1.12.2010 by ctstmaser.

 Almir Rrapo kurz vor der illegalen Auslieferung, durch den Justiz Minister Bujar Nishani, wo schon eine Sanktion Warnung des EU Menschen Gerichtshofes und der EU vorlag.

http://www.albania.de/alb/index.php?p=2632

Albanien, genau gesagt, der Justiz Minister Bujar Nishani, hat illegal und trotz Verbot und Androhung von Sanktion der EU, den Super Verbrecher Almir Rrapo, Staats Sekretär der „Frankensteins“ der Albanischen Politik und damals Aussenminister Ilir Meta, an die USA ausgeliefert und 2 FBI Agenten übergeben, am 24. November.

http://newyork.fbi.gov

Diese Verhaftung führt in die höchsten Albanischen Politischen Kreise, weil auch (siehe unten) Plaurent Cela, in Wirklichkeit der geflohenen Bruder des Chefs der “Bande de Durresi” ist Lulzim Berisha, und auf der FBI Liste steht, der meist gesuchten Verbrecher in den USA. Partner: Ilir Meta, Fatos Nano, Agron – Armando Duka, Lefter – Nard Koca, Natasho Paco, Edi Rama, Gramoz Ruci, Arta Dade, Leskai und dem Ex-Präsidenten Rexhep Meidani, in Albanien.

Alimir Rrapos, der in alter Tradition der Top Mafia, einen Diplomaten Pass hatte, wurde am 2. Juli 2010 in der Amerikanischen Botschaft festgenommen, weil er durch die Abnahme der Finger Abdrücke enttarnt wurde. Die Kameraden der Balkan Mafia haben zig Namen, wie der Fall des Abgeordnenten Tahiri auch zeigt. Ein typischer Albanischer Diplomat halt, weil man sich bei der Srapari Gang, mit Ilir Meta, immer schon sich einen Diplomaten Pass erkaufen konnte. Man nennt sich bekanntlich Aussenminister und gestern berichteten wir hier über seinen Partei Kollegen und Energie Minister Dritan Prifti, aus dem kriminellen Kartell der sogenannten LSI Partei.

Typischer Albanischer Diplomat – ein Mafia Boss: Almir Rrapos auch wegen Entführung und Mord nun angeklagt und ansonsten: Almir Rrapo, ist Staats Sekretär des sogenannten Albanischen Aussenministers: Ilir Meta, sein persönlicher Adviser, aber nur bei Drogen- und Geldwäsche Geschäften.

Militant, dumm und primitiv, aber zum Berater des Ilir Meta hat es ja gereicht. Haupt Verantwortliche für die Zerstörung des Albanischen Tourismus, durch die Geldwäsche in illegale Hotels, Appartment Blocks und der Abwasser Einleitung ins Meer dieser Bauten (vor allem im Raum Durres, als zentrale Verbrecher Zentrale mit Kavaje, Golem, Pista Ilyria, Mali e Robit) und der totalen Korrumpierung des Staates. siehe auch die Waffen Geschäfte des CIA mit Deligorje, Meico und Pinari.

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FBI Presse Meldung, zur Auslieferung des Ilir Meta, Staats Sekretär: Almir Rrapo der natürlich in alter Ilir Meta: Mafia Traditions und seiner Ehefrau Monika, einen Diplomaten Pass hatte.

Department of Justice Press Release
For Immediate Release
August 24, 2010 United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York
Contact: (212) 637-2600

Two Additional Arrests Made of Members of Violent International Organized Crime Group
Albanian Government Aide Arrested; Newly Unsealed Indictment Charges 17 Defendants with Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Racketeering Offenses

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced the arrests of FLORIAN VESHI and ALMIR RRAPO for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that engaged in murder, kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, extortion, robbery, arson, obstruction of justice, and interstate transportation of stolen goods. VESHI and RRAPO are charged in a new superseding 13-count indictment unsealed yesterday which supersedes charges previously filed against 15 other individuals, including charges of kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, robbery, and firearms crimes.
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http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo082410.htm

01 Dec 2010 / 15:12

Albania Under Fire Again for Extradition Decision

Albania has come under fire again for a decision to extradite murder suspect Almir Rrapo to the United States in defiance of a binding measure from the European Court of Human Rights.

The Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, David Darchiashvili, expressed his deep concern at the decision to extradite Rrapo despite a binding interim measure ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to halt the extradition.

“The Parliamentary Assembly will debate this issue at its January session and will certainly take a clear stand strongly condemning the unacceptable disregard of European Convention on Human Rights requirements,” Darchiashvili said.

Almir Rrapo was transferred by Albanian authorities to FBI officials at Tirana’s Mother Theresa airport on November 24 and flown to the US to face trial on charges of murder, kidnapping and racketeering.

Two days later, on November 26, Albania’s Supreme Court annulled the extradition of Rrapo, but the ruling arrived too late.

Despite an order from the Strasbourg Human Rights Court to halt the extradition until the Albanian Supreme Court delivered its ruling, the country’s Minister of Justice Bujar Nishani signed the transfer of the suspect to US authorities.

Rrapo’s lawyers had contested his extradition, arguing that the Albanian authorities had not received guarantees from the US Justice Department that the defendant would not receive the death penalty in a US court.

Rrapo was arrested by Albanian Police inside the US embassy in Tirana on July 2. He worked previously as an aide to former foreign minister Ilir Meta, who currently serves as the country’s economy minister.

His arrest created a political storm in Albania, with the opposition calling for the resignation of Foreign Minister Ilir Meta over his hiring of Rrapo as an aide.

He is alleged to have been part of a racketeering group known as the Krasniqi Organisation, led by brothers Bruno and Saimir Krasniqi, which operated in New York, Connecticut and Michigan.

Rrapo denied the charges during his extradition hearings in Tirana.

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1.12.2010 by Lupo.

November 30, 2010 – 2:05 pmAs the U.S. and NATO casualties rise from the war in Afghanistan, with 2010 being the deadliest year of the nine-year war for the U.S., the question needs to be asked of how we got involved in that interminable and unwinnable conflict? The Afghan war has been dubbed Barack Obama’s War but its origins go back much earlier. Is the U.S. military disaster in Afghanistan an instance of blowback?

What is the standard definition of “blowback”? The U.S. intervenes illegally in a volatile and unstable scenario and over time the consequences of that criminality come back to reek havoc on U.S. domestic and foreign policy. That definition is as good as any.

The U.S. overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953 in a CIA-engineered “regime change”. He was democratically elected but he threatened to nationalize British Petroleum (BP) and potential U.S. oil firms in Iran. Twenty five years later, the inevitable result was the Iranian Revolution whose militants directly blamed the U.S. and who dub the U.S. “the Great Satan”.

Now, that is classic blowback, the textbook definition. We created that outcome. Yet U.S. policymakers ignore and suppress this obvious cause. Instead, they manufacture delusional explanations, fabrications, and rationalizations. These policy wonks argue that Iran is sui generis and that their animus at the U.S. is motivated by their hatred for our freedom and democracy.

The U.S. armed and created the mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. The U.S. made them viable. Ossama bin Laden was one of those mujahedeen Charlie Wilson empowered. Twenty years later, these Islamic Freedom Fighters created by Ronald Reagan are flying planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Centers. The U.S. also helped these Arab-Afghan mujahedeen illegally enter Bosnia to fight for the Muslim Army there during the 1992-1995 civil war.

Charlie Wilson was a major supporter of U.S. involvement in the Bosnian civil war on the side of the Bosnian Muslim faction. Wilson toured the former Yugoslavia for five days in January, 1993. When he ruturned to the U.S., he recommended to the Bill Clinton Administration that the UN imposed arms embargo be illegally and unilaterally lifted for the Bosnian Muslim armed forces. He rationalized this illegal action as follows: “This is good versus evil and, if we do not want to Americanize this, then what do we want to Americanize? We have to stand for something.” Bosnia became another 1980s Afghanistan with the Bosnian Muslim forces in the role of the Arab-Afghan mujahedeen. Charlie Wilson urged the U.S. government to remake the Bosnian civil war into another Afghanistan.

Assistant Director of the CIA, Richard J. Kerr, right, meeting with mujahedeen commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1988.

In Afghanistan, according to Peter Bergen in Holy War Inc. (Free Press, 2001), most of the U.S. aid to the Arab-Afghan mujahedeen during Operation Cyclone went to Islamic militant Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a senior Taliban leader who supported and backed Al-Qaeda. In other words, most of the aid went to the Taliban and, through them, to Ossama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. On February 19, 2003, the U.S. State Department designated Hekmatyar as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”. Hekmatyar was transmogrified from “freedom fighter” to “terrorist”.

And what were the consequences of this illegal U.S. support for the Bosnian Muuslim faction?

When Arab-Afghan mujahedeen, now dubbed Al-Qaeda, blew up the WTC, these mujahedeen had Bosnian Muslim pasports that Alija Izetbegovic issued to them and Bosnian military experience as veterans of the Bosnian conflict.

U.S.-backed Bosnian Muslim mujahedeen on parade in Zenica, Bosnia in 1995.

Now this is an instance of classic blowback. What part of this is so difficult to understand?

Of course, we can speculate that these attacks would have occurred even if the Charlie Wilsons of the world had not created them. But this is to be in denial and delusional.

Al-Qaeda needed the infrastructure, the funding, the planning, the training, the logistical knowledge, the financial network that the U.S. and CIA provided. After all, the U.S. recruited Ossama bin Laden from Saudi Arabia. This takes a massive logistical support system that only the U.S. government and CIA could provide. Moreover, the Al-Qaeda group needed the Taliban regime in Kabul to train and organize and to use as a base of operations. The U.S., in essence, created the Taliban and put it in power. We cheered and gloated when the Taliban hung the secular leaders. We had won in Afghanistan.

Moreover, the Bosnia experience made Al-Qaeda global and gave them the skill and confidence to pull off 9/11. It was the U.S. that empowered Al-Qaeda in Bosnia. So the U.S. did everything to create the scenario for 9/11. It is classic blowback.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan meeting with Arab-Afghan mujahedeen commanders at the White House in 1985.

Critics adduce that the U.S. support of the mujahedeen led directly to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The illegal means justified the laudable ends.

But this is just a myth concocted to rationalize our support of Muslim cutthroats who were cutting the throats of Christians. This is a rationalization with no proof.

Now what is the proof that U.S. support of the mujahedeen resulted in the collapse of the USSR? The mujahedeen shot down Russian helicopters with U.S.-supplied Stinger missiles and killed Orthodox Christians. But the Soviet troops killed mujahedeen insurgents and prevented the emergence of a radical Islamic regime such as the U.S.-backed Taliban. The secenario is similar to the one in Afghanistan in 2010. Like the Soviet Union, the U.S. is attempting to secure a moderate Islamic regime in Kabul.

That fallacious argument also goes against common sense and human nature. War unites a nation and makes it stronger and more unified. Just look at America now after 9/11. CIA support for the mujahedeen kept the USSR together and proved to everyone that the U.S./CIA danger to Russia was real. It united the USSR, just like 9/11 did with us.

A U.S.-backed Arab-Afghan mujahedeen, left, before killing a Bosnian Serb POW in Bosnia, 1995.

Finally, the U.S. took a cynical posture about intervention. Kill them all and let Allah sort them out. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.

But most of those Soviet soldiers the CIA-trained mujahedeen were killing were Orthodox Christians as were most of the Bosnian Serb troops. They were, however, the wrong kinds of Christians, Orthodox or Eastern Christians. U.S. aid was used to kill Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarus Orthodox Christians and Bosnian Serb Orthodox Christians. The “atheist” label was something U.S. propaganda concocted.

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1.12.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

Wikileaks should not influence US-Albanian relations

01. December 2010.

Even though they agree on the fact that WikiLeaks won’t damage relations with US, majority and the opposition have a different opinion in relation to the issue of Greece.

While the leak of thousands of classified US embassy cables has shocked the world, it may help Albania uncover details about the role its neighbours have played in the country in the past, especially during the massive unrest in 1997.

Referring to the 822 leaked US embassy cables related to Tirana, noted Albanian historian Sabri Godo, a former politician and one of the authors of the country’s constitution, thinks that Albanians may finally learn the details of the unrest in 1997 that was sparked by the failure of Ponzi schemes and led to anarchy and violence in the country.

Even though they agree on the fact that WikiLeaks won’t damage relations with US, majority and the opposition have a different opinion in relation to the issue of Greece.

“The events of 1996 could not have taken on such significance if it were not for foreign support. But the details on how this was possible are not yet clear. Nevertheless, they belong to the past and they should not have any influence on current relations. But of course, we should take notes,” Godo said.

According to Socialist Deputy Ilir Gjoni, the country should revise its relations with the Helen country if the documents prove its intervention in our domestic issues.

Meanwhile, Democrat Deputy Edi Paloka thinks that every diplomatic move should come after this documentation has been completely proven.

“We will analyze this documentation in order to better understand our relations with Greece and every other country. Of course, the main purpose of this work will be to focus on our national interests. It is a good thing that public opinion is being given these documents, which have actually happened secretly and for which we were not aware,” said Gjoni.

“Firstly, we should analyze these documents and prove they are true. Their truth is still dubious,” said Paloka.

Meanwhile, Ilir Gjoni thinks that the publication of US secret documents should raise the alarm for the Albanian government.

“Funds for the Intelligence Service have been few, and for its staff it was impossible to exercise their duty and carry their missions. WikiLeaks phenomenon is another alarm bell, for which the government should immediately react,” said Gjoni.

Meanwhile, Democrat Deputy Edi Paloka thinks that if US diplomacy in Tirana has had its subjective opinion on the Albanian politics, this should not influence relations with US.

“Even if an US diplomat has a negative opinion, relations between Albania and US won’t change,” said Paloka.

“I am convinced of one thing… during that time, we certainly had foreign intervention. Things were not organised only from the inside.

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Referring to the 822 secret files published in the American website, which mention the name of Albania, historian Sabri Godo thinks that this is the moment where we can finally learn the truth about 1997.

WikiLeaks is shocking the world, but it will help Albania in finding the truth on the influences that its neighbors have had in its domestic and foreign policy.

Referring to the 822 secret files published in the American website, which mention the name of Albania, historian Sabri Godo thinks that this is the moment where we can finally learn the truth about 1997.

“I am convinced for one thing… during that time, we had for sure foreign intervention. Things were not organized only from the inside. Nobody could have given the events of ’96 such a great importance if it was not for foreign support. But the details on how this was made possible are not yet clear. Nevertheless, they belong to the past and they should not have any influence in the actual relations. But of course, we should take notes,” said historian Sabri Godo.

When asked about a clear American influence when rejecting the Sea Border Agreement with Greece, Godo said that “I would not be surprised by an indirect American influence. This is related to general strategic interests and to the policy that is followed by a certain country. In any case, America has supported our interests. This will provoke a debate, which will include the entire world. I consider it as a beneficial thing and maybe the governments will face difficulties because those who don’t know the past are destined to repeat their mistakes.”

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