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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...
  • Richard Holbrook thinks 18 candidates in Afghanistan is not a sign of democratic progress.

    09/12/2004 4:26:22 PM PDT · by mcconnell · 5 replies · 63+ views
    Foxnews - September 12, 2004 ^ | September 12, 2004 | mcconnell
    RICHARD HOLBROOKE, FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR on Foxnews thinks 18 candidates in Afghanistan october election is a sign of instability. Sunday, September 12, 2004. Holbrook - "And Afghanistan itself, despite what Secretary Powell just said, is not in good shape. It's deteriorating and the Taliban is advancing. And the fact that, as he put it, we have 18 candidates running for president doesn't strike me as proof of progress."