Posted on 01/15/2006 2:57:03 PM PST by kronos77
In this exclusive interview with a Canadian police detective of long and varied experience, Stu Kellock, readers get the inside story of how UN investigators in Kosovo sought to crack down on criminals and terrorists – but were systematically stopped, because of the perceived need to safeguard the interests of the Western political elite and their local protégés.
Stu Kellock, the former head of UNMIK’s Regional Serious Crime Unit in Pristina, provides an extraordinary insider’s perspective on the difficult and oftentimes dangerous work of investigating organized crime in Kosovo. This article, which contains several minor bombshells regarding the interlinked topics of organized crime, drug smuggling and the Macedonian conflict of 2001, is a must-read for anyone interested in what really happened in the Balkans since NATO’s arrival in June of 1999.
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The all-time low in prosecuting terrorists and murderers in Kosovo dawned on February 17, 2001, when a bus carrying Serbs of all ages to visit a cemetery in Kosovo was blown up by Albanian terrorists as it passed along a road supposedly cleared by UN troops. The Sunday Times would later reveal that a simple British troop mistake of failing to check all the culverts and drainpipes along the route led to the tragic deaths.
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, Kellock recommended that “a special task force be assigned immediately to the investigation. I expressed this desire to every senior official to attend the scene.”
However, the chief detective’s request was not granted, and “even more sinister was the fact that evidence from the scene was suppressed and destroyed even before the commencement of the official investigation. It was this lack of co-operation and direction that subsequently proved my intuition [regarding whitewashing KLA crimes] was correct.”
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Very interesting article, thanks for posting kronos.
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