Whistleblower: Kosovo 'Owned' By Albanian Mafia
Sherrie Gossett, CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 Following five years of United Nations control and billions of dollars of international aid, Kosovo is a lawless region "owned" by the Albanian mafia. It is characterized by continuing ethnic cleansing and subject to increasing infiltration by al-Qaida-linked Muslim jihadists, according to a whistleblower interviewed by Cybercast News Service. The U.N.'s repeated failure to act on received intelligence has allowed illegal paramilitary groups to flourish and engage in terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing regional governments in the Balkans, said Thomas Gambill, a former security chief with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), self-described as the world's largest regional security agency. archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/27/101219.shtml:::::::::
IMPORTANT READ;Context of '1996-1999: Albanian Mafia and KLA Take Control of Balkan Heroin Trafficking Route':
Albanian Mafia and KLA take control of Balkan route heroin trafficking from Turkish criminal groups. In 1998, Italian police are able to arrest several major traffickers. Many of the criminals involved are also activists for the Kosovo independence movement, and some are KLA leaders. Much of the money is funneled through the KLA (see 1997), which is also receiving support and protection from the US. The Islamic influence is obvious in the drug operations, which for example shut down during the month of Ramadan. Intercepted telephone messages speak of the desire “to submerge Christian infidels in drugs.”Agence France-Presse, 6/9/1998; Corriere della Sera (Milan), 10/15/1998; Corriere della Sera (Milan),
Articles on KLA-Kosovo-Drugs-Mafia and FundraisingFrom 1985-1999
1-The Wall Street Journal, Monday, September 9, 1985, pp.1,18:
Giuliani and Kosovo-Alb. Drug Mafia in NYC
2- Crisis talks as Milan is hit by wave of killings
Corriere della Sera (Milan) 15 October 1998:
3- Albanian Mafia, This Is How It Helps The Kosovo Guerrilla Fighters
Corriere della Sera (Milan) Janury 19, 1999:
4- Crimes Committed In Italy Provide Funds For Kosovo Guerrillas
Reuters 23-JAN-99:
5- Major Italian drug bust breaks Kosovo arms trafficking
Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) / Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:35:21 PDT:
6- Kosovo Albanians arrested in Spain after hundreds of break-ins
AP: MADRID, SPAIN, 16-JUN-1998
7- National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee (NNICC) The NNICC Report 1996: The Supply of Illicit Drugs to the United States
8- Romania Libera: Albanian Terrorists Of Kla Pay Weapon In Heroin
9- Thousands of Albanian children in hiding to escape blood feuds
The Guardian (London) November 1, 1994:
10- Washington Post Writes About s Kosovo Albanian Drug Clan
11- The Christian Science Monitor / October 20, 1994, Thursday ; Pg. 6: Albanian Mafias Find New Drug Routes Around Yugoslavia
12- U.K Defense & Foreign Affairs' Strategic Policy: "Albanian Role in Drug Trade"
13- The Independent (London): Drug profits fund weapons for Balkans;
14- The San Francisco Chronicle / JUNE 10, 1994, Friday, Final Edition: Drugs Paying for Conflict in Europe (Separatists supporting themselves with traffic in narcotics)
15- The Times / October 18, 1994, Tuesday: Albanian mafias target drug routes
16- The Washington Post/Houston Chronicle / November 14, 1993, Sunday, 2 Star Edition: Merchants of death and drugs; Porous borders, Balkan war bring epidemics of heroin smuggling, arms sales
17- Reuters 14-FEB-99: Analysis-West Has Little Leverage Over Kosovo Guerrillas
18- From Radio B 92, March 12, 1999; Rugova meets with Albanian narco boss in Prague
19- The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15, 1999: Italy battling a new wave of criminals -- Albanians
The above are a few selected headlines in which the full articles can be found here;
balkania.tripod.com/resources/terrorism/kla-drugs.html#a01This link right here;
www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/orgcrime/balkan.htm used to have full reports on Albanian criminal narco-artivity in the Balkans, in specific the Kosovo Albanians, many copies of those reports were made available, if one cares enough they can find it themselves.
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Leaked Nato cables allege Kosovo PM was 'biggest fish' in organised crime Western powers backing Kosovo's government considered its prime minister one of the country's "biggest fish" in organised crime, according to leaked Nato military cables. (doesn't get more clear than that^)
The documents, produced by Nato's peace-keeping force in Kosovo, also described Xhavit Haliti, a senior ruling politician and a close ally of Hashim Thaci, as having links to the Albanian mafia.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/kosovo/8280226/Leaked-Nato-cables-allege-Kosovo-PM-was-biggest-fish-in-organised-crime.htmlSo there is no secret about things.