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	Kosovo Liberation Army : KLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The KLA appeared for the first time in public in June 1996, assuming responsibility for a series of acts of sabotage committed against the police stations and policemen in Kosovo and Metohija.
		The KLA more than regained its strength, and when the Kosovo war broke out on March 24th 1999, KLA was estimated to have 6,000 to 8,000 people in total, 2,000 to 4,000 in Kosovo, and the rest in Albania.
		The KLA's professed long-term goal was to unite the Albanian populations of Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia and Albania into a greater Albania.
	www.termsdefined.net /kl/kla.html (880 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		KLA fighters attacked Serbian military and sometimes civilian targets, while Serbian forces retaliated with overwhelming and often indiscriminate force; this resulted in mass killings such as the Racak incident in January 1999.
		KLA agreed to be transformed and disarmed [6].
		A new guerrilla group called the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac, consisting of KLA veterans and local ethnic Albanians, began operating in the Preševo region of southern Serbia in 2000-2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army (2115 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: Kosova Liberation Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The attacks this week on the alleged KLA bastions of Prekaz and Lausha in the mountains of central Kosovo were the heaviest unleashed against Albanian separatists since the southern Serbian province lost its autonomy in 1989.
		The KLA emerged as a military threat in response to growing impatience with the lack of progress made by political leaders demanding independence for Kosovo where 90 per cent of the 1.8 million population is Albanian.
		Jasari was described as a KLA leader trained across the border in Albania and sentenced to 20 years in absentia for ``terrorist attacks'' in Kosovo in which police and civilians were wounded.
	mprofaca.cro.net /kosovo01.html (2937 words)

	KLA - Kosovo Liberation Army
		Officers of the Kosovo Liberation Army and their backers, according to law enforcement authorities in Western Europe and the United States, are a major force in international organized crime, moving staggering amounts of narcotics through an underworld network that reaches into the heart of Europe.
		The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has embraced and some members of Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a terrorist organization that has financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of heroin.
		The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were "the primary sources of supply for cocaine and heroin in that country." Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA was among several organizations in southern Europe that had built a vast drug-smuggling network.
	www.bulgaria-italia.com /fry/kla.htm (2428 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA / UCK] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The KLA appeared for the first time in public in June 1996, assuming reponsibility for a series of acts of sabotage committed against the police stations and policemen in Kosovo and Metohija.
		The Kosovo Liberation Army is not a unified military organization subordinated to a political party or civil authority, but rather functions as a guerilla movement consisting of lightly armed fighters.
		Kosovo "freedom fighters" financed by organised crime By Michel Chossudovsky - 10 April 1999 -- The truth of the matter is that the KLA is sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States and its allies.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/kla.htm (1932 words)

	Central Europe Review - KLA: The Army of Liberation
		The founding fathers of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA, or UÇK from the Albania Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës) were Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist president of the self-proclaimed "Republic of Kosovo," established in 1991, and Slobodan Milošević, his belligerent Yugoslav counterpart.
		Kosovo's mineral riches were looted by Yugoslavia for decades, and both Macedonia and Kosovo were the poor relatives in the Yugoslav Federation.
		Whatever the case may be, the KLA became sufficiently self-assured and popular to advertise itself on the BBC as responsible for some of the clashes, a rite of passage common to all self-respecting freedom fighters.
	www.ce-review.org /00/22/vaknin22.html (6501 words)

	The Ultimate Kosovo Liberation Army Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The KLA appeared for the first time in public in June 1996, assuming responsibility for a series of acts of sabotage committed against the police stations and policemen in Kosovo.
		The KLA more than regained its strength, and when the Kosovo war broke out on March 24, 1999, KLA was estimated to have 6,000 to 8,000 people in total, 2,000 to 4,000 in Kosovo, and the rest in Albania.
		Europol reportedly tied the KLA to criminal syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union, and Ralf Mutschke of Interpol reported that the KLA had received financing both from the Afghan heroin trade and from Al-Qaeda [1].
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/KLA (746 words)

	Kosovo Factsheet
		Kosovo is a southern province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is composed of Serbia and Montenegro
		Kosovo was autonomous within the former Yugoslavia from 1974 until 1989, when new Serbian president Milosevic took control of the province.
		While the issues at the center of the fighting in Kosovo date back nearly two decades, the recent tension began to heat up after the emergence of the KLA in 1996.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/kosovo1.html (544 words)

	Milan V. Petkovic: Albanian Terrorists -- Chapter 3
		Asked by the reporter to explain what is “Kosovo Liberation Army” doing in Kosovo and Metohija, the interviewed terrorist presented gross fabrications about the situation in the province, including the statement that “Kosovo was once part of Albania and after World War One it was given to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia”.
		Trying to give his readers a closer profile of the “Kosovo Liberation Army”, the journalist openly stated that this “army” is “actually a shadow group that launched the campaign for armed struggle with the objective to make Kosovo free and independent of Serbian control”.
		The NYT reporter specified that the “Kosovo Liberation Army” has strong financial backing because it is being helped by some 700 000 Albanians living abroad, and that the “army” is to become one of the “leading Albanian players” in the near future.
	guskova.ru /misc/balcan/AT/eng/03 (3142 words)

	BBC News \| Kosovo \| Kosovo Liberation Army emerges from the shadows
		In the past year, the KLA is believed to have killed dozens of Kosovo Serbs and Albanians whom it accuses of collaborating with the Serbian authorities.
		Members of the KLA were rarely seen in public until late last year, when three heavily-armed and masked men appeared at a funeral of a Kosovo Albanian shot by Serbian police.
		The KLA says it has captured a large amount of military equipment, including a helicopter, during clashes with Serbian police and army units.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/kosovo2/62067.stm (386 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
		Frustrated by the failure of peaceful resistance to Serb repression, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was formed in 1998 and began clashing with Serb police.
		The KLA also committed atrocities during the war and is now being investigated for war crimes.
		KLA fights against the dictatorship of Milosevic,” said Dr. Besim Hoxha, a surgeon who worked in a mobile combat KLA field hospital.
	www.friendsofbosnia.org /kosovo/04.htm (350 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army
		The UCK [KLA] is, without any question, a terrorist group.” [Agence France-Presse, 4/1999] “I know a terrorist when I see one and these men are terrorists,”; he says.
		In Rambouillet, France, the Kosovo peace talks are held between the Kosovar Albanians and the Serbs under the auspices of the “Contact Group,” which is comprised of delegations from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
		The Kosovo Liberation Army agrees to the provisions of the Rambouillet Accords proposed during last month’s peace talks in Rambouillet (see February 6-23, 1999).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=kosovo_liberation_army (1893 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army financed by organised crime
		The truth of the matter is that the KLA is sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States and its allies.
		With KLA leader Hashim Thaci (a 29 year “freedom fighter”) appointed as chief negotiator at Rambouillet, the KLA has become the de facto helmsman of the peace process on behalf of the ethnic Albanian majority and this despite its links to the drug trade.
		The KLA training camp in Albania is said to “concentrate on heavy weapons training — rocket propelled grenades, medium caliber cannons, tanks and transporter use, as well as on communications, and command and control”.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19990412kladruglinks.php (2711 words)

	Our Gang - Kosovo Liberation Army National Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Even as NATO troops moved into Kosovo, the KLA was rushing its forces ahead of them to seize the political initiative.
		KLA representatives have occupied the administrative posts vacated by Serb officials, and also filled the positions that might have been taken by the forces of local Albanian rivals like the pacifist Ibrahim Rugova, sidelined by the war.
		Those who romanticize the KLA as selfless freedom fighters and bristle at any suggestion that the group funds itself out of racketeering are as naive as fundraisers for Noraid who think that the IRA hasn't supplemented its income over the years through bank robberies and protection money.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_50/ai_55103654 (887 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Look at the KLA- - July 15, 1998
		The Kosovo Liberation Army has grown from a small band of rebel fighters to a force capable of challenging Serbian police for control of Kosovo.
		Today, it's the fastest growing insurgency in the world--thousands of armed guerrillas battling Serbian police and army units for control of Kosovo, a Serbian province where 90 percent of the population is ethnic Albanian.
		It set off this tumult across the country where mobs were breaking into Albanian army bases and looting armories, breaking into police stations and looting the armories, and so it's believed that a lot of these weapons were sold to the KLA and then brought over the border.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/july-dec98/kla_7-15.html (2126 words)

	Serbia Info News / Notorious terrorists head ethnic Albanian KLA
		Pristina, Serbia, Feb 23 (Tanjug) - Command posts in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are filled by notorious terrorists, such as Hasim Taci, KLA negotiator at Rambouillet, France.
		In 1997, Taci was sentenced to 10 years in prison for terrorist activity, one of a group of 15 ethnic Albanians found guilty of a number of terrorist operations and sentenced to long years in prison.
		It was only at the intercession of the verifiers that the journalists were released, but Jasari and the other KLA members present made it clear that next time they would not be so lenient.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-02/24/9203.html (490 words)

	CNN - Kosovo Liberation Army disarms to meet midnight deadline - July 21, 1999
		PRISTINA, Kosovo (CNN) -- NATO's peacekeeping force in Kosovo said Wednesday it was satisfied that the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army would meet a midnight deadline to hand in its heavy arms.
		The KLA and NATO's Kosovo implementation force, KFOR, signed an agreement June 21 stipulating that all heavy weapons must be placed in designated storage sites by July 22.
		KLA soldiers paraded Wednesday behind the fences of a base in Komorane, one of a handful of NATO-approved "assembly areas" where KLA members can keep their smaller weapons.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9907/21/kla.disarm/index.html (440 words)

	Reality Macedonia : Pablin77 Was Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The KLA learned early in the Yugoslavian campaign that NATO countries are unwilling to risk the lives of their soldiers to resolve Balkan problems.
		Unlike Kosovo, however, NATO authorities are unable to react in the Macedonian crisis, as they did two years earlier in Kosovo, because obviously bombing Macedonia is not the answer.
		According to German media reports, it did so because among the KLA forces were 17 Americans, advisers from a U.S. mercenary organization that has been actively engaged in the Balkans during the Yugoslav wars, and it wouldn't do to have had a number of former U.S. military personnel captured along with KLA terrorists.
	www.realitymacedonia.org.mk /web/news_page.asp?nid=570 (1902 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A leading role in the creation of the KLA was taken by a tiny, clandestine political party called the Levizja Popullore e Kosoves, the Popular Movement for Kosovo.
		By April of 1998 the Kosovo rebels began fleeing their homes in the 10,000 of thousands as the Serbian forces began a new offensive into what they believed to be KLA strongholds.
		As the KLA returned to some of the evacuated areas, their focused remained the same but their tactics changed.
	killeenroos.com /balkan/kla.html (458 words)

	Elections confirm popular hostility towards Kosovo Liberation Army
		This was exemplified by the invitation extended to KLA representatives to attend the Balkan Stability Pact forum in July 1999, while the LDK were excluded.
		Ceku is implicated in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs whilst serving with the Croatian forces during the military offensives in Medak in 1993 and the Krajina in 1995.
		The KLA, therefore, remains a force in the land thanks to Western sponsorship and despite the evident hostility of the majority of ethnic Albanians and the hatred of ethnic Serbs and other minorities.
	wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/kos-d17.shtml (1471 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		The KLA has been explicit in its determination to not only achieve an independent Kosovo but to "liberate" Albanian-inhabited areas of Montenegro (including the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica), Macedonia (including the Macedonian capital, Skopje), and parts of northern Greece; most of these areas were in fact annexed to Albania under Axis occupation during World War II.
		No observer doubts that the large majority of fighters that have flocked to the KLA during the past year or so (since it began large-scale military operations) are ordinary Kosovo Albanians who desire what they see as the liberation of their homeland from foreign rule.
		The KLA is said to rely heavily on a huge network of informers and sympathizers, enabling it to blend easily among the population.
	www.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/fr033199.htm (6295 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army in Haiti - November 22, 2004
		Training and management specialists of the Kosovo Protection Corps, a civilian response unit consisting primarily of former Kosovo Liberation Army members, have been brought to Haiti to assess how the Kosovo model might be applied there.
		The connection between the KLA, the United States - in particular U.S. Ambassador to Haiti James Foley and Haiti's paramilitaries/former military - is not new.
		Where the Kosovo style trusteeship for Haiti was only theoretical in January 2003, it is reaching real fruition by virtue of the most horrific crimes perpetrated against Haiti's poor majority.
	www.haitiaction.net /News/AF/11-22-4.html (2005 words)

	CRG -- "OSAMAGATE"
		Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of funding through United Nations as well as through bilateral channels, including direct US military aid.
		Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany.
		In turn the KLA and the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are identical institutions with the same commanders and military personnel.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO110A.html (3703 words)

	Kosovo Liberation Army
		It is not apparent that either Serbia or the international community can prevent Kosovo Albanians from achieving independence and seceding from Serbia.
		June 1996 - a series of acts of sabotage committed against the police stations and policemen in Kosovo and Metohija.
		May and June 1998 - larger-scale actions consisted actions to defend villages on important crossroads in order to form in the west of Kosovo [between Pec and Djakovica] a line of liberated territories and to disrupt communications between local police and Army units and the main forces in eastern Kosovo.
	webhome.idirect.com /~mullen/TG_KLA.htm (1095 words)

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