To: nova222 who wrote (5322 ) 2/28/2008 6:12:29 PM From: nova222 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5673 It's frightening enough that McCain is apparently unaware that it was the US occupation of Iraq that brought al Qeada to Iraq, but it's also disheartening to hear Hillary and Obama support independence for an Albanian terrorist state in Kosovo where al Qeada has had a presence since the mid-1990's. There is no way Hillary and Obama do not know that al Qeada trained, and Sunni-Saudi radicals financed, the terrorist KLA in Kosovo or that they were a support ops for 911. Hijackers connected to Albanian terrorist cell According to U.S. officials, bin Laden gained a foothold in Albania in 1994 by portraying himself to the government there as a wealthy Saudi national who was in charge of a humanitarian agency that could help Albania. Albanian intelligence believes terrorists have benefited from the theft of some 1,000 blank Albanian passports that were stolen during riots in 1997, according to a 1998 report in the London Sunday Telegraph. Since the attack, the FBI has detained 49 persons, many of whom appear to be of Middle Eastern descent. Four of the detainees were are identified as "material witnesses" to the Sept. 11 attacks. None has been identified by nationality and the passports they used to enter the United States also have not been identified. In 1998, U.S. and Albanian authorities broke up an Islamic terrorist cell in Albania and arrested two members of the bin Laden group. The CIA was able to obtain a large quantity of documents and computer equipment that led to further arrests. Two members of the group, Egyptian nationals, were turned over to anti-terrorist police in Egypt that year. "Bin Laden's group has a network in Albania," said former CIA counterterrorism official Vince Cannistraro. "This looks like the support operation [for the U.S. attacks] was worldwide," he said of reports of the Albanian connection. intellnet.org