Letters to the editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
June 16, 2006
Beware Kosovo independence
In the well-written Commentary column regarding the global metastasis of al
Qaeda ("Reconnecting al Qaeda dots," Wednesday), Arnaud de Borchgrave omits one
important regional milestone: the Balkans. Today, while America's and the
world's attention is focused on Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, the establishment
of a rogue Islamic terrorist state in the belly of Europe is nearing enactment
by misguided moves to create an independent Kosovo controlled by terrorist and
organized-crime elements.
A Wall Street Journal (European edition) article of Nov. 1, 2001, headlined
"Al Qaeda's Balkan Links," states: "For the past 10 years, the most senior
leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including [Osama] bin Laden
himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned
terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps,
weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-training
networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia (FYROM), Bulgaria, Turkey and
Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade."
The Washington Times' own Jerry Seper wrote as far back as 1999: "Some
members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which has financed its war effort
through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by
international fugitive Osama bin Laden." Since then, Kosovo has become Europe's
center for drug trafficking, sex slavery and terrorism.
According to Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily (Oct. 25, 2005): "Deeply
placed sources within the Islamist community in Kosovo have identified the
source and type of the explosives used in the jihadist terrorist bombings in
London on July 7, 2005, and the Madrid commuter railway bombings of March 11,
2004.
"The man at the center of the provision of the explosives in both instances
was an Albanian, operating mostly out of Kosovo (with links into Bosnia) who is
a second-ranking leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army."
Only firm action by the United States can stop another U.N. fiasco: Kosovo
independence.
COL. GEORGE JATRAS
Air Force (retired)
Camp Hill, Pa.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060615-084010-9571r.htm
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