Will Bush Administration Recognize Jihad 'State' in Europe?

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Council for
 Kosovo Director James George Jatras today issued the following statement
 following the "election" victory of the "Democratic Party of Kosovo," under
 the leadership of Hashim Thaci:
     Take everything you think you know about the stated U.S. policy of
 combating jihad terrorism, organized crime rackets, trafficking in persons
 (i.e., sex slavery), the global drug trade, peddling weapons and explosives
 to terrorist groups, and so on. Now stand everything you think you know on
 its head - and picture the U.S. supporting all of these activities, not
 combating them. As incredible as it sounds, that describes in a nutshell
 American policy in Kosovo, which seeks to separate the province from Serbia
 and create a new terrorist and criminal statelet in Europe.
     Nothing better illustrates that point than the apparent "election"
 victory of the "Democratic Party of Kosovo" (PDK), under the leadership of
 Hashim Thaci, who is expected to assume management of the UN-supervised
 Albanian Muslim administration. (The "elections," held on November 17, are
 just a sham to hide the fact that real power in Kosovo is held by men with
 guns, namely commanders of a terrorist organization, the so-called "Kosovo
 Liberation Army" (KLA), including Thaci. According to news reports, only 45
 percent of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians took part, and of 40,000 Serbs in
 northern Kosovo, precisely five (5) persons voted in these farcical
 "elections," knowing their participation would be giving their consent to
 their own eradication.)
     Let's take a closer look at the aspiring leader of a new independent
 state:
     -- According to the German Bundesnachrichtendienst ("Federal Intelligence
        Service," BND), Thaci (also known by his criminal alias, "the Snake"),
        is one of three KLA kingpins who run the Albanian mafia rackets in
        Kosovo, meeting regularly in the Grand Hotel in Pristina (Due to length
        of URL, please cut and paste into browser --
        http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-
        zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2006/0807/politik/0037/index.html ), as
        reported in Berliner Zeitung.  (According to the BND source, the other
        two are Agim Ceku, currently styled "prime minister" of the
        administration Thaci seeks to head, and Ramush Haradinaj, under Hague
        Tribunal indictment for war crimes.)
     -- Thaci is also known for eliminating anyone who crosses his ambitions.
        According to a leader of another, relatively more moderate Kosovo
        Albanian party: "Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thaci's
        career." (http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=561 )
     -- According to a 2003 report by the Serbian government (post-Milosevic),
        in 1995 Thaci, together with his KLA crony Haradinaj, met in the
        Albanian capital of Tirana with Osama bin Laden (Due to length of URL,
 
        please cut and paste into browser --
 http://www.media.srbija.sr.gov.yu/medeng/documents/albanian_terrorism_crime1.
        pdf ) to plan the jihad in Kosovo.  The Serbian government stands by
        the report, which relies on intelligence sources and methods.  However,
        its plausibility is supported by Fatos Klosi, former head of the
        Albanian intelligence service SHIK, who says he saw bin Laden in Tirana
        (http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=4&leader=0&sp=20 ), according
        to The Times of London.
     -- In his capacity as a KLA chief, Thaci bears command responsibility
        (http://www.kosovo.net/erpkim05july03.html )for the deaths of 661
        Christian Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo, serious physical
        injury to 518 Serbs, and the abduction of 584 persons.  Thaci is also
        responsible for the premeditated expulsion by the KLA of 250,000 Serbs,
        as well as 80,000 other non-Albanians (such a Roma (Gypsies), Gorani,
        Croats, Jews, and others), from Kosovo after the supposed end of
        hostilities in June 1999.
     -- Finally, among the characteristic jihad terror practices of the KLA,
        under the command of Thaci and his colleagues Ceku and Haradinaj, is
        the beheading of victims, as seen in other countries with active jihad
        terror movements, such as Iraq, Indonesia, Israel, and Pakistan
        (American reporter Daniel Pearl), India (Kashmir), and Russia
        (Chechnya). Uniformed KLA terrorists - whose identities are known but
        who have never been brought to justice - have been photographed with
        the heads of their Christian Serb victims: WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC
        AND DISTURBING IMAGES (http://www.kosovo.net/kladecapit.pdf ).  Equally
        horrifying is the account of the torture and beheading of a Christian
        Serbian Orthodox priest, Hieromonk Hariton
         (http://www.kosovo.net/diocmartyrs.html ) (Lukic) in 1999, soon after
        the beginning of the international administration in Kosovo.  Fr.
        Hariton's body was recovered but his head has not been found.
     In short, Thaci is a walking microcosm of the black hole of crime,
 terror, and corruption that has taken shape in Kosovo under the nose of the
 UN- and NATO-led international administration since 1999. His "election" is
 little more than a pretense to put a "democratic" mask on what Condoleezza
 Rice's State Department would like to achieve: the illegal separation of
 Kosovo from Serbia and the installation of Thaci and his associates as the
 de jure government of a new sovereign state.
     Thaci has vowed that Kosovo will declare independence soon after the
 December 10 expiration of the mandate of the current U.S./EU/Russia
 "Troika" mediating talks between Belgrade and the Kosovo Albanians. Of
 course, the Albanians have no incentive to negotiate in good faith because
 Washington has threatened to recognize them if there is no agreement and
 they declare independence.
     But threatening and acting are two different things. It's hard to
 believe any responsible American official would move forward on such an
 ill-advised course, given the virtual certainty of violence in Kosovo and
 destabilization of nearby areas, presenting our European allies with an
 impossible dilemma that would shatter any attempt to maintain a unified EU
 policy, and a needless confrontation with Russia when front-burner issues
 like Iran and North Korea - and now add Pakistan - loom.
     Then again, having supported the KLA this far, Foggy Bottom, and maybe
 even the Bush White House, where "the buck stops," may feel there is no
 other choice but to continue down the same path. If that turns out to be
 so, it will resolve nothing about Kosovo's status. But it would mean that
 Washington policymakers had managed to paint themselves into a corner where
 they became hostage to the whim of "the Snake" and his terrorist and
 criminal associates. Let us hope that is not the case, and someone,
 somewhere in the Bush Administration finally notices that this is a policy
 in desperate need of some adult supervision.
     For more information, please visit the American Council for Kosovo's
 Web site at www.savekosovo.org.
     The American Council for Kosovo is an activity of Squire Sanders Public
 Advocacy, LLC, and Global Strategic Communications Group, which are
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 Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija, under the spiritual
 guidance of His Grace, Bishop ARTEMIJE of Ras and Prizren. Additional
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SOURCE American Council for Kosovo