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Although the campaign of elections is not officially opened yet, Prime Minister Sali Berisha has launched the tour of inaugurations, promising the Albanians to increase the investment and the improvement of their lives regardless of where they reside. In the picturesque village of Daias in the municipality of Petrela, where with an investment of 52 million is build a road and a new school, Prime Minister Berisha said that the government has funded any project that every village in the country have the infrastructure like that of the city. According to the Prime Minister Berisha, Petrela municipality, where during 5...

NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo082410.htm Two Additional Arrests Made of Members of Violent International Organized Crime Group Albanian Government Aide Arrested; Newly Unsealed Indictment Charges 17 Defendants with Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Racketeering Offenses PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced the arrests of FLORIAN VESHI and ALMIR RRAPO for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that engaged...

  CIA-Backed Team Used Brutal Means To Break Up Terrorist Cell in Albania By ANDREW HIGGINS and CHRISTOPHER COOPER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL     TIRANA, Albania -- Ahmed Osman Saleh stepped off a minibus here in the Albanian capital in July 1998 and caught what would be his last glimpse of daylight for three days. As he paid the driver, Albanian security agents slipped a white cloth bag over Mr. Saleh's head, bound his limbs with plastic shackles and tossed him into the rear of a hatchback vehicle. Supervising the operation from a nearby car were ...

Tehran, Oct 28, 2005 - In a move certainly to agitate its US and EU allies, Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Thursday stressed that Iran is entitled to peaceful nuclear activities. In a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Albania, the Prime Minister praised Iran's "transparent" nuclear stances and its “peaceful nuclear activities”, saying that Tehran's approach towards the issue was consistent with all the international norms and regulations reported by Tehran’s state media source IRNA. Berisha’s move to support Iran is the latest in provocations against the United States by the newly elected government. Opposition parties in Albania have...

The last time Serbian soldiers saw combat, they were being bombed out of Kosovo by U.S. missiles. Now they're set to fight alongside their former foes. Following an offer from Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic to send up to 1,000 troops to aid U.S. forces in Afghanistan or Iraq, a Serbian battalion is being readied for Kandahar, where it will hunt al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban guerrillas. The Serbs' choice of leader for the force, General Goran Radosavljevic, could be contro-versial. During the Kosovo war, he led a cluster of anti-guerrilla teams that, human-rights groups claim, committed atrocities against civilians. Human Rights...