Tanjug (Belgrade)
September 26, 2001
RUGOVA SAYS KLA READY TO CARRY ATTACKS IN SUPPORT OF BIN LADIN
Rome, Sept 26 (Tanjug) -- Democratic League of Kosovo leader Ibrahim
Rugova has said that the KLA (so-called Kosovo liberation Army) is
hiding international terrorist bases at the territory under its control,
and that KLA members are ready to organize terrorist attacks to support
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident suspected of the Sept 11
terrorist attacks at New York and Washington.
Rugova, leader of the moderate Kosovo Albanian wing, has reiterated
his warning to the world about the KLA's terrorist nature, the Itar-TASS
news agency said, quoting a special statement it received from Rugova's
information service in Italy.
"One must not forget that bin Laden's organisation got established
on the territory of Albania and Kosovo as early as in 1994," and that
"in 1996 Bin Laden ordered his detachments to get prepared for actions
in Kosovo and Albania," Rugova said.
According to Rugova, one of bin Laden's associates, Mohammed
Zawhiri, personally supervised the training of ethnic Albanian
extremists.
"KLA is not just a rebel organisation capable of devasting the
territory of Kosovo and Macedonia," but "on the international level it
is ready to act, using the same means as in Kosovo, and to render
assistance to terrorist groups," the statement said.
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