Kerry Campaign Linked to Fund-raiser for Terror Group

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly says federal election records show a suspicious link between the Kerry campaign and a controversial fund-raiser for an organization with terrorist ties.

As this bitter and partisan election draws to a close, a new bombshell may spell trouble for Senator Kerry. Evidently, he has accepted campaign contributions from the chief fund-raiser for an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA, or UCK in Albania].

According to federal election records, Florin Krasniqi, a KLA fund-raiser who had raised over $30 million for the group, contributed $2,000 to the Kerry campaign this past July. The KLA, whose main objective is to separate Kosovo from Serbia, reportedly has ties to the Iranian government and Osama bin Laden.

In 1999, the Washington Times obtained intelligence documents indicating that al-Qaida has trained and financially supported the KLA.

The Jerusalem Post offered further documentation in 1998, indicating that "Selected groups of Albanians were sent to Iran to study that country's version of militant Islam," and that "millions of dollars have been funneled through Bosnia and Albania to buy arms for the KLA. The money is raised from both Islamic governments and from Islamic communities in Western Europe, particularly Germany."

The leader of the KLA is a man named Hashim Thaci, and he attended the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston earlier this year.

After attending the convention, he raved that "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Thachi'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 Kosovo for self-determination."

Dutch television station VPRO produced a documentary called "De Brooklyn Connectie," which features KLA members attending a John Kerry fund-raiser, making generous contributions, and smuggling weapons for use in Kosovo against U.N. and American forces.

I've been sending this as an email to Foxnews to get them to report. The video is in German, but you can see all the "usual suspects". This is an excerpt from the article.

KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTS
October 18, 2004

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson

Introduction

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.

John Kerry and the KLA

The leader of the KLA is a man named Hashim Thaci. Thaci, who goes under the nom de guerre "Snake," attended the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston earlier this year.

Upon returning from the convention, Thaci told the Albanian-Language KosovaLive agency, "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Thachi'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" [18]

In addition to the KLA leader's attendance at the Democratic Convention was the presence of KLA members at a John Kerry fundraiser in New York.

In September, the Dutch Television station VPRO produced a documentary entitled "De Brooklyn Connectie." This documentary follows a KLA terrorist named Florin Kraniqi as he attends a John Kerry fundraiser, and then smuggles weapons into Kosovo for a war that is being planned against American and other UN Peacekeepers there.

The video can be downloaded from the VPRO website at:

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/18793157/

Kraniqi lives in Brooklyn, where he allegedly works as a roofer; although his big house, his shiny new car, and his swimming pool, suggest that he makes money in other ways.

The first few minutes of the video consist of Kraniqi praising the KLA and accusing the Serbs.

At the 11:08 mark of the video, he goes to a John Kerry fundraiser together with a group of KLA members. They are shown writing checks to the Kerry campaign for thousands of dollars each.

While at the fundraiser, they openly identify themselves as the KLA. Kraniqi is seen introducing himself and his brothers-in-arms to Wesley Clark (Commander of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and former Democratic presidential candidate). Kraniqi says, "Mr. Clark. This is your group, your KLA." Clark then praises the group saying, "They fought against tremendous odds."

Then, Richard Holbrooke (Kerry's Sr. Foreign Policy Adviser), who apparently knows one of the terrorists, comes over and jokingly says, "He almost got me killed." To which Kraniqi quips, "He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov." Then Holbrooke, Clark, and this group of KLA terrorists all have a good laugh.

It is rather disturbing to see these high officials in the Democratic Party having such a relaxed and friendly exchange with a group of terrorists, eventhough they have just given thousands of dollars to John Kerry’s campaign.

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