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MPRI's training concepts, which had already been tested in According to documents of the US Drug Enforcement Croatia and Bosnia, are based on imparting "offensive tactics...as Administration (DEA), "members of the notorious Albanian mafia the best form of defence".* In the Kosovar context, this so-called have links to a drug-smuggling cartel" based in Kosovo's capital, "defensive doctrine"—applied in terrorist assaults in southern Pristina. This cartel is allegedly manned by ethnic Albanians who Serbia and Macedonia—is intent upon transforming the KLA are members of the Kosovo National Front (KNF), whose armed paramilitary into a modern military force that serves the Alliance's wing is the KLA. The DEA documents apparently show it is one strategic objectives. In 1999, MPRI listed "ninety-one highly of the "most powerful heroin-smuggling organisations in the experienced, former military professionals working in Bosnia & world", its profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons." Herzegovina".* The number of military officers working on In the words of former DEA agent and author Michael Levine: contract with the KLA has not been disclosed. "Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements There is, however, a consistent thread. KLA Chief of Staff of the Mujahedin in Afghanistan—drug traffickers, arms smug- Agim Ceku (previously with the Croatian Armed Forces) has glers, anti-American terrorists. Now we're doing the same thing been involved in a long-term relationship with the MPRI. Ceku with the KLA, which is tied in with every known Middle and Far started working with MPRI in 1995 in the planning of Operation —_ Eastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol and nearly every European Storm in Croatia, which led to ethnic massacres and the expulsion intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug of more than 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia. syndicates that lead right to the KLA, and right to Albanian gangs The fact that Ceku is "an alleged war crimi- in this country."" nal"—according to the files of the Hague While US aid—combined with drug Tribunal, a body reporting to the UN money—is channelled to the KLA, Secretary-General—does not, however, Washington and Brussels perfunctorily seem to bother anybody in the "international But there is something condemn the NLA Tetovo-instigated ter- community".* rorist assaults while casually denying the Ceku holds a UN passport (laissez- else even more terrifying links of the attackers to the KLA. In the passer), which provides him with diplomatic | that has not been revealed | words of former NATO Secretary-General immunity within Kosovo. According to . Pa Javier Solana: "...it would be a mistake to ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte, Ceku's to public opinion. negotiate; the terrorists have to be isolated. reputation and integrity are unstained, All of us have to condemn and isolate however, because the Hague Tribunal's "inquiries...relate to atrocities committed [by Ceku] in Krajina...between 1993 and 1995... Ceku's record in Kosovo itself is not thought to be in question".° Behind the polite fagade of interna- tional diplomacy, UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan has knowingly and wilfully approved—on Washington's —instructions—the appointment of "an alleged war crimi- nal" to participate in a UN peacekeep- ing operation. In other words, the UN system is "financing terrorism", creat- ing an ugly precedent in the history of a respected international body: "The United Nations is paying the salaries them. Nothing can be achieved through violence..." NATO has pledged to "starve" the rebels by cutting supply lines from neighbouring Kosovo.” While con- demning the terrorists, NATO— through the UN—has also been "rais- ing the urgent need for restraint by the Macedonian forces". This double-talk is of course a form of political camouflage: you say that you are against the terrorists, and then support them via the KLA with guns, ammo and military advisers paid by the US public purse. The guerrilla war in the Tetovo region of Macedonia is being financed and therefore controlled by Washington on "both sides" of the border. FINANCING BOTH SIDES of many of the gangsters" who are now involved in the terrorist But there is something else even more terrifying that has not assaults into Macedonia.’ een revealed to public opinion. The guerrilla war in the Tetovo region of Macedonia is being financed and therefore controlled by RECYCLING NARCODOLLARS Washington on "both sides" of the border. While Washington US support to the KLA is only one among several sources of umps money into the KLA, the FYR of Macedonia (which has KLA financing. Various Islamic organisations have channelled een an obedient client state) is also the recipient of US military money and military equipment to the KLA. Prior to the 1999 war, aid and training. Macedonia is a member of NATO's Partnership "German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be for Peace (PfP) program and aspires to acquire full NATO training the KLA in guerrilla and diversion tactics". membership. Mujahedin mercenaries recruited in a number of countries The same group of US military advisers on contract with the fought against Serb Security forces alongside the KLA in Kosovo. KLA is also "helping" the Macedonian Armed Forces. The According to the Sunday Times, the recent assaults by the KLA's MPRI—while assisting the KLA in its terrorist assaults—is also proxy in the Tetovo region of Macedonia have been "encouraged resent behind enemy lines in Macedonia under a so-called by mercenaries from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia".° Stability and Deterrence Program. The latter is intent upon Amply documented, the Balkans drug trade is used to finance "assisting the Macedonian Armed Forces...to deter armed aggres- ethnic warfare with the complicity of the US and NATO. The sion and, should deterrence fail, defend Macedonian territory".'* pattern of covert support—through the recycling of narcodol- What is happening is that the US mercenary company with a man- lars—has been an integral part of CIA covert operations since the date "to defend the border" is also advising the KLA on how best Soviet-Afghan War. "to attack the border". The guerrilla war in the Tetovo region of Macedonia is being financed and therefore border. RECYCLING NARCODOLLARS US support to the KLA is only one among several sources of KLA financing. Various Islamic organisations have channelled money and military equipment to the KLA. Prior to the 1999 war, "German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be training the KLA in guerrilla and diversion tactics". Mujahedin mercenaries recruited in a number of countries fought against Serb Security forces alongside the KLA in Kosovo. According to the Sunday Times, the recent assaults by the KLA's proxy in the Tetovo region of Macedonia have been "encouraged by mercenaries from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia".’ Amply documented, the Balkans drug trade is used to finance ethnic warfare with the complicity of the US and NATO. The pattern of covert support—through the recycling of narcodol- lars—has been an integral part of CIA covert operations since the Soviet-Afghan War. 30 + NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2001 to public opinion. www.nexusmagazine.com