Posted on 11/23/2005 2:50:46 AM PST by Nennsy
(CNSNews.com) - Rebel forces in Kosovo have threatened to carry out an organized "military operation" against the capital city of Pristina by Wednesday night. Calling NATO and United Nations forces "modern occupiers," the Kosovo Independence Army (KIA) said it was lodging the threat because the Kosovo Assembly has not declared independence.
The threat, carried by local media, follows increasing violence against international forces in Kosovo and may lead to an alliance between armed rebel groups and jihadist forces, according to a former security chief from the region.
Rebels have blown up several vehicles belonging to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Kosovo Protection Service (KPS), leading UNMIK to warn employees to check their vehicles for bombs before starting the engines. (Click here to view UNMIK internal memo on vehicle tracking.)
Prior to the bombing of vehicles, graffiti across Kosovo warned "UNMIK get out!" Last month U.N. vehicles were defaced to read "FUND," which is Albanian for "The End." Internal U.N. emails obtained by Cybercast News Service described the development as "extremely serious." (Click here and here to view photos of defaced vehicles)
Cybercast News Service has learned that NATO's Kosovo Force has an emergency plan called "Operation Safe Haven" in place to evacuate internationals. The news organization has also obtained the first communique issued by the Kosovo Independence Army (KIA). It was signed on Oct. 5 and delivered by children to UNMIK police headquarters in Pristina, according to local and U.N. sources. (Click here to view communique)
The KIA promised to apply the "rules of war" and execute parliamentarians who failed to declare independence by Oct. 15. "Kosovar quislings" (collaborators) would be executed as well, the KIA stated. "They don't deserve one bullet in their forehead but seven."
On Friday the KIA ordered UNMIK, which it labeled the "modern occupier," to release all "war hostages" taken since 2000 or UNMIK officers and those who apply U.N. laws and regulations would "suffer."
"[F]or six years you betrayed us," the communique read.
International judges, prosecutors and investigators have also been ordered to "retreat" from Kosovo.
The existence of the KIA was at first denied by UNMIK and the Kosovo Force (KFOR), but later confirmed by UNMIK Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup. KFOR is a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo.
While the KIA is considered a new rebel group, it is made up of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, said Thomas Gambill, a former security chief for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the eastern region of Kosovo. OSCE is a regional security group made up of members from 55 countries and operating under the authority of the United Nations. "All rebel groups are offshoots of the KLA. It's just the KLA renamed," Gambill said.
The threatened destabilization of Kosovo comes at a sensitive time, as the United Nations is making preparations for final status talks on the troubled Serbian province.
Gambill believes that Albanian frustration over the independence issue could lead armed rebels to forge an alliance with al Qaeda. Both groups want the international presence out of Kosovo and al Qaeda has a history of attempting to destabilize the Balkans region where it wants to gain influence.
Al Qaeda activity in neighboring Albania has been a primary concern to Gambill since 2000, given the porous borders and intelligence indicating that terrorist training camps were operating in the country. Two months ago, Abdul Latif Saleh, an alleged associate of Osama bin Laden and a resident of Albania, was listed by the United Nations as a terrorism financier. Bin Laden gave Saleh $600,000 to create extremist groups in Albania in order to destabilize the country, according to the U.S. Department of Treasury.
Cybercast News Service, meanwhile, has learned that a bomb which exploded in a downtown market in the town of Strpce last Thursday was a time-triggered IED (improvised explosive device) planted beneath the truck owned by a Kosovo Albanian from Kacanik. The man had gone to the market to sell goods and was injured by the blast. According to Gambill the man was warned recently by members of the KIA to stop doing business with Serbs. No one has declared responsibility for the attack.
"The people are frustrated and scared. Tensions are high." said Gambill who maintains sensitive contacts with officials and Serbian and Albanian locals.
The threats are played down, Gambill said, because "it does not suit the internationals to have a serious crisis such as this at the time when they are sending out reports on how much improvement has been made in Kosovo."
"The time for the KIA-KLA to join with al Qaeda seems to be close at hand," said Gambill. "The Albanian and American love affair will be put to the test."
This is a quagmire. Time to cut and run. Pull out now.
And all of you Christians in that part of the world may thank the Democratic party in general, and Bill Clinton in particular, for the loss of your familes, lives, and land.
What is our exit strategy??
""The time for the KIA-KLA to join with al Qaeda seems to be close at hand," said Gambill. "The Albanian and American love affair will be put to the test."
Surprise, surprise. :(
Here's a little adventure all Americans, R and D can be real proud of, the destruction of an Orthodox Christian culture while we serve as midwife to the birth of an Al Qaeda mini-state in the Balkans. Maybe next time it won't just be the Serbs fighting these vermin. The Mohammadens will push outwards and perhaps this time they'll push the wrong Balkan country or countries and we'll have the good sense to stay out of it.
It's time to rectify our mistake and let the Serbs do what needs to be done.
The existence of the KIA was at first denied by UNMIK and the Kosovo Force (KFOR)OK, here's the plan: We declare that the enemy doesn't exist.
NATO's Kosovo Force has an emergency plan called "Operation Safe Haven" in place to evacuate internationals.
See, they have already planned for defeat.
This is from local Albanian newspapers
UPK Announces It’s Taking Measures
17 Nov (Epoka e Re) – It’s possible that Prishtina, and all of those institutions which are controlled by the “modern” occupier, could be targets of our liberation forces by Wednesday next week.
Now we only wait for our UPK headquarters commander, Col. Luigji. The military operation, which is about to happen in Prishtina will be lead by Gen.Col. Ozoni (O3).
We appeal to TMK and KPS to line up among our soldiers and to help and support them in any possible way. Prishtina citizens should be calm, because our forces are well prepared, and we believe that UNMIK forces not only won’t be able to resist but they will ask the UPK for a corridor from where they will escape with shame.
We created many ‘occasions’ for the “modern” occupier to leave Kosova while it was still early, but as we see our and the people’s request is being ignored.
In this operation the UPK will have 874 forces, followed by other supporting actions. Than we have calculate for the repressed people to join our operation.
All this change in the tactics comes after the non declaration of Kosova’s independence by the assembly, which was to be done on November 17th 2005.
Ulpiana, November 16th 2005
UPK Headquarters
Col. Luigji
Dayton Peace Accords unraveling. Who woulda thunk?
Free Milosovic.
Boy, I'm glad I spent 6 months in that hellhole all for this. Independance WAS ALWAYS THE GOAL OF THE UÇK/KLA! That was the point of getting rid of Milosevic! That whole war was a sham, at least we could use it to keep Al-Qaeda out of the area, but we haven't even done that.
This will only come as a surprise to our resident Soros fluffers.
Peace will only return to Kosovo alongside the Serb Army.
A pox on both their houses. The Serbs and Kosovars can wipe each other out for all I care. They both have it coming.
It's time to rectify our mistake and let the Serbs do what needs to be done.
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I'm with you there. Long past overdue.
Too damn bad this Gambill geek isn't on Freep. This script was written on this site several years ago. The Bosnians and Albanians are running the Al-Qaida Motel and Rest Camp. But also damn good thing the Worthy Oriental Gentlemen are having scant luck convincing these Balkan Muslim rascals to become 'western-looking' suicide bombers for Allah. Can you imagine the havoc this would create in the West?
Leave the Albanians to the Russkis and Serbs. They richly deserve each other.
Sorry, wrong-o. Union within The Greater Albania was and is the goal. Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro are on the plunder list.
If only the Czar were alive. Or Mussolini. The Albanians need their smackdown, right about now.
"Sorry, wrong-o. Union within The Greater Albania was and is the goal. Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro are on the plunder list."
Right you are. Maps of "Greater Albania" are posted on the web and have been for some years now. That of course will mean that Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia will have to solve the problem. Together they have, shall we say, experience, in dealing with Mohammadens...if we have the good sense to leave them alone and the Turks decide that membership in the EU is worth more than some flea bitten Albanian terrorists.
"A pox on both their houses."
Agreed, let the EU handle things.
I remember when I was the only one who felt this way. Then I found Free Republic. Boy, did Clinton ever back the wrong horse in the Balkans. Maybe we should be glad he didn't attack Iraq.
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