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Posted on 10/23/2004 8:27:42 PM PDT by CHARLITE
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm
KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTS October 18, 2004
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
Introduction
John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, is being given money by an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian).
The KLA is currently smuggling weapons into Kosovo as part of a plot to attack American and other UN peacekeepers, should the UN Security Counsel refuse their demand for Kosovo's secession from Serbia and Montenegro.
About the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK)
In order to fully understand the significance of John Kerry's involvement with the KLA it is first necessary to understand what sort of an organization the KLA is. The KLA is a terrorist organization with ties to Osama bin Laden and the Iranian government. The KLA's main objective is to break Kosovo, which has been an integral part of Serbia for centuries, away from Serbia.
The KLA began on the radical fringe of Kosovo-Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II. [1]
The KLA made its military debut in February 1996 with the bombing of several camps housing Serbian refugees from wars in Croatia and Bosnia. [2]
In early 1998 the KLA caught the attention of the U.S. Special Envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard. Gelbard told Agence France Presse "We condemn very strongly terrorist actions in Kosovo. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group." [3]
The KLA has been credibly linked to the notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden. In 1999 The Washington Times obtained intelligence documents that showed what is described as a 'link' between bin Laden, and the KLA --including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports said bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization has both trained and financially supported the KLA. [4]
In 1998 Fatos Klosi, the head of SHIK, the Albanian intelligence service, told London’s Sunday Times newspaper that Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. His was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, Klosi said. [5]
In 2002 the U.S. State Department issued a report giving Iran the dubious distinction of being "the most active state sponsor of terrorism." Their report went on to report that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning of and support for terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups that use terrorism to pursue their goals. [6]
The Jerusalem Post reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were training the KLA in 1998. The newspaper said that "Selected groups of Albanians were sent to Iran to study that country's version of militant Islam." The same article went on to report that "millions of dollars have been funneled through Bosnia and Albania to buy arms for the KLA. The money is raised from both Islamic governments and from Islamic communities in Western Europe, particularly Germany." [7]
Yossef Bodansky, the Director of the U.S. House Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, wrote a report for the magazine Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy saying that "In the Fall of 1997, the uppermost leadership in Tehran ordered the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps] High Command to launch a major program for shipping large quantities of weapons and other military supplies to the Albanian clandestine organizations in Kosovo. [Ayatollah] Khamene'i's instructions specifically stipulated that the comprehensive military assistance was aimed to enable the Muslims 'to achieve the independence' of the province of Kosovo."
Bodansky's article corroborates the Jerusalem Post's account. He wrote that in 1997 "the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran." [8]
In addition to the direct financing that the KLA receives from Islamic terror organizations, the organization also relies on funds raised by the Albanian mafia. [9]
The Baltimore Sun, citing western intelligence officials, reported that part of the KLA's funding comes from "powerful Albanian mafia organizations that deal in narcotics, prostitution and arms smuggling across Europe." [10]
The London Times reported that the KLA was "an outgrowth of the Kosovo Albanian mafia." Their report said, "these Kosovan criminals operate the most powerful drug-running network in Europe." [11]
According to police in the Czech Republic, Kosovo Albanian drug traffickers fund the KLA with proceeds from the heroin trade. "Kosovo Albanian drug smugglers have become a major phenomenon," said Jiri Komorous, head of the Czech Republic's national narcotics police, who added that his heroin division "spends about 80 percent of its time" on Kosovar drug gangs. [12]
Interpol estimates that Kosovo Albanians may control 40 percent of the European heroin trade. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, they may have as much as 70 percent of the market, according to the estimates. [13]
In addition to drug trafficking. The KLA kidnaps women and young girls and forces them into prostitution.
During NATO's 1999 bombardment of Yugoslavia, which resulted in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo refugees, the KLA robbed refugee families and forced refugee girls into prostitution.
According to the London Times, "Reports from Macedonia and Albania confirm that KLA 'minders' [inside the refugee camps] ensure that all refugees peddle the same line when speaking to Western journalists. KLA gangsters rob them of any remaining cash. And KLA pimps driving Mercedes kidnap refugee girls for prostitution in Italy." [14]
The Albanian mafia's involvement in prostitution is huge. In 2001 The Economist, citing an internal British Home Office briefing, reported that "Albanians or Kosovars now control 'around 70%' of massage parlors in Soho. That ties in with a report last year [2000] by the National Criminal Intelligence Service, which noted a long-term threat from organized Albanian gangs who run immigration and prostitution rackets across Western Europe to pursue their goals."
The article says that there is "little the police can do. They say that immigrant sex workers refuse to testify because the gangs threaten reprisals against the women's loved ones. Since these groups operate internationally, the British police cannot protect the families of the workers. They are powerless against such intimidation."
Paul Holmes, who heads London's Metropolitan Police's Vice Unit says "All our intelligence and evidential experience is that these women are being used, effectively as sexual slaves, by ruthless, exploitative pimps." Tackling prostitution is harder than ever. But it is not the sex that is the problem. It is the slavery. [15]
The Albanian mafia has become extremely powerful as a world-wide criminal force. The effects of the Albanian mafia are even being felt in the United States where they are taking over organized crime.
The FBI says, thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime. [16]
According to Chris Swecker, the head of the FBI's criminal division, Albanian gangsters have already seized control of some rackets from New York Mafia families. [17]
John Kerry and the KLA
The leader of the KLA is a man named Hashim Thaci. Thaci, who goes under the nom de guerre "Snake," attended the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston earlier this year.
Upon returning from the convention, Thaci told the Albanian-Language KosovaLive agency, "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Thachi's political party] had been invited as a guest. It was confirmed once again that the Democratic authorities would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosova for self-determination" [18]
In addition to the KLA leader's attendance at the Democratic Convention was the presence of KLA members at a John Kerry fundraiser in New York.
In September, the Dutch Television station VPRO produced a documentary entitled "De Brooklyn Connectie." This documentary follows a KLA terrorist named Florin Kraniqi as he attends a John Kerry fundraiser, and then smuggles weapons into Kosovo for a war that is being planned against American and other UN Peacekeepers there.
The video can be downloaded from the VPRO website at:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/18793157/
Kraniqi lives in Brooklyn, where he allegedly works as a roofer; although his big house, his shiny new car, and his swimming pool, suggest that he makes money in other ways.
The first few minutes of the video consist of Kraniqi praising the KLA and accusing the Serbs.
At the 11:08 mark of the video, he goes to a John Kerry fundraiser together with a group of KLA members. They are shown writing checks to the Kerry campaign for thousands of dollars each.
While at the fundraiser, they openly identify themselves as the KLA. Kraniqi is seen introducing himself and his brothers-in-arms to Wesley Clark (Commander of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and former Democratic presidential candidate). Kraniqi says, "Mr. Clark. This is your group, your KLA." Clark then praises the group saying, "They fought against tremendous odds."
Then, Richard Holbrooke (Kerry's Sr. Foreign Policy Adviser), who apparently knows one of the terrorists, comes over and jokingly says, "He almost got me killed." To which Kraniqi quips, "He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov." Then Holbrooke, Clark, and this group of KLA terrorists all have a good laugh.
It is rather disturbing to see these high officials in the Democratic Party having such a relaxed and friendly exchange with a group of terrorists, eventhough they have just given thousands of dollars to John Kerry’s campaign.
Kraniqi makes clear that he expects a quid-pro-quo for his donation. He says, "With money you can do amazing things in this country. Senators and congressmen are looking for donations. If you fund them and raise the money they need for their campaign they pay you back."
At the 29:03 mark of the video, Kraniqi visits a gun store and purchases weapons to use in Kosovo. From this point forward you get to see how the KLA smuggles weapons into Kosovo, disguising them as humanitarian aid and so forth.
Near the end of the video, at the 46:00 mark, you finally learn why the KLA has been smuggling all of those weapons into Kosovo. The Dutch TV reporter says, "In Pristina I talked to the NATO spokesman and he told me that he was very successful in disarming the Albanians."
Kraniqi laughs and replies, "It's a NATO propaganda. No one ever is going to disarm Albanians. There is no way. No NATO, no one is going to disarm Albanians. [...] NATO can collect a few arms. But most Albanians in Kosovo are very well armed. Just incase NATO pulls out, or we don't get our independence peacefully then we'll use those weapons."
Because the video has been edited, the end of this conversation is way back at the 4:08 mark (you can tell that it is part of the same conversation because he is standing in front of the same wall, in the same lighting conditions, and wearing the same clothes).
The Dutch Reporter asks: "It's going to be war?"
Kraniqi replies: "Hope not, but if it is were ready; if not this spring then the next one. If Kosova does not get its independence there will be a war."
In case you are unaware of this fact, the only ones in Kosovo that the KLA can have a war with are the UN peacekeeping troops, which include Americans. The Serbs all withdrew in 1999 after the NATO bombing.
This is not such a thinly veiled threat, Kraniqi is saying that if the KLA does not get its way then it will attack the UN Troops who are stationed in Kosovo, and those UN troops include Americans.
These terrorists have already shown that they are not afraid to attack the UN. In September, UCK sniper attacks on UN vehicles forced the UN to stop using the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic road between 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM. [19]
Conclusion
The KLA is clearly a terrorist organization. It is backed by Islamic terror organizations. It is linked both to Osama bin Laden and to the Government of Iran. It is heavily involved in drug trafficking and forced prostitution.
The KLA is directly threatening the safety of American personnel stationed in Kosovo. They’re smuggling weapons in for a war against a UN force that includes Americans, and they’re so brazen that they’ll do for everybody to see on Dutch national TV.
John Kerry, who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee from 1993 until 2000, must know who the KLA is, but he clearly doesn’t care.
Instead of condemning the KLA, Kerry takes money from them. And instead of distancing itself from the KLA, Kerry's party invites the KLA's leader to come to their convention in Boston.
The United States of America, was brutally attacked by terrorists on 9/11, we are in a life or death struggle against terrorism, and here is John Kerry taking money from terrorists; if there was ever anybody that we needed to keep out of the White House it’s John Kerry.
Footnotes
[1] "Fog of War -- Coping With the Truth About Friend and Foe: Victims Not Quite Innocent," New York Times, March 28, 1999
[2] Jane's Intelligence Review, October 1, 1996
[3] Agence France Presse, February 23, 1998
[4] "KLA Rebels Train in Terrorist Camps: Bin Laden Offers Training Too," Washington Times, May 4, 1999, pg. A1
[5] "Bin Laden opens European terror base in Albania," The Sunday Times (London), November 29, 1998, Sunday
[6] FORM item 9, U.S. Department of State , Patterns of Global Terrorism -2002, dtd April 30, 2003
[7] "Kosovo Seen as New Islamic Bastion," Jerusalem Post, September 14, 1998
[8] "Italy Becomes Iran's New Base for Terrorist Operations," by Yossef Bodansky, Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy (London), February 1998
[9] "Albanian Mafia, This Is How It Helps The Kosovo Guerrilla Fighters," Corriere della Sera (Milan, Italy), October 15, 1998
[10] "Speculation Plentiful, Facts Few About Kosovo Separatist Group," Baltimore Sun, March 6, 1998
[11] "In spontaneously opening our hearts to these Kosovan refugees, we are opening our country to organised criminality," The Times (London), May 6, 1999, Thursday
[12] "A New Drug Route is Traced to the Old Balkans Anarchy" The Boston Globe, June 3, 2001, Sunday, Pg. A14
[13] Ibid.
[14] "In spontaneously opening our hearts to these Kosovan refugees, we are opening our country to organised criminality," The Times (London), May 6, 1999, Thursday
[15] "Prostitution: SoHopeless; Albanian organised crime dominates prostitution in Soho" The Economist - June 21, 2001
[16] "FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia'," CNN, August 18, 2004
[17] "Hunt for 'terrorism nexus' changes how FBI handles crime," USA Today - August 19, 2004
[18] "Thaci Says US Democrats Support Self-Determination of People of Kosova," KosovaLive - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 [FBIS Document # FBIS-EEU-2004-0805]
[19] "UN Pulls Out of Night-Time Use of Kosovo Road For Security Reasons” BBC Monitoring, September 24, 2004 - FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1151 gmt 23 Sep 04
I think the conservatives are determined to defeat Osama Kerry. It's the other side that needs to be re-determined.
No wonder Kerry compared terrorism to prostitution and drugs, his supporters deal in ALL THREE!
how much/by who? I don't get it from article
BUMP
I think this is the "Monday Surprise" Powerline mentioned...
*... read!
I think you are right
I just wonder who is going to publish it since the NYT/WaPo/LAT have endorsed Kerry... no way they would print this... and people will completely ignore the Washington Times....
Supposedly, there's going to breaking foreign policy story on Monday that Kerry will have to respond to. It's been floating on RedState.org and PowerLineBlog.com. Some people think it has to do with Kerry's bragged about meetings with the UN security council prior to the Iraq vote.
I betcha this is the Monday surprise.
Looks like the SHIK hit the fan....finally!
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/18793157/
Watch the video - click on the box (there are 2) on the right of the page...
Most is in english.
I read this article on another site today, and if I recall correctly they said he had returned it. Trying to remember where I read this. Will search.
hopefully somebody will rewrite the story... with a topic sentence and summary at the top..
this is a jumbled mess
The Dems will call them *Freedom Fighters* and reccommend for sainthood . . . .
It never ceased to amaze me that the Clintonistas were so proud to be on the side of the Marxist/islamist/narco-terrorist KLA.
Oh, I wonder if DU has any inkling ... tick, tick, tick ..........
I remember reading it too... but is there actually any proof that he returned it? How nice of him to say "Oh, I didn't know!"... ;)
It may be true, but when the source is Slobodan Milosevic.org you have to wonder at the people behind the story and the URL.People who support Milosevic are not the kind of folks I'd want testifying for me at a trial. If another source, even DEBKA, releases this I'll listen closely.
Or is that anyone who isn't American is okay with the Kerry and Clinton crowd?
Lots of facts and quotes about the president-wannabe at the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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BUMP!
Surprise!
ughhh I'm trying to remember and recall where I read this. I read to much :-).
"I read this article on another site today"
The "comments" section in LGF has a link.
Wait, I believe it said.....The Kerry Campaign SAID they had returned it.
I'm sure somebody probably already did this...but I sent the link to Drudge.
I think this is the "Monday Surprise" Powerline mentioned...
I agree. problem is, I'm not sure it will stick any better than Gore and the monks.
IT's ON TAPE!!!!
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE???!!!!
Well now there are 2 of us who bothered to watch the video -
They want to run Kosovo - one way or the other.
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Yup... but would you really believe them? ;)
WEll of course I don't, but trying to remember where I read this today. Seems like there was an article on here about this earlier as well.
I watched the vid of the guy cutting a check. Short clip. It's the top one on the right hands side of the site.
Did not see the Clark, Holbrooke, terrorist clip. What minute do they appear in?
I really, really hope not. We are dealing with morons. People who still don't believe there are real threats in the world. And if there are, they believe we caused them.
This won't even register with them.
Looks like curtains for Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark. Couldn't happen to a better set of smarmy suck-ups.
"John Kerry and the KLA
The leader of the KLA is a man named Hashim Thaci. Thaci, who goes under the nom de guerre "Snake," attended the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston earlier this year.
Upon returning from the convention, Thaci told the Albanian-Language KosovaLive agency, "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Thachi's political party] had been invited as a guest. It was confirmed once again that the Democratic authorities would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosova for self-determination" [18]
In addition to the KLA leader's attendance at the Democratic Convention was the presence of KLA members at a John Kerry fundraiser in New York.
In September, the Dutch Television station VPRO produced a documentary entitled "De Brooklyn Connectie." This documentary follows a KLA terrorist named Florin Kraniqi as he attends a John Kerry fundraiser, and then smuggles weapons into Kosovo for a war that is being planned against American and other UN Peacekeepers there.
The video can be downloaded from the VPRO website at:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/18793157/
Sorry--You're asking the wrong person.
"Did not see the Clark, Holbrooke, terrorist clip. What minute do they appear in?"
At the 11:08 mark of the video, he goes to a John Kerry fundraiser together with a group of KLA members. They are shown writing checks to the Kerry campaign for thousands of dollars each.
While at the fundraiser, they openly identify themselves as the KLA. Kraniqi is seen introducing himself and his brothers-in-arms to Wesley Clark (Commander of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and former Democratic presidential candidate). Kraniqi says, "Mr. Clark. This is your group, your KLA." Clark then praises the group saying, "They fought against tremendous odds."
Then, Richard Holbrooke (Kerry's Sr. Foreign Policy Adviser), who apparently knows one of the terrorists, comes over and jokingly says, "He almost got me killed." To which Kraniqi quips, "He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov." Then Holbrooke, Clark, and this group of KLA terrorists all have a good laugh.
Ping and BUMP-ola
Here is an easy to read chart of what the media was saying pre-911 (and after): Connect the Dots...Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
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"It may be true, but when the source is Slobodan Milosevic.org"
Check out their refs (listed in "Footnotes") and watch the video - listen to it as well - then tell us what you think.
Iranians contributed $500,000 and Albanian terrorists linked to Al Qaeda contributed $510 000 on a single fundraising dinner in NYC in May 2004.
By comparrison, all registered lobbists in Washington, DC contributed $442000 to Kerry in 6 YEARS.
This is not soft money, this is TERRORIST MONEY.
Here is what Dutch crew caught on film:
Pleas read carefully:
KLA Video Shows Holbrooke, Clark Raising Funds for Kerry Campaign from KLA-linked Albanians, and Shows Ongoing KLA Arms Acquisitions
From GIS Station Amsterdam and other sources.
A recent video produced by Albanians who identified themselves as members of the ostensibly-banned Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been broadcast on Dutch television, showing KLA members giving donations to members of the US Presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. The video also shows former US Presidential candidate and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark and former US Ass. Sec. of State Richard Holbrooke — now both key supporters of the Kerry campaign for the US Presidency in the November 2, 2004, elections — with the KLA fighters, who threatened to re-start the conflict in Kosovo, including attacking the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), if Kosovo independence was not forthcoming.
Key points in the video, which was made by the KLA, include:
1. The KLA was now preparing for an open war against UNMIK if its demands for an independent Kosovo were not met;
2. The KLA was currently funneling money in to the campaign of Sen. John Kerry with the expectation of a quid pro quo. The donations and the statements expecting the support of a Kerry Administration took place in the presence of Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark who were show at a Kerry fundraiser together with KLA terrorists who openly identified themselves to Gen. Clark — who led the Clinton Administration’s attacks on Serbs in Kosovo and elsewhere in Serbia — as “your KLA”;
3. The KLA has not been disarmed, and it was still actively smuggling weapons into Kosovo;
4. The video makes known the routes and techniques of KLA arms smuggling as the camera crew follows the KLA on one of its smuggling runs.
Early in the video, the narrator asked the question: “It’s going to be war [in Kosovo]?” The unnamed KLA fighter answered: “Hope not, but if it is we’re ready. If not this Spring, then the next one. If Kosova [sic] does not get its independence, there will be a war.”
The video a few minutes further into the tape shows a Kerry fundraising event in New York, with the title “Writing a check to ‘John Kerry Victory’”, and shows an Albanian, believed to be a member of the KLA, handing a $2,000 and a $1,000 check to a Kerry campaign worker. A video is played in the room of actor Jim Belushi, an Albanian-American, saying: “If you care about the fate of Albanians in the Balkans; if you care about the safety and prosperity of America, and if you care about the future of the world around you, I hope you’ll do anything you can to make sure that John Kerry is elected as our next President.”
At that point, former Gen. Wesley Clark walks into the room, and one of the Albanians comments: “Mr Clark, this is your group, your KLA, former fighters, yeah! yeah!” Within the conversation which followed, Clark says: “... They [presumably the KLA] fought against tremendous odds.”
A KLA member noted: “Mr Clark, [have] you met this gentleman?”, indicating another man. Clark: “Yeah.” KLA member: “He was our main guy here.” At that point former US Ass. Secretary of State Holbrooke walks over to the group, and a KLA member notes: “Mr Holbrooke, listen. They all lost something in the war. He lost his leg, he lost his hands, he lost his brains ... [laughter]” Clark (gesturing towards Holbrooke): “Him too.” [Laughter] Holbrooke (laughing & pointing towards KLA member): “He almost got me killed.” The man in question responded: “He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov.”
After some additional talk, Holbrooke appeared on stage and said: “Do you know how many times [current] Secretary of State [Colin] Powell has been to the Balkans? Zero. That's right he's never been there.”
He continued: “President Bush said that we went in [to the Balkans] together with our European allies, and we'll come out together. And that's not what he's doing. He is pulling out the American troops from Bosnia without the Europeans joining him. And I can tell you on the basis of private talks I’ve had that he is going to pull out of Kosovo if he can do so. This is not acceptable.”
“John Kerry will not leave this issue where it is today. There is no work. The UN Administration has moved much too slowly. Privatization is moving too slowly. The negotiations never started. So please help us and thank you for the enormous amount of money that you have raised. Help us make John Kerry the President of the United States.”
Holbrooke added: “I've called some of my friends, David Phillips, Wesley Clark, Madeline Albright, we all called our friends, and I can now say that we have raised tonight $510,000.”
After applause, the KLA commentator on the video noted: “With money you can do amazing things in this country. Senators and congressmen are looking for donations. If you fund them and raise the money they need for their campaign they pay you back.”
Further into the program, a KLA goes in to a US gun store and purchases weapons for “elephant hunting”, and later a KLA member describes how the KLA set-up fictitious hunting clubs in Albania and the US as a cover for arms trafficking. A KLA member then boasts about the KLA’s weapons, and their snipers’ ability to “kill a man from a mile and a half away”. And another KLA member comments that that US gun dealers were “right wing extremists” who were happy to give guns to KLA to fight “a communist government”.
The video then shows a KLA member taking his weapons to the airport, and boarding a US flight to Albania. The narrator asks the question: “What’s the most weapons that you've taken on an airplane?” The KLA member answered: “Full loaded airplane. An airplane of this size (indicates to a Boeing 767) full loaded. With weapons and wrapped up with humanitarian aid. Probably about 25 tons of weapons and ammunition. We used a cargo airplane. You rent the cargo airplane and just load it up with anything you want.”
The video then shows the man, with his weapons, crossing the Albanian-Kosovo (Serbia) border at a UN checkpoint unmolested, and then later pictures him showing his contact in Kosovo all of the weapons which he smuggled into the country.
The narrator noted: “In Priština I talked to the NATO spokesman and he told me that he was very successful in disarming the Albanians.”
A KLA member in the picture laughs, and notes: “It’s a NATO propaganda. No-one ever is going to disarm Albanians. There is no way. No NATO, no-one is going to disarm Albanians. [...] NATO can collect a few arms. But most Albanians in Kosovo are very well armed. Just in case NATO pulls out, or we don't get our independence peacefully then we'll use those weapons.” See Dick Holbrooke and Wesley ClarK
This is interesting, could Kerry suffer from mental illness? Here's a post I just found.
Kerry officially says he is undecided on whether he'll run for president in 2004. But he's acting like a candidate -- raising money, careening to Jefferson-Jackson dinners, attending picnics in Iowa. Friends and colleagues say the once-desperate edges of Kerry's ambition have been smoothed by age, experience, stature and the settled domestic life that had eluded him for much of his Senate career.
But there remains a base line reserve to Kerry that can leave him difficult to embrace. He is dismissive on matters self-analytic and has a politician's bent for evading dicey matters or framing them in tidy certainties.
Part of Heinz's charm is that she has no patience for this. When Kerry is asked about the nightmares that haunted his sleep for years after he returned from Vietnam, he shrugs. "I don't think I've had a nightmare in a long time," he says. But then Heinz begins to mimic Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare.
"Down! Down, down!" she yells, patting her hands down on her auburn hair.
"I haven't gotten slapped yet," she says. "But there were times when I thought I might get throttled."
"Kerry quivers his right foot and steers the discussion to the counseling programs he has supported for Vietnam veterans. Asked if he has been in therapy himself, he non-answers. 'It doesn't bother me anymore, I just go back to sleep.'
"Heinz presses him. 'Not therapy for the dreams, therapy for the angst,' she says, and looks quizzically at him, awaiting an answer. Kerry shakes his head 'No.'"
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It appears to me that Kerry is trying to get Theresa to shut the hell up about Mental Health Therapy of some sort he may have received.
Hey, heart conditions and mental health are fair game when considering a candidate.
I already knew he couldn't make up his mind, but is he out of it?
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The video wouldn't work on my system for some reason.
THis has been AIRED on DUTCH TV in September. You can see the story by yourself on DUTCH TV Site.
Dick Holbrooke is far on the right. Wesley Clark is in the middle.
I read about this some time ago.
Maybe this is at least one reason he doesn't release his medical records.
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