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Urteil zu Klage gegen Serbien steht an

Aufzählung Völkermordprozess gegen Staat.Den Haag. Der Internationale Gerichtshof in Den Haag wird am Montag seine seit langem erwartete Entscheidung in einem von Bosnien-Herzegowina im Jahr 1993 angestrengten Prozess gegen die damals aus Serbien und Montenegro bestehende Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien bekannt geben. Sarajewo hatte das Nachbarland inmitten des Bosnien-Krieges (1992-95) wegen Völkermordes und Aggression verklagt.
Die Hauptverhandlungen wurden im Frühjahr 2006 geführt. Sollten Serbien und Montenegro als erste Staaten der Welt des Völkermordes für schuldig erklärt werden, sähen sie sich mit Schadenersatzforderungen Sarajewos in Höhe von rund 100 Millionen Dollar (76,3 Millionen Euro) konfrontiert.

Freitag, 23. Februar 2007

WEISSE QAIDA IN BOSNIEN

03. Dezember 2006
Schrift:

WEISSE QAIDA IN BOSNIEN

“Mit Motorsägen zerstückeln”

“Kein General durfte uns Befehle erteilen”, berichtet der ehemalige Qaida-Aktivist Ali Hamad über seine Zeit als Kommandeur einer Mudschahidin-Einheit im Bosnien-Krieg. Im Interview mit SPIEGEL ONLINE warnt der frühere Terrorist vor einem “Schläfer”-Netzwerk auf dem Balkan.

ANZEIGE

Der Archäologe Georgi Kitow arbeitet schnell. Er nutzt sogar Löffelbagger und Bulldozer, um die Steingräber thrakischer Herrscher freizulegen. Was er dadurch in einer Woche schafft, würde mit konventionellen Grabungsmethoden viele Monate dauern. Doch er hat keine andere Wahl, erklärt er. Überall in Bulgarien gibt es Grabräuber, die nur darauf warten, die Stätten zu plündern. “Sie haben mehr Geld als ich und bessere Maschinen”, sagt Kitow. “Ich versuche zu retten, was sie zerstören wollen.”

Grabräuber in Bulgarien: Gier und Gold

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Trotz seiner edlen Motive ist Kitow umstritten: Für die einen ist er ein Held, für die anderen ein Schurke. Er ist heute 63, das Graben mit Hilfe von Maschinen hat er schon am Anfang seiner Karriere von sowjetischen Kollegen gelernt - und er ist von der Methode überzeugt. “Es ist Zeitverschwendung, nur mit der Hand zu graben”, sagt er. Doch Kitows Eile und seine mangelnde Präzision beunruhigen viele seiner Kollegen. Manche bezichtigen ihn der Schatzjägerei, andere bezeichnen ihn als Show-Archäologen, der seine Entdeckungen für die Medien aufbauscht. Seine Verteidiger aber weisen darauf hin, dass ein großer Teil der Gold- und Silberfunde in den wichtigen bulgarischen Museen aus Kitows Grabungen stammt - unter ihnen atemraubend schöne Halsketten und Ohrringe, klassisch geformte Kelche und Schalen, Rosetten von Pferdegeschirren, Teile einer Kriegerrüstung, reich verzierte Schienbeinschützer, eine Krone aus zartem Eichenlaub und eine glänzende Königsmaske. Hätte Kitow sie nicht gefunden, wären sie höchstwahrscheinlich Grabräubern in die Hände gefallen.

Für Plünderer ist Bulgarien ein Dorado voller Kostbarkeiten, mit Gräbern, in denen sich Goldschätze aus der Zeit bis 4400 v. Chr. finden. Zwischen Asien und Mitteleuropa gelegen, wurde dieses Land seit je geprägt durch Eroberer, Soldaten, Reisende, Händler und Siedler. Thraker, Makedonier, Griechen, Römer, Perser, Slawen, Bulgaren, Byzantiner und Türken haben dem Land ihren Stempel aufgedrückt und Kunstschätze hinterlassen, die jedem, der sie heute ausgräbt, ein Vermögen bescheren.

GEFUNDEN IN…

National Geographic
Deutschland

Heft 1/2007

Die Königsgräber der Thraker, die zwischen dem 5. und 3. Jahrhundert vor Christus angelegt wurden, sind leichte Beute für Plünderer. Mehrere Stockwerke hoch, stehen die überwucherten Grabhügel, die wie Bienenkörbe geformt sind, auf Feldern und längs der Straßen. Im 94 Kilometer langen Kasanluk-Tal, wo Kitow arbeitet, gibt es in den blühenden Rosenpflanzungen zu Füßen der Sredna-Gora-Gebirgskette und des Balkangebirges an die 1000 solcher Hügel. Etwa 25.000 weitere sind über den Rest des Landes verstreut. Viele dieser Hügel sind von frischen Spuren illegaler Grabungen gezeichnet. An vielen Stellen sind Schnitte durch den dichten Bewuchs aus Gras und Gestrüpp und durch die rostfarbene Erde gelegt. Manchmal haben die Räuber Pech und brechen ein Grab auf, das bereits in der Antike geplündert wurde. Manchmal finden sie statt Gold und Silber nur bemalte Vasen, Bronzestatuen oder Fragmente von Wandgemälden. Doch auch mit diesen Dingen lässt sich auf dem Markt für Altertümer noch guter Gewinn machen.Dass in Bulgarien antike Schätze Eigentum des Staates sind, wurde früher sehr ernst genommen. 1949 entdeckten drei Brüder, als sie in der Nähe der Stadt Panagjurischte Ton für Fliesen stachen, neun reich verzierte Gefäße aus massivem Gold, die mehr als 2000 Jahre in der Erde gelegen hatten. Das Land war erst wenige Jahre zuvor der sowjetischen Einflusssphäre zugefallen, und der neue totalitäre Staat ging mit aller Härte gegen Gesetzesbrecher vor. Also übergaben die drei Brüder ihren Fund pflichtbewusst den Behörden. Damals hatte es niemand nötig, das Risiko des Verkaufs eines solchen Glücksfunds einzugehen. Fabriken, in denen von Obstkonserven bis hin zu Kalaschnikows fast alles produziert wurde, garantierten Vollbeschäftigung, für alles andere sorgte der Staat. Auch als 1985 ein Bewohner des Dorfs Rogosen bei der Arbeit in seinem Gemüsegarten auf 80 Silber- und Goldgefäße stieß, übergab er seinen unschätzbaren Fund sofort an die Behörden. Beide Schätze haben in Museen eine sichere Heimstatt gefunden.

WER WAREN DIE THRAKER?

Die Stämme des antiken Thrakien waren durch Sprache und Kultur verbunden, doch selten politisch geeint. Ihre Überlieferung – mündlich und vielleicht in gesungener Form weitergegeben – ist verloren. Nur in griechischen und römischen Texten sind Bruchstücke ihrer Geschichte erhalten. Als gefürchtete Krieger kämpften Thraker im Trojanischen Krieg gegen die Griechen. Jahrhunderte später bestatteten sie ihre Herrscher unter großen Steinkuppeln wie dem kürzlich entdeckten Grab in Alexandrowo. Nachdem Philipp II. von Makedonien Thrakien erobert hatte, wurden die thrakischen Bogenschützen und Reiter in das Heer seines Sohns Alexanders des Großen eingegliedert. 73 v. Chr. machte ein Thraker Geschichte, weil er einen Sklavenaufstand gegen die Römer anführte: Spartakus.

Würde das heute auch noch so ablaufen? Wahrscheinlich nicht. Als das Sowjetsystem 1989 zusammenbrach, riss es auch Bulgarien mit in den Abgrund. Fabriken mussten schließen, Hunderttausende von Menschen wurden arbeitslos und sind es immer noch. Wer heute eine Anstellung hat, verdient im Durchschnitt 160 Euro im Monat. So verwundert es nicht, dass so mancher aus der verarmten Mittelschicht seinen Lebensunterhalt mit dem verdient, was hier “Schwarzarchäologie” genannt wird - mit Grabräuberei.”Das Geschäft mit antiken Funden ist oft lukrativer als der Drogenhandel”, sagt Nikolai Owtscharow, ein charismatischer Archäologe, der als Bulgariens “Indiana Jones” bekannt ist.

Übertreibt er? Vielleicht. Aber man kann tatsächlich viel verdienen, und die Behörden stecken oft mit drin. Darüber hat fast jeder eine Geschichte parat: Ein Bürgermeister, der mit Freunden und Verwandten ein Picknick auf dem Lande macht, gräbt nebenbei ein wenig, um zu sehen, ob sich nicht irgendetwas Verwertbares finden lässt. Zu einer Gruppe von Grabräubern, die auf frischer Tat ertappt werden, gehören Polizisten, die ihren Dienstwagen auch noch direkt neben der Grube abgestellt haben. Antike Münzen und Schmuckstücke im Wert von mehreren Millionen Dollar verschwinden aus einem Museum - mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit auf Bestellung.

Kleinere Funde landen oft auf dem Straßenbasar im Zentrum von Sofia. Da liegen sie dann auf Klapptischen neben alten Schreibmaschinen, Orden aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und Beatles-Alben. “Das spielt sich nur 50 Meter vom Parlament entfernt ab”, sagt Owtscharow empört. “Ich selber habe gesehen, dass Teile eines thrakischen Streitwagens, Münzen und Spangen zum Verkauf angeboten wurden. Das sind keine Fälschungen. Das sind alles Originale.”

Wertvolle Stücke - Kunstschätze aus Edelmetall, Steinobjekte, bemalte Keramiken - gelangen auf geheimen Wegen zu den wenigen Reichen im Land, zu Sammlern, die es sich leisten können, bar zu bezahlen, und die keine Fragen stellen. Es gibt Gerüchte, dass manche Sammler sogar Grabräuber anheuern, um nach bestimmten Dingen zu suchen, und dass die Plünderer wiederum Verbindungen zum organisierten Verbrechen haben. Niemand ist bereit, genauere Auskünfte über diese kriminellen Transaktionen zu geben, an denen oft auch bewaffnete, zu allem entschlossene Männer beteiligt sind. Solche Funde bleiben aber wenigstens im Land. Sollte es irgendwann einmal zu einer Amnestie für Besitzer gesetzwidrig zusammengetragener Sammlungen kommen, gelangen die Objekte womöglich doch noch ins Museum, wo sich jedermann an ihnen erfreuen kann.

Die dunkelste Seite des Grabraubgeschäfts ist der internationale Schmuggel. “Die besten Funde verlassen Bulgarien”, sagt Owtscharow. “Wien. London. Zürich. Jeder kennt die Verbindungen. Vor Kurzem habe ich ein Antiquitätengeschäft in Berlin aufgesucht - es war voll mit thrakischen Fundstücken.” Niemand kann genau sagen, wie viele Raubgüter aus dem Land geschmuggelt werden, aber nach den neuesten Schätzungen hat sich Bulgarien inzwischen zum europäischen Hauptexporteur illegaler Altertümer entwickelt. Besonders bedrückend ist das für die Bulgaren selber, ein Volk, das sich mit seiner frühen Vergangenheit aufs Engste verbunden fühlt. Das Land ist voller Zeugnisse seiner Geschichte und bis heute weitgehend von gleichmacherischer moderner Architektur verschont geblieben. Überall finden sich die Hinterlassenschaften einer jahrtausendealten Kultur, bei fast jedem Spatenstich stößt man auf etwas Altes. So kamen zum Beispiel beim Bau eines Tunnels der Sofioter U-Bahn die Reste einer alten römischen Ziegelmauer zum Vorschein. Sie sind heute in einem winzigen Museum eines unterirdischen Zwischengeschosses ausgestellt.

In diesem Teil der Welt, auf dem Balkan, wo so viele Länder zerstückelt und die Grenzen oft umstritten waren, sind derlei Zeugnisse der Geschichte von immenser Bedeutung. Fast jede noch so kleine Stadt Bulgariens besitzt ein Museum, dessen Ausstellungsstücke aus der nahen Umgebung stammen. Und an jedem Wochenende kommen Menschen jeden Alters und aus allen sozialen Schichten in die Sammlungen, um sich die Schätze und Kunstwerke ihrer Vorfahren anzusehen.

Lesen Sie im zweiten Teil: Die Funde der als Barbaren verschrienen Thraker veränderten das Bild von der Antike. Doch im Rennen gegen Raubgräber müssen Bulgariens Archäologen statt der üblichen Pinsel, Schaufeln und Kellen oft den Bulldozer einsetzen.>>

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,456720,00.html

Albanians Gangs: The New Islamic Mafia

Das soll eine Hardcore Thread werden, wo nur echte neue Informationen, über die Amerikanische, Albanische oder Serbische Mafia und deren Zusammenarbeit mit dem Netzwerk von Bin Laden und im Drogen- und Menschenschmuggel dokumentiert wird.

Die Zusammenarbeit der Kosovaren Mafia UCK-KPC-KLA unter Agim Ceku und deren Politiker wie Hashim Thaci, wird gut dokumentiert in Quellen wie Spiegel oder GIS! Peinlicherweise bezahlt die UN, und damit der Deutsche Steuerzahler bis heute die Gehälter der Kosovaren Verbrecher und diese Leute im Bin Laden Terror Netz.

Man beachte die Information über die Festnahme des Mazedoniers Daut Kadriovski. Enttarnt wurde D.K. trotz Gesichts Operation (siehe auch der Rugova Freund der Drogen Papst Drobosi), vom Englischen Geheimdienst und unter dem falschen Namen Mehmet Ahmeti, wurde er in seinem Hotel in Golem bei Durres-Albanien im September 2001 festgenommen. (verwandt mit dem Politik Führer und Bin Laden Freund Ahmet Ahmeti-Mazedonien, der lange auf der Terroristen Liste der USA stand)!
Man beachte auch, das Albanische Transport Unternehmen, die bekanntesten Bin Laden Führer wie Abu al Zawkavi transportieren und als Courier, für Al-Qudia arbeiten. Die Verbindung direkt zu Top Albanischen Regierungs Mitgliedern ist im CIA Fact Buch festgehalten und durch die Hochhäuser des Bin Laden Finaciers: Yassin Kadi in Tirana gut dokumentiert.

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powerful organized crime networks with links to high government officials

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/al.html

The New Islamic Mafia

By M. Bozinovich
FBI has recently announced that ethnic Albanian gangs, including immigrants from Kosovo, are replacing the Italian La Cosa Nostra mafia as the leading organized crime outfit in the US. According to a CNN report the FBI “Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro” make up the emerging American criminal cartel and “represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality.” This statement comes several months after Amnesty International declared NATO-administered Kosovo province a hotbed of organized crime activity.
In Europe, the Albanian Mob is already the chief perpetrator of drug and people smuggling, passport theft and forgery, weapons and human body parts sales, sex-slavery, abductions, murders… The scope, ferocity and intensity of the Albanian criminal activity has prompted the Italian top prosecutor, Cataldo Motta, to declare Albanians most dangerous mobsters brandishing them in 2000 “a threat to Western society.”
While the skimpiness of the FBI statement may be a subtle illustration of its lack of hard operational intelligence on the emerging Albanian criminal network in the US, the displacement of La Cosa Nostra by ethnic Albanians may be a seminole event in the American criminal underworld history for yet another reason: a predominantly Catholic Mafia is being replaced by a predominantly Muslim Albanian Fis.
Although no hard links with terrorists have been found yet, the FBI believes that the emerging Muslim Albanian Mafia in the US may be implicated in terrorist financing hence FBIs continuing surveillance “to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing”.

Albanian teenager Valentina Bicaku vanished from her home in Albania. More than 30,000 Albanian girls and young women are kidnapped and auctioned off into a world of prostitution in Europe.

Evolution of the Criminal Network
During the 1970s Albanian expatriates in the US were actively recruited as couriers, transporters or assassins for the Italian Mafia. The efficiency and brutality with which these members conducted these criminal affairs got them to advance within the Mafia network, so much so, that by 1996 the main assassins for the Gambino crime family were ethnic Albanians. Gambino’s Sammy Bull Brovano’s go-to “clipper”, for example, was an ethnic Albanian, Zef Mustafa, whose notoriety for murder and racket was exceeded only by his love of alcohol: drunk from dawn, in a 1996-02 span this Albanian organized a $19 million internet heist, was let out on a $5 million bond and has since disappeared from the US.
A 1996 murder of a waiter, Jonathon Segal, and a bouncer, Michael Greco, in New York’s Scores restaurant illustrates the indifference and haste with which Albanian assassins kill: two ethnic Albanians employed as Gambino family assassins opened fire on the waiter and bouncer after instigating an argument over quality of service they got in the restaurant.

Ismail Lika, pictured on the right with long sleeves, in Florida jail posing with convicted ethnic Serb, Nikola Kavaja. Dubbed the king of the New York drug underworld, Ismail Lika issued a contract on Guiliani’s prosecutors in 1985. Kavaja was serving a sentence for attempted assassination of Yugoslav communist dictator Tito.

While employment with Italian Mafia gave these ethnic Albanians valuable experience in the art of a criminal heist, 1980s was also a decade of clandestine criminal initiatives that are to lead into bigger and more spectacular ones later. In 1985, for example, a now-famous Rudolph Guiliani led a persecution team of the Balkan Connection - an ethnic Albanian criminal outfit involved in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan and Turkey, via Kosovo into US. Caught with at least $125 million in heroin, members of this Albanian smuggling outfit issued a $400,000 contract on the prosecutor Alan Cohen and the detective Jack Delemore, both placed under protective custody as the result.
Even fellow mobsters are afraid to do business with the Albanian gangs. Speaking anonymously for Philadelphia’s City Paper a member of the “Kielbasa Posse”, an ethnic Polish mob group, declared in 2002 that Poles are willing to do business with “just about anybody. Dominicans. Blacks. Italians. Asian street gangs. Russians. But they won’t go near the Albanian mob. The Albanians are too violent and too unpredictable.”
While FBI concurs with the brutality assessment, the difficulty in obtaining operational intelligence on the Albanian mafia, and any convictions, may be multifold. Dusan Janjic, Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations in Serbia, cites three reasons for the success of the Albanian criminal gangs: “Firstly they speak a language that few people [sic] understand. Secondly, its internal organization is based on family ties, breeding solidarity and safety. Thirdly there is the code of silence and it is perfectly normal for somebody to die if he violates the code.”
Culture of Violence
According to the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, “Honour killings are deeply rooted in Albanian society and were given formal recognition in the collection of medieval tribal laws known as the ‘Canon of Lekë Dukagjini’” and still remains the organizing structure of the Albanian society. “…blood feuds were relatively rare among Albanians either in Kosovo or Albania. But after the turmoil of the 1990s, the ideas contained in Leke’s canon revived,” writes Fatos Bytyci.
The fundamental rule of Canon law of Albanian clansman organization is Bessa - a concept that simultaneously converges loyalty, fidelity, dignity and honor of one’s word. Although restrictive, the concept is such a prevalent force in the Albanian culture so that it got enshrined in many of Albanian folksongs:
“death happens because you betrayed a host,
when bread is missing to serve the host,
death happens for the faith renounced.”
Gjakmarria or taking of the blood is the vendetta killing done in order to restore the violated honor.
Loyalty to the family clan (fis) and vendettas appear to be mutually affectionate features of both the Italian and Albanian gangsters. Much like Sicilian social emphasis on family loyalty, writes the Italy’s anti-mafia agency DIA, these mutually alike features are outgrowth of a general social construct and not necessarily criminal. “Albanian mafia is based on family groups… The division among clans or family groups in Albania was originally a social division, not a criminal one. Today, every activity in Albania still works in that way.”
In the field of politics, however, the fear of the Canon’s consequences is plunging Albania, an increasingly Kosovo, into a seismic convulsion of lawlessness.
Albanian Parliament in Tirana has recently addressed the close connection between the criminal and political. According to the Albanian Daily News, in July of 2004, the Albanian government has adopted a package of anti-mafia legislation and among the provisions is a prohibition of officials convicted of corruption from holding public office for a specified period of time.
However, according to an Albanian writer Faruk Myrtaj: “Not a single trial of a criminal gang has successfully been completed in Albania. According to the data of the Albanian Centre for Studying Organized Crime and Mafia in Tirana, trials of groups linked to politics are usually held behind closed doors by decision of the courts, and the judges usually resign and emigrate from the country”, presumably out of fear of being killed acording to the Canon law that grips the Albanian society.
So much for Albania’s efforts to curb organized crime.

Dangerous Hybrid - Kosovo Albanian Dobrosi was serving 14 year sentence in Norway and in 1997 bribed the guard with 150,000 Norwegian crowns, fled to Croatia, where he underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance, then moved to Prague where, according to the Czech daily Lidove Noviny met the President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, during his visit of Prague in December 1998. In 1999 Czech Police arrested Dobrosi, along with another Kosovo Albanian gangster for drug trafficking and trafficking with light-infantry weapons and rocket systems.

Political-Criminal Hybrid
According to research by a leading criminologist in France, Xavier Raufer, “In the Albanian world - in Albania and in Kosovo and in the Albanian-populated part of Macedonia - you have clans and in those clans you have a mix of young men fighting for the cause of national liberation, young men belonging to the mafia, young men driving their cousins or other girls from the village into prostitution. It’s absolutely impossible to distinguish between them…. The guys are liberation fighters by day and sell heroin by night or vice versa”.
The political-criminal hybrid structure based on the frightening Canon structures of clan membership is defining the Albanian political landscape in the Balkans as well.
For example, the leader of the Albanians in Macedonia, Ali Ahmeti, is a nephew of Fazli Veliu, former chief of an Albanian language newspaper in Kosovo and a cofounder of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Both are from the same village near Kicevo, Macedonia, and both belong to the Zajas clan. Before leading a military insurgency in Macedonia, Ahmeti was employed as a KLA operative out of Switzerland, from where he was moved to Macedonia when times were ripe to lead the Albanian violence there.

Albright giving a friendly hug to the KLA leader Hasim Taci

In turn, Veliu is close to the Albanian Jashari clan from Kosovo, known to be the first to start the armed uprising against Milosevic’s repression. Main victims in the disputed Racak massacre were members from the Jashari clan as is Hasim Taci, a youthful political spokesman for an Albanian para-military (KLA) group with suspicious criminal biography yet befriended by Clinton’s foreign policy team, most notably Madeline Albright, Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark.
Many, including the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee in 1999, have accentuated widespread allegations of KLAs criminal connections. Citing that a “major portion of the KLA finances are derived from [criminal] network, mainly proceeds from drug trafficking” the report goes on to say that Clinton’s befriending of the shady Albanian political men is “consistent Clinton policy of cultivating relationships with groups known for terrorist violence… in what may be a strategy of attempting to wean away a group from its penchant for violence by adopting its cause as an element of U.S. policy.”

Unofficial taxation of Albanians - Allegations are made that the Albanian Mafia in America is acting as a collection arm for the war aims of the Albanian political groups. Christian Science Monitor, for example, cited a case of Agim Jusufi, a building superintendent on Manhattan’s West Side. Mr. Jusufi gets a weekly paycheck. He describes himself as an ordinary ‘working man.’” yet he wrote a $5,000 check for the KLA. “We have canceled checks to prove it,’ he told the Monitor.

While the Republican Report cites New York Times’ version of the origins of the KLA to be a “radical fringe of Kosovar Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist” the clan structure indicates that this may be a deliberate fabrication. Claims are made that 15 leading family clans in Albania (15 fis) have been controlling a clandestine smuggling operations even during the dark communist days of dictator Enver Hoxa. When Albania got rid of the communist, these fis increased their criminal control of Albania and, during the collapse of the Albanian state into anarchy in 1997, the 15 fis established complete control over the criminal activity in Albania including arms smuggling. Motivated by fear of inter-fis blood feuds over a limited Balkan criminal turf, the 15 fis allegedly made a deal to make a common para-military enforcement unit, the KLA, in order to incite violence in Kosovo with dual objectives, to make money financing the war as well as conquer Albanian-inhabited areas of the Balkans.

Daut Kadriovski

The most prominent criminal out of the 15 fis is Daut Kadriovski, a drug kingpin that managed to escape German prison in 1993, and is believed to be in the US where sources say he is operating through several types of businesses in New York and Philadelphia.
Albanian Mafia and al-Qaeda?
Allegations of an al-Qaeda presence in Albanian inhabited areas have also been made. For example, 24 Wahabi mosques and 14 orphanages have been built in Kosovo since 1999, along with 98 primary and secondary Wahabi funded schools. The chief Albanian Imam in Kosovo has been schooled in the Wahabi doctrine in Saudi Arabia and is of vital political importance to the party of the Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova.
Wahabism is the chief spiritual source of the al-Qaeda terrorists.
More distressing for the West is the existing Albanian criminal infrastructure that has been exported out of Kosovo into Europe, and given clan connections, may infiltrate the US.
In Brussells, for example, two Islamic city quarters - one specializing in terrorism and the other in false and stolen passports - complement one another. In the terrorist part is the Dar Salaam hotel where the accused “shoe bomber” Richard Reid stayed in for 10 days plotting to blow up American Airlines jet, while just across from the hotel is a shadowy Brussels strip of bars and hotels controlled by the Albanian mob specializing in stolen passports. According to the Global Policy, the quarter is a hotbed for “human trafficking, sex trafficking and false documents.”
Although Richard Reed did not carry any of the Albanian doctored false passports, the al-Qaeda assassins of the Ahmed Shah Massoud did. The killers of the leader of Afghan’s Northern Alliance traveled from London to Karachi using these Albanian doctored false passports before they murdered him.
More ominously still, an al-Qaeda operative, Djamel Beghala, was arrested in Dubai after the customs agent recognized one of these Albanian mafia’s manufactured false passports. Under interrogation, Beghala identified a major European al-Qaeda cell that was planning to blow up the United States Embassy in Paris.
Recently, FBI conducted a statistical study on effectiveness of false passports and concluded that at least 10% of the falsified passports have effectively been used to enter the US. Given that 30 million people enter US, Albanian Mafia’s monopoly on false documentation may indeed justify FBIs continuing surveillance of the emerging Albanian criminal cartel.

Entrance-level job for al-Qaeda -Before becoming kingpins of the American underworld, many ethnic Albanian mobsters got their organized crime initiation as couriers for the Italian Mafia. Fox News analyst, Manossor Ijaz, claims that ethnic Albanians now hold an entry-level courier position for al-Qaeda as well: “… President Bush said in October of last year when he identified a senior al Qaeda leader [Abu Masab al-Zawkawi] who had gone to Iraq, received medical treatment to have a leg amputated that was blown up in the Afghan bombing campaign and then proceeded to a northern Iraqi terrorist outfit. What we have not yet heard and this is what my sources are telling me over the past two or three days, is that that leader was in fact, transported through southern Turkey using Albanian mercenaries to transport him into…”

The New Islamic Mafia
Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, believes that Albanian Mob itself will not commit acts of terrorism but that their criminal infrastructure will aid al-Qaeda. “The role of the Albanian Mafia, which is tightly connected to the KLA, is laundering money, providing technology, safe houses, and other support to terrorists within this country,” Bodansky explained to The New American. “This isn’t to say that the Albanians themselves would carry out the actual terrorist operations. But there are undoubtedly ‘sleeper’ agents within the Albanian networks, and they can rely upon those networks to provide them with support. In any case, a serious investigation of the Albanian mob isn’t going to happen, because they’re ‘our boys’ - they’re protected.”
In fact, in 2002 the government of Macedonia submitted to the CIA a 79-page report on al-Qaeda-Albanian activity in the Balkans, including an al-Qaeda recruitment video aimed at Albanian conscripts touting hate for Christians, Jews, and the West. The video was hosted by an ethnic Turk, Ramzi Adem, who was demonstrating Balkan activities of an elite 120-man foreign fighters unit led by Selimi Ferit, an Albanian born in the Macedonian capital of Skopje.
Perhaps out of tactical, short-term reasons, the Bush administration duly ignored this report. Yet one ought to be mindful that it may be for the tactical advantages, to the terrorists, to present all of these criminal machinations as a haphazard event.
The seeming disconnect in the activities of terrorists is the insidiousness for which they are known.

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/028.shtml

Der Ben Laden Finanzier Yassin Kadi und die UCK Terrororganisation AKSH
Die Balkan Zerstörung ist eine verdeckte CIA Operation des CIA um auch die Taliban zu finanzieren. Hierbei dienten die Albaner nur als Drogen Export Stelle, wobei der Verbrecher Cane und der Amerikaner GEorg Soros die Schlüsselrolle spielen.

http://www.deutsche-demokratie.de/forum/showthread.php?threadid=33171

FBI: Albanian mobsters ‘new Mafia’
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/

Hunt for ‘terrorism nexus’ changes how FBI handles crime
By Toni Locy, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — In the post-Sept. 11 FBI, crime-fighting is focusing less on former staples such as bank robbery, the new head of the FBI’s criminal division said Wednesday.
Instead, agents are consumed by terrorist threats.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-08-18-fbi-focus_x.

Ehemaliger Kosovo-Premier rügt “Mafiastrukturen der Regierung”
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/0,1518,311161,00.html

Brief von Javier Solana an die Albaner Führer: Diese Art von kranker Gesellschaft, hat keinen Platz in Europa. UN-Chef Holkeri: Ohne UN, übernehmen die Terroristen und das Organisierte Verbrechen den Kosovo.
“A society in which young people can have access to guns is not healthy,” he said. “There is no place in Europe for such a society.”
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200406_502_3_eng.txt

Outgoing UNMIK Chief Warns of Extremist Threat in Kosovo
“If the international community gives up here, that would be a carte blanche for terrorism, for violence, all kind of actions against humanity,” Holkeri said Thursday (10 June).
http://balkantimes.com/html2/english/040611-SVETLA-001.htm

Lord Roberston: Der Kosovo wird nicht dem Organisiertem Verbrechen übergeben.
He said the international community was not prepared to give up Kosovo “to organised criminals and those who use brutality in the name of ethnic nationalism”.
http://www.setimes.com/html2/english/030627-SEREMB-001.htm.

oder FBI Statement über die US - Albanische Mafia im BAlkan

FBI Weighs in on Balkan Organised Crime

By Dimitris Agrafiotis for Southeast European Times in Athens -
21/11/03

Organised crime in the Balkans has attracted the interest of the
American law enforcement community and the US Senate. The US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that crime from the Balkans,
Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union is expanding
and will continue to expand.

“In the last year or two, European nations have recognised that
Balkan organised crime is one of the greatest criminal threats that
they face,” Assistant Director of the FBI Criminal Investigative
Division Grant D. Ashley said in an October statement before the
Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations………

ccording to Ashley, organised crime groups from Albania have expanded
their activitites in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and
the Scandinavian countries. In the last few years, he said, Albanian
organised crime has reached the United States, creating partnerships
with the Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese families to facilitate
specific crimes……….

http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/031121-DIMITRIS-001.htm

Daut Kadriovski

Die albanischen Clans funktionieren mafiamaeßig und stuetzen sich dabei
au/ den Ehrenkodex der Clans, genannt Leka Dukadjini (der fuer Verrat
Blutrache an der gesamten Sippe des Verraeters vorsieht). Der
Drogenhandel wird haeufig durch die albanischen politischen Kreise
Mazedoniens und des Kosovo koordiniert und kontrolliert: Alle Mafia-
Organisationen sind verpflichtet, ihnen einen Anteil ihrer Profite
abzugeben. Die Drogenhaendler sind ebenfalls dazu verpflichtet, Waffen zu
kaufen und abzuliefern. Die Partei der Demokratischen Prosperitaet aus
(dem mazedonischen) Tetovo, aber allen voran die bewaffneten militanten
Gruppen wie die Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee UÇK finden so eine wichtige und
vor allem eine regelmaeßige Finanzierungsquelle.

Der Verlauf dem Drogenrouten aus dem Orient in Richtung Westen ist
bekannt. Die Rohstoffquellen in Afghanistan und im Iran werden
groeßtenteils durch die (lange von der CIA gefoerderten) afghanischen
Taliban- bzw. die iranischen Hisbollah-Milizen kontrolliert. Die
Verarbeitung erfolgt meistens in der Tuerkei, aber auch in Griechenland,
Mazedonien und Albanien. In Istanbul hat die maechtige Organisation des
Kosovo-Albaners Daut Kadirovski das Sagen. Nach seinen Anfaengen in
Skopje, Pristina und Madrid baute Kadirovski Ende der 80er Jahre seinen
Aufstieg als Drogenbaron in Istanbul und in Deutschland auf, wo er auch
mit der tuerkischen faschistischen Organisation der Grauen Woelfe
kooperiert.

Ihre guten Beziehungen aus den Drogengeschaeften haben die Kosovo-Albaner
auch fuer ihren politischen Kampf eingespannt. Die massive Praesenz der
tuerkischen und der iranischen Geheimdienste in Tirana, aber auch der
afghanischen Mujaheddin in den Ausbildungslagern der UÇK in Nordalbanien
ist den westlichen Geheimdiensten keineswegs entgangen. Mit dabei: die
Terror-Spezialisten des Ossama Bin Laden, den die USA fuer die Anschlaege
gegen ihre Botschaften in Afrika vom letzten Jahr verantwortlich machen.

Im Hauptquartier der UÇK in Tirana, das sich nicht zufaellig im Gebaeude
des alten albanischen Geheimdienstes Sigurimi - neuerdings Shik -
befindet, geben sich diese Agenten und Drogenbosse aus dem Orient die
Klinke in die Hand. Sie halfen den UÇK-Fuehrern bei der Planung und
Durchfuehrung des Kampfes um die Sezession des Kosovo. Organisationshilfe
leistet die CIA. Der Leiter des albanischen Geheimdienstes, Fatos Klosi,
ist stolz darauf:

http://www.cl-netz.de

Colonel Crosman - ITCY: From Afghanistan to Iraq: Transplanting CIA Engineered Terrorism

Auch wenn es schon Geschichte ist, so soll doch dieses Verbrechen hier festgestellt werden, das Bill Clinton über die MPRI www.mpri.com und die SAS des Englischen MI6, die Al-Quida Ausbildungs Camps für die UCK Terroristen finanzierte und unterstützte.

siehe auch die Aussage von Colonel Crosman, beim ITYC

From Afghanistan to Iraq: Transplanting CIA Engineered Terrorism
by Kurt Nimmo
………….
n the years immediately before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the al-Qaeda militants moved into Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, to help ethnic Albanian extremists of the KLA mount their terrorist campaign against Serb targets in the region … The United States, which had originally trained the Afghan Arabs during the war in Afghanistan, supported them in Bosnia and then in Kosovo. When NATO forces launched their military campaign against Yugoslavia [in March, 1999] to unseat [Slobodan] Milosevic, they entered the Kosovo conflict on the side of the KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army], which had already received “substantial” military and financial support from bin Laden’s network, analysts say.

In other words, the United States was supporting al-Qaeda after the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in August, 1998, events attributed to al-Qaeda and thus, we are told, prompting Clinton to bomb “training camps” (constructed earlier by the CIA) in Afghanistan on August 20 of that same year. Remarkably, in a story published by Jerry Seper in the Washington Times, the bedfellow relationship between Clinton, Osama bin Laden, and the KLA was spelled out:

Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 persons, including twelve Americans … The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO’s bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan… and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports. … The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists, members of the Mujahideen, as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia, and that many already have been smuggled into Kosovo to join the fight. … The reports said bin Laden’s organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA.

Clinton and the Mad Bomber of Yugoslavia, General Wesley Clark—who the “liberal” Michael Moore wanted to be president—worked hand-in-glove with the KLA, and thus al-Qaeda. “The Washington Post published a long article about bin Laden’s worldwide activities, noting his presence in places like NATO- and U.N.-occupied Bosnia and Kosovo, but failed to point out that this has occurred under the watchful eye of the Clinton administration,” write Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media. “The Post would rather not bring up that subject.” Of course not—and they also “failed” to mention the well-documented connection between “Islamic terrorism” and United States foreign policy in the latest article citing the CIA lab report portraying Iraq as a terrorist incubator.

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NIM501A.html

GIS Reports: Clinton’s, Allbright, Holbrooke supporting the Islamists

Kurz gesagt: Bill Clinton, Holbrock, Hays, Wesley Clark, Allbright organisierten über einen eigenen Geheimdienst am CIA vorbei mit der MPRI www.mpri.com
den Aufbau der übelsten Islamischen Terroristen und Verbrecher auf dem Balkan, mit Hilfe von Afghanistan Veteranen und alten Terror Verbündeten, wie den Iranischen Revolutions Garden und Bin Ladens Terror Truppe.

GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs

Holbrooke, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Clinton White House all played key rôles in supporting the Islamists who, as it transpired, were consistently working with al-Qaida and the Iranian Government, among others, in planning major terrorist attacks on the US. Amb. Hays worked closely with Mr Holbrooke in the UN during this period. As a result, it was now seen as important that this pattern of support for people who were later seen to be involved in terrorist actions against the US should not be allowed to emerge, particularly in the build-up to the elections, which were regarded as being critical to Sen. Hillary Clinton and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander-Europe (SACEUR) Gen. Clark

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Oct20%2003.htm

GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs

October 9, 2003

Bosnian Sources Admit Izetbegovic Not Dead; Liaising With Clinton, Holbrooke

Exclusive. Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS. With input from GIS Station Sarajevo. Very reliable sources in the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), the radical Bosnian Islamist political party, on October 8, 2003, confirmed to GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily that its leader, Alija Izetbegovic, 78, had not died but that the party had once again leaked stories of an illness and death to reduce the chances that Izetbegovic would face war crimes charges from the International Criminal Tribunal on [former] Yugoslavia (ICTY)……………….

The Deputy High Representative is US Ambassador Donald Hays, who worked with Holbrooke when he was Clinton Administration Ambassador (Permanent Representative) to the United Nations in New York and earlier, during Holbrooke’s time working on Balkan issues when Amb. Hays was Executive Director of the US State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs.

At the UN, on January 21, 2000, Holbrooke said: “I am fortunate to have as part of my team the indefatigable Ambassador Don Hays.” Hays, then, came to the post of Deputy High Representative with strong biases in favor of Clinton Administration support for the Bosnian Islamists and Alija Izetbegovic………………….

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Balkanindex.htm

September 22, 2003

Izetbegovic Now Believed Dead

The former President of the Bosnia-Herzegovina collective presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, 78, was reported by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs sources and at least one authoritative regional media source to have died of illness on September 19, 2003, in a Sarajevo hospital. The local media source was the Bijeljina-based television station, BN TV. BN TV is one of the few truly independent television services in Bosnia-Herzegovina, based in Bijeljina, in Republica Srpska, the predominantly Serbian province.

Weitere Reports

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Balkanindex.htm

London Bombings: More Balkans Blow-back?

Wie peinlich das der Organisator der Madrid Anschläge aus Bosnien kommt und zusammen mit den KLA - UCK Terroristen aus dem Kosovo, eine Jihadists Gruppe der Al-Quida im Balkan darstellt mit Hilfe und Unterstützung von Bill Clinton.

London Bombings: More Balkans Blow-back?
by William Norman Grigg
August 1, 2005
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Who is “al-Qaeda of Europe,” the previously unknown terrorist group claiming responsibility for the murderous London bombings? Three of the suspected suicide bombers (all killed in the explosions) were immigrants from Pakistan: Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30; Hasib Hussain, 19; and Shehzad Tanweer, 22. Not immediately found was a fourth suspect, designated in some accounts as the presumed “master bomber.”

A story in the London-based Financial Times quoted a top British explosives expert who claimed that the nature of the London explosions “suggests that the perpetrators acquired either military or high-quality commercial explosives, possibly from Eastern Europe.” According to Christophe Chaboud, head of the French security service’s Anti-terrorist Co-ordination Unit, “The use of military explosives is very worrying…. How did they procure them? Either they were supplied by the underground market, for example from the Balkans, or they benefited from accomplices who removed explosives from a military base.”

It’s worth recalling that, thanks to U.S. intervention, the Balkans have become a haven for radical Islamist terrorist organizations. This is particularly true of the former Yugoslav provinces of Bosnia and Kosovo.

During the three-sided Bosnian civil war, which pitted Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims against each other, the Clinton administration actively supported Bosnian Jihadists aligned with both Iran and Osama bin Laden. During the 1999 bombing of Serbia, Washington provided intelligence and material support to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a Marxist narco-terrorist group closely allied to bin Laden. Incredibly, this took place after al-Qaeda’s 1998 attacks against our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania — and despite the fact that the KLA had been officially designated as a terrorist group by the State Department.

Also worth remembering is the fact that Sanel Sjekirika, accused by Spanish authorities of being the “mastermind” of the murderous March 2004 rail station bombing in Madrid, was from Bosnia.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1955.shtml

FBI Report: Agim Ceku ist Coordinator von Bin Laden

Der GIS Report ist eine Vorlage für Geheimdienste, genauso wie Janes.

siehe auch Spiegel Artikel letztes Jahr 42/2003! Und solche Verbrecher sind von der UN bezahlt und hatten noch eine Terroristische Ausbildung der NATO im Kosovo bis Mai 2003!

FBI Report etc.: Agim Ceku ist direkter Coordinator von Bin Laden und Co.

und die Cooperation mit Ben Laden ist bestens dokumentiert auch mit
der Amerikanischen Mafia.

Das von der UN bezahlte KPC, arbeitet direkt unter dem Kommando von
Agim Ceku mit Terroristen zusammen! Der gesamte Report ist ein
einziger Skandal, was die NATO treibt, denn Agim Ceku war in 2001
auch zu einem “Führungs Kurs direkt beim Georg C.Marshall Centrum” in
Garmische Parten-Kirchen eingeladen zusammen mit dem Mafia Aufbau
Helfer General Klaus Rheinhardt.

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily

A German spokesman had, in recent months, made clear anti-Serbian
remarks, highlighting the biased nature of the supposedly impartial
international force supposedly administering Kosovo with the support
of KFOR military units and police provided by donor nations [a Polish
police unit was in charge of the area of Metrovica when the incident
occurred]. UNMIK had, additionally, on several occasions, tried to
overturn international warrants and criminal proceedings against one
of the key Kosovo radicals, known war criminal Agim Ceku, who was now
working as the Commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), which
was, in fact, created out of the narco-terrorism organization, the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK).2
The October 15, 2003, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs report also
indicated that Ceku’s KPC was directly engaged in support of
Albanian-trained Islamist terrorists, noting:
“During the first half of August 2003, 300 Albanian-trained guerillas
— including appr. 10 mujahedin (non-Balkan Muslims) — were
infiltrated across the Albanian border into Kosovo, where many have
subsequently been seen in the company (and homes) of members of the
so-called Kosovo Protection Corps which was created out of Kosovo
Albanian elements originally part of the KLA. In fact, the Kosovo
Protection Force seems almost synonymous with the Albanian National
Army (ANA), the new designation for the KLA. The guerillas were
trained in three camps inside the Albanian border at the towns of
Bajram Curi, Tropoja and Kuks, where the camps have been in operation
since 1997.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100906/posts

oder

FBI KOngress Reports etc..

Wesley Clark outet die Ben Laden Verbindung zu der UCK-KLA und ebenso
bestätigt, das für 400 Milliarden Dollar Drogen geschmuggelt werden,
vor allem von der UCK und der Albanischen Mafia, welche bekanntlich
beste Verbündete von Solana, dem CIA und der NATO sind. Ebenso
besteht eine direkte Verbindung zum 11.9.2001!
He said that a group of about 300 young Kosovo Albanians, who had
been attacked by the concept of a Greater Muslim state, was trained
in northern Albania and then transferred to Kosovo with their
trainers, mujahidin fighters from Middle Eastern and North African
countries.
http://kaydee.forclark.com/story/2004/1/9/174445/8886/

siehe auch FBI Bericht an den US Kongress:
FBI Press Room - Congressional Statement - 2003 - Statement of Grant
D. Ashley
November 2003 Volume
72 Number 11
United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress03/ashley103003.htm

Nachrichten 14. Januar 2004:

Bush erlässt Einreise Verbot für korrupte Albanische Politiker

Proclamation by President George W. Bush Will Deny Entry of Corrupt
Officials to the United States A proclamation by U.S. President
George W. Bush, issued on January 12 and with worldwide
applicability, declares that entry to the United States will be
denied to persons engaged in, or benefiting from public official
corruption
http://www.usemb-tirana.usia.co.at/pg1news/President_Bush_proclamatio
n_eng.pdf

US Mafia Hotels in Albanien und die Ben Laden Hochhäuser in Tirana!

http://onliner.pointclark.net/public/materialien/albanien/albanien6.h
tm

http://onliner.pointclark.net/public/materialien/albanien/albanien4.h
tm

oder FBI Statement über die US - Albanische Mafia im BAlkan

FBI Weighs in on Balkan Organised Crime

By Dimitris Agrafiotis for Southeast European Times in Athens -
21/11/03

Organised crime in the Balkans has attracted the interest of the
American law enforcement community and the US Senate. The US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that crime from the Balkans,
Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union is expanding
and will continue to expand.

“In the last year or two, European nations have recognised that
Balkan organised crime is one of the greatest criminal threats that
they face,” Assistant Director of the FBI Criminal Investigative
Division Grant D. Ashley said in an October statement before the
Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations………

ccording to Ashley, organised crime groups from Albania have expanded
their activitites in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and
the Scandinavian countries. In the last few years, he said, Albanian
organised crime has reached the United States, creating partnerships
with the Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese families to facilitate
specific crimes……….

http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/031121-DIMITRIS-001.htm

Hier noch eine FBI WArnung über die Aktivitäten des Gambino clans im Balkan genauer gesagt ist es die US-Albanische Mafia.

FBI Weighs in on Balkan Organised Crime

Grant D. Ashley.

By Dimitris Agrafiotis for Southeast European Times in Athens - 21/11/03

Organised crime in the Balkans has attracted the interest of the American law enforcement community and the US Senate. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that crime from the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union is expanding and will continue to expand.

“In the last year or two, European nations have recognised that Balkan organised crime is one of the greatest criminal threats that they face,” Assistant Director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division Grant D. Ashley said in an October statement before the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

He added that European police organisations estimate that Balkan crime rings now control more than 70 per cent of the heroin market in some of the larger European nations, and are rapidly taking over human smuggling, prostitution and car theft rings across Europe.

Analysts believe the gangs are involved in all kinds of criminal activity — drug trafficking, human trafficking, burglary and home invasion robbery, money laundering and securities fraud, organised crime gambling and extortion rackets.

According to Ashley, organised crime groups from Albania have expanded their activitites in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries. In the last few years, he said, Albanian organised crime has reached the United States, creating partnerships with the Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese families to facilitate specific crimes.

In Italy, meanwhile, Mafia groups have reportedly taken advantage of the country’s geographic proximity to Southeast Europe to align themselves with Balkan organised criminal groups engaged in arms and cigarette smuggling, trafficking in humans and smuggling of aliens.

In order to confront this growing problem, Ashley said, the FBI has established the Balkan Organised Crime (BOC) initiative, which is focused on criminal activity emanating from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Greece. The BOC is a high profile endeavour on the part of the FBI’s Organised Crime Section and the US Department of Justice’s Organised Crime and Racketeering Section, he noted.

http://www.setimes.com/html2/english/031121-DIMITRIS-001.htm

und

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress03/ashley103003.htm

US Mafia Gambino Clan = www.aacl.com and a real good friend of the Taliban and Ben Laden/Yassin Kadi

Titel: CIA closed friend with the finanzsystem of Al-Quida!

http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=15

But this is not enogh: The famous Spiegel Nr. 46/2003

“Aufstand der Skipetaren” wrote a great story over the training from MPRI www.mpri.com with 300 Islamic terrorist together and attentats in balkan specially in Macedonia.

Aufstand der Skipetaren

Im Norden Griechenlands bereiten militante Albaner den bewaffneten Kampf vor. Ihr erklärtes Ziel: die Schaffung eines Großalbanien.

…………..

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,274042,00.html

here are some hotels of the Top US Mafia Croup south of Durres-Albania

http://onliner.pointclark.net/public/materialien/albanien/albanien6.htm

and here are the own privat bank, for money laundering.

The American Bank of Albania is a fully-fledged commercial bank and provides a complete
range of banking services and selected capital market services to both …
Beschreibung: A fully-fledged commercial bank and provides a complete range of banking services and selected capital

http://www.albambank.com/web/

CIA Verbrechen: Die Massaker der Kroaten in der Krainja und dem Medak

Wie im Standard.at zu lesen war, gab Georg Tenet persönlich die Befehle für den Ethnischen Säuberungen und Morde in der Krainja, wobei die Befehls Verantwortung direkt bei Holbrook und Bill Clinton lag. Selbst der ITCY ermittelte das.

Nur ein kleiner Bericht, wobei die Top Quellen wie Janes untern einmal aufgeführt sind. Und immer bei allen Verbrechen dabei die US Söldner Firma www.mpri.com

Sogar Giftgas sollen die Kroaten unter Ante Gotovina und der US www.mpri.com eingesetzt haben.

US-MILITÄRHILFE

………………………………………

Das Trainingskonzept von MPRI, das bereits in Kroatien und Bosnien getestet wurde, basieren auf der Vermittlung, daß “offensive Taktiken die beste Form der Verteidigung sind”. (17) Im Kosovo verwandelt diese sogenannte “Verteidigungsdoktrin” die UCK in eine moderne Armee, die dabei jedoch nicht ihr terroristisches Make-up verliert. (1Cool Zielsetzung ist es, die UCK letztendlich in eine moderne Armee und Polizeitstreitmacht umzuwandeln, die den zukünftigen strategischen Zielen der NATO-Allianz auf dem Balkan dient. Die MPRI-Söldnerfirma hat z.Z. “93 in hohem Maße erfahrene, ehemalige militärische Fachleute in Bosnien-Herzegovina im Einsatz”. (19) Die Zahl der ehem. Offizieren, die im Auftrag der US-Regierung die UCK trainieren, wurde nicht bekannt gegeben.

Teil II : Von der Krajina zum Kosovo.
VOM EHEMALIGEN KROATISCHEN GENERAL ZUM STABSCHEF DER UCK

Die Massaker von Zivilisten im Kosovo sind keine unzusammenhängenden Racheakte, die von albanischen Zivilisten oder sogenannten “unkontrollierbaren Elementen” innerhalb der UCK begangen wurden, wie von der NATO und den Vereinten Nationen behauptet wird. Vielmehr sind sie Teil eines gleichbleibenden und zusammenhängenden Musters. Das Ziel der von der UCK geförderten Greueltaten war die “ethnische Säuberung” von Serben, Roma und anderer Minoritäten im Kosovo. (Das Resultat bestätigt den Erfolg.)

Als UCK-Kommandant Agim Ceku auf die Ermordung von 14 serbischen Dorfbewohnern am 24. Juli bei Gracko zu sprechen kam, behauptete er: “Wir [die UCK] wissen nicht, wer das getan hat. Aber ich glaube aufrichtig, daß diese Leute nichts mit der UCK zu tun haben.” (20) Seinerseits hat der KFOR-Kommandant, Generalleutnant Sir Michael Jackson seinen Gegenpart von der UCK, Kommandant Agim Ceku für seine “Bemühungen” gelobt, die UCK zu entwaffnen. Tatsache ist aber, daß nur sehr wenige UCK-Waffen abgegeben worden sind. Deshalb verlängerte die NATO kurzerhand für die UCK die Abgabefrist für ihre Waffen. “Ich sehe dies (die Verzögerungen durch die UCK, Anm. RR) nicht als Nichtbefolgung an”, sagte dazu KFOR-Kommandant Jackson in einer Pressekonferenz, “sondern eher als Zeichen für die Ernsthaftigkeit, mit der General Ceku diese wichtige Ausgabe angeht.” (21)

Was Sir Michael Jackson nicht erwähnte, ist die Tatsache, daß der UCK-Stabschef, Kommandant Agim Ceku, nach Angaben von Jane Defence Weekly vom 10. Juni 1999 einer der hauptverantwortlichen Planer der erfolgreichen “Operation-Sturm” der kroatischen Armee war, die sich 1995 gegen die Serben richtete, die seit Jahrhunderten in der kroatischen Krajina lebten. (Allerdings wurde Agim Ceku für seine Rollen in dieser Operation bisher noch nicht als Kriegverbrecher angeklagt.)

Dem General Jackson, der im ehemaligen Jugoslawien in der Schutztruppe der Vereinten Nationen (UNPROFOR) gedient hatte, müssen die damaligen Aktivitäten von Agim Ceku und dem kroatischen Oberkommando bekannt sein. Im Februar 1999, kaum ein Monat vor Beginn der NATO-Bombardierungen, verließ Ceku seine Position als Brigadegeneral der kroatischen Armee, um oberster militärischer Leiter der UCK im Kosovo zu werden.
VON DER KRAJINA ZUM KOSOVO: UMRISSE FÜR DIE ZUKUNFT

Nach Ansicht des Kroatischen Helsinki Ausschusses für Menschenrechte kam es während der drei Tage dauernden “Operation Sturm” (1995) zu etlichen Massakern, denen mindestens 410 Zivilisten zum Opfer fielen. (22) Ein interner Bericht des Kriegverbrechertribunals von Den Haag, der der New York Times zugespielt worden war, bestätigt, daß die Armee Kroatiens für eine Reihe von Kriegsverbrechen verantwortlich gemacht wird: “Massenexekutionen, unterschiedslose Beschießung der Zivilbevölkerungen mit Granaten und “ethnische Säuberung” der Krajina von Serben (23)

In einem Kapitel des Berichtes mit dem Titel: “Die Anklage. Operation Sturm. Ein eindeutiger Fall,” bestätigt das Tribunal: “Während der militärischen Offensive begingen die kroatischen Armee und die Sonderpolizei zahlreiche Verletzungen der internationalen Gesetze zum Schutz der Menschenrechte, unter anderem die Bombardierung von Knin und anderen Städten mit Granaten. Während der militärischen Offensive und den 100 Tagen, die folgten, wurden mindestens 150 serbische Zivilisten summarisch exekutiert und viele Hunderte verschwanden. ….In einer umfassenden und systematischen Weise begingen kroatische Truppen Morde und andere unmenschliche Taten an den kroatischen Serben” (24)
“US-GENERÄLE ZU VERMIETEN”

Der interne 150 Seite lange Bericht des Tribunals stellte weiter fest, daß es “ausreichendes Material hat, um gegen drei (kroatische) Generäle, die das Militär während der Operation Sturm befehligten” ein Verfahren wegen Kriegsverbrechen einzuleiten. (25) Die benannten Personen waren direkt für die militärische Operation vor Ort verantwortlich. Jene, die für die Planung der “Operation Sturm” verantwortlich zeichneten, werden nicht erwähnt.

Die Identität des “amerikanischen Generals” (verantwortlich für die Planung) von dem der Mitarbeiter des Tribunals Fenrick gesprochen hat, ist nicht bekannt. Das Tribunal hat Fenrick nicht erlaubt, sich dazu in einem Interview zu äußern. Aber Frau Arbour, die Chefanklägerin des Tribunals, deutete in einem Telefoninterview letzte Woche an, daß Fenricks Kommentar nur ein Scherzen gewesen sei. Frau Arbour war nicht während der Sitzung anwesend gewesen, bei der Fenrick seine Bemerkung hat fallen lassen. Und jene, die dabei gewesen sind, haben es nicht als Scherz verstanden. Vielmehr nahmen sie an, daß Fenricks Bemerkung sich auf einen ehem. US-General bezog, der für die amerikanische Söldnerfirma “Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI)” in Kroatien arbeitete. In Bezug auf die amerikanische Verwicklung in die Operation Sturm bleiben zahlreiche Fragen unbeantwortet. Dokumente des Tribunals belegen, daß im Verlauf der dreijährigen Untersuchung der Operation es die Vereinigten Staaten versäumt haben, die vom Tribunal verlangten kritischen Beweismittel zur Verfügung zu stellen. Bei den Beamten des Tribunals hat das nur das Mißtrauen geweckt, daß Washington die Untersuchung dieser Sache sehr unangenehm ist. Nach Auskunft von Mitarbeitern des Tribunals und auf Grundlage entsprechender Dokumente, hat das Pentagon über amerikanische Anwälte, die am Tribunal vertreten sind, wissen lassen, daß es der Auffassung ist, daß der Granatbeschuß (der Zivilbevölkerung in den serbischen Städten in der Krajina; Anm. RR) eine legitime militärische Aktivität war.. (26)

Das Tribunal versucht nur zu verstecken, was bereits in mehreren Presseberichten unmittelbar nach der “Operation Sturm” aufgedeckt worden war. Nach Aussagen eines Sprechers des US-Außenministeriums hat die Söldnerfirma MPRI den Kroaten geholfen, “unnötige Greueltaten bei militärischen Operationen zu verhindern.” (27) Fünfzehn hochrangige US-Militär-Berater, angeführt vom pensionierten zwei-Sterne General Richard Griffitts, waren kaum sieben Monate vor der “Operation Sturm” nach Kroatien geschickt worden. (2Cool Es existiert ein Bericht, wonach der Geschäftsführer der MPRI, General Carl E. Vuono, ein “Geheimtreffen mit dem kroatischen General Varimar Cervenko, dem Architekten der Krajina-Offensive, auf der Insel Brioni vor der kroatischen Küste gehabt hat. In den fünf Tagen, die dem Angriff vorausgingen, fanden mindestens 10 Sitzungen zwischen MPRI-General Vuono und Offizieren statt, die in den Angriff mit einbezogen waren.” (29)

Von E. D. Soyster - ein hochrangiger Mitarbeiter der MPRI und seines Zeichens ehemaliger Chef des US-amerikanischen militärischen Geheimdienstes (DIA) - liegt nachfolgende Aussage vor: “Die Rolle der MPRI in Kroatien beschränkt sich auf “Klassenzimmerausbildung” auf dem Gebiet von militärisch-zivilen Beziehungen und beinhaltet kein Training an Waffen oder taktischer Schulung. Andere amerikanische Militärs sagen, was auch immer MPRI für die Kroaten getan hat, es war jeden Pfennig wert.”

Dagegen sagte Charles Boyd, ein vor kurzem pensionierter vier-Sterne General der US-Luftwaffe, der bis Juli 1995 die Nr.2 des Pentagons in Europa war,: “Carl Vuono und Butch [ Crosbie ] Saint (ein anderer führender Mitarbeiter von MPRI; Anm. RR) sind Söldner, die für die Kroaten eine sehr gute Arbeit geleistet haben und die ohne Zweifel auch in Bosnien eine gute Arbeit tun werden” (30)
VERTUSCHUNG BEIM HAAGER TRIBUNAL

Die Tatsache, daß die internen Berichte des Tribunals über die Massaker in der Krajina ausgerechnet wenige Tage vor den NATO-Luftangriffen auf Jugoslawien der Presse zugespielt worden waren, hatte die Chefanklägerin der Tribunals, Louise Arbour, arg in Verlegenheit gebracht. Daraufhin versuchte das Tribunal, die Sache so gut wie möglich zu vertuschen und die Entdeckungen des Berichtes - einschließlich der Hinweise auf die Rolle der amerikanischen Offiziere im Dienste Kroatiens herunter zu spielen. Einige Tribunalbeamte, einschließlich des amerikanischen Rechtsanwalt Clint Williamson, versuchten die Zeugenaussage des kanadischen Blauhelmoffiziers zu diskreditieren, der 1995 Zeuge der Massaker in der Krajina war. (31)

Williamson, der die Bombardierung von Knin mit Granaten als “nebensächliches Ereignis” beschrieb, sagte aus, daß das Pentagon ihm erklärt hätte, daß Knin ein legitimes militärisches Ziel gewesen sei. Daraufhin stimmte das Tribunal dafür, die Beschießung von Knin nicht in die Listen von Anklagepunkten aufzunehmen; eine Entscheidung, die viele am Tribunal verärgerte und/oder mit ungläubigem Staunen aufgenommen wurde. (32)

Die Erkenntnisse des Tribunals, die aus dem der Presse zugespielten internen Bericht hervorgingen, wurden in der Folge systematisch heruntergespielt: ihre Bedeutung wurde beiläufig als “Meinungsäußerungen, Argumente und Hypothesen verschiedener Mitarbeiter” abgetan. (33) Nach Ansicht der Sprecherin der Tribunals “stellen die Dokumente in keinster Weise die Schlußfolgerungen der Anklage dar”. (34)

Der interne 150-Seiten-Bericht ist bisher nicht freigegeben worden. Der Mitarbeiter, der für die Zuspielung an die Presse verantwortlich gemacht wurde, arbeitet nach einem Bericht des kroatischen Fernsehens nicht mehr für das Tribunal. […]
DER GEBRAUCH CHEMISCHER WAFFEN IN KROATIEN

Die Massaker, die im Rahmen der “Operation Sturm ” stattfanden, bereiteten den Boden für die ethnische Säuberung von mindestens 180.000 Krajina-Serben (entsprechend der Schätzungen des Kroatischen Helsinki Komitees und von Amnesty International). Andere Quellen vermuten eine weitaus höhere Zahl von Opfern der ethnischen Säuberung in der Krajina.

Außerdem gibt es Hinweise, daß chemische Waffen im jugoslawischen Bürgerkrieg von 1991-1995 benutzt wurden. (36) Obwohl es keine handfesten Beweis für deren Gebrauch gegen kroatische Serben gibt, deutet eine laufende (seit Juli 99) Untersuchung des Kanadischen Verteidigungsministeriums darauf hin, daß kanadische Friedenstruppen während ihres Dienstes in Kroatien von 1993 bis 1995 mit toxischen Substanzen vergiftet worden sind.

“Als die Medien erst einmal begriffen hatten, daß im Verteidigungsministerium womöglich ein größerer Skandal hochgehen würde, war die Spannung während der letzten Wochen groß. … Es ging um die Krankenakten jener kanadischen Soldaten, die 1993 in Kroatien eingesetzt waren. Es gab Behauptungen über vernichtete Akten, Gerüchte über Vertuschung und sehr defensive höhere Beamte im Ministerium”. (37)

Der amtliche freigegebene Bericht des kanadischen Ministeriums der Nationalen Verteidigung (DND) spricht von der Möglichkeit der toxischen “Bodenverschmutzung” in der Medak-Tasche im Jahre 1993 (Siehe unten). War es nur “Bodenverschmutzung” oder war es etwas weitaus schlimmeres? Die Kriminaluntersuchung durch die Königliche Kanadische Aufgesessene Polizei (RCMP; vergleichbar mit dem amerikanischen FBI) spricht von der Vernichtung im Reißwolf von Krankenakten ehemaliger kanadischer Blauhelmsoldaten durch das DND. Mit anderen Worten, was hatte das DND zu verstecken? Die Kernfrage ist: Welche Art von Granaten und Munition hatte die kroatische Armee eingesetzt; gebrauchte sie chemische Waffen gegen serbische Zivilisten?

“OPERATION STURM” - BERICHT DES KÖNIGLICHEN KANADISCHEN REGIMENTS

Vor dem massiven Angriff hatte das kroatische Radio eine Meldung von Präsident Franjo Tudjman verkündet, der alle “kroatische Bürger serbischer Abstammung” dazu aufrief, “in ihren Häusern zu bleiben und sich nicht vor den kroatischen Behörden zu fürchten, die die Minoritätenrechte achten würden” (3Cool Kanadische Blauhelmsoldaten des Zweiten Bataillons des Königlichen 22. Regiments waren Zeugen der Greueltaten der kroatischen Truppen bei ihrer Krajina-Offensive 1995: “Alle Serben, die ihre Häuser nicht verlassen hatten, wurden von umherziehenden kroatischen Todeskommandos systematisch . Jedes verlassene Tier wurde erschossen und jede mögliche serbische Wohnung wurde geplündert und angezündet.” (39).

Die Teilnahme deutscher Söldner an der Operation Sturm wurde ebenfalls von den kanadischen Blauhelmtruppen bestätigt: “Unmittelbar hinter der aus kroatischen Kampftruppen und deutschen Söldnern bestehenden Front folgten eine große Zahl von nationalistischen Extremisten. Viele der Greueltaten wurden innerhalb des kanadischen Sektors begangen. Aber die Blauhelme wurden schon bald von der kroatischen Regierung informiert, daß die UNO in der Region nichts mehr zu sagen hätte.” (40)

Bisher ist nicht offiziell bekannt geworden, wie die deutschen Söldner angeworben worden sind. Eine Untersuchung der UNO-Kommission für Menschenrechte (UNHRC) bestätigte nur, daß fremde Söldner in Kroatien in einigen Fällen “außerhalb Kroatiens angeworben und bezahlt worden waren”. (41)
DAS MASSAKER IN DER MEDAK-TASCHE (1993)

Die Zeitschrift Jane Defence Weekly vom 10. Juni 1999 meldete, daß Brigadegeneral Agim Ceku, nun militärischer Chef der UCK, auch das “Gehirn der erfolgreichen Offensive der Kroatischen Armee bei Medak” im September 1993 war. Die unter dem Codenamen “Verbrannte Erde” geführte Operation in Medak hatte die totale Zerstörung der serbischen Dörfer von Divoselo, Pocitelj und von Citluk und das Massaker von über 100 Zivilisten zur Folge. (42)

Diese Massaker wurden auch von kanadischen Blauhelmsoldaten unter UNO-Mandat bezeugt: “Als die Sonne über den Horizont stieg, war das Tal Medak gefüllt von Rauche und Feuer. Wahrend die frustrierten (kanadischen) Soldaten von der 2PPCLI auf den Befehl zum Einsatz in der Tasche warteten, wurde die ethnische Säuberung fortgesetzt und immer wieder konnte man Schüsse und Schreie hören. Ungefähr 20 Mitglieder der internationalen Presse waren mitgekommen, um auf keinen Fall das Schlachtfeld von Medak zu verpassen. Calvin [ein kanadischer Offizier] berief an der Spitze der Kolonne eine ad-hoc Pressekonferenz ein und beschuldigte die Kroaten des Versuchs, Kriegsverbrechen an serbischen Einwohnern zu verheimlichen. ”

“Die Kroaten begannen, sich wieder auf ihre alte Linie zurückzuziehen. Dabei nahmen sie alles mit, was sie nicht zerstört hatten. Alle Tiere waren getötet und alle Häuser angezündet worden. Französische Spähtrupps und ein kanadisches Kommando rückten dann in das Tal vor und schon bald fanden sie die ersten Leichen von serbischen Zivilisten, einige schon vor einigen Tagen getötet, andere gerade erst erschossen. …Schließlich, an dem regnerischen Morgen des 17. Sept. kamen Gruppen von der UNO-Zivilpolizei, um die rauchenden Ruinen zu begutachten und nach Mordopfern zu suchen. Die verwesenden Leichen, die im Freien lagen, wurden katalogisiert und dann an die Blauhelme zur Bestattung übergeben. (43)

Die Massaker wurden an das kanadische Verteidigungsministerium und an die Vereinten Nationen berichtet:

“Hochrangige Verteidigungsbürokraten zuhause in Ottawa konnten nicht absehen, welche politischen Auswirkungen die Kampfhandlungen haben würden. Für sie gab es keinen Grund, die Aufmerksamkeit der Medien auf etwas zu lenken, was sehr leicht nach hinten losgehen konnte…..So wurde Medak in die Erinnerungslücke verbannt…..kein Publizität, keine wechselseitigen Beschuldigungen, kein offizieller Bericht. Außer für die beteiligten Soldaten hatte die seit dem Koreakrieg aufregendste kanadische Militäraktion niemals stattgefunden.” (44)

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/chossudovsky/terrorherrschaft.htm

Fußnoten

1. Jim Lehrer News Maker Interview, PBS, 26 July 1999.

2. Stratfor Commentary, “Growing Threat of Serbian Paramilitary Action in Kosovo”, 29 July 1999

3. Human Rights Watch, 3 August 1999.

4. See Michael Radu, “Don’t Arm the KLA”, CNS Commentary from the Foreign Policy Research Institute, 7 April, 1999).

5. Tanjug Press Dispatch, 14 May 1999

6. Stratfor Comment, “Rugova Faced with a Choice of Two Losses”, Stratfor, 29 July 1999.

7. Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Yugoslav Daily Survey, Belgrade, 29 June 1999.

8. Hina Press Dispatch, Zagreb, 26 July 1999

9. Ibid.

10. BBC Report, London, 5 July 1999.

11. New York Times, 2 February 1999

12. Financial Times, London, 4 August 1999.

13. See Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Mission in Kosovo, Decision 305, Permanent Council, 237th Plenary Meeting, PC Journal No. 237, Agenda item 2, Vienna, 1 July 1999 .

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42. (See Memorandum on the Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of the Serbian People in the Republic of Croatia, http://serbianlinks.freehosting.net/memorandum.htm).

43. Excerpts from the book of Scott Taylor and Brian Nolan published in the Toronto Sun, 1 November 1998.

44. Ibid.

45. NATO Press Briefing, 14 May 1999.

46. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, Kosovo `Freedom Fighters’ Financed by Organized Crime, CAQ, SpringSummer 1999.

47. Jane’s Defence Weekly, Vol 25, No. 7, 14 February 1996.

Jetzt werden die ersten Hintermänner der Kriegs Verbrecher wie Ante Gotovina festgenommen.

Hrvoje Petrac verhaftet, ein Financier und enger Vertrauter vom Kriegs Verbrecher und Drogen Schmuggler Ante Gotovina.

Greek Authorities Confirm Arrest of Croatian Businessman With Ties to Gotovina

01/09/2005

ZAGREB, Croatia — A controversial businessman with strong ties to fugitive war crimes indictee Ante Gotovina has been detained in Greece, the Greek Embassy in Zagreb confirmed Wednesday (31 August). Hrvoje Petrac, 50, was apprehended on an international arrest warrant issued by Croatia. He fled the country earlier this year. Petrac and four other Croats suspected of assisting Gotovina evade capture were placed on the EU’s blacklist, which bans them from entering EU member states. Croatian President Stipe Mesic welcomed news of Petrac’s arrest, describing it as a step towards apprehending Gotovina.

In other news, Interior Minister Ivica Kirin announced a plan Wednesday to reorganise the police, aimed at ending the excessive centralisation of command. Kirin says the plan envisions increasing responsibilities within departments to make them more independent. (Novi list, Vecernji list, Vjesnik - 01/09/05; HINA, index.hr - 31/08/05)

The Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications

The Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications
Stanford University ^ | 02/25/2003 | Vitomir Dolinski
Posted on 04/20/2004 12:34:15 AM PDT by Nennsy
Vitomir Dolinski: An interview with the persecuted albanian academic prof. Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich

The Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications

VD: - You are regarded as a unique, albanian Mandela, but also as a political prisoner-record holder on the Balkan. For the insufficiently informed, at the beginning, tell us briefly about this?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - In former Yugoslavia I was sentenced two years strict imprisonment, allegedly for propaganda against the socialism and the “brotherhood and unity”. After I served the punishment to the last day in the jail Idrizovo, wishing to escape to the Soviet Union I got stuck in Albania with which the USSR exactly those days severed its diplomatic relations. After the ten-year internment I was arrested by the albanian authorities and sentenced 43 years of a most monstrous imprisonment, again allegedly for antigovernment propaganda, in possession of some revolver without license, preparing to escape and for insulting the investigator. Thus, in total I am sentenced 45 years, of which 37 for antigovernment propaganda, with which I think that I am the most heavily sentenced political prisoner on the Balkan and maybe I am a unique world record holder. Actually, if it wasn’t for the (political) changes in Albania I would probably have still been in jail today. To this sentence needs to be added the severed marriage in Yugoslavia, in which fortunately I didn’t have any children and also the second marriage, in Albania, in which I had two children. During the whole time of my incarceration, not only that I wasn’t allowed to see my children, but I didn’t even know if they were alive. No one was allowed to visit me, or to give me a piece of bread. Not even the other prisoners. Those who did that were punished and the poet Gani Shkudra, who came to see me, not only that they didn’t allow him to see me, but in front of the jail, on the spot, they arrested him and sentenced him with 10 years imprisonment, allegedly for political propaganda. The only transgression attributed to him in the accusation is recorded as: “he had gone to the jail Burel to see the public enemy Kaplan Resuli and brought him bread”. While I was languishing in the infamous jail Burel, ten times they skinned me alive, literally, wanting from me to abandon my yugoslavian (montenegrin) citizenship, the yugoslavian (montenegrin) nationality, my ideals, even my children. They were forcing me to declare myself an Albanian, not only as citizen, but in nationality (ethnicity). Several times they attempted to liquidate me, even after I was released from jail, three times they have attempted to assassinate me – twice in Tirana and once in Geneva. The Albanians themselves, not only my friends, but even the others who were antagonistic towards me, while I was in my jail cells, pronounced me an albanian Mandela. Even my most open adversary, the albanian writer Ismail Kadare, those days, the beginning of the nineties, in his attempts to befriend the european circles and Amnesty International who were involved in my freeing, did not shirk from naming me a martyr and a hero of Albania.

VD: - Before we turn towards that period and to Your specific relationship with the most famous, but undoubtedly the most controversial person of the albanian academy, as well, Ismail Kadare, lets return to the most important phases of your creative activities which led to Your wider literary and scientific affirmation?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - In Dubrovnik in 1952 I published the poem “Bojana” in which I openly named Yugoslavia and Albania, Golgotha, in which the people struggle and suffer. I was instantly called on the phone by my “countryman” Milovan Gjilas who then threatened me that he will squeeze my head so hard that instead of singing I would begin to wail. And it turned out thus. I hear in Yugoslavia he is regarded as the No.1 dissident. If truly there is no other person, then I know that I was that at least a little bit before him.

VD: - Your first jail sentence, unfortunately, occurred to You in Macedonia, where for some time in that period You worked as an educator?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - Yes, I was a tutor in Tetovo when they arrested me. As it can be seen from the charges, in Macedonia I had done nothing wrong. I was accused that, allegedly, I had been involved in an antigovernment propaganda in Montenegro. And because I was and am a montenegrin citizen, the court proceedings should have been there, in my birth town of Ulcinj. The reason for my prosecution in Tetovo was that there I didn’t have any relatives and UDBa (yugoslavian state security), which knew that I am absolutely innocent, was afraid that my prosecution among my Ulcinj people could provoke some unwanted problems. For that reason it ordered my prosecution in Tetovo, behind closed doors. Although I am not from Tetovo, the people of this town, especially my students knew me well, as a professor and as a writer. Along the streets of the town from the court to the jail I was greeted with an open support from many of them and most likely for many of them it will be interesting to know that the key UDBa witness against me was then their collaborator, now allegedly a big fighter for the albanian cause, Adem Demaçi. The state prosecutor in his concluding talk, accusing me as “agens spiritus” of the yugoslavian youth against the regime and seeking to be charged as such, stated that I had been and hoped that I will continue to be in future, as well, a “constructive citizen” of Yugoslavia. It is interesting that Fatos Nano (albanian socialist premier) after my release from jail, here in Geneva described me as a “constructive citizen” of Albania, asking me to return there, in Tirana.

VD: - Your first more significant life’s disappointment, You said, implanted in You the idea to leave for the Soviet Union, but fate wanted again to play with you in a brutal fashion and “retain” You many years in the albanian jail Burel?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - True, that was some time after my completion of the jail sentence in Idrizovo. Burel was not a jail, but a place of horror. While in Idrizovo they would say “You are not here for us to fatten you up, but to count your bones” in Burel it was: “This place is called Burel, where one can get in, but can not get out”.

VD: - The numerous works which You wrote here most likely helped You to strengthen your spirit and, eventually, to survive. Actually, exactly here is created your most famous work, the novel “Treason”?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - From approximately 200,000 pages written during those thirty years, half of them I succeeded in transferring out of jail and to have them here, in Geneva. The other part was taken from me by the authorities and I have no idea what has happened with them. The novel “Treason”, otherwise, the Albanians themselves proclaimed it as a masterpiece of the albanian literature. One of the most eminent albanian critics, Prof. Tajar Zavaljani, even described it as the only worthy work published in Albania after World War II. That type of reception for the novel in Albania and amongst the albanian diaspora perturbed Enver Hoxha (Hodzha) who was attempting to establish his likeminded relative Ismail Kadare as the greatest albanian literary. That is why all of a sudden they “discovered” that I had not written the novel, attempting even to physically eliminate me, but it had been the work of Adem Demaçi (Demaky), for whom they were hoping that, in the meantime, he would perish in the yugoslavian jails. Since Demaçi got out of jail alive and I also survived, now, via the printed media, they have widened a campaign against me, unseen in the history of mankind, which, imagine, the novel had been written for me by UDBa, in order to establish myself with it in Albania and thus usurp the government from Enver.

V.D. - Thus far twice, in similar context, You mentioned Kadare and I would like to remind You of 1991 when Amnesty International, as well, engages in the requests for Your release from jail and, absurdly, the one who attempted to block it was none other, but Kadare. How, actually, could that be explained?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - Kadare is catapulted in the West by Ramiz Alija and the widow of Enver Hoxha, with a well planned mission. At that time it was only one of his missions – to diminish my credibility amongst the albanian public and the diaspora, fearing that I may unmask them, spoiling their future plans. For that reason, not only in private, as was the case with Adem Demaçi, but also publicly, at meetings and via the printed media he barked against me and would accuse me, as they were instructing him from Tirana. Kadare and Demaçi are the main conspirators in of the most monstrous demonstrations in the history of mankind, when they strirred the albanian professors and students at Prishtina university to demonstrate in February 1991 against my release from jail.

VD: - On the subject “Kadare” You have up till now written much, to which special attention in the albanian public, but also in the european community have attracted Your books “The true face of Ismail Kadare” and “The lies do not alter the truth”. When, actually, began Your rivalry and what is, as You have mentioned, his well planned mission?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - In these books, actually, with documents and with facts, but also with his own self confessions, I have proven that he is catapulted in the West as an agent of Sigurimi (albanian state security), because he was that from always. As a principal ideolog of Enver, with secret interpretations on our works he was “passing judgment” for our maltreatments, internments and arrests. Actually, this was publicly stated, on Albanian Radio-Television in 1996 by the former head of Sigurimi, Zylfiar Ramizi, verifying that Kadare was in their service under the pseudonym General. He was a provocateur trained by Sigurimi to accuse anyone who, according to him, stood in his way, as he did that with me. And why? Because academic professor Dimitar Suterilji, in his principal paper which he read out at the second Congress of Albanian Writers, placed my name and novel before his. At one plenum of the Union in 1966 I openly criticised him, which enraged him, as he was not used to being criticised. Much later, after my release from jail, a major from Sigurimi involved in my arrest openly declared that, although totally innocent, they had arrested me because they had received a secret 12-page long accusation against me and my activities, exactly from Kadare. In the meantime, he totally put his pen and talent in the service of his benefactor Enver whose political speeches he was transforming into poems and novels. I don’t know if you are aware of the fact that Kadare published a complimentary poem lauding Enver’s “patriotic” dog, which somewhere at the border catches and pulls apart some unfortunate Albanian, only because the poor soul attempted to escape from Enver’s paradise. These are only a few pieces of evidence about the moral profile of the “great” literary and “certain” Nobel prize winner Ismail Kadare, whose main preoccupation today is to poison and deceive the West with the albanian historical falsifications about the alleged famous illiryan-albanian past and culture, which, what absurdity, had suffered multi-centuries harm from the activities of its surrounding barbaric “slavic” peoples.

VD: - This is, I think, an opportune moment to begin our discussion for Your third, certainly an important segment, as well, of Your writings – the scientific-research work. You have published numerous works from the sphere of the albanian historiography and linguistics, which brought You significant prestige, scientific titles and also an honorary membership in the Albanian Science Academy. When did actually begin Your scientific interest for the Albanology?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - Already in 1995 at the university of Skopje it became clear to me that there will not be peace on the Balkan until the albanian question is clarified. For that reason I switched from the law faculty to the albanological studies and here, contrary to what was being said and written not only by the albanian, but also by our, yugoslavian scholars, contrary to what is being taught not only in the albanian language schools (in Albania, as well as in Macedonia), but also in the schools of “south-slavic” languages, I discovered that not only the Albanians are not autochthonous people, but they are also not related in any way to the Pelasgians or the Illyrians. Understandably, not one of the professors in albanology has said this to me. They still continued with the tale that allegedly Albanians are autochthonous pelasgoillyrian descendants. I discovered that by chance, studying the albanian language, which, all agree, is of the type SATEM. According to that global division of languages, researching the illyrian language I discovered that it is of the type KENTUM. The most elementary logic was saying to me that one SATEM language can not be a direct descendant, not even a kind of derivative of some KENTUM language, without a change of its substrate. Since the albanian language does not have any changes in its substrate, that means that the Albanians can’t be, under any circumstance, genealogical descendants of the Illyrians. Later I discovered this, as well, in the works of the world renown professors and scholars Paul, Hirt, Vaigand, Tomashek, Georgiev, Puscariu and many others, who with numerous scholarly arguments, linguistic and historical, have proven that the Albanians not only do not have anything in common with the Illyrians, not only that they are not autochthonous at any place in the Balkan, but they are not even autochthonous in the territories of modern day Albania. Vaigand for example has formulated 12 arguments. To all of those I’ve added another five. Unfortunately, these scientists are not being mentioned in (the study) Albanology, nor in Albania, nor aret they mentioned in Yugoslavia, or in Macedonia, because the albanian professors consciously hide the truth about the origins of the Albanians and, instead of it (the truth), to their pupils and students they serve up the lies about their autochthony and illyrian origin. Via those lies they poison the whole nation. This is not done accidentally, but with the aim to incite the Albanians against the neighbouring nations, thus, hooking them on the “fishing line” of some invented, wide ethnic territories, to use them as cannon fodder for the interests of some criminalised leaders and the international Capital. The primary motive that inspired me to oppose the albanian pseudo science about their illyrian origin was the truth, the love for the truth, my special inclination towards it, but second and equally as important motive was the fact that, watching the Albanians being breast-fed with chauvinism and racism, are being encouraged to fight their neighbouring peoples (nations), I was hoping that if the truth is explained to them, they will move away from the tales, legends and myths about their autochthony and illyromania, thus ceasing with their inexcusable and baseless hatred towards their neighbours.

VD: - How did the albanian public receive Your albanological research and discoveries?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - Once even Enver Hoxha was forced to admit that the albanian science lacks scientific objectivity. The albanian poet Mimoza Erebara in the Science Academy asked them directly what was the situation with my scientific discoveries. They had told her: “We know that very well even before Kaplan, but now is not the time for all of that to be told” Since in the publication “YLBERI” (comes out since 1993, in Geneva) and especially through my albanological collection THE ILLYRIANS AND THE ALBANIANS I demonstrated in written form my points of view, the albanian academic Vincents Golleti, in the printed media stated: “The stances of Kaplan Burovikj about the albanological problems, especially on the problem of the origin of the Albanians, need to be greeted most warmly, while the studies which he publishes in relation with those problems should be propagated throughout the whole of the scholarly world”. After him followed the albanian scholar Dr. Adrian Qosi who in the middle of Tirana openly opposed the hypothesis about the illyrian origin of the Albanians. With me agreed, via the printed media, several other younger scholars of whom I would especially mention Fatos Ljubonja, Prof. Adrian Vebiu and others. I can say that today appeared a group of new albanian scholars who do not agree with the false myths and courageously accept the scientific truth. I am proud that I lead this group and that they took up from me the necessary scholarly courage. Because, believe me, that is not easy at all, as the extreme albanian nationalists, chauvinists and racists led by Ismail Kadare, through the most severe forms of chicanery and satanising are attempting to silence us at any cost. The mentioned Dr Adrian Klosi when he stated that the hypothesis for the illyrian origin of the Albanians is unfounded, added: “But it is better not to talk about that because they will declare us anti Albanians”. And they did.

VD: - Since when actually dates the oldest evidence for the existence of the Albanians and the albanian language?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - The oldest evidenced text in an albanian language is “Formula ë paleximit” (Formula for communion), translated from Latin in 8-11-1462 by the Montenegrin Pavle Angjelich, whom the Albanians have albanised with the name Pal Engylli. The first book in albanian is “Meshari” (The Book of Thoughts), a manual for religious sermons, dates from 1555 and is written by the Croatian Ivan Buzuk and published in Montenegro. And, understandably, they albanise him with the name Gjon Buzuku. For your information, the first primer in albanian, after the proclamation of the albanian independence is a work of “Slavs” and Vlachs. Dositej Obradovich is the first in history who opens a school in albanian language, while it was exactly Serbia which was the first state to recognise independent Albania. The Macedonians have a significant input in the development of the albanian culture. For example, one of the oldest publishers in Albania is the Macedonian Petar Budi (1566-1622) who has published three books in albanian, and also a Macedonian is Jovan Kukuzel, whom the Albanians have claimed as their own and have albanised with the name Jan Kukuzeli, although it is known that when he was born in Drach, XI century, here there still is not even one Albanian. Let me remind you also of Grigor Prlichev (1830-1893) who for some time is a teacher in Tirana and published the wonderful poem “Skenderbeg”. Undeniable is the fact that always at the forefront of all of their positive processes the Albanians had namely non Albanians. Lets mention, as well, at this opportune time only Georgi Kastriot – Skenderbeg, of an undeniable “slavic” ancestry, Naim Frasheri (a Vlach, an albanian national poet) or Fan Noli (a Greek, whose real name is Theofanos Mavromatis), Petar Bogdan, a Serb, or Ismail Kemali, a Turk who was proclaiming the albanian independence in 1912. As you can see, the foundations of the albanian culture and statehood are laid by non Albanians, from which a large number are “Slavs”, but that does not stand in the way of the albanian nationalists, or “marxists-leninists”, all the same, to thump their chests and declare that they have achieved everything by themselves and that the other people (nations), especially the “Slavs” have only been their enemies.

VD: - Undeniable is the fact that in Albania the toponyms are, say, without exception “slavic”. To what is that owed?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - On the territory of today’s Albania, as has already been confirmed by the most distinguished world scholars, from whom I have already mentioned some, first settled the Slavs. In 548 A.D. they enter also in Durrachium (Drach, Durrls). The Albanians come via Transylvania (Romania) and Bulgaria much later, IX-X century. In the meantime, understandably, the Slavs have already named all mountains, valleys, rivers, towns and villages, and built some new ones, giving them their own names. When the Albanians arrive on the Balkan and today’s Albania, there is nothing else they can do except to take those toponyms. A large part of Albania is flooded with serbian and macedonian toponyms. Just as an example I wish to mention the towns of Pogradec, Korça (Korcha), Çorovoda (Chorovoda), Berat, Bozigrad, Leskovik, Voskopoja, Kuzova, Kelcira, Bels and others.

VD: - In the macedonian community little is known that more than 90 percent of the lexical fund of the albanian language are words taken up from other languages. You especially have analysed the subject of the “slavisms” in the albanian language. It would be interesting some more to be said about this?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - For the first time I graduated in Skopje, exactly with the theme “Slavisms in the albanian language”. The second diploma, as well, at the university of Tirana, I defended with a linguistic theme. Especially in “The Dictionary of the Albanian Language in Ulcinj” I have elaborated the etymology of all words. Actually, it can be supposd that if the Turks did not come to the Balkans, the albanian language in not more than 100-200 years would have been completely “slavicised”. The serbian, macedonian and bulgarian languages have penetrated so much into the albanian language that they have flooded not only the lexicon, but they have displaced its phonetics, morphology and syntax. Besides the significant cultural prestige of these languages compared to the albanian, this is also due to the significant albanisation of not a small number of Serbs, Macedonians and Montenegrins, especially the ones who were previously islamised. As it is known, the Albanians have a strongly developed power of assimilation. That a good part of them by origin is Serbs, Macedonians or Montenegrins, is witnessed by their patrons, surnames, but many of them even today speak their “slavic” language. In Albania there are whole regions along the border, especially towards Macedonia, settled with a compact “slavic” population, which is even more numerous, lets say, than the Albanians in Macedonia.

VD: - Lets talk a little also about the numerous ethnonyms which from the albanian side, often baselessly, are forced as synonyms. How come so many ethnic names for the Albanians?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - That, as well, witnesses the ethnogenesis of the Albanians after their arrival on the Balkan and populating the northern albanian mountains. I have already mentioned about the Illyrians, but the second ethnonym to which they pretend, the Dardanians, it is known, were not Illyrians, but Thracians. Even if they (Dardanians) had been Illyrians, again they haven’t any connection with the Albanians, because that kind of connection neither have the Illyrians themselves. Science has proven that very clearly. In respect of the Albanoi(an)s, they are a celtic tribe which on the territory of Albania, in the region Mat, arrives in the IV century BC. Today’s Albanians, actually, only much, much later take over their name, as have done today’s Bulgarians from the non slavic Bulgars of Asparuh, or today’s French, from the old germanic Franks, deforming the old celtic name Arlbn/Arlbr. Arbanasi is the other name with which our ancestors the “Slavs” are naming them during the Middle Ages. Arnauts is the name which the Turks use for them. It should be known that not all Arnauts were at the same time Albanians, as well. Because the Arnauts (Albanians) got a reputation as good hired hands in the turkish empire, the other mercenaries were also called Arnauts. That means that there were Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians ARNAUTS, because some of them are also islamised, thus as muslims they serve under the turkish flag not only as common soldiers, but also as arnauts (mercenaries). Skiptar (or Shiptar and deformed Shiftar, all originate from the albanian appellative Shqipltar) is the current national name of the Albanians, spread amongst them in the XVII-XIX century, influenced by the name Osman, as the Turks were naming themselves. Namely, osman in turkish is “eagle”, while in albanian it is “shquipe”. Thus the Albanians of muslim faith wanted to relate themselves with the muslims Turks, which was also the aim of the Porte, even of the original platform of the Prizren League, which originally is not albanian at all, but pan islamic. And if its primary aims succeeded, most probably the Albanians would not exist today because all of them in the meantime would have become Turks.

VD: - Here as well, is the known division Ghegs-Toscs from which originates the known language question which, it seems, still has not been overcome by the Albanians?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - The language question in Albania is not settled even today. Although formally (and by force) Enver Hoxha established as a common, official language the Tosc dialect (until then it was the Gheg dialect), the Ghegs have not given up. They still continue to speak and write in their dialect, although they are persecuted and maltreated because of it. When in 1965 in Albania I published the novel “Treason” in the Gheg dialect the Albanians of northern Albania openly requested the language of this book to be declared as the literary and official language of Albania. That too was one of the reasons for my satanisation which still continues. You should know that the difference between the Tosc and the Gheg dialects is much bigger than the differences between some “slavic” languages, for example the macedonian and the serbian. From another side, more Albanians, about two thirds, speak in gheg, which is lexically richer, purer and also has much greater expressional opportunities. With the enforcement of the tosc dialect, which was of a pure political nature (motive), a crime has been perpetrated against the Albanians and their culture.

VD: - One of the fallacies (delusions), unfortunately, it seems somehow silently accepted even outside of Albania is the so called monolithic nature of the albanian population in the Republic of Albania in which allegedly live 97-98% ethnic Albanians, for which You have already said something previously. What is, according to You, the reality in that respect in Albania?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - When Albania is proclaimed and recognised as an independent nation (1912-1913) its population numbered 700,000 of which hardly 50% were Albanians, while the other half was made up of Vlachs (around 20%), “Slavs” (Macedonians, Serbs, Montenegrins, around 15%),Greeks (around5%) and others (Turks, Roms, Cherkesians, Italians, Jews and others, around 10%). With the passing of time, mostly by force, with denial of all national rights, including the right to speak in their own languages at home, or to carry their own national family names, they are to a certain extent assimilated. But, even besides the such forced albanisation, in Albania even today over 30% of the population speaks a non albanian language and retains its non albanian national identity, although they are registered as Albanians, as they are not permitted to declare differently. The non albanian origins of the population of Albania is also evident from their surnames Bello, Blushi, Bogdani, Buda, Budi, Dida, Dobraci, Dragovoja, Dragusha, Haveri(ch), Kapisuzi(ch), Mexi, Millani, Milloshi, Mojsiu, Muzaka, Najdeni, Peku, Prela, Ruka, Sillil, Shkura, Shundi, Ziu and many others.

VD: - In Your research You have also paid special attention to the ethnic expansion of the Albanians in the past 2-3 centuries towards its neighbouring (serbian, macedonian, greek and others) regions, for which now, the last several decades, to begin to proclaim exactly them as their “ethnic territories” in which they allegedly lived from eternity?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - This truly is absurd and, in any case it is good that there remain numerous proofs for their undeniable expansion, which I have integrally collected and published in my study “The origins of the Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece”. One needs to be objective and tell the truth, not because of the truth itself, but because it will contribute toward overcoming of the many problems on the Balkan. That the Albanians only in the past couple of centuries have expanded admitted publicly, via the printed media, the most eminent contemporary albanian scientist, academic professor Elrem Cabej (Tsabej), who, forced by the numerous arguments, was unable, but to conclude that today’s territories on which the Albanians live are not “a zone of RESTRICTION”, but “a zone of EXPANSION”. And not only he! That also is verified in the “HISTORIA Ë SHQIPERISË” itself, compiled by the albanian scientists themselves.

VD: - Recently from Tirana were launched some “evidences” about an existence of 14 million Albanians. Amongst the numerous “Albanians” who had indebted the world civilisation was included, as well, Alexander of Macedonia!?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - I’ve read that, as well. The albanian academic, Prof. Dr Skender Rizaj once even in his “scientific” works stated that, also all Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bosnians and Herzegovians are, in reality, “slavicised” Albanians. By that method we should “admit” that they are not only 14, but possibly even 140 millions. I have already published a study about the “scientific” work “The Illyrians spoke albanian – The Albanians speak illyrian” published by Preloc Margiljaj. I would like to present for this suitable moment only a few short quotes which can also be found in other albanian historical-linguistic “experts”: “The Albanians are one of the oldest nations (peoples) in Europe” (page 438) “it is clear that Crete is the first fireplace of culture and civilisation in the aegean region and in Europe. Crete from the forgotten times of the past was settled with the pelasgian, rather the illyrian or albanian people, thus in Crete ruled the albanian language, which in other words, is the starting point and the first source of the european culture and civilisation”. (page296). Starting from this, this albanian “scientist” wants the albanian language to be taught in all schools around the world as a compulsory language because, according to him, without knowing that language it would not be possible to comprehend the world culture(!?). In respect of Alexander of Macedonia, even Enver Hoxha has written that he is an Albanian, expressing that also in one discussion with the indian ambassador in Tirana, as if personally he, Enver, had sent him to India, even as an ambassador to establish friendly relations between these two countries and peoples. These undoubtedly racist yearnings of the Albanians are certainly the result of their economic and cultural poverty, of their backwardness and late development in comparison with the other nations, amongst which are those of its neighbours, I would say of their frustration because of all of that.

VD: - Do You believe, regardless, in the possibility that the young, unburdened scientists and politicians in Albania will accept the reality and they, abandoning the greater albanian dreams, to give their own contribution towards the development in real good-neighbourly relations?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - I do believe! I have already cited several names of such young scientists. I can also give you names of young politicians unburdened of the greater albanian yearnings. But they still don’t have the power for that, except their pens and good intentions, with which they can’t act freely because the albanian print media is strictly censured by the greateralbanians, and the streets of the cities, unfortunately, are still patrolled by gangsters who, in the service of the social-fascist band, are ready to hit anyone with a brick on the head or with a bullet in the forehead!

VD: - For ten years, as a political emigrant, You have been living in Geneva, Switzerland. Do you have an impression that the so called democratic Europe and the West, generally, understand our Balkan situations?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - Democratic Europe, I’m afraid, at least in respect of us, does not exist at all. The antidemocratic one, on the other hand, hand never understood them, nor want to understand our Balkan difficulties. Europe was and still is in the service of The Capital. Its “democracy” is only an expression of that Capital. It uses our Balkan peoples and situations for penetration (expansion) and for ruling the world, for its own battle against the true, real democracy and its carriers.

VD: - Concordant with Your rich life experience, after all that in the past period happened on the Balkan, and which, sadly, culminated with several bloody wars, are You of the opinion that all of that, simply, had to happen?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - No! Absolutely not! All of that could and can, even needs to be solved without blood. Let the Albanians prove that even Moscow is theirs, thus give them even it. But until they prove that, they should not be given even one stone from our fatherlands, not only to prevent them from desecrating it, but in order to prevent them from smashing their own heads with it.

VD: - To conclude, I believe it would be interesting to hear Your prediction how the things could be developing in the near future?

Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - The Americans have reached their aim – on the Balkan they have installed their military bases. Let us hope that they will not support the terrorism and to use the Albanians as cannon fodder. And the Albanians, certainly, in the meantime will wake up and will not allow either the Americans or whoever else to use them as such. For that, understandably, with self criticism, all of us need to assist them. I hope that for this will also contribute this interview, for which I most sincerely thank you, not as a foreigner, but as your brother, because I have always thought of Skopje as my second birth town and Macedonia as my second, true fatherland. I use this opportunity to send my greetings to my school friends from the Skopje gymnasium “J. B. Tito”, also the personnel from the macedonian embassies in Geneva and Tirana with whom I have met many times and keep wonderful memories from the discussions with them, especially with the recent (former) ambassador in Albania, Risto Nikovski. Understandably, special greetings to my friends and “comrades” from KPD “Idrizovo”.

Die Fakten belegen hier, das alle Threads und Rassistschen Threads hier von den Albanern, angefangen von der Erfindugn der Illyrier Abstammung, eine historische Fälschung sind!

Stanford Universtität: Der Albanische Rassimus ist eine historische Fälschung!

The Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications
Stanford University

Vitomir Dolinski: An interview with the persecuted albanian academic prof. Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich

The Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications

VD: - You are regarded as a unique, albanian Mandela, but also as a political prisoner-record holder on the Balkan. For the insufficiently informed, at the beginning, tell us briefly about this?

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