Be sure to check out the highly illuminating photos here.
Here is some background on the KLA. From "Al Qaeda's Balkan Links" by Marcia Christoff Kurop in the Wall Street Journal Europe, November 1, 2001:
[...] Islamist infiltration of the Kosovo Liberation Army advanced, meanwhile. Bin Laden is said to have visited Albania in 1996 and 1997, according to the murder-trial testimony of an Algerian-born French national, Claude Kader, himself an Afghanistan-trained mujahideen fronting at the Albanian-Arab Islamic Bank. He recruited some Albanians to fight with the KLA in Kosovo, according to the Paris-based Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues.Controversial Relationship
By early 1998 the U.S. had already entered into its controversial relationship with the KLA to help fight off Serbian oppression of that province. While in February the U.S. gave into KLA demands to remove it from the State Department's terrorism list, the gesture amounted to little. That summer the CIA and CIA-modernized Albanian intelligence (SHIK) were engaged in one of the largest seizures of Islamic Jihad cells operating in Kosovo.
Fearing terrorist reprisal from al Qaeda, the U.S. temporarily closed its embassy in Tirana and a trip to Albania by then Defense Secretary William Cohen was canceled out of fear of an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, Albanian separatism in Kosovo and Metohija was formally characterized as a "jihad" in October 1998 at an annual international Islamic conference in Pakistan.
Nonetheless, the 25,000 strong KLA continued to receive official NATO/U.S. arms and training support and, at the talks in Rambouillet, France, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shook hands with "freedom fighter" Hashim Thaci, a KLA leader. As this was taking place, Europol (the European Police Organization based in The Hague) was preparing a scathing report on the connection between the KLA and international drug gangs. Even Robert Gelbard, America's special envoy to Bosnia, officially described the KLA as Islamic terrorists.
Thaçi is now the Prime Minister of Kosovo. He is not only a jihadist, but is involved in organ trafficking and international organized crime. Here is more on this story. "Follow-up to Kosovo ORGANized Crime," by Julia Gorin at Republican Riot, December 20:
It looks like crying “Serbian Propaganda! ™” can fool people for only 12 years. Or so one hopes. This has yet to play out, and the rapporteur Dick Marty is handing the evidence-collection and prosecution over to the EU “justice” mission in Kosovo. So we know what that usually means for the welfare of evidence (or else for the welfare of those collecting it).The follow-ups to the breaking Albanian organ-trafficking story have continued all week since the EU Council released its report on Tuesday.
…EU prosecutor Jonathan Ratel told the court the organs had been illegally removed from victims and transplanted into wealthy recipients in the clinic, known as Medicus. Those who paid up to €90,000 (£76,400) for the black-market kidneys included patients from Canada, Germany, Poland and Israel, Ratel said.
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The story would be shocking enough if it ended there. But what the court did not hear is that the Medicus clinic has been linked in a Council of Europe report to a wider network of Albanian organised criminals. They are said to have had close links to senior officials in Kosovo’s government, including the prime minister, Hashim Thaçi. Their supposed links to the underground organ market allegedly go back more than a decade when, in its most gruesome incarnation, the operation is said to have involved removing kidneys from murder victims.…The claims initially surfaced two years ago, when the former chief war crimes prosecutor at The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, said she had been prevented from properly investigating alleged atrocities committed by the KLA. Marty’s report suggests the KLA held Serbs and other captives in secret detention centres in Albania for almost a year after the war ended…
…Kosovo’s guerrilla army formed “a formidable power base in the organised criminal enterprises” in Kosovo and Albania. A group known as Drenica, led by Thaçi, became the KLA’s dominant faction and senior KLA figures from the group hold senior positions in Kosovo’s government today.
In 1999, Thaçi was identified as the most dangerous of the KLA’s “criminal bosses” by intelligence reports, according to Marty…A KLA medical commander based in Albania, Shaip Muja remains a close confidante of Thaçi’s, and is currently a political adviser in the office of the prime minister, with responsibility for health. “We have uncovered numerous convergent indications of Muja’s central role [in] international networks, comprising human traffickers, brokers of illicit surgical procedures, and other perpetrators of organised crime,” the report states.
There is much, much more. Read it all.
I had read about Albright's closeness to Thaci but him being a "boy toy" !! That is shocking.
Albright and Holbrooke and indeed USA collaborated with some of the worst criminals in the world to humiliate and abuse Serb people. Others too identified with the "western" world joined in such as UK and it's institutions. Just read The Economist magazine rave about how Serbia and Milosevic were "handled" by Holbrooke and Nato.
In reality, the western world colluded with criminals to humiliate slavic people to teach Russia a lesson. Holbrooke and Albright led the effort.
USA and the west need to ponder why they always take sides with criminals and terrorists outside the western world itself. The tradition is old. The British used the murderous Muslim League to counter men like Gandhi and Nehru causing violence and atrocities on millions. The likes of Osama bin Laden, sundry terror groups in Latin America have all been US allies at some time or the other. Today, a similar country happens to be in a similar relationship with USA.
I am glad that we Indians were at least able to tame both Albright and Holbrooke. Albright who was foaming at the corner of her mouth when India carried out nuke test in 1998, was offering her cheeks to Jaswant Singh within six months of quiet diplomacy wherein India gently pointed out to the US that it had no capability to "punish" India. Holbrooke, much against his desire (one could see in his guarded statements sometimes), never was allowed to link Kashmir to Af-Pak situation and has to limit himself to handling Karzai and Paki leadership.
But coming back, this flaw in western policy - that the western leadership allies with the worst crooks in the world to do down decent folks in other countries, will come back to haunt the West one day.
Sanjay
People transported into torture chambers , tortured and have their organs removed for wealthy people. Anyone seen or heard of the movie, HOSTEL? except these criminals are aided and abeted by the USA and UN. What have all these apologist for these kosovo murder gangs have to say for this?
Those people who are apologists for the KLA thugs and criminals are GUILTY as SIN and Thaci himself.
They have no morals and they are useless slime!
Well said Sanjay, Sewsalot and desidude.
This kidnapping cum torture cum mutilation cum execution cum organ harvesting has been an open secret for years now. Senior politicians in Albania, certainly those from Berisha's stronghold in northern Albania, the KLA of course, NATO, etc. All complicit.
So when I hear NATO countries blubbing 'cos some naughty Mujahideen want to do beastily things to them I let out a hearty roar of schadenfreude laughter. Poor poor diddums.
Here's just a couple of pages from the opening statement in the trial of Mssrs, Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Bahimaj.
It should give one a flavour of the KLA. Nato's beloved friends.
( page 397 )
What I want to tell the Trial Chamber about now is the story of some of the bodies and how they got to be where they are, or where they were found, on that map.
The first one I'm going to tell you about is that of Zenun Gashi, Misin Berisha, Sali Berisha, and 14-year-old Xhevat Berisha. That's counts 19 and 20 of the indictment. Now, Zenun Gashi was a Roma police officer on sick-leave since 1997 and recuperating from a heart attack. From his position, you can infer that he was not, and there will be evidence of this, a KLA sympathiser. He lived in Kosuric. On the 1st of August, 1998, KLA soldiers came to his home and unlawfully abducted him. They took him to the KLA headquarters in Rznic. He was detained there. Two other Roma people were there: Misin Berisha and his son Sali Berisha. The three were taken from Balaj's Rznic KLA
headquarters to the site where their bodies were found. On about the 11th of September, 1998, the three bodies were found metres apart on the ground, next to the concrete wall.
If you can just go into the shot of where their bodies were found. Each had multiple injuries - not that one, the photograph - and gun-shot wounds. Around Sali Berisha's neck was a mountain rope made into a noose. There was 2.5 metres of rusty barbed wire next to the bodies, and on one end of the bodies -- I'm sorry, and one end of the wire was tied into a noose. Long black hair and putrified soft tissue was caught in the barbs.
Now, if you can see where the bodies were found, it's next to a site which I will show to you a little bit later, which was the -- which was an execution wall. You can see from a photograph of the skull of body R4, Zenun Gashi, if you look at the top photograph, you can see from the photograph there - that's just how his body was found that he was shot through the head. There's a stick which shows the bullet trajectory right through.
Xhevat Berisha, who was the 14-year-old son of Misin Berisha and the brother of Sali Berisha, went missing a little earlier in June or July 1998. Now, his body was found close by, about half a metre away from that of his father and his brother, Zenun Gashi near the execution wall. His skull, likewise, contained a bullet wound and his arms and legs had multiple fractures. An autopsy conducted in 19 -- in 2003, by international forensic experts, determined the cause of death to be a gun-shot wound to his head. His body contained multiple gun-shot wounds. The Defence does not dispute the identity of that particular body. Now, I want to take you to one of the photographs - it will come up in a moment - which shows the position of the bodies when they were --
when they were actually found. It flashed across the screen a moment ago and it shows the Serbian authorities in the process of -- in the process of exhuming the bodies. The bodies each were given markers. The markers you can see there on the screen. Kemal Gashi's body was marked 2; Misin Berisha marked 3; Zenun Gashi marked 4; and 14-year-old Xhevat Gashi marked 5. You can see where the people are. The person wearing the light blue and the gloves, just to the left of that was a wall which contained bullet-holes. We'll show you a little bit later a closer and better photograph of that. There was also an unidentified body, R1, which was underneath a body which is number 11 there, marked 11. Now, 11 - and this is important - was the mother of witness 4 who I will come to a little bit later. Body R12, which is also on that photograph, was discovered
underneath the body of witness number 4. The next one I take you to is Idriz Hoti, which is counts 21 and 22. He was a 64-year-old Kosovar Albanian and an opposition party member, a member of the LDK. He disappeared in June or July of 1998 on his way to Jablanica, intending to join the KLA. His body was found underneath that of Misin Berisha you just saw, who was last seen at the detention in Jablanica in August of 1998, both were found at the execution wall. In other words, the body of someone who disappeared in -- or who was last seen in June or July 1998 was found underneath that of someone who was last seen actually in KLA custody in August of 1998. Now, next to his body, that's Hoti's, was a piece of black electrical cable similar to that found in the stables of the Ekonomija farm, which we have shown on the e-court. A 2003 autopsy by Professor Hoff-Olsen found a gun-shot wound to his head. The professor concluded that the probable cause of death was the gun-shot injury to the head and face. Likewise, for this body, the Defence does not dispute the body's identity.
Counts 21 and 22, Velizar Stosic and Zdravko Radunovic. Velizar Stosic was a Serb who was last seen alive in July 1998 when he left his home in Belo Polje. His body, too, was found near the concrete wall. His skull, like others, contained wounds to both sides and his body contained multiple -- multiple fractures. A 2005 autopsy by international experts found the cause of death to him to be multiple gun-shot wounds to the head and legs. A tight noose made of a 1-centimetre-thick mountain rope was around his neck. A rifle projectile was next to his body. Now, the photograph which I'm just about to show, shows -- the Middle photograph, shows a skull with a bullet wound to his head. Now, his body was found co-mingled with that of Zdravko Radunovic. Radunovic disappeared on the 18th of July, 1998. The significance of this is that Radunovic's wife will testify that the police told her that her husband
was kidnapped by the KLA in Dujak village. His skull, likewise, contained a bullet wound. So we have two bodies together, both with one bullet wounds to the head and one of them of a person who was kidnapped by the KLA in July 1998. The Defence does not dispute the identity of either of
these bodies. The next one is Pal Krasniqi, counts 31 and 32. Next to Radunovic's body was that of Pal Krasniqi. The significance of this is that he was last seen in the Jablanica KLA prison. Krasniqi was a Catholic Kosovar Albanian. On the 10th of July, 1998, he went to KLA headquarters in Jablanica.......
On and on, etc, etc.
So you would like everybody currently alive in Western Europe, and the USA, and Canada, and Australia, and all their future descendants unto the - what? thousandth generation?, to be enslaved to Muslims forever, as punishment for what you obviously believe to be their collective, deliberate sin?
Isn't that a little extreme?
You want the Ummah to get even bigger and more powerful, and enslave and torment even more people than it's already doing?
What's really wrong with a bit of schadenfreude?
Just forget the murder and carnage and bask in the conceit with what passed for Western policy in the Balkans in the 1990's.
a Going into business with Al Qaeda.
Yup. Great move.
b Fund the KLA. They were so extreme the word "terrorist" doesn't do them justice. Here's how brutal and ruthless guys like Mr Thaci really are. The KLA were more extreme than other Albanian Nationalist terror groups, such as FARK, who they wiped out. Then even the so called moderates within the KLA, such as Ekrem Rexha, could have got the spelling wrong there, nom de guerre was "Drini", who'd wanted some kind of rapproachment with the Serbs, were also liquidated. "Drini" was murdered soon after NATO/KLA took over Kosovo and Metohija, in Prizren. He'd been their commander in Malisevo, an important HQ for KLA operations, but he was regarded as too weak. So we're talking about the most brutal kind of psychopaths imaginable.
Now that's what I call claiming the moral high ground.
c NATO enlisted the help of over 100 Mujahideen for the Kosovo bombing, they went out into the field, telephoned back co-ordinates to bomb, and NATO bombed those co ordinates. The difference between those NATO recruited Mujahideen and Bin Laden is hair splitting of the most microscopic kind.
Think of them as a multitude of mini-me Bin Ladens.
And that passes for foreign policy does it?
Now if that doesn't deserve a derisive laugh then what on earth does?
Our glorious, fearless Western leaders all but created guys like Bin Laden. And with a huge amount of public support too it has to be said. And yet there's nothing ironic about that? Or moronic? Or crass?
I think it's so dumb you either laugh or cry.
So really, what's wrong with a little dash of schadenfreude now and again?
Nevertheless.
How many generations would you like to be punished, mercilessly, for the sins of one generation, by being subjected to the horrors of dhimmitude (or, for that matter, simply mass-murdered?). Five? Ten? 100? A thousand? If all of western Europe is engulfed by the ummah, and reduced to desolation and ashes, what good will that do? Will it bring back the dead?
Are you truly convinced that every single citizen of the entire Western world, between 1975, say, and 2000, was spending their entire waking hours *knowingly* supporting the Muslim agenda in the Balkans? How many of those people do you think had access to accurate information? You know already that they were barraged with propaganda...and there was no internet back then, not like now.
I believe that, under the mercy of the Holy One, failure is not final and that although the past cannot be altered, the future is open.
Which do you choose? Vengeance: that the whole of the Western world must perish, and never be reborn?
Or forgiveness? - that despite its many sins and follies and failures, the West might wake up, and defend itself, and live, so that all that is still *good* within it may survive, and children be born who will not live life as cowering dhimmi slaves?