The Balkan Problem, Part 2b.
Who are the KLA?
Please see part 1, and part 2a
Time line for the Yugoslav Wars
“Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan – drug traffickers, arms smugglers, anti-American terrorists… Now we’re doing the same thing with the KLA, which 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 in this country.”
DEA agent and author Michael Levine
Quoted in the New American Magazine, May 24, 1999
[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles … Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.”
Senator Jo. Lieberman, quoted in the ‘Washington Post’, 28 April 1999
“American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia”.
Tom Walker and Aiden Laverty, ‘CIA Aided Kosovo Guerrilla Army’, Sunday Times, 12 March 2000
In this part we will continue to explore the question of Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars, from part 2a? The last installment set up the large geopolitical framework to begin to answer the above question and attempted to bring forth reasons why the West got involved in what could have been seen as yet another Balkan fist fight. The main players in the Kosovo war were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Serbs. We have explored the Serbs in part 1, now we shall explore the KLA.
The caterwauling Western press gets the whole Kosovo/Serbia story wrong, just like in parts 1 and 2. They would have you believe the the Muslims and the KLA were oh so pure and being murdered in droves by the evil Serbs. The networks carried the same stories over and over again, the Clinton machine had the press in their pocket. The independent press lied to the American public yet again, they carried water for radical Muslims.
The Kosovo War ends after the US lead Nato bombing campaign cripples Serbia. President Clinton claimed it was to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing. The Clinton Administration persuaded NATO, Germany and the UK to follow its lead in Yugoslavia. The West, pushed by Clinton sided with Expansionist Islamist over Christian Orthodox Serbs for political and Clinton Doctrine-place-in-history reasons. The West chose to support the KLA which was backed by the Muslim Ummah because the West did not want to deal with the possibility of Albanian Muslim refugees on their borders, and was naïve of the Islamic threat, especially the Americans do not realize that Islam had already declared war on them in the 1990’s. We did not realize this because we had set up radical Muslim networks to fight the Soviets. This is most evident in Afghanistan in the 1980’s. This support for the KLA is simply a continuation of established networks. The networks don’t necessarily fight the Soviets in the 1990’s, they are brought into the fight for the reasons stated above.
So who was it that we were supporting? Who are the KLA? The KLA, or the Ushtria Clirimtare E Kosoves (UCK), first appeared in Macedonia in 1992. Many members of KLA units are professionally trained, and include former Yugoslav army soldiers. The group functions very professionally underground, due in part to fact that some of its leaders are former members of UDBA [Internal State Security Service. Some are Muslims of mostly Albanian descent that were trained under the unified, pre-war Yugoslavian military, intelligence, and police services. Some come from the the Albanian Communist Party under Enver Hoxa and tend toward Maoism.
The funding for the KLA came maily from two sources, first the Saudi Arabians, who tend to be Sunni as are the KLA, and from the Iranianians who are Shiite. The Iranians were looking for a foothold in Europe, they found it in the KLA. Iran and Saudi Arabia which supports many of the existing Islamic militant charities see the struggle in Kosovo as pitting Islam against Christianity and as an oppurtunity to get Islam further into Europe. The Shiites and Sunnis disagree on many things, but they do agree on fighting the common enemy which is Chritianity.
An interesting titbit I ran across in researching this makes some sense given the Russian support of Iran with arms and such: Curiously, there are reports that Iran is part of a secret alliance including Yugoslavia, Russia, and Iraq. The Paris-based Arabic newspaper “al-Watan al-Arabi” reported on 23 April, 1999 that a delegation of Iranian intelligence officers paid “an important secret visit” to Moscow to discuss details of the alliance. The Iranians requested the most-up-to-date Russian arms, in exchange for which they pledged that the Bosnia experience would not be repeated. Iran promised to “not escalate its solidarity with the Muslims of Kosova to the extent of sending units of the Republican Guards or Hizballah units or military equipment to help the Kosova Liberation Army. The Iranians pledged not to arouse Islamic sentiments and not to rally and finance extremist movements, as happened in Bosnia, for jihad [holy war] in Kosova.”
Our old friend Osama bin Laden had already set up networks in Albania to help supply personnel and money to the KLA, bin Laden had already had his organization bomb the USS Cole, the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the US was not paying attention to him or to Islam as a threat, yet. They would, on September 11, 2001. From Chris Deliso: 4 May 1999, the Washington Times reported, citing new reports from US intelligence and Jane’s Defense Review, that the town of Tropoje, Albania was a”common staging area” for Bin Laden’s and the KLA’s forces, and thus “a center for Islamic terrorists.” US intelligence also acknowledged that Bin Ladin’s al-Qaeda had “both trained and financially supported” the Albanians, and that the Kosovo border had been infiltrated by Bosnian, Chechen and Afghan mujaheedin, in “…crossings (which) originated in neighboring Albania and, according to the reports, included parties of up to 50 men.”
The report added that “…documents found last year on the body of a KLA member showed that he had escorted several volunteers into Kosovo, including more than a dozen Saudi Arabians. Each volunteer carried a passport identifying him as a Macedonian Albanian.” 1
So this puts the US and Osama in Albania at the same time as late as 1999. So, Clinton sends in the bombs, the Serbs go to the table and peace breaks out. Osama bin Laden’s network continued to operate in Kosovo and Albania, and he continues to attack the US. But what of the KLA? Those defenders of human rights that Joe Liberman called them? Wrong again Joe, they were war criminals before and after our involvement, Joe!
The KLA now run narcotics ,traffic sex slaves into Europe, and conduct the standard organized crime activities. They are now the Muslim mafia…The US chose to support these guys, radical expansionist Islamic terrorists. Bin Laden and the rest of the terror world viewed the West, especially the US as weak after this episode. He kept hitting our overseas assets and we kept funding his allies. In order to get our attention and focus the fight, we got September 11, 2001.
1I have a login for Jane’s Defense Review, this information is factual. I liked the way the writer put it together so I quote him but fact check as well.
Tags: KLA, Muslim Lies
