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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugoslaviainfo/message/3364 [Regarding today's news reports that Ali Ahmeti, as recently as 18 months ago identified by his current sponsor Secretary General of NATO Lord Robertson as the ringleader of a band of 'murderous thugs,' will now enter the federal cabinet of the government of Macedonia. The following are excerpts from a piece written some 15 months ago.] Human Rights Watch: Dear Mr. Ahmeti by Rick Rozoff August 1, 2001 In the interim between the deferential letter from Ms.Carter to Mr. Ahmeti almost three months ago and now, Ahmeti and his pan-Albanian mercenaries have unleashed a full-scale insurrection throughout the nation, ethnically cleansing dozens of villages and contributing to the displacement of - by some estimates - over 120,000 civilians, a sizeable percentage of Macedonia's two million people. Who is Dear Mr. Ahmeti? For anyone not familiar with Mr. Ahmeti, whose history suggests someone anything but dear, he possesses, to employ an expression familiar to the American if not the Albanian underworld, a rap sheet as long as his arm. Regarding his recent activties, in addition to waging war against the sovereign nation of Macedonia and its civilian population from his base in Prizren in Kosovo, Ahmeti reportedly found time to appear on an Australian radio broadcast and announce the launching of a Liberation Army of Chameria in Northern Greece, claiming he already had fighters and weapons in place there. When questioned about this, the latest plan for his decades' old project for a Greater Albania, he denied it - but then Ahmeti has denied a number of things in his lifetime. Had he been asked about his clandestine meeting with American OSCE representative Robert Frowick in mid-May of this year - a meeting held in Ahmeti's headquarters in Kosovo with Macedonian ethnic Albanian political leaders, and cabinet ministers, Arben Xhaferi and Imer Imeri - he might well have denied that also, except that Frowick himself didn't deny that it occurred. In a feature in the London Times on March 19, 2001, "Albanians Insist Their Victory Is Inevitable," writer Anthony Loyd, commenting on the NLA in Macedonia, had this to say about Mr. Ahmeti's antecedents: "Intelligence reports name four main figures, including Ali Ahmeti and Emrush Xhemajii, as leaders. Both men owe their political allegiance to the Popular Movement for Kosovo, the LPK, which set up the KLA in 1993 and created the Homeland Calling funding scheme among Albanians abroad. The scheme still exists and funding for the NLA has been launched, say diplomats." But his record as an ethnic separatist goes back farther than 1993. Though born in what is now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he attended the University of Pristina in the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1981, where he was active in pan-Albanian agitation and was arrested by federal authorities there. He subsequently left for Switzerland, where he joined up with his uncle, Fazli Veliu, to set up an international operation to raise funds and recruit fighters for insurrections in Kosovo and elsewhere; an operation that several investigations establish was funded by narcotics trafficking and the European sex slave trade. On this score the German newspaper Die Welt reported in March, in an article about the Albanian mafia, that the NLA in Macedonia was indeed funded by the drug trade and by a "war tax" levied on ethnic Albanians living abroad. Ali Ahmeti and Fazli Veliu (the second arrested on terrorism charges in Germany last year, but released shortly thereafter) are identified as key ringleaders in the crime syndicate/armed insurgency collaboration. Ahmeti, after leaving Switzerland for the first time, returned to Yugoslavia to help found the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, as noted above, and appears to be the key liaison between the fighters on the ground and the Transatlantic ethnic Albanian gun-running and recruitment operation feeding the first with personnel, funds and weapons. In the past twenty six months since NATO-led KFOR forces occupied Kosovo, with their KLA adjuncts in tow, Ahmeti - who during the fighting had been a commander for the infamous war criminal Ramush Haradinaj - returned to Kosovo where he set up operation in Prizren. It was there, and recall that Ahmeti claims to be a citizen of Macedonia concerned about alleged "civil rights" in that nation, that he met with the heads of Macedonia's two largest ethnic political parties, the Democratic Party of Albanians and the Party for Democratic Progress, under the auspices of U.S. OSCE operative Robert Frowick. It may also have been in Prizren, if not in Skopje itself, that, according to the Skopje newspaper Makedonija Denes, Ahmeti met with former NATO head and current European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana, with Kosovo Protection Corps commander and war criminal Agim Ceku, and with KLA commander Haradinaj. According to a Yugoslav Tanjug account of the Macedonian paper's story, "It was agreed that Solana, currently visiting Macedonia, bring pressure to bear on the Macedonian government to halt the government forces' operations for liberating Aracinovo village near the capital Skopje" - the site of the U.S.-led rescue of a hundred or more NLA fighters shortly thereafter. [http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Arhiva/2001/Jun%20-%2000/26-06e10.html] Although Ahmeti recently made it on to the U.S. black list and is also persona non grata in Switzerland of late, his movements in and out of Kosovo, surely known to if not coordinated by NATO's KFOR contingent, seem blissfully unimpeded. Lastly, to reflect on both Human Rights Watch and on its dear Mr. Ahmeti, five days before Holly Cartner's ever so reverential letter was issued, Ahmeti's terrorists ambushed and killed eight Macedonian security personnel. Ahmeti told a Reuters reporter after the incident that, "Our soldiers acted in self-defense." And no doubt, in his mind and in Ms. Cartner's, according to Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions relating to "internal armed conflicts" and to "humanitarian law." For the above crime was not mentioned in the exchange between Dear Mr. Ahmeti and Holly Cartner.. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
