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The KLA and Organ Trafficking Update

by coldwarrior ( 108 Comments › )
Filed under Balkans, Breaking News, Crime, Islam, Kosovo, Serbia, United Nations at December 28th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

It appears that the Organ Trafficking story about Kosovo and the KLA just got a new player and a new organization that helped in the cover up: Soren Jessen Petersen, the head of the UN’s mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) from 2004 to 2006. Apparently, the Serbs are claiming that  the UN and Mr Petersen were involved in covering up the actions of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci who is known to have “headed  Kosovo Liberation Army faction which controlled secret detention centers in Albania where human organ trafficking was alleged to have taken place in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war between the guerrillas and Serbian forces.”

As of yesterday, Serbia has requested that the international war crimes court investigate Soren Jessen Petersen, former head of UNMIK. Isn’t this nice! Now it appears that the UN was also in on the criminal activities of the KLA. I wonder if the UN chiefs on the ground were getting any narcotics money as bribes?

I had to dig down to AFP and the Pakistani news service to get this story, then i found it on Breitbart. I am pretty sure that means that Christian Ammanpour wont be breathlessly gushing over the details of this story on CNN.  I wonder how this would be covered if it were the Serbs trafficking in organs?

UN covered up organ trafficking report, says Serbia

Serbia asked the international war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia to investigate a former UN chief in Kosovo for covering up a report on organ trafficking, a report said on Sunday.

Serbia’s minister for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wrote to chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz seeking an inquest into Soren Jessen Petersen, the head of the UN’s mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) from 2004 to 2006, Blic newspaper reported.

“We are waiting for ICTY to open an inquest into UNMIK officials at the time for contempt of court,” minister Rasim Ljajic told the newspaper.

Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty published a report earlier this month that linked Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to organ trading and organised crime, which Thaci has denied.

UNMIK investigated possible organ trafficking in 2004, but it did not take it further citing lack of evidence.

“At the time, UNMIK said it did not have a report on organ trafficking and had no proof … But in 2008 our war crimes prosecutor obtained 16 pages of this report,” Ljajic said.

Marty’s report said Thaci headed a Kosovo Liberation Army faction which controlled secret detention centres in Albania, where the human organ trafficking was alleged to have taken place in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war between the guerrillas and Serbian forces.


Earlier this month, Council of Europe reporter Dick Marty, who led the two-year effort to uncover alleged crimes committed by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, published a report linking the premier to organ trading and organized crime.
Marty implicated Thaci in organ trafficking, accusing him of being a top organized crime boss.
The report released just days after the first general election in Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
Thaci was said to have headed a Kosovo Liberation Army faction which controlled secret detention centers in Albania where human organ trafficking was alleged to have taken place in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war between the guerrillas and Serbian forces.
Thaci has denied the allegations and denounced them as a smear campaign launched against him and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

17 December 2010 | 19:22 | Source: B92, Tanjug
BELGRADE — National Hague Cooperation Council Chairman Rasim Ljajić says he will ask the Hague Tribunal to initiate “contempt of court proceedings”.

They would be launched “against all those who interfered with the investigation into the illegal human organs trafficking in Kosovo”.

The report on this issue published on Thursday concerns the killing and organ harvesting from a large number of Serbs and other civilians kidnapped in Kosovo by the ethnic Albanian KLA, in 1999 and 2000.

Speaking for B92 on Friday evening, Ljajić said he will on Monday request that proceedings be launched against former heads of UNMIK, including Chief Soren Jessen-Petersen “and several other persons who interfered with the investigation because the policy of the international community in Kosovo at the time put stability before justice”.

“They knew about all these charges and suspicions, but they did nothing to prosecute or examine them. On the contrary, they did all they could to cover up the whole thing and to prevent witnesses from participating and testifying about the crimes committed at the time,” Ljajić said.

Special Political Adviser to the Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Frederick Swinnen meanwhile told Tanjug that this office is “monitoring Belgrade’s moves, but will not voice its stand until it receives the request to launch the proceedings which the Serbian authorities announced”.

Here is some more background on Prime Minister Thaci:

The report by the Council of Europe has named Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci as the “boss” of the criminal underworld behind the grisly trade.

Thaci was the political leader of the KLA during the Kosovo war in 1998-1999.

The Kosovo government has dismissed as “baseless and defamatory” the draft report, which was obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian.

Pristina has also issued a warning, saying it will take legal and political measures against what it called the “slanders.”

The report, which is the result of a two-year-long investigation by the special rapporteur of the Council of Europe, Dick Marty, is due to be published on Thursday.

It charges the KLA of secretly transferring its Serbian and Albanian prisoners from Kosovo to Albania, where they were murdered for their body parts.

Those organs were later sold on the black market to people in Canada, Germany and Israel.

The alleged crimes occurred after the Kosovo war ended in 1999.

The KLA has also been accused of involvement in heroin trade, and there is evidence that its activities in organized crime continue to the present day.

Marty is set to give his report to the legal and human rights committee of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Thursday.

The development comes as Thaci’s Democratic Party (PDK) won Kosovo’s parliamentary elections held on Sunday.

Kosovo opposition parties have cried fraud, claiming that the PDK has cheated.

In February 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia, and has so far been recognized by 68 countries, including the United States and a vast majority of the European Union.

The vote constituted the country’s first parliamentary elections since it proclaimed independence in 2008.

Let Them Play U.N. Somewhere Else, Or Keep Our Seat To Block Its Evil?

by Kafir ( 173 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Guest Post at December 22nd, 2010 - 11:30 am

Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Flyovercountry!



Let Them Play U.N. Somewhere Else, Or Keep Our Seat To Block Its Evil?

Woodrow Wilson, The original liberal, progressive, or left wing President, (whatever they are calling themselves today,) had this terrific idea to set up a playpen for the world’s diplomats to hash out their differences. The idea would be that we could prevent wars by preemptive diplomacy prior to hostilities beginning. The idea incorporated the thinking that there were no real differences in ideology, that all people basically wanted the same goals, just that skirmishes happened due to misunderstandings. It held that no society was better or worse than any other, and that no behavior was any better or worse than any other. This is a key tenant in leftist thinking. After we failed to join the League of Nations, part of the blame for WWII was placed on this fact. So we wasted no time in joining the United Nations. The rest of the world new, as we did, that such a body was meaningless without U.S. involvement. The world’s most dominant nation could not be absent, and still be viable. A deal was struck to give us a permanent seat on what is called the Security Council, complete with a veto power to block shenanigans. Four other nations share this privilege. Fast forward please to today.

So here we are at the end of 2010. The U.N. has grown in scope as the world’s greatest advocate for thugs, rapists, terrorists, and thieves. Guess who pays over a quarter of its expenses. That’s right, we, the American People. Where are they headquartered? Well, they reside here in New York. Just to fill you in on what the U.N. is up to, here are some of their greatest hits. UNICEF, which runs ads every year to get children to collect money for donations for a food bank, turns around and donates the money to buy explosives and weapons for, Palestinians,” who in turn use it to kill Israeli children. The Congo Relief effort turned out to be a pedophile club where adult peacekeepers could rape Congolese children. The U.N. sanctions against Iraq following the first Gulf War turned into a shakedown scheme where Billions of dollars ended up in Swiss bank accounts owned by the Secretary General and his children, and of course partially used to fund terrorist operations against Israel. We could spend months speaking to the issue of the Human Rights Council, but we should just leave it at their membership including the planet’s worst human rights violators. This would include Iran, where woman are stoned for getting themselves raped. Saudi Arabia is a member, where woman are whipped for the crime of driving a car. Libya is a member, that bastion of human decency. China, where dissidents are shot in the back of the head and the family of said dissidents charged for the price of the ammunition used. Going back through its history, I can only think of two things the U.N. did that could be considered positive. The formation of Israel, and the defense of South Korea. The U.N. turned on Israel 30 years ago. This week, It reversed itself on the lone remaining positive, it turned on the Republic of South Korea. So, where does that leave us?

Well, in my opinion, it leaves us here. Now that the conservatives in this country will have control of the purse strings as of January 4, 2011, we should defund the U.N. We should also keep our seat. I, unlike other conservatives, don’t believe in pulling out completely. The veto power of the security council is still important. Our lack of funding would serve to do that anyhow, but by remaining, we could make certain that no shenanigans could occur while it remained a viable institution. There will still be dolts like Ted Turner, and George Soros, et al. to keep the sick joke going, but eventually they would stop. The recent State Level elections will keep conservatives in the majority of the House for the next 10 years. (This is due to the recent gains made at the gubernatorial and legislature levels in State elections.) As soon as the U.N. fails to meet its rent obligations in New York, evict them. I believe this is the best way to kill the beast known as the United Nations.

A little on the need for such a body. Can anyone name a time in history where a lasting peace was achieved by diplomats? History is full of examples where decisive military victory achieved peace. War is terrible, appeasing thugs is worse. Diplomacy only accomplishes the latter. By talking to thugs, they are validated, and their importance enhanced. Peace occurs when both sides have something to lose when it is gone. In a perfect word, we would not need borders, armies, or to defend our interests. The perfect world scenario fails to take into account human behavior. There will always be thugs who wish to advance their own self interests, not by enriching those around them, but by seeking to gain power over them. We will, unfortunately need to kick their collective asses. In short, Ronald Reagan was right. I would also like to stipulate that John Bolton be our last ambassador to the U.N. He gets it.

-Flyovercountry

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(cross posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative)

US-Backed Kosovo Administration Implicated in Organ-Trafficking Racket…

by 1389AD ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Albania, Crime, Democratic Party, George W. Bush, Health Care, Islam, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Kosovo, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Republican Party, Serbia, Tranzis at December 18th, 2010 - 6:30 pm

A Mystery Is Solved

Back in 1999, I had no information about the organ trafficking. But I had heard that a considerable number of Serbs had gone missing during the Kosovo War and its aftermath. I contacted prominent and influential people both in the US and all over the world – politicians, media figures, other activists, various celebrities, even heads of state – demanding an investigation to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Serbs.

Even though some other activists helped by circulating my request, nobody replied. Absolutely nobody.

More recently, I was dismayed to learn that at least some of the Serbs who had gone missing at that time had been butchered and sold for their organs.

Now the reckoning begins.

…But Will It Matter?

Logo of American Council for Kosovo

Reprinted by request from American Council for Kosovo

By James George Jatras
Wednesday, 15 December 2010

One can’t help but wonder how many times we have to be hit over the head before it begins to sink in that America’s intervention in Kosovo was based on a pack of lies from the start. The ‘accepted’ narrative of Kosovo as the great success story parades under the headline: U.S. and NATO Allies Nobly Stepped in to Stop Genocide by Evil Serbs. The reality was U.S. Dragged NATO Allies Kicking and Screaming Into Support for Muslim Mafia Committing Genocide Against Christian Serbs.

Comes now the Council of Europe’s human rights investigator Dick Marty with damning accusations that Hashim Thaçi, a/k/a Gjarpër (Snake), currently masquerading as “prime minister” of the illegal separatist administration in Pristina, heads a “mafia-like” operation that included murdering captives, mainly Serbs, to sell their organs on the black market. Is even that ghoulish revelation enough to force a reconsideration of the preening self-justification of a humanitarian intervention most Americans have long since forgotten? We can hope. But did the plotted attack on Fort Dix changes any minds? No.

Now we have organ trafficking. Let’s remember the organ-trafficking story first broke over two years ago and seemed to be withering away in the face of brazen stonewalling by “authorities” in Pristina and Tirana (with full backing from Washington, of course.)

Release of Mr. Marty’s report, just as Thaçi is claiming victory in Kosovo’s recent elections, suggests that somebody in Europe wants to jump off this bandwagon to disaster. But for Americans, the question is: How horrible do the facts need to be before we start looking behind the curtain to see what our government is so desperate to conceal

In the unfortunate partisan myopia that plagues American politics, some of my fellow conservatives might be tempted to blame it on Bill Clinton and leave it at that. Of course, it was largely a “Clinton problem” back during the 1999 NATO war against Serbia. To their credit, most Congressional Republicans voted against the war, which our Razorback Rommel illegally launched even though the House of Representatives had voted down the authorization to use military force. But while Republicans mainly voted No, the neoconservative establishment was whipping up support for the Clinton White House. Unfortunately, with neocon domination of the George W. Bush administration’s foreign policy, and their desperation to win Islamic friends after 9/11, the Bush policy on Kosovo was even more Clinton than Clinton, leading to the decision to try to force the issue of Kosovo’s independence in violation of every principle of international law and national sovereignty.

So, what will Washington do now about “our” guy Thaçi? Do a Google Image search for his name with almost any top U.S. figure of either party you can think of and you’ll see him in a warm handshake, often a chummy embrace with a virtual Who’s Who of the American establishment: George W. Bush, Condi Rice, Bill Gates, Clinton (both of them), Joseph Biden, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, etc. (See Snake and Friends at the end of this message.) One would like to think some one of these worthies would now have the decency to say (even if only in virtuous hypocrisy), “What, I didn’t know! I’d never have supported these guys if I had!” But the problem is, even aside from these organ-trafficking peccadilloes, the U.S. establishment did know – from Day One – that Thaçi and Co. (the “Kosovo Liberation Army,” KLA) were a bunch of thugs. So did the intelligence services of our allies. (And make no mistake – it’s not just Thaçi. If Thaçi needs to be dumped, we can guess that “Plan B” will be to install in his place another of his equally vicious KLA colleagues.) They – our government – knew the KLA were criminals running the drug, slave, and weapons rackets throughout Europe. They knew the KLA was supported by Osama bin Laden (with whom Thaçi met personally in Tirana in 1998 to plan the jihad in Kosovo, according to the former head of Albanian intelligence), the Iranians, the Saudis, the Turks, and other supporters of an Islamic re-re-conquest of the Balkans. And we supported them anyway, shredding every rule of law and decency in the process. Now what? In all probability, circle the wagons, hope it will blow over, and keep twisting arms around the world in support of the illegal separatist terrorist entity “KosovA”.

As for Serbia, if there were a respectable government in Belgrade, instead of a group of quislings, they wouldn’t be preparing to meet with representatives of Thaçi’s government in direct negotiations. Instead, conspiring with their U.S. and European supporters and collaborators in the Serbian Orthodox Church, Belgrade’s recent “contribution” to the Kosovo fiasco is their persecution of Vladika Artemije, Bishop of Ras and Prizren and Kosovo and Metohija, who over two years ago was calling for then-President Bush to refuse to meet with Thaçi and demanding an accounting for the organ-selling outrage!

Let us hope that Mr. Marty’s fine work doesn’t get thrown down the Memory Hole with any and all other facts inconvenient to Washington’s policy. But it’s not enough just to track down the individual perpetrators, or even to pack Thaçi off to jail (though both would be a good start). It’s time for the lies that have undergirded our entire Balkan policy to be exposed, for the United States to stop its obsessive support for Islamic jihad against the indigenous Christian population, and specifically to back off from our absurd and destructive global lobbying on behalf of the KLA regime.

Some might argue that “we’ve come too far” to reverse course now, that American commitment to “KosovA” is irreversible. But it s never too late to stop doing the wrong thing and start doing the right thing. If Mr. Marty s organ-trafficking revelations can be a catalyst for a truthful reassessment of American policy and of the events of recent years, the victims will not have died in vain.

Washington
December 15, 2010

Snake and Friends

Snake and Rice (with “president” Fatmir Sejdiu)

Snake and Biden

Snake and (now French foreign minister) Bernard Koushner, British General Michael Jackson, fellow KLA thug Agim Ceku, and American General Wesley Clark

Snake and Bush

Snake and Gates

Snake and Albright

Snake and H. Clinton

Snake and B. Clinton


But wait, there’s more…


Organ-ized Crime: Kosovo organ trafficking busted



UN War Crimes Tribunal Aided the Continued Jihadi Organ-Harvesting in Kosovo
Warning: Raw language and graphic subject matter!


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Israel’s Title to “Palestine” under International Law

by WrathofG-d ( 215 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestinians, UK, United Nations, World at December 16th, 2009 - 2:00 pm

BLOGMOCRACY IN ACTION!

This Thread By “Contributor” & Netizen – “Eliana”

Israel has a solid case under international law for the ownership of all of the land included in the Palestine Mandate. On November 28th, the Jerusalem Post published this article:

NGO to Clinton: Settlements are legal
By JACOB KANTER

The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law, a non-governmental legal action organization, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, warning that by labeling Jewish settlements in the West Bank illegal, she is violating international law.

The little-known Anglo-American Convention, a treaty signed by the US and British governments in 1924, stipulated that the US fully accepted upon itself the Mandate for Palestine, which declared all of the West Bank within its borders.

“The treaty has been hidden,” said OFICL director Mark Kaplan. “But if you look at the House [of Representatives] deliberations during World War I, people are saying, ‘Look, we’ve invested a lot of money in Palestine, and we expect that this treaty will be upheld.'”

Though the United Nations’ 1947 partition plan declared the West Bank an Arab territory, the mandate’s borders still hold today.

“The mandate expired in 1948 when Israel got its independence,” Kaplan said. “But the American-Anglo convention was a treaty that was connected to the mandate. Treaties themselves have no statute of limitations, so their rights go on ad infinitum.”

“The UN partition plan was just that-a plan,” said OFICL chairman Michael Snidecor in a statement. “The General Assembly has no authority to create countries or change borders…

The OFICL letter also warned Clinton that if her office does not comply with the civil rights recognized in the Anglo-American convention, OFICL will file a class-action suit in a US district court….

NGO to Clinton: Settlements are legal

From the letter to Hillary Clinton from the OFICL:

Thereafter, the United States of America ratified a treaty a with the British Government known as the Anglo-American Treaty of 1924, which included by reference the aforementioned Balfour Declaration and includes, verbatim, the full text of the Mandate for Palestine.

“Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on the 2nd of November 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…”

By doing so, the United States of America is legally bound to the principles contained in the “Balfour Declaration” and the “Mandate for Palestine.”

Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

THE ARGUMENT used against Israel in the claim that the Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem are illegal is a cynical and wicked twisting of an article in the 4th Geneva Convention that was meant to prevent another Holocaust:

Many who allege that Jewish communities in the West Bank violate international law cite the 4th Geneva Convention, Article 49. It states that an occupying power “shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” But Julius Stone, like Rostow a leading legal theorist, wrote in his 1981 book, “Israel and Palestine: An Assault on the Law of Nations,” that the effort to designate Israeli settlements as illegal was a “subversion . . . of basic international law principles.”

Stone, Stephen Schwebel, a former judge on the International Court of Justice, and others have distinguished between territory acquired in an “aggressive conquest” (such as Nazi Germany’s seizures during World War II) and territory taken in self-defense (such as Israeli conquests in 1967).

The distinction is especially sharp when the territory acquired had been held illegally, as Jordan had held the West Bank, which it seized during the Arab states’ 1948-49 war against Israel.

Further, Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention was intended to outlaw the Nazi practice of forcibly transporting populations into or out of occupied territories to labor or death camps. Israelis were not forcibly transferred to the West Bank, nor were Palestinian Arabs forced out of it. Two years after President Carter’s State Department determined that Israeli settlements violated international law, President Reagan said flatly that they were “not illegal.”

Israeli settlements are more than legitimate

The “Palestinian” Claim to Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem is Illegitimate

The “Palestinians” claim is that they are entitled to the land up to the pre-1967 cease fire lines because these areas of land were “taken” from Jordan and Egypt.

In Article 5 of the Mandate of Palestine (which is incorporated into the Anglo-American treaty of 1924 and the United Nations Charter) states:

“The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign power.”

Mandate for Palestine

Jordan and Egypt violated international law when they (as “foreign powers”) took control of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. After these “foreign powers” had been expelled, they did not have legal heirs to this land in the form of fellow Arabians who call themselves “Palestinians.”

This legal matter will have to be addressed in the American legal system because the Obama Administration’s and the U.S. State Department’s obligations to recognize that all of the land belongs to Israel are at the center of the legal arguments.

Let’s hope the case moves forward.