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Serbia sentences Muslims for terrorism

5.7.2009 by HoisseBig.

Serbia sentences Muslims for terrorism

Jul 4, 2009

A Serbian court on Friday sentenced 12 Muslims from a tense southern region of the Balkan country who planned attacks on police and Muslim officials to up to 13 years in prison for planning terrorist attacks, including the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade.

Sentenced wahabis in the courtroom

The Special Court in Belgrade ruled that the defendants, alleged adherents of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam followed by Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida members, also planned terrorist attacks on different targets in the Serbian capital, including the downtown American embassy building in 2007.

The sentences ranged from six months to 13 years in jail on charges of terrorism, illegal possession of weapons and alleged links with unidentified foreign terrorist groups.

They were arrested in police raids in 2007 in the tense Sandzak region bordering Kosovo. The raids uncovered large caches of ammunition and bomb-making material. Police said then they had discovered a mountain cave that served as a terrorist training ground.

During the trial that started in January last year, the main defendant, Senad Ramovic, and all other defendants had pleaded not guilty to charges that they planned terrorism attacks.

“We did not want to attack anyone; we are just Muslims devoted to Allah,” Ramovic, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison, told the three-judge panel.

Weapons confiscated at the Wahabi terror camp in Serbia

Several incidents have taken place recently in Sandzak within the Muslim community, but no terrorist attacks have been reported.

Another two people were acquitted Friday, while the case against another will go to a separate trial. Initially, the judges said 11 men were sentenced, but later corrected the number to 12.

DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press Writer
Friday, July 03, 2009

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Ilir Meta, die Ratte der Albanischen Politik

5.7.2009 by Atahualpa.

Governing Party in Albania Seeks to Assemble a Coalition

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photo of the Day: Ilir Meta during champagne election June 2009, against Berisha coalition
Published: July 4, 2009
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature. Although the electoral commission is still recounting ballots from some polling places, it declared that Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democrats had won enough seats to form a government. Election officials said late Friday that the Democrats won 47 percent of the vote, giving them 71 seats in the 140-seat Parliament, just enough to form a government. The Socialists, led by Edi Rama, the mayor of Tirana, won 45 percent, or 65 seats. A Socialist splinter party, the Socialist Movement for Integration, came in third, the Central Elections Commission said.
Mr. Berisha, acknowledging that he could at best form a weak government if the results were upheld in the recount, invited the Socialist Movement for Integration to join him in a coalition if the final total confirmed the current count. The Socialist movement’s leader, former Prime Minister Ilir Meta, accepted the invitation, saying it was “the only one in the country’s interest.”
But the main Socialist Party charged that the Democrats were trying improperly to influence the vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from the election last Sunday were tallied.
The Socialists insisted that the electoral commission, which is recounting ballots from some polling stations after complaints about irregularities, could not declare that the Democrats had won 71 seats while the recounts were pending. They accused Mr. Berisha of trying to sway the electoral commission and threatened to hold street protests.
“I appeal to Berisha to abandon the idea of imposing himself on the Albanian people,” said Gramoz Ruci, a senior Socialist politician, adding, “unless he wants to meet and face the people in the street.” Albania joined NATO in April and has been under intense international pressure to ensure that the vote was free of the fraud that marred its first six elections held after the Communist government fell in 1990. Both main parties ran on similar platforms, pledging to lift Albania out of poverty and secure its goal of joining the European Union.
Election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe issued preliminary findings saying that there were improvements and fewer irregularities in this year’s voting, but that some violations persisted, like late openings of polling places. Full final results are expected in days, after all disputed ballots are counted. Based on the partial count, the election commission said half of Albania’s 3.1 million registered voters had cast ballots.

Note: Which is really politically opposition of Albania? Albania is losting the democratic values of political pluralism. A left coalition Party such as LSI of Ilir Meta, collaborates with his “politically enemy” Berisha, is the last paradox of the country which aspirates to joint EU.

Now the question is: Which is really politically opposition in Albania?

If inside Albanian pluralism is lost the Albanian opposition, may be the new national strategic of albanian pluralism is to “target the Greeks”, such is happening in Kosovo, against Serbs and FYROM against Slavs!!!

Profil von Ilir Meta

Leftist Party To Join Albania’s Right-Wing Govt

Tirana | 04 July 2009 |

LSI head Ilir Meta

The Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI, announced on Saturday, that it had accepted a request from right-wing incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha, to join the ruling coalition after last Sunday’s poll. Speaking at a press conference in Tirana, the LSI head and former Socialist Prime Minister Ilir Meta said that the decision had been difficult, however this was the right thing to do when the country faced political and economic crises.

“This is once of the toughest decision I have taken in my two decades in politics,” Meta said. “We are forced to move toward an agreement which serves Albania and Albanians and their European Union integration hopes,” he added, pointing that after the results of Sunday’s poll cooperation with Socialist Party leader and Tirana mayor Edi Rama was impossible.

However, in an interview with Balkan Insight on the eve of the elections Meta had strongly rejected a possible coalition with Berisha.

“It’s not only impossible but also unnecessary,” Meta said in the interview.

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/20799/

Fatos Lubonja, der angesehenste Journalist in Albanien über die Wahlen mit Dritan Prifti