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Subject: [mom-l] THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY: Does Clinton Policy Support
Group With Terror, Drug Ties?


THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY:
Does Clinton Policy Support Group With Terror, Drug Ties? From
‘Terrorists’, to ‘Partners’
 March 31, 1999

by United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, Larry Craig,
Chairman

        On March 24, 1999, NATO initiated air attacks on Yugoslavia (a
federation of two republics, Serbia and Montenegro) in order to impose a
peace agreement in the Serbian province of Kosovo, which has an ethnic
Albanian majority. The Clinton Administration has not formally withdrawn
its standing insistence that Belgrade sign the peace agreement, which
would entail the deployment in Kosovo of some 28,000 NATO ground troops
-- including 4,000 Americans -- to police the settlement. But in recent
days the Clinton public line has shifted to a demand that Yugoslav
President Slobo-dan Milosevic halt the offensive he has launched in
Kosovo, which has led to a growing humanitarian crisis in the region,
before there can be a stop to the bomb-ing campaign.
        One week into the bombing cam-paign, there is widespread discussion of
options for further actions. One option includes forging a closer
relationship between the United States and a contro-versial group, the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a group which has been cited in unofficial
reports for alleged ties to drug cartels and Islamic terrorist
or-ganizations. This paper will examine those allegations in the context
of the currently unfolding air campaign.
Results of Week One
        The air assault is a product of a Clinton policy, which for months has
been directed toward intervention in Kosovo, in either the form of the
use of air power or of the introduction of a peacekeeping ground force
-- or of air power followed by a ground force. [For details on the
turbulent history of Kosovo and of the direction of Clinton policy
leading to the current air cam-paign, see: RPC's "Senate to Vote Today
on Preventing Funding of Military Op-erations in Kosovo: Airstrikes
Likely This Week," 3/23/99; "Bombing, or Ground Troops -- or Both:
Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Immi-nent," 2/22/99; and "Bosnia II:
The Clinton Administration Sets Course for NATO Intervention in Kosovo,"
8/12/98.] Just hours before the first bombs fell, the Senate voted 58 to
41 (with 38 Republicans voting in the nega-tive) to authorize air and
missile strikes against Yugoslavia (S. Con. Res. 21). The Senate then
approved by voice vote a second resolution expressing support for
members of the U.S. Armed Forces en-gaged in military operations against
Yugoslavia (S. Res. 74).
        Prior to the air campaign, the stated goal of Clinton policy, as noted
above, was Belgrade's acceptance of the peace agreement signed by the
Kosovo Alba-nian delegation (which included repre-sentatives of the KLA)
on March 17. Now, more than a week into the air cam-paign, that goal
appears even more elu-sive as the NATO attack has rallied Ser-bian
resistance to what they see as an unjustified foreign aggression.
        Since the NATO bombing campaign began, Serbian security forces also
have intensified an offensive in Kosovo that began as the airstrikes
appeared inevita-ble. According to numerous media re-ports, tens of
thousands of Albanians are fleeing the Serb army, and police forces and
paramilitary groups that, based on credible allegations, are committing
widespread atrocities, including sum-mary executions, burnings of
Albanian villages, and assassination of human rights activists and
community leaders. Allied officials have denounced the ap-parently
deliberate forced exodus of Al-banian civilians as ethnic cleansing and
even genocide. But according to some refugee accounts, the NATO bombing
is also a factor in the exodus: "[M]ost resi-dents of the provincial
capital say they are leaving of their own accord and are not being
forced out at gunpoint, as resi-dents of several western cities and
vil-lages in Kosovo say has been happening to them. . . . Pristina
residents who made it to Macedonia said their city is still largely
intact, despite the targeting of ethnic Albanian businesses by Serbian
gangs and several direct hits from NATO air strikes in the city center"
["Cause of Kosovar Exodus from Pristina Disputed: Serbs Are Forcing
Exit, Some Claim; Others Go on Own," Washington Times, 3/31/99].
        At the same time, the Clinton Ad-ministration, consistent with its
track re-cord on Kosovo, has ignored credible but unconfirmed evidence
from sources not connected to Milosevic's Serbian gov-ernment that the
NATO campaign has resulted in far more civilian damage than has been
acknowledged.
Making Things Worse?
        The Clinton Administration and NATO officials flatly reject any
sugges-tion that their policy has exacerbated an already bad situation
on the ground in Kosovo. With neighboring Albania and Macedonia in
danger of being destabi-lized by a flood of refugees, questions are
being raised about NATO's ability to continue the campaign unless
positive results are evident soon:
        "With critics arguing that the NATO campaign has made things worse, the
al-liance must slow the Serbs' onslaught or watch public support and
alliance unity unravel. U.S. and NATO officials angrily rebutted the
critics, arguing that Mr. Mi-losevic, the Serbian leader, and his forces
were already on the rampage before NATO strikes began." ["NATO Is Set to
Target Sites in Belgrade," Wall Street Journal, 3/29/99]
        If the immediate NATO goal has now shifted to stopping the Serb
offen-sive in Kosovo, observers point to three likely options [WSJ,
3/29/99]:
        "Option One is to continue the air campaign, increasingly targeting
Serb frontline troops [in Kosovo], but it could be days before the
onslaught is really slowed." This option, which NATO has already begun
to implement, is likely to entail greater risk to NATO aircraft and
crews, due to the lower and slower flightpaths needed to deliver
tactical strikes. Still, most observers doubt the offensive can be
halted with air power alone. Late reports indicate increased bombing of
targets in Belgrade, the capital of both the Yugoslav federation and the
Serbian republic.
        "Option Two is to start considering intervening on the ground." In
recent days, the Clinton Administration has be-gun to shift its position
on NATO ground troops from a categorical assurance that ground troops
would go in only to police a peace settlement to hints that they might,
depending on some unspecified "conditions," be introduced into a com-bat
environment. For example, in com-ments on March 28, Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs General Henry Shelton sug-gested that certain "assessments"
had been made, but that there was as yet no political agreement on
ground troops:
        "There have been assessments made, but those assessments were based
on varying conditions that existed in Kosovo... At this point in time,
there are no plans per se to introduce ground troops." [NBC's "Meet the
Press," 3/28/99]
        "Option Three: arming the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army to carry
the war on the ground while NATO contin-ues it from the air." This
option, which would make NATO the overt air force of the KLA, would also
dash any possibility of a solution that would not result in a change in
Balkan borders, perhaps set-ting off a round of widespread regional
instability. Clinton Administrations offi-cials have begun to suggest
that inde-pendence may now be justified in view of the Serb offensive.
The KLA has been explicit in its determination to not only achieve an
independent Kosovo but to “liberate" Albanian-inhabited areas of
Montenegro (including the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica), Macedonia
(including the Macedonian capital, Skopje), and parts of northern
Greece; most of these areas were in fact annexed to Albania under Axis
occupation during World War II. (For a visual representa-tion of the
areas claimed by the KLA, see the map at the website of the pro-KLA
Albanian-American Civic League at www.aacl.com
        Note that arming and training the KLA, as called for in Option Three,
would highlight serious questions about the nature of the KLA and of the
Clinton Administration's relationship with it.
The KLA: from 'Terrorists' to 'Partners'
        The Kosovo Liberation Army "began on the radical fringe of Kosovar
Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists (who
were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist dictatorship next door
in Albania) as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by
the Italians in World War II" ["Fog of War -- Coping With the Truth
About Friend and Foe: Victims Not Quite Innocent," New York Times,
3/28/99]. The KLA made its military de-but in February 1996 with the
bombing of several camps housing Serbian refu-gees from wars in Croatia
and Bosnia [Jane's Intelligence Review, 10/1/96]. The KLA (again
according to the highly re-garded Jane's,) "does not take into
con-sideration the political or economic im-portance of its victims, nor
does it seem at all capable of seriously hurting its en-emy, the Serbian
police and army. In-stead, the group has attacked Serbian police and
civilians arbitrarily at their weakest points. It has not come close to
challenging the region's balance of mili-tary power" [Jane's, 10/1/96].
        The group expanded its operations with numerous attacks through 1996
but was given a major boost with the col-lapse into chaos of neighboring
Albania in 1997, which afforded unlimited oppor-tunities for the
introduction of arms into Kosovo from adjoining areas of northern
Albania, which are effectively out of the control of the Albanian
government in Tirana. From its inception, the KLA has targeted not only
Serbian security forces, who may be seen as legitimate targets for a
guerrilla insurgency, but Serbian and Albanian civilians as well.
        In view of such tactics, the Clinton Administration's then-special
envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard, had little diffi-culty in condemning
the KLA (also known by its Albanian initials, UCK) in terms comparable
to those he used for Serbian police repression:
        " 'The violence we have seen grow-ing is incredibly dangerous,' Gelbard
said. He criticized violence 'promulgated by the (Serb) police' and
condemned the actions of an ethnic Albanian under-ground group Kosovo
Liberation Army (UCK) which has claimed responsibility for a series of
attacks on Serb targets. 'We condemn very strongly terrorist ac-tions in
Kosovo. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group,' Gelbard
said." [Agence France Presse, 2/23/98]
        Mr. Gelbard's remarks came just be-fore a KLA attack on a Serbian
police station led to a retaliation that left dozens of Albanians dead,
leading in turn to a rapid escalation of the cycle of violence.
Responding to criticism that his earlier remarks might have been seen as
Wash-ington's "green light" to Belgrade that a crack-down on the KLA
would be ac-ceptable, Mr. Gelbard offered to clarify to the House
Committee on International Relations:
        "Questioned by lawmakers today on whether he still considered the group
a terrorist organization, Mr. Gelbard said that while it has committed
'terrorist acts,' it has 'not been classified legally by the U.S.
Government as a terrorist organiza-tion.'" [New York Times, 3/13/98]
        The situation in Kosovo has since been transformed: what were once
spo-radic cases of KLA attacks and often heavy-handed and indiscriminate
Serbian responses has now become a full-scale guerrilla war. That
development appeared to be a vindication of what may have been the KLA's
strategy of escalating the level of violence to the point where out-side
intervention would become a dis-tinct possibility. Given the military
im-balance, there is reason to believe the KLA -- which is now calling
for the in-troduction of NATO ground troops into Kosovo [Associated
Press, 3/27/99] -- may have always expected to achieve its goals less
because of the group's own prospects for military success than be-cause
of a hoped-for outside interven-tion: As one fighter put it, "We hope
that NATO will intervene, like it did in Bos-nia, to save us" ["Both
Sides in the Kosovo Conflict Seem Determined to Ignore Reality," New
York Times, 6/22/98].
        By early 1999, the Clinton Admini-stration had completely staked the
suc-cess of its Kosovo policy on either the acceptance by both sides of
a pre-drafted peace agreement that would entail a NATO ground occupation
of Kosovo, or, if the Albanians signed the agreement while Belgrade
refused, bombing of the Serbs. By committing itself so tightly to those
two alternatives, the Clinton Ad-ministration left itself with as little
flexi-bility as it had offered the Albanians and the Serbs.
        At that point for the Administration, cultivating the goodwill of the
KLA -- as the most extreme element on the Alba-nian side, and the
element which had the weapons capable of sinking any diplo-matic
initiative -- became an absolute imperative:
        “In order to get the Albanians'... ac-ceptance [of the peace plan], Ms.
Al-bright offered incentives intended to show that Washington is a
friend of Kosovo...Officers in the Kosovo Libera-tion Army would . . .
be sent to the United States for training in transforming themselves
from a guerrilla group into a police force or a political entity, much
like the African National Congress did in South Africa." [New York
Times, 2/24/99]
        The Times' comparison of treatment of the KLA with that of the African
Na-tional Congress (ANC) -- a group with its own history of terror
attacks on political opponents, including members of the ethnic group it
claims to represent -- is a telling one. In fact, it points to the
seem-ingly consistent Clinton policy of culti-vating relationships with
groups known for terrorist violence -- not only the ANC, but the
Palestine Liberation Or-ganization (PLO) and the Irish Republi-can Army
(IRA) -- in what may be a strategy of attempting to wean away a group
from its penchant for violence by adopting its cause as an element of
U.S. policy.
        By the time the NATO airstrikes be-gan, the Clinton Administration's
part-nership with the KLA was unambiguous:
        "With ethnic Albanian Kosovars poised to sign a peace accord later
Thursday, the United States is moving quickly to help transform the
Kosovo Liberation Army from a rag-tag band of guerrilla fighters into a
political force. . . . Washington clearly sees it as a main hope for the
troubled province's future. 'We want to develop a good relationship with
them as they transform themselves into a politically-oriented
organization,' deputy State Department spokesman James Foley said. 'We
want to develop closer and better ties with this organiza-tion.'
        "A strong signal of this is the defer-ence with which U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright treats the Kosovar Albanians' chief negotiator
Hashim Thaci, a 30-year-old KLA commander. Albright dispatched her top
aide and spokesman James Rubin to Paris earlier this week to meet with
Thaci and per-sonally deliver to him an invitation for members of his
delegation to visit the United States. Rubin, who will attend the
ceremony at which the Kosovar Albani-ans will sign the accord, is
expected to then return to Washington with five members of the
delegation, including Thaci. Thaci and Rubin have developed a 'good
rapport' during the Kosovo crisis, according to U.S. officials who note
that Thaci was the main delegate they con-vinced to sign the agreement
even though the Serbs have refused to do so. [ . . . ]
        " '[W]e believe that we have a lot of advice and a lot of help that we
can pro-vide to them if they become precisely the kind of political
actor we would like to see them become.' Foley stressed that the KLA
would not be allowed to continue as a military force but would have the
chance to move forward in their quest for self government under a
'different con-text.' 'If we can help them and they want us to help them
in that effort of trans-formation, I think it's nothing that any-body
can argue with.' "
        Such an effusive embrace by top Clinton Administration officials of an
or-ganization that only a year ago one of its own top officials labeled
as "terrorist" is, to say the least, a startling development.
        Even more importantly, the new Clinton/KLA partnership may obscure
troubling allegations about the KLA that the Clinton Administration has
thus far neglected to address.
Charges of Drugs, Islamic Terror -- and a Note on Sources
        No observer doubts that the large majority of fighters that have
flocked to the KLA during the past year or so (since it began
large-scale military operations) are ordinary Kosovo Albanians who
de-sire what they see as the liberation of their homeland from foreign
rule. But that fact -- which amounts to a claim of innocence by
association -- does not fully explain the KLA's uncertain origins,
political program, sources of funding, or political alliances.
        Among the most troubling aspects of the Clinton Administration's
effective alliance with the KLA are numerous re-ports from reputable
unofficial sources -- including the highly respected Jane's publications
-- that the KLA is closely involved with:
The extensive Albanian crime network that extends throughout Europe and
into
North America, including allegations that a major portion of the KLA
finances are derived from that network, mainly pro-ceeds from drug
trafficking; and Terrorist organizations motivated by the ideology of
radical Islam, including assets of Iran and of the notorious Osama
bin-Ladin -- who has vowed a global terrorist war against Americans and
American inter-ests.
        The final two sections of this paper give samples of these reports.
(Many of these reports are available in full at www.siri-us.com, the
website of an in-dependent think tank called the Strategic Issues
Research Institute of the United States, under "Background Issues".) In
presenting samples of such reports for the consideration of Republican
Senators and staff, RPC does not claim that these reports constitute
conclusive evidence of the KLA's drug or terror ties. Nor are these
reports necessarily conclusive as to the policy advisability of the
Clinton Administration's support for that organi-zation. They do,
however, raise serious questions about the context in which decisions
regarding American policy in the Balkans are being made by the Clin-ton
Administration.
        All of these sources are unclassified and unconnected to official
agencies of the U.S. government, although some quote sources in
intelligence agencies. Possible objections could be raised that the
relevant U.S. government agencies may not have made available similar
re-ports concerning the KLA. While it is not possible to discuss, in the
context of this paper, what information is or is not avail-able from
classified sources, the author of this paper offers what he regards as
two helpful observations. First, one should recognize that the absence
of re-porting on a given topic may indicate that the information has not
been ob-tained, assembled, or disseminated by the agencies in question,
but not neces-sarily that it does not exist. That is, si-lence by
official sources does not consti-tute disproof of unofficial sources.
The second and more troubling observation is that the Clinton
Administration has demonstrated, to an unprecedented de-gree, an
unfortunate tendency -- in some cases possibly involving an improper
politicization of traditionally non-political government agencies -- to
manage or conceal inconvenient information that might call into question
some of its poli-cies. Examples of this tendency include:
        China espionage: Numerous critics have faulted the Clinton
Administration's
less-than-forthcoming attitude towards the investigation of possible
negligence regarding Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear secrets; obstruction
efforts may have in-cluded misuse of the classification proc-ess. [For
details, see RPC's "Contradictions Abound: Did the Ad-ministration
Respond 'Vigorously' to Chinese Nuclear Espionage?" 3/24/99; "The Public
Record: China's Theft of U.S. Nuclear Secrets," 3/12/99; and
"Commentators Hit Clinton Administra-tion on Nuclear Technology Theft
and Suspicious China Ties," 3/12/99.] The ef-fectiveness of the current
Kosovo crisis in getting the China espionage scandal off Page 1 has not
gone unnoticed: "In the days leading up to the initiation of hostilities
with Serbia, it had become in-creasingly apparent that the usual
ad-ministration damage control techniques (official denials, misleading
statements, obstruction of inquiries, attacks on the accusers, etc.)
were not working in the face of cascading revelations that the Clinton
team had abysmally failed to ad-dress [Chinese] penetration of America's
nuclear weapons laboratories.... The only option: change the subject,
regardless of the cost in American lives, national treasure, and
long-term interests" [Frank Gaffney, Jr., Center for Security Policy,
"Hidden Trigger on Guns of Interven-tion?" Washington Times, 3/30/99].
        Mexico drug certification: The Clinton Administration has consistently
certified that Mexican authorities are co-operating with U.S. anti-drug
efforts -- despite strong evidence to the contrary. [See, for example,
Los Angeles Times, 3/25/99; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/27/99; and The
San Francisco Chroni-cle, 2/26/99].
        Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia: The Clinton Administration concealed
its active cooperation with the Iranians for arms shipments to the
Muslim funda-mentalist regime of Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia in
violation of the United Nations arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia.
[For details on the Clinton Administra-tion's active connivance with the
Irani-ans, see RPC's "Clinton-Approved Ira-nian Arms Transfers Help Turn
Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base," 1/16/97.] This track record
undermines the Clinton Administration's insistence that Russia, as a
permanent member of the U.N. Se-curity Council, is obligated to observe
the same embargo with respect to Serbia [as stated by State Department
spokes-man James Rubin, daily briefing, March 24, 1999].
        Eradication of the Serbs in Krajina: The Clinton Administration has
stalled efforts to investigate what has been called the "biggest ethnic
cleansing" of the Balkan wars, one which the Clinton Administration may
itself have helped to facilitate:
        "Investigators at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague
have concluded that the Croatian Army car-ried out summary executions,
indis-criminate shelling of civilian populations and 'ethnic cleansing'
during a 1995 as-sault that was a turning point in the Bal-kan wars,
according to tribunal docu-ments. The investigators have recom-mended
that three Croatian generals be indicted, and an American official said
this week that the indictments could come within a few weeks. . . . Any
in-dictment of Croatian Army generals could prove politically
troublesome for the Clinton Administration, which has a delicate
relationship with Croatia, an American ally in preserving the peace in
Bosnia with a poor human rights record. The August 1995 Croatian
offensive, which drove some 100,000 Serbs from a large swath of Croatia
over four days, was carried out with the tacit blessing of the United
States by a Croatian Army that had been schooled in part by a group of
retired American military offi-cers.
        Questions still remain about the full extent of United States
involvement. In the course of the three-year investigation into the
assault, the United States has failed to provide critical evidence
re-quested by the tribunal, according to tri-bunal documents and
officials, adding to suspicion among some there that Wash-ington is
uneasy about the investigation. Two senior Canadian military officers,
for example, who were in Croatia during the offensive, testified that
the assault, in which some 3,000 shells rained down on the city of Knin
over 48 hours, was in-discriminate and targeted civilians. . . . A
section of the tribunal's 150-page report is headed: 'The Indictment.
Operation Storm, A Prima Facie Case.': 'During the course of the
military offensive, the Croatian armed forces and special police
committed numerous violations of inter-national humanitarian law,
including but not limited to, shelling of Knin and other cities,' the
report says. 'During, and in the 100 days following the military
offensive, at least 150 Serb civilians were summa-rily executed, and
many hundreds disap-peared.' The crimes also included looting and
burning, the report says." ["War Crimes Panel Finds Croat Troops
'Cleansed' the Serbs," New York Times, 3/21/99]
        The Krajina episode -- the largest in the recent Yugoslav wars, at
least until this week in Kosovo -- exposes the hy-pocrisy of the Clinton
claims as to why intervention in Kosovo is a humanitarian imperative:
        "Within four days, the Croatians drove out 150,000 Serbs, the largest
[until this week] ethnic cleansing of the entire Balkan wars.
Investigators in the Hague have concluded that this cam-paign was
carried out with brutality, wanton murder, and indiscriminate shelling
of civilians. . . . Krajina is Kosovo writ large. And yet, at the same
time, the U.S. did not stop or even pro-test the Croatian action. The
Clinton Administration tacitly encouraged it." [Charles Krauthammer,
"The Clinton Doctrine," Time magazine, 4/5/99]
        In short, the absence of official con-firmation of the reports cited
below can hardly be considered the last word in the matter. And given
this Administration's record, one might treat with some degree of
skepticism even a flat denial of KLA drug and terror ties -- which thus
far has not been offered. As the Clinton Ad-ministration searches for
new options in its Kosovo policy, these reports about KLA should not be
lightly dismissed.
Reports on KLA Drug and Criminal Links
        Elements informally known as the "Albanian mafia," composed largely of
ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, have for several years been a feature of
the crimi-nal underworld in a number of cities in Europe and North
America; they have been particularly prominent in the trade in illegal
narcotics. [See, for exam-ple,"The Albanian Cartel: Filling the Crime
Void," Jane's Intelligence Review, November 1995.] The cities where the
Albanian cartels are located are also fer-tile ground for fundraising
for support of the Albanian cause in Kosovo. [See, for example,
"Albanians in Exile Send Mil-lions of Dollars to Support the KLA," BBC,
3/12/99.]
        The reported link between drug ac-tivities and arms purchases for
anti-Serb Albanian forces in Kosovo predates the formation of the KLA,
and indeed, may be seen as a key resource that allowed the KLA to
establish itself as a force in the first place:
        "Narcotics smuggling has become a prime source of financing for civil
wars already under way -- or rapidly brewing -- in southern Europe and
the eastern Mediterranean, according to a report is-sued here this week.
The report, by the Paris-based Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues, or
Geopolitical Observa-tory of Drugs, identifies belligerents in the
former Yugoslav republics and Tur-key as key players in the region's
accel-erating drugs-for-arms traffic. Albanian nationalists in
ethnically tense Macedo-nia and the Serbian province of Kosovo have
built a vast heroin network, leading from the opium fields of Pakistan
to black-market arms dealers in Switzer-land, which transports up to $2
billion worth of the drug annually into the heart of Europe, the report
says. More than 500 Kosovo or Macedonian Albanians are in prison in
Switzerland for drug- or arms-trafficking offenses, and more than 1,000
others are under indictment. The arms are reportedly stockpiled in
Kosovo for eventual use against the Serbian gov-ernment in Belgrade,
which imposed a violent crackdown on Albanian auton-omy advocates in the
province five years ago." ["Separatists Supporting Them-selves with
Traffic in Narcotics," San Francisco Chronicle, 6/10/94]
        At the same time, many Albanians in the diaspora have made voluntary
contributions to the KLA and are of-fended at suggestions of drug money
funding of that organization:
        "Nick Ndrejaj, who retired from the real estate business, lives on a
pension in Daytona Beach, Fla. But the retiree has managed to scrape up
some money to send to the Kosovo Liberation Army, the rebel force that
is opposing Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. 'It's hard, but we
have had to do this all our lives,' says the elderly man. Mr. Ndrejaj is
one of many Albanians in America who are sending all they can spare to
aid their beleaguered compatriots in central Europe. The disaster in
Kosovo is uniting the minority into a major fund-raising and
congressional lobbying effort. [ . . . ]
        "Typical of the donors is Agim Jusufi, a building superintendent on
Manhattan's West Side. Mr. Jusufi gets a weekly paycheck. He describes
himself as an ordinary 'working man.' However, he has donated $5,000 to
the KLA. 'It is always stressed that we should donate when we can,' he
says, 'We are in a grave moment, so we are raising money.' Jusufi
bridles over reports that drug money funds the KLA. There has been an
Al-banian organized-crime element involved in the drug trade for
decades.

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