From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/14/12432.html Pravda.ru Timothy Bankcroft-Hinchey Lisbon, Portugal Kosovo: The Truth Kosovo, the symbol of Albanian extremism in the Balkans, hides an ugly story which the NATO high command fears and has been trying desperately to cover up. Pravda.Ru reveals the whole, bare truth about this shameful history of terrorism, criminal association and protectionism, to protect the jobs and power-base of those who control this obsolete, unnecessary and aging military organisation. Albanian criminals belonging first to the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army), later to become KPC (Kosovo Protection Corps), went unpunished due to tampering with evidence by NATO forces or political strings being pulled at high levels to secure the release of those arrested. The bus bombing of Serb civilians on February 16th was a classic example of the sort of incident which happens weekly in Kosovo, if not daily, and which goes virtually unnoticed in the international community. As the Serb civilians travelled in a bus to observe a religious festival in Kosovo, escorted by NATO armoured vehicles, a cell of three Albanian terrorists lay in wait and as the first bus in the convoy passed, they connected the wires which blew it and its occupants 45m. into the sky. The result was 11 dead, including a two-year-old boy and 18 injured. Although four people were arrested, collaboration by NATO with the international police force in Kosovo has been typically non-existent. Transcripts of Cell-phone conversations, screened in Monaco, have not yet arrived, neither have DNA fragments tested in Germany. The international investigation force of 18 full-time investigators has been reduced to two part-timers. One of the ring-leaders, Florim Ejupi, managed to escape from a prison controlled by the US forces in Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel, in an operation in which he had to spend ten minutes cutting his way through two wire fences. Ejupi had two previous arrests during the time he lived in Germany. Two of the four men arrested worked at the Headquarters of the KPC in Pristina. Within hours of the bombing, NATO forces had concreted over the crater, concealing and destroying vital evidence. Such incidents are common in Kosovo and indeed elsewhere in the Balkans. Police officers have complained about being pushed away from scenes of incidents by NATO forces, whose intelligence officers conduct the first interviews with witnesses and then conceal results. The Swede Christer Karphammer, a former UN judge, stated that he is aware of a number of cases in which NATO officials blocked or opposed prosecution of former KLA members. ?That means some of the former KLA had an immunity. The investigations were stopped on a high level?the judiciary was not allowed to work independently?. Another case in which there was blatant interference with the judiciary system was that of Sami Lushtaku, a regional commander of the KPC, who smashed a man?s skull with a pistol. Just as he was due to be arrested, a message came from high-ranking NATO and UN officials, halting the arrest. A US diplomat, Jock Covey, also blocked Lushtaku?s arrest on two other occasions. Such are only a few of the many other cases of crime involving prostitution, smuggling of arms, drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, murder, violence, beatings, extortion and rape perpetrated in full view of NATO forces as the province?s population of 60,000 to 100,000 Serbs is ethnically cleansed. Not that such incidents are confined to Kosovo. In Macedonia recently, a group of Albanians kidnapped some Macedonian road workers, torturing and beating them with details of cruelty so horrific that they would not be out of place in the annals of a medical paper on the criminally insane. One secret NATO report, released last year, claims that ?Many KPC members, in some cases high-ranking KPC officials, have ties with criminal organizations?. They will kill to remain in their positions of power and this is one of the reasons who NATO is not willing to become involved ? it fears that the Albanians will turn on NATO forces stationed in the Balkans. But that is not the only reason why NATO allows the Albanians to get away with murder while turning a blind eye. The USA is the KPC?s main sponsor. The State Department and the Pentagon donated 13 million USD to the Corps in the past two years and the CIA and British SAS forces trained and equipped the KLA. British Squadron Leader Roy Brown stated that investigations into criminal activities were hampered by ?constraints imposed by the national security considerations of the 39 nations that contribute to KFOR?. In the words of James Bissett, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, the NATO campaign in Kosovo had the dual aim of first toppling Milosevic, but ?more importantly, provide the aging and increasingly irrelevant military organization with a reason for its continued existence?. This explains the equipping and training of the Albanians, unleashing chaos on the region and creating the spectre of a Greater Albania which was used by the Nazis in the Second World War to destabilise the area while the Axis troops ruled. This also explains the reason why UN Resolution 1244 to disarm the Albanians has been blatantly disregarded by NATO. This would also explain the reason why the sealed indictment against the Albanian war criminal Agim Ceku has never been acted upon, even though it is in the Hague Court in the possession of Carla del Ponte. Ceku controls events in Southern Kosovo, from where he launches his operations in Macedonia over the border. He is not indicted because this would embarrass his NATO mentors. This would also explain why recently NATO intervened in Macedonia to secure the release of KLA extremists surrounded by the Macedonian army ? because 17 of their number were US advisors. NATO?s association with the Albanians says all ? this is a criminal organization which associates with criminals and looks more and more like the Mob with every day that passes. Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY, PRAVDA.Ru LISBON PORTUGAL _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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