Free Republic

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When hundreds of Muslims gather at the Albanian Islamic Center in Tompkinsville for the Jumu'ah -- the midday service on the holiest of Muslim days -- they expect the imam to teach them history or lessons from the Quran. But Imam Zurkani Vardari interrupted yesterday's afternoon sermon to address what has no doubt weighed heavily on many of their minds. "We are shocked and appalled to receive the news of the possible terror attack on Fort Dix military base in New Jersey," Vardari said during an emotional reading of a statement condemning the alleged plot. That...

U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons -Full Story- Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the thwarted London bomb plot who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, showed the potential for disaffected young men to be lured as terrorists, a threat that British officials said they would have to contend with for a generation.But the 25-year-old Mr. Khyam, a Briton of Pakistani descent, also personifies a larger and more immediate concern: as a British citizen, he could have entered the United States without a visa, like many of an estimated 800,000 other Britons of Pakistani origin.American officials, citing...

TIRANA, Albania - (AP) The Albanian army began its sixth troop rotation in Iraq Sunday with a 120-troop army contingent that is to replace soldiers who have served there since April, the Defense Ministry said. The army unit is to serve a six-month mission in Iraq under U.S.-led command serve in a non-combat role, mainly patrolling the airport in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu, army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Pellumb Qazimi and U.S. Ambassador Marcie Ries were present at the ceremony at an army base before the troops departed for Iraq. Albania, a predominantly Muslim...

A sixth, 120-strong contingent from Albania was seen off Sunday as they prepared to join coalition forces in Mosul. Praising their mission as a noble one, Defence Minister Fatmir Mediu reminded them of their contribution to global security. A sixth Albanian army contingent bound for duty in Iraq was seen off Sunday (9 October) during a departure ceremony at a command centre north of Tirana. Addressing the peacekeepers, Defence Minister Fatmir Mediu assured them their mission is a noble one. "The important aspect of your mission consists of your priority: to contribute to the security of the peace in the...

TIRANA, Albania, Sept. 26, 2006 – Albanian soldiers will remain in Iraq until the job is done, the country’s defense minister promised Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld here today. With plans to thank Albanian leaders for their support in the global war on terror and to meet with defense ministers from southeastern European nations, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived here this afternoon after a brief visit to Montenegro. “Let me declare here, Mr. Secretary, that the Albanian armed forces will stay on the side of the American armed forces in Iraq until the mission will be over,” Albanian Defense...

Late last month, Albania announced it would increase its number of peacekeeping troops in Iraq.

By Sgt. Marshall Thompson, 207th MPAD LSA DIAMONDBACK, Iraq - When a Soldier from Fort Polk, La., arrived in Iraq for a one-year tour, the last thing he expected to find was a second family from a distant country.

NEW YORK -- World War II was over, and Anna Kohen, then a small child, was walking with her mother in Vlora, Albania, when a Muslim woman ran toward them, crying and calling her mother by an unfamiliar name. The women hugged and cried. Later, her mother explained that the woman was from a village where she, Kohen's father and other Jews had hidden during the Nazi occupation before Kohen was born. To protect themselves, Kohen's mother and father had taken Muslim names. "Everyone in the village knew they were Jews, but no one betrayed them," Kohen recalled Wednesday as...

The capture of the "Fort Dix Six" has inspired liberals to dust off and republish their "hearts and minds" mantra, which might sound wonderful to some, but bears more sober consideration. Before we can even consider whether winning hearts and minds is a remotely realistic goal, we need to determine whose hearts and minds we're talking about and what "winning hearts and minds" actually means. Do liberals mean we should convince existing terrorists that diplomacy is a superior path to achieving their goals? That tolerance of other religions is the morally superior position? That women are entitled to dignity and...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix. And those actions have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not...

The New Jersey store clerk whose tip led to the arrest of six terror suspects needs legislative protection from being sued as a "John Doe" or whistleblower, lawmakers said yesterday. "The events in Fort Dix are just another reminder of the need for this legislation," said Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico Republican and author of legislation to protect "John Doe" passengers being sued by a group of Muslim imams for reporting their suspicious behavior that got the imams removed from an airline flight. "We owe a debt of gratitude to this individual for alerting authorities to this potential terrorist attack...

“Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia” by Thomas Fleming Thomas J. FlemingThe six foreigners who planned a mass-murder at Fort Dix were originally described (by the FBI apparently) as being from the Former Yugoslavia. My initial question was Bosnian Muslim or Albanians? If the men had been Serbs, the term would have to have been “Serb terrorists.” As the story is being reported now, none is in fact from Yugoslavia. Of the six “Islamic militants” (one cannot say Muslim terrorists), one is from our ally Jordan, a second from our ally Turkey, and the other four are from Albania. The only...

Fort Dix: Albanian Terror And The "Homegrown" Fort Dix Six By John David Powell May 11, 2007 As of this writing, we know that on May 7, federal authorities busted the so-called Fort Dix Six before the alleged Muslim terrorists launched their murderous attack on the military installation. Four of the six are ethnic Albanians. Three of the four are brothers. And the fourth, according to authorities, was a sniper in Kosovo. The arrests came after several months of surveillance, according to FBI director Robert Mueller. The feds became interested in the men after viewing a video of ten men...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go back even prior to June the 6th of 1999. Again, on CNN, June 6, 1999 story, "Fort Dix speeds up relocation of Kosovo refugees." Let's go back to May 18th of 1999, just a little short of a month prior. "First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Tuesday an additional $15 million in US relief to the displaced people of Kosovo. The money will help non-government and United Nations groups care for refugees in the border regions of Macedonia and Albania and will also help pay to resettle as many as 20,000 ethnic Albanians who may...

Well, here is the thanks we get. Eight years ago, America opened its arms to tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. The first planeload landed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Military leaders worked day and night to turn the base into a child-friendly village. They coordinated medical and security checkups, mental health, and trauma counseling and ethnic food preparations. [Snip] In addition to food and shelter, we provided translators, welfare consultants, and Muslim chaplains. The base constructed prayer rooms and handed out Muslim “sensitivity” cards to the troops. Said Gen. Zais: “We want to welcome these people...

Belgrade, 9 May (AKI) - The arrest of four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian and a Turk in the United States on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on the United States army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, confirms the existence of a "white Al-Qaeda", Balkan terrorism expert Darko Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Wednesday. Trifunovic said the arrests showed "white Al-Qaeda at work." He compared the Fort Dix plot to a February attack in Salt Lake City when a Bosnian Muslim youth, Sulejman Talovic went on a shopping mall shooting rampage. Six people including Talovic were...

Today's Refugees Recall America's Past {How Clinton Imported "Albanian" refugees to FORT DIX} FORT DIX, N.J. -- For those meeting planes and buses bearing Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, welcoming war-weary refugees to the United States was like stepping into America's past. "We want to welcome these people to America the way we might wish our grandparents and great-grandparents had been welcomed to Ellis Island," U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais said he had told troops assigned to Operation Provide Refuge. This is something that's happened in America from the Irish potato famine to the Jews driven from Europe before World...

From this afternoon's FBI news conference in Camden: * Suspects allegedly scoped out Dover Air Force Base and a Coast Guard station in Philadelphia. * Suspects said to have "burst out in laughter" at gruesome video of attack on U.S. Marine * Coordination of law enforcement called "model of the post-911 era" The FBI arrested six people last night, including five in Cherry Hill, for an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, several federal officials said. "If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don't want to exaggerate, and I assure that you...

Sister Serafima Killed by Three Albanians Serbian daily Kurir (Messenger) reports on March 2, 2007, that a Serbian nun, Sister Serafima (Andjelka Mijailovic) has been found with a broken neck next to railway tracks near Staro Selo. Sister Serafima, aged 34, was murdered on the night of February 21-22, 2007, on the Thessaloníki - Belgrade international train, and her body was found next to a railway in Staro Selo, near a small town of Velika Plana. Sister Serafima, born in Valjevo, was a nun at a monastery in Thessaloníki, and was buried yesterday at the Celije monastery near Valjevo, Serbia....

The Wall Street Journal, Monday, September 9, 1985, pp.1,18 By Anthony M. DeStefano NEW YORK - The informant who visited the office of U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani [current Mayor of New York City] last December had a chilling story to tell: A defendant in a drug racketeering case that Mr. Giuliani was prosecuting was offering $400.000 to anyone who would kill a certain assistant U.S. attorney and a federal drug enforcement agent. For 45 minutes Mr. Giuliani and his chief assistant, William Tendy, listened to and evaluated the tale. Five other informants later corroborated it. The threatened lawmen-assistant prosecutor...

INTRODUCTION BY RODNEY ATKINSON: We reproduce here a letter written by the distinguished Serb author and academic William Dorich to the Director of the Hoover Institution in California, complaining about the publication of pro Albanian and virulently anti Serb propaganda in their "Policy Review". Dorich is right in seeing this and other examples at eg Stanford University as proof of a re-writing of European history in US academic life which is favourable to those sundry fascist powers whom the USA helped to defeat in 1945. The Hoover has had a high reputation for political economic and foreign policy research, based...

This is an article in French that would deserve a large diffusion. Check the pix in the URL! Summary: Rachel, a 24-year old shop employee in Valais (Switzerland) was transferred to the Lausanne (Sw.) hospital with heavy facial trauma: upper maxillary shattered, broken nose and sinuses, broken eye sockets. Rachel was going back home around 2:30 AM in the center of the town, accompanied by a neighbor. She was attacked by two young men and a girl who beat them up ferociously. The neighbor was also seriously injured and suffered facial wounds and a lost eardrum. This attack seems to...

In what is reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust when Hitler's Germany forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as a mark for extermination, homes of Kosovo's Christian Serbs have recently been marked with the same yellow bands that make the Christian symbol of a cross. Kosovo's Muslim Albanians have threatened violence if Kosovo is not granted independence and concerns are on the rise that these markings will aid the Muslims extremists during a pogrom of Christians that they threaten. (Photo November 2006)) http://www.serbianna.com/photo_2006/0189.html

Podgorica, 8 Dec. (AKI) - Montenegro's special prosecutor for organised crime, Stojanka Radovic, on Friday indicted 18 ethnic Albanians, including five United States citizens, for planning terrorist attacks in the southern Malesia region, aimed at putting it under ethnic Albanian control. The group planned to take over police stations, border crossings to Albania and all key institutions in Malesia, with the aim of expelling the non-Albanian population and creating an ethnic Albanian controlled territory. The operation called the Flight of Eagle, which is an Albanian national symbol, was averted a day before it actually carried out its plans and maximal...

A recent online article from the German magazine, Der Spiegel, titled "Al Qaida's White Muslims in Bosnia" (translated into English from the original German) featured an interview with former Al Qaeda operative in Bosnia, Ali Hamid, who is now in a Bosnian prison. Hamid only said what many of us have been saying for years -- that "young Arab males" aren't all that Homeland Security needs to looking out for. Thanks to the US' bungled Balkan policies, Al Qaeda has now set up a base of operations in the Balkans, recruiting blonde-haired, blue-eyed Bosnian Muslim terrorist sleeper cells to infiltrate...

Released : Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:55 AM PRISTINA, Serbia-United Nations police in Kosovo fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse protesters who overturned a concrete barrier shielding the U.N. headquarters in the capital Pristina. Some three thousand ethnic Albanians rallied outside the building to protest ongoing talks with Serbia on the future of the province, which is currently part of Serbia but under U.N. administration. Before reaching the U.N. premises protesters pelted the provincial government's building with stones and splashed red paint, symbolizing blood, on its walls. No injuries or arrests were immediately reported. The demonstration was called by a...

Kosovo Albanians are still reeling from the discovery that the “final status” of Kosovo will not be decided by the end of this year as their leaders promised and as members of the Contact Group countries dealing with the issue had hoped. Now they face what some diplomats are calling the “the double disappointment” of additional delays that could push recognition of their new state back to late next summer or beyond. In addition, the price of independence is expected to include many elements that they do not like. In a series of interviews with senior European diplomats based in...

FALFURRIAS, Texas Authorities say a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Albania died in South Texas after his S-U-V rolled over following a ten-mile chase. The Department of Public Safety says eleven passengers in the Suburban were injured in yesterday's crash -- four Hondurans, four Albanians and three Salvadorans. D-P-S says the chase began near Falfurrias when officers tried to pull over the vehicle for going 55 in a 45 mile-an-hour zone. The S-U-V sped off. The driver escaped on foot after the crash. The injured passengers were taken to hospitals. They're expected to be deported. Information from: San Antonio Express-News, http://www.mysa.com

McALLEN — A white Suburban being chased by Brooks County deputies on U.S. 281 rolled over near Falfurrias early Thursday, killing one undocumented immigrant and injuring 11 others. The 10-mile chase started when Falfurrias police tried to pull the Suburban over for going 55 in a 45-mph zone, but the driver sped off. Police backed off and let the deputies take over when they reached the city limits. Deputies told Alice-based Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Robert Vasquez they stayed about 100 yards behind the vehicle. "Right now there are a lot of unknowns," Vasquez said of the 12:51...

The Nov. 6 article “Training helps Guardsmen get Kosovo-savvy” deserves a response. The Stars and Stripes reporter states that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo make up 90 percent of the population. Actually, a more precise number is 97 percent. It is also necessary for your readers to understand just how the Kosovo (Muslim) Albanians became the majority — considering the Christian Serbs were once the majority until hundreds of thousands of them were either ethnically cleansed or killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi troops, followed by the communist Josip Broz Tito, who, in his hatred for the Christian Orthodox Serbs, encouraged Albanians...

Former chief of staff of macedonian Army Pande Petrovski claimed that during Albanian Islamic insurgency in 2001 NATO direcly prevented destruction of Albanian Islamist supporting them. He stated that during battle for Aracinovo village, Macedonian troops arrested Two Americans alongside several dosent NATO personell and Albanian terrorists. He calims that than president of macedonia Trajkovski ordered him to stop the attack, and prevented him of capturing Albanian terrorists. NATO than SG George Robertson conducted talks with president and NATO extracted iths own personell and Albanian Terrorists from besiged village. George Robertson claimed that in village are 30 of his (NATO)...

First off, lets remember who greeted us with flowers during their liberation and who didn't.

A U.S. Congressional adviser is turning up the volume on his long-standing warnings that terrorists who have set up camps in the Balkans now easily can reach into Europe, telling reporters in Serbia that the idea now has a name – "Balkans 2020." Congressional adviser Yossef Bodansky, director of the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare since 1988, told Slovenian Finance that the goal of the campaign is to set up terrorist camps in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sandzak and Croatia. He said at least five intelligence agencies now are working to track people and arms arriving...

This news report from Bayerischer Rundfunk explains in detail the cooperation between the Nazis and the Muslim Arab leaders during WW2. It goes on to explain how high ranking heads of the SS fled to the Arab world and carried on their activities under the protection of leaders such as President Nasser and how modern Islam has adopted a Nazi style ideology of hate and conspiracy against the Jews. Thanks to the Editrix (www.editrixoffice.com) for providing the translation and revealing this ray of light in the darkness of vitriolic reporting about Israel in the German media.

The Serb delegation from Kosovo has boycotted a session of talks about the future of the province. The second day of negotiations brokered by the United Nations in Vienna concentrated on the rights of the province's minorities. The Serb representatives said they did not accept being given the status of a minority. The talks are trying to resolve issues of education, health care, police and justice systems. The Tuesday session on minority rights was attended by the delegation from Belgrade. The first day of the latest round of talks on Monday ended with no progress on the major stumbling blocks...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Granting independence to Serbia's southern province of Kosovo against the will of Serbia would destabilize the Balkans, Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic warned on Tuesday. The United Nations is mediating talks on Kosovo's future status, which Western diplomats say are likely to conclude with a form of independence by the end of the year. Serbia is adamantly opposed to such an outcome. "I am very afraid of the possible imposed solution against the will of Belgrade of turning Kosovo into a state," Draskovic told a news conference. "The whole region, I think, would inevitably face turbulence." The...

The roughly 5000 unspeakable acts of murder and mayhem committed by Islamofascist terrorists on innocent people just since 9/11 have got me wondering – did we come in on the wrong side in the conflict between the Serbians (Christians) and the Bosnians (Muslims) in the former Yugoslavia, and have we and the western world gone after the wrong group of war criminals? I am well aware of the horrendous barbarities committed by the Serbians against the Bosnians and others, but do we really know what transpired to drive them to these acts before the conflict aroused our interest? I admit...

31 March 2006 The Moscow Patriarchate: Recognition of the independence of Kosovo to incite a new conflict in the region Moscow, March 30, Interfax - The independence of Kosovo implies negative consequences for Europe for many decades and leads to new developments around the so called ‘unrecognized states’ on the post-Soviet territory, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad said. ‘I believe that if Kosovo gets independence, the consequences would be disastrous. Kosovo and Serbia will bleed constantly, and the region will retain its potential for enmity, hatred and thus for...

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - A senior British diplomat has told Serbs that independence is the best solution for the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo in talks due within days, Serb negotiators said on Tuesday. "[John] Sawers told us the Contact Group had decided Kosovo should be independent. He said Kosovo would be multi-ethnic, but in the end independent," Goran Bogdanovic, a Kosovo Serb, told Belgrade radio B92, after meeting the political director of the British Foreign Office late on Monday. A second Serb negotiator in Belgrade, who attended a meeting between Sawers and the Serbian prime minister on...

The Association of Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans, in cooperation with the Djakovica municipal assembly, has built a monument to "war heroes" on church property in immediate proximity to the Serbian Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity in Djakovica, which was destroyed after the war in 1999. This most recent attack on the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in direct cooperation with official municipal institutions, confirms that in addition to individual criminal acts in Kosovo illegal activities are being carried out also under the official auspices of institutions formed during the UN protectorate ... The Church is seriously concerned...

Incredibly, Turfe also claimed that “while the rights of non-Muslim minorities to practice their faith are respected and protected in the Muslim world without question, the same does not hold true today for Muslims in the West.” In fact, Saudi Arabia alone has spent some $90 billion worldwide since the 1970s to construct mosques and Islamic centers including thousands in the west. By contrast, Saudi Arabia has no open churches, and officials promise never to allow them. The regime even arrests Christians for holding private services at home. Elsewhere in the Gulf, churches are extremely rare. Qatar recently allowed the...

Imagine yourself away from your home, perhaps vacationing, during which time a self appointed authority sells your home and in anticipation of your grievance sets up a panel of judges that will decide whether you are deserving of a compensation and in what amount. It's bad enough that you lost control of your own property and have to go through unnecessary legal proceedings but when the panel of judges decides to pay you way less then what you could have sold the property... you decide to leave. Congratulations! You've been successfully cleansed from the territory. Well, this is exactly what...

"We're accustomed to live here. We returned to our own house and we will accept whatever God has prepared for us," said Grandmother Momirka. She is one of 500 residents determined to stay in her home despite the hostile Albanian environment. Located between Djakovica, Decane, Prizren and Pec, Orahovac is one of the smallest Serb enclaves. The former small town with its own municipal assembly, court and secondary school has become a barbed wire-enclosed concentration camp for Serbs. Their freedom of movement is limited to a circumference of 500 meters. In order to go outside this they need an armed...

Australian at Guantanamo wins court battle By PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER photo In this undated photo released by the Hicks family shows Guantanamo Bay detainee Australian David Hicks. Hicks held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay won a court battle in London Tuesday Dec. 13, 2005, to be registered as a British citizen a step he hopes will secure his release. (AP Photo/Hicks family hand out) LONDON -- An Australian being held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay won a court battle Tuesday to be registered as a British citizen - a step he hopes...

Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA Kosovo-Iran-Condolence Kosovo Grand Mufti Naaim Ternava in a message which was sent to Iran's ambassador to Belgrade, condoled with all Iranians on the the crash of C-130 military plane in Tehran. He expressed his deep sorrow and the sympathy of Kosovo Muslim society for the tragic event. The plane was carrying a number of reporters and media men to southeastern city of Chahbahar to cover a military exercise.

LONDON, December 15 (IranMania) - Kosovo Grand Mufti Naaim Ternava in a message which was sent to Iran's ambassador to Belgrade, condoled with all Iranians on the the crash of C-130 military plane in Tehran, according to IRNA. He expressed his deep sorrow and the sympathy of Kosovo Muslim society for the tragic event. The plane was carrying a number of reporters and media men to southeastern city of Chahbahar to cover a military exercise.

Four days earlier, armed assailants had launched a Saturday Night Special attack against a civilian bus connecting the southwestern towns of Dragas and Prizren. In an offensive that would seem right out of Iraq, the unknown attackers fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the bus. According to Serbia's B-92, they "luckily did not explode, but passed right through the vehicle." Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi immediately condemned the assault, while UNMIK Chief Sřren Jessen-Petersen spoke of a need to "enhance" security measures in Kosovo.

At the most recent meeting of the Serbian Orthodox Church's Council for Kosovo and Metohija of the Holy Assembly of Bishops, Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan, a e that in future Kosovo there will be no room for eithersuperior of Visoki Decani Monastery, informed the members of the Council and the Holy Synod of Bishops with the critical present situation of Serbian Orthodox holy shrines, especially in Metohija (the Western part of the Province) , and emphasized the need to find mechanisms for internationally guaranteed protection as soon as possible in cooperation with relevant experts in order to enable the survival...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II. The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants. A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his barracks, killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others. The army says it has uncovered...

02 Dec 2005 13:57:06 GMT Source: Reuters Background CRISIS PROFILE: Can Kosovo put violence behind it? MORE PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The weak judicial response in U.N.-run Kosovo to mass Albanian attacks on Serbs last year added to a sense of impunity in the province for ethnically motivated crimes, the OSCE said on Friday. Nineteen people died and more than 4,000 fled their homes in 48 hours of Albanian violence in March 2004 that thrust Serbia's southern province back onto the international agenda. Police estimated 51,000 people took part in torching 800 Serb homes and dozens...