German Intelligence and the CIA supported Al Qaeda sponsored Terrorists in Kosovo

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Both the CIA and German intelligence (BND) supported the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a terrorist organization with links to Al Qaeda.

This report by the German TV ZDF Network, reviewed by Mira Beham, is revealing in many regards.

First the report corroborates earlier analysis on the role of the BND and the CIA in supporting the KLA, several years prior as well as in the wake of the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

Second, it further documents and confirms the KLA's links to Al Qaeda and the role of the latter in the Kosovo conflict:

"What German journalists and their Dutch colleagues at VPRO Radio Television investigated has a long tradition. Since the beginning of the 1990s the BND has maintained contacts with the KLA, which was then considered to be a terrorist organization. Although we have to admit that the KLA has stronger ties with the CIA than the BND. Commander Hoxha had ties with the CIA, the BND and with the Austrian military intelligence service which has devoted great attention to this region and has very good connections with the KLA."

Despite its links to organized crime and Al Qaeda, the KLA rebel army had been skillfully heralded by the Western media in the months preceding the 1999 NATO bombings as broadly representative of the interests of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Its leader Hashim Thaci had been "designated" (by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) as chief negotiator at the Rambouillet peace talks.

The fact of the matter is that the Atlantic Alliance had been supporting a terrorist organization. The KLA was not supporting the rights of ethnic Albanians. Quite the opposite.

The activities of this terrorist organization on the ground, in Kosovo, provided NATO and the US with the pretext to intervene on humanitarian grounds, claiming that the Serb authorities had committed human rights violations against ethnic Albanians, when in fact the NATO sponsored KLA was involved in terrorist acts on behalf of NATO, which triggered a response from the Serb police and military.

Broadly speaking, the bombing of Yugoslavia had the support of Western public opinion, on humanitarian grounds.

NATO's mandate was broadly accepted. The geopolitics behind the war were never brought out. The militarisation of the Balkans and the setting up a US military presence was not an issue.

No coherent antiwar movement was launched in relation to Yugoslavia, despite the fact that the invasion of Kosovo was in violation of international law.

A disinformation campaign had been launched. Several leftist intellectuals and civil society activists claimed that this was a "just war".

The KLA, despite its shady connections was also supported by several sectors of the progressive left, which had described the KLA as a "Liberation Movement".

In retrospect, the antiwar movement developed belatedly in relation to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BEH502A.html

[Yiyi and Chris 0]

mmmmm Kosovo!

[Shpat_Argjira 0]

WE DONT BELIEVE YOU !!

YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE !!

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WE DONT BELIEVE YOU !!

YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE !!

It's the truth.

You're just another Islamic Terrorist Sympathizer.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

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AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

No, but I just read the Amazon page you linked to - damn!

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Both the CIA and German intelligence (BND) supported the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a terrorist organization with links to Al Qaeda.

This report by the German TV ZDF Network, reviewed by Mira Beham, is revealing in many regards.

First the report corroborates earlier analysis on the role of the BND and the CIA in supporting the KLA, several years prior as well as in the wake of the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

Second, it further documents and confirms the KLA's links to Al Qaeda and the role of the latter in the Kosovo conflict:

"What German journalists and their Dutch colleagues at VPRO Radio Television investigated has a long tradition. Since the beginning of the 1990s the BND has maintained contacts with the KLA, which was then considered to be a terrorist organization. Although we have to admit that the KLA has stronger ties with the CIA than the BND. Commander Hoxha had ties with the CIA, the BND and with the Austrian military intelligence service which has devoted great attention to this region and has very good connections with the KLA."

Despite its links to organized crime and Al Qaeda, the KLA rebel army had been skillfully heralded by the Western media in the months preceding the 1999 NATO bombings as broadly representative of the interests of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Its leader Hashim Thaci had been "designated" (by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) as chief negotiator at the Rambouillet peace talks.

The fact of the matter is that the Atlantic Alliance had been supporting a terrorist organization. The KLA was not supporting the rights of ethnic Albanians. Quite the opposite.

The activities of this terrorist organization on the ground, in Kosovo, provided NATO and the US with the pretext to intervene on humanitarian grounds, claiming that the Serb authorities had committed human rights violations against ethnic Albanians, when in fact the NATO sponsored KLA was involved in terrorist acts on behalf of NATO, which triggered a response from the Serb police and military.

Broadly speaking, the bombing of Yugoslavia had the support of Western public opinion, on humanitarian grounds.

NATO's mandate was broadly accepted. The geopolitics behind the war were never brought out. The militarisation of the Balkans and the setting up a US military presence was not an issue.

No coherent antiwar movement was launched in relation to Yugoslavia, despite the fact that the invasion of Kosovo was in violation of international law.

A disinformation campaign had been launched. Several leftist intellectuals and civil society activists claimed that this was a "just war".

The KLA, despite its shady connections was also supported by several sectors of the progressive left, which had described the KLA as a "Liberation Movement".

In retrospect, the antiwar movement developed belatedly in relation to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BEH502A.html

Interesting article. There is so much I could say, but I better not.

[Shpat_Argjira 0]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

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AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

Not to mention a terrorist and low down dirty crook...

Like all the rest of you KLA people.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

I guess that's one way of putting it.

[Ban Hammer 13,098]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

even on wikipedia too

link

[LaL 418]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

Not to mention a terrorist and low down dirty crook...

Like all the rest of you KLA people.

AJ - this seems a whole lot like baiting to me, and not in the "why are you grabbing your crotch" kind of way.

Edited August 14, 2008 by LaL

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

AJ - did you read about the Brooklyn roofer who fronted for the KLA?

That guy is a legend.

Not to mention a terrorist and low down dirty crook...

Like all the rest of you KLA people.

AJ - this seems a whole lot like baiting to me, and not in the "why are you grabbing your crotch" kind of way.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If this guy smuggled weapons out of the US, why is he still in the country?

I thought Homeland Security could strip someone of their immigration privileges (including naturalised citizenship) if it turned out that they'd lied or provided false information on an earlier application.

How does gun-running not violate every precedent for securing immigration benefits (not to mention that the guy entered the country illegally to begin with).

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How does gun-running not violate every precedent for securing immigration benefits (not to mention that the guy entered the country illegally to begin with).

It's all politics. We coddle terrorists like the Kosovars and then we go to war against them in Afghanistan.