The chapter, "Homeland Calling, " in, "Kosovo: War and Revenge, " by Tim Judah, Yale Univ. Press, deals w/ KLA fundraising.
From This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/99eeu/Yugoslavia-NATO_Info_31;_1-3_(Global_Reflexion). NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit, which usually only runs radical left pieces but, William Norman Grigg is a John Birch Society leader. >...Volume 15, No. 05 - May 24, 1999
Danger! KLA in the U.S.A.
by William Norman Grigg
>...Showcase Volunteers
Although the KLA has had to rely on press gangs to draft Kosovo Albanians into its ranks, it has attracted thousands of ethnic Albanian volunteers from Europe and the United States. Throughout =E9migr=E9 communities worldwide, reported the April 20th Washington Times, the call to enlist in the KLA "is considered obligatory for all men ages 18 to 55. Only those who are sick or who can contribute financially to the KLA are considered exempt." Albanian =E9migr=E9s from Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Chicago, and other U.S. cities have repaired to the KLA banner, joining thousands more from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other European nations.
The KLA's recruit army has little military value; the shopkeepers, waiters, teenagers, and middle-age professionals who have volunteered will not turn the tide of battle against Milosevic's well-equipped paramilitary squads. As with the Communist-organized "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" in the Spanish Civil War, the KLA's =E9migr=E9 army is a propaganda exercise intended to confer an air of romantic idealism to a movement dominated by corrupt terrorists. The KLA's founders, reported Balkans correspondent Chris Hedges in the March 28th New York Times, were "diehard Marxist-Leninists (who were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist dictatorship next door in Albania) as well as descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II."
Hedges fleshes out his portrait of the KLA in an essay published in the May-June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs. "The KLA fighters are the province's new power brokers," Hedges writes. "Whatever political leadership emerges in Kosovo will come from the rebel ranks, and it will be militant, nationalist, uncompromising, and deeply suspicious of all outsiders." The KLA's leadership cadres, according to Hedges, are "given to secrecy, paranoia, and appalling mendacity when they feel it serves their interests, which is most of the time."
The KLA's ideology displays "hints of fascism on one side and whiffs of communism on the other," continues Hedges, and its leadership includes the heirs and descendants of "the Skanderbeg volunteer SS division raised by the Nazis =85 [who] took part in the shameful roundup and deportation of [Kosovo's] few hundred Jews during the Holocaust." <SNIP>
The below is from an early source for Jared Israel, http://www.adlusa.com/voteforusa//albmony1.htm
BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS
By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute
>...In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received $50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign. It certainly continued from 1987 through to the present.
As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Mar. 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party.
The United States Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." Much of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian American businessmen. <SNIP>
Michael Pugliese