if the receipt is as real as tony claimed, he should be able to produce it, like the email was produced during the deposition stating the money wasn't turned over.
It appears that Mother Teresa was no more than a front for getting arms and mercenanies to Kosovo to assist the terrorist KLA in their ethnic cleansing of the Serbs. It appears Tony used the front to get high-level KLA members, and their families, out of Kosovo and into the United States.
To: Jean D'Ascenzo (31611 )
From: Anthony@Pacific Thursday, Apr 22 1999 4:53AM ET
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...I met last night with the chief of the local Mafia
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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.
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.
So it is clear that crime money was used to finance Albanian terrorism in Kosovo the only question left is whether the US and NATO were aware of this (since they claim the most benevolent of intentions). This US Senate Republican Policy Committee report makes it abundantly clear that not only was the Clinton administration aware of the links, but that they also were a second source of financing and training for the KLA.
As is to be expected America's 'ethical' foreign policy chops and changes (not something that would happen if policy was based on a moral foundation). Originally the KLA were regarded as a terrorist group:
Clinton Administration's then-special envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard, had little difficulty in condemning the KLA (also known by its Albanian initials, UCK)'We condemn very strongly terrorist actions in Kosovo. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group,' Gelbard said." [Agence France Presse, 2/23/98]
But scarcely more than one year later, the man that was to run for Vice-President claimed:
"[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles ... Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." (Sen. Lieberman quoted in the 'Washington Post,' April 28, 1999)
Presumably he meant that American values included violence to achieve strategic objectives, complete disregard for the sovereignty of other states, drug trafficking, money laundering, and assassination of opponents. The Senate report alludes to not just the US alliance with the KLA, but the open knowledge that the KLA was involved with a massive Albanian criminal network:
Among the most troubling aspects of the Clinton Administration's effective alliance with the KLA are numerous reports from reputable unofficial sources -- including the highly respected Jane's publications -- that the KLA is closely involved with: The extensive Albanian crime network that extends throughout Europe and into North America, including allegations that a major portion of the KLA finances are derived from that network, mainly proceeds from drug trafficking.
"In order to get the Albanians'... acceptance [of the peace plan], Ms. Albright offered incentives intended to show that Washington is a friend of Kosovo...Officers in the Kosovo Liberation Army would . . . be sent to the United States for training in transforming themselves from a guerrilla group into a police force or a political entity, much like the African National Congress did in South Africa." [New York Times, 2/24/99]
So supposedly showing one is a friend of a province (if that even means anything) is to take one ethnic group within the province, and give its most extreme (and violent) element military training. On the right is a picture of Albright with the former head of the KLA who subsequently became Kosovo's prime minister, Agim Çeku .
In the year 2000, CIA intelligence agents admitted to the London Sunday Times to having been training, equipping and supporting KLA fighters as early as 1998 -well before the NATO air strikes began, at the very time when the White House was pretending to be a mediator striving to resolve the conflict in Kosovo. The hypocrisy of the US was clear for all to see. The problem was that this was one isolated article, not a concerted media campaign like the one which demonized Serbs as the new Nazis. |
