New
Federalist
Despite
BIN Laden links, NATO sticks to KLA.
By
Umberto Pascali
Sept
19 (EIRNS) -- Evidence of the connections between Osama bin Laden and the
Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) is piling up in the Macedonian media. Of course the drug
and
terrorist axis that links up Afghanistan, where Bin Laden resides and Kosovo is
hardly
a revelation. As this newspaper and {EIR} magazine have repeatedly reported,
the
big "secret" of the KLA is that the narco-terrorist gangs deployed
under such
acronym
are integral part of the so-called Albanian or Kosovo mafia whose main
lucrative
activity – besides exploitation of prostitution, traffic of weapons and
traffic of
refugees
et al. – is the distribution of 80% of the heroin consumed in Europe. Such
heroin
comes from the Afghanistan's opium.
It is also well known that Bin Laden has been "invented"
originally by US and
British
agencies as "freedom fighter" against the Russians in Afghanistan and
his
international
gangs had been given – by those agencies – green light to cultivate and
smuggle
opium as a way to finance their war. In this sense the difference between the
modus
operandi of the KLA and the Afghanistan Taliban is very similar.
"It is understandable that the Macedonians are now doing everything
to attract
attention
to the international connection of the KLA," says a well-informed Balkan
observer.
"The Macedonians have seen the US and the British supporting
directly or
through
NATO the KLA destabilization against their country, and now, after Bin Laden
has
become the biggest target of the frantic vendetta campaign following the
September
11 massacres, now they hope that finally the US understand what they have
been
through. They hope to finally join forces and save the country from narco-
terrorism.
Unfortunately they are naпve. In fact while promoting the war hysteria
using
Bin
Laden as a pretext, the Anglo-Americans and NATO are also escalating their
support
for
the Bin Laden connected KLA."
"KLA's
better with Westerners"
In
fact on Sept 18 and 19, NATO officials launched a campaign insisting, to use
the
words of George Soros supported Radio Free Europe, that "Albanians [i.e.
KLA] have
generally
been much more adept than the Macedonians in handling the Westerners."
The
announced war preparations targeting possibly Afghanistan and other Middle East
countries
did not change in the least the Anglo-American determination to continue the
Macedonian
operation, and the support for the KLA. "The situation in Macedonia is not
affected
by the tragedies in new York and Washington," US Macedonian envoy, James
Pardew
stated on Sept 19th. Washington "remains focused on the situation in
Macedonia."
Ambassador Pardew -- better known in Macedonia as "the cow boy"
for the
brutal
attitude he display against those forces who try to resist the destruction of
the
country's
national sovereignty – did not hint to the fact that his co-mediator to
European
envoy,
Francois Leotard is not there anymore. In fact, among the deafening silence of
the
media, leotard resigned last Sept 10, just after a long phone conversation
between
the
president of his country, Jacques Chirac of France and his Russian counterpart,
Vladimir
Putin.
The two Presidents discussed about Macedonia and agreed on a closer
cooperation
"with the aim of preserving the Balkan country's stability, territorial
integrity
and
the inviolability of its borders," according a statement issued by the
Kremlin. In
other
words, a line totally opposite to the tactical and strategic aims of the KLA and
his
puppet
masters. Leotard, reportedly, expressed his strong disagreement with the line
pursued
by the leadership of NATO in Macedonia.
Pardew also forgot to notice that there is also an other
"problem." The German
Defense
Minister, Rudolf Scharping – that the anglophile lobby in Germany has tried
unsuccessfully
to "Watergate" – in a closed-door session of the parliament defense
Committee
accused openly the British to have undermined the deployment of German
soldiers
in Macedonia. And the list of the "problems" inside NATO could
continue.
What many "naпve Macedonians" do not understand is that
the war hysteria
whipped
up by CNN and the other media inside the US, do not indicate a decision to
finally
destroy the narco-terrorist machines that have been set up by that very Anglo-
American
groups in Ibero-America, Europe and Asia. In fact, while so many
Macedonians
participated in vigils in front of the US Embassy in Skopje, to "pray for
the
Suffering
America," top US NATO officials continued their campaign to present the KLA
terrorists
not only as acceptable, but indeed much better than the Macedonians against
whom
they had carried our a murderous eight months long assault.
State Secretary Colin Powell himself intervened to make clear that, if a
proposed
popular
referendum – presently debated by the parliament -- is approved, it would
increase
the possibility of a new war. The
referendum, if approved by the Parliament
would
let the Macedonian citizens decide on the Macedonia Constitution changes
imposed
by the "international community." It was the last of a series of
high-level
interferences
in the internal affairs of Macedonia.
NATO
to stay
Still.
While in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sept 18, Macedonia Prime Minister Ljubco
Georgievski,
restated his hope that after the horrible attacks of Sept 11, NATO will
change
its policy towards "terrorism" in Macedonia. "The international
community was
not
energetic enough in dealing with terrorism in Macedonia. It flirted with the
terrorists."
Two days before, in an interview with the German weekly {Der Spiegel},
Georgievski
stressed that "NATO should
leave [Macedonia] at the end of its operation"
that
is on Sept 26. The Prime Minister revealed that "paradoxically" NATO
"is pressuring
us
for an extension of its mandate…. We are under pressure, but not the
terrorists…"
But on Sept 19 a NATO spokesman stated that the Macedonian governments
had
requested
a new NATO mandate. Even more "paradoxically" than before, the
announcement was not made by the Macedonians but by NATO.