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Al-Qaida ally attended fund-raiser for Kerry
WorldNetDaily ^ | 2004-10-24 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 10/24/2004 10:44:24 PM PDT by DTA

Al-Qaida ally attended fund-raiser for Kerry KLA militant bonded with advisers, reportedly boasted of special favors

A militant from a group some have connected to al-Qaida and that many have claimed is involved with the international drug trade and prostitution rings, recently attended a John Kerry fund-raiser, where he wrote a check and later boasted about his getting "paid back" in future favors from the presidential candidate.

According to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, Brooklyn-based Florin Krasniqi, a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, is featured in the recently released Dutch documentary "De Brooklyn Connectie" attending a Kerry fund-raiser with several KLA members, where he writes a check, and then makes clear he expects a quid-pro-quo for his donation.

"With money you can do amazing things in this country. Senators and congressmen are looking for donations. If you fund them and raise the money they need for their campaign they pay you back," Krasniqi says in the documentary.

The video later shows Krasniqi, a known KLA member and fund-raiser, purchasing weapons from an American gun store. He reminds viewers that in the past, such weapons have been smuggled into Kosovo, disguised as humanitarian aid.

Toward the end of the documentary, Krasniqi warns that "just in case NATO pulls out, or we don't get our independence peacefully, then we'll use those weapons."

Many have called the KLA, also known as the UCK, a terror organization, charging it led a violent campaign against civilian Kosovo Serbs, and linking it to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and Iran. As recently as 1998, the U.S. State Department recognized the KLA as a terrorist group.

The KLA consists of armed militias seeking to unite the Albanian populations of Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania into a greater Albania.

Some of the KLA's anti-Serb violence took place under the auspices of U.S.-led NATO, which moved into the province promising to guarantee peace and democracy. At one point KLA officials took over the running of refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia.

Many liberals, particularly the Clinton administration, have openly negotiated with KLA leader Hashim Thaci, whom they have referred to as the legitimate representative of the Kosovar people.

In fact, Thaci, who goes under the nom de guerre "Snake," attended the Democratic National Convention in Boston earlier this year. Upon returning, Thaci told the Albanian-Language Kosova Live agency, "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Thaci's political party] had been invited as a guest. It was confirmed once again that the Democratic authorities would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosova for self-determination"

At the Kerry fund-raiser, Krasniqi is seen in the documentary introducing himself and his brothers-in-arms to Gen. Wesley Clark, former Democratic presidential candidate who commanded the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Krasniqi says, "Mr. Clark. This is your group, your KLA." Clark then praises the group saying, "They fought against tremendous odds."

Kerry's senior foreign policy adviser and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs under Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, who apparently knows one of the KLA members, then comes over and jokingly says, "He almost got me killed." To which Krasniqi quips, "He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov."

The KLA is a controversial organization. The group made its military debut in February 1996 with the bombing of several camps housing Serbian refugees from wars in Croatia and Bosnia.

In 1999, The Washington Times obtained intelligence documents showing what it described as a "link" between bin Laden and the KLA, including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports says al-Qaida has both trained and financially supported the KLA.

German journalist and ex-Army Maj. Franz Josef Hutsch, who was in Kosovo between September 1998 and December 1999 as an embedded reporter with the KLA, recently testified at the Hague's trial of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic that bands of KLA militants had been regularly led by Afghan mujaheeden.

There have been unsubstantiated reports from SHIK, Albania's Intelligence Service, that bin Laden visited Albania himself, promising the KLA to send units to fight in Kosovo.

Credible intelligence indicates that Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, which the U.S. State Department says sponsors terrorism, has been training KLA members and funneling millions of dollars through Bosnia and Albania to buy arms for the KLA.

This was corroborated by Director of the U.S. House Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Yossef Bodansky in a report for Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy:

"In the Fall of 1997, the uppermost leadership in Tehran ordered the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps] High Command to launch a major program for shipping large quantities of weapons and other military supplies to the Albanian clandestine organizations in Kosovo. [Ayatollah] Khamene'i's instructions specifically stipulated that the comprehensive military assistance was aimed to enable the Muslims 'to achieve the independence' of the province of Kosovo," says the report.

In 1997 "the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran," writes Bodansky.

It has also been established the KLA relies on funds raised by the powerful Albanian mafia, which deals in narcotics and prostitution.

Interpol has in the past estimated Kosovo Albanians have controlled 40 percent of the European heroin trade, and in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, they may have controlled as much as 70 percent of the market, with much of the money going to fund the KLA.

The London Times reported the KLA was "an outgrowth of the Kosovo Albanian mafia ... these Kosovan criminals operate the most powerful drug-running network in Europe."

Many KLA-linked Albanian gangs have also run prostitution and sex-trafficking rackets across Western Europe.

According to a recent internal British-government briefing, Albanians or Kosovars now control more than two-thirds of the "massage parlors" in London. That estimate fit with another study completed last year by Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service.

But the U.S. policy toward the KLA has been mixed. Some have warned against relations with the KLA, while the Clinton administration maintained close ties with the group.

At the 1999 signing of the Rambouillet Accords, a 3-year interim agreement to "provide democratic self-government, peace, and security for everyone living in Kosovo," the U.S. seated the KLA at the head of the Kosovo delegation.

Clinton went out of his way on more than one occasion to praise the KLA for having chosen "the road of peace" at the initial Rambouillet talks.

When confronted in 1999 with Thaci's record of violence within his own organization, State Department spokesman James Rubin said, "We simply don't have information to substantiate allegations that there was a KLA leadership-directed program of assassinations or executions."

On Nov. 15, the Hague will start the trial of three former KLA members who stand accused of crimes against Serb and ethnic Albanian civilians in a prison camp in eastern Kosovo in 1998. All three of the accused have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include torture and murder.


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To: DTA

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61 posted on 10/25/2004 8:42:52 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (GET OUT THE VOTE NOV 2 ! IF YOUR NEIGHBORS OR RELATIVES NEED A RIDE TO THE POLLS OFFER TO HELP)
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To: oso blanco

"....the Clintons knowingly got into bed with AlQuida" What a HUGE surprise that is!!! Clinton is about to try to get out the vote for Kerry--all this needs to come home to roost, needs to be on every network--instead the MSM will bury it deep and no one will hear of it unless WE keep pushing and pushing to get this out there!


62 posted on 10/25/2004 8:54:12 AM PDT by luvie (WE will not waver;WE will not tire;WE will not falter!)
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To: DTA
This is from a blogger in Australia:
This could be the October Surprise that kills John Kerry by a margin of 50 states.
John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, is being given money by an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian).

The KLA is currently smuggling weapons into Kosovo as part of a plot to attack American and other UN peacekeepers, should the UN Security Counsel refuse their demand for Kosovo's secession from Serbia and Montenegro.

In order to fully understand the significance of John Kerry's involvement with the KLA it is first necessary to understand what sort of an organization the KLA is. The KLA is a terrorist organization with ties to Osama bin Laden and the Iranian government. The KLA's main objective is to break Kosovo, which has been an integral part of Serbia for centuries, away from Serbia.
KLA have prior links to the Democrats and extensive links to terrorism - they invited the KLA leader to attend the DNC. KLA's terrorist activities and one of its members going to a John Kerry fundraiser can be seen through a Dutch documentary that can be seen here. The US Government has labelled KLA a terrorist organisation, and some of their members are facing charges for war crimes. A Washington Times article from 1999 (deleted, but also linked here) outlined the relationship of KLA and Al-Qaeda, plus Clinton's support of the KLA. More articles on the KLA's radical ideology and workings can be found here.

But back to the documentary - 11:08 into the video, we see KLA recruiter and illegal immigrant Florin Krasniqi at a John Kerry fundraiser with a few other KLA members. Then the defining moment - the KLA terrorists are shown, on video, financially contributing to the John Kerry campaign. Shortly afterwards, the video shows Democrats Wesley Clark and Richard Holbrooke having a nice laugh with the terrorists.

A quick check of Fundrace.org found that Florin Krasniqi has donated to the Kerry campaign, and that Florin Krasniqi has raised 30 million for KLA, who we have already established is a terrorist organisation.

This could be devastating to the Kerry campaign, so if you're reading this, I'm begging you - e-mail your favourite blogs, with this information - send them the link to this page and ask them to research it for themselves. And if it breaks in the bigger blogs - LGF, Powerline, Right Wing News, National Review's The Corner, Blogs For Bush and Instapundit come to mind - then we need to get this to people like Drudge, Sean Hannity, Brit Hume etc.

UPDATE: Welcome all Captain's Quarters readers. Captain Ed from that site makes a great point, that should be mentioned: "Does that mean that Kerry actively seeks the support of terrorists and their cash? I highly doubt it, although if true the Kosovars' access to Kerry shows a complete lack of vetting by his foreign-policy staff. Richard Holbrooke should know better than to be taking money from people connected to organizations designated as possible terror groups by the DHS." This is very true - it's not Kerry's fault they donated to support him, but this cannot look good no matter how you spin it.

* * * * * *

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And HUSSEINandTERROR.com

Lots of facts and quotes about the president-wannabe at the John F. Kerry Timeline.

.

63 posted on 10/25/2004 9:19:39 AM PDT by christie (John F. Kerry Timeline - http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html)
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To: DTA

64 posted on 10/25/2004 9:33:42 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: Honorary Serb
How can the "pajama brigade" get this out to the lamestream media...?

Sounds like the Pajamahadeen needs some advice on google-bombing - any suggestions for us amateurs?

65 posted on 10/25/2004 10:02:47 AM PDT by talleyman (A foreign leader told me on his deathbed: "Kerry is a liar - he just makes stuff up...")
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To: DTA
Kerry's terrorist connection is on WorldNetDaily. The word is out !!! *******

How about the Dutch video???

It showed the boston meeting with the check being handed over to Clarke (remember he was shoulder to shoulder with Komrad K and Hanoi J back in 71) plus videos in Kosovo - the whole ball of wax! Where did it go?

I saw it a fews night ago - pretty clear and SUPER damaging to Kerry = but It seems to've disappeared off the radar?

anyone know where it is?

66 posted on 10/25/2004 10:54:55 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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To: DTA
It's on RUSH
67 posted on 10/25/2004 11:08:22 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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To: MarMema

Thanks for the ping!


68 posted on 10/25/2004 11:11:56 AM PDT by Jane_N (Truth, like beauty....is in the eyes of the beholder! And please DON'T feed the trolls!)
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To: maine-iac7

Thank you for this wonderful news. Please tell us without access how it is going.


69 posted on 10/25/2004 11:30:24 AM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: maine-iac7
Click here for Dutch video (mostly in English)

select VIDEO on the right side

70 posted on 10/25/2004 11:41:50 AM PDT by DTA (Proud Pajamista)
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To: MarMema

Too bad it won't get any traction: the MSM is still defending Clinton's big lie which made the KLA out to be the 'good' guys.


71 posted on 10/25/2004 11:46:24 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: MeekOneGOP

ROTFLOL Great work, Meekie!


72 posted on 10/25/2004 11:48:55 AM PDT by Libertina
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To: DTA
Thank you for link - I cannot beleive the MSM trying not to cover this - It MUST be shown on every TV station and in every newspaper.

It's terrifying to think the media is so controlled that it will bury this treason.

Kerry' g grandfather's first name was Benedikt (Benedict in English)

Something in the genes?

73 posted on 10/25/2004 12:01:48 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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To: DTA
It has also been established the KLA relies on funds raised by the powerful Albanian mafia, which deals in narcotics and prostitution.

I understand that TeRAYza praised the Albanian mafia as "the best one-stop shopping destination for our favorite things. I get a wide array of exclusive designer drugs there, and John finds oodles of (nuanced) girls."

Do I have to say, < / sarcasm off > ??

74 posted on 10/25/2004 12:12:11 PM PDT by Veto! (Kerry wears a tutu, TeRAYza wears the pants)
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To: maine-iac7
>>>>Thank you for link - I cannot beleive the MSM trying not to cover this - It MUST be shown on every TV station and in every newspaper<<<<

"STOLEN HONOR" and "THE BROOKLYN CONNECTION" have so much in common. They should be bundled together.

75 posted on 10/25/2004 12:22:36 PM PDT by DTA (Proud Pajamista)
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To: Libertina; DocRock
Thanks. Doc Rock made the ZotFather pic. :^D

76 posted on 10/25/2004 12:28:36 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MarMema

Hello All!

I just e-mailed this to Hannity, Brit Hume, O'Reilly, Fox Report (Sheppard Smith) and Joe Scarborough...

I included links to the NEwsMax story, the World Net Daily (Farah) story and also the link to the Dutch video. Hopefully it will get coverage.

Here's the e-mail message I sent :


"Dear Sirs:

This is very important information that I, as a Bush/Cheney supporter and as a law abiding, patriotic American citizen feel needs to be reported on and looked into at this crucial time before the general election.

John Kerry recently commented that US troops dying under the umbrella of the United Nations would be considered acceptable losses in his opinion and in light of this comment, and the information in the Dutch film, could one assume that those losses may come in the springtime of 2005 in a new war in Kosovo? The only troops that the KLA would fight there are KFOR which includes US troops as there are no Serbian forces there any longer.

This financial connection to a terrorist and criminal organization must be explored!! Please do your viewers and the citizens of our great nation this service and report on this story!

Thank you very much!

A concerned citizen,"

xxxx(name, address phone# etc)


77 posted on 10/25/2004 12:46:49 PM PDT by blinachka
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To: Question Liberal Authority
Need I remind anyone that BIN LADEN'S BROTHER was with Bush Sr. on 9/11?*********

Hate to bust your bubble - but Bin Laden;s daddy had many wives - tis their custom - and some 55 kids! - Benny boy was from a "lowly" wife - and shunned by most all the family...an outcast by his 50+ half siblings.

He never got over the shunning, methinks.

Anyway - You can't tar a whole family by what one outcast member does...

But why am I bothering to explain anything to a closed mind numskull?

I'm not. just putting this out there for others who may not know the facts and think your stupid post has any merit...

KERRY has more connection and sympathies with Benny Boy than his family does...smoke that

78 posted on 10/25/2004 12:50:37 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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To: accipter
He donated a thousand dollars to Kerry, hardly an earth-shattering amount. ***********

over half a million - in that one instance.

Oh, would that someone would donate such a piddling amount to me!

If it were ONE DOLLAR to Bush - IMPEACHEMENT time!

79 posted on 10/25/2004 12:55:30 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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To: DTA
An Aljbanian Trolj?

LOL

80 posted on 10/25/2004 12:56:54 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Search link Bommer's "When the Man Comes Around" It'll make yousad, make you smile, laugh)
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