Posted on 12/18/2008 5:00:50 PM PST by Bokababe
You are assuming that those registered businesses were ever "legitimate" to begin with. I am not assuming that at all! I think that they were just fronts to get UN aid, and once they served their purpose (stealing money), they were shut down.
Here's another piece on it from Radio Free Europe (emphasis mine):
December 19, 2008
According to the German daily "Die Welt,"two independent reports, one from the European Union and one from the United Nations, make strong accusations about how EU money was spent in Kosovo.
The reports say that a significant portion of the 2.3 billion euros of EU taxpayers' money has been squandered or siphoned away, and several UN employees are wanted on charges of corruption.
A spokeswoman from the Budget Control Committee of the EU Parliament, Inge Grassle, said "The United Nations tolerates fraud. There were tens of millions of EU taxpayers' money sunk into Kosovo, but the culprits are running around freely."
-- Luke Allnutt
"Kosovo" -- from start to finish with NATO, the UN and the EU -- was just one big money laundering operation to take our tax dollars and turn it into private wealth for a privileged few elite.
It began with the theft of Kosovo from Serbia and ends with the theft from you and I. Field of Blackbirds (Kosovo), Land of the Monasteries (Metohija) was turned into an Albanian Muslim Whorehouse by us.
Is anyone surprised that ultimately we Americans got screwed? I am not!
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