Posted on 06/06/2004 5:18:03 PM PDT by Jomini
While heavyweight pundits ponder the "real reasons" behind CIA director George Tenet's sudden resignation, an Albanian newspaper has offered a typically whimsical explanation; he fell victim to an ancient curse.
The Korrieri daily said the Central Intelligence Agency chief's resignation on Thursday fell a day before he had been due to visit Albania.
"If he had not planned a visit to Albania, probably he would have not been struck by the curse of the Pojan jinx," editor Alfred Peza said in his column, citing a supposed evil spirit that jinxed the villagers of Pojan back in the mists of time.
Mr Tenet was clearly felled by the jinx, wrote Mr Peza, as were the late Soviet Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, former West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and others who were demoted or quit after becoming involved with Albania.
Mr Tenet's resignation, the paper said, had prevented him visiting the Albanian birthplace of his mother who, by his own account, escaped from southern Albania on a British submarine just as the Iron Curtain was closing after World War II.
It might not have been his first trip to the former Stalinist bastion.
Previous reports, also unconfirmed, say Mr Tenet twice visited Albania, incognito, in the early 1990s.
One must always be aware of the mighty curse of the Pojan jinx. In the hands of those intrepid souls that understand Albanianism it is said to be a powerful talisman indeed...
J
fascinating.
J
Yes, I noticed that when the original article was posted. He must have been stooging for clinton in some way. My theory is that he was arranging a drug deal: We'll get the Albanian drug smugglers into Kosovo, and they'll give us 5%. More or less like the arrangement he had with Mexico.
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