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U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo
by Umberto Pascali
The Executive Intelligence Review, 2 November 2001
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal, 21 November 2001
While the United States is relentlessly bombing
Afghanistan with the official aim of getting Osama
bin Laden, one of bin Laden's top collaborators is
running a terrorist training camp in an area of
Kosovo that is under U.S. control.
The shocking revelation has been confirmed by
multiple sources: Macedonian intelligence agencies, as
reported by several Macedonian media, including
the leading daily Dnevnik; Russian press agencies,
including Novosti and ItarTass; and the London Independent.
This intelligence coheres with Lyndon LaRouche's
assessment of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States, as a strategic covert operation by an enemy
within the U.S. and "allied" security services, for
geopolitical purposes.
The Russian media quoted, as the source of their
detailed revelation, the Russian troops stationed not far
from the reported terrorist training camp. This is in
itself exceptional, in the sense that there is hardly a
precedent of the Russian military in Kosovo reporting
events of such gravity to the leading news agencies.
These revelations, and the clear position
taken by Macedonian intelligence in confirming and expanding
them, are now reopening the explosive question of
the protection and sponsorship granted to the
narco-terrorists by Anglo-American agencies.
But this is only a small part of the new strategic
geometry opened up by the revelations. The red-hot
political point concerns the very basis for the
"war against terrorism" launched after the war-like attacks
of Sept. 11, and the immediate concentration on
bin Laden and Afghanistan as the perpetrators of those
attacks-and the threatened extension of the "infinite
war" to Syria, Iraq, and so on. If the
Anglo-Americans are at "war" with bin Laden's
terrorism, why are bin Laden operatives active in Kosovo
in an area totally controlled by NATO? Furthermore,
in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? Investigations on the bin
Laden connection into the Balkans and Kosovo could,
according to experts, lead to even more explosive
truths in a very short period of time.
Keep The Clash Going On Oct. 16 Novosti reported: "A
training camp of Albanian militants functions near
the village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska Kamenica,
in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which is
controlled by the American force, sources from the
Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo reported on
[Oct. 16]. According to [the sources], the camp is
now training 50 Afghan and Algerian mujahideen, led by
Zaiman Zawahiri. He is reportedly the brother of
one of the closest associates of international terrorist
Osama bin Laden. This camp prepares militants for
terrorist formations in Kosovo and Macedonia. Their
'instructors' are former [ethnic] Albanian officers
who, in 1991-92, deserted from the Yugoslav Army."
The Independent reported on Oct. 21 that Interpol
has linked bin Laden to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
crime gangs, and that he "supplied one of his top
military commanders for an elite KLA unit" in Kosovo.
That was only the beginning. The target of the terrorist
gangs' deployment into Macedonia: to prevent, by
violence, the return of Macedonian refugees into the
villages "cleansed" by the KLA during this year; and
to take over the water reserve on which the Macedonian
capital, Skopje, depends.
Beyond that, these extremists are out to re-ignite
the ethnic "Clash of Civilizations" in the Balkans, to
crush the escalating resistance of Macedonia-which
has been actively playing the LaRouche card in
response to its national crisis (see EIR, Oct. 19)-and
to continue the march of destruction, possibly
triggering in the near future, an ethnic upheaval
in Greece or Bulgaria.
The fact that such an operation is taking place in
the middle of the "war on the Taliban and al-Qaeda"-the
fact that NATO's Lord George Robertson, U.S. Ambassador
James Pardew, and the European Union's
Javier Solana insist, to this very day, that Macedonia
has to surrender to the KLA ultimata, including the
subversion of the Macedonian Constitution, opens up a
dramatic contradiction. That contradiction throws
light on the virtual reality the world has been
propelled into after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Who Runs Al-Zawahiri? The Macedonian daily Dnevnik
reported on Oct. 19 that the group led by the
brother of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the closest
associate of bin Laden, had crossed the border from
Kosovo into Macedonia. Quoting intelligence sources,
Dnevnik wrote: "The younger brother of the chief of
the Balkan headquarters of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri,
with around 50 mujahideen, has entered
Macedonia and has started building fortifications
in the Skopska Crna Gora region. The aim of the terrorist
group is to attack the water supply" for Skopje.
The newspaper reported that the gang had been
stationed earlier in the training camp near the village of
Ropotovo, Kosovo-as Novosti also reported-and received
orders to enter the Macedonian town of
Matejce. On Oct. 16, a convoy of refugees, who were
previously expelled by the KLA, were supposed to
visit their destroyed houses. However, the observers
from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe entered the village first, and reported
that at least 50 armed men had communicated they were
going to fire on the convoy if they dared to enter
Matejce. The OSCE order to the heartbroken refugees
was: Go back, we cannot guarantee your security!
But who is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, whose brother
Zaiman is running terrorist camps under NATO
protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? As the London
Guardian wrote recently, "Even to say he is bin
Laden's right-hand man may understate his importance."
He is considered by many to be the real head of
what is known as the bin Laden group. "Some analysts
believe that in his current role in Afghanistan,
al-Zawahiri has taken over control of much of bin
Laden's terrorist finances, operations, plans, and
resources," wrote the Guardian. His known terrorist
career started no later than 1981, with his
involvement in the assassination of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat; it includes the massacre of 70
people on a tourist bus in 1997 Luxor, Egypt, and
the assassination attempt against Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak in 1995.
Strangely enough, according to an expert who
testified before a U.S. Congressional committee in January
2000, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service-something
almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants
to obtain. Should we be surprised that one of the
centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was London,
where one of his closest relatives resided? President
Mubarak is believed to have referred to him when,
after the Luxor massacre, he stated: "There are people
who carried out crimes and who were sentenced [in Egypt]
and live on British soil."
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PAS111A.html
Copyright, Executive The News, 2001. For fair use only.
U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo
by Umberto Pascali
The Executive Intelligence Review, 2 November 2001
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal, 21 November 2001
While the United States is relentlessly bombing
Afghanistan with the official aim of getting Osama
bin Laden, one of bin Laden's top collaborators is
running a terrorist training camp in an area of
Kosovo that is under U.S. control.
The shocking revelation has been confirmed by
multiple sources: Macedonian intelligence agencies, as
reported by several Macedonian media, including
the leading daily Dnevnik; Russian press agencies,
including Novosti and ItarTass; and the London Independent.
This intelligence coheres with Lyndon LaRouche's
assessment of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States, as a strategic covert operation by an enemy
within the U.S. and "allied" security services, for
geopolitical purposes.
The Russian media quoted, as the source of their
detailed revelation, the Russian troops stationed not far
from the reported terrorist training camp. This is in
itself exceptional, in the sense that there is hardly a
precedent of the Russian military in Kosovo reporting
events of such gravity to the leading news agencies.
These revelations, and the clear position
taken by Macedonian intelligence in confirming and expanding
them, are now reopening the explosive question of
the protection and sponsorship granted to the
narco-terrorists by Anglo-American agencies.
But this is only a small part of the new strategic
geometry opened up by the revelations. The red-hot
political point concerns the very basis for the
"war against terrorism" launched after the war-like attacks
of Sept. 11, and the immediate concentration on
bin Laden and Afghanistan as the perpetrators of those
attacks-and the threatened extension of the "infinite
war" to Syria, Iraq, and so on. If the
Anglo-Americans are at "war" with bin Laden's
terrorism, why are bin Laden operatives active in Kosovo
in an area totally controlled by NATO? Furthermore,
in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? Investigations on the bin
Laden connection into the Balkans and Kosovo could,
according to experts, lead to even more explosive
truths in a very short period of time.
Keep The Clash Going On Oct. 16 Novosti reported: "A
training camp of Albanian militants functions near
the village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska Kamenica,
in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which is
controlled by the American force, sources from the
Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo reported on
[Oct. 16]. According to [the sources], the camp is
now training 50 Afghan and Algerian mujahideen, led by
Zaiman Zawahiri. He is reportedly the brother of
one of the closest associates of international terrorist
Osama bin Laden. This camp prepares militants for
terrorist formations in Kosovo and Macedonia. Their
'instructors' are former [ethnic] Albanian officers
who, in 1991-92, deserted from the Yugoslav Army."
The Independent reported on Oct. 21 that Interpol
has linked bin Laden to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
crime gangs, and that he "supplied one of his top
military commanders for an elite KLA unit" in Kosovo.
That was only the beginning. The target of the terrorist
gangs' deployment into Macedonia: to prevent, by
violence, the return of Macedonian refugees into the
villages "cleansed" by the KLA during this year; and
to take over the water reserve on which the Macedonian
capital, Skopje, depends.
Beyond that, these extremists are out to re-ignite
the ethnic "Clash of Civilizations" in the Balkans, to
crush the escalating resistance of Macedonia-which
has been actively playing the LaRouche card in
response to its national crisis (see EIR, Oct. 19)-and
to continue the march of destruction, possibly
triggering in the near future, an ethnic upheaval
in Greece or Bulgaria.
The fact that such an operation is taking place in
the middle of the "war on the Taliban and al-Qaeda"-the
fact that NATO's Lord George Robertson, U.S. Ambassador
James Pardew, and the European Union's
Javier Solana insist, to this very day, that Macedonia
has to surrender to the KLA ultimata, including the
subversion of the Macedonian Constitution, opens up a
dramatic contradiction. That contradiction throws
light on the virtual reality the world has been
propelled into after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Who Runs Al-Zawahiri? The Macedonian daily Dnevnik
reported on Oct. 19 that the group led by the
brother of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the closest
associate of bin Laden, had crossed the border from
Kosovo into Macedonia. Quoting intelligence sources,
Dnevnik wrote: "The younger brother of the chief of
the Balkan headquarters of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri,
with around 50 mujahideen, has entered
Macedonia and has started building fortifications
in the Skopska Crna Gora region. The aim of the terrorist
group is to attack the water supply" for Skopje.
The newspaper reported that the gang had been
stationed earlier in the training camp near the village of
Ropotovo, Kosovo-as Novosti also reported-and received
orders to enter the Macedonian town of
Matejce. On Oct. 16, a convoy of refugees, who were
previously expelled by the KLA, were supposed to
visit their destroyed houses. However, the observers
from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe entered the village first, and reported
that at least 50 armed men had communicated they were
going to fire on the convoy if they dared to enter
Matejce. The OSCE order to the heartbroken refugees
was: Go back, we cannot guarantee your security!
But who is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, whose brother
Zaiman is running terrorist camps under NATO
protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? As the London
Guardian wrote recently, "Even to say he is bin
Laden's right-hand man may understate his importance."
He is considered by many to be the real head of
what is known as the bin Laden group. "Some analysts
believe that in his current role in Afghanistan,
al-Zawahiri has taken over control of much of bin
Laden's terrorist finances, operations, plans, and
resources," wrote the Guardian. His known terrorist
career started no later than 1981, with his
involvement in the assassination of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat; it includes the massacre of 70
people on a tourist bus in 1997 Luxor, Egypt, and
the assassination attempt against Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak in 1995.
Strangely enough, according to an expert who
testified before a U.S. Congressional committee in January
2000, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service-something
almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants
to obtain. Should we be surprised that one of the
centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was London,
where one of his closest relatives resided? President
Mubarak is believed to have referred to him when,
after the Luxor massacre, he stated: "There are people
who carried out crimes and who were sentenced [in Egypt]
and live on British soil."
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PAS111A.html
Copyright, Executive The News, 2001. For fair use only.