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To: Lion in Winter
Is Albania today a Soviet client state?

Case closed.
67 posted on 04/19/2004 9:20:21 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: nicollo
Is Albania today a Soviet client state?

"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."

"Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could have netted the KLA profits in the "high tens of millions of dollars." It said the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money, along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States."

There is ample evidence to be suspect of Albanians here in the US. Lots of naive posters here, with good hearts, but they aren't as knowledgeable as some of us.

87 posted on 04/20/2004 4:47:35 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in Constantinople!)
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To: nicollo
No, but the Albanian KLA is an al Qaeda ally.

Case closed, as you say.
90 posted on 04/20/2004 4:56:06 PM PDT by FormerLib ("Homosexual marriage" is nothing more than another route to anarchy.)
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