CIA Subversion in Kosovo and Albania

Luke Ryland, OpEdNews

Kosovo
and Albania
In 1999, Washington
Times reported that:

"Some
members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort
through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by
international fugitive Osama bin Laden...

The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton
administration in NATO's 41-day bombing campaign... were trained in secret
camps in Afghanistan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence
reports.

The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists -- members
of the Mujahideen --as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia...
[...]
The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained
and financially supported the KLA.
[...]
The KLA's involvement in drug smuggling as a means of raising funds for weapons
is long-standing. Intelligence documents show it has aligned itself with an
extensive organized crime network in Albania
that smuggles heroin to buyers throughout Western Europe and the United States.

Drug agents in five countries believe the cartel is one of the most powerful
heroin smuggling organizations in the world."

Similarly,
the Wall
Street Journal, Europe reported in 2001:

"For
the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans,
including 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-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria,
Turkey and Bosnia. This
has gone on for a decade. Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from
Chechnya,
a jihad in which Al Qaeda has also played a part."

Ayman
Al-Zawahiri, of course, is reported to have been the brains behind the
September Eleven terrorist attack in the United States. His brother,
Muhammad al-Zawahiri, is the head of the Albanian network, according to Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare.

In short, at a minimum, the United
States, with NATO, were supporting the
Kosovo Liberation Army alongside Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.