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Sunday, January 21, 2007

"Albanian gun-runner embraces the man he set out to kill"

"Interview with Fatmir Kaloshi by Paul Alkazraji"
Special to ASSIST News Service

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALBANIA (ANS) -- My name is Fatmir Kaloshi. When I’ve set out to beat someone, I’ve beaten him… I’ve wounded him.

This was the only instance it wasn’t working! It was gnawing at me for an hour or two, until I lay unconscious.

I liked to keep strong company: physically and in terms of wealth. Poor or weak people weren’t on my list. In fact, I said of them: “Let them die!” Often, as I drunk alcohol I didn’t pay, and I humiliated people. I used to tell the waiter or the owner to come crawling towards me and ask forgiveness for charging me the cost. I wanted to be the commander.

Life has not been so bad to us, because we’ve had some help from my aunt living in Sweden. My father worked in the copper factory in the city of Kukës. In 1996, I started to work as a builder in Macedonia. But since 1997, apart from that work, I did some ‘other business’. I’ve been involved in running guns, which I used to buy in Albania. It was a very profitable job. Being hungry for money, I was ready to sacrifice my life. I always protected myself by keeping some bombs in my belt. “If I die, at least I will also take two or three of those (Serbians) with me,” I thought.

In 2002, I came back to Albania. One day, I saw some Christian books such as ‘Who is God?’ at my house. After asking who brought them, my mother said that they were from very good and open people, and that they prayed to God far more than we did. I got angry and started to tear the books saying that I was a Muslim! I hated Slavs and Christians. “I will kill them,” I said to her."

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