21.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

Albanian officials arrested in corruption probe

21/09/2007

Anti-corruption efforts remain too haphazard and selective, bloggers argue.

By Klodjan Seferaj for Southeast European Times - 21/09/07

Albania was shaken this week by the arrests of several government officials on corruption charges related to a road infrastructure project. Deputy Transport Minister Nikolin Jaka, Director General of Roads Bashkim Kamberi, and junior officials at the transport ministry stand accused of rigging tenders for the construction of a highway linking Kukes to Durres.

Most of those arrested belong to the Christian Democratic Party, a junior member of Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s ruling coalition. With prosecutors saying they also wish to question Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha — whose former post was at the transport ministry — the scandal could reach the highest levels of the current administration.

The news has fired up debate among Albanian bloggers. A posting this week at peshkupauje.com drew over 50 comments.

“What happened? Did the Prosecutorial Authority start to function?” jokes Pozneg.

“Wasn’t it necessary to make the arrests before?” Klodi writes. “This is why we need a reform in the field of justice, because justice is one of the three basic elements of democracy.”

Others feel that when it comes to government corruption, justice in Albania is applied selectively and unfairly. “How will they cover the big abuses?” Artan asks. “Those arrests have been done in order to catch the small fish and to save the big fish.”

Leon agrees. “The question is, do we have to sacrifice nine persons in order not to arrest the minister?” he writes.

Elsewhere in the Albanian blogosphere, Fato ponders the relationship between journalists and the media companies that employ them. The owners of media outlets do sometimes intervene to influence the published material in the interest of their businesses, he concludes.

However, he adds, “to think that the media exist only due to the owners and not due to the journalists is a big mistake. Even the journalists affirm this. Second, the media, both print and television, are public — even if they are owned by someone.”

He continues: “The journalist has to be a personality that needs to have his own vision about the world, his empathy, his dreams about friendship and his independence from both political and financial powers.”

Finally this week, Visal discusses prospects for the tourist industry in Kosovo once its status is resolved. The province, being landlocked, has no beaches or seaside resorts to offer potential visitors. Nevertheless, Visal writes, its cultural and natural heritage are enough to open up investment possibilities and create an attractive tourism product.

“Even without a seaside, Kosovo is a place for tourism, with all the possibilities and characteristics that nature provides,’ he writes. “But the development of tourism needs investment, and this investment will not come until the status is determined.”

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The NLA: Human Rights Fighters or Terrorists?

Inhabitants of Kumanovo, a town of over 100.000 people, filling water containers after the ethnic Albanian terrorists cut off the water supply to the town for ten days in the middle of the summer. The event was largely ignored by the international media. (Photo courtesy RealityMacedonia)

Given the status of the ethnic Albanian minority in the Republic of Macedonia, most Macedonians believe that the KLA/NLA is a group of thugs with the sole intent of further destabilizing the Balkans, not human rights fighters. After all, following the withdrawal of the Yugoslav security forces from Kosovo, virtually all non-Albanians were forced to flee their homes, and Christian monuments were destroyed. Moreover, if the respect for the human rights of ethnic minorities exhibited by the Macedonian authorities is too grave so as to drive a group of people in an armed insurgency for more rights, why then have we not witnessed other ethnic groups in Macedonia following a similar path to that of the so-called NLA, or why have other ethnic minorities in the Balkans - like the Macedonians and Greeks in Albania for instance, who have none of the aforementioned human rights to enjoy and are economically and socially worse off than the Macedonian Albanians - not taken such steps? The KLA/NLA has shady relations with criminal gangs involved in prostitution, drug-traffic and people and weapons smuggling, as well as bin Laden’s organization al-Qaeda, links that shed light on what may be the true reason for the armed conflicts initiated by the KLA/NLA, a reason good enough to explain the aforementioned discrepancy between the claims of the ethnic Albanian terrorists and their deeds.

A Macedonian woman weeps after seeing her decimated house destroyed by Albanian terrorists outside Tetovo. Homes of ethnic Macedonians were singled out for plundering and destruction by the Albanian terrorist gangs.

The origins ofthe KLA/NLA are quite interesting. The New York Times reported that the KLA “began on the radical fringe of Kosovar Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists (who were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist dictatorship next door in Albania) as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II.” Congressman Ron Paul of Texas stated that “the United States Government has in the past referred to the Kosovo Liberation Army leaders as thugs, terrorists, Marxists, and drug dealers.” The Times called the KLA “Marxist-led force funded by dubious sources, including drug money.” The US State Department does not even consider the KLA/NLA as freedom fighters, for it states the following regarding their terrorist activities in the 2000 Report on Patterns of Global Terrorism:

In Southeastern Europe, groups of ethnic Albanians have conducted armed attacks against government forces in southern Serbia and in Macedonia since 1999. One group in southern Serbia calls itself the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja, and Bujanovac (PMBLA). One group in Macedonia calls itself the National Liberation Army (NLA). Both groups include members who fought with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99 and have used their wartime connections to obtain funding and weapons from Kosovo and elsewhere. The PMBLA has, on occasion, harassed and detained civilians traveling through areas it controls. Both the PMBLA and the NLA have fired indiscriminately upon civilian centers. (In the same region, ethnic Albanian assailants carried out a terrorist attack against a bus in Kosovo on 16 February 2001, killing at least seven civilians and wounding 43 others.)

The St. Atanasie monastery near Tetovo was blown up by ethnic Albanian terrorists in order to provoke a response by the Macedonian security forces. Albanian SS units, backed by their Nazi and Fascist allies, attacked the monastery during WWII, as part of a series of attacks against local ethnic Macedonians. The New York Times reported of similar attacks over a hundred years ago (large view). Photos courtesy Reality Macedonia.

In its latest report on international drug trafficking, the U.S. State Department identifies Macedonia as part of the “Balkans Route,” the notorious link along which organized crime gangs transport heroin and other drugs from Turkey to Albania and across the Adriatic Sea to Italy. Macedonia is also part of a newer, shorter route on which drugs travel through Kosovo to Western Europe, the report says. The State Department praises the Macedonian government for cooperating with efforts to control drug smuggling. Could it be that the interests of the Albanian Mafia clashed with the Macedonian security forces? The Irish Times reported that according to a leading criminologist “the rebels fighting in the hills of Macedonia and southern Serbia were the paramilitary wing of an Albanian mafia exporting drugs and trafficking in humans to Europe and beyond […] ‘Every mafia needs two things - a safe home territory, and a diaspora. The Albanians now have the diaspora through the refugees from the Kosovo war.” The same article quotes Mr. Xavier Raufer, a researcher at the Paris Institute of Criminology and author of The Albanian Mafia, “the latest guerrilla offensives on the margins of the province were a fight to control two key points on a smuggling route known as the ‘Balkans Golden Triangle’.” Mr. Raufer went on to say in his interview for Radio Netherlands that the “ethnic Albanian rebels fighting in the hills of Macedonia are the paramilitary wing of an Albanian Mafia exporting drugs and trafficking humans to Europe and even further.” Similarly, the German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag reported that “large amounts of money are flowing from organized drug- and people-smuggling in both Kosovo and Macedonia […].” The same article reports that one of the heads of the Albanian Mafia, who controlled the Central European drug market, financed the terrorists’ activities in Tetovo and Kosovo with money from drug sales. After all, The Guardian reported that “Kosovo has become a “smugglers’ paradise” supplying up to 40% of the heroin sold in Europe and North America;” the same was confirmed by both Die Berliner Zeitung and Der Hamburger Abendblatt. Jane’s reported that “some 70 per cent of the heroin reaching Germany and Switzerland is now reckoned to have been transported through Albania and/or by Albanian groups, and the figure for Greece may be closer to 85 per cent.” BBC reported that according to Ray Kendall, the British outgoing Secretary General of Interpol, “at least 80 percent of the heroin entering Western Europe does so through Turkey and the Balkans - with Albanian gangs playing an increasingly important role.” BBC also quoted Cataldo Motta, Italian anti-mafia prosecutor saying “Everything passes via the Albanians. The road for drugs and arms and people…is in Albanian hands.” Frank J. Cilluffo, Deputy Director of Global Organized Crime and Program director to Counterterrorism Task Force testified before U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary that “the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the ‘Balkan Route’ that links the ‘Golden Crescent’ of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe.” The Daily Telegraph reported that “Western intelligence officials in Kosovo, Macedonia and Switzerland say Albanian gangs have used at least Ł3 million of their heroin profits since October last year to buy weapons to re-equip rebels in Macedonia who gave up their weapons to Nato troops last autumn.” The same article quotes a Western intelligence official saying that “the rebels in Macedonia, former KLA freedom fighters in Kosovo, and extremist Albanians in southern Serbia are all part of the network of Albanian and Kosovar Albanian families who control criminal networks in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and elsewhere.” The Times reported that “the State Department has evidence that the KLA has been involved in drug-smuggling to Europe” and that “the sums collected through the worldwide network of charities cannot compare to the profit made from so-called ‘narco-dollars’.” The Economist reported that “when police in Oslo made Norway’s largest-ever heroin seizure, they discovered that former fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army controlled the drug-distribution chain. Heroin-dealing in Switzerland is dominated by Albanians.” The same article showed the drug routes used by the Taliban to smuggle their heroin into Western Europe; interestingly, one of the routes goes throught the areas of recent violence provoked by the Albanian terrorists. Jane’s reported similarly that “the bulk of the financing of the KLA seems to originate from two sources: drug-related operations and Kosovo Albanian settlers in the West.” Newsweek reported also of another type of “business” done by the Albanian mafia: “people smuggling. Kurdish refugees from Turkey and Iraq pay as much as $1,000 to be brought by Albanian gangs across the Macedonian or Greek borders.”

Frescoes over 600 years old in the village of Matejce, near Kumanovo, destroyed by Albanian terrorists.

ABC News reported that the Albanian Mafia, having “a reputation as a ruthless smuggler of weapons, drugs and women,” even smuggled underage girls and sold them like slaves in Western Europe, after which it forced them into prostitution. Similarly, in reference to the sex trade controlled mostly by the Albanian Mafia, BBC quoted the former Italian MP, Carol Bebbe Tarantelli, as saying the women “are held in slavery.” The Sydney Morning Herald reported that “Albanian clans are funnelling the profits [from sex trade] into the coffers of former Kosovo Liberation Army strongmen who are fighting Serbs in the Presevo Valley and attacking their Slavic neighbours in Macedonia.” Similarly, The Sunday Times reporting on the slave traffic practices by the Albanian Mafia, stated: “‘Albanian mafia gangs are very vicious,’ a recent Home Office report emphasised. ‘They make the Italian mafia look like crowd-control officers at a local whist drive.’” The Economist also reported on the fact that Albanian organised crime dominates prostitution in Soho, a fact later confirmed by the Sunday Times too; the Austrian Association of Detectives concludes the same for Hamburg’s Reeperbahn, the largest red lights district in Germany, and links between the Albanian Mafia and prostitution rings in Italy were confirmed by the Austrian State Television. The Financial Times reported that “diplomats said the [Albanian] diaspora, which has a significant presence in drugs and prostitution rackets, particularly in Switzerland, Belgium and Germany, is providing financing and weapons to the rebels.” The Executive Intelligence Review quotes Michael Levine, former U.S. counter-narcotic agent and one of the most decorated agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), saying in May 1999 the KLA “is tied in with every known Middle and Far Eastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol, and nearly every European intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug syndicates that lead right to the KLA, and right to Albanian gangs …” Business AM reported that “there was ample evidence available two summers ago about the ties of the so-called Albanian national liberation struggle to organised crime, and how intertwined the Albanian mafia was - and still is - with the political militants.”

Like the Albanian SS units during WWII, supported by the fascist Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s Italian ally, the NLA members wear black uniforms when not in combat.

So, the obvious question is: what is the connection between the Albanian Mafia and the Albanian terrorists in Macedonia? Newsweek offered an explanation on what is the link between people involved in illegal activities and those initiating violent conflicts: “to the kingpins, peace is bad for business. ‘Once you establish the rule of law and start collecting taxes, or import duties, it threatens the smugglers,’ says a top police official in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. […] Drug trafficking has become so prevalent that German and Scandinavian police now say Kosovo Albanians are their countries’ leading suppliers of heroin and other drugs. And in Italy, police there say, Albanian gangsters from both Albania and Kosovo are now the leading importers of prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Russia.” Similarly, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, based on confidential sources, reported that the unrest in the area is an absolute advantage for the criminal activities (dirty smuggling deals with illegal drugs, weapons, and women) of the organized crime in the region, headed by UCK fighters. The Economist stated that “this year, much of the money made [from drug sales] went to buy arms for the rebels fighting in Macedonia and a strip of southern Serbia.” The Washington Times reported that “National Liberation Army (NLA), a splinter of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), also has another motive: It is fighting to keep control over the region’s drug trafficking, which has grown into a large, lucrative enterprise since the Kosovo war.” Business AM went on to conclude that “chaos allows the criminals to flourish and, arguably, the militants have no wish for an accord or peace - it would be bad for business.” Similarly, the Financial Times reported that the European Union must “crack down on Albanian groups operating in Europe where they increasingly dominate drugs, prostitution and smuggling rings. ‘This is where the money is coming from for the weapons. If we cannot tackle the source, how can we ever get out of Kosovo?’ said a Nato official.”

The cover page of Bota Sot (large view), an Albanian newspaper with the largest circulation in the Albanian diaspora. The hand grenade was removed from the hand of the Albanian terrorists on the photo (killed by Macedonian policemen in self-defense as the terrorists were trying to throw the grenade at the policemen) in order to make the terrorists look as innocent civilian victims. The newspaper published in Switzerland is considered as a highly racist publication by the authorities.

An exploded car bomb in downtown Skopje on October 4th 2001. The car bomb was set by a member of the NLA, who got killed by the blast.

However, besides shady links to criminal organizations, the KLA/NLA has had strong links with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and the Taliban regime. Congressman Cunningham of California stated that “the KLA is supported by the mujahedin, Hamas, and even bin Laden.” A report by the Republican Policy Committee linked the Albanian terrorists fighting in Macedonia and Kosovo with an extensive Albanian crime network in Europe and terrorist organizations motivated by the ideology of radical Islam, including assets of Osama bin Laden. ABC News reported that “law enforcement officials say that money has gone to fund Muslims fighting in the Balkans and Chechnya, and for attacks on the United States.” The Daily Telegraph reported that “fundraising for the KLA [in Great Britain] is believed to centre on the International Islamic Front, founded by Osama bin Laden, the Afghani terrorist leader.” The Times reported that “bin Laden’s associates are using [a] charity in the US that claims to be supporting Albanian refugees from the war in Kosovo” and that “money raised is filtered back to fighters from the KLA. Some of these fighters have spent time at training camps run by bin Laden.” Similarly, BBC reported that charity organizations in Kosovo are suspected to have links to Osama bin Laden. Jane’s reported that “the tangled web represented by fundamentalist interests in Afghanistan […] export drugs to Western Europe using predominantly Albanian and Kosovar networks and assets, including those of the KLA.” The Executive Intelligence Review reported that “presently the main axis controlling more than 80% of the heroin market in Europe (plus a growing slice of the heroin market in other areas, including the United States) is the Afghanistan-Kosovo axis. Or better, a Taliban-Kosovo Liberation Army axis.” USA Today reported that bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo after having established an Albanian operation in 1994. After all, The Sunday Times reported that bin Laden himself had visited Albania in 1998; the Albanian Telegraphic Agency confirmed the same thing at the time, and the Wall Street Journal Europe and the German newspaper Die Zeit recently reported the same thing. Furthermore, The Sunday Times went on to say that a member of bin Laden’s Albanian network “visited Albania to recruit and arm fighters for Kosovo.” Similarly, The Times reported that “American intelligence has raised the possibility of a link between Osama bin Laden, the Saudi expatriate blamed for the bombing in August of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and the KLA.” The Jerusalem Post reported that the ethnic Albanian fighters “are being bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters, or Mujahadeen, who infiltrate from nearby Albania and call themselves the Kosovo Liberation Army.” The same article went on to say that “US defense officials say the support includes that of Osama bin Laden.” The Washington Times claims that “reports said bin Laden’s organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA.” The Sunday Times also reported that “Iranian Revolutionary Guards, supported by the Saudi millionaire, supported the Albanian underground movement in Kosovo, and that members of the al-Gamaa al-Islamiya movement, which killed 58 tourists in Luxor in November of 1998, were in Kosovo.” The same article went on to say that “they [Islamic fundamentalists] hope to turn the region into their main base for Islamic armed activity in Europe.” Ralf Mutschke of Interpol’s Criminal Intelligence Division testified before the House Judicial Committee on December 13 2000 that “In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, indicating that it was financing its operations with money from the international heroin trade and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among them allegedly Usama bin Laden. Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Djihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict.” Congressman Brad Sherman acknowledged that the KLA is an “organization that may have alliances with Iran, with Osama Bin Laden, and even with drug dealers.” The Washington Times reported that “Islamic radicals, including supporters of bin Laden, have been supporting Albanian rebels fighting in the region, including members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Intelligence officials have said there are reports that KLA members have been trained at bin Laden training camps in Afghanistan.” The newspaper concluded the same thing in a recent follow-up. The Scotsman wrote that the KLA received weapons from bin Laden. Forbes reported that Osama bin Laden “provided training and financial support to Islamic militants among the Bosnian Muslims and the Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Macedonia.” The British paper Independent reported that “Interpol believes that Osama bin Laden is linked to Albanian gangs who have taken over a growing web of crime across Europe.” BBC reported that according to the US State Department bin Laden might choose to hide in the inaccessible parts of Albania, “using criminal networks which 20 years of “War on Drugs” have been unable to crack.” The Scotsman reported that since September 2001 “Albanians operating inside Macedonia are estimated by western intelligence officials to have bought around Ł3 million worth of weapons … paid for by Albanian criminals with the proceeds of selling Afghan heroin on the streets of a dozen European capitals.”

In conclusion, the respect of the Macedonian state for the rights of all its ethnic minorities, the actions of the Albanian terrorists against Macedonian civilian targets, and the links between the KLA/NLA and confirmed terrorist organizations, cast a shadow of doubt on the claims by the KLA/NLA that they are solely fighting for greater respect for their human rights.

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EU und Nachbarn: Spagat zwischen Visaregime und Reisefreiheit

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:  

Die Innen- und Justizminister der EU haben Reise-Erleichterungen mit den Beitrittskandidaten des westlichen Balkan vereinbart. Auch die Ukraine bemüht sich um Vergünstigungen – ein Spagat für Brüssel.

Nach langen Verhandlungen mit den fünf Balkan-Staaten Bosnien-Herzegowina, Serbien, Montenegro, Albanien und Mazedonien konnten die Innenminister der Europäischen Union in Brüssel ein Abkommen unterzeichnen, dass die Visa-Erteilung für Bürger aus den Balkan-Staaten erleichtern wird. Das Abkommen soll am 1. Januar 2008 in Kraft treten. Es wird die Visavergabe für eine Aufenthaltsdauer bis zu drei Monaten vereinfachen und für alle 25 EU-Staaten außer Großbritannien und Irland vereinheitlichen. Die Gebühren für die Erteilung eines Visums sollen von 60 auf 35 Euro sinken. EU-Justizkommissar Franco Frattini sagte an die Innenminister der Balkanländer gewandt, das Abkommen sei ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu visafreiem Reiseverkehr in der Zukunft: “Es wird jetzt von Ihnen abhängen. Es wird von Verbesserungen auf dem Gebiet der Sicherheit, der Kontrolle der Außengrenzen, fälschungssicherer und biometrischen Pässe abhängen. All diese Elemente spielen eine wichtige Rolle für ihre Bürger, wenn es eines Tages darum geht, die Visafrage weitgehend zu liberalisieren.”

Kampf der illegalen Migration zugesichert

Alle Balkanstaaten sollen in die Europäische Union aufgenommen werden. Der albanische Innenminister Bujar Nishani versprach wie seine Kollegen, dass die Bewerberstaaten ihre Aufgaben bei der Bekämpfung von organisiertem Verbrechen und illegaler Einwanderung erfüllen wollen: “Wir glauben wirklich, dass das neue Visaregime dazu beitragen wird, illegale Immigration zu begrenzen. Die albanische Bevölkerung wird einfacheren Zugang zu Europa haben. Die Zusammenarbeit der Balkanstaaten untereinander wird stärker und effizienter”, so der albanische Innenminister……..

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Intervista ekskluzive/Zv/ministri Nikolin Jaka: Jam i pasur. S’kam nevoje per nje tender

|| Shkrime te tjera tek faqet Jaka ofron 80 mijë euro për lirimin, lihet në qeli • Jaka: Jam i pasur, s’kam nevojë për një tender • Klodiana Lala Zyrtarët e tenderave rrezikojnë hetimin edhe si grup i strukturuar •

21/09/2007 - 07:08
• Klodiana Lala

Tejet i zhgënjyer nga vendimi i gjykatës, Nikolin Jaka, zv/ministri i akuzuar për korrupsion, është dërguar për në qelitë e paraburgimit. Nuk dihet ende se kur do të mund të dalë prej andej, edhe pse pretendon se akuzat ndaj tij janë absurde dhe veprime të qëllimshme e tendencioze të disa segmenteve policeske. Në një intervistë nga qelia e paraburgimit, zyrtari që akuzohet se ka favorizuar disa firma për fitimin e tenderave për rregullimin e rrugëve, shprehet se nuk ka kryer asnjë shkelje, por gjatë detyrës ka zbatuar vetëm ligjin. Jaka rrëfen se ka pasur marrëdhënie korrekte me eprorët dhe vartësit, si dhe e vlerëson ndershmërinë e tyre. Edhe pse në qeli, ai nuk heziton të ironizojë ish-kryetarin e PDK-së, Nikollë Lesin. Ndërsa për drejtuesin aktual të kësaj partie, Ndoka, thotë se ka pasur marrëdhënie tejet normale…
Z.Jaka, prej tri ditësh ndodheni në qeli, nën akuza të rënda. Mendoni se arrestimi juaj është politik?
Jam arrestuar në zbatim të një vendimi gjyqësor të pabazuar në prova dhe në ligj. Ky vendim është i paligjshëm, së pari pasi një vendim arresti në mungesë mund të merret sipas ligjit, vetëm nëse i dyshuari i fshihet Drejtësisë, kërkohet dhe nuk gjendet. Në rastin konkret, atë ditë që është marrë vendimi nga gjykata unë kam qenë në zyrën time, në ushtrim të përgjegjësive dhe funksioneve shtetërore. Së dyti, masa e sigurimit personal mund të merret vetëm kur ekziston rreziku se i dyshuari mund të largohet, të dëmtojë provat, apo të kryejë një krim më të rëndë. Për këtë, gjykatës duhet t’i paraqiten prova se mund të ndodhemi përpara njërit prej këtyre kushteve. Së treti, masa e arrestit merret vetëm kur rrezikshmëria e personit është e tillë që bën të pamundur marrjen e çdo mase tjetër. Së katërti, masa e sigurimit është marrë pa u bazuar në prova, pasi transkriptimet e përgjimeve të paraqitura në proces nuk janë urdhëruar nga organi kompetent. Nga gjykata është bërë një procedim formal, një proces farsë, për të justifikuar veprimet e qëllimshme e tendencioze të disa segmenteve policeske.
Dyshoheni se keni bërë shkelje në disa tendera rrugësh, ku vlera e përfituar shkon në miliona euro. Mund të na thoni si qëndron e vërteta?
Tenderat nuk kanë qenë në kompetencën time.Nuk kam pasur asnjë të drejtë të ndërhyrjes në proces. E drejta për të ndërhyrë në tendera, apo për të shqyrtuar ankimet kundër tyre është detyrë e organeve të tjera administrative, të pavarura nga unë. Jo vetëm që nuk kam bërë shkelje, por theksoj se nuk kam qenë pjesë e procesit të tenderimit. Aktualisht në akuzë ngrihen pretendime për parregullsi të procedurave vetëm për një tender. Nga informacioni që kam për shkak të detyrës, më rezulton se ky tender jo vetëm që nuk ka përfunduar, pra nuk është shpallur fituesit, por në klasifikimin e vlerësimit të ofertave, firma, e cila pretendohet se është favorizuar, është renditur e treta, që do të thotë se nuk kishte asnjë mundësi reale për të fituar atë tender. Përsëris, se nuk kam qenë pjesë e procesit të tenderimit, por besoj se nga informacioni që kam, është zbatuar me përpikmëri ligji i prokurorimeve.
Pretendoni se nuk keni kryer asnjë shkelje. Si do ta provoni një fakt të tillë?
Kam kërkuar që të njihem me të gjitha përgjimet, apo ato t’i vihen minimalisht në dispozicion avokatit tim, për të realizuar një mbrojtje efektive. Më është mohuar kjo e drejtë thelbësore në procesin penal. Përgjimet nuk janë dëgjuar as nga gjykata, që është urdhëruese e zbatimit të ligjit. Gjykata ka marrë në këtë proces një rol akuzator, larg të qenit një institucion i pavarur, garantues i drejtësisë. Jam i bindur se po të zbardhen të gjitha bisedat e vërteta do të ishte më e thjeshtë për tu kuptuar. Funskionet e ushtruara si psh sekretar i dhomës së Tregtisë Tiranës kanë bërë që miqësia dhe shoqëria ime të jenë në të gjitha sferat e jetës shoqërore dhe fushës së biznesit, por kjo nuk më ka penguar asnjëherë në ushtrimin me rigorozitet e përgjegjsmëri të funksionit tim si zëvendësministër për të zbatuar vetëm ligjin.
Postin e zv.ministrit të Trasportit e mbani prej shtatë muajsh. Çfarë marrëdhëniesh keni patur me eprorin dhe vartësit?
Marrëdhëniet e mia me vartësit dhe eprorët kanë qenë korrekte dhe në përputhje të plotë më ushtrimin e funksionit shtetëror. Kam synuar të nxis gjithmonë në administratë frymën e bashkëpunimit dhe përgjegjeshmërisë në përmbushjen e detyrave. Kam vlerësuar gjithmonë ndërshmërinë e tyre. Duke vlerësuar gjendjen në të cilën ndodhem dhe akuzën e ngritur ndaj meje, jam i prirur të besoj dhe në ndërshmërinë e tyre, të paktën derisa një vendim gjykate, serioz e i paanshëm të vendosë ndryshe.
Renditeni në listën e njerëzve të pasur. E justifikoni pasurinë e deklaruar?
Pasuria ime është e deklaruar në formularin e deklarimit të pasurive dhe është lehtësisht e verefikueshme. Çdo i interesuar është i lirë të verefikojë dhe vërtetojë ndershmërinë time. Kam shlyer çdo detyrim kundrejt shtetit që rrjedh nga aktivitetet e mëparshme në të kundërt s’do të kisha moral për të pranuar postin që m’u ofrua. Erdha në këtë detyra nga fusha e biznesit për të promovuar vlera dhe zhvillim. Është një argument më shumë se përse akuzat ndaj meje janë absurde.
Vihet re një përçarja e PDK-së, sidomos tashmë pas arrestimit tuaj. Keni vërejtur probleme të tilla më parë?
Kam besim se PDK-ja vazhdon dhe do të vazhdojë të përcojë të njëjtat vlera për të cilat është krijuar, vlera të cilat unë i kam mbështetur dhe promovuar.
Cilat janë marrëdhëniet tuaja me Nard Ndokën?
Marrëdhënie normale me kryetarin e partisë sime.
Po me Lesin?
Nikollën e njohin të gjithë. S’ka nevojë për koment.
Mendoni se një ditë drejtësia do vihet në vend?
Populli anglez ka shprehjen: “Një popull rehabilitohet shpërtërisht kur drejtësia shkon në vend”. Jemi në një fazë kur drejtësia ndodhet në gjendje të mjerueshme, ç’ka e provoi dhe ky procedim. Nëse nuk respektohen procedurat ligjore dhe të drejtat minimale në një proces ligjor për një person publik, çfarë ndodh më njerëzit e thjeshtë? Është detyrë se pari e vetë organeve të drejtësisë për të gjetur kurajon profesionale dhe njerëzore të dalë nga kjo gjendje e dëshpëruar në të cilën ndodhet drejtësia dhe për t’iu kthyer zbatimit të ligjit. Besoj se kemi të drejtën të shpresojmë.

http://www.balkanweb.com/gazetav4/index.php?id=21186

Friday, September 21, 2007

Basha Praises Durres-Kukes Highway in Parliament, Angry Opposition Leaves Hall

“I am ready to respond to all accusations. The Socialists caused the biggest economic damage to Albania during their eight years in power by failing to build this road,” Basha stressedTIRANA - The left-wing opposition abandoned the parliament’s hall on Thursday while the Foreign Minister, Lulzim Basha was giving explanation on the tender procedures of Durres-Kukes highway. More…

Cracks Deepen Between CDP Leaders

Nard Ndoka and Nikolle Lesi are accusing each-other of connections with the arrested officials TIRANA - An earthquake seems to have hit the Christian Democrat Party (CDP) some days after two of its high officials were arrested on charges of corruption and misuse of office. CDP’s highest leaders, chairman Nard Ndoka and party founder and ex-Whip Nikolle Lesi are accusing each-other of connections with the officials. More…

Court Rules Arrested Officials to Remand in Custody

The attorneys of the defendants opposed the court’s decision, underlining that the prosecution did not present any evidence to the court, while the prosecution argued such action with the secrecy of the investigationTIRANA - The District Court of Tirana decided on Thursday to remand in custody the seven officials of the transport ministry and the two businessmen, who were arrested on Monday night on charges of bribery and abuse of office in a police operation, codenamed “Clean Hands”. More…

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21.9.2007 by admin.

Adriatiku në agoni, i nxehti po e vret

E.Demollari

21-09-2007

 Adriatiku vdes pa rrymën ujore. Studimi shqetësues për të ardhmen e detit që lag brigjet tona

Dhe në detin Adriatik ka një rrymë të vogël, një shirit që transporton energji… Atë energji e cila lëviz ujërat e detit, duke i ndaluar kështu Adriatikut të transformohet në kënetë. Por ndoshta për të përshkruar këtë fenomen duhet të përdorim të shkuarën: Adriatiku, kishte një rrymë ujore. Nuk është një ngjarje pa rëndësi. Kjo anomali, (e cila është regjistruar 4 vjet më parë) duhet të jetë formësuar tashmë. Nëse ngrohja globale do bëjë të vetën dhe në këtë rast, pasojat do të jenë katastrofike. E para që do të zhduket është Venecia, dhe padyshim e gjithë fauna detare. Shumë qetë do të shfaqej dalëngadalë lluca, ishujt e algave do të lulëzonin dhe do të kishte gjithandej grumbuj peshqish të asfiksuar.

Alarmi për Adriatikun është dhënë dje, në një konferencë të zhvilluar mbi ndryshimet klimatike mbajtur në Itali. Deti ynë nuk ka më dimër, temperatura nuk zbret. Problemi i temperaturave nuk është një problem i lidhur vetëm me ujërat në sipërfaqe, nuk po ngrohet vetëm “lëkura” e Adriatikut. Sipas të dhënave të bëra publike, temperatura e detit deri në 100 metër thellësi është tashmë 2 gradë mbi mesataren dimërore, 15 në vend të 13 që ka qenë. Në dimër të 2003, në Gjirin e Triestes mesatarja e temperaturës kaloi nga 5 në 13 gradë. Praktikisht deti nuk arrin të ftohet mjaftueshëm, dhe kështu nuk aktivizohet mekanizmi që çon në përzierjen e shtresave të ndryshme të Adriatikut. Ujërat qëndrojnë shumë të nxehta për të ulur temperaturën, duke i dhënë jetë një rryme të ftohtë drejt jugut, i cili ndërton motorin e ndërrimit të këtyre ujërave, dhe mund të quhet ndryshe dhe frymëmarrja që mban gjallë detin. Dhe siç ndodh gjithmonë në ekosistem: një dëmtim tërheq një dëmtim tjetër. Mungesa në rritje e substancave ushqyesve që vijnë nga thellësitë, e shkaktuar nga bllokimi i rrymave ka shkaktuar një lëkundje të mikroalgave, baza e zinxhirit ushqyes: detit i duhet të ndryshojë dietën pasi furnizimet janë mbaruar në mënyrë të papritur. Por nuk mbaron me kaq. Më pak ushqim dhe më nxehtë do të thotë më pak aftësi për të thithur anhidrid karboni. Domethënë një dëmtim tjetër, një faktor i cili rëndon përshpejtimin e ngrohjes globale, i cili është dhe shkaku i problemit. Llogaritet që çdo cikël humbjesh i Adriatikut bën që të mblidhet në qiell anhidridi i karbonit, në një masë të tillë, sa çlirohet kur digjen 5 mijë hektarë pyje.

Adriatiku rrezikon të ketë fundin e Detit të Zi, një pellg i mbyllur në një thellësi prej 150 metrash, i cili është tashmë i vdekur. Po zhvillohet një proces me pasoja shumë të rënda. Specialistët bëjnë thirrje dhe mendojnë që dikujt duhet t’i shkojë në mendje të bëjë shpenzime publike për të ndërtuar makina gjigante, për të vënë në qarkullim ujin e Adriatikut, pasi duhet pasur parasysh që është një mjek i kualifikuar dhe i garantuar: dhe ky mjek është pikërisht natyra. Duhet të mbledhim gjithë aktivitetin njerëzor për të ndihmuar detin. Duhen lumenj më të pastër dhe më të bollshëm dhe peshq “inteligjentë“ që të ndihmojnë procesin e riekuilibrit.

Sipas ekspertëve, deti Adriatik rrezikon të bëhet Deti i Vdekur: një gropë e mbyllur dhe pa jetë, nën 150 metër thellësi.

Kura?!

Lumenj më të pasur dhe peshq “inteligjentë“

Pakësohen mikroalgat, kështu prishet zinxhiri ushqimor

Ngrohja

Nëse nuk ka ndryshim termik mes shtresës më sipërfaqësore të detit dhe asaj më të thellë, nuk ka lëvizje. Pakësohet mekanizmi që shkakton ripërzierjen e ujërave në brendësi të detit

Algat e detit

Rezultati i parë është zhdukja, kjo për shkak të mungesës në rritje të ushqyesve nga thellësitë, të mikroalgave, të cilat përfaqësojnë bazën e zinxhirit ushqimor të detit.

Anhidridi karbonik

Sa më pak ushqim dhe më nxehtë do të thotë më pak aftësi për të thithur anhidrid karboni. Një dëmtim tjetër, faktor i cili rëndon përshpejtimin e ngrohjes globale, i cili është dhe shkaku i problemit.

Rrymat e Mesdheut

Vija e shkëputur

Tregon rrymën e Gjirit të Triestes që në 2003- shin u ndërpre

Vija e zezë

Shënon rrymat Veri – Jug, të cilat sigurojnë shndërrimin mes ujërave të thellësisë dhe atyre në sipërfaqe

Vija gri

Shënon rrymat Perëndim-Lindje, të cilat garantojnë shkëmbimin e ujërave mes detit Mesdhe dhe oqeanit Atlantik

Rryma e Gjirit

Rryma e Gjirit, e thënë ndryshe dhe rryma veri-atlantike është një rrymë oqeanike e ngrohtë, e cila zbut klimën e vendeve evropiane që kanë dalje në oqeanin Atlantik, siç është për shembull Britania e Madhe

Karakteristika të detit Adriatik

Ka një sipërfaqe prej 130.000 km katrorë, gjatësia maksimale 850 km, gjerësia 203 km, thellësia më e madhe 1590 m ( në vijën Shëngjin- Monopol ( Itali)

Bregdeti shqiptar i këtij deti në përgjithësi është i ulët dhe i sheshtë, i formuar si rrjedhojë e grumbullimit të vazhdueshëm e të pandërprerë të lëndëve të ngurta të lumenjve. Vetëm në disa vise kodrinore, që kanë krijuar edhe kepe vazhdon gërryerja. Në përgjithësi, si pasojë e rrymave hyrëse dhe dalëse të Kanalit të Otrantos ujërat gjatë bregdetit shqiptar janë më të ngroha dhe me kripësi më të lartë se ato të bregdetit italian. Deti Adriatik ka ujë me dukshmëri të lartë, rreth 40 m dhe me ngjyrë të kaltër në blu. Ujërat e këtij deti kanë gjithashtu pasuri të mëdha peshku dhe kripe.

http://www.shekulli.com.al/news/52/ARTICLE/15951/2007-09-21.html

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21.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

Trübes Wasser mit einigen Toten

Thomas Pany 20.09.2007

Irak: Premier Maliki zur Blackwater-Affäre

“Kaltblütig” seien sie erschossen worden, “irakische Bürger”. Den Toten vom Sonntag ging keine Notwehraktion der Blackwater-Angestellten voraus und die Opfer waren nach Darstellung des irakischen Premierministers Maliki auch keine bewaffneten Widerständler, wie zuvor von Blackwater-Sprecherin Anne Tyrrell behauptet. Die irakische Regierung bleibt in der Blackwater-Krise (vgl. Wie unabhängig ist der Irak?) auf Unabhängigkeitskurs

Die Untersuchungen laufen noch, nichtsdestotrotz war für Blackwater die Angelegenheit sehr bald ein klarer Fall. Gestern zog der irakische Regierungschef nach und legte einen Bericht zur Sache vor. Nach Informationen des McClatchy-Büros (Erbe der verlässlichen Knight Ridder-Irak-Berichterstatttung) hat Maliki keine Zweifel daran, wo die Schuld für das Blutvergießen zu suchen ist: bei dem Sicherheitsunternehmen nämlich, das zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden müsse.

Sieben Vorkommnisse (einen mehr als die AP auflistete), an denen Blackwater-Angestellte beteiligt waren, hielten Premier Maliki und Regierungssprecher den Journalisten unter die Nase. Vorkommnisse mit zum Teil tödlichem Ausgang für “unschuldige, irakische Bürger”.

Nach Darstellung des irakischen Regierungssprechers Ali al-Dabbagh (zitiert in der der New York Times) kann keine Rede davon sein, dass die Blackwater-Angestellten am vergangenen Sonntag in einen Hinterhalt gerieten:…

 TP

Blackwater: Shadow Army

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8

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