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To: nova222 who wrote (5009)	1/21/2008 4:44:47 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5673

"[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." Senator Jo. Lieberman, quoted in the 'Washington Post', 28 April 1999

To: nova222 who wrote (5009)	1/21/2008 4:52:35 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 5673

``Why shouldn't we help the KLA help America to realize a victory in the Balkans?'' Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., asked, drawing shouts of ``KLA! USA!'' ------------------------------------------------------- Rally Held for Kosovo Independence By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators waved the red-and-black flag of Albania and displayed signs labeling Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic a ``second Hitler'' at a rally Tuesday where they called for an end to the conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo. More than 450 people, most of them Americans with roots in Albania, gathered on the Capitol steps to voice support for arms for the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is fighting the Serbs. After the rally, they marched to the White House, where they were joined by several hundred supporters. Their shouts of ``Independent Kosovo! Independent Kosovo!'' could be head in the executive mansion. The demonstration was organized by the Albanian American Civic League. The group's founder, former New York Democratic congressman Joe DioGuardi, said: ``We must do everything in our power now to save the Albanian people from genocide, to prevent Slobodan Milosevic from waging a wider war, and to ensure the right of the Albanians to live in a free and independent Kosovo.'' ``Why shouldn't we help the KLA help America to realize a victory in the Balkans?'' Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., asked, drawing shouts of ``KLA! USA!'' Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, told the demonstrators it was time to arm the KLA, saying, ``The NATO airstrikes cannot rescue these people.'' Lieberman and Traficant have introduced measures to give the KLA money, an idea opposed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She told the House International Relations Committee last week that supplying weapons to the KLA would violate an arms embargo set up by the U.N. Security Council. She also worries that if the West arms the KLA, other countries would arm the Serbs. Such arguments don't concern Fisnik Oshlani, a 17-year-old Kosovo native who skipped high school classes in Manhattan to attend the Washington rally. ``Free Kosovo. Free Kosovo,'' he shouted as he helped carry a wooden coffin, a symbol of bloodshed in his homeland, through downtown Washington.

To: nova222 who wrote (5009)	1/21/2008 5:20:17 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 5673

"The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European officers who served with the international peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as leading Macedonian and US sources." 'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists' Special report: Kosovo Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver Sunday March 11, 2001 The Observer The United States secretly supported the ethnic Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia. The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European officers who served with the international peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as leading Macedonian and US sources. They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across Kosovo's borders. The accusations were made in a series of interviews by The Observer . They emerge as America has been forced into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that would include Albanian communities in Serbia and Macedonia. In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have intensified their campaign of attacks in the two areas, threatening a new war in the region which last week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans for the first time. The accusations have led to tension in K-For between the European and US military missions. European officers are furious that the Ameri cans have allowed guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms and launch attacks across two international borders. One European K-For battalion commander told The Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US State Department seems incapable of reining in its bastard army.' He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing frustration with US support for the radical Albanians. US policy was and still is out of step with the other Nato allies.' The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the National Liberation Army [which has been responsible for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one. 'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies have not been honest here.' The claims were given extra credence from an unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war inside Macedonia itself. A US State Department official blamed the last administration. There had now been 'a shift of emphasis'.