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This article appears in the Nov. 2, 2001 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review.
U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists
in Kosovo
by Umberto Pascali
While the United States is relentlessly bombing Afghanistan with the
official aim of getting Osama bin Laden, one of bin Laden's top
collaborators is running a terrorist training camp in an area of
Kosovo that is under U.S. control. The shocking revelation has been
confirmed by multiple sources: Macedonian intelligence agencies, as
reported by several Macedonian media, including the leading daily
Dnevnik; Russian press agencies, including Novosti and ItarTass; and
the London Independent.
This intelligence coheres with Lyndon LaRouche's assessment of the
Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, as a strategic covert
operation by an enemy within the U.S. and "allied" security services,
for geopolitical purposes.
The Russian media quoted, as the source of their detailed revelation,
the Russian troops stationed not far from the reported terrorist
training camp. This is in itself exceptional, in the sense that there
is hardly a prec
edent of the Russian military in Kosovo reporting events of such gravity to the
leading news agencies.
These revelations, and the clear position taken by Macedonian intelligence in
confirming and expanding them, are now reopening the explosive question of the
protection and sponsorship granted to the narco-terrorists by An
glo-American agencies.
But this is only a small part of the new strategic geometry opened up by the
revelations. The red-hot political point concerns the very basis for the "war against
terrorism" launched after the war-like attacks of Sept. 11
, and the immediate concentration on bin Laden and Afghanistan as the perpetrators of
those attacks—and the threatened extension of the "infinite war" to Syria, Iraq, and
so on. If the Anglo-Americans are at "war" with bi
n Laden's terrorism, why are bin Laden operatives active in Kosovo in an area totally
controlled by NATO? Furthermore, in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? Investigations on the bin
Laden connection into the Balkans and Kosovo cou
ld, according to experts, lead to even more explosive truths in a very short period of
time.
Keep The Clash Going
On Oct. 16 Novosti reported: "A training camp of Albanian militants functions near the
village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska Kamenica, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo,
which is controlled by the American force, source
s from the Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo reported on [Oct. 16]. According to
[the sources], the camp is now training 50 Afghan and Algerian mujahideen, led by
Zaiman Zawahiri. He is reportedly the brother of one of
the closest associates of international terrorist Osama bin Laden. This camp prepares
militants for terrorist formations in Kosovo and Macedonia. Their 'instructors' are
former [ethnic] Albanian officers who, in 1991-92,
deserted from the Yugoslav Army."
The Independent reported on Oct. 21 that Interpol has linked bin Laden to Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) crime gangs, and that he "supplied one of his top military
commanders for an elite KLA unit" in Kosovo.
That was only the beginning. The target of the terrorist gangs' deployment into
Macedonia: to prevent, by violence, the return of Macedonian refugees into the
villages "cleansed" by the KLA during this year; and to take o
ver the water reserve on which the Macedonian capital, Skopje, depends.
Beyond that, these extremists are out to re-ignite the ethnic "Clash of Civilizations"
in the Balkans, to crush the escalating resistance of Macedonia—which has been
actively playing the LaRouche card in response to its n
ational crisis (see EIR, Oct. 19)—and to continue the march of destruction, possibly
triggering in the near future, an ethnic upheaval in Greece or Bulgaria.
The fact that such an operation is taking place in the middle of the "war on the
Taliban and al-Qaeda"—the fact that NATO's Lord George Robertson, U.S. Ambassador
James Pardew, and the European Union's Javier Solana insis
t, to this very day, that Macedonia has to surrender to the KLA ultimata, including
the subversion of the Macedonian Constitution, opens up a dramatic contradiction. That
contradiction throws light on the virtual reality
the world has been propelled into after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Who Runs Al-Zawahiri?
The Macedonian daily Dnevnik reported on Oct. 19 that the group led by the brother of
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the closest associate of bin Laden, had crossed the border from
Kosovo into Macedonia. Quoting intelligence sour
ces, Dnevnik wrote: "The younger brother of the chief of the Balkan headquarters of
al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, with around 50 mujahideen, has entered Macedonia and has
started building fortifications in the Skopska Crna
Gora region. The aim of the terrorist group is to attack the water supply" for Skopje.
The newspaper reported that the gang had been stationed earlier in the training camp
near the village of Ropotovo, Kosovo—as Novosti also reported—and received orders to
enter the Macedonian town of Matejce. On Oct. 16, a
convoy of refugees, who were previously expelled by the KLA, were supposed to visit
their destroyed houses. However, the observers from the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe entered the village first, a
nd reported that at least 50 armed men had communicated they were going to fire on the
convoy if they dared to enter Matejce. The OSCE order to the heartbroken refugees was:
Go back, we cannot guarantee your security!
But who is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, whose brother Zaiman is running terrorist camps
under NATO protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? As the London Guardian wrote
recently, "Even to say he is bin Laden's right-hand man may
understate his importance." He is considered by many to be the real
head of what is known as the bin Laden group. "Some analysts believe
that in his current role in Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri has taken over
control of much of bin Laden's terrorist finances, operations, plans,
and resources," wrote the Guardian. His known terrorist career
started no later than 1981, with his involvement in the assassination
of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; it includes the massacre of 70
people on a tourist bus in 1997 Luxor, Egypt, and the assassination
attempt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995.
Strangely enough, according to an expert who testified before a U.S.
Congressional committee in January 2000, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S.
residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service—something
almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain. Should we
be surprised that one of the centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was
London, where one of his closest relatives resided? President Mubarak
is believed to have referred to him when, after the Luxor massacre,
he stated: "There are people who carried out crimes and who were
sentenced [in Egypt] and live on British soil."
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