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The network maintained bank accounts in many countries — England, Germany, Poland and Albania, among them — and sent small amounts, less than $2,000 at a time, through the accounts to support the activities of its members.

Several defendants also referred to men living in Britain, Austria and Germany who worked with Jihad.

Mr. Naggar, the Jihad member, tied Mr. bin Laden directly to the network in Albania.

He said he once received a phone call there from a Jihad leader. "He told me that in case the situation gets complicated in Albania, Osama bin Laden said he is ready to sponsor any member in Afghanistan," Mr. Naggar said in his confession. "He said Osama can give each family $100 a month through his contacts with the Taliban."

The scope of the Jihad network is illustrated by the countries where the 107 defendants in the 1999 trial were arrested ?Albania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. It was Egypt's biggest terrorism trial since that of Jihad members in 1981 for the assassination of Sadat. In what became known here as "the trial of the Albanian returnees," the court convicted 87 people and sentenced 10 of them to death, including Dr. Zawahiri, who was tried in absentia.

On to Sudan and Albania

After the failed 1993 assassination attempts, Yemen became less hospitable, and many Jihad members moved to Sudan, where Mr. bin Laden had established a base and provided them work, and then to Albania.

According to the trial documents, the Albania cell's members, most employed at Islamic charities in Tirana, were forced to transfer 26 percent of their salaries to Islamic Jihad.

Some defendants said they were also instructed to find money to set up a training camp "to serve the purposes of Jihad" in Albania. The instructions, they said, came from Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of the Jihad leader.

BOSNIAN AL-QA'IDAH MEMBERS PLAN ATTACKS ON NATO - TERRORISM EXPERT
SRNA - October 17, 2003

New York - A group of Islamists, 10 mujahidin trained in Afghanistan, have entered Bosnia-Hercegovina with the help of Sandzak connections and are currently in Al-Qa'idah camps near Zenica (central Bosnia) and Tuzla (northeastern Bosnia), a Serb terrorism expert, Darko Trifunovic, has told SRNA. He added that a plan to blow up a tunnel through which a column of American vehicles was meant to pass was prevented in the last moment.

Trifunovic is currently in Washington, where he is talking with American anti-terrorism experts and prominent members of the Congress about the spreading and aims of Islamic fundamentalism in the Balkans and especially in Bosnia-Hercegovina where - as Trifunovic said - they operate "with the blessing of top Muslim officials".

He said that a group of about 300 young Kosovo Albanians, who had been attacked by the concept of a Greater Muslim state, was trained in northern Albania and then transferred to Kosovo with their trainers, mujahidin fighters from Middle Eastern and North African countries. According to intelligence reports, a third of the group went to the border with Macedonia tasked with destabilizing that country. Another third went towards Serbia, where some have already been caught, while some headed for Sandzak (Raska (old Serbian name for the region)) and on the way there killed Serb children in Gorazdevac (Kosovo).
I can get you more on this topic if you want

You are doing nothing more than overreaching in an attempt to prove something convenient to you, but that has no factual basis. Let's go look at the article you linked to three times.

"To support their terrorism, they skimmed money from a charity for Muslim orphans in Albania and robbed an Italian diplomat's home in Jordan."

Nennsy, Albania was in desperate shape after the overtrow of the totalitarian regime. We needed all the help we could get. Some criminal as well as terrorist organizations tried to take advantage of this.
However once we realized who the men behind some of these "charities" were, it was taken care of:

"In what became known here as "the trial of the Albanian returnees," the court convicted 87 people and sentenced 10 of them to death, including Dr. Zawahiri, who was tried in absentia"

This is what OBL claimed the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were in return for, the 10 "Albanian returnees".

Also, the Albanian police knew how to handle AlQaeda"

"There have also been reports that the police in Albania used torture to extract confessions from suspects arrested there"

As for your other allegation:

" a Serb terrorism expert, Darko Trifunovic, has told SRNA."

That's all I need to see. This is nothing more than circular logic and self-reinforcing delusion. If these forums are an indication of anything, it is that many Serbs have an unnatural disdain of Albanians and a vested interest in tying them to America's enemies. After all you all keep saying "you have powerful allies, we'll wait". Your attempts to tie Albania and Kosova to AlQaeda are nothing more than attempts to precipitate the situation.