http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonian-spy-file-rejected <http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonian-spy-file-rejected> 10 Nov 2010 / 16:02 Macedonia Refuses to Probe Spy Claims <http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonian-spy-file-rejected> The Lustration Commission, tasked with rooting out former spies, will not investigate a file naming an ethnic Albanian leader because it cannot vouch for its authenticity.
Sinisa jakov Marusic Skopje The head of the Lustration Commission said they could not launch a probe into Ali Ahmeti based solely on "photocopies of documents". Tome Adziev said they could not verify the authenticity of documents unless they were originals. The file, codenamed "Ibar", is one out of four files that name high-ranking members of Ahmeti's Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, as men who formerly cooperated with the secret service in Belgrade. The Commission recently rejected two other files, Mama and Uncle, for the same reason. The forth file, Archer, was rejected because it named a figure who was not a current office-holder. The file naming Ahmeti has raised by far the most controversy in Macedonia. The DUI chief gained much of his patriotic image among ethnic Albanians from the time when he headed an Albanian guerilla insurgency during the short-lived armed conflict in Macedonia in 2001. The file allegedly says that Ahmeti worked for Yugoslav intelligence in the 1980s and later for Serbian intelligence during the era of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. The DUI has threatened to sue those behind the allegations, though it has not said who it believes put the files into the public domain. Three of the files were submitted to the Commission in mid-October by an Albanian university professor from the western town of Tetovo who claimed he found them in his backyard. The forth file, Ibar, appeared later that month in the pages of the daily newspaper Dnevnik. The newspaper did not reveal its source while submitting the file to the Commission. <http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonian-spy-file-rejected> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
