Posted on 09/25/2010 9:00:57 AM PDT by Ravnagora
“Conservative” Joseph DioGuardi’s “sensational” election as the GOP Senate candidate in New York has shaken up the Republican Party, gloats the Tropoja-based Albanian Minerals President M. Mujaj in the Wall Street Journal Blog. “The American people have spoken,” this self-styled compatriot of ours is telling us. “The American way of life needs to be rebalanced. Households need to stop spending what they don’t have. Local and state governments need to slash their budgets to live off whatever tax revenues they generate [...] The American people voted for change.”
What Mr. Mujaj does not mention is that former Congressman DioGuardi is the founder and well-endowed president of the Albanian American Civic League, a lobby group for the KLA-run “independent” province of “Kosova.” This is a significant fact, crucial to the funding of his candidacy, which he curiously does not mention on his campaign website. Even more curiously, the League’s aacl.com site—full of information on DioGuardi’s KLA connections—has been mysteriously dormant for weeks. There is, nevertheless, ample evidence out there that DioGuardi and his wife have been, for years, key fundraisers and apologists for the terrorist KLA in this country. It is unsurprising that he omits this aspect of his career from his pitch to the voters of New York, but it is curious that no one has called attention to the fact thus far.
As for Tropoja, it is a town in northern Albania best known not as a hub of mining in general, or as the HQ of DioGuardi’s friend Mr. Mujaj’s Albanian Minerals in particular, but as the gruesome site of a “clinic” known as The Yellow House in which hundreds of Serb civilians kidnapped in Kosovo by the KLA in 1999 were brought to be murdered for organ harvesting. As my friend Julia Gorin wrote two and a half years ago,
"For perhaps the first time in history, the mainstream media have deemed the dismemberment of Serbs newsworthy. More accurately, they have deemed newsworthy the dismemberment of the Serb and non-Serb victims of our friends, and almost all living Albanians’ great heroes, the KLA … The new information is revealed in the forthcoming book The Hunt by Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor for the Hague Tribunal. A few reports, starting with—gasp—the AP (which both the International Herald Tribune and Fox News deigned to carry), Albanian trafficking in organs of killed Kosovo Serbs investigated… Del Ponte said her investigators had been informed that some 300 Serbs were killed for organ trafficking."
Del Ponte—not known as a friend of the Serbs by any token—was the first to reveal that the imprisoned Serbs were taken to a camp in Tropoja where the younger ones were picked out, and their organs were later sold abroad. Even high KLA members were involved in the operation of smuggling of organs, Del Ponte explained. She attested that her investigators and UNMIK officials were made aware that in mid-1999 the KLA moved some 300 abducted non-Albanians to Tropoja’s “yellow house” where in one room that was used as an operating theater, the surgeons were removing organs from the victims. The organs were transported by air from Tirana to clinics abroad for clients and medical institutions that paid for them. The victims left with one kidney were kept locked, and later on killed for other organs. “Other prisoners in the barrack knew what was to happen to them,” Del Ponte added.
The horrors of Tropoja and the KLA are light years away from DioGuardi’s New York State audiences and his usual sales pitch … standard fiscal conservatism, family values. No mention of the KLA anywhere, of course.
Had another Joseph, Dr. Mengele, decided to run for the U.S. Senate sixty years ago, he too would have kept quiet about certain medical pursuits, and certain political affiliations, similar in kind and moral depravity to DioGuardi’s. But he did not, wisely preferring to stay in Brasil. DioGuardi’s ability to do so today is a sad testimony on the decrepitude of the GOP and on the state of this country’s politics.
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Apparently a hit piece by an over-wrought Serb.
DioGuardi is of Catholic Albanian descent.
Sounds like a desperate Dem who thought he could get elected if only he could get on the GOP ticket.
“The well-endowed president?” TMI!
Apparently the author never heard of Bob Dole.
Or John McCain.
“DioGuardi is the founder and well-endowed president...”
“Well endowed”??
I’ve heard of voting for someone because they had good hair, but.....
NY sure knows how to pick ‘em. Besides this clown and Scozzafava, who can forget Pierre Rinfret, the Canadian non-Republican who spent most of his time campaigning at abortion mills. He racked up 21% or so.
Paladino is right—this year is not about GOP vs Democrap - it is about the ruinous corrupt establishment and the reformist outsiders.
This creep Dioguardi is definitely a deep corrupt insider.
DioGuardi is of Catholic Albanian descent
So what? Hitler was of Austrian Catholic descent.
Labels like the one you ascribe to Dguardi mean little-— He is as corrupt and immoral as they come.
“He is as corrupt and immoral as they come.”
Do you have any evidence? So far I haven’t read anything I would call evidence.
Are you going on record as denying his links to the KLA?
The United States has more than enough problems of our own. Getting involved in Balkan politics is a useless and wasteful activity. Any interest I have in DioGuardi’s activities ceases at the shore of the Atlantic.
I am not on trial and you are not my prosecutor.
You are doing an exceedingly poor job of influencing my opinion.
Curious response to a "yes or no" question.
I am unwilling ot elect to office a paid and willful lobbyist for Islamic terror and crony ethnic politics.
Apparently you could care less.
The Atlantic Ocean does not provide a fence or barrier to such activities.
You ought to know better than that!
If he is against Obama, I would vote for Satan!
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