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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (8055)9/4/2004 10:18:09 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
Gus > To claim that Albania is a US toehold in Europe is like claiming that Cuba is a European toehold in the US

I see you have learned to be contemptuous. But you should have learned your history first.

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>>JANE'S INTELLIGENCE DIGEST - JULY 18, 2003

The establishment of new US bases is being considered in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. What sets the post-communist states of eastern Europe apart from western Europe are their open pro-US views and their reliance on the USA and NATO for their security. For example, JID has learned that a visit to Albania in June by US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld took place because the country is of particular interest to US military planners owing to its geographic location on the Adriatic Sea. Special links with Albania US special forces and intelligence have had close ties to the Albanians, since they assisted in training and equipping the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) prior to NATO's air campaign against Serbia in 1999. Albania is also considered useful because it is a strongly pro-US country with a nominal Muslim majority and it is seeking Washington's support in its bid to join NATO in 2007. Recently, 1,500 US Rangers and special forces participated in an exercise in the country.<<
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