ALBANIAN ORGANISED CRIME
Article by Rico
[Afghan heroin farmer]To understand the international heroin trade it is essential to understand Albanian organized Crime. This is because it is the Albanians who are the link between Afghan and Pakistani heroin growers [Pictured Left], Turkish producers and the world market. The Albanians are among the world's most well connected criminals. In order for them to ply their trade they deal with the Italian N'dranheta, Camorra, Stidda and Mafia, as well as the Russian Solsentskya mob, Polish organized crime (who are among Europe's main methamphetimine producers) and Nigerian, Colombian, Mexican, Serbian, British, Irish, Dutch and Kurdish criminal syndicates. In fact they work with every group around the world. Their most troubling links perhaps are with terrorist groups from Serbia to Afghanistan.
Structural links between politically connected terrorist groups and criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking (heroin), armed robbery, extortion and the illicit smuggling of humans became a major problem for the world's nations during the 1990s as state's became more reluctant to fund terrorist groups. Terrorists and organized criminals became hinged at the waist as both saw that they could make money together. In fact all terror groups need money and they gain this from organized criminal activity, thus making the members part time terrorists and full time criminals. The Albanians perhaps more so than many other groups have become dependent on their relationships with terror groups and the governments of terror connected groups. The Taliban after all was in control of most of the world's heroin supply; the Afghan Northern Alliance has now taken over this role and thus the Albanian connections.
Albanian organized crime groups are hybrid organizations. These groups are involved in both crime and politics. Unlike many organized crime groups many of the Albanian organizations do have a political ideology, which governs their actions.
In 1986 the break up of the "Pizza connection" made it possible for other ethnic crime groups to occupy the terrain of the Italian and Italian American crime families. This was especially easy for the Albanian groups because they had worked extremely closely with the Sicilian Mafia and their American counterparts since at least the early 1970`s. Due to a highly developed ethnic conscience- fortified by a Serb anti-Albanian politics in the 1980`s and 90`s Albanians, particularly Kosovars, began to develop a sense of a collective identity which precipitated their involvement in organized crime which was again, based on clan loyalties and family ties. It is this element, which brought together the clans to do business. Pan Albanian beliefs emerged and a sense of anti government was fostered amongst the groups. This is the exact condition, which facilitated the transformation of the mafia in Italy during the 19th century.
Albanian drug lords spread out throughout Europe and with them came their networks. The end of the conflict in Kosovo sparked the emergence of the Albanian crime lords as major players in the international drug trade. The United States had also inadvertently created these organizations as they allied themselves with the KLA against Slobodan Milosevic. The former freedom fighters emerged in the mid 90`s as nothing more than Europe's most powerful heroin cartel.
When the war was over a flood of humanity swept throughout the Balkans. Thousands of Kosovar Albanians returned home from refugee camps. Many of these refugees returned to find that Mercedes Benzes lined the streets of certain neighborhoods and young men with hooded eyes and bulky suits were now the main power on the streets.
The main criminal elements, which emerged, became known as the 15 families. These families had essentially been smuggling contraband for hundreds of years, however the war in Kosovo had made them extremely wealthy as they profited from the sale of weapons and the trafficking in heroin which was facilitated by corrupt officials and KLA terrorists. The entire region was essentially unpoliced. Albania was in a state of anarchy and the 15 families became the local powers. Each of these 15 families is clan based and maintains their own private armies. These armies evolved to form the KLA, which is a direct offshoot of organized crime enforcement operations. Similar to Columbia's AUC or the Los Pepes organization, which was a paramilitary wing of the Cali Cartel. The 15 families grew wealthy. They were doing $2 billion dollars a year in heroin by 2000. They grew to become so powerful that today fully 80% of Europe's heroin travels through Albania. Many European heroin addicts refer to the product as the "Albanian lady" or "Albanka."
The heroin is shipped exclusively from western Asia. The Albanians procure their product from Afghan producers. From Afghanistan the opium is shipped through Iran into Turkey. In Turkey the opium is refined into heroin and it is then sold to the Albanians for shipment into Europe. What the Mexican drug cartels are for the North American cocaine trade, the Albanian cartels are for the European heroin trade. They are the UPS of the drug underworld.
The war in Bosnia spread Albanians throughout Europe. As many criminals spread throughout Europe they came into contact with the Organized crime elements around Europe. This increased their power and profitability. Both the Mafia and the Russian Mayfia relied on the Albanians for their supply of heroin. With their newfound funds the Albanians began to purchase banks.
Albanian smugglers accumulated a massive influx of cash from the sale of weapons, drugs, people and tobacco products. They quickly discovered they needed to launder their money. With Kosovo in a state of near anarchy these groups had little trouble becoming involved in the banking system. This made them the brokers of the underworld. They could now launder the ill-gotten gains of their Russian and Italian business partners, for a price. This obviously proved to be extremely lucrative for these organizations.
[Daut Kadriovski]The most powerful boss of the 15 families was Daut Kadriovski. Kadriovski was one of Europe's most powerful drug traffickers. Kadriovski [pictured Right] was arrested in 1985 in Germany. Authorities confiscated numerous Villas, yachts, and cars, which belonged to the kingpin. He was placed in jail and everyone believed they had heard the last of Daut, however he managed to bribe his way out of jail and in 1993 he headed for the United States. He is believed to be operating in the United States today and is believed to work through several businesses in the New York City and Philadelphia areas. He is a known associate of the local Cosa Nostra families. Kadriovski remains a fugitive and he very well may be among the most powerful heroin traffickers in North America. His organization is believed to be North America's main source of Golden Crescent (Afghanistan) heroin. Kosovar Albanian traffickers have consolidated their power and have become major suppliers of poppies to Colombian networks, which are much newer to the business. The Albanians have also forged a heroin for cocaine connection with the Columbians, which makes them one of Europe`s main sources for cocaine and allows them to procure vast sums of cash, which they then launder in their banks producing even more money. These are among the world's most innovative syndicates.
The Kosovar Albanian traffickers have become Europe's preeminent heroin traffickers as well as major cocaine traffickers. They have in house money laundering system and political connections that most criminal organizations only dream about. They are also among the underworld's most connected outfits and the majority of their bosses and operatives remain unknown to law enforcement. The 15 Kosovar Albanian families are beginning to become the most powerful criminal organizations you have never heard about.
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by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 10:43
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7. The Kosovo conflict and the refugee problem in Albania resulted in a remarkable influx of financial aid. Albanian organized crime with links to Albanian state authorities seems to have highly profited from these funds. The financial volume of this aid was an estimated $163 million. The financial assets of Albanian organized crime were definitely augmented due to this situation.
8. When considering the presence of Albanians in Europe, one has to keep in mind the massive emigration of Albanians to Western European countries in the 90’s. In 2000, estimations concerning the Albanian diaspora are as follows:
United States and Canada: 500,000
Greece: 500,000
Germany: 400,000
Switzerland: 200,000
Turkey: 65,000
Sweden: 40,000
Great Britain: 30,000
Belgium: 25,000
France: 20,000
For those emigrants to EU countries or Switzerland, the temptation to engage in criminal activities is very high as most of them are young Albanian males, in their twenties and thirties, who are unskilled workers and who have difficulties finding a job. For Italian organized crime, these Albanians were ideal couriers in the drug trafficking business running through Albania as they were able to circumvent the area border patrols after the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia. Many of them came into contact with Albanian organized crime through Albanian emigre communities located throughout Western Europe. This gave an impetus to the dispersion and internationalization of Albanian criminal groups.
The typical structure of the Albanian Mafia is hierarchical. Concerning "loyalty", "honor" and clan traditions, (blood relations and marriage being very important) most of the Albanian networks seem to be "old-fashioned" and comparable to the Italian Mafia networks of thirty or forty years ago. Infiltration into these groups is thus very difficult. Heroin networks are usually made up of groups of fewer than 100 members, constituting an extended family residing all along the Balkan route from Eastern Turkey to Western Europe. The Northern Albanian Mafia which runs the drug wholesale business is also known by the name of "The Fifteen Families."
Regarding cooperation with other transnational criminal groups, the Albanian Mafia seems to have established good working relationships with the Italian Mafia. On the 27th of July 1999 police in Durres (Albania), with Italian assistance arrested one of the godfathers of the "Sacra Corona Unita", Puglia’s Italian Mafia. This Albanian link seems to confirm that the Sacra Corona Unita have "officially" accepted Albanian organized crime as a "partner" in Puglia/Italy and delegated several criminal activities. This might be due to the fact that the Sacra Corona Unita is a rather recent phenomenon, not being as stable nor as strong as other Mafias in Italy. Their leaders might have decided to join forces rather than run the risk of a conflict with Albanian groups known to be extremely violent. Thus in certain areas of Italy, the market for cannabis, prostitution and smuggling of illegal immigrants is run mainly by Albanians. Links to Calabria’s Mafia, the "Ndrangheta", exist in Northern Italy. Several key figures of the Albanian Mafia seem to reside frequently in the Calabrian towns of Africo, Plati and Bovalino (Italy), fiefs of the Ndrangheta. Southern Albanian groups also seem to have good relationships with Sicily’s "Cosa Nostra", which seems to be moving steadily into finance and money laundering, leaving other typical illegal activities to other groups. Close relationships also exist with other criminal groups active along the Balkan route, where Turkish wholesalers, Bulgarian and Romanian traffickers are frequent business partners. There are also indications that a South American cartel has become active in Albania through Albanian middlemen, in order to place more cocaine on the European market
The heavy involvement of Albanian criminal groups in drugs trafficking, mainly heroin is proven. Currently, more than 80% of the heroin on the European market has been smuggled through the Balkans, having mainly been produced in Afghanistan and traveled through Iran and Turkey or Central Asia. In the Balkan region, two routes seem to have replaced the former traditional route, disrupted by the Yugoslavian conflict: one Northern route running mainly through Bulgaria, then Romania and Hungary and one Southern route running from Bulgaria through F.Y.R.O.M., the Kosovo region and Albania. An average of more than a ton of heroin and more than 10 tons of hashish are seized along those Balkan routes each year. According to DEA estimations, between 4 and 6 tons of heroin leave Turkey each month bound for Western Europe, traveling along the Balkan routes.
Albanian trafficking networks are becoming more and more powerful, partly replacing Turkish networks. This is especially the case in several German speaking countries, Sweden and Norway. According to some estimations, Albanian networks control about 70% of the heroin market today in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian countries. According to analyses of the Swedish and Norwegian police, 80% of the heroin smuggled into the countries can be linked to Albanian networks. In 1998, Swiss police even estimated that 90% of the narco-business in the country was dominated by Albanians. Throughout Europe, around 40% of the heroin trade seems to be controlled by Albanians. Recent refugees from the Kosovo region are involved in street sales. Tensions between the established ethnic Albanians and newcomers seem to exist, heroin prices having dropped due to their arrival and due to growing competition in the market.
Albanian networks are not only linked to heroin. In the Macedonian border region, production laboratories for amphetamine and methamphetamine drugs seem to have been set up. Currently, these pills are destined for the local market. Cannabis is grown in Albania and cultivation seems to have become more and more popular, especially in the South. Annual Albanian marijuana revenue is estimated at $40 million. In 1999, cannabis plantations existed in the regions of Kalarat (about 80 kilometers from Vlore/Albania) and close to Girokaster in the regions of Sarande, Delvina and Permetti. Albanian cannabis is mainly sold on the Greek market. In order to transport the drugs to Greece, Albanian crime groups work together with Greek criminals.
Albanian criminals are also involved in the traffic of illegal immigrants to Western European countries. It is part of international trafficking networks, which not only transport Albanians, but also Kurds, Chinese and people from the Indian subcontinent. The Albanian groups are mainly responsible for the crossing of the Adriatic Sea from the Albanian coast to Italy. Departures mainly take place from Vlore, some of them from Durres or even from Ulcinj in the South of Montenegro. By the end of 1999, the crossing costs about $1,000 USD for an adult and $500 USD for a child. It is interesting to notice that some illegal immigrants had to pay for their journey only once in their home country (e.g. $6,000 in Pakistan), but that the nationality of the trafficking groups changed as they moved along. This implies that Albanian groups are only a part of international distribution networks. In 1999, approximately 10,000 people were smuggled into EU countries via Albania every month. The Italian border patrol intercepted 13,118 illegal immigrants close to the Puglian coast from January until July 1999. It estimated arrivals only in this coastal region at 56,000 in 1999. For the Albanian crime groups, illegal immigration - even though it can not be compared to the narco-business - is an important source of income, bringing in an estimated fifty million USD in 1999.
Immigration is not only a source of income, it is also very important in order to create networks in foreign countries and thus create bridgeheads for the Albanian Mafia abroad. Reports indicate that of the people admitted into Western European or North America as refugees during the Kosovo conflict, at least several had been carefully chosen by the Albanian Mafia to stay in the host country and act as a future liaison for the criminal networks.
Trafficking in women and forced prostitution seem to have become much more important for Albanian organized crime in 1999, with thousands of women from Kosovo having fled to Albania during the armed conflict in the region. About 300,000 women from Eastern European countries work as prostitutes in Europe. More and more seem to be "organized" in Albanian networks that are not only limited to ethnic Albanian prostitutes, but also comprise women from Romania, Bosnia, Moldova, Russia, etc. The pimps often pretend to be Kosovars in order to have the status of a political refugee, even though many of them come from Albania. Some seem to control the "business" from abroad. Belgium, in particular, seems to be the seat of several leaders of the trafficking networks. In 1999, ten people linked to Albanian crime were shot in Brussels.
Finally, Albanian criminal groups frequently engage in burglaries, armed robberies and car theft in Europe and the United States.
There might still be links between political/military Kosovar Albanian groups (especially the KLA) and Albanian organized crime. Of the almost 900 million DM which reached Kosovo between 1996 and 1999, half was thought to be illegal drug money. Legitimate fundraising activities for the Kosovo and the KLA could have been be used to launder drug money. In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA 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 Usama bin Laden. Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Djihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. In 1998, the KLA was described as a key player in the drugs for arms business in 1998, "helping to transport 2 billion USD worth of drugs annually into Western Europe". The KLA and other Albanian groups seem to utilize a sophisticated network of accounts and companies to process funds. In 1998, Germany froze two bank accounts belonging to the "United Kosova" organization after it had been discovered that several hundred thousand dollars had been deposited into those accounts by a convicted Kosovar Albanian drug trafficker.
The possibility of an Albanian/Kosovar drugs for arms connection is confirmed by at least two affairs in 1999:
an Italian court in Brindisi (Italy) convicted an Albanian heroin trafficker who admitted obtaining weapons for the KLA from the Mafia in exchange for drugs.
An Albanian individual placed orders in the Czech Republic for light infantry weapons and rocket systems. According to Czech police sources, the arms were bound for the KLA.
Each KLA commander seems to have had funds at his disposal in order to be able to pay directly for weapons and ammunition for his local units’ need.
It is difficult to predict the further development of Albanian organized crime. Being a recent phenomenon, its stability is difficult to estimate. Nevertheless, future threats are realistic given the ruthlessness and lack of scruples displayed by Albanian crime groups, the international links which already exist, the professionalism which characterizes most of their activities and the strong ties created by ethnic Albanian origins. Moreover, the strong position of Albanian crime groups in Kosovo, F.Y.R.O.M. and the Albanian republic itself, is definitely a cause of concern to the international community, especially when one takes into account the geo-political instability in the region and the presence of a UN peacekeeping force.
http://www.russianlaw.org/Mutschke.htm
8. When considering the presence of Albanians in Europe, one has to keep in mind the massive emigration of Albanians to Western European countries in the 90’s. In 2000, estimations concerning the Albanian diaspora are as follows:
United States and Canada: 500,000
Greece: 500,000
Germany: 400,000
Switzerland: 200,000
Turkey: 65,000
Sweden: 40,000
Great Britain: 30,000
Belgium: 25,000
France: 20,000
For those emigrants to EU countries or Switzerland, the temptation to engage in criminal activities is very high as most of them are young Albanian males, in their twenties and thirties, who are unskilled workers and who have difficulties finding a job. For Italian organized crime, these Albanians were ideal couriers in the drug trafficking business running through Albania as they were able to circumvent the area border patrols after the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia. Many of them came into contact with Albanian organized crime through Albanian emigre communities located throughout Western Europe. This gave an impetus to the dispersion and internationalization of Albanian criminal groups.
The typical structure of the Albanian Mafia is hierarchical. Concerning "loyalty", "honor" and clan traditions, (blood relations and marriage being very important) most of the Albanian networks seem to be "old-fashioned" and comparable to the Italian Mafia networks of thirty or forty years ago. Infiltration into these groups is thus very difficult. Heroin networks are usually made up of groups of fewer than 100 members, constituting an extended family residing all along the Balkan route from Eastern Turkey to Western Europe. The Northern Albanian Mafia which runs the drug wholesale business is also known by the name of "The Fifteen Families."
Regarding cooperation with other transnational criminal groups, the Albanian Mafia seems to have established good working relationships with the Italian Mafia. On the 27th of July 1999 police in Durres (Albania), with Italian assistance arrested one of the godfathers of the "Sacra Corona Unita", Puglia’s Italian Mafia. This Albanian link seems to confirm that the Sacra Corona Unita have "officially" accepted Albanian organized crime as a "partner" in Puglia/Italy and delegated several criminal activities. This might be due to the fact that the Sacra Corona Unita is a rather recent phenomenon, not being as stable nor as strong as other Mafias in Italy. Their leaders might have decided to join forces rather than run the risk of a conflict with Albanian groups known to be extremely violent. Thus in certain areas of Italy, the market for cannabis, prostitution and smuggling of illegal immigrants is run mainly by Albanians. Links to Calabria’s Mafia, the "Ndrangheta", exist in Northern Italy. Several key figures of the Albanian Mafia seem to reside frequently in the Calabrian towns of Africo, Plati and Bovalino (Italy), fiefs of the Ndrangheta. Southern Albanian groups also seem to have good relationships with Sicily’s "Cosa Nostra", which seems to be moving steadily into finance and money laundering, leaving other typical illegal activities to other groups. Close relationships also exist with other criminal groups active along the Balkan route, where Turkish wholesalers, Bulgarian and Romanian traffickers are frequent business partners. There are also indications that a South American cartel has become active in Albania through Albanian middlemen, in order to place more cocaine on the European market
The heavy involvement of Albanian criminal groups in drugs trafficking, mainly heroin is proven. Currently, more than 80% of the heroin on the European market has been smuggled through the Balkans, having mainly been produced in Afghanistan and traveled through Iran and Turkey or Central Asia. In the Balkan region, two routes seem to have replaced the former traditional route, disrupted by the Yugoslavian conflict: one Northern route running mainly through Bulgaria, then Romania and Hungary and one Southern route running from Bulgaria through F.Y.R.O.M., the Kosovo region and Albania. An average of more than a ton of heroin and more than 10 tons of hashish are seized along those Balkan routes each year. According to DEA estimations, between 4 and 6 tons of heroin leave Turkey each month bound for Western Europe, traveling along the Balkan routes.
Albanian trafficking networks are becoming more and more powerful, partly replacing Turkish networks. This is especially the case in several German speaking countries, Sweden and Norway. According to some estimations, Albanian networks control about 70% of the heroin market today in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian countries. According to analyses of the Swedish and Norwegian police, 80% of the heroin smuggled into the countries can be linked to Albanian networks. In 1998, Swiss police even estimated that 90% of the narco-business in the country was dominated by Albanians. Throughout Europe, around 40% of the heroin trade seems to be controlled by Albanians. Recent refugees from the Kosovo region are involved in street sales. Tensions between the established ethnic Albanians and newcomers seem to exist, heroin prices having dropped due to their arrival and due to growing competition in the market.
Albanian networks are not only linked to heroin. In the Macedonian border region, production laboratories for amphetamine and methamphetamine drugs seem to have been set up. Currently, these pills are destined for the local market. Cannabis is grown in Albania and cultivation seems to have become more and more popular, especially in the South. Annual Albanian marijuana revenue is estimated at $40 million. In 1999, cannabis plantations existed in the regions of Kalarat (about 80 kilometers from Vlore/Albania) and close to Girokaster in the regions of Sarande, Delvina and Permetti. Albanian cannabis is mainly sold on the Greek market. In order to transport the drugs to Greece, Albanian crime groups work together with Greek criminals.
Albanian criminals are also involved in the traffic of illegal immigrants to Western European countries. It is part of international trafficking networks, which not only transport Albanians, but also Kurds, Chinese and people from the Indian subcontinent. The Albanian groups are mainly responsible for the crossing of the Adriatic Sea from the Albanian coast to Italy. Departures mainly take place from Vlore, some of them from Durres or even from Ulcinj in the South of Montenegro. By the end of 1999, the crossing costs about $1,000 USD for an adult and $500 USD for a child. It is interesting to notice that some illegal immigrants had to pay for their journey only once in their home country (e.g. $6,000 in Pakistan), but that the nationality of the trafficking groups changed as they moved along. This implies that Albanian groups are only a part of international distribution networks. In 1999, approximately 10,000 people were smuggled into EU countries via Albania every month. The Italian border patrol intercepted 13,118 illegal immigrants close to the Puglian coast from January until July 1999. It estimated arrivals only in this coastal region at 56,000 in 1999. For the Albanian crime groups, illegal immigration - even though it can not be compared to the narco-business - is an important source of income, bringing in an estimated fifty million USD in 1999.
Immigration is not only a source of income, it is also very important in order to create networks in foreign countries and thus create bridgeheads for the Albanian Mafia abroad. Reports indicate that of the people admitted into Western European or North America as refugees during the Kosovo conflict, at least several had been carefully chosen by the Albanian Mafia to stay in the host country and act as a future liaison for the criminal networks.
Trafficking in women and forced prostitution seem to have become much more important for Albanian organized crime in 1999, with thousands of women from Kosovo having fled to Albania during the armed conflict in the region. About 300,000 women from Eastern European countries work as prostitutes in Europe. More and more seem to be "organized" in Albanian networks that are not only limited to ethnic Albanian prostitutes, but also comprise women from Romania, Bosnia, Moldova, Russia, etc. The pimps often pretend to be Kosovars in order to have the status of a political refugee, even though many of them come from Albania. Some seem to control the "business" from abroad. Belgium, in particular, seems to be the seat of several leaders of the trafficking networks. In 1999, ten people linked to Albanian crime were shot in Brussels.
Finally, Albanian criminal groups frequently engage in burglaries, armed robberies and car theft in Europe and the United States.
There might still be links between political/military Kosovar Albanian groups (especially the KLA) and Albanian organized crime. Of the almost 900 million DM which reached Kosovo between 1996 and 1999, half was thought to be illegal drug money. Legitimate fundraising activities for the Kosovo and the KLA could have been be used to launder drug money. In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA 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 Usama bin Laden. Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Djihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. In 1998, the KLA was described as a key player in the drugs for arms business in 1998, "helping to transport 2 billion USD worth of drugs annually into Western Europe". The KLA and other Albanian groups seem to utilize a sophisticated network of accounts and companies to process funds. In 1998, Germany froze two bank accounts belonging to the "United Kosova" organization after it had been discovered that several hundred thousand dollars had been deposited into those accounts by a convicted Kosovar Albanian drug trafficker.
The possibility of an Albanian/Kosovar drugs for arms connection is confirmed by at least two affairs in 1999:
an Italian court in Brindisi (Italy) convicted an Albanian heroin trafficker who admitted obtaining weapons for the KLA from the Mafia in exchange for drugs.
An Albanian individual placed orders in the Czech Republic for light infantry weapons and rocket systems. According to Czech police sources, the arms were bound for the KLA.
Each KLA commander seems to have had funds at his disposal in order to be able to pay directly for weapons and ammunition for his local units’ need.
It is difficult to predict the further development of Albanian organized crime. Being a recent phenomenon, its stability is difficult to estimate. Nevertheless, future threats are realistic given the ruthlessness and lack of scruples displayed by Albanian crime groups, the international links which already exist, the professionalism which characterizes most of their activities and the strong ties created by ethnic Albanian origins. Moreover, the strong position of Albanian crime groups in Kosovo, F.Y.R.O.M. and the Albanian republic itself, is definitely a cause of concern to the international community, especially when one takes into account the geo-political instability in the region and the presence of a UN peacekeeping force.
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 10:57
KOSOVO `FREEDOM FIGHTERS' FINANCED BY ORGANISED CRIME
By Michel Chossudovsky
[Department of Economics, University of Ottawa/ Ottawa, K1N6N5/ Voice box: 1-613-562-5800, ext. 1415/ Fax: 1-514-425-6224/ E-Mail: chossudovsky@sprint.ca ]
- Wednesday, 7 April 1999 -
Heralded by the global media as a humanitarian peace-keeping mission, NATO's ruthless bombing of Belgrade and Pristina goes far beyond the breach of international law. While Slobodan Milosevic is demonised, portrayed as a remorseless dictator, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is upheld as a self-respecting nationalist movement struggling for the rights of ethnic Albanians. The truth of the matter is that the KLA is sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States and its allies.
Following a pattern set during the War in Bosnia, public opinion has been carefully misled. The multibillion dollar Balkans narcotics trade has played a crucial role in "financing the conflict" in Kosovo in accordance with Western economic, strategic and military objectives. Amply documented by European police files, acknowledged by numerous studies, the links of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to criminal syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union have been known to Western governments and intelligence agencies since the mid-1990s.
...The financing of the Kosovo guerilla war poses critical questions and it sorely test claims of an "ethical" foreign policy. Should the West back a guerrilla army that appears to partly financed by organised crime.[1]
While KLA leaders were shaking hands with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at Rambouillet, Europol (the European Police Organization based in the Hague) was "preparing a report for European interior and justice ministers on a connection between the KLA and Albanian drug gangs."[2] In the meantime, the rebel army has been skilfully heralded by the global media (in the months preceding the NATO bombings) as broadly representative of the interests of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
With KLA leader Hashim Thaci (a 29 year "freedom fighter") appointed as chief negotiator at Rambouillet, the KLA has become the de facto helmsman of the peace process on behalf of the ethnic Albanian majority and this despite its links to the drug trade. 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.
Ironically Robert Gelbard, America's special envoy to Bosnia, had described the KLA last year as "terrorists". Christopher Hill, America's chief negotiator and architect of the Rambouillet agreement "has also been a strong critic of the KLA for its alleged dealings in drugs."[3] Moreover, barely a few two months before Rambouillet, the US State Department had acknowledged (based on reports from the US Observer Mission) the role of the KLA in terrorising and uprooting ethnic Albanians:
...the KLA harass or kidnap anyone who comes to the police, ... KLA representatives had threatened to kill villagers and burn their homes if they did not join the KLA [a process which has continued since the NATO bombings]... [T]he KLA harassment has reached such intensity that residents of six villages in the Stimlje region are "ready to flee.[4]
While backing a "freedom movement" with links to the drug trade, the West seems also intent in bypassing the civilian Kosovo Democratic League and its leader Ibrahim Rugova who has called for an end to the bombings and expressed his desire to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Yugoslav authorities.[5] It is worth recalling that a few days before his March 31st Press Conference, Rugova had been reported by the KLA (alongside three other leaders including Fehmi Agani) to have been killed by the Serbs.
COVERT FINANCING OF `FREEDOM FIGHTERS'
Remember Oliver North and the Contras? The pattern in Kosovo is similar to other CIA covert operations in Central America, Haiti and Afghanistan where "freedom fighters" were financed through the laundering of drug money. Since the onslaught of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies have developed a complex relationship to the illegal narcotics trade. In case after case, drug money laundered in the international banking system has financed covert operations.
According to author Alfred McCoy, the pattern of covert financing was established in the Indochina war. In the 1960s, the Meo army in Laos was funded by the narcotics trade as part of Washington's military strategy against the combined forces of the neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma and the Pathet Lao.[6]
The pattern of drug politics set in Indochina has since been replicated in Central America and the Caribbean. "The rising curve of cocaine imports to the US", wrote journalist John Dinges "followed almost exactly the flow of US arms and military advisers to Central America."[7]
The military in Guatemala and Haiti, to which the CIA provided covert support, were known to be involved in the trade of narcotics into Southern Florida. And as revealed in the Iran-Contra and Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) scandals, there was strong evidence that covert operations were funded through the laundering of drug money. "Dirty money" recycled through the banking system -- often through an anonymous shell company -- became "covert money," used to finance various rebel groups and guerilla movements including the Nicaraguan Contras and the Afghan Mujahadeen. According to a 1991 Time Magazine report:
Because the US wanted to supply the mujehadeen rebels in Afghanistan with stinger missiles and other military hardware it needed the full cooperation of Pakistan. By the mid-1980s, the CIA operation in Islamabad was one of the largest US intelligence stations in the World. `If BCCI is such an embarrassment to the US that forthright investigations are not being pursued it has a lot to do with the blind eye the US turned to the heroin trafficking in Pakistan', said a US intelligence officer.[8]
AMERICA AND GERMANY JOIN HANDS
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 as a joint endeavour between the CIA and Germany's Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND) (which previously played a key role in installing a right wing nationalist government under Franjo Tudjman in Croatia).[9 ]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."[10] According to Whitley, the CIA was, subsequently instrumental in training and equipping the KLA in Albania.[11]
The covert activities of Germany's BND were consistent with Bonn's intent to expand its "Lebensraum" into the Balkans. Prior to the onset of the civil war in Bosnia, Germany and its Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher had actively supported secession; it had "forced the pace of international diplomacy" and pressured its Western allies to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. According to the Geopolitical Drug Watch, both Germany and the US favoured (although not officially) the formation of a "Greater Albania" encompassing Albania, Kosovo and parts of Macedonia.[12] According to Sean Gervasi, Germany was seeking a free hand among its allies "to pursue economic dominance in the whole of Mitteleuropa."[13 ]
ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN SUPPORT OF THE KLA
Bonn and Washington's "hidden agenda" consisted in triggering nationalist liberation movements in Bosnia and Kosovo with the ultimate purpose of destabilising Yugoslavia. The latter objective was also carried out "by turning a blind eye" to the influx of mercenaries and financial support from Islamic fundamentalist organisations.[14 ]
Mercenaries financed by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had been fighting in Bosnia.[15 ]And the Bosnian pattern was replicated in Kosovo: Mujahadeen mercenaries from various Islamic countries are reported to be fighting alongside the KLA in Kosovo. German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.[16 ]
According to a Deutsche Press-Agentur report, financial support from Islamic countries to the KLA had been channelled through the former Albanian chief of the National Information Service (NIS), Bashkim Gazidede.[17] "Gazidede, reportedly a devout Moslem who fled Albania in March of last year [1997], is presently [1998] being investigated for his contacts with Islamic terrorist organizations."[18]
The supply route for arming KLA "freedom fighters" are the rugged mountainous borders of Albania with Kosovo and Macedonia. Albania is also a key point of transit of the Balkans drug route which supplies Western Europe with grade four heroin. 75% of the heroin entering Western Europe is from Turkey. And a large part of drug shipments originating in Turkey transits through the Balkans. According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), "it is estimated that 4-6 metric tons of heroin leave each month from Turkey having [through the Balkans] as destination Western Europe."[19] A recent intelligence report by Germany's Federal Criminal Agency suggests that: "Ethnic Albanians are now the most prominent group in the distribution of heroin in Western consumer countries."[20]
THE LAUNDERING OF DIRTY MONEY
In order to thrive, the criminal syndicates involved in the Balkans narcotics trade need friends in high places. Smuggling rings with alleged links to the Turkish State are said to control the trafficking of heroin through the Balkans "cooperating closely with other groups with which they have political or religious ties" including criminal groups in Albanian and Kosovo.[21] In this new global financial environment, powerful undercover political lobbies connected to organized crime cultivate links to prominent political figures and officials of the military and intelligence establishment. The narcotics trade nonetheless uses respectable banks to launder large amounts of dirty money. While comfortably removed from the smuggling operations per se, powerful banking interests in Turkey but mainly those in financial centres in Western Europe discretely collect fat commissions in a multibillion dollar money laundering operation. These interests have high stakes in ensuring a safe passage of drug shipments into Western European markets.
THE ALBANIAN CONNECTION
Arms smuggling from Albania into Kosovo and Macedonia started at the beginning of 1992, when the Democratic Party came to power, headed by President Sali Berisha. An expansive underground economy and cross border trade had unfolded. A triangular trade in oil, arms and narcotics had developed largely as a result of the embargo imposed by the international community on Serbia and Montenegro and the blockade enforced by Greece against Macedonia.
Industry and agriculture in Kosovo were spearheaded into bankruptcy following the IMF's lethal "economic medicine" imposed on Belgrade in 1990. The embargo was imposed on Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanians and Serbs were driven into abysmal poverty. Economic collapse created an environment which fostered the progress of illicit trade. In Kosovo, the rate of unemployment increased to a staggering 70 percent (according to Western sources). Poverty and economic collapse served to exacerbate simmering ethnic tensions. Thousands of unemployed youths "barely out of their Teens" from an impoverished population, were drafted into the ranks of the KLA.[22]
In neighbouring Albania, the free market reforms adopted since 1992 had created conditions which favoured the criminalisation of State institutions. Drug money was also laundered in the Albanian pyramids (ponzi schemes) which mushroomed during the government of former President Sali Berisha (1992-1997).[23] These shady investment funds were an integral part of the economic reforms inflicted by Western creditors on Albania.
Drug barons in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia (with links to the Italian mafia) had become the new economic elites, often associated with Western business interests. In turn the financial proceeds of the trade in drugs and arms were recycled towardsother illicit activities (and vice versa) including a vast prostitution racket between Albania and Italy. Albanian criminal groups operating in Milan, "have become so powerful running prostitution rackets that they have even taken over the Calabrians in strength and influence."[24]
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 the Albanian economy. The resulting chaos enabled American and European transnationals to carefully position themselves. Several Western oil companies including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes rivetted on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil-deposits. Western investors were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold, nickel and platinum... The Adenauer Foundation had been lobbying in the background on behalf of German mining interests.[25]
Berisha's Minister of Defence Safet Zoulali (alleged to have been involved in the illegal oil and narcotics trade) was the architect of the agreement with Germany's Preussag (handing over control over Albania's chrome mines) against the competing bid of the US led consortium of Macalloy Inc. in association with Rio Tinto Zimbabwe (RTZ).[26]
Large amounts of narco-dollars had also been recycled into the privatisation programmes leading to the acquisition of State assets by the mafias. In Albania, the privatisation programme had led virtually overnight to the development of a property owning class firmly committed to the "free marke." In Northern Albania, this class was associated with the Guegue "families" linked to the Democratic Party.
Controlled by the Democratic Party under the presidency of Sali Berisha (1992-97), Albania's largest financial "pyramid" VEFA Holdings had been set up by the Guegue "families" of Northern Albania with the support of Western banking interests. VEFA was under investigation in Italy in 1997 for its ties to the Mafia which allegedly used VEFA to launder large amounts of dirty money.[27]
According to one press report (based on intelligence sources), senior members of the Albanian government during the Presidency of Sali Berisha including cabinet members and members of the secret police SHIK were alleged to be involved in drugs trafficking and illegal arms trading into Kosovo:
(...) The allegations are very serious. Drugs, arms, contraband cigarettes all are believed to have been handled by a company run openly by Albania's ruling Democratic Party, Shqiponja (...). In the course of 1996 Defence Minister, Safet Zhulali [was alleged] to had used his office to facilitate the transport of arms, oil and contraband cigarettes. (...) Drugs barons from Kosovo (...) operate in Albania with impunity, and much of the transportation of heroin and other drugs across Albania, from Macedonia and Greece en route to Italy, is believed to be organised by Shik, the state security police (...). Intelligence agents are convinced the chain of command in the rackets goes all the way to the top and have had no hesitation in naming ministers in their reports.[28]
The trade in narcotics and weapons was allowed to prosper despite the presence since 1993 of a large contingent of American troops at the Albanian-Macedonian border with a mandate to enforce the embargo. The West had turned a blind eye. The revenues from oil and narcotics were used to finance the purchase of arms (often in terms of direct barter): "Deliveries of oil to Macedonia (skirting the Greek embargo [in 1993-4] can be used to cover heroin, as do deliveries of kalachnikov rifles to Albanian `brothers' in Kosovo".[29 ]
The Northern tribal clans or "fares" had also developed links with Italy's crime syndicates.[30 ]In turn, the latter played a key role in smuggling arms across the Adriatic into the Albanian ports of Dures and Valona. At the outset in 1992, the weapons channelled into Kosovo were largely small arms including Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, RPK and PPK machine-guns, 12.7 calibre heavy machine-guns, etc.
The proceeds of the narcotics trade has enabled the KLA to rapidly develop a force of some 30,000 men. More recently, the KLA has acquired more sophisticated weaponry including anti- aircraft and anti-armor rockets. According to Belgrade, some of the funds have come directly from the CIA "funnelled through a so-called "Government of Kosovo" based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its Washington office employs the public-relations firm of Ruder Finn -- notorious for its slanders of the Belgrade government".[31]
The KLA has also acquired electronic surveillance equipment which enables it to receive NATO satellite information concerning the movement of the Yugoslav Army. The KLA training camp in Albania is said to "concentrate on heavy weapons training - rocket propelled grenades, medium caliber cannons, tanks and transporter use, as well as on communications, and command and control." (According to Yugoslav government sources).[32 ]
These extensive deliveries of weapons to the Kosovo rebel army were consistent with Western geopolitical objectives. Not surprisingly, there has been a "deafening silence" of the international media regarding the Kosovo arms-drugs trade. In the words of a 1994 Report of the Geopolitical Drug Watch: "the trafficking [of drugs and arms] is basically being judged on its geostrategic implications (...) In Kosovo, drugs and weapons trafficking is fuelling geopolitical hopes and fears"...[33]
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 destabilising the Belgrade government and fully recolonising the Balkans. The destruction of an entire country is the outcome. Western governments which participated in the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility in thedeaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic Albanian and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were brutally uprooted from towns and villages in Kosovo as a result of the bombings.
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By Michel Chossudovsky
[Department of Economics, University of Ottawa/ Ottawa, K1N6N5/ Voice box: 1-613-562-5800, ext. 1415/ Fax: 1-514-425-6224/ E-Mail: chossudovsky@sprint.ca ]
- Wednesday, 7 April 1999 -
Heralded by the global media as a humanitarian peace-keeping mission, NATO's ruthless bombing of Belgrade and Pristina goes far beyond the breach of international law. While Slobodan Milosevic is demonised, portrayed as a remorseless dictator, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is upheld as a self-respecting nationalist movement struggling for the rights of ethnic Albanians. The truth of the matter is that the KLA is sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States and its allies.
Following a pattern set during the War in Bosnia, public opinion has been carefully misled. The multibillion dollar Balkans narcotics trade has played a crucial role in "financing the conflict" in Kosovo in accordance with Western economic, strategic and military objectives. Amply documented by European police files, acknowledged by numerous studies, the links of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to criminal syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union have been known to Western governments and intelligence agencies since the mid-1990s.
...The financing of the Kosovo guerilla war poses critical questions and it sorely test claims of an "ethical" foreign policy. Should the West back a guerrilla army that appears to partly financed by organised crime.[1]
While KLA leaders were shaking hands with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at Rambouillet, Europol (the European Police Organization based in the Hague) was "preparing a report for European interior and justice ministers on a connection between the KLA and Albanian drug gangs."[2] In the meantime, the rebel army has been skilfully heralded by the global media (in the months preceding the NATO bombings) as broadly representative of the interests of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
With KLA leader Hashim Thaci (a 29 year "freedom fighter") appointed as chief negotiator at Rambouillet, the KLA has become the de facto helmsman of the peace process on behalf of the ethnic Albanian majority and this despite its links to the drug trade. 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.
Ironically Robert Gelbard, America's special envoy to Bosnia, had described the KLA last year as "terrorists". Christopher Hill, America's chief negotiator and architect of the Rambouillet agreement "has also been a strong critic of the KLA for its alleged dealings in drugs."[3] Moreover, barely a few two months before Rambouillet, the US State Department had acknowledged (based on reports from the US Observer Mission) the role of the KLA in terrorising and uprooting ethnic Albanians:
...the KLA harass or kidnap anyone who comes to the police, ... KLA representatives had threatened to kill villagers and burn their homes if they did not join the KLA [a process which has continued since the NATO bombings]... [T]he KLA harassment has reached such intensity that residents of six villages in the Stimlje region are "ready to flee.[4]
While backing a "freedom movement" with links to the drug trade, the West seems also intent in bypassing the civilian Kosovo Democratic League and its leader Ibrahim Rugova who has called for an end to the bombings and expressed his desire to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Yugoslav authorities.[5] It is worth recalling that a few days before his March 31st Press Conference, Rugova had been reported by the KLA (alongside three other leaders including Fehmi Agani) to have been killed by the Serbs.
COVERT FINANCING OF `FREEDOM FIGHTERS'
Remember Oliver North and the Contras? The pattern in Kosovo is similar to other CIA covert operations in Central America, Haiti and Afghanistan where "freedom fighters" were financed through the laundering of drug money. Since the onslaught of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies have developed a complex relationship to the illegal narcotics trade. In case after case, drug money laundered in the international banking system has financed covert operations.
According to author Alfred McCoy, the pattern of covert financing was established in the Indochina war. In the 1960s, the Meo army in Laos was funded by the narcotics trade as part of Washington's military strategy against the combined forces of the neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma and the Pathet Lao.[6]
The pattern of drug politics set in Indochina has since been replicated in Central America and the Caribbean. "The rising curve of cocaine imports to the US", wrote journalist John Dinges "followed almost exactly the flow of US arms and military advisers to Central America."[7]
The military in Guatemala and Haiti, to which the CIA provided covert support, were known to be involved in the trade of narcotics into Southern Florida. And as revealed in the Iran-Contra and Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) scandals, there was strong evidence that covert operations were funded through the laundering of drug money. "Dirty money" recycled through the banking system -- often through an anonymous shell company -- became "covert money," used to finance various rebel groups and guerilla movements including the Nicaraguan Contras and the Afghan Mujahadeen. According to a 1991 Time Magazine report:
Because the US wanted to supply the mujehadeen rebels in Afghanistan with stinger missiles and other military hardware it needed the full cooperation of Pakistan. By the mid-1980s, the CIA operation in Islamabad was one of the largest US intelligence stations in the World. `If BCCI is such an embarrassment to the US that forthright investigations are not being pursued it has a lot to do with the blind eye the US turned to the heroin trafficking in Pakistan', said a US intelligence officer.[8]
AMERICA AND GERMANY JOIN HANDS
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 as a joint endeavour between the CIA and Germany's Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND) (which previously played a key role in installing a right wing nationalist government under Franjo Tudjman in Croatia).[9 ]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."[10] According to Whitley, the CIA was, subsequently instrumental in training and equipping the KLA in Albania.[11]
The covert activities of Germany's BND were consistent with Bonn's intent to expand its "Lebensraum" into the Balkans. Prior to the onset of the civil war in Bosnia, Germany and its Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher had actively supported secession; it had "forced the pace of international diplomacy" and pressured its Western allies to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. According to the Geopolitical Drug Watch, both Germany and the US favoured (although not officially) the formation of a "Greater Albania" encompassing Albania, Kosovo and parts of Macedonia.[12] According to Sean Gervasi, Germany was seeking a free hand among its allies "to pursue economic dominance in the whole of Mitteleuropa."[13 ]
ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN SUPPORT OF THE KLA
Bonn and Washington's "hidden agenda" consisted in triggering nationalist liberation movements in Bosnia and Kosovo with the ultimate purpose of destabilising Yugoslavia. The latter objective was also carried out "by turning a blind eye" to the influx of mercenaries and financial support from Islamic fundamentalist organisations.[14 ]
Mercenaries financed by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had been fighting in Bosnia.[15 ]And the Bosnian pattern was replicated in Kosovo: Mujahadeen mercenaries from various Islamic countries are reported to be fighting alongside the KLA in Kosovo. German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.[16 ]
According to a Deutsche Press-Agentur report, financial support from Islamic countries to the KLA had been channelled through the former Albanian chief of the National Information Service (NIS), Bashkim Gazidede.[17] "Gazidede, reportedly a devout Moslem who fled Albania in March of last year [1997], is presently [1998] being investigated for his contacts with Islamic terrorist organizations."[18]
The supply route for arming KLA "freedom fighters" are the rugged mountainous borders of Albania with Kosovo and Macedonia. Albania is also a key point of transit of the Balkans drug route which supplies Western Europe with grade four heroin. 75% of the heroin entering Western Europe is from Turkey. And a large part of drug shipments originating in Turkey transits through the Balkans. According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), "it is estimated that 4-6 metric tons of heroin leave each month from Turkey having [through the Balkans] as destination Western Europe."[19] A recent intelligence report by Germany's Federal Criminal Agency suggests that: "Ethnic Albanians are now the most prominent group in the distribution of heroin in Western consumer countries."[20]
THE LAUNDERING OF DIRTY MONEY
In order to thrive, the criminal syndicates involved in the Balkans narcotics trade need friends in high places. Smuggling rings with alleged links to the Turkish State are said to control the trafficking of heroin through the Balkans "cooperating closely with other groups with which they have political or religious ties" including criminal groups in Albanian and Kosovo.[21] In this new global financial environment, powerful undercover political lobbies connected to organized crime cultivate links to prominent political figures and officials of the military and intelligence establishment. The narcotics trade nonetheless uses respectable banks to launder large amounts of dirty money. While comfortably removed from the smuggling operations per se, powerful banking interests in Turkey but mainly those in financial centres in Western Europe discretely collect fat commissions in a multibillion dollar money laundering operation. These interests have high stakes in ensuring a safe passage of drug shipments into Western European markets.
THE ALBANIAN CONNECTION
Arms smuggling from Albania into Kosovo and Macedonia started at the beginning of 1992, when the Democratic Party came to power, headed by President Sali Berisha. An expansive underground economy and cross border trade had unfolded. A triangular trade in oil, arms and narcotics had developed largely as a result of the embargo imposed by the international community on Serbia and Montenegro and the blockade enforced by Greece against Macedonia.
Industry and agriculture in Kosovo were spearheaded into bankruptcy following the IMF's lethal "economic medicine" imposed on Belgrade in 1990. The embargo was imposed on Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanians and Serbs were driven into abysmal poverty. Economic collapse created an environment which fostered the progress of illicit trade. In Kosovo, the rate of unemployment increased to a staggering 70 percent (according to Western sources). Poverty and economic collapse served to exacerbate simmering ethnic tensions. Thousands of unemployed youths "barely out of their Teens" from an impoverished population, were drafted into the ranks of the KLA.[22]
In neighbouring Albania, the free market reforms adopted since 1992 had created conditions which favoured the criminalisation of State institutions. Drug money was also laundered in the Albanian pyramids (ponzi schemes) which mushroomed during the government of former President Sali Berisha (1992-1997).[23] These shady investment funds were an integral part of the economic reforms inflicted by Western creditors on Albania.
Drug barons in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia (with links to the Italian mafia) had become the new economic elites, often associated with Western business interests. In turn the financial proceeds of the trade in drugs and arms were recycled towardsother illicit activities (and vice versa) including a vast prostitution racket between Albania and Italy. Albanian criminal groups operating in Milan, "have become so powerful running prostitution rackets that they have even taken over the Calabrians in strength and influence."[24]
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 the Albanian economy. The resulting chaos enabled American and European transnationals to carefully position themselves. Several Western oil companies including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes rivetted on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil-deposits. Western investors were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold, nickel and platinum... The Adenauer Foundation had been lobbying in the background on behalf of German mining interests.[25]
Berisha's Minister of Defence Safet Zoulali (alleged to have been involved in the illegal oil and narcotics trade) was the architect of the agreement with Germany's Preussag (handing over control over Albania's chrome mines) against the competing bid of the US led consortium of Macalloy Inc. in association with Rio Tinto Zimbabwe (RTZ).[26]
Large amounts of narco-dollars had also been recycled into the privatisation programmes leading to the acquisition of State assets by the mafias. In Albania, the privatisation programme had led virtually overnight to the development of a property owning class firmly committed to the "free marke." In Northern Albania, this class was associated with the Guegue "families" linked to the Democratic Party.
Controlled by the Democratic Party under the presidency of Sali Berisha (1992-97), Albania's largest financial "pyramid" VEFA Holdings had been set up by the Guegue "families" of Northern Albania with the support of Western banking interests. VEFA was under investigation in Italy in 1997 for its ties to the Mafia which allegedly used VEFA to launder large amounts of dirty money.[27]
According to one press report (based on intelligence sources), senior members of the Albanian government during the Presidency of Sali Berisha including cabinet members and members of the secret police SHIK were alleged to be involved in drugs trafficking and illegal arms trading into Kosovo:
(...) The allegations are very serious. Drugs, arms, contraband cigarettes all are believed to have been handled by a company run openly by Albania's ruling Democratic Party, Shqiponja (...). In the course of 1996 Defence Minister, Safet Zhulali [was alleged] to had used his office to facilitate the transport of arms, oil and contraband cigarettes. (...) Drugs barons from Kosovo (...) operate in Albania with impunity, and much of the transportation of heroin and other drugs across Albania, from Macedonia and Greece en route to Italy, is believed to be organised by Shik, the state security police (...). Intelligence agents are convinced the chain of command in the rackets goes all the way to the top and have had no hesitation in naming ministers in their reports.[28]
The trade in narcotics and weapons was allowed to prosper despite the presence since 1993 of a large contingent of American troops at the Albanian-Macedonian border with a mandate to enforce the embargo. The West had turned a blind eye. The revenues from oil and narcotics were used to finance the purchase of arms (often in terms of direct barter): "Deliveries of oil to Macedonia (skirting the Greek embargo [in 1993-4] can be used to cover heroin, as do deliveries of kalachnikov rifles to Albanian `brothers' in Kosovo".[29 ]
The Northern tribal clans or "fares" had also developed links with Italy's crime syndicates.[30 ]In turn, the latter played a key role in smuggling arms across the Adriatic into the Albanian ports of Dures and Valona. At the outset in 1992, the weapons channelled into Kosovo were largely small arms including Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, RPK and PPK machine-guns, 12.7 calibre heavy machine-guns, etc.
The proceeds of the narcotics trade has enabled the KLA to rapidly develop a force of some 30,000 men. More recently, the KLA has acquired more sophisticated weaponry including anti- aircraft and anti-armor rockets. According to Belgrade, some of the funds have come directly from the CIA "funnelled through a so-called "Government of Kosovo" based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its Washington office employs the public-relations firm of Ruder Finn -- notorious for its slanders of the Belgrade government".[31]
The KLA has also acquired electronic surveillance equipment which enables it to receive NATO satellite information concerning the movement of the Yugoslav Army. The KLA training camp in Albania is said to "concentrate on heavy weapons training - rocket propelled grenades, medium caliber cannons, tanks and transporter use, as well as on communications, and command and control." (According to Yugoslav government sources).[32 ]
These extensive deliveries of weapons to the Kosovo rebel army were consistent with Western geopolitical objectives. Not surprisingly, there has been a "deafening silence" of the international media regarding the Kosovo arms-drugs trade. In the words of a 1994 Report of the Geopolitical Drug Watch: "the trafficking [of drugs and arms] is basically being judged on its geostrategic implications (...) In Kosovo, drugs and weapons trafficking is fuelling geopolitical hopes and fears"...[33]
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 destabilising the Belgrade government and fully recolonising the Balkans. The destruction of an entire country is the outcome. Western governments which participated in the NATO operation bear a heavy burden of responsibility in thedeaths of civilians, the impoverishment of both the ethnic Albanian and Serbian populations and the plight of those who were brutally uprooted from towns and villages in Kosovo as a result of the bombings.
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:01
U.S. and Western intelligence sources acknowledge privately that Albania and Kosovo attracted interest from bin Laden in the late 1990s and that Albania continues to serve as a money-raising center for al-Qaeda.
Apart from sending fighters to aid the KLA(albanian terroristic army on serbian region Kosovo and Metohia) during the struggle in Kosovo with the Serbs, al-Qaeda is believed to have contributed funds to Albanian separatists and to have established strong links with Albanian Mafia leaders, who aid the formally disbanded but still existing KLA in schemes to raise money through narco-trafficking, prostitution and gun-running [see "Heroin and Sex Trade Fuel Albanian Nationalism," Aug. 13, 2001].
The Albanian Mafia controls the major Balkans narcotics-smuggling route that runs through Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. Although evidence remains sketchy of al-Qaeda involvement in narcotics, that isn't the case for the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan that profited from the heroin trade.
According to Fatos Klosi,
the head of Albanian intelligence, a major network of bin Laden supporters was established in 1998 in Albania under the cover of various Muslim charities. The network served as a springboard for operations in Europe. Klosi claimed the network had "already infiltrated other parts of Europe from bases in Albania through traffic in illegal immigrants, who have been smuggled by speedboat across the Mediterranean to Italy in large numbers."
Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, claimed in his book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, that the Albanian network was headed by Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the engineer brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri,
Aliases: Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu'iz. Birthdate used: June 19, 1951. Hair: brown/black. Place of birth: Egypt. Eyes: dark. Citizenship: Egyptian. Languages: Arabic, French.
the Egyptian who mentored bin Laden and, according to the United States, was the brains behind Sept. 11 and other attacks.
U.S. intelligence sources have confirmed to Insight that dozens of KLA fighters trained in bin Laden camps in Afghanistan and that some of them returned to fight with al-Qaeda and the Taliban after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against New York City and Washington
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"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."
former DEA agent and author Michael Levine
Quoted in the New American Magazine, May 24, 1999
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"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
http://www.kosovo.net/alqinkos.html
Is it sufficient to remind you that Afgabistan was first state who supported declaration of "independence" of Kosovo ?
Bush's USA was second.
Apart from sending fighters to aid the KLA(albanian terroristic army on serbian region Kosovo and Metohia) during the struggle in Kosovo with the Serbs, al-Qaeda is believed to have contributed funds to Albanian separatists and to have established strong links with Albanian Mafia leaders, who aid the formally disbanded but still existing KLA in schemes to raise money through narco-trafficking, prostitution and gun-running [see "Heroin and Sex Trade Fuel Albanian Nationalism," Aug. 13, 2001].
The Albanian Mafia controls the major Balkans narcotics-smuggling route that runs through Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. Although evidence remains sketchy of al-Qaeda involvement in narcotics, that isn't the case for the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan that profited from the heroin trade.
According to Fatos Klosi,
the head of Albanian intelligence, a major network of bin Laden supporters was established in 1998 in Albania under the cover of various Muslim charities. The network served as a springboard for operations in Europe. Klosi claimed the network had "already infiltrated other parts of Europe from bases in Albania through traffic in illegal immigrants, who have been smuggled by speedboat across the Mediterranean to Italy in large numbers."
Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, claimed in his book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, that the Albanian network was headed by Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the engineer brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri,
Aliases: Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu'iz. Birthdate used: June 19, 1951. Hair: brown/black. Place of birth: Egypt. Eyes: dark. Citizenship: Egyptian. Languages: Arabic, French.
the Egyptian who mentored bin Laden and, according to the United States, was the brains behind Sept. 11 and other attacks.
U.S. intelligence sources have confirmed to Insight that dozens of KLA fighters trained in bin Laden camps in Afghanistan and that some of them returned to fight with al-Qaeda and the Taliban after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against New York City and Washington
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"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."
former DEA agent and author Michael Levine
Quoted in the New American Magazine, May 24, 1999
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"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
http://www.kosovo.net/alqinkos.html
Is it sufficient to remind you that Afgabistan was first state who supported declaration of "independence" of Kosovo ?
Bush's USA was second.
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:03
n Germany alone, more than 800 Albanian nationals are currently serving prison sentences for heroin trafficking, a phenomenal number from a country with scarcely 3 million people. The only larger foreign group in German prisons is from Turkey, which has 20 times the population of Albania and millions of its citizens resident in Germany.
Unhampered by the political struggle that led Kosovar drug bosses to put their empires at risk in a war with Belgrade, Albanian clans have also extended their reach far beyond the drug trade. As their local power base has solidified, they have rapidly become major players in a dizzying array of criminal enterprises abroad.
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Of 447 men and women arrested in Italy in 1997 for "exploitation of prostitutes,'' according to that country's Ministry of the Interior, 204 were Albanian nationals.
Three months ago, a Milan court indicted 20 Albanian men who were allegedly part of a syndicate that transported 800 unaccompanied Albanian children under age 16 to Italy, where many were forced to beg in the streets under threat of torture. The speedboats that carried these children west have not been deterred by dozens of Allied warships in the Adriatic. On a single night during the NATO bombardments of Kosovo and Serbia, April 26, the contraband fleet dumped 1,200 clandestine emigrants on the beaches of southern Italy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... N20212.DTL
Unhampered by the political struggle that led Kosovar drug bosses to put their empires at risk in a war with Belgrade, Albanian clans have also extended their reach far beyond the drug trade. As their local power base has solidified, they have rapidly become major players in a dizzying array of criminal enterprises abroad.
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Of 447 men and women arrested in Italy in 1997 for "exploitation of prostitutes,'' according to that country's Ministry of the Interior, 204 were Albanian nationals.
Three months ago, a Milan court indicted 20 Albanian men who were allegedly part of a syndicate that transported 800 unaccompanied Albanian children under age 16 to Italy, where many were forced to beg in the streets under threat of torture. The speedboats that carried these children west have not been deterred by dozens of Allied warships in the Adriatic. On a single night during the NATO bombardments of Kosovo and Serbia, April 26, the contraband fleet dumped 1,200 clandestine emigrants on the beaches of southern Italy.
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by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:06
The Growing Power of Albanian Drug Lords
TIRANA, 7.5.2007. (Beta)
By Ben Andoni
Numerous organizations involved in the fight against organized crime have described Albania as the major transit point on a host of international drug trafficking routes. One speaker at a recent conference at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington D.C. said that $2 billion worth of narcotics passes through the country every year. Another pointed out that Albanian drug gangs control between 40 and 90 percent of the European drug trade, and the proceeds are either used to buy weapons or laundered and injected in legal businesses.
Police sources say that international drug trafficking is a cartel. Any organization desiring a part of the drug market in Afghanistan, which is considered one of the most prolific in the world, needs the permission of 30 powerful organizations from across the globe. These organizations, according to a recent U.N. report, are in direct contact with drug lords in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Albania, and Kosovo.
The situation in Afghanistan has put the U.N. Mission there in a tough spot, because it is trying to reduce the country`s role in world drug production.
According to the U.N., Albanian drug lords have ties with opium producers in Afghanistan. The Herald, a publication based in the UK, has singled out Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Kosovo as the homes of drug lords cashing in on the lucrative world drug trade.
Citing U.N. sources, the paper says that the West has started buying up poppy fields in the country in response to the appearance of cheap heroin in the UK.
Semi-processed heroin used to be purchased from farmers for 55 British pounds per gram. Drug addicts had to pay 100 pounds per gram, but with the market in saturation, the price has dropped to 28 pounds per gram. This puts young people at risk because they can now purchase the drug as at significantly lower price.
Narcotics account for 40 percent of Afghanistan`s GDP. In many destitute rural areas, poppy is the only profitable crop that can be cultivated. Although the Taliban do not grow poppy, they encourage poor farmers to do so as a means of survival.
According to the U.N., the profits end up in the pockets of the drug lords.
So far, officials in Kabul have pursued a campaign of burning poppy fields in line with recommendations from the U.N., while also taking action against traffickers. The outcome, however, is that many more villagers are being plunged into poverty, while support of the Taliban is growing.
However, one proposed solution could help both the poor farmers and undermine the drug cartels at the same time. There is a world shortage of medicinal morphine and opium could be used as a substitute for both codeine and morphine because it has a similar effect.
The 6,110 tons of poppy grown in Afghanistan last year could yield 600 tons of medical products, but the problem is that this requires political will, financial support, and supervision of poppy growers.
The ease with which young people can get their hands on drugs, especially heroin, is staggering, and the number of addicts has been on the rise for years. Aksiom Plus, an organization dealing with youth problems in Albania, says that over 25,000 youths are on drugs. Most of them live in the capital city, Tirana.
As many as 73 percent smoke marijuana, 22 percent are on heroin, while two percent take cocaine. It is thought that people under the age of 24 are most susceptible to the urge to take drugs. It should also be noted that Albania is not only a hub on the international drug trafficking map. The country is also a producer, growing a type of marijuana that is sometimes sold as hashish, a fact to which numerous police files throughout the country can attest.
Raw marijuana leaves are processed in illegal labs, most of which are located in the Vlora and Fier areas. Although some are extremely primitive, others are state of the art, employing experienced chemists left jobless after the privatization of their former state employers. Although some of the labs have been discovered, no arrests have been made.
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TIRANA, 7.5.2007. (Beta)
By Ben Andoni
Numerous organizations involved in the fight against organized crime have described Albania as the major transit point on a host of international drug trafficking routes. One speaker at a recent conference at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington D.C. said that $2 billion worth of narcotics passes through the country every year. Another pointed out that Albanian drug gangs control between 40 and 90 percent of the European drug trade, and the proceeds are either used to buy weapons or laundered and injected in legal businesses.
Police sources say that international drug trafficking is a cartel. Any organization desiring a part of the drug market in Afghanistan, which is considered one of the most prolific in the world, needs the permission of 30 powerful organizations from across the globe. These organizations, according to a recent U.N. report, are in direct contact with drug lords in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Albania, and Kosovo.
The situation in Afghanistan has put the U.N. Mission there in a tough spot, because it is trying to reduce the country`s role in world drug production.
According to the U.N., Albanian drug lords have ties with opium producers in Afghanistan. The Herald, a publication based in the UK, has singled out Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Kosovo as the homes of drug lords cashing in on the lucrative world drug trade.
Citing U.N. sources, the paper says that the West has started buying up poppy fields in the country in response to the appearance of cheap heroin in the UK.
Semi-processed heroin used to be purchased from farmers for 55 British pounds per gram. Drug addicts had to pay 100 pounds per gram, but with the market in saturation, the price has dropped to 28 pounds per gram. This puts young people at risk because they can now purchase the drug as at significantly lower price.
Narcotics account for 40 percent of Afghanistan`s GDP. In many destitute rural areas, poppy is the only profitable crop that can be cultivated. Although the Taliban do not grow poppy, they encourage poor farmers to do so as a means of survival.
According to the U.N., the profits end up in the pockets of the drug lords.
So far, officials in Kabul have pursued a campaign of burning poppy fields in line with recommendations from the U.N., while also taking action against traffickers. The outcome, however, is that many more villagers are being plunged into poverty, while support of the Taliban is growing.
However, one proposed solution could help both the poor farmers and undermine the drug cartels at the same time. There is a world shortage of medicinal morphine and opium could be used as a substitute for both codeine and morphine because it has a similar effect.
The 6,110 tons of poppy grown in Afghanistan last year could yield 600 tons of medical products, but the problem is that this requires political will, financial support, and supervision of poppy growers.
The ease with which young people can get their hands on drugs, especially heroin, is staggering, and the number of addicts has been on the rise for years. Aksiom Plus, an organization dealing with youth problems in Albania, says that over 25,000 youths are on drugs. Most of them live in the capital city, Tirana.
As many as 73 percent smoke marijuana, 22 percent are on heroin, while two percent take cocaine. It is thought that people under the age of 24 are most susceptible to the urge to take drugs. It should also be noted that Albania is not only a hub on the international drug trafficking map. The country is also a producer, growing a type of marijuana that is sometimes sold as hashish, a fact to which numerous police files throughout the country can attest.
Raw marijuana leaves are processed in illegal labs, most of which are located in the Vlora and Fier areas. Although some are extremely primitive, others are state of the art, employing experienced chemists left jobless after the privatization of their former state employers. Although some of the labs have been discovered, no arrests have been made.
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:11
In the U.K., meanwhile, the heroin, vice and false identity trades have a significant Albanian element. After the war in Kosovo, many former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, claiming to be asylum seekers, entered the UK (which is noted for its lax immigration laws) and setup the Albanian mafia among the often poor Albanian minority in London.
Organized crime is also an enormous problem in Albania proper and corruption in the government is endemic.
http://www.freewebs.com/jakk86/albanianmafia.htm
Albanian networks are not only linked to heroin. In the Macedonian border region, production laboratories for amphetamine and methamphetamine drugs seem to have been set up. Currently, these pills are destined for the local market. Cannabis is grown in Albania and cultivation seems to have become more and more popular, especially in the South. Annual Albanian marijuana revenue is estimated at $40 million. In 1999, cannabis plantations existed in the regions of Kalarat (about 80 kilometers from Vlore/Albania) and close to Girokaster in the regions of Sarande, Delvina and Permetti. Albanian cannabis is mainly sold on the Greek market. In order to transport the drugs to Greece, Albanian crime groups work together with Greek criminals.
Albanian criminals are also involved in the traffic of illegal immigrants to Western European countries. It is part of international trafficking networks, which not only transport Albanians, but also Kurds, Chinese and people from the Indian subcontinent. The Albanian groups are mainly responsible for the crossing of the Adriatic Sea from the Albanian coast to Italy. Departures mainly take place from Vlore, some of them from Durres or even from Ulcinj in the South of Montenegro. By the end of 1999, the crossing costs about $1,000 USD for an adult and $500 USD for a child. It is interesting to notice that some illegal immigrants had to pay for their journey only once in their home country (e.g. $6,000 in Pakistan), but that the nationality of the trafficking groups changed as they moved along. This implies that Albanian groups are only a part of international distribution networks. In 1999, approximately 10,000 people were smuggled into EU countries via Albania every month. The Italian border patrol intercepted 13,118 illegal immigrants close to the Puglian coast from January until July 1999. It estimated arrivals only in this coastal region at 56,000 in 1999. For the Albanian crime groups, illegal immigration - even though it can not be compared to the narco-business - is an important source of income, bringing in an estimated fifty million USD in 1999.
Immigration is not only a source of income, it is also very important in order to create networks in foreign countries and thus create bridgeheads for the Albanian Mafia abroad. Reports indicate that of the people admitted into Western European or North America as refugees during the Kosovo conflict, at least several had been carefully chosen by the Albanian Mafia to stay in the host country and act as a future liaison for the criminal networks.
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2007/06/albanias-hero.html
Fatmira Bonjaku's husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to an Italian man in return for the television set that six other children watch in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also say her husband had plans to sell their newest born, whom she is breast feeding.
Mrs. Bonjaku, interviewed at her family's two-room shack on the outskirts of this port city, denied that she intended to sell her newborn but admitted trading her son, Orazio, thinking the Italian man „would provide a good life.”
Over the past 12 years, since the collapse of Stalinism here, a substantial trade in children has established itself in Albania, Europe's most impoverished and long most isolated country.
No one has exact figures for the number of children involved, but the government estimates that 6,000 children have been sent abroad for use in begging and prostitution rackets, or in some cases sold to Western couples for adoption.
A vast majority come from the Jevgjit community, a group of some 300,000 Albanian-speaking Gypsies, or Roma, who have fared even more poorly than most.
Albania's anti-trafficking police estimate that more than 1,000 children are currently in Greece, working mainly as beggars. One or two Albanian minors are arrested every day on Albania's border with northern Greece and sent home, the Swiss charity, Terre des Hommes, reported this year, citing the head of the police's juvenile department in Salonika in northern Greece.
The trafficking is part of a larger trade in humans, including East European women shuffled through Albania for prostitution, and is an outgrowth of the misery and the organized crime that has blossomed in this clannish society.
In Albania most documented cases of child trafficking have involved older children who are sold or rented by their families to minders, or pimps, who take them to Greece and Italy, where they work as beggars or child prostitutes.
Many families apparently believe, like Mrs. Bonjaku, that their children will gain better lives abroad; for several, too, it can seem a relatively small step to send children from the streets of Albania to neighboring Greece.
„You also have to understand what immigration means to most Albanians,” Pierre Ferry, a child protection officer with Unicef in Tirana, the Albanian capital, said. „To send your child abroad is also a kind of success and does not appear as primitive exploitation.”
In Pogradec, a town of 20,000 on the shores of Ohrid Lake, which straddles the Albanian border with the Macedonian republic, half a dozen young children beg on the waterfront on most days.
Judy Mitstifer, 43, a missionary from Liberty, Pa., has set up a school for street children in Pogradec. Many of them, she said, are on the cusp of becoming child prostitutes and run a high risk of being trafficked.
„The kids here, we try to keep track of them,” said Ms. Mitstifer, after approaching two girls, Bukuria, 11, and Bala, 12. „We know who buys and who sells. Our hope is that the school is attractive enough so they stay.”
Ms. Mitstifer showed a visitor a school photograph of 12 children from 2000. Seven, she said, had already been sent abroad or their families were involved in the trade. The proportion, she said, was typical for her 110 pupils, three-quarters of them Roma.
Lila Shuli, who herself begs a living in Pogradec streets, sends four of her children to Ms. Mitstifer's school. Over the past decade, she said, her family has been split up by trafficking.
Lila's younger sister was married at 14 to a man from the next town who later took her to France and made her work as a prostitute. Nine years ago, Ms. Shuli said, her mother sent Lila's 6-year-old son, Armandor, to work in Greece. He has not been heard from since.
In an interview, Lila's mother, Kimete Sinani, denied that she sold the boy but admitted to „hiring” him out for $80.
Now, Ms. Shuli said, she is coming under pressure from a neighbor who said he could take her son Fadil, 11, to Greece.
Child trafficking has established itself in Albania, Europe's most improverished and long most isolated country; government estimates that 6,000 children have been sent abroad for use in begging and prostitution rackets, or in some cases sold to Western couples for adoption; vast majority come from community of 300,000 Albanian-speaking Gypsies, or Roma, who have fared even more poorly than most; Albania's anti-trafficking police estimate that more than 1,000 children are currently in Greece, working mainly as beggars; trafficking is part of larger trade in humans, including East European women shuffled through Albania for prostitution, and is outgrowth of misery and organized crime that has blossomed in clannish society; many families apparently believe their children will gain better lives abroad; Unicef official notes that to most Albanians, sending child abroad is not seen as primitive exploitation but as kind of success; most documented cases of child trafficking involves older children sold or rented by their families to minders, or pimps, who take them to Greece and Italy, where they work as beggars or child prostitutes.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000159.html
http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Albania/Nov03/TV.html
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:15
Switzerland: Muslim Albanese Immigrants Create Reign of Terror
Swiss daily Le Matin ^ | 13 jan 2007 | YVES LASSUEUR
Posted on 01/24/2007 9:27:42 PM PST by FrogBurger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773299/posts
http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/guide/ ... islam.html
Swiss daily Le Matin ^ | 13 jan 2007 | YVES LASSUEUR
Posted on 01/24/2007 9:27:42 PM PST by FrogBurger
Rachel, a 24-year old shop employee in Valais (Switzerland) was transferred to the Lausanne (Sw.) hospital with heavy facial trauma: upper maxillary shattered, broken nose and sinuses, broken eye sockets.
Rachel was going back home around 2:30 AM in the center of the town, accompanied by a neighbor. She was attacked by two young men and a girl who beat them up ferociously. The neighbor was also seriously injured and suffered facial wounds and a lost eardrum.
This attack seems to be the continuation of a growing hostility, or even hatred, between Valais residents and some members of the Albanian community. Rachel's mother, who is a teacher and describes herself as completely exempt from xenophobia, says that she lives in constant fear.
The attacks started after a young Albanian, who was invited at the birthday party of a Valais teen girl, got involved in a fight. Since then, Valais residents have been mugged, beaten up and harassed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773299/posts
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In 1990, the Muslim population was 152,200, or 2.2% of the Switzerland’s resident population. A surprising development for those who know that in the early seventies, there were less than 20,000 Muslims living in Switzerland. Islam is now the second largest religion in Switzerland, after Christianity.
Whereas twenty years ago there were only three mosques in Switzerland (two in Geneva and one in Zurich), there are now almost 90, generally referred to as "Islamic Cultural Centers".Turks, Bosnians and Albanians are each organized round a mother house in Zurich, with branches spread throughout Switzerland.
http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/guide/ ... islam.html
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:17
From Times Online
February 25, 2008
Briton is brutally murdered in Albanian robbery and kidnap plot
Edward Craythorne, who was visiting his sister and mother in Albania
Two Albanian teenagers have confessed to brutally killing a British man and throwing his body down a well after luring him to the country in a robbery and kidnap plot.
The suspected murderers were close friends of the victim and frequent guests at his home in the weeks leading up to the murder.
Edward Craythorne, from London, was visiting his mother Sophia and sister Eileen in the northern coastal town of Shenhjin, where they had moved in 2004.
Mr Craythorne, 21, a joiner, was lured by his local friends Mario Pjetrushi, 18, and Arlind Vukaj,19, both from the nearby town of Lezha, who persuaded him to join them for a drive in their black Mercedes so that they could smoke marijuana, police said.
But instead the two took Mr Craythorne to the remote village of Mal, where, according to police, they “massacred” him with knives and stole his gold chain and the keys to his family’s home. They then threw his lifeless body in an abandoned well, where it was discovered weeks later.
The crime took place on February 2, but Mr Craythorne’s decomposed remains were only found last week by two shepherds who noticed a strong stench coming out of the well.
Mr Phetrushi and Mr Vukaj allegedly planned to rob the apartment of the Craythornes and torture the two women into giving them access to their bank accounts. Instead they were arrested by police and have since confessed to the crime.
A police spokesman said that Mr Craythorne and his family were perceived as “wealthy” in the impoverished area and that greed and envy were the assumed motives for the murder.
The British embassy in Tirana was promptly notified of the incident and has already provided full legal and other support to the Craythorne family.
Mr Cratythorne is said to have frequently visited his mother and his sister in Albania.
His sister Eileen originally moved to the Adriatic port Shenhjin with her mother Sofia to marry a local man, according to reports. The family has not spoken to the press since the murder took place, but a police spokesman reported they were “shaken and in a state of shock,” especially since the suspected murderers were friends of their son and brother.
Mr Craythorne will be buried at a cemetery in the town of Lezha today. His other two sisters have travelled from London to attend the funeral.
The suspected murderers are expected to stand trial for premeditated murder when once the police complete the investigation and hand over the case to prosecutors.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 431295.ece
February 25, 2008
Briton is brutally murdered in Albanian robbery and kidnap plot
Edward Craythorne, who was visiting his sister and mother in Albania
Two Albanian teenagers have confessed to brutally killing a British man and throwing his body down a well after luring him to the country in a robbery and kidnap plot.
The suspected murderers were close friends of the victim and frequent guests at his home in the weeks leading up to the murder.
Edward Craythorne, from London, was visiting his mother Sophia and sister Eileen in the northern coastal town of Shenhjin, where they had moved in 2004.
Mr Craythorne, 21, a joiner, was lured by his local friends Mario Pjetrushi, 18, and Arlind Vukaj,19, both from the nearby town of Lezha, who persuaded him to join them for a drive in their black Mercedes so that they could smoke marijuana, police said.
But instead the two took Mr Craythorne to the remote village of Mal, where, according to police, they “massacred” him with knives and stole his gold chain and the keys to his family’s home. They then threw his lifeless body in an abandoned well, where it was discovered weeks later.
The crime took place on February 2, but Mr Craythorne’s decomposed remains were only found last week by two shepherds who noticed a strong stench coming out of the well.
Mr Phetrushi and Mr Vukaj allegedly planned to rob the apartment of the Craythornes and torture the two women into giving them access to their bank accounts. Instead they were arrested by police and have since confessed to the crime.
A police spokesman said that Mr Craythorne and his family were perceived as “wealthy” in the impoverished area and that greed and envy were the assumed motives for the murder.
The British embassy in Tirana was promptly notified of the incident and has already provided full legal and other support to the Craythorne family.
Mr Cratythorne is said to have frequently visited his mother and his sister in Albania.
His sister Eileen originally moved to the Adriatic port Shenhjin with her mother Sofia to marry a local man, according to reports. The family has not spoken to the press since the murder took place, but a police spokesman reported they were “shaken and in a state of shock,” especially since the suspected murderers were friends of their son and brother.
Mr Craythorne will be buried at a cemetery in the town of Lezha today. His other two sisters have travelled from London to attend the funeral.
The suspected murderers are expected to stand trial for premeditated murder when once the police complete the investigation and hand over the case to prosecutors.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 431295.ece
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 05 Mar 2008, 11:30
FBI: Men Living Locally Plotted To Attack Fort Dix
http://www.nbc10.com/news/13274843/deta ... mainclick#
Four of them are Albanians, fifth from Jordan,and sixth Turk.
Eljvir Duka, 23, of Cherry Hill
Eljvir Duka, also known as Elvis Duka or Sulayman, was born in the former Yugoslavia and is illegally residing in the U.S., operating businesses known as Qadr. Inc., Colonial Roofing and National Roofing, all of which list business addresses the same as his residence.
Dritan Duka, 28, of Cherry Hill
Dritan Duke, also known as Distan Duka, Anthony Duka or Tony Duka, was also born in the former Yugoslavia and is living in the country illegally. He is Eljvir and Shain Duka's brother.Shain Duka, 26, of Cherry Hill
Shain Duka lives with his two brothers listed above and is also known as Shaheen. Like his brothers, he is an ethnic Albanian and was born in the former Yugoslavia. He is illegally living in the U.S. and operates the roofing businesses with his brothers.
Agron Abdullahu, 23, of Buena Vista Township, Atlantic County
Abdullahu was born in the former Yugoslavia and is living in the U.S. legally. He is employed at a Shop-Rite Supermarket and is an ethnic Albania who was born in the former Yugoslavia
Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22, of Cherry Hill
Shnewer was born in Jordan, is a U.S. citizen and is employed as a taxi driver in Philadelphia.
Pizza Delivery Man Allegedly Scoped Out Fort Dix
Authorities said the Duka brothers claimed to have a map of Fort Dix, with one claiming he knew the base "like the back of his hand." That man was Serdar Tatar.
Serdar Tatar, 23, of Philadelphia
Tatar was born in Turkey, but is a legal U.S. resident. His last known employment was at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Philadelphia.
Their goal was "to kill as many American soldiers as possible" in attacks with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and guns, prosecutors said.
"Today we dodged a bullet. And looking at the weapons they were trying to obtain, we dodged a lot of bullets," said FBI agent J.P. Weiss.
Weiss also saluted the store clerk who noticed the suspicious video as the "unsung hero" of the case. "That's why we're here today - because of the courage and heroism of that individual," Weiss said.
The defendants also allegedly spoke of attacking a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game, when the place would be full of sailors, and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region
The suspects include three ethnic Albanian brothers who entered the United States illegally, part of a family that has lived for years in Cherry Hill, N.J., where they attended public schools and relatives ran a roofing business and a pizzeria.
They were joined by their brother-in-law, who was born in Jordan and is a United States citizen, and two other legal United states residents: an ethnic Albanian from the former Yugoslavia, and a Turk who lived in Philadelphia.
The men, ages 22 to 28, held jobs ranging from roofer to cabdriver to pizza deliveryman, and had no clear motivation other than their stated desire to kill United States soldiers in the name of Islam. They considered a variety of targets, including the annual Army-Navy football game and warships docked in the Port of Philadelphia, but ultimately dismissed Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as having too much security and picked Fort Dix largely because one of their fathers owned a restaurant nearby that delivered to the base.
The authorities first caught up with the men in January 2006, when personnel at a video store alerted the authorities after the suspects requested that he transfer onto a DVD a videotape of the group shouting about jihad as they fired assault weapons at a range in the Pocono Mountains.
“This is a new brand of terrorism where a small cell of people can bring enormous devastation,” Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney for New Jersey, said at an afternoon news conference at the courthouse here.
As the suspects were charged before a United States magistrate judge, Joel Schneider, prosecutors described a complicated operation that was marked by deadly weapons but also lacking in sophistication. The authorities said one of the men had been a sniper in Kosovo, and as they sought to amass the weapons they intended to use in the attack, members of the cell were training with automatic rifles at a shooting range in Gouldsboro, Pa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09 ... ref=slogin
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TAUTA » 07 Mar 2008, 01:09
Albanian gangs corner Britain's sex trade
by Dominic Kennedy, Stewart Tendler and John Phillips
Our reporters look at the seamier side of people-trafficking
THE sudden conquest of Britain’s best-known red-light district by the Albanian mafia is alarming police as a new “white slave trade” in impoverished young women flourishes.
In less than two years Albanians have taken over 70 per cent of brothels in Soho, London’s sex-tourism honeypot, becoming majority owners of a business worth at least £12 million a year. The new vice kings are the criminal warlords of Albania, whose reach extends far beyond their anarchic, post-communist homeland into the underworlds of most of Italy and parts of New York.
So far the Albanians’ takeover has been a bloodless coup. By smuggling East European sex “slaves” into the country, they have undercut local women’s rates.
A seemingly endless stream of women is available. “They have a fantastic supply chain,” Chief Superintendent Simon Humphreys, head of Scotland Yard’s clubs and vice squad, said.
Some women are kidnapped, others are duped into coming to Britain with false promises of a better life. Often they have been forced to work as prostitutes for gangs across the European mainland by the time they arrive here on false passports.
Once in Britain the Albanians snatch back the girls’ papers and use the bogus documents to bring others into the country. The victims do not officially exist and are powerless to resist. In Soho the girls charge as little as £30 for sex and on average deal with between 20 and 30 clients a day.
In Britain most Albanian gangsters are men in their 20s from the backward northern part of their country. Rather than being based around individual gangland bosses, the Albanian criminals are organised into clans, bound by an ancient code of honour called kanun.
The importance of clans in Albanian society lends itself to the foundation of underworld mobs with rigid internal rules and rigorous punishments of affiliates for betrayal. The clans provide cash to rent or buy flats in Soho, and police believe that some of the profits are returned to their homeland. The Albanians are renowned smugglers and it is their dominance of the people-trafficking trade that has ensured that they thrive in the prostitution racket.
The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has just completed a study of the menace posed by the Albanians, which is being studied across Whitehall and in police forces. The Albanian problem will be discussed at a national police vice conference on Monday.
The NCIS says: “The threat posed by ethnic-Albanian organised crime in the UK is currently low, but, based on the European experience, the potential threat remains high.”
The organisation is worried about the Albanians because they are prepared to be more brutal than other groups. “There is a nagging fear about their extreme violence,” a senior official said.
Already blood feuds are being fought out in Britain and there is evidence that the Albanians are working here for Turkish heroin gangs with access to guns.
The Albanians have failed to make much impact yet on other geographical areas outside Soho, or in alternative branches of crime in Britain, but Greater Manchester Police has sent a team to Soho to prepare for an expected influx of East European prostitutes as the Albanians’ influence spreads.
Mr Humphreys said: “We have an emerging crime problem. Once it flourishes you will see violence and turf wars. This has happened in other countries. They will be very defensive of their territory.”
The last violent invasion of Soho was engineered by the Maltese, who first arrived in the 1930s, nicknamed in Cockney slang “Epsom Salts” (ie, Malts). The Street Offences Act of 1959 introduced new penalties against prostitution, but drove girls into the arms of men such as “Big Frank” Mifsud and Bernie Silvers. These gangsters provided flats to the girls, at rents of £100 to £150 a week, above clubs in which staff openly sent customers upstairs to visit the waiting “models”. The Maltese hid behind nominees and expensive lawyers.
Soho sex empires grew to encompass dozens of brothels, 24 strip clubs, five blue-movie cinemas and sex shops. Theirs was a reign of terror. Enforcers ensured that the girls paid their rents. Informants were kidnapped and beaten. Corrupt police officers kept the crime lords safe.
The era ended in the 1970s with a concerted assault by Detective Chief Superintendent Bert “Old Grey Fox” Wickstead and his special squad.
The origins of Soho can be traced back to the hunting grounds where the cry of the huntsman gave the district its name. Grand town houses were built in the 17th century, but the area has long been associated with colourful outcasts, refugees and immigrants.
One of the strongest tribes of Soho is the Italians. Across the globe, Albanians have been displacing their Adriatic neighbours in urban ghettos and crime rackets. In New York Albanians have swept into Arthur Avenue, an Italian enclave of the Bronx. They are easily assimilated into Italian districts, knowing the language from picking up Italian television stations at home.
Albanian criminals supply heroin to the street gangs of the Lower East Side and have a stake in vice through the strip-club trade. They are suspected of sending money home to the Kosovo Liberation Army.
In Italy Albanian crime mushroomed from just 573 arrests in 1988 to a peak of 27,247 just ten years later. The Albanians began by easing out Italian crime gangs from prostitution and vice rackets, which they now dominate in northern and central Italy.
“Pimps used ferocious methods against young victims to induce them to submit to inhuman conditions and effective slavery,” the Italian Interior Ministry has reported.
The Albanian mafia in Italy expanded from controlling vice to murder, drugs, robbery, theft and illicit weapons. The ministry noted “the criminal capacity shown by the Albanian groups and their operational ruthlessness”.
New laws to combat the “white slave trade” in Britain are being demanded by police. Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is backing calls for a ten-year sentence for “living off immoral earnings”, which attracts a typical two-year sentence.
http://www.mfa.gov.yu/FDP/times020702.htm
by Dominic Kennedy, Stewart Tendler and John Phillips
Our reporters look at the seamier side of people-trafficking
THE sudden conquest of Britain’s best-known red-light district by the Albanian mafia is alarming police as a new “white slave trade” in impoverished young women flourishes.
In less than two years Albanians have taken over 70 per cent of brothels in Soho, London’s sex-tourism honeypot, becoming majority owners of a business worth at least £12 million a year. The new vice kings are the criminal warlords of Albania, whose reach extends far beyond their anarchic, post-communist homeland into the underworlds of most of Italy and parts of New York.
So far the Albanians’ takeover has been a bloodless coup. By smuggling East European sex “slaves” into the country, they have undercut local women’s rates.
A seemingly endless stream of women is available. “They have a fantastic supply chain,” Chief Superintendent Simon Humphreys, head of Scotland Yard’s clubs and vice squad, said.
Some women are kidnapped, others are duped into coming to Britain with false promises of a better life. Often they have been forced to work as prostitutes for gangs across the European mainland by the time they arrive here on false passports.
Once in Britain the Albanians snatch back the girls’ papers and use the bogus documents to bring others into the country. The victims do not officially exist and are powerless to resist. In Soho the girls charge as little as £30 for sex and on average deal with between 20 and 30 clients a day.
In Britain most Albanian gangsters are men in their 20s from the backward northern part of their country. Rather than being based around individual gangland bosses, the Albanian criminals are organised into clans, bound by an ancient code of honour called kanun.
The importance of clans in Albanian society lends itself to the foundation of underworld mobs with rigid internal rules and rigorous punishments of affiliates for betrayal. The clans provide cash to rent or buy flats in Soho, and police believe that some of the profits are returned to their homeland. The Albanians are renowned smugglers and it is their dominance of the people-trafficking trade that has ensured that they thrive in the prostitution racket.
The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has just completed a study of the menace posed by the Albanians, which is being studied across Whitehall and in police forces. The Albanian problem will be discussed at a national police vice conference on Monday.
The NCIS says: “The threat posed by ethnic-Albanian organised crime in the UK is currently low, but, based on the European experience, the potential threat remains high.”
The organisation is worried about the Albanians because they are prepared to be more brutal than other groups. “There is a nagging fear about their extreme violence,” a senior official said.
Already blood feuds are being fought out in Britain and there is evidence that the Albanians are working here for Turkish heroin gangs with access to guns.
The Albanians have failed to make much impact yet on other geographical areas outside Soho, or in alternative branches of crime in Britain, but Greater Manchester Police has sent a team to Soho to prepare for an expected influx of East European prostitutes as the Albanians’ influence spreads.
Mr Humphreys said: “We have an emerging crime problem. Once it flourishes you will see violence and turf wars. This has happened in other countries. They will be very defensive of their territory.”
The last violent invasion of Soho was engineered by the Maltese, who first arrived in the 1930s, nicknamed in Cockney slang “Epsom Salts” (ie, Malts). The Street Offences Act of 1959 introduced new penalties against prostitution, but drove girls into the arms of men such as “Big Frank” Mifsud and Bernie Silvers. These gangsters provided flats to the girls, at rents of £100 to £150 a week, above clubs in which staff openly sent customers upstairs to visit the waiting “models”. The Maltese hid behind nominees and expensive lawyers.
Soho sex empires grew to encompass dozens of brothels, 24 strip clubs, five blue-movie cinemas and sex shops. Theirs was a reign of terror. Enforcers ensured that the girls paid their rents. Informants were kidnapped and beaten. Corrupt police officers kept the crime lords safe.
The era ended in the 1970s with a concerted assault by Detective Chief Superintendent Bert “Old Grey Fox” Wickstead and his special squad.
The origins of Soho can be traced back to the hunting grounds where the cry of the huntsman gave the district its name. Grand town houses were built in the 17th century, but the area has long been associated with colourful outcasts, refugees and immigrants.
One of the strongest tribes of Soho is the Italians. Across the globe, Albanians have been displacing their Adriatic neighbours in urban ghettos and crime rackets. In New York Albanians have swept into Arthur Avenue, an Italian enclave of the Bronx. They are easily assimilated into Italian districts, knowing the language from picking up Italian television stations at home.
Albanian criminals supply heroin to the street gangs of the Lower East Side and have a stake in vice through the strip-club trade. They are suspected of sending money home to the Kosovo Liberation Army.
In Italy Albanian crime mushroomed from just 573 arrests in 1988 to a peak of 27,247 just ten years later. The Albanians began by easing out Italian crime gangs from prostitution and vice rackets, which they now dominate in northern and central Italy.
“Pimps used ferocious methods against young victims to induce them to submit to inhuman conditions and effective slavery,” the Italian Interior Ministry has reported.
The Albanian mafia in Italy expanded from controlling vice to murder, drugs, robbery, theft and illicit weapons. The ministry noted “the criminal capacity shown by the Albanian groups and their operational ruthlessness”.
New laws to combat the “white slave trade” in Britain are being demanded by police. Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is backing calls for a ten-year sentence for “living off immoral earnings”, which attracts a typical two-year sentence.
http://www.mfa.gov.yu/FDP/times020702.htm
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 07 Mar 2008, 01:14
The New Islamic Mafia
FBI has recently announced that ethnic Albanian gangs, including immigrants from Kosovo, are replacing the Italian La Cosa Nostra mafia as the leading organized crime outfit in the US. According to a CNN report the FBI "Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro" make up the emerging American criminal cartel and "represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality." This statement comes several months after Amnesty International declared NATO-administered Kosovo province a hotbed of organized crime activity.
In Europe, the Albanian Mob is already the chief perpetrator of drug and people smuggling, passport theft and forgery, weapons and human body parts sales, sex-slavery, abductions, murders... The scope, ferocity and intensity of the Albanian criminal activity has prompted the Italian top prosecutor, Cataldo Motta, to declare Albanians most dangerous mobsters brandishing them in 2000 "a threat to Western society."
While the skimpiness of the FBI statement may be a subtle illustration of its lack of hard operational intelligence on the emerging Albanian criminal network in the US, the displacement of La Cosa Nostra by ethnic Albanians may be a seminole event in the American criminal underworld history for yet another reason: a predominantly Catholic Mafia is being replaced by a predominantly Muslim Albanian Fis.
Although no hard links with terrorists have been found yet, the FBI believes that the emerging Muslim Albanian Mafia in the US may be implicated in terrorist financing hence FBIs continuing surveillance "to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing".
[b]Entrance-level job for al-Qaeda
-Before becoming kingpins of the American underworld, many ethnic Albanian mobsters got their organized crime initiation as couriers for the Italian Mafia. Fox News analyst, Manossor Ijaz, claims that ethnic Albanians now hold an entry-level courier position for al-Qaeda as well:
"... President Bush said in October of last year when he identified a senior al Qaeda leader [Abu Masab al-Zawkawi] who had gone to Iraq, received medical treatment to have a leg amputated that was blown up in the Afghan bombing campaign and then proceeded to a northern Iraqi terrorist outfit. What we have not yet heard and this is what my sources are telling me over the past two or three days, is that that leader was in fact, transported through southern Turkey using Albanian mercenaries to transport him into..."
Unofficial taxation of Albanians
- Allegations are made that the Albanian Mafia in America is acting as a collection arm for the war aims of the Albanian political groups. Christian Science Monitor, for example, cited a case of Agim Jusufi, a building superintendent on Manhattan's West Side. Mr. Jusufi gets a weekly paycheck. He describes himself as an ordinary 'working man.'" yet he wrote a $5,000 check for the KLA. "We have canceled checks to prove it,' he told the Monitor
Dangerous Hybrid
- Kosovo Albanian Dobrosi was serving 14 year sentence in Norway and in 1997 bribed the guard with 150,000 Norwegian crowns, fled to Croatia, where he underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance, then moved to Prague where, according to the Czech daily Lidove Noviny met the President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, during his visit of Prague in December 1998. In 1999 Czech Police arrested Dobrosi, along with another Kosovo Albanian gangster for drug trafficking and trafficking with light-infantry weapons and rocket systems.
whole text:
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/028.shtml
FBI has recently announced that ethnic Albanian gangs, including immigrants from Kosovo, are replacing the Italian La Cosa Nostra mafia as the leading organized crime outfit in the US. According to a CNN report the FBI "Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro" make up the emerging American criminal cartel and "represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality." This statement comes several months after Amnesty International declared NATO-administered Kosovo province a hotbed of organized crime activity.
In Europe, the Albanian Mob is already the chief perpetrator of drug and people smuggling, passport theft and forgery, weapons and human body parts sales, sex-slavery, abductions, murders... The scope, ferocity and intensity of the Albanian criminal activity has prompted the Italian top prosecutor, Cataldo Motta, to declare Albanians most dangerous mobsters brandishing them in 2000 "a threat to Western society."
While the skimpiness of the FBI statement may be a subtle illustration of its lack of hard operational intelligence on the emerging Albanian criminal network in the US, the displacement of La Cosa Nostra by ethnic Albanians may be a seminole event in the American criminal underworld history for yet another reason: a predominantly Catholic Mafia is being replaced by a predominantly Muslim Albanian Fis.
Although no hard links with terrorists have been found yet, the FBI believes that the emerging Muslim Albanian Mafia in the US may be implicated in terrorist financing hence FBIs continuing surveillance "to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing".
[b]Entrance-level job for al-Qaeda
-Before becoming kingpins of the American underworld, many ethnic Albanian mobsters got their organized crime initiation as couriers for the Italian Mafia. Fox News analyst, Manossor Ijaz, claims that ethnic Albanians now hold an entry-level courier position for al-Qaeda as well:
"... President Bush said in October of last year when he identified a senior al Qaeda leader [Abu Masab al-Zawkawi] who had gone to Iraq, received medical treatment to have a leg amputated that was blown up in the Afghan bombing campaign and then proceeded to a northern Iraqi terrorist outfit. What we have not yet heard and this is what my sources are telling me over the past two or three days, is that that leader was in fact, transported through southern Turkey using Albanian mercenaries to transport him into..."
Unofficial taxation of Albanians
- Allegations are made that the Albanian Mafia in America is acting as a collection arm for the war aims of the Albanian political groups. Christian Science Monitor, for example, cited a case of Agim Jusufi, a building superintendent on Manhattan's West Side. Mr. Jusufi gets a weekly paycheck. He describes himself as an ordinary 'working man.'" yet he wrote a $5,000 check for the KLA. "We have canceled checks to prove it,' he told the Monitor
Dangerous Hybrid
- Kosovo Albanian Dobrosi was serving 14 year sentence in Norway and in 1997 bribed the guard with 150,000 Norwegian crowns, fled to Croatia, where he underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance, then moved to Prague where, according to the Czech daily Lidove Noviny met the President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, during his visit of Prague in December 1998. In 1999 Czech Police arrested Dobrosi, along with another Kosovo Albanian gangster for drug trafficking and trafficking with light-infantry weapons and rocket systems.
whole text:
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/028.shtml
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 07 Mar 2008, 02:14
You made be silly serb hegemonist, with all this propaganda material, are you thier BOOS, when you know so mush about drogs and lines of kontraband's
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by Illyricum Sacre » 05 Apr 2008, 22:28
hehhehehe, I am happy you have adapted such a wonderful name as Teuta. I respect your wish to adapt albanian heritage to your slavic heart. It warms my heart.
And about these articles you have put here for reading, well, criminals exist in everypart of the world, but the way you describe us, it seems you as serbian should be afraid then shouldnt you...hehehhehe
now tell me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMOG3gJvYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qu2AW-6jbE
those articles you mentioned are imagination of your propaganda and your stupid minds, and these videos I post, are a result of that imagination, result of your cowardness, result of your blindness.
In the last war in Kosova, the Serbian Criminal State killed around 14,000 Albanian people. Near 90% of them were unarmed civilians. The defenseless. Mainly children, women and old-aged men. Around 3.000 people were kidnapped and are still missing. The overwhelming number of them are killed and burried in massgraves in Serbia. Near to 20,000 women were raped. 740,000 people were violently expelled. 120,000 houses were destroyed or damaged by the Serbian Criminal Army.
The distinctive aspect of the war was the destruction of Kosova's economy. The extreme exploitation and robbery of the 1990s culminated with purposeful destruction during the war.
and you call others for criminals????
fucking cunt.
And about these articles you have put here for reading, well, criminals exist in everypart of the world, but the way you describe us, it seems you as serbian should be afraid then shouldnt you...hehehhehe
now tell me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMOG3gJvYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qu2AW-6jbE
those articles you mentioned are imagination of your propaganda and your stupid minds, and these videos I post, are a result of that imagination, result of your cowardness, result of your blindness.
In the last war in Kosova, the Serbian Criminal State killed around 14,000 Albanian people. Near 90% of them were unarmed civilians. The defenseless. Mainly children, women and old-aged men. Around 3.000 people were kidnapped and are still missing. The overwhelming number of them are killed and burried in massgraves in Serbia. Near to 20,000 women were raped. 740,000 people were violently expelled. 120,000 houses were destroyed or damaged by the Serbian Criminal Army.
The distinctive aspect of the war was the destruction of Kosova's economy. The extreme exploitation and robbery of the 1990s culminated with purposeful destruction during the war.
and you call others for criminals????
fucking cunt.
Pellasgian by roots, Illyrian by blood, Albanian by heart.
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 15 Apr 2008, 18:34
Albanians harvest Serbian organs for profit
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) -- A human rights group has urged Kosovo authorities to investigate claims by a former U.N. war crimes prosecutor that ethnic Albanian guerrillas killed dozens of Serbs and sold their organs at the end of the war in Kosovo.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Carla Del Ponte had presented "sufficiently grave evidence" in her newly-published book to warrant an investigation into claims guerrillas took Serbs into Albania, killed them and then sold their organs to international traffickers in 1999.
In a letter dated April 4 and addressed to Kosovo's prime minister, the rights group called upon Kosovo's authorities "to determine the veracity" of the claims with counterparts in Albania.
The confidential letter was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday from an international official. Officials from the rights group confirmed they had sent the letter, but declined to comment, saying they wanted to give Kosovo authorities time to respond to the request.
"We consider the circumstantial evidence she presents to be sufficiently grave to warrant further investigation," Human Rights Watch said in the letter.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europ ... index.html
Switzerland has gagged one its Ambassadors from promoting a controversial new book about war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Carla Del Ponte, who prosecuted crimes at The Hague, claims some current Kosovo leaders once sold vital organs from Serb prisoners.
Switzerland says Del Ponte role as Ambassador to Argentina will not complement any promotion campaign.
The book, "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", was due to be launched in Milan.
It details atrocities committed by Albanians against Kosovo Serbs in the late 1990s and says that some of those currently in power in Kosovo made money selling Serb organs
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/23193
Carla del Ponte: Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs
Carla del Ponte, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, now Switzerland’s Ambassador to Argentina, made a sensational announcement. Her autobiographical book “The Hunt” reveals that Serbian men have been kidnapped and their organs were sold to international traffickers.
Carla del Ponte’s announcements have already caused the criminal case institution in Serbia. District Court of Belgrade has already started the hearing of 300 young Serbians being kidnapped in the summer of 1999, who as del Ponte claims, were transported to Albania and had there their internal organs removed.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/0 ... el_Ponte-0
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) -- A human rights group has urged Kosovo authorities to investigate claims by a former U.N. war crimes prosecutor that ethnic Albanian guerrillas killed dozens of Serbs and sold their organs at the end of the war in Kosovo.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Carla Del Ponte had presented "sufficiently grave evidence" in her newly-published book to warrant an investigation into claims guerrillas took Serbs into Albania, killed them and then sold their organs to international traffickers in 1999.
In a letter dated April 4 and addressed to Kosovo's prime minister, the rights group called upon Kosovo's authorities "to determine the veracity" of the claims with counterparts in Albania.
The confidential letter was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday from an international official. Officials from the rights group confirmed they had sent the letter, but declined to comment, saying they wanted to give Kosovo authorities time to respond to the request.
"We consider the circumstantial evidence she presents to be sufficiently grave to warrant further investigation," Human Rights Watch said in the letter.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europ ... index.html
Switzerland has gagged one its Ambassadors from promoting a controversial new book about war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Carla Del Ponte, who prosecuted crimes at The Hague, claims some current Kosovo leaders once sold vital organs from Serb prisoners.
Switzerland says Del Ponte role as Ambassador to Argentina will not complement any promotion campaign.
The book, "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", was due to be launched in Milan.
It details atrocities committed by Albanians against Kosovo Serbs in the late 1990s and says that some of those currently in power in Kosovo made money selling Serb organs
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/23193
Carla del Ponte: Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs
Carla del Ponte, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, now Switzerland’s Ambassador to Argentina, made a sensational announcement. Her autobiographical book “The Hunt” reveals that Serbian men have been kidnapped and their organs were sold to international traffickers.
Carla del Ponte’s announcements have already caused the criminal case institution in Serbia. District Court of Belgrade has already started the hearing of 300 young Serbians being kidnapped in the summer of 1999, who as del Ponte claims, were transported to Albania and had there their internal organs removed.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/0 ... el_Ponte-0
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by TEUTA » 15 Apr 2008, 18:44
Kosovo: Kidnapped Serbs were “killed for body parts” claims War Crimes prosecutor!
The much discussed Carla del Ponte's book "The Hunt" offers a harrowing detail, revealing why have Serbian men been kidnapped throughout Kosovo province during past years instead of being killed on the spot, as is the usual KLA treatment for all non-Albanians, especially those of Serbian ethnicity: because they were used as a livestock for organ harvesting in the illegal trade with human organ transplants.
http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008 ... truth.html
Illegale Organtransplantationen sind ein wachsendes Problem auch in Europa.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/meldung237872.html
"In 1999 there were rumors in Kosovo that the vital organs of the kidnapped and missing Serbs are being sold, but they were discarded as a 'Serb propaganda'," said Scott Taylor, Canada's military analyst and former member of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo province in 1999.
http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008 ... emier.html
The Belgrade Daily Press said on Thursday that a protected witness, known as K-144, had made the allegations to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte...
According to the International Red Cross up to 3,000 Serbs have been reported missing or killed since 1999 and 200,000 fled the province.Serbian prosecutor for war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, confirmed that his office was investigating the reports.“We are verifying the reports that in 1999 two trucks of kidnapped Serbs were transported to Albania,” Vukcevic said. “We received these reports from the ICTY.”
The media quoted K-144 saying that at least 100 Serbs whose organs had been taken out for transplantation have been buried in the northern Albanian town of Burrel.
The papers said at least 400 kidneys and other organs were removed for sale in the west and the victims were left to die.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Se ... 2012353556
Die Geschichte klingt ungeheuerlich und empört seit Tagen die serbische Öffentlichkeit. Sie handelt von 300 jungen Serben und Roma, die im Sommer 1999, kurz nach dem NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien, mutmaßlich von der Terrororganisation UCK (Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee) aus dem Kosovo entführt und nach Burrell in Albanien verschleppt wurden. Dort wurden die jungen Männer ermordet, ihre Körper regelrecht ausgeweidet und die Organe über Händler nach Westeuropa verkauft...
..Dort regiert mit Hashim Thaci einer der ehemaligen UCK-Führer als Premierminister das seit Anfang März unabhängige Kosovo. Von ihm wird laut der Belgrader Zeitung The Press gesagt, daß er in der Vergangenheit höchstpersönlich kriminelle Geschäfte kontrolliert habe. Laut der russischen Zeitung Prawda »verdiente er Millionen von Dollar durch den Organhandel«.
http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/04-03/057.php
The much discussed Carla del Ponte's book "The Hunt" offers a harrowing detail, revealing why have Serbian men been kidnapped throughout Kosovo province during past years instead of being killed on the spot, as is the usual KLA treatment for all non-Albanians, especially those of Serbian ethnicity: because they were used as a livestock for organ harvesting in the illegal trade with human organ transplants.
http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008 ... truth.html
Illegale Organtransplantationen sind ein wachsendes Problem auch in Europa.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/meldung237872.html
"In 1999 there were rumors in Kosovo that the vital organs of the kidnapped and missing Serbs are being sold, but they were discarded as a 'Serb propaganda'," said Scott Taylor, Canada's military analyst and former member of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo province in 1999.
http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008 ... emier.html
The Belgrade Daily Press said on Thursday that a protected witness, known as K-144, had made the allegations to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte...
According to the International Red Cross up to 3,000 Serbs have been reported missing or killed since 1999 and 200,000 fled the province.Serbian prosecutor for war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, confirmed that his office was investigating the reports.“We are verifying the reports that in 1999 two trucks of kidnapped Serbs were transported to Albania,” Vukcevic said. “We received these reports from the ICTY.”
The media quoted K-144 saying that at least 100 Serbs whose organs had been taken out for transplantation have been buried in the northern Albanian town of Burrel.
The papers said at least 400 kidneys and other organs were removed for sale in the west and the victims were left to die.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Se ... 2012353556
Die Geschichte klingt ungeheuerlich und empört seit Tagen die serbische Öffentlichkeit. Sie handelt von 300 jungen Serben und Roma, die im Sommer 1999, kurz nach dem NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien, mutmaßlich von der Terrororganisation UCK (Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee) aus dem Kosovo entführt und nach Burrell in Albanien verschleppt wurden. Dort wurden die jungen Männer ermordet, ihre Körper regelrecht ausgeweidet und die Organe über Händler nach Westeuropa verkauft...
..Dort regiert mit Hashim Thaci einer der ehemaligen UCK-Führer als Premierminister das seit Anfang März unabhängige Kosovo. Von ihm wird laut der Belgrader Zeitung The Press gesagt, daß er in der Vergangenheit höchstpersönlich kriminelle Geschäfte kontrolliert habe. Laut der russischen Zeitung Prawda »verdiente er Millionen von Dollar durch den Organhandel«.
http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/04-03/057.php
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 15 Apr 2008, 22:19
Hehehe nobaddy is interested in your propaganda-hegemonism fake anymore, did you ever realised that are not!
Kosova-Republik is free 4ever, and you serb-hegemonist all you can do...bark around with your tang a side!
Kosova-Republik is free 4ever, and you serb-hegemonist all you can do...bark around with your tang a side!
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by sasha » 05 May 2008, 10:52
No! Kosovo and Metochia is occupied by Albanian criminals and NATO for now. The day will come when Kosovo and Metochia will be free again.
who can forbid God to use evolution as his own instrument of creation ?
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 05 May 2008, 22:19
Teuta biachi, it's nice propaganda you have fix, but it's fake! 
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by S.Sindjelich 2 » 18 May 2008, 01:22
If in the USA drug traficing is crime, way not in Europe?...since Serbian security forces were riplaced with UN. KFOR and US-NATO, every one konows that Kosovo's Alabinan were money makers with the drugs your or my son is using it,however none try to stop them.
Where is Unmik's officials to stop such a criminals,instead they worry how to make sure tha Kosovo become independent, Where almost every day Serbs get killed, Orthodox Chrches and Monastiries destroyed,is for Unmik more important Alabnian criminals or to protect interational law?...for such conspiracy, some one should ask G.W.Bush or UN general otorney to order investigation in Kosovo and Metohia?...
Where is Unmik's officials to stop such a criminals,instead they worry how to make sure tha Kosovo become independent, Where almost every day Serbs get killed, Orthodox Chrches and Monastiries destroyed,is for Unmik more important Alabnian criminals or to protect interational law?...for such conspiracy, some one should ask G.W.Bush or UN general otorney to order investigation in Kosovo and Metohia?...
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 18 May 2008, 10:01
S.Sindjelich 2 wrote:If in the USA drug traficing is crime, way not in Europe?...since Serbian security forces were riplaced with UN. KFOR and US-NATO, every one konows that Kosovo's Alabinan were money makers with the drugs your or my son is using it,however none try to stop them.
Where is Unmik's officials to stop such a criminals,instead they worry how to make sure tha Kosovo become independent, Where almost every day Serbs get killed, Orthodox Chrches and Monastiries destroyed,is for Unmik more important Alabnian criminals or to protect interational law?...for such conspiracy, some one should ask G.W.Bush or UN general otorney to order investigation in Kosovo and Metohia?...
Hey Dude, where du you got this kind of info??
Do you mean all the international missions institutions in Kosova-Republik,
for you serbs are "criminals" like the
KFOR, SHPK, UN, NATO, US, EU, EULEX, OESCO, UNESCO, INT RED CROSS ectra,
all this exists in kosova-republik to ensure security and stability!
I think, you must be one other "serb-clown" are just kind of mad idiot,
that you are making the rest of the world criminals, and you serb-barbare are kind of sint
Curious: How in hell happen to stop bombing evil serbia
and then war-criminals escaped and stil live free in serbia,
ass a background enforcment comunist-regime!
I think this vas a gratte mistake by NATO airlight,
they shoulld have continue bombing, and bring the serb war-criminals in front of justice,
and remuve that background evil-schowenist regime from serbia people...!
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by S.Sindjelich 2 » 18 May 2008, 17:39
My friend, in the name of the innocent Kosovar's like Sali Krasnqi from Breznica,from ***t you are trying make the gold palace,aren't you?...your lie to the world, that Albanians were victims from Serbian terror so far did work ok, but, according NEW YORK TIMES article on August 2, 1998, that article shows that Mr Sali Krasniqi, his family and many othere innocent Albanians from Breznica Kosovo,were victims, not from serbs,rather from Albanian terrrist who were killind own people then telling to the world that Serbas did it.
As far as the information,you are asking where I got it from, from the Book of the UN war crimes Tribunal former prosecutor Carla del Ponte ,,Dude" her book witness war crime commited agaist Serbas and othere ninority in Kosovo and Metohia,however, compare to the Serbs suffering from Albanian terrorist organization, her book witness only the tip of the ice berg informatio to the ,,UN authoprity" Unmik fail to dislose such a crime commited agaist Serbs in its own provinece Kosovo and Metohia.
None say that Serbs were agels, but, if you think becouse of Albanian USA-NATO with deplete uranim bombs were bombing Serbia, you are wrong, #1, they bombarded Serbia just to show to the Muslim world, insetead being their enemy-their friends,# 2, for its military might to occupay Serbian provine KiM, # 3, to provent the ,,truth" of the war crime by the Albanian terrorist organization, in Kosovo, commited agaist innocent Serbs and its own pople...
As far as the information,you are asking where I got it from, from the Book of the UN war crimes Tribunal former prosecutor Carla del Ponte ,,Dude" her book witness war crime commited agaist Serbas and othere ninority in Kosovo and Metohia,however, compare to the Serbs suffering from Albanian terrorist organization, her book witness only the tip of the ice berg informatio to the ,,UN authoprity" Unmik fail to dislose such a crime commited agaist Serbs in its own provinece Kosovo and Metohia.
None say that Serbs were agels, but, if you think becouse of Albanian USA-NATO with deplete uranim bombs were bombing Serbia, you are wrong, #1, they bombarded Serbia just to show to the Muslim world, insetead being their enemy-their friends,# 2, for its military might to occupay Serbian provine KiM, # 3, to provent the ,,truth" of the war crime by the Albanian terrorist organization, in Kosovo, commited agaist innocent Serbs and its own pople...
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 18 May 2008, 21:25
You are lier, you f.cking coward, your just fabricating lies and propaganda anti Albanian and anti-airlight,
you hatriot..., becausse the international policy destroy your dirty planes you had anti other nations in the balkans!
you hatriot..., becausse the international policy destroy your dirty planes you had anti other nations in the balkans!
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by S.Sindjelich 2 » 18 May 2008, 23:24
Calm-down,calm down , if beside over 150 Orthodox Churches and Monastiries, destroyed by the Alnanian terrorist in Kosovo, doesn't proof the crime against Serbian people in Kosovo, then I don't know what is crime, or what would make you happier then that 
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Re: Albanian organised crime in Europe and USA
by fim » 24 May 2008, 12:28
S.Sindjelich 2 wrote:Calm-down,calm down
The old churches and the manastir in Decan is built by Catholic and orthodox albanians,
but serb repression during decades against catholic albanians and expulsions,
serbs loted, fixed them and conwerted for them self!
The Deqan Manastir was wery rich and wery special in the balkans, the only one survived the diferent era wars,
The all flore of this Deqani-manastir was built by blocs in diameter about 20cm x 10cm x 5cm , of silwer and gold polished, and ather gold and painting artifact it shows identity of Catolic religion are about Albanians, was loted by serbs after the WWII, and all was sent for belgrade, just like the serbs attacked the Dubrownik and loted the only one not beyng destroyed during the past about 500.years....!
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