Feb 12 2007
Independence: Kosovo Albanian Criminal Enterprise
On June 23, 1999, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley introduced a Senate bill, S. 1271, frustratingly named Most Favored Rogue States Act of 1999 in which the distinguished Senator demanded, among other things, that “Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to Congress a report on the drug trafficking activities of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.”
No American Secretary of State ever replied to this concerned Senator.
Albright and the KLA leader Hasim Taci hugging one another during Albright’s visit to Pristina.
That spring, Senator Grassley then followed the inaction of the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright by sending a letter to President Clinton requesting an assessment of KLA drug trafficking to which Clinton responded, in a letter, in which this President said that neither CIA nor the DEA “has any intelligence that indicates the KLA has either been engaged in other criminal activity or has direct links to any organized crime groups,” and promised to monitor Albanian narcotics distribution in the future!
In a sworn testimony before the Congress in December of 2000, however, Assistant Director of Interpol’s Criminal Intelligence Directorate, Ralf Mutschke, stated that Clinton’s State Department, well before Grassley made inquiries about Albanian narco-politics, had “listed the KLA [in 1998] 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 Osama bin Laden.”
Mutschke also confirmed that Osama bin Laden sent one of his top military commanders to Kosovo to lead “an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict.”
For his masterful shielding of Kosovo Albanian drug mafia, Clinton was rewarded in 2004 with an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Pristina in Kosovo, one of the intellectually lowest educational institutions in the world.
“The effects of this [Albanian narco] lobby are well known,” writes Marko Nicovic, former Serbian top cop familiar with Albanian mafia.
“Gratitude toward it is expressed by the existence of Bill Clinton Boulevard and Madeleine Albright Square in Priština. It gained little attention that two years ago, in the space of one month, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark and Richard Holbrooke paid successive official visits to Priština,” writes Nicovic.
Bob Agresti from the White House, in charge of organized crime and addictive drugs, says that Clinton shielded Kosovo and the Albanian mafia invoking “higher interests.” (more…)
By M. Bozinovich February 11, 2007 http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/053.shtml
