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2005-07-19 12:31 | User Profile
[URL=http://jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin071805.php3]Jewish World Review[/URL] The Brooklyn Connection By Julia Gorin
Albanian-American roofer Florin Krasniqi has been living in Brooklyn and smuggling American guns into Kosovo to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army--this time for war against its erstwhile saviors, NATO and the UN. The KLA are the bin Laden-trained, Iran-backed narco-terrorists whose 1999 jihad against the Christian Serbs we helped fight, abetting secession and creating a mono-ethnic terror haven and future Islamic republic in Europe.
Krasniqi, who raised $30 million from fellow Albanian-Americans to help finance the KLA's war, is the subject of a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns, titled "The Brooklyn Connection," which will air Tuesday night at 10 pm on PBS. The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into Krasniqi, according to Ms. Quirijns, as a result of her award-winning film, which was meant to be sympathetic to Krasniqi's cause of an independent Kosovo, and to highlight the ease of buying guns in America.
Realizing Albanians could lose the good will of Americans once they see the documentary, Krasniqi went on "60 Minutes" last Sunday, to paint himself as a concerned citizen promoting anti-gun legislation.
But "The Brooklyn Connection" is damning, demonstrating just how seriously our 1999 blunder continues to backfire, as the film follows Krasniqi's life: at home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife and three kids; at the gun store buying a .50-caliber rifle; at an army surplus store buying fatigues and holsters; at the airport checking in his firearm; and at a 2003 John Kerry fundraiser writing out thousand-dollar checks.
"With money, you can do amazing things in this country," Krasniqi rhapsodizes. "Senators and congressmen are looking for donations, and if you raise the money they need for their campaigns, they pay you back."
At the event, we see Krasniqi greeting Wesley Clark. "Mr. Clark, this is your group, your KLA," Krasniqi says, introducing the former NATO commander to six or so fellow KLA fighters whom Krasniqi helped resettle in the U.S. Krasniqi himself was smuggled into the country across the Mexican border in the trunk of a car.
Clark shakes hands with everyone, then calls Richard Holbrooke over for more introductions. The politicians and the terrorists have a few laughs before Holbrooke makes a speech calling for speedier UN action on "Kosova's" independence, using the same, purposeful Albanian mispronunciation of the Serbian word that President Clinton had used. Albanian-American Jim Belushi also makes an appearance, via telecast, telling the guests, "If you care about the fate of Albanians in the Balkans, if you care about the safety and prosperity of Americaââ¬Â¦I'm sure you'll do anything you can to make sure John Kerry is elected as our next president."
Indeed, had John Kerry been elected, the architects of our backward 1999 debacle ââ¬â Clark, Albright and Holbrooke ââ¬â would be back in position to finish the job they started ââ¬â that is, officially establishing the independent terrorist state of Kosovo. As UN final status talks on Kosovo loom this year, Clark has been working feverishly to complete the Clinton administration's blunder. In February he wrote a Wall St. Journal op-ed warning that "a violent collision may occur by year-end" if we don't do what the Kosovo Albanians want ââ¬â and that's exactly what this four-star general advocated doing. After all, unrest in the region shines an unwelcome spotlight on his "successful war", as he spent all of election year billing it in contrast to Iraq. So he wants to close the book as soon as possible on Kosovo, where there were four more explosions over the July 4th weekend ââ¬â part of the ongoing bombings by our Albanian "rescuees" and a message to persuade the international community that only one final status will be acceptable: unconditional independence, without border compromises with Serbia or protection guarantees for non-Albanian minorities.
"United Nations doesn't know what we are capable of," Krasniqi warns. "If we were capable of getting NATO to help us, I think we are capable of throwing the UN out of there also. And we will throw the UN out if we have to."
The intermittent gunfights between Albanians and NATO (KFOR) troops over the past six years since that American "victory" on behalf of the enemy can attest to that, as can a Kosovo charity that was raising funds for Osama bin Laden. Then there's the KLA member whose application was found at an al Qaeda recruitment office in Afghanistan: "I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat experience against Serb and American forces...I recommend [suicide] operations against [amusement] parks like Disney."
Regardless, Clark has already promised his former campaign donors, the National Albanian American Council, that "Kosova" would be independent. In his op-ed, he even suggested pummeling the Serbs again if Belgrade got in the way; it's easier than fighting Albanian terrorists.
Despite a different administration being in power now, full secession still seems to be the likelihood, what with Congress, the UN, the State Department and a number of George Soros-funded NGOs (non-governmental organizations) pushing for it. If Kosovo does become independent, the international peacekeepers will have to leave, and with them our eyes and ears in this European terror haven and thruway.
Additionally, it will facilitate the continued push to create "Greater Albania", a fight that has already spread to Macedonia and means to embroil parts of Montenegro and northern Greece, as was the plan all along.
In between Krasniqi's on-camera descriptions of the planeloads of guns and ammo he's been sending over to Albania then smuggling by truck or mule into Kosovo, we see his all-American pre-teen daughter dancing around the house to J. Lo before the family's town car takes them to a relative's party at an Albanian catering hall, where Krasniqi is reminded to write a check to "Hyde for Congress." The guests dance on top of dollar bills, strewn about the dance floor like confetti, to a song about Kosovo and the KLA.
Today Kosovo is just five percent away from being ethnically pure--purged of all minorities via pogroms, which reached a crescendo in March of last year. Nearly 200 Serbian churches and monasteries have been burned, destroyed, spray-painted with "KLA" and/or used as a toilet.
There is a hotel outside Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Atop the hotel sits a tribute to those who helped achieve this dream: a makeshift reproduction of the Statue of Liberty.
2005-07-19 13:40 | User Profile
What I just read here, Walter, blew a hole right through me. I don't
always keep up with the Balkan situation, but I know if it wasn't for the
US intervention, things would be better on that pennisula than it is today.
Meanwhile, Milosevic rots in prison while Albanians dance on a carpet of
dollar bills in Brooklyn. The media shows Serbs "executing innocent people" in
1990-something on TV while Albanians smuggle guns into Kosovo from
America with blessingsfrom US politicians.
Am I not understanding something here?
2005-07-19 14:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]What I just read here, Walter, blew a hole right through me. I don't
always keep up with the Balkan situation, but I know if it wasn't for the
US intervention, things would be better on that pennisula than it is today.
Meanwhile, Milosevic rots in prison while Albanians dance on a carpet of
dollar bills in Brooklyn. The media shows Serbs "executing innocent people" in
1990-something on TV while Albanians smuggle guns into Kosovo from
America with blessingsfrom US politicians.
Am I not understanding something here?[/QUOTE]
A few years back (I don't remember when, exactly) I watched a sort of townhall meeting that BBC set up with young Arab intellectuals and certain American officials, including James Rubin, one of Maddy Albright's heavy hitters in the whole Kosovo thing.
Rubin really made the point over and over again that despite American support for Israel against the Palestinians, the charge of American anti-Islamism couldn't stand, since the Americans backed the Muslim Albanians against the Christian Serbs.
I think that a big part of the political pay-off for Kosovo was really to deflect a charge of Crusader in the Muslim world, and to allow thereby Israel to continue its anti-Arab policies unchecked for a few more years.
The Serbs (and the rest of us) were just pawns. And I have to say that Rubin's response seemed to work to some degree. This investment in Christian blood and treasure paid big PR dividends.
But it's clear now after 9-11 and the invasion of Iraq that the Inner Party got about as much mileage as it's going to wring from the Kosovo affair, and so there's not much point in staying with the Albanians.
It would appear that the worm is starting to turn for the Serbs.
As I've said since Sam Francis days, the inexorable logic of this war is to force the IP into abandoning their anti-Christian ways to toward building up white, Christian consciousness as a bulwark against Islam, which is bent on destroying the Jews.
But this is a major one-eighty for Yids and it goes against the grain of generations of training to instinctively attack all things Christian. Even now most Jews haven't figured out that if we white Christians are going to defend them from militant Islam (redundancy?), they're going to have to stop the attacks on Christian culture.
It's like in the film "Clockwork Orange" - Dr. Brodsky may have nuetralized Little Alex's violence by brainwashing him to hate his culture, thus making England safer for Jews like Brodsy, but this also left him pitifully defenseless against everything and everybody. And as the rival politicians understood, if you want Little Alex as an effective ally, you're going to have to give him back his Beethoven. The Aryan violence thing, it turns out, is something of a package deal with Aryan genius. You can't have one without the other, or so it seems.
There is historical precedent for this: the virulently Russian nationalist films of uber-Zhid Sergei Eizenstein (Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible) were a way to induce the Russians to fight the Germans who, like the Muslims of today, were bent on settling scores with the Tribe.
And we seem to be seeing more and more of this in the Yiddish press, as this article indicates.
Note the reference to "Christian Serbs" in this article. And this in the Jewish World Review!
A brave new world awaits us, oh my brothers.
2005-07-19 16:10 | User Profile
I just received this comment from a longtime email correspondent, who lurks here regularly:
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Walter: It seems to me that the Necon approach is to deflect any attempt to defend the West into a secular crusade to transform the Arab-Muslim world. They don't really want Europe to prevent further Islamification, but want Europe to adopt a "pacification" program of Muslim migrants. At the same time, Neocons want the USA to be seen as an ally to Muslims, e.g., in Serbia, Russia and perhaps of Shiites in the Middle East against the Sunni Arabs. Its a grand "divide and conquer" strategy that is very tricky but because there is no organized powerful media connected opposition to Neocons, it might work at least in preventing any recovery of European and American nationalism. Obviously, events could spin matters out of the hands of Neocon manipulation, but even more major terror attacks by Muslims can be used to reinforce the Neocon policy. It would take some very large terror attacks perhaps combined with Muslim riots in Europe to reverse the direction Neocons have placed on policy at present. That and/or an economic collapse, which may or may not happen. The economies of the West are just as likely to sink slowly "into the western sunset" and thus not present the opposition with a single event to exploit.
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2005-07-19 16:46 | User Profile
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=Purple][B][I] - "uber-Zhid Sergei Eizenstein"[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
Actually Eisenstein's mother was a Gentile, and his father had converted to Christianity...
Petr
2005-07-19 17:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Petr][FONT=Arial][COLOR=Purple][B][I] - "uber-Zhid Sergei Eizenstein"[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
Actually Eisenstein's mother was a Gentile, and his father had converted to Christianity...
Petr[/QUOTE]
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
2005-07-20 04:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Rubin really made the point over and over again that despite American support for Israel against the Palestinians, the charge of American anti-Islamism couldn't stand, since the Americans backed the Muslim Albanians against the Christian Serbs.
I think that a big part of the political pay-off for Kosovo was really to deflect a charge of Crusader in the Muslim world, and to allow thereby Israel to continue its anti-Arab policies unchecked for a few more years.
[/QUOTE] Having watched the policy in the Balkans unfold, from the inside, 1995 -1998, I can only say that Walter, you have nit the nail on the head. May I suggest that I think a marker was being called in, by the King of Saudi, on the Oval Office (clinton) for a debt owed to the King (By bush the First) and the payoff was setting up an parallel Muslim place in Europe the way a "europe" place in Arab land was set up in Israel.
I kept asking "how in the Hell is Albania a place critical to US security" and kept getting told to shut the f*** up and color.