig025.html ) and researcher
Benjamin Works. The caption accompanying the above
photo says McCain was in New York doing some
fundraising, and it is fair to ask: how much money did
he get from the Albanian lobby? As the great "reform"
candidate who denounces the influence of "special
interests" and the power of money in politics, McCain
had better tell us exactly how much the Albanian lobby
has thrown his way – and to what effect. Of all the
lobbyists in Washington, it is the "special interests"
represented by the agents of foreign powers that pose
the greatest threat to the integrity of the
Presidency. Joe DioGuardi, rabid Albanian nationalist
and chief American apologist for the drug-connected
totalitarians of the KLA, has spread the money from
his political action committees far and wide
( http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html ),
and no doubt McCain is also the recipient of his largess
but at what price to the American people? The McCain
campaign must immediately release the figures, and
give us some "straight talk" about the KLA-McCain
connection: how much did they get-and in return for
what? The American people have a right to know how
many American soldiers will be put at risk in the
Balkans in the service of paying off President
McCain's political debts.
ALBANIAN PANDERFEST
Republicans are screaming about the panderfest
presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton, at which Al
Gore and Bill Bradley outdid each other in denouncing
"white skin privilege," but what about McCain's
panderfest with the Albanian warmongers, who want to
drag the US even deeper into the Balkan quagmire? At
least Sharpton isn't demanding the that the lives of
American soldiers be put at risk.
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR
Naturally the American media, which made itself into
the willing instrument of the War Party during the
Kosovo conflict, is reluctant to uncover the fact of
McCain’s connection to Albanian extremists. The
inability or unwillingness of the Bush campaign to
call McCain to account on this question is due in
large part to its own commitment to the Albanian
lobby; their foreign policy advisor, Richard Perle,
was also an advisor to the Bosnian Muslims, who
enthusiastically supported the Kosovo war. The only
major candidate who has made opposition to the Kosovo
war – and opposition to the influence of foreign
lobbyists – a campaign issue has been Patrick J.
Buchanan, the likely Reform Party candidate. Buchanan
is the specter that is haunting this primary season,
with everyone and his brother claiming the mantle of
"reform" – but scurrying away from the vital foreign
policy issue, which only Buchanan has addressed. If
McCain, the would-be conqueror of the Balkans, is the
GOP nominee, then the Republicans, independents, and
Democrats who opposed that war and are horrified by
its frightening results will be driven into the
Reform Party column. Combined with the general
distaste for McCain among conservatives, this is the
one factor that those who prate about the
"electability" of the Warrior Candidate never discuss.
Once again, the Bush people are constrained from
making their best argument against McCain, this time
for fear of breaking the embargo on all discussion of
Buchanan and Reform as viable alternatives. The
impotence of the Bush campaign in the face of the
McCain insurgency is a function not only of the
shortcomings of their candidate, but of the
internationalism of his Establishment foreign policy
advisors and their instinctive fear of the Right. And
that, in the end, will be their undoing.
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Albanian Daily News
Albanian Republicans Salute McCain
TIRANA- Albania's Republican Party salutes American runner for US
President John McCain, a daily "Republika" reported on Thursday.
The results published up to now of the American presidential campaign
show that John McCain lies some 6 points ahead of George W. Bush,
pushing Albanian republicans to declare their sympathy to their American
counterpart.
Referring to recent meetings between Albanian republican leader Mediu
and John McCain in Washington D.C, the party's daily underlined that
bilateral relations between the two parties have experienced further
strengthening and enrichment.
Albania's Republican Party hopes that such relations will create a
positive impact both for the party itself and its voters.
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Kosova Crisis Center News <A
HREF="http://www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html">http:
>//www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html</A>
>________________________________________________________________
>Via AlBanian List
>August 22, 1998
>
> Adem Demaci
> Prishtina
> KOSOVA
>
> Dear Adem:
>
>The Albanian American Civic League is writing to congratulate you on your
>appointment as the leader of the political wing of the Kosova Liberation Army.
> As you said when you met with us in New York City in the spring of 1997, some time still had to pass before it would become clear who had integrity in the Albanian world and who did not, and some time still had to pass for the realization to take root that Albanians could not be liberated by the United States unless we fought on the ground for our freedom......We believe that you have the ability to lead the Albanian resistance in a courageous and uncompromising manner, and we want you to know that the Civic League is ready to support you and work with you in this important undertaking.
>
>As you probably already know, the Albanian American Civic League was the first organization in the Albanian diaspora to publicly support the Kosova
Liberation Army, both morally and financially. Most notably, we
successfully transformed the Congressional hearing on Bosnia last March into a hearing on Kosova--one in which, through our lobbying efforts, Clinton administration Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard was forced to concede that the KLA had not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. This produced an immediate change in the Western media's depiction of the KLA and stopped the attempt to criminalize it.
>
>[...]It has also been apparent to us that Serbia's activities have been aided
and abetted by the failed policies of the passive resistance agenda in Kosova-policies that misled Kosovar Albanians and prevented them from preparing themselves for war.
>
Tragically, these policies have been supported and promoted by Western government officials, such as America's Richard Holbrooke and Germany's
Klaus Kinkel, who by their actions have given the green light to Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of state terrorism.[...]
>
When you visited us more than a year ago now, you agreed that there has to
be coordination on both sides of the Atlantic and that, consequently, serious
groups in Kosova and in the West have to synchronize their work. We want
you to know that we have informed the KLA about our Congressional-based
strategy to stop the war against Albanians, beginning with the introduction of
resolutions by Senator Al D'Amato and Congressman Christopher Smith to
indict Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal in The Hague and with a campaign to stop the confirmation of Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations[...]
>
>Sincerely Yours
>[signature]
>Joseph J. DioGuardi, President
>For the Albanian American Civic League
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Disgusting! I saw a link titled "Indipendent Kosova - Why" and clicked on.
There was no text, just photos of killed Albanians. Many were from the
Racak "massacre".
So these are the arguments for an "indipendent KosovA".
But why not to writeto this scum Joe DioGuardi? Here is his curriculum
vitae with the e-mail at the end:
Born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20, 1940, Joseph J. DioGuardi
moved to Westchester County with his
immigrant parents, brother, and sister
in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham
Preparatory School, and in 1962
he graduated with honors from Fordham
University.
DioGuardi served for twenty-two years,
twelve of them as a tax partner, with
the international accounting firm of Arthur
Andersen & Co., one of the first
public advocates of governmental fiscal
responsibility. In November 1984, he
brought his extensive professional and
volunteer experience to Congress,
when he became the first practicing certified
public accountant ever elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in
sounding the call for truth in federal
budgeting, accounting, and reporting and in
bringing financial accountability
to Capitol Hill. He was the original author
of the Chief Financial Officer's Act,
signed by President George Bush in 1990, which mandated the
assignment of a CFO to each major
department and agency of the U.S. government. Charles Bowsher,
former Comptroller General of the General
Accounting Office, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate that
since the enactment of the bill, "we have
seen important progress in directly confronting serious financial
management weaknesses. "
DioGuardi has distinguished himself by finding bipartisan solutions
to difficult problems. On issues of local
concern, he founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island
Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which
secured vital increases in federal support for these embattled
waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic
Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer
Congressional Medals of Honor on
Black World War I and World War II military heroes, thereby
correcting an historic injustice. More recently,
he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force
for Port, Rail, and Industrial
Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's
manufacturing and transportation industries.
DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination
of oppressed peoples in the Balkans.
Since 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of
the Albanian American Civic League, he
and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania
in fifty years, and he helped open the
doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August
1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole
and six other U.S. senators to visit the two million Albanians in
Kosova under Serbian occupation. In
September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin
Gilman, chairman of the Committee on
International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to
discuss Albanian national security and
minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June
1997, Dio Guardi led a delegation to monitor
the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to
northern Albania to assess the
humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosova, at the request
of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a
nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government,
through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms.
The author of Unaccountable Congress: It
Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal
responsibility and public accountability. In August
1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American
Accounting Association, DioGuardi
persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal
budgeting and financial management. In
May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal
financial management reforms before
the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National
Association of Accountants). In April 1997,
the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in
Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the
national debt.
DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979,
the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in
1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government
Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of
Liberty Award from the New York
State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service
Award from the Westchester County
Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's
Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in
1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual
Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants,
Boston Chapter, in 1992.
You can contact Joe DioGuardi by email at jjd@...
Here is DioGuardi's wife c.v.
Shirley Cloyes
Balkan Affairs Adviser
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 18, 1950, Shirley
Cloyes was raised in Westfield, New
Jersey, and graduated from Westfield High School, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society. She holds a a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, and a Master of Divinity,
specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
Between her second and third year of graduate study, she studied the
Indonesian language at the University
of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya
Wacana University in Central Java, where
she developed and ran an interdisciplinary program on interethnic
relations and development.
In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with
German political theologian Dorothee
Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor.
Following the closure of the house in 1984,
she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and
women's studies at Orbis Books.
In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an
offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as
associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and
African studies, the Middle East,
women's studies, and controversial domestic and international
political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988,
she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995.
Some of the noteworthy titles that she
published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global
Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy,
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With
Malcolm X in Africa, England,
and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery,
and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in
America by H. Bruce Franklin.
In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book
on the causes and far-reaching
consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of
Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian,
and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former
Yugoslavia. That year she became the
Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She
has since written and lectured widely
about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight
trips to the region.
Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian
dimension of the Balkan conflict.
Following the hearing in February 1995, which included
representatives from
all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic
League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled
with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the
invitation of Albanian leaders there to
monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova.
The Macedonian government
attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a
student, wounding hundreds, and jailing
the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana
with DioGuardi and Congressman
Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International
Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul
to make the case for the
the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the
University of Marmara.
Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points
in the life of the Albanian nation. In July
1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the
House Committee on International Relations
and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation
and the Albanian Communists in
attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in
support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean
Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger.
In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes
worked with CNN to gain more
complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and
DioGuardi shifted the focus of a
Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from
Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the
questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of
the KLA as a "terrorist" organization. In
August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S.
foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of
Kosova" and "Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes
is the author of the Civic
League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the
Albanian National Question," which
examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of
creating a free and independent Kosova
and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans.
With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March
1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi
appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV
broadcasts. Since the war ended in June
1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to
Congress on postwar conditions.
Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998.
What a wonderful couple!
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SPECIAL REPORT - Drugs and KLA
FROM BEN WORKS
Jul 5,1999
BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS
By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute
Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with
the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew
something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the
story.
Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986
Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying
Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo
--that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully
operational.
Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House
Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee.
I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional
Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long
time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm.
Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then
vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping
some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia.
As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to
think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had
done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts,
pulling
Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s,
bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's
communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well,
pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic
nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo
who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United
States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the
cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while
purporting that "Greater Serbia" was the menace to European security and
not the post-fascist "Greater Croatia" and "Greater Albania."
Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their
work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a
sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s.
DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian
transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several
years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's
Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a
map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). His Political Action Committee
(PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and
individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the
demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its "pizza
connection" distribution ("inherited" from the Gambino crime family) and
money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors
listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big
pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with
American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress.
I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob
Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the
evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative
conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be "bought"
--that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War.
In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from
then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from
Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received
$50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back
further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign. It certainly continued from
1987 through to the present.
As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies
continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy,
Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around
Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush
and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States
Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving
representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the
massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds
of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One
Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic
Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the
Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." Much
of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian
American businessmen" Many of the campaign contributions have been
recorded legally," the investigator said, "but many are questionable.
But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to
push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia
and Germany-and it has not been
subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian
line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will
be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into
supporting the
Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open
bid for recognition as an independent state." Now, as to individual
contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals,
then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), "Soft Money"
contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the
time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown
paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able
retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988
election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy
Dole's
Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and
contributors.
In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia
and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have
simply been beguiled, others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come
from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or
Senate foreign
relations committees: Joseph Lieberman and Jesse Helms, Benjamin Gillman
and Tom Lantos. These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but
demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individual
declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way
to select candidates.
It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and
Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign
policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have
succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while
their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the
overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the
hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied
down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo, again attempting the kind of nation
building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti.
For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have
loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a
companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin:
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-198 0-98.html and
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html
KLA in the U.S.A.
"These guys [the KLA] have a network that's active on the streets of
this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia
relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're
the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according
to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."
In the words of a November 1997 statement issued by Interpol, the
international police agency, ``Kosovo Albanians hold the largest share
of the heroin market in Switzerland, in Austria, in Belgium, in Germany,
in Hungary, in the Czech Republic, in Norway and in Sweden.''
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