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  • The Brooklyn Connection - PBS Documentary POV

    07/21/2005 5:36:26 PM PDT · by mission9 · 17 replies · 632+ views
    PBS-POV ^ | 07-20-05 | Ranger
    Freepers, how many of you watched this PBS documentary Tuesday night? "The Brooklyn Connection" shows the terrifying ease with which a charming Brooklyn businessman (an Albanian Kosovar) raised $30 million during the Kosovo War, purchased weapons across the USA, and shipped them to Albania to be smuggled into Kosovo. These immigrants bragged about killing UN peacekeepers, Serbs, or anybody else who will get in their way. What I found most interesting, in addition to the Brooklyn Businessman's multiple ties to the Kosovar Liberation Army, was the glee with which John Kerry and Richard Holbrook personally accepted over $500,000.00 in campaign...
  • "Now let's go kill some Serbs"

    12/28/2004 4:00:02 PM PST · by joan · 17 replies · 1,089+ views
    SRNA ^ | December 24, 2004
    BELGRADE -- Friday - Serbia's state media has shown documentary footage of members of the Kosovo Liberation Army smuggling arms into Kosovo from a Western country. The Dutch-made "The Brooklyn Connection" discusses threats by Albanians to begin terrorism against the international community unless Kosovo becomes independent. Part of the film shows guerrilla commander Fljoren Krasnici buying military supplies, including an elephant gun, in a shop, before having it delivered by plane an mule-teams to Kosovo. In one sequence of the film, Krasnici and a mule driver set off from Albania for Kosovo with the words "Now let's go kill some...