Posted on 06/22/2002 12:51:52 PM PDT by joan
Christian Jennings on the Kosovo-Macedonia border
WHEN Daut Haradinaj, once a commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, walked into a UN police station in Pristina on Wednesday and gave himself up to face war crimes charges, it was final proof that NATO and the UN had come full circle in their relationship with former KLA guerrillas .
Haradinaj’s surrender had been negotiated by his brother, Ramush, also a former KLA commander and now leader of one of Kosovo’s Albanian political parties, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, or AAK.
Both brothers led KLA units that fought against Serb forces in the western Kosovo region of Dukajin, close to the border with Montenegro, between 1998 and 1999. International judicial officials hinted this week that Daut Haradinaj may have given himself up rather than face possible transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
After the war ended, Ramush Haradinaj went into politics and founded the AAK in April 2000. Daut Haradinaj became a commander in the new Kosovo Protection Corps, the civil defence organisation that sprung out of the KLA. In summer 2001, he was suspended from the corps after the US government published a so-called black list of Albanian former guerrillas.
The charges he now has to answer relate to the period following the arrival of NATO troops in Kosovo in June 1999, when KLA guerilla fighters embarked on a camapign of revenge killings of Albanians thought to have collaborated with the Serb regime or to have belonged to rival Albanian factions.
Derek Chappell, spokesman for the UN police in Kosovo, said that six former Kosova Albanian guerrillas also suspected of war crimes had been arrested on Tuesday to face a Kosovo-based UN court. International officials say these arrests may be a prelude to a NATO operation this summer to snatch high-level Kosovo Albanian war crimes suspects and hand them over to The Hague.
Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor of The Hague tribunal, has made no secret of the fact that Kosovo Albanians are on her list of indictees for crimes committed against Serbs and Albanians between 1998 and 1999, when a NATO and UN force entered Kosovo.
Fearing an Albanian backlash if men regarded by many Kosovars as war heroes are arrested, British troops in Pristina have planned contingency operations to contain outbreaks of violence.
Senior NATO commanders say that if the operation to make the arrests takes place, soldiers from Britain’s SAS, along with US and German forces, would be flown to Kosovo to carry them out. Ironically, the SAS was one of several western forces that trained and supported the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"Revenge" wasn't the only reason certain Albanians killed and kidnapped. They wanted to rid the province of anyone who stood in their way. Could this be called "rival cleansing" and/or "political cleansing"?
This article doesn't give the total number of Albanians who've gone missing or been killed by other Albanians, nor even the numbers of Albanians abused by these particular KLA members that have been jailed in recent days.
It would be informative to know the numbers and names of those Albanians missing or killed by other Albanians (is it dozens, scores, over a hundred?), how they were killed, and the location of the bodies of those who might be missing and dead.
the scam of the decade is soon going to explode right into the faces of the shysters who supported it.
Please note, that the arrest of Ramush'es brother means that Kfor has arrested or cashiered virtually all of the KLA leadership for crimes against their fellow Albanians. Since Clinton's HumWarriors unleashed the KLA upon the people of Kosovo, the civilian murder rate has risen fourfold
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:DWVpVEsf5W8C:crisis.vmacedonia.com/Licnosti/rharadinaj/rharadi.htm+Ramush+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Senior NATO commanders say that if the operation to make the arrests takes place, soldiers from Britain’s SAS, along with US and German forces, would be flown to Kosovo to carry them out. Ironically, the SAS was one of several western forces that trained and supported the Kosovo Liberation Army.
But in 'court' this was denied by various 'Natonites'. Seems like their denial can't even be supported in the 'West' now.
This negotiated handover by one KLA leader of his brother to the Hague is just a stalling tactic to keep them happy. When Thaci, Ceku and gang are arrested (as if) they will need more than a few SAS guys.
Ramush Haradinaj
born july 3 1968 Glodjane, Yugoslavia
finished secondary school
speaks english and french
married to finnish woman
chief of terrorist operations in Macedonia
Brother of Daut
His deputy in Tetovo s Bardhil Mahmuti
Emigrated to Switzerland in 1989
lived in Tirana in 1990
Joined KLA in 1998
Tachi gave him command of Metochia region in april 1998
He selected his village Glodjane for KLA HQ
In a meeting held May 20 where Agim Ceku, Murat Jashari, Shaqir Shaqiri And Shefket Musliu were present decided to contie terrorist activity in Serbia nad prepare for MAcedonia
Wounded in Strelci village July 7 200) and airevac'ed to US Military hospital in Germany
Believed to be feud between Taci and Haradinaj clan
Financed by Naser Kellmendi and Ekrem Luka, drug and tobacco smugglers
Responsible for crime in village Glodjani when 40 Serbs were killed and thrown into Radonjicko Lake.
What article does not say is that Haradinaj is an American intelligence asset. It is best demonstrated by speed he was airevac-ed when wounded.
If Homeland Security is really seriuous about fight against terrorism, it would give Haradinaj's handlers a call.
Sooner or later the truth will surface.
Ramush is also suspect of the Panda Cafe bombing in which 6 teenagers were murdered for the crime of drinking sodas.
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