Posted on 08/19/2004 1:08:52 PM PDT by DTA
WASHINGTON (CNN) --
The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York and other Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality, the officials said.
"They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon," said Chris Swecker, the newly named FBI assistant director for the Criminal Investigative Division...Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro are included in the clans and crews that emerged in the organized crime world....
... Although no terrorism connection has been discovered, the FBI says it is closely watching to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing.
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Poor Feds - they should start reading FR threads to catch up
Freed from oppression, Albanians show to the world what they are most capable of
CLINTON'S LEGACY - THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING (C)
The country is full of crazed lawless madmen.
In any case the Muslim Albanians are the dangerous ones.
TIRANA, Albania (AP)--Unknown gunmen fired at an Italian helicopter flying overhead in southern Albania and a woman was wounded Wednesday by what police said could have been a bullet ricocheting during the attack
The woman was wounded in the heel, said police spokesman Besnik Cani in Gjirokaster, a city 225 kilometers south of Tirana. He said on the phone that the bullet came from a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The helicopter was on a routine mission from the southernmost town of Saranda to the capital of Tirana when it was shot at while flying over Lazarat village near Gjirokaster, said Florian Serjani, another police spokesman. Police officials were discussing the incident with their Italian counterparts, he added.
Italian police have established a presence in Albania to help the Balkan country's police fight organized crime and control the borders.
Lazarat village is about 20 kilometers from the checkpoint of Kakavie, on the border with Greece.
ping!
We had the chance to squash this evil and instead sided with it. Looks like we will pay for it as well as the poor Serbs. Seems only fair somehow....
We have a chance to reconvert these Albanians back to Christianity -- either Albanian or Greek Orthodox or Catholicism. They were Christian until the 17th century.
In New York City, there is a group of Kosovo Albanian muslims who own pizzerias. This "pizza mafia" has been very active in financing Albanian "causes", including the KLA and the Albanian-American political lobby. This lobby has been buying several US Representatives and Senators, especially the Serbophobic "murderers row" Senators such as Lieberman, Dodd, McConnell, Biden, etc. One member of this group is the current Democratic Presidential nominee, John "big clintonoid liar" Kerry!!!! Thus, besides the mafia and terrorist connection, the Shiptar influence has its sticky fingers in the highest levels of American politics!!
The clinton "legacy"--the curse that just won't go away!!!!
The Orthodox church has missionaries in Albania working...how about yours? Together we may make some progress.
Yeah it's going to be awhile before this evil is destroyed.
If we end up with Kerry, God forbid!, it will take even longer.
This story is absolutely the truth. I live in NYC area and grew up amongst many Albanian and Italian (I am Italian-american myself) organized crime types. The Albanians are far far more viscious and violent. They would kill their mothers for a dollar, their sister for a penny, and anyone else for the fun of it. These are really third world people with a third world mentality. Dare anyone calll me bigoted, they themselves will agree with my assertions.
But - we keep letting them in. Many deal guns and drugs. In this area, many Albanians are slum lords in the Bronx.
But, I hope you get my point -- you talk about squashing Albanians. I disagree. I say they can still be saved. If these recent, forced, converts toIslam can't be saved, what hope do we have to save older Christian states like Syria, Egypt etc.?
It is based on my having to deal with these people for over twenty years and seeing many instances of family members killing each other, etc etc.
Third World mentality is someone acting like an animal who has not had the opportunity to be civilized.
As an Italian-American you should research the history of the great Italian immigrations of the early 20th century. At the time Italians were chastised and marginalized with the same stereotypes you now so easily place on Albanians. I will not defend any criminal, whether Albanian or not, but I am deeply disturbed by your failure to make a distinction between criminal Albanians and the rest of the Albanian diaspora.
If you speak any Italian, I have a book for you to read:
http://www.orda.it/rizzoli/stella/libri/orda2002.spm
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