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Kosovo Liberation
Army and Albanian Sponsors
Have Well Documented Roots in The Heroin Trade
By Michael C. Ruppert
The Drug Trade Is Entrenched in NATO
Politics
An exceptional record of respected media sources from the U.S. and
Europe have documented that the Kosovo Liberation Army and their Albanian
sponsors are heroin financed organized crime groups struggling to dominate
the flow of middle eastern heroin into Europe and even the Eastern United
States.
The Christian Science Monitor reported on Oct. 20, 1994: "Disrupted
by the Yugoslav conflict, drug trafficking across the Balkans is making
a comeback as Albanian mafia barons carve out a new smuggling route
to Western Europe, bypassing the peninsula's war zones, according to
United Nations and other narcotics experts." To document the increase
in traffic through the Albanian Kosovar region The Monitor continued,
"For example, just 14 pounds of hard drugs were seized by Hungarian
police in 1990, but by August this year [1994] the figure had risen
to 1,304 pounds."
In describing the then evolving trade, which was coming to be dominated
by Kosovar Albanians The Monitor added, "But European police
chiefs fear the conduit will strengthen Kosovo Albanian drug syndicates
- some of the most powerful on the continent - whose tentacles have
stretched as far as the East coast of the United States…
"From their base in Velki Trnovac in southern Serbia, dubbed the
'Medellin of the Balkans,' Albanian mafia chiefs oversee their European
drug operation and are suspected of masterminding the new Balkan route."
Colombia in the Balkans
The highly respected Jane's Intelligence Review from Great Britain
went much deeper in predicting the coming crisis
in a February 1, 1995 article entitled The Balkan Medellin.
Three paragraphs from that article are so compelling we reprint them
here in their entirety.
"The Albanian-dominated region of western Macedonia accounts for
a disproportionate share of Macedonia's (FYROM) shrinking GDP. This
situation has strengthened Albanophobic sentiments among the ethnic
Macedonian majority, especially as a great deal of revenue is thought
to derive from Albanian narco-terrorism as well as associated gun-running
and cross-border smuggling to and from Albania, Bulgaria and the Kosovo
province of Serbia. Although its extent and forms remain in dispute,
this rising Albanian economic power is helping to turn the Balkans into
a hub of criminality.
"Previously transported to Western Europe through former Yugoslavia,
heroin from Turkey, the Transcaucus and points further east is now being
increasingly routed to Italy via the Black Sea, Albania, Bulgaria and
Macedonia. This is a development that has strengthened the Albanian
mafia which is now thought to control 70% of the illegal heroin market
in Germany and Switzerland. Closely allied to the powerful Sicilian
mafia, the Albanian associates have also greatly benefited from the
presence of large numbers of mainly Kosovar Albanians in a number of
western European countries; Switzerland alone now has over 100,000 ethnic
Albanian residents. As well as providing a perfect cover for Albanian
criminals, this diaspora is also a useful source of income for racketeers…
"If left unchecked, this growing Albanian narco-terrorism could
lead to a Colombian syndrome in the Southern Balkans, or the emergence
of a situation in which the Albanian mafia becomes powerful enough to
control one or more states in the region. In practical terms, this will
involve either Albania or Macedonia, or both. Politically, this is now
being done by channeling growing foreign exchange (forex) profits from
narco-terrorism into local governments and political parties. In Albania,
the ruling Democratic Party (DP) led by President Sali Berisha is now
widely suspected of tacitly tolerating and even directly profiting from
drug-trafficking for wider politico-economic reasons, namely the financing
of secessionist political parties and other groupings in Kosovo and
Macedonia."
These four-year-old evaluations, along with an abundance of other evidence
of Albanian-Kosovar mafia expansion paint a whole new picture of what
is really happening in Kosovo. Clearly Serbia is legitimately defending
itself from an organized crime syndicate taking control of one of its
provinces.
How powerful is the Albanian mafia? Well, as far back as 1985 it was
powerful enough to frighten New York U.S. attorney Rudy Giulliani who,
according to a Wall Street Journal story dated September 9, was receiving
special personal protection after prosecuting a heroin case in New York
City connected to a ring of powerful Albanian traffickers.
The Journal wrote, "But it is drug trafficking that has
gained Albanian organized crime the most notoriety. Some Albanians,
according to federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials, are key traders
in the 'Balkan connection' the Istanbul-to-Belgrade heroin route. While
less well known than the so-called Sicilian and French connections,
the Balkan route in some years may move 24% to 40% of the U.S. heroin
supply, officials say."
If the Albanians were moving 24 to 40% fourteen years ago then, given
their growing control over the traffic through the region, their access
to Western Europe and mobility throughout
the world, they may well control more than half of the heroin now entering
the United States and law enforcement sources indicate that they control
75% of the heroin entering Western Europe.
A Brilliant Voice From Canada
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa
has written an absolutely brilliant article on the Kosovo war which
decimates, in its entirety, the U.S. government's stated version of
events and lays bare a plan to re-colonize the region on behalf of Germany
and the United States. The meticulously footnoted article sums up the
entire Kosovo nightmare in one sentence by saying, "The west was
relying on its KLA puppets to rubber-stamp an agreement which would
have transformed Kosovo into an occupied territory under Western administration."
After describing in detail the heroin-financed, organized crime, political
power structure of the region, and noting carefully that there are other
organized political entities not involved in the drug trade speaking
on behalf of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Chossudovsky documents the
military and intelligence alliance between Bonn (now Berlin) and Washington
to create the KLA.
"Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands
in establishing their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans.
Their intelligence agencies have also collaborated. According to intelligence
analyst John Whitley, covert support to the Kosovo rebel army was established
between the CIA and Germany's [BND]…The task to create and finance
the KLA was initially given to Germany: "They used German uniforms,
East German weapons and were financed, in part, with drug money. According
to Whitley, the CIA was subsequently instrumental in training and equipping
the KLA in Albania."
Giving the overall economic perspective, Chossudovsky notes the effect
of often brutal economic sanctions imposed by the IMF and other banking
institutions which so often presage a region's descent into apparent
anarchy before its rescue by the "benevolent" industrial powers.
"The application of strong 'economic' medicine' under the guidance
of the Washington based Bretton Woods institutions had contributed to
wrecking Albania's banking system and precipitating the collapse of
Albania's economy. The resulting chaos enabled American and European
transnationals to carefully position themselves. Several western oil
companies [some represented by Richard Armitage] including Occidental,
Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes riveted on Albania's abundant
and unexplored oil deposits. Western investors were also gawking Albania's
extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold nickel and platinum…"
Given these undeniable facts, and a well documented history which the
Internet and publications like this will not forget, the current propaganda
and very real war being fought in Kosovo takes on a new and unforgivable
light. Ronald Reagan's comparison of the Contras in Central America
to America's Founding Fathers is today as comical as it is offensive
in light of what we know about the Contra war and how the Contras were
financed. The Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters of Afghanistan and Pakistan
who we financed with heroin from the same fields which now supply the
KLA have
become terrorists who attack embassies and target American citizens.
The forgotten Meo tribesman of Laos, who Ted Shackley created with heroin
from the Golden Triangle are now basically forgotten - those who survived
having been resettled in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the warlords remain
in Washington, Berlin, London, the Golden Triangle, the Golden Crescent,
Albania and Kosovo.
This writer has said many times and in many places that these wars,
destabilizations and "economic cleansings" are planned and
orchestrated years, even decades in advance. It was a bittersweet affirmation
for me to read Chossudovsky's own analysis:
"The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior
to the signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome
'marriage of convenience' with the mafia. "Freedom Fighters were
put in place, the narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to "finance
the Kosovo conflict" with the ultimate objective of destabilizing
the Belgrade government and fully recolonizing the Balkans."
What remains to be seen is whether or not a badly misled American public
will be willing to sacrifice the blood of her sons in this utterly dishonest
conflict. I read somewhere once that the historical memory of a nation
lasts only about one generation. Funny, Vietnam doesn't seem that long
ago.
Suggested Reading: KOSOVO FREEDOM FIGHTERS FINANCED BY ORGANIZED
CRIME by Michel Chossudovsky, Department of Economics, University of
Ottawa. Voice Box 1-613-562-5800 ext 1415, e-mail chossudovsky@sprint.ca
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