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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci's crimes 'known to the West'
The Australian ^ | December 18, 2010 | The Times

Posted on 12/17/2010 6:22:49 AM PST by Ravnagora

WESTERN leaders have been accused of turning a blind eye to murders, drug running and organ trafficking in Kosovo.

The West elevated a man it knew to be a criminal boss to the rank of European statesman.

Although Western intelligence agencies warned that Hashim Thaci ran an organised crime network in the late 1990s, Western political leaders backed his Kosovo Liberation Army, according to a report published by the Council of Europe.

The report, adopted unanimously by the council's 47 member states, will add to pressure for an independent criminal inquiry into Mr Thaci, now Kosovo's Prime Minister. It also places an embarrassing spotlight on the actions of the NATO members who intervened in Kosovo in 1999 as the country engaged in a war of independence with Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia.

Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who was the council's rapporteur for Kosovo, said the global community had shown a lack of determination to investigate the KLA. Without a witness protection scheme, the criminal rulers would never be brought to book, he said.

"What shocked me is that most of the facts illustrated in this report were known to numerous organisations, which until now have remained silent," Mr Marty said at a press conference.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balkans; kosovo; thaci
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1 posted on 12/17/2010 6:22:51 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

Sorry but haven´t you just posted the same story (just a slightly different headline) about 30 minutes ago?
Let me guess you are a serb and a little bit “obsessed” with the Kosovo. right?


2 posted on 12/17/2010 6:30:31 AM PST by darkside321
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...

3 posted on 12/17/2010 6:41:59 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: darkside321; Ravnagora

Serbs have the RIGHT to be “obsessed” with Kosovo, and all the evil that the mis-leaders of the West, in collusion with muslim savages, have visited upon them!!!!


4 posted on 12/17/2010 7:27:31 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Ravnagora; Honorary Serb
My favourite foreign minister - NOT - when asked about organ harvesting. (In French, but the over reaction says a lot, doesn't it?):

Kouchner's scandal in Kosovo, on organ harvesting

5 posted on 12/17/2010 7:50:52 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: darkside321; Ravnagora; Honorary Serb
In the 1990's Christian Serbs were the early warning system to what lay in store for the West in the war against Islamic Terror.

But the West chose to align itself with Islamic Terror groups like the KLA and bomb the Serbs in what amounted to a combined 5th Crusade against Orthodox Christians.

Failing to realize how it fully embolden the global Jihadists,the West was attacked on 09-11-01. Ironically from the followers of the religion of "peace" it sought to appease in the Balkans.

Then still failing to fully understand the breadth and determination of the Global Jihad, Western and other democracies are still the Target of a unified Islamic terror assault which has it's roots in the Balkan wars of the 1990's.

6 posted on 12/17/2010 7:52:23 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Islamists Targeting Christians Anywhere and Everywhere.)
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To: Ravnagora; darkside321

Keep posting Rav don’t listen to the post nannies and numbnuts.
Julia Gorin also just posted; “I’m Not Done Talking about Dick Assholbrooke”....ha ha.


7 posted on 12/17/2010 7:52:23 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: gitmogrunt

Yeah let me guess the serbs did nothing wrong did they?
You have been bombed for nothing right?
Not that serbia waged war against slowenia, croatia, bosnia.. in only 4 years!


8 posted on 12/17/2010 8:02:18 AM PST by darkside321
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To: darkside321

Everybody waged war against each other in those years. It’s been the same for the last 600 years.


9 posted on 12/17/2010 8:03:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: darkside321

http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/iran.htm


10 posted on 12/17/2010 8:06:52 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Smoke this Muzzy Lover.Islamists Targeting Christians Anywhere and Everywhere.)
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To: darkside321

http://thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=558.0.40.0


11 posted on 12/17/2010 8:08:35 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Smoke this Muzzy Lover.Islamists Targeting Christians Anywhere and Everywhere.)
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To: gitmogrunt

You can post me this propaganda for the whole day.
This does not impress me.
No one said that there have been no inocent victims on the serbian side too.
But face it the serbs have not been the saints like you try to picture them.
Because fact is you wouldn´t have been bombed if you wouldn´t have started all these wars (or if you have been located in africa because then no one would have cared this is true also). But when you start to wage your little wars in front of the EU and start to flood our countries with refugess because of that you don´t have to wonder when you get punished. This is how the world is run.
Oh and for your conspiracy about the evil germans (btw. i´m austrian) i guarantee you that nobody would have given a rats ass about yougoslavia (beside some tourists).
So like it or not. This was not revenge for something because of the simple fact NOBODY HERE cared about your country at all.
It was all about stopping you starting your little wars flooding our countries with refugees from this regiion (btw. refugees we are still not done deporting back).
And this is why you lost your teritories.
It´s not that we loved one side more then the other it just sucked to get overun from people of this region because of your “little” wars.


12 posted on 12/17/2010 8:19:24 AM PST by darkside321
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To: Honorary Serb

“...mis-leaders of the West, in collusion with muslim savages...”

The above is a very harsh and blunt assesment of the American Kosovo policy. It is also completely accurate.


13 posted on 12/17/2010 8:20:23 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Ravnagora

Those who knew should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


14 posted on 12/17/2010 8:33:12 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: darkside321

There will be more stories, darkside321. Lots of the “same story” have been posted here on Free Republic, in different variations and from different sources regarding various topics of the day. Each one contains something worth knowing or considering.

You bet I’m “obsessed” about what happened in Kosovo, and not just a “little bit”.

What happened in Kosovo, on so many levels, was a crime against Serbs.

It hurts when the truth finally gets out and gets the widespread attention it deserves, doesn’t it?

All of us “obsessors” knew the truth a long time ago. Now the world will know.

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15 posted on 12/17/2010 9:09:03 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: darkside321

You must be a noob on Balkan affairs because your posts are like a bunch of soundbites from the MSM.


16 posted on 12/17/2010 9:11:31 AM PST by montyspython
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"Not that serbia waged war against slowenia, croatia, bosnia.. in only 4 years!"

This stupid statement alone says all we need to know regarding your knowledge of the subject matter. I'm afraid its not very impressive.

17 posted on 12/17/2010 9:18:01 AM PST by montyspython
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To: montyspython

You must be a noob on Balkan affairs because your posts are like a bunch of soundbites from the MSM.


Ok if you are such an expert then prove me that my statements are totally wrong?
Oh before i forget it did i mention that i was stationed as a soldier (behind my 12,7) in Kosovo “Camp Casablanca” (does this now make me one of those evil occupiers who just hates the serbs?) some years ago? ;-)


18 posted on 12/17/2010 9:22:36 AM PST by darkside321
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To: Ravnagora; darkside321
Darkside321 admitted he's an Austrian and a Veteran, so he seems to be brain-washed and biased regarding Kosovo.

The world knows the Austrian-German-Islamic alliance goes far back.

They are genocidal brothers in arms, and refugee makers going back to the Armenian-Greek Genocide of 1913-1922.

19 posted on 12/17/2010 9:47:28 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Islamists Targeting Christians Anywhere and Everywhere.)
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To: Ravnagora

Keep ‘em coming!!


20 posted on 12/17/2010 10:03:48 AM PST by Dragonfly
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