Kosovo appoints former KLA member as Defense Minister

August 13, 2008

Kosovo appoints former KLA member as Defense Minister

No surprise here. The Prime Minister is KLA also. Moderate Kosovo Update: “Kosovo appoints first defense minister,” from Xinhua, August 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Senior official of the ruling Kosovo Democratic Party Fehmi Mujota confirmed on Tuesday that he has been appointed as Kosovo’s first defense minister.”I have the confirmation from Prime Minister (Hashim Thaci), I was appointed as a defense minister,” Mujota said.

Mujota, 45, is currently serving as a deputy in the Kosovo parliament. He was formerly a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and later served as mayor of Shtime, a small municipality in the south-east Kosovo. Mujota holds a double citizenship of Kosovo and Sweden….

Here is some background on the KLA. From “Al Qaeda’s Balkan Links” by Marcia Christoff Kurop in the Wall Street Journal Europe, November 1, 2001:

[…] Islamist infiltration of the Kosovo Liberation Army advanced, meanwhile. Bin Laden is said to have visited Albania in 1996 and 1997, according to the murder-trial testimony of an Algerian-born French national, Claude Kader, himself an Afghanistan-trained mujahideen fronting at the Albanian-Arab Islamic Bank. He recruited some Albanians to fight with the KLA in Kosovo, according to the Paris-based Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues.Controversial Relationship

By early 1998 the U.S. had already entered into its controversial relationship with the KLA to help fight off Serbian oppression of that province. While in February the U.S. gave into KLA demands to remove it from the State Department’s terrorism list, the gesture amounted to little. That summer the CIA and CIA-modernized Albanian intelligence (SHIK) were engaged in one of the largest seizures of Islamic Jihad cells operating in Kosovo.

Fearing terrorist reprisal from al Qaeda, the U.S. temporarily closed its embassy in Tirana and a trip to Albania by then Defense Secretary William Cohen was canceled out of fear of an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, Albanian separatism in Kosovo and Metohija was formally characterized as a “jihad” in October 1998 at an annual international Islamic conference in Pakistan.

Nonetheless, the 25,000 strong KLA continued to receive official NATO/U.S. arms and training support and, at the talks in Rambouillet, France, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shook hands with “freedom fighter” Hashim Thaci, a KLA leader. As this was taking place, Europol (the European Police Organization based in The Hague) was preparing a scathing report on the connection between the KLA and international drug gangs. Even Robert Gelbard, America’s special envoy to Bosnia, officially described the KLA as Islamic terrorists.

So now the Islamic terrorist Prime Minister of Kosovo has appointed another Islamic terrorist as Kosovo’s Defense Minister. But no worries! They’re all moderates now!

Wellington, athenian

Here are two exellent articles that clearly define the link between Serbia, Kosovo, Georgia, and Ossetia. Kosovo/Serbia has everything to do with Georgia.

In view of such tactics, the Clinton Administration’s then-special envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard, had little difficulty in condemning the KLA (also known by its Albanian initials, UCK) in terms comparable to those he used for Serbian police repression:
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Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia: The Clinton Administration concealed its active cooperation with the Iranians for arms shipments to the Muslim fundamentalist regime of Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia in violation of the United Nations arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia. [For details on the Clinton Administration’s active connivance with the Iranians, see RPC’s “Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base,” 1/16/97.] This track record undermines the Clinton Administration’s insistence that Russia, as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, is obligated to observe the same embargo with respect to Serbia [as stated by State Department spokesman James Rubin, daily briefing, March 24, 1999].

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http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/fr033199.htm

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/be_wise_on_kosovo.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/south_ossetia_the_perfect_wron.html

We in the west are crying in our beer over Georgia, but it is our own damn fault. We love to jump on those bad Russians, but the Russians are doing exactly what we should expect them to do in this case, because they told us they would do this. We are being … in a word stupid. There are too many points to cut and paste from the articles, however these articles are the best comprehensive analysis on the subject I could find. Enjoy.

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