[Headfulofghosts]

SPECTATOR (UK) - HOW WE TRAINED AL-QA'AEDA

Indeed, for all the Clinton officials' concern about Islamic extremists in the Balkans, they continued to allow the growth and movement of mujahedin forces in Europe through the 1990s. In the late 1990s, in the run-up to Clinton's and Blair's Kosovo war of 1999, the USA backed the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbia. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post in 1998, KLA members, like the Bosnian Muslims before them, had been 'provided with financial and military support from Islamic countries', and had been 'bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters or mujahedin ...[some of whom] were trained in Osama bin Laden' s terrorist camps in Afghanistan'. It seems that, for all its handwringing, the USA just couldn't break the pact with the devil.



The Times, US Alarmed as Mujahidins Join Kosovo Rebels, Nov 26, 1998
The Scotsman, US Tackles Islamic Militancy in Kosovo, Nov 30, 1998
AP, Bin Laden Operated Terrorist Network Based in Albania, Nov 29, 1998
Jerusalem Post, Kosovo Seen as New Islamic Bastion, Sep 14, 1998
Sunday Times, Bin Laden Opens a New Terrorist Base in Albania, Nov 29, 1998
Sunday Times, Iranians Move in (Kosovo Link), Mar 22, 1998NYT, Whispers of New Tyranny in Kosovo
Times, Harvest Massacre Blamed on Kosovo Guerillas
Independent, UK, Organized Crime Gangs Rule Kosovo
NYT, Chaos and Intolerance Now Reign in Kosovo
LA Times, Kosovo Battles Resurgence of Organized Crime
WP, Kosovo Rebels Make Their Own Laws
Express (UK) Albanian Mafia, KLA and Kosovo Aid
NYT, Rebels Are Taking Charge of Kosovo
Reagan.Com, The Story of Commander Remi
NYT, Kosovo's Rebels Accused of Executions in the Ranks
WSWS, Kosovo "freedom fighters" financed by organised crime
NYT, In Kosovo, Gangs Dim the Luster of a 'Greater Albania'
Guardian, Old Serbs Become Terror Targets
Guardian, This is What Will Happen To Us All
Amnesty International Urges KLA Leader to Stop Human Rights Abuses
Start, New Paramilitary Army ready in Macedonia, June 2, 2000
Bota Sot, KLA Secret Service Persecuted Albanian Politicians, July 11, 2000
The Times, Violence Feared As KLA Fund Dries Up, July 24, 2000
ADN, Kosovar Refugees Fear Being Murdered by KLA, July 13, 2000
Reuters, Armed Albanian Group Enigma in South Serbia, Aug 7, 2000
Reuters, Former KLA Members Face War Crimes Probe, Aug 9, 2000REUTERS, Former Kosovo Guerrillas Arrested in Gang Probe, Aug 25, 00
UNMIK, Ten Kosovo Albanians arrested in anti-crime operation, Aug, 25, 00


General Clark, since you claim that these individuals who carried
out these acts of terrorism are not terrorists, although several
resolutions of the Security Council refer to terrorism in Kosovo, you
nevertheless claim that they are not terrorists. Please answer a question: Is your election campaign financed by Albanian circles including the KLA?

JUDGE MAY: That's a totally improper question, totally improper
and irrelevant. General, you do not have to answer this sort of thing.

CLARK: I think it's important that I do answer it, and the answer is no.

Yet there is this, which has not been reported in the media. I expect the main stream press to pick this up in a day or two. The problem is with moveon.org. It's a left leaning contribution website. You know, the one that has been running anti-bush ads? It's been seeking contributions outside of American borders. Both Clark and Dean are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to MoveOn.org. Basically Political websites from London to Portugal to Montreal are directing their citizens to stop the American president George Bush by donating to MoveOn.org.

[expatpat]

We never gave assistance to the KLA

Looks like perjury to me.

[OldFriend]

Clearly the wrong man is in prison. Heaven help us for that travesty that was perpetrated by X42 and those in congress who supported him at that time. Republicans AND democrats.

[Incorrigible]

Balkans Bump!

Related Thread:

Milosevic attacked Clark's personal character by citing criticism of him by Gen. Hugh Shelton

[Incorrigible]

Hmmmm. Slobo is coming off a little kooky here.

"Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan"

Who's this "we" he's referring to?  If this is a direct quote from him it doesn't make sense.  If he said "The U.S." or "The West" or something along those lines (though I wouldn't necessarily agree) I would understand the statement.

I'm familiar with the photos though I would suggest no-one post them since they tend to cause threads to disappear.

He seems to be making a direct mockery of the court by showing these photos while Clark is sitting in the witness chair.  I would prefer he make a direct mockery of the witness however.  However, I presume there more to this with 2 days worth of testimony, there's more to come.

[Viking2002]

Wouldn't that be great if the Klinton's hand-picked baggage boy gets the smackdown put on him by the very court they'd like us all to answer to? Kinda poetic.......

[A. Pole]

THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] The witness is talking about measures of repression against the KLA, and you see what kind of killers they are. I have yet another photograph here, a group of 15 of them, with 13 severed heads. This is also not relevant for you; is that right, Mr. May?

JUDGE MAY: That is quite right. Quite right. [...]

Show trial bump.

[Andy from Beaverton]

We never gave assistance to the KLA. We did not direct the KLA. We did not assist itsformation.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. The direction in the war turned in favor of the KLA in the last few weeks when the US military started to support and coordinate with the KLA. No questions asked.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I mean, this man is holding two Serb heads that had been cut off. Is that confirmation? I mean, are these allies of General Clark's infantry in Kosovo?

Powerful question.........it was never answered.

I have yet another photograph here, a group of 15 of them, with 13 severed heads. This is also not relevant for you; is that right, Mr. May?

[sport]

Only when he testified.

When does clark, or any democrat for that matter, lie ?

Only on days that end in "y".

[wny]

I'm sure he was legally accurate.

[Bob J]

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[Big Otto]

I spent the entire evening last night reading the 12/15 and 12/16 transcripts.

NOW I'M SCARED!!!

This man wants to be the President, and he..

DOES NOT THINK THE KLA ARE TERRORISTS!!!

Here’s just one of several references he made in his testimony:

13 THE WITNESS: Your Honour, thank you. First of all, if I might, I

14 don't accept the definition of the KLA as a terrorist organisation. I

15 want to state that for the record.

It has been proven that KLA is connected to Al Qaeda, has trained members in Al Qaeda training camps, and Bin Laden is thought to have fought with KLA forces!  Mr. Clark, even though he was the NATO commander on the ground, thinks these guys are just nice Muslim boys.

After all the work and lives sacrificed since 9/11, if Clark gets elected, it’s Al Qaeda that wins.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Clark:

24 That's why I've offered this in testimony, because I think it's a

25 significant indication of the mind-set that was animating actions in

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1 Yugoslavia toward the Kosovars in the fall of 1998. This was the period

2 when between 300 and 400.000 had already been driven from their homes.

3 It's the period when General Djordjevic had explained to me that they only

4 had two more weeks to go to kill them all. And then after I heard

5 Milosevic say this, then I felt like I had insight as to the motivating

6 force behind Serb actions.

More lies. there were not 300 to 400,000 people who fled their homes at this time period. Maybe 300 (three hundred), but not the latter.