TO MAJA.

There is no Slovanian language. There is a group of languages called Slovanian languages; like Russian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian, Polish...
But there is no Slovanian language.

Look at your own quote: meaning Slovanian is different from Bosnian.

Second it was in the artical itself that the guy was a criminal of war in Bosnia.You really think agancies who give help don't keep records?
Very easy to obtain such information when you use your name. Ever heard of a system which has the names of war criminals? You should "IF" you are really studying to become a lawyer.

trird As a Dr yes i should give him a treatment, but as a person......And that is exactly what i was saying personaly. And another misread detail i " NEVER" said kill the bastard.

Another odd thing i saw in your posting to me: I was " NOT" posting articals my sister Zoja however did.

Learn to keep us apart will you, i won't start and correct this all the time.Got better things to do.So next time if it sais Zoja above a piece or artical address her not me.

Emina

World: Europe

Fighting for a foreign land

Yugoslav troops have support from Russian volunteers

By Jacky Rowland in Pristina

While Nato and other sources allege widescale
desertions in the Yugoslav army, Russian volunteers
fighting alongside the Serbs troops say morale is high.

A number of Russians have joined the Yugoslav forces
since the conflict with Nato began and many of them
fight in front-line positions in Kosovo.

It is not clear how many foreigners
are fighting in the Yugoslav army,
but there could be hundreds.

In most cases, recruitment was
informal. Many volunteers said they
decided to join up after seeing news
reports about Kosovo on television.

The bulk of the foreign volunteers
appear to come from Russia,
although there are also recruits from other European
countries.

At least one unit of Russian volunteers is fighting against
the Kosovo Liberation Army in one of its remaining
strongholds in central Serbia.

Front-line

The Russians say they are on the front-line with regular
Yugoslav army units behind them.

Volunteers say rebel forces have been severely degraded
in recent weeks, although small cells continue to
operate.

The rebels appear to be reverting to classic insurgent
tactics such as sniper fire and ambushes.

The Russians came to Kosovo to oppose Nato rather
than to fight the KLA.

They described the build up of Nato forces in the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as a threat to regional
peace, and they dismissed reports from Nato about low
morale in the Yugoslav army and a lack of ammunition.

Many of the Russians appear to be idealists, fighting a
crusade in Kosovo.

They reject allegations of massacres carried out by the
security forces and blame the Nato bombing campaign
for the exodus of Kosovo Albanian refugees.


http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_348000/348340.stm

DDC,NICK,MAJA,DANIELA,AFRODITE,and other morons:

Serbian troops are decapitating, baby killing, village burning, human shield using, identification document stealing, nose cutting off, propagandizing, emasculating, uneducated(2 planes do not equal 200), ethnic cleansing, brainwashed, wedding ring and gold tooth stealing, megalomaniacal, child raping, genocidal, fascists (these are their good qualities). Anyone defending the Serbs (LIKE DDC) are also guilty of these crimes by association. America will crush the lying NAZI Serbs under the heel of NATO justice.

STOP SERBIAN TERROR
WWW.KOSOVA.NU
(faqja e tanishme)

Emina, are you saying that all humanitarian workers have lists of suspected war criminals with them all the time and they check them before they give away food? You are so stupid. I did not see them carrying computers around while they are giving away food. And second, if he were a war criminal, the representitevs of criminal court from Haag where there. Why weren't they called to arrest him?

There is a Slovenian language, not Slovanian.

Zoja, Emina, Kolina, whatever. You are the same person.

Albanian Refugee Sexually Assaults Australian Translator


SYDNEY, May 12 - An Albanian refugee, "fresh off the boat" (meaning a
flight from Europe), sexually assaulted a female Australian translator,
ABC TV, the country's national network, reported on May 12 from Sydney
in an evening broadcast (7:24PM AEST). The incident took place at the
East Hills holding center for the Kosovo refugees, the police said,
adding that the victim does not want charges to be laid.
The Department of Immigration has confirmed an incident took place
between a Kosovo Albanian male and a member of the Australian community.
The Department says steps are being taken to ensure the Kosovo Albanians
have an understanding of the Australian way of life and are aware of
their responsibilities while here.
---
TiM Ed.: Teach them to "have an understanding of the Australian way of
life?" Which implies that sexually assaulting women is a permissive
practice among the Kosovo Albanians. And that the Aussies now have to
give them a lecture on what constitutes civilized behavior.

[TellitLikeitIs: According to the articles I read, the Australian
government responded to this by ordering volunteers to receive lectures
on "cultural sensitivies" of the Kosovo Albanian refugees. Interesting,
one of your citizens gets raped and then you order her and her
colleagues to try and understand the culture of the rapist?]

With government "protection" like that, no wonder the victim didn't want
to press charges. Especially as the ABC report also said that the Kosovo
refugees were being moved from the East Hill army base to temporary
homes. From where they are free to roam, including possibly taking
revenge on the victim if she were to file charges.
Here's what an Australian TiM reader from Melbourne said about the
situation:

"This is a very serious crime but the Police are ignoring it. I doubt
the fact that this poor victim did not want to press charges. So it
looks, we will have two different laws. One for the Australians, and one
for the Albanians. Aussie government needs to learn very fast before it
is too late. This serious crime was committed by one out of 400
(refugees) within 24 hours of arrival in our country at the taxpayers'
expenses. What will happen when they let them loose? The sooner they go
back (where?), the better for us. But they won't go back. Well, the
majority won't, anyway. A free trip, cheap holiday, cellular phone,
.etc."

For another version of this story, check out:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/19990513_0750341_203_0103.asp

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 5/3/99


he Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has embraced
and some members of Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing
campaign, is a terrorist organization that has financed much of its war
effort with profits from the sale of heroin.

Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in five
countries, including the United States, believe the KLA has aligned
itself with an extensive organized crime network centered in Albania
that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to buyers throughout Western
Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States.

The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug smuggling
cartel based in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is
manned by ethic Albanians who are members of the Kosovo National Front,
whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it is one of the most
powerful heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its
profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons.

The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and sea
routes from Turkey through Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western
Europe and elsewhere is so frequent and massive that intelligence
officials have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."

Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is considering the use of ground
troops to support the Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic. Last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, called on the United
States to arm the KLA so ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend
themselves against the Serbs.

Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman introduced a bill that would provide $25
million to equip 10,000 men or 10 battalions with small arms and
anti-tank weapons for up to 18 months.

In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA -- formally known as
the Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, or UCK -- as an international
terrorist organization, saying it had bankrolled its operations with
proceeds from the international heroin trade and from loans from known
terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

"They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're
freedom fighters," said one top drug official who asked not to be
identified.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in a recent report, said the
heroin is smuggled along the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats
initially to Austria, Germany and Italy, where it is routed to eager
buyers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
Switzerland and Great Britain. Some of the white powder, the DEA report
said, finds its way to the United States.

The DEA report, prepared for the National Narcotics Intelligence
Consumer's Committee (NNICC), said a majority of the heroin seized in
Europe is transported over the Balkan Route. It said drug smuggling
organizations composed of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were considered
"second only to Turkish gangs as the predominant heroin smugglers along
the Balkan Route." The NNICC is a coalition of federal agencies involved
in the war on drugs.

"Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use of violence and for their
involvement in international weapons trafficking," the DEA report said.

A separate DEA document, written last month by U.S. drug agents in
Austria, said that while the war in the former Yugoslavia had reduced
the drug flow to Western Europe along the Balkan Route, new land routes
have opened across Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The report
said, however, the diversion appeared to be only temporary.

The DEA estimated that between four and six metric tons of heroin leaves
each month from Turkey bound for Western Europe, the bulk of it
traveling over the Balkan Route.

A second high-ranking U.S. drug official, who also requested anonymity,
said government and police corruption in Kosovo, along with widespread
poverty throughout the region, had contributed to an increase in heroin
trafficking by the KLA and other ethnic Albanians. The official said
drug smuggling is "out of control" and little is being done by
neighboring states to get a handle on it.

"This is the definition of the wild, wild West," said the official. "The
bombing has slowed it down, but has not brought it to a halt. And,
eventually, it will pick up where it left off."

The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has been of concern to several
countries:


* The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that Kosovo's
ethnic Albanians were "the primary sources of supply for cocaine and
heroin in that country."
* Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA was
among several organizations in southern Europe that had built a vast
drug-smuggling network. France's Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs said
in the report that the KLA was a key player in the rapidly expanding
drugs-for-arms business and helped transport $2 billion worth of drugs
annually into Western Europe.

* German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in drug profits is
laundered annually by Kosovo smugglers, through as many as 200 private
banks or currency-exchange offices. They noted in a recent report that
ethnic Albanians had established one of the most prominent drug
smuggling organizations in Europe.

* Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could
have netted the KLA profits in the "high tens of millions of dollars."
The highly regarded British-based journal noted at the time that the KLA
had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money,
along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United
States.


Several leading intelligence officials said the KLA has, in part,
financed its purchase of AK-47s, semiautomatic rifles, shotguns,
handguns, grenade launchers, ammunition, artillery shells, explosives,
detonators and anti-personnel mines through drug profits -- cash
laundered through banks in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. They also
said KLA rebels have paid for weapons using the heroin itself as
currency.

The profits, according to the officials, also have been used to purchase
anti-aircraft and anti-armor rockets, along with electronic surveillance
equipment.

KOSOVO "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" FINANCED BY ORGANISED CRIME

by Michel Chossudovsky

Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and author of The

Globalization of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third

World Network, Penang and Zed Books, London, 1997.

C Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, 1999. All rights reserved.
Permission is granted to post this text on non-commercial internet
sites, provided the essay remains intact and the copyright note is
displayed. To publish this text in printed and/or other forms contact
the author at [email protected]

Heralded by the global media as a humanitarian peace-keeping mission,
NATO's ruthless bombing of Belgrade and Pristina goes far beyond the
breach of international law. While Slobodan Milosevic is demonised,
portrayed as a remorseless dictator, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is
upheld as a self-respecting nationalist movement struggling for the
rights of ethnic Albanians. The truth of the matter is that the KLA is
sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United
States and its allies.

Following a pattern set during the War in Bosnia, public opinion has
been carefully misled. The multibillion dollar Balkans narcotics trade
has played a crucial role in "financing the conflict" in Kosovo in
accordance with Western economic, strategic and military objectives.
Amply documented by European police files, acknowledged by numerous
studies, the links of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to criminal
syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union have been known to
Western governments and intelligence agencies since the mid-1990s.

"...The financing of the Kosovo guerilla war poses critical questions
and it sorely test claims of an "ethical" foreign policy. Should the
West back a guerilla army that appears to partly financed by organised
crime." 1

While KLA leaders were shaking hands with US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright at Rambouillet, Europol (the European Police
Organization based in the Hague) was "preparing a report for European
interior and justice ministers on a connection between the KLA and
Albanian drug gangs."2 In the meantime, the rebel army has been
skilfully heralded by the global media (in the months preceding the NATO
bombings) as broadly representative of the interests of ethnic Albanians
in Kosovo.

With KLA leader Hashim Thaci (a 29 year "freedom fighter") appointed as
chief negotiator at Rambouillet, the KLA has become the de facto
helmsman of the peace process on behalf of the ethnic Albanian majority
and this despite its links to the drug trade. The West was relying on
its KLA puppets to rubber-stamp an agreement which would have
transformed Kosovo into an occupied territory under Western
Administration.

Ironically Robert Gelbard, America's special envoy to Bosnia, had
described the KLA last year as "terrorists". Christopher Hill, America's
chief negotiator and architect of the Rambouillet agreement "has also
been a strong critic of the KLA for its alleged dealings in drugs."3
Moreover, barely a few two months before Rambouillet, the US State
Department had acknowledged (based on reports from the US Observer
Mission) the role of the KLA in terrorising and uprooting ethnic
Albanians:

"...the KLA harass or kidnap anyone who comes to the police, ... KLA
representatives had threatened to kill villagers and burn their homes if
they did not join the KLA [a process which has continued since the NATO
bombings]... [T]he KLA harassment has reached such intensity that
residents of six villages in the Stimlje region are "ready to flee." 4

While backing a "freedom movement" with links to the drug trade, the
West seems also intent in bypassing the civilian Kosovo Democratic
League and its leader Ibrahim Rugova who has called for an end to the
bombings and expressed his desire to negotiate a peaceful settlement
with the Yugoslav authorities.5 It is worth recalling that a few days
before his March 31st Press Conference, Rugova had been reported by the
KLA (alongside three other leaders including Fehmi Agani) to have been
killed by the Serbs.Covert Financing of "Freedom Fighters"

Remember Oliver North and the Contras? The pattern in Kosovo is similar
to other CIA covert operations in Central America, Haiti and Afghanistan
where "freedom fighters" were financed through the laundering of drug
money. Since the onslaught of the Cold War, Western intelligence
agencies have developed a complex relationship to the illegal narcotics
trade. In case after case, drug money laundered in the international
banking system has financed covert operations.

According to author Alfred McCoy, the pattern of covert financing was
established in the Indochina war. In the 1960s, the Meo army in Laos was
funded by the narcotics trade as part of Washington's military strategy
against the combined forces of the neutralist government of Prince
Souvanna Phouma and the Pathet Lao.6

The pattern of drug politics set in Indochina has since been replicated
in Central America and the Caribbean. "The rising curve of cocaine
imports to the US", wrote journalist John Dinges "followed almost
exactly the flow of US arms and military advisers to Central America".7

The military in Guatemala and Haiti, to which the CIA provided covert
support, were known to be involved in the trade of narcotics into
Southern Florida. And as revealed in the Iran-Contra and Bank of
Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) scandals, there was strong
evidence that covert operations were funded through the laundering of
drug money. "Dirty money" recycled through the banking system--often
through an anonymous shell company-- became "covert money," used to
finance various rebel groups and guerilla movements including the
Nicaraguan Contras and the Afghan Mujahadeen. According to a 1991 Time
Magazine report:

"Because the US wanted to supply the mujehadeen rebels in Afghanistan
with stinger missiles and other military hardware it needed the full
cooperation of Pakistan. By the mid-1980s, the CIA operation in
Islamabad was one of the largest US intelligence stations in the World.
`If BCCI is such an embarrassment to the US that forthright
investigations are not being pursued it has a lot to do with the blind
eye the US turned to the heroin trafficking in Pakistan', said a US
intelligence officer.8America and Germany join Hands

Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands in
establishing their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans. Their
intelligence agencies have also collaborated. According to intelligence
analyst John Whitley, covert support to the Kosovo rebel army was
established as a joint endeavour between the CIA and Germany's Bundes
Nachrichten Dienst (BND) (which previously played a key role in
installing a right wing nationalist government under Franjo Tudjman in
Croatia).9 The task to create and finance the KLA was initially given to
Germany: "They used German uniforms, East German weapons and were
financed, in part, with drug money".10 According to Whitley, the CIA
was, subsequently instrumental in training and equipping the KLA in
Albania.11

The covert activities of Germany's BND were consistent with Bonn's
intent to expand its "Lebensraum" into the Balkans. Prior to the onset
of the civil war in Bosnia, Germany and its Foreign Minister Hans
Dietrich Genscher had actively supported secession; it had "forced the
pace of international diplomacy" and pressured its Western allies to
recognize Slovenia and Croatia. According to the Geopolitical Drug
Watch, both Germany and the US favoured (although not officially) the
formation of a "Greater Albania" encompassing Albania, Kosovo and parts
of Macedonia.12 According to Sean Gervasi, Germany was seeking a free
hand among its allies "to pursue economic dominance in the whole of
Mitteleuropa."13


Islamic Fundamentalism in Support of the KLA

Bonn and Washington's "hidden agenda" consisted in triggering
nationalist liberation movements in Bosnia and Kosovo with the ultimate
purpose of destabilising Yugoslavia. The latter objective was also
carried out "by turning a blind eye" to the influx of mercenaries and
financial support from Islamic fundamentalist organisations.14

Mercenaries financed by Saudi Arabia and Koweit had been fighting in
Bosnia.15 And the Bosnian pattern was replicated in Kosovo: Mujahadeen
mercenaries from various Islamic countries are reported to be fighting
alongside the KLA in Kosovo. German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were
reported to be training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.16

According to a Deutsche Press-Agentur report, financial support from
Islamic countries to the KLA had been channelled through the former
Albanian chief of the National Information Service (NIS), Bashkim
Gazidede.17 "Gazidede, reportedly a devout Moslem who fled Albania in
March of last year [1997], is presently [1998] being investigated for
his contacts with Islamic terrorist organizations."18

The supply route for arming KLA "freedom fighters" are the rugged
mountainous borders of Albania with Kosovo and Macedonia. Albania is
also a key point of transit of the Balkans drug route which supplies
Western Europe with grade four heroin. 75% of the heroin entering
Western Europe is from Turkey. And a large part of drug shipments
originating in Turkey transits through the Balkans. According to the US
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), "it is estimated that 4-6 metric
tons of heroin leave each month from Turkey having [through the Balkans]
as destination Western Europe."19 A recent intelligence report by
Germany's Federal Criminal Agency suggests that: "Ethnic Albanians are
now the most prominent group in the distribution of heroin in Western
consumer countries."20


The Laundering of Dirty Money

In order to thrive, the criminal syndicates involved in the Balkans
narcotics trade need friends in high places. Smuggling rings with
alleged links to the Turkish State are said to control the trafficking
of heroin through the Balkans "cooperating closely with other groups
with which they have political or religious ties" including criminal
groups in Albanian and Kosovo.21 In this new global financial
environment, powerful undercover political lobbies connected to
organized crime cultivate links to prominent political figures and
officials of the military and intelligence establishment.

The narcotics trade nonetheless uses respectable banks to launder large
amounts of dirty money. While comfortably removed from the smuggling
operations per se, powerful banking interests in Turkey but mainly those
in financial centres in Western Europe discretely collect fat
commissions in a multibillion dollar money laundering operation. These
interests have high stakes in ensuring a safe passage of drug shipments
into Western European markets.


The Albanian Connection

Arms smuggling from Albania into Kosovo and Macedonia started at the
beginning of 1992, when the Democratic Party came to power, headed by
President Sali Berisha. An expansive underground economy and cross
border trade had unfolded. A triangular trade in oil, arms and narcotics
had developed largely as a result of the embargo imposed by the
international community on Serbia and Montenegro and the blockade
enforced by Greece against Macedonia.

Industry and agriculture in Kosovo were spearheaded into bankruptcy
following the IMF's lethal "economic medicine" imposed on Belgrade in
1990. The embargo was imposed on Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanians and Serbs
were driven into abysmal poverty. Economic collapse created an
environment which fostered the progress of illicit trade. In Kosovo, the
rate of unemployment increased to a staggering 70 percent (according to
Western sources).

Poverty and economic collapse served to exacerbate simmering ethnic
tensions. Thousands of unemployed youths "barely out of their Teens"
from an impoverished population, were drafted into the ranks of the
KLA...22

In neighbouring Albania, the free market reforms adopted since 1992 had
created conditions which favoured the criminalisation of State
institutions. Drug money was also laundered in the Albanian pyramids
(ponzi schemes) which mushroomed during the government of former
President Sali Berisha (1992-1997).23 These shady investment funds were
an integral part of the economic reforms inflicted by Western creditors
on Albania.

Drug barons in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia (with links to the Italian
mafia) had become the new economic elites, often associated with Western
business interests. In turn the financial proceeds of the trade in drugs
and arms were recycled towards other illicit activities (and vice versa)
including a vast prostitution racket between Albania and Italy. Albanian
criminal groups operating in Milan, "have become so powerful running
prostitution rackets that they have even taken over the Calabrians in
strength and influence."24

The application of "strong economic medicine" under the guidance of the
Washington based Bretton Woods institutions had contributed to wrecking
Albania's banking system and precipitating the collapse of the Albanian
economy. The resulting chaos enabled American and European
transnationals to carefully position themselves. Several Western oil
companies including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their
eyes rivetted on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil-deposits. Western
investors were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of chrome,
copper, gold, nickel and platinum... The Adenauer Foundation had been
lobbying in the background on behalf of German mining interests. 25

Berisha's Minister of Defence Safet Zoulali (alleged to have been
involved in the illegal oil and narcotics trade) was the architect of
the agreement with Germany's Preussag (handing over control over
Albania's chrome mines) against the competing bid of the US led
consortium of Macalloy Inc. in association with Rio Tinto Zimbabwe
(RTZ).26

Large amounts of narco-dollars had also been recycled into the
privatisation programmes leading to the acquisition of State assets by
the mafias. In Albania, the privatisation programme had led virtually
overnight to the development of a property owning class firmly committed
to the "free market". In Northern Albania, this class was associated
with the Guegue "families" linked to the Democratic Party.

Controlled by the Democratic Party under the presidency of Sali Berisha
(1992-97), Albania's largest financial "pyramid" VEFA Holdings had been
set up by the Guegue "families" of Northern Albania with the support of
Western banking interests. VEFA was under investigation in Italy in 1997
for its ties to the Mafia which allegedly used VEFA to launder large
amounts of dirty money.27

According to one press report (based on intelligence sources), senior
members of the Albanian government during the Presidency of Sali Berisha
including cabinet members and members of the secret police SHIK were
alleged to be involved in drugs trafficking and illegal arms trading
into Kosovo:

(...) The allegations are very serious. Drugs, arms, contraband
cigarettes all are believed to have been handled by a company run openly
by Albania's ruling Democratic Party, Shqiponja (...). In the course of
1996 Defence Minister, Safet Zhulali [was alleged] to had used his
office to facilitate the transport of arms, oil and contraband
cigarettes. (...) Drugs barons from Kosovo (...) operate in Albania with
impunity, and much of the transportation of heroin and other drugs
across Albania, from Macedonia and Greece en route to Italy, is believed
to be organised by Shik, the state security police (...). Intelligence
agents are convinced the chain of command in the rackets goes all the
way to the top and have had no hesitation in naming ministers in their
reports.28

The trade in narcotics and weapons was allowed to prosper despite the
presence since 1993 of a large contingent of American troops at the
Albanian-Macedonian border with a mandate to enforce the embargo. The
West had turned a blind eye. The revenues from oil and narcotics were
used to finance the purchase of arms (often in terms of direct barter):
"Deliveries of oil to Macedonia (skirting the Greek embargo [in 1993-4]
can be used to cover heroin, as do deliveries of kalachnikov rifles to
Albanian `brothers' in Kosovo".29

The Northern tribal clans or "fares" had also developed links with
Italy's crime syndicates.30 In turn, the latter played a key role in
smuggling arms across the Adriatic into the Albanian ports of Dures and
Valona. At the outset in 1992, the weapons channelled into Kosovo were
largely small arms including Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, RPK and PPK
machine-guns, 12.7 calibre heavy machine-guns, etc.

The proceeds of the narcotics trade has enabled the KLA to rapidly
develop a force of some 30,000 men. More recently, the KLA has acquired
more sophisticated weaponry including anti-aircraft and antiarmor
rockets. According to Belgrade, some of the funds have come directly
from the CIA "funnelled through a so-called "Government of Kosovo" based
in Geneva, Switzerland. Its Washington office employs the
public-relations firm of

Ruder Finn--notorious for its slanders of the Belgrade government".31The
KLA has also acquired electronic surveillance equipment which enables it
to receive NATO satellite information concerning the movement of the
Yugoslav Army. The KLA training camp in Albania is said to "concentrate
onheavy weapons training - rocket propelled grenades, medium caliber
cannons, tanks and transporter use, as well as on communications, and
command and control". (According to Yugoslav government sources.32

These extensive deliveries of weapons to the Kosovo rebel army were
consistent with Western geopolitical objectives. Not surprisingly, there
has been a "deafening silence" of the international media regarding the
Kosovo arms-drugs trade. In the words of a 1994 Report of the
Geopolitical Drug Watch: "the trafficking [of drugs and arms] is
basically being judged on its geostrategic implications (...) In Kosovo,
drugs and weapons trafficking is fuelling geopolitical hopes and
fears"...33

The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the
signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome
"marriage of convenience" with the mafia. "Freedom fighters" were put in
place, the narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to "finance the
Kosovo conflict" with the ultimate objective of destabilising the
Belgrade government and fully recolonising the Balkans. The destruction
of an entire country is the outcome. Western governments which
participated in the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility
in the deaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic
Albanian and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were
brutally uprooted from towns and villages in Kosovo as a result of the
bombings.


NOTES

1. Roger Boyes and Eske Wright, Drugs Money Linked to the Kosovo Rebels
The

Times, London, Monday, March 24, 1999.

2. Ibid.

3. Philip Smucker and Tim Butcher, "Shifting stance over KLA has
betrayed'

Albanians", Daily Telegraph, London, 6 April 1999

4. KDOM Daily Report, released by the Bureau of European and Canadian

Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of

State, Washington, DC, December 21, 1998; Compiled by EUR/SCE

(202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo

Diplomatic Observer Mission, December 21, 1998.

5. "Rugova, sous protection serbe appelle a l'arret des raides", Le
Devoir,

Montreal, 1 April 1999.

6. See Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia Harper
and

Row, New York, 1972.

7. See John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall
of

Manuel Noriega, Times Books, New York, 1991.

8. "The Dirtiest Bank of All," Time, July 29, 1991, p. 22.

9. Truth in Media, Phoenix, 2 April, 1999; see also Michel Collon, Poker


Menteur, editions EPO, Brussels, 1997.

10. Quoted in Truth in Media, Phoenix, 2 April, 1999).

11. Ibid.

12. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No 32, June 1994, p. 4

13. Sean Gervasi, "Germany, US and the Yugoslav Crisis", Covert Action

Quarterly, No. 43, Winter 1992-93).

14. See Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1993.

15. For further details see Michel Collon, Poker Menteur, editions EPO,

Brussels, 1997, p. 288.

16. Truth in Media, Kosovo in Crisis, Phoenix, 2 April 1999.

17. Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 13, 1998.

18. Ibid.

19. Daily News, Ankara, 5 March 1997.

20. Quoted in Boyes and Wright, op cit.

21. ANA, Athens, 28 January 1997, see also Turkish Daily News, 29
January

1997.

22. Brian Murphy, KLA Volunteers Lack Experience, The Associated Press,
5

April 1999.

23. See Geopolitical Drug Watch, No. 35, 1994, p. 3, see also Barry
James,

In Balkans, Arms for Drugs, The International Herald Tribune Paris, June
6,

1994.

24. The Guardian, 25 March 1997.

25. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, La crisi albanese,

Edizioni Gruppo Abele, Torino, 1998.

26. Ibid.

27. Andrew Gumbel, The Gangster Regime We Fund, The Independent,
February

14, 1997, p. 15.

28. Ibid.

29. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No. 35, 1994, p. 3.

30. Geopolitical Drug Watch, No 66, p. 4.

31. Quoted in Workers' World, May 7, 1998.

Kosovo Liberation Army and Albanian Sponsors
Have Well Documented Roots in The Heroin Trade

By Michael C. Ruppert

The Drug Trade Is Entrenched in NATO Politics

An exceptional record of respected media sources from the U.S. and
Europe have documented that
the Kosovo Liberation Army and their Albanian sponsors are heroin
financed organized crime
groups struggling to dominate the flow of middle eastern heroin into
Europe and even the Eastern
United States.

The Christian Science Monitor reported on Oct. 20, 1994: "Disrupted by
the Yugoslav conflict,
drug trafficking across the Balkans is making a comeback as Albanian
mafia barons carve out a
new smuggling route to Western Europe, bypassing the peninsula's war
zones, according to United
Nations and other narcotics experts." To document the increase in
traffic through the Albanian
Kosovar region The Monitor continued, "For example, just 14 pounds of
hard drugs were seized
by Hungarian police in 1990, but by August this year [1994] the figure
had risen to 1,304 pounds."

In describing the then evolving trade, which was coming to be dominated
by Kosovar Albanians
The Monitor added, "But European police chiefs fear the conduit will
strengthen Kosovo Albanian
drug syndicates - some of the most powerful on the continent - whose
tentacles have stretched as
far as the East coast of the United States…

"From their base in Velki Trnovac in southern Serbia, dubbed the
'Medellin of the Balkans,'
Albanian mafia chiefs oversee their European drug operation and are
suspected of masterminding
the new Balkan route."


Colombia in the Balkans

The highly respected Jane's Intelligence Review from Great Britain went
much deeper in
predicting the coming crisis

in a February 1, 1995 article entitled The Balkan Medellin. Three
paragraphs from that article are
so compelling we reprint them here in their entirety.

"The Albanian-dominated region of western Macedonia accounts for a
disproportionate
share of Macedonia's (FYROM) shrinking GDP. This situation has
strengthened
Albanophobic sentiments among the ethnic Macedonian majority, especially
as a great deal
of revenue is thought to derive from Albanian narco-terrorism as well as
associated
gun-running and cross-border smuggling to and from Albania, Bulgaria and
the Kosovo
province of Serbia. Although its extent and forms remain in dispute,
this rising Albanian
economic power is helping to turn the Balkans into a hub of criminality.


"Previously transported to Western Europe through former Yugoslavia,
heroin from Turkey,
the Transcaucus and points further east is now being increasingly routed
to Italy via the
Black Sea, Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. This is a development that
has strengthened
the Albanian mafia which is now thought to control 70% of the illegal
heroin market in
Germany and Switzerland. Closely allied to the powerful Sicilian mafia,
the Albanian
associates have also greatly benefited from the presence of large
numbers of mainly Kosovar
Albanians in a number of western European countries; Switzerland alone
now has over
100,000 ethnic Albanian residents. As well as providing a perfect cover
for Albanian
criminals, this diaspora is also a useful source of income for
racketeers…

"If left unchecked, this growing Albanian narco-terrorism could lead to
a Colombian
syndrome in the Southern Balkans, or the emergence of a situation in
which the Albanian
mafia becomes powerful enough to control one or more states in the
region. In practical
terms, this will involve either Albania or Macedonia, or both.
Politically, this is now being
done by channeling growing foreign exchange (forex) profits from
narco-terrorism into local
governments and political parties. In Albania, the ruling Democratic
Party (DP) led by
President Sali Berisha is now widely suspected of tacitly tolerating and
even directly profiting
from drug-trafficking for wider politico-economic reasons, namely the
financing of
secessionist political parties and other groupings in Kosovo and
Macedonia."

These four-year-old evaluations, along with an abundance of other
evidence of Albanian-Kosovar
mafia expansion paint a whole new picture of what is really happening in
Kosovo. Clearly Serbia is
legitimately defending itself from an organized crime syndicate taking
control of one of its provinces.

How powerful is the Albanian mafia? Well, as far back as 1985 it was
powerful enough to frighten
New York U.S. attorney Rudy Giulliani who, according to a Wall Street
Journal story dated
September 9, was receiving special personal protection after prosecuting
a heroin case in New
York City connected to a ring of powerful Albanian traffickers.

The Journal wrote, "But it is drug trafficking that has gained Albanian
organized crime the most
notoriety. Some Albanians, according to federal Drug Enforcement Agency
officials, are key traders
in the 'Balkan connection' the Istanbul-to-Belgrade heroin route. While
less well known than the
so-called Sicilian and French connections, the Balkan route in some
years may move 24% to 40%
of the U.S. heroin supply, officials say."

If the Albanians were moving 24 to 40% fourteen years ago then, given
their growing control over
the traffic through the region, their access to Western Europe and
mobility throughout

the world, they may well control more than half of the heroin now
entering the United States and
law enforcement sources indicate that they control 75% of the heroin
entering Western Europe.


A Brilliant Voice From Canada

Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa
has written an
absolutely brilliant article on the Kosovo war which decimates, in its
entirety, the U.S. government's
stated version of events and lays bare a plan to re-colonize the region
on behalf of Germany and the
United States. The meticulously footnoted article sums up the entire
Kosovo nightmare in one
sentence by saying, "The west was relying on its KLA puppets to
rubber-stamp an agreement
which would have transformed Kosovo into an occupied territory under
Western administration."

After describing in detail the heroin-financed, organized crime,
political power structure of the
region, and noting carefully that there are other organized political
entities not involved in the drug
trade speaking on behalf of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Chossudovsky
documents the military
and intelligence alliance between Bonn (now Berlin) and Washington to
create the KLA.

"Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands in
establishing their respective
spheres of influence in the Balkans. Their intelligence agencies have
also collaborated. According to
intelligence analyst John Whitley, covert support to the Kosovo rebel
army was established
between the CIA and Germany's [BND]…The task to create and finance the
KLA was initially
given to Germany: "They used German uniforms, East German weapons and
were financed, in part,
with drug money. According to Whitley, the CIA was subsequently
instrumental in training and
equipping the KLA in Albania."

Giving the overall economic perspective, Chossudovsky notes the effect
of often brutal economic
sanctions imposed by the IMF and other banking institutions which so
often presage a region's
descent into apparent anarchy before its rescue by the "benevolent"
industrial powers.

"The application of strong 'economic' medicine' under the guidance of
the Washington based
Bretton Woods institutions had contributed to wrecking Albania's banking
system and precipitating
the collapse of Albania's economy. The resulting chaos enabled American
and European
transnationals to carefully position themselves. Several western oil
companies [some represented by
Richard Armitage] including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had
their eyes riveted on
Albania's abundant and unexplored oil deposits. Western investors were
also gawking Albania's
extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold nickel and platinum…"

Given these undeniable facts, and a well documented history which the
Internet and publications like
this will not forget, the current propaganda and very real war being
fought in Kosovo takes on a
new and unforgivable light. Ronald Reagan's comparison of the Contras in
Central America to
America's Founding Fathers is today as comical as it is offensive in
light of what we know about the
Contra war and how the Contras were financed. The Mujahedeen Freedom
Fighters of Afghanistan
and Pakistan who we financed with heroin from the same fields which now
supply the KLA have

become terrorists who attack embassies and target American citizens. The
forgotten Meo tribesman
of Laos, who Ted Shackley created with heroin from the Golden Triangle
are now basically
forgotten - those who survived having been resettled in the U.S. and
elsewhere. But the warlords
remain in Washington, Berlin, London, the Golden Triangle, the Golden
Crescent, Albania and
Kosovo.

This writer has said many times and in many places that these wars,
destabilizations and "economic
cleansings" are planned and orchestrated years, even decades in advance.
It was a bittersweet
affirmation for me to read Chossudovsky's own analysis:

"The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the
signing of the 1995 Dayton
agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome 'marriage of convenience'
with the mafia.
"Freedom Fighters were put in place, the narcotics trade enabled
Washington and Bonn to "finance
the Kosovo conflict" with the ultimate objective of destabilizing the
Belgrade government and fully
recolonizing the Balkans."

100 albanian civilians killed by the Serbs in Rahovec, Kosovë

Rahovec, 16 May (Kosovapress)

During the last offensive in the southwestern part of Kosova, over 100 civillians have been killed, and many others have dissaprared. A massive execution took place a the place called "Dheu i Kuq" in the village of Krushe e Madhe. The civilians were gathered in that area after they were excpelled from their houses by the Serbs. The Roma (gypsie) population was in the area and since they refused to separate from the Albanians, they were executed as well.

Until now, the following people have been identified: Nazif Vesel Hoti (80), father of Ukshin Hoti, Fahredin Shemsedin Hoti, doctor, Kreshnik Fahredin Hoti, Adem Mursel Hoti, Zejnullah Adem Hoti, Emrullah Adem Hoti, Kujtim Emrullah Hoti, Florim Emrullah Hoti, Baki Emrullah Hoti, Beqir Ymer Hoti, Agim Sejfullah Hoti, Valon Beqir Hoti, Shaban Qamil Hoti, Ramadan Sahit Hoti, Asllan Nezir Hoti, Abdullah Idriz Hoti, Fahri hajrullah Hoti, Ymer Haxhi Hoti, Xhavit Isuf Hoti, Xhemali Xhavit Hoti, Shukri Xhavit Hoti, Fehmi Sejfullah Hoti, Asaf Nexhat Hoti, old man Haxhi Hoti, Petrit Durak Hoti, Salih Durak Hoti, Bashkim Imer Hoti, Hydaj Avdullah Hoti, Arben Hoti, Sami Hoti, Hazër Bajrush Shala, Mentor Hasan Shala, Arif Danë Shala, Sami Sadik Nalli, Salih Sadik Nalli, Agim Abdyl Nalli, Rexhep Jakup Rexhepi, Hajriz Begush Veliu, Habib Latif Duraku, Jeton Abdyl Duraku, Ibrahim Latif Duraku, Eqrem Jemin Duraku, Muharrem Emin Duraku, Agim Muharrem Duraku, Ismet Emin, Duraku, Osman Hasan Sefullahu, Beselet Jakup Krasniqi, Rrustem Sadri Reshiti, Selman Krasniqi, Selim Bajram Taha, Dahim Bajram Taha, Qamil bajram Taha, Selajdin Islam Dina, Fahredin Selajdin Dina, Florim Selajdin Dina, Vera Duraku, Bashkim, Ramadani, gipsy, Petrit Skënderi, gipsy, Bali Skënderi, gipsy, Xhavit Mahmuti, gipsy, Fatmir Mahmuti, gipsy.

All of them are of Krusha e madhe. Zenel Bajrami, from Carraleva, Astrit Bajrami, from Gjakova, Agron Halil Krasniqi, from Opterusha, Fahredin Shemsedin Hoti, from Mitrovica, three women of family Behra, the wife of Shyqyri Halitit and three women of family Krasniqi. The disappeared people are the following people:Isuf Ahmet Gashi, Maxhun Zenun Gashi, Nehat Zenun Gashi, Nexhmedin Sylë Gashi, Agim Sylë Gashi, Selman Ramadan Gashi, Hilmi Sefer Gashi, Rrustem Ibrahim Ibrahimi. Seven dead bodies have been fund in yard of Haxhi Sinan Halitit,but we do not have any information about their identity. they have been buried by KLA soldiers.Meanwhile 17 dead bodies have been found in the yard of Haxhi Qerimit and of Nallaj, but they could not be buried because serb were present. Police has burned them in a massive grave.All these people have been killed by a grenade which has been thrown inside the house. There is suspected that there are more killed people. Meanwhile there are 4 killed KLA soldiers: Fitim Islam Duraku, Enver Eqrem Duraku, Bekim Ismet Gashi and Dalip Isuf Behra.

15 innocent civilians, victims of serbian terrorism

Ferizaj, Shtime, Suharekë, 16 May (Kosovapress) During the serbian hordes attacks over the civil albanian population in the villages of the municipalities of Shtime, Ferizaj and Suharekë, who were placed in the gorges of Topilës, Lanishtit and Mollapolcit, serbian criminal bands have executed 15 albanian citizens. From all these people, up to now we have confirmations only about these executed people: Danush Ramadani (72), from Luzhaku, Mehmet Shashivari (73), from Jezerci, paralized, Shaip Daka (56), paralized from Vërsheci of Suharekës, Hajrie Bajrush Ukësmajli (60), from Jezerci with her 6 year son, Lirie Ukësmajlin, Halil Hyseni (49), from Petrova, Nazmi Ukësmajli (29), from Jezerci, Hasan Beqa (15), from Raçaku, Mehdi Salihu (56), sick, from Mollapolci, Sherif Hazir Buçaj (32), Halil Buçaj (38), Osman Bajraktari (45), Hamdi Palushi (60), Ali Palushi (60), all from the village of Budakovë. According to the witnesses a number of these citizens has reached to escape in Albania. Along the way to Albania, albanian column with civil people has been stopped in the entrance of the village Balinc and in the exit of the village Raçak and as result some 150 civilians were taken by them. According to the witnesses, serbian police was wearing KLA uniforms. The people that have been taken from civilian column are mainly young people but there are also some young girls among them. There are no reports about their fate.There are suspection that large number of albanian people are disappeared, thus KLA units are searching the terren looking for them. As result of the mines which are placed along the roads by serbian police, on Friday 14 May in the village Dremjak, Agim Tahiri from this village was wounded. Meanwhile, today at 00.30 o`clock for the same reason Blerim Ismaili and Islam Ismaili from the village Mollapolc have been injured.

While the international groups are not allowed to investigate the sites where the serbian troops killed innocent civilians, hundreds of pictures taken after the crimes occurred show that monsters that were active in Bosnia are now doing their dirty work in Kosova as well.

How many Albanian civilians are dead so far as a result of the Serbian terror? Maybe we will never know. The estimated number is around 2500.

They never found out in Bosnia. New mass graves found in Bosnia change the estimated number of casualties daily.

"Lying is a form of our patriotism and is evidence of our innate intelligence. We lie in a creative, imaginative, and inventive way."
Dobrica COSIC - former president of self styled Yugoslavia and a Member of Serb Academy of Arts and Sciences

"If you kill one person, you are a murderer, if you kill ten people you are a celebrity, and if you kill a quarter of a million people, you get invited to a peace conference."
- Haris Silajdzic, Bosnian Foreign Minister referring to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic

To serbian brothers!

Ovo je ovde Balkan!!!
What else can i say?
Be strong,brother and sisters!
The bulgarians are with you,no matter
what our goverment is doing.