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Report Names Kosovo Leader as Crime Boss
The New York Times ^ | December 15, 2010 | DOREEN CARVAJAL and MARLISE SIMONS

Posted on 12/16/2010 10:28:23 AM PST by Ravnagora

PARIS — A two-year international inquiry has concluded that the prime minister of Kosovo led a clan of criminal entrepreneurs whose activities included trafficking in organs extracted from Serbian prisoners executed during the Kosovo conflict in 1999.

The inquiry, prepared for the Council of Europe, names the prime minister, Hashim Thaci, as the boss of the Drenica Group, an organized crime network that flourished in Kosovo and Albania after the war and exerted control over numerous rackets, including the heroin trade, and six secret detention centers in Albania, some used in a black market in human organs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balkans; kla; kosovo; serbs; thaci

1 posted on 12/16/2010 10:28:30 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 12/16/2010 10:30:39 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

We were on the side of Kosovo. Perhaps we backed the wrong side?


3 posted on 12/16/2010 10:37:29 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: Ravnagora

How many other places besides Haiti and Kosovo did Clinton use our military to help the drug dealers?


4 posted on 12/16/2010 10:45:08 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: cpdiii

You think? We helped the muslims complete the invasion of the Balkins. We need to go back there and work our way East and push the muzzies all the way back to the other side of the Bosphorus.


5 posted on 12/16/2010 10:47:55 AM PST by wolfman23601
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To: cpdiii
cpdiii wrote: We were on the side of Kosovo. Perhaps we backed the wrong side?

That depends on which Kosovo you are referring to.

Had the U.S. and other Western Democracies been on the side of Serbia's Kosovo, the true Kosovo, they would have been on the "Right" side.

Because they chose to back Albania's phony "Kosova", they did indeed back the "wrong side".

Serbs were screaming for the U.S. and the Western Democracies to reconsider their incredibly misguided policy with regards to Kosovo, even after the U.S. bombed the Serbs in 1999 and then recognized Kosovo's "independence" on February 18, 2008.

This is a classic case of the "chickens coming home to roost."

I wonder if a formal, public apology will ever be issued to the Serbs.

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6 posted on 12/16/2010 10:48:58 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

WOW! Never expected to see this in the NYT or other MSM.


7 posted on 12/16/2010 10:57:58 AM PST by Dragonfly
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The PDF file of the actual report is available on this same New York Times link.

It will be interesting to see how long it stays there.

There is now way that any news organization could ever have justified “ignoring” this story. I know that many in the media hate to see the fact that the Serbs were proven right.

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8 posted on 12/16/2010 11:13:11 AM PST by Ravnagora
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To: cpdiii; IMR 4350; wolfman23601

http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/iran.htm


9 posted on 12/16/2010 11:46:53 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Islamists Targeting Christians Anywhere and Everywhere.)
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To: Ravnagora

In the larger picture, we had a chance to partner with the new non-Communist Russia to help the Serbs, giving us supremacy over the Northern Hemisphere, meaning the Red Chinese, the Saudis and Iran. Instead, we enabled the Saudi and Chinese expansion.


10 posted on 12/16/2010 11:50:35 AM PST by namvolunteer (We draw the Congressional districts this time)
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To: Ravnagora

Thank you Richard Holbrook. Rot in Hell.


11 posted on 12/16/2010 11:52:11 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Ravnagora

Absolutely nasty, worse than feared, camps for organ harvests......the dark side of the organ transplant business in Europe and America - where else do you think those organs went? And all that heroin money......

Thank You all the worthies who entertained Thaci, including McCain, Dole, the Clintons, Albright, Holbrook etc etc.

A true bipartisan effort.


12 posted on 12/16/2010 12:20:15 PM PST by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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With a name like Thaci, I’m betting he’s an Kosovar Albanian.


13 posted on 12/16/2010 3:13:01 PM PST by Ax
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Just so you know. You don’t “rot” in Hell, you “burn” in Hell for all of eternity. Somehow I like the sound of that even better!!!!!! Burn Burn Burn!!!!


14 posted on 12/17/2010 5:57:35 AM PST by Doctor13
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