"The US moved against bin Laden following the bombing of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. That same summer, CIA and Shik [Albanian Security Agents] units arrested several men who were wanted by Egypt for plotting terrorist acts. The men were extradited to Egypt, tried and executed.
The spotlight fell on bin Laden in Albania with the arrest in 1998 of a French passport holder, Claude Kader, who was believed to be of Middle Eastern origin. He confessed to being a member of one of bin Ladens groups and told investigators he had been sent to give weapons to the guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, then beginning their war against the Serbs.
The KLA had promised US officials it would not co-operate with fundamentalists. Mr Kader said the KLA had turned him down and that he had returned to Albania, still with his weapons."
'The spotlight fell on bin Laden in Albania with the arrest in 1998 of a French passport holder, Claude Kader, who was believed to be of Middle Eastern origin. He confessed to being a member of one of bin Ladens groups and told investigators he had been sent to give weapons to the guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, then beginning their war against the Serbs.
The KLA had promised US officials it would not co-operate with fundamentalists. Mr Kader said the KLA had turned him down and that he had returned to Albania, still with his weapons."'
Maybe the KLA felt that it's best inteerests at the time would be to work with NATO and the US-i.e. turning down AQ aid would be in their own best interest. Or maybe Kader was just lying. Was he captured with those weapons? Did the authorities find them? Maybe the KLA did indeed accept the arms, but Kader lied about it...maybe to help the KLA. I'd take anything that an AQ member says with the whole salt shaker.