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[Michael Pugliese]

Kevin Robert Dean>This reminds me, on NPR the other morning some
security expert was claiming that Bin Laden has
connections to the KLA.  I always thought the KLA was
supposedly "Marxist-Leninist"?????

   After I get back from seeing Bill Ayers hawk his autobiography at Modern
Times, I'll search the NPR website to see who that person was. Likely from
CSIS or similiar outfit. I've seen mention of al Quaida training some
Bosnians but not Kosovars yet.

   The origins of the KLA were in the the Hoxhaite Albanian M-L study
circles of the 70's. But, there was a purge of the marxist-leninist sectors
of the KLA in the period before the NATO bombings. Ethno-nationalist
chauvinists around Thaci gained hegemony. Good chapter on the KLA in Tim
Judah book on the war from Yale Univ. Press.Also Chris Hedges of the NYT in
Foreign Affairs in Jan. 2000, I think.
Michael Pugliese