The Hague is a roo court, but if anybody deserves to be locked up, it’s Hashim “The Snake” Thaci. Before we decided to become their airforce, Interpol called the narco-mafia UCK/KLA “The Scourge of Europe” and it was designated as a terrorist organization — and still to this day has ties with nasty terrorist organizations. Involved in illegal drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, organ trafficking, murders all over Europe, etc., it’s no wonder Interpol called them that.
The German BND twice caught them training with Al Queda in the years before we bombed Serbia, and Richard Holbrook called them “Che Guavera wannabes” which was amusing at the time.
In Kosovo, they committed horrible crimes (including torture and murder) against ethnic Serbs and against ethnic Albanians who were followers of Rugova. (The vast majority of ethnic Albanians were followers of Rugova who advocated nonviolence.) He also ordered assassinations of rivals within the UCK/KLA (typical mafia stuff).
Sorry, but these were no trumped up charges. His crimes had long been well known, even before the bombing campaign. The scandal is that we treated him as a legitimate leader and allowed him to continue his criminal ways all these years.
While the timing may certainly be suspect, the charges are not. They are likely only the tip of the colossal iceberg of his crimes. Thaci is one nasty piece of work. So are Krasniqi, Haradinaj, Haliti, and some others, but Thaci is the big snake in that den of vipers.
There are no such things as coincidences. After 20 years of investigating both sides, the international court found nothing, yet as soon as Rick Grinell notified the DOJ that the U.S. had formed an agreement between both countries to let both sides investigate alleged crimes from all those years before, that suddenly, Smith is sent overseas to make a quick assessment, and find evidence to charge Thaci. The DOJ never cared about it until a representative from Trump's administration got involved, and alerted them about the agreement. This was done deliberately. The swamp couldn't have Trump get credit for normalizing trade relations between two enemy countries. Had it been Obama or Biden, the DOJ would have never bothered to get Smith involved, and bring charges against anyone. They would have taken credit for the agreement, and been praised unendingly in the media.
Thanks for this. I remember all the research and news about Thaci, but not the details. What about Joe Biden? I wonder if they were “familiar”. Seems McCain was part of it.