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Robert Elsie: If I would live in Albania, it would be crazy

8.2.2012 by CrniLabudovi.

living in the osmanian time - Robert Elsie: Shqipëria e
sotme si në kohën osmane

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Robert Elsie: If I would live in Albania, it would be crazy. It is the same as in Ottoman times

After known albanolog Milan Shufla, Robert Elsie is the best conteproranean albanian albanolog in the World

During his intereweu on “Top Channely TV, Robert Elsie, on his first interview on TV. expresed his story about Albanian and Albanian state in 100 years.

An interesting tale scholar known for his work difficulties in view of the Albanian language. Elsie, who knows Albanians for years, amounts to a chilling conclusion. He says he will not ever live in Albania, as it will go mad. “I can not live here. It’s a little wild for me, the relationships between people are a bit wild. I know that is just a facade that inside have good spirit, but have a rabies in human relations. You know how to protect yourself here, and here I am like a rabbit, he can not defend myself. I come here with pleasure, but do not believe they can afford to come and live here forever. There is much frustration of everyday life.

Life is too short and I do not have time to bump into obstacles, only to achieve something, when in another country and get away and then live my life, “said Elsie to Albanian. And while Enver Hoxha’s Albania as compared with that of Sali Berisha, adds: “There is something that depends only on the party, it’s more the attitude of the people. So to get something going, you have to know someone in the Ministry, to drink coffee with, then drink coffee again next week with even a third time, and then he connects with the person that you are interested . That is the same as in Ottoman times, not like a normal country. “.

part II and part III

Website: http://www.albanianhistory.net/

Robert Elsie Interview

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The collapse of the judicial system in Kosovo - Albania’s ‘culture of impunity’

7.2.2012 by Atahualpa.

Justice failed in Kosovo

30 January 2008
War crimes and crimes against humanity from the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s risk being left unpunished as a result of a failed UN justice mission.

Amnesty International’s report describes the failure of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) International Judges and Prosecutors Programme (Programme) to comply with international law and standards concerning the right to fair trial. The report also reveals the failure to leave a legacy of experienced and well trained prosecutors, judges and defence lawyers able to try such crimes, as the European Union prepares to make a decision over its responsibilities with regard to Kosovo.
“Hundreds of cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity (including rapes and enforced disappearances), as well as other inter-ethnic crimes remain unresolved seven years after the UN began its efforts to rebuild the Kosovo judicial system. Hundreds of cases have been closed, for want of evidence that was neither promptly nor effectively gathered. Relatives of missing people report that they have been interviewed too many times by international police and prosecutors new to their case, yet no progress is ever made,” said Sian Jones, Amnesty International’s researcher on Kosovo.

The Programme was created in 2000, after the collapse of the judicial system in Kosovo. Although the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had jurisdiction over Kosovo, it was clear that it would only be able to try a very limited number of cases.
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http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/justice-failed-kosovo-20080130

The most stupid organisation in action: OSCE: Legal system development
Kosovo judiciary endures threats

07/02/2012

International and domestic watchdogs report that pervasive political pressure and threats against judicial officials blur Kosovo’s separation of powers.

By Safet Kabashaj for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 07/02/12

Judiciary officials and watchdog organisations report pervasive influence and threats against judges, prosecutors and their families. [SETimes illustration]

Political influence and threats against judges, prosecutors and their families continue to plague Kosovo’s judiciary, putting the independence of the judicial system in question.

“Improvements are needed especially in ensuring safe working environment for judges and prosecutors, free from improper and undue [executive] interference, notably in politically sensitive and high-profile cases,” said Werner Almhofer, head of the OSCE office in Kosovo.

The OSCE issued a report on the state of the judiciary last month, listing unrestricted access to judges’ offices as well as poor infrastructure devoid of proper security as additional significant problems.

Prosecutors say they experience pressures or outright threats as they deal with the hundreds of thousands of unsettled cases and often poorly co-ordinated actions against organised crime.

At a recent roundtable on intimidation of judiciary officials, nearly every judge told a personal story of being threatened or attacked, the OSCE report said.

“It is obvious judges and prosecutors in Kosovo are not properly protected. They can be threatened at any moment. We are still not free to independently exercise our duties,” the acting head of the Prizren district prosecutor’s office, Style Hoxha, told SETimes.

To address the problem, Hoxha employed personal bodyguards at work and at home for several months but recently stopped the practice.

“It is hard to work in a difficult environment but even harder with security around,” Hoxha told SETimes, conceding that the unease about personal safety is affecting performance.

Absence of separation of powers leading to political influence, in addition to lack of security and poor infrastructure, remains the judiciary’s central problem, Kosovo Law Institute official Betim Musliu told SETimes.

“The judiciary’s greatest dependence is with respect to the [state] budget because the government decides on it, a matter of old mentality in which the government controls everything,” Musliu said.

Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Hajredin Kuqi acknowledged he is unhappy with the state of judicial independence and directed the blame squarely at himself.

Kuqi explained the solution lies in increasing judges’ professionalism, which will lead to a greater independence in the functioning of the judicial system.

Establishing a justice academy as a permanent home to educate and guide judges and prosecutors would be a step in the right direction, he said.

…………………… http://setimes.com
Acquittal highlights Albania’s ‘culture of impunity’

A landmark bribery case against one of Albania’s highest ranking politicians has ended in acquittal, a year after anti-corruption protests swept the nation. Observers call it a missed opportunity. …DW

Skandal: 1 Million for PR for Investor Propaganda for CNN TV!

08 Shkurt 2012 - 17:19 | Kosova

Qeveria 1 milion euro për promovimin e Kosovës në CNN

PRISHTINE-Qeveria e Kosovës në mbledhjen e mbajtur të mërkurën ka miratuar një sërë propozim-vendime, midis të cilëve edhe atë për ndarjen e mjeteve financiare në vlerë prej 1 milion euro për promovimin e Kosovës tek investitorët e huaj, në Agjencinë e lajmeve CNN.

Projekt-vendimi është miratuar me shumicë votash.

PRISHTINE-Ministrja e Tregtisë dhe Industrisë, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, e cila ka thënë se kjo fushatë do të fillojë më 17 shkurt në katër vjetorin e pavarësisë së Kosovës.
“Viteve të fundit, Kosova ka ndërmarrë një numër të fushatave promovuese. Pa marrë parasysh, këto kanë rezultuar me nevojën për vazhdimin e promovimit qoftë në nivelin politik, qoftë në atë të investimeve. Do të ketë për qëllim promovimin e potencialeve investive të Kosovës. Kjo fushatë do të fillojë më 17 shkurt në katër vjetorin e pavarësisë. Lidhur me këtë janë bërë edhe koordinimet e nevojshme me Ministrin e Financave”, ka thënë Kusari-Lila.

Nga ana tjetër, ministri i financave, Bedri Hamza ka thënë se mjetet që nevojiten për financimin e këtij projekti do të sigurohen nga rezerva e Qeverisë dhe një pjesë e tyre nga MTI.

Nga ana tjetër ministri i Bujqësisë, Pylltarisë dhe Zhvillimit Rural, Blerand Stavileci ka ofruar sqarime rreth raportit të Komisioni Evropian, i cili ka nxjerrë tokën e Kosovës si tokë të helmuar. Sipas tij, këtu nuk ka asnjë lloj paniku, duke shtuar se prodhimet e vendit janë cilësore, të sigurta dhe të shëndetshme.

Në rend të ditës, është miratuar edhe projekt-vendimi për fillimin e përgatitjeve për shpronësimin e patundshmërive të nevojshme për projektin e Brezovicës.

KS e OKB, Jeremic: Veriu, dhuna u shtua ne dhjetor. Apel, problemet zgjidhen me negociata. Hoxhaj: Serbia premtime boshe, s’zbaton marreveshjet me Brukselin.

(d.b/BalkanWeb)

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The Albanian President Bamir Topi in court for family propertties, with false documents

5.2.2012 by Lupo.

The Albanian President Bamir Topi in court for family propertties

According to the Albanian prosecutor, 8 thousand people were killed, in 20 years in Albania for property rights

TIRANE-Finding the right property in Albania is an almost impossible mission. President of the Republic Bamir Topi seems that there is no difference of hundreds of other citizens, when it comes to property. Along with his brother, Flamur Topi, a renowned physician and other members of the family, could not yet recover their property even though four years at the top of the country and in charge of the institution of justice, the High Council of Justice .

Three days ago, the Supreme Court has registered a complaint with the subject property. What makes this particular claim is precisely the fact that among the applicants is located, and President of the Republic, Bamir Topi, his brother Flamur Topi.

The Civil Case as party respondent and has another family lineage, but the adjective ball, and returns Agency Property Compensation of Tirana. The suit has as object the repeal of a decision of the Tirana District ZRKKP.

In this case, the Supreme Court should decide the jurisdiction of this claim. So, if the Court of Tirana, where the family wants the right to property, will continue on reviewing the action or is a matter to be resolved administratively.

comment: Bamir Topi, is involved in other illegal property documents and false documents in the Touristik Park in Durres, with other gangsters from Shiak.

World Bank, over the Land Mafia Gangsters
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The property would be the hidden war in Albania
The problem is not just difficult, but becomes hopelessly by state structures
Panagiotis Barkas
One of the unfulfilled conditions in the process of Albania’s accession course to the European Union, is the solution of ownership, especially on land.

The problem is not just difficult, but becomes hopelessly disepilyto and from the same state structures. A case of the family of President Bamir Topi. The Supreme Court of the country these days hears appeal by Mr. Ball against the State Commission for the Restitution of property, which unfairly removed from the Ball family of eleven a.m. acres of land into a tourist spot outside the capital Tirana. (The Ball family inherit the same point twenty-three acres.).

Last summer, the city of Vlora, the young judge Skeintiralnt Konomi, with explosives blew up alongside his car. Her property again on earth. The hit was made in view of the Supreme Court decision on a few dozen acres of land in the coastal resort of Durres. Since the Supreme Court has not expressed nor were the killers.
Police numbers a few dozen victims, more than 120, a result of unresolved problems with the land. The phenomenon has shaken the peak crime within the family across the country, mainly in the north. The Reconciliation Commission reports indicate that the Vendetta main reason for the tremendous revival and expansion of the blood feud, are the controversies and disputes in property matters on earth.

Sharp and multifaceted problem occurs in areas of pure Greek population in the national minority.

70-100 thousand acres of meadows and pastures in these areas claimed by foreigners alleged former owners. We say supposedly former owners, because most of them to the authorities, administrative and judicial forged papers. Nevertheless vindicated. For 15 years now, the Greek religious communities and parishes in a race to the courts. In all cases, however, winning the courts find it difficult to get the title deeds.

Even more difficult problem in Himara, where local residents have difficulty getting their properties, which they see every day changing hands.

The Greek minority and risk losing the gains on farmland, which benefited from the application of Law 7501 of 1991 “on arable land.” Because of immigration in Greece, some of them not yet taken official ownership titles.

Because land is not cultivated in several cases occurred and involved the municipal authorities to rent the uncultivated land of the Greeks, Albanians. Greek minority in several districts of Saranda and Delvino, the phenomenon has expanded up to 50 percent of arable land.

However, the Albanian press publishes “secret” documents state that, as reports confirm that the arable land belongs to the Greek Albanian former owners, beys and agas.

There are also cases that fields in arbitrarily cultivated Greeks owned by Albanians.

In the county Gjirokaster, the phenomenon of Greek sales of agricultural land in foreigners. Sold and fields used for the construction of residential and small business enterprises.

Observers in the field indicate that the phenomenon will take dimensions in the future, because the Greek minority in Greece, you will need money to deal with life in Greece.

http://smarkos.blogspot.com/2012/02

Weltbank Reports, über die Verbrecher in Tirana, mit ihrem Grundstücks Raub Modell und “Most Wanted” in Griechenland: Alket Rizai

Die neuen Weltbank Reports, sind absolut verherrend und entlarvend, über die Methoden einer Idioten Klasse, der Albanischen Politik, welche nur primitiv, dumm und hoch kriminell zu bezeichnen ist. Gaddafi, war dagegen ein netter Onkel, was bei den Albanischen Politikern sich abspielt. Dazu kommt die “Kultur der Straflosigkeit” einer dummen Politischen Klasse und noch dümmeren Mafia, die sich mit Geld bei korrupten Richtern frei kauft./property-would-be-hidden-war-in-albania.html

Kein Schutz der echten einheimischen Bevölkerung, im Terroristen Statt: Albanien, mit den dümmsten Banditen der Welt, aktiv in einem Art Idioten Club der sich LSI und DP Partei nennt.

06 FEB 12 / 09:44:26

Bank Report Highlights Albania’s Property Chaos
World Bank report finds Albania’s property system is in chaos due to unclear legal procedures and administrative failures that have hampered reforms.

Besar Likmeta
“Despite several attempts at reform, immovable property rights in Albania are not adequately secure and represent an important governance challenge,” the report issued on Thursday said.

“Problems have resulted from incomplete first title registration, the lack of accurate cadastral records, and, in many cases, the absence of reliable evidence of ownership,” the World Bank adds. ……………..

Reshit Vorpsi, from the Property with Justice Association, an organization that represents property owners expropriated by the former Communist regime, agrees, noting that the government attempts to regulate property problems have failed.

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“The primary goal of the law was to prevent the construction of illegal buildings and since then, according to the World Bank 80,000 new dwellings have been built illegally and the number could be as high as 120,000,” Vorpsi said

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/report-albania-property-system-in-chaos

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Serb Gangster Paradies: South Afrika for: Darko Saric, Dobrosav Gavric, Cyril Beeka

3.2.2012 by Dardan Demaj.

03 Feb 12 / 15:28:59
Darko Saric Seen in South Africa

South African police say they have located a man believed to be fugitive Darko Saric who is wanted by Serbia on drug smuggling charges.

Bojana Barlovac

Belgrade

The South African office for combating organised crime is checking with Interpol and police in Serbia and Montenegro to confirm that the man is Saric.

“That person is not arrested but is the object of our attention, and we will take further measures once the checks with Interpol and the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro are done,” the office told the Podgorica-based newspaper Dan.

Saric, who is of Montenegrin origin but holds Serbian citizenship, is the alleged leader of an organised criminal group suspected of smuggling over 2.1 tons of cocaine from South America to Europe. Serbian prosecutors filed charges against Saric and his associates in April 2010 and issued a warrant for his arrest.

The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project wrote on its website on January 17, citing the Daily Voice, a South African newspaper, that Saric was hiding in South Africa protected by local mafia and corrupt police.

He reportedly lived under a pseudonym in the province of Gauteng, which contains the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg.

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/

Narco-Boss Darko Saric in South Africa

Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:49

Serbian fugitive Darko Šarić is hiding in South Africa protected by local mafia and corrupt police, according to the Daily Voice, a South African newspaper [who misspell his name but use his photo].

He is living under a pseudonym in the province of Gauteng, which contains the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, according to a whistleblower who calls himself “Uncle Sam.”

Šarić , virtually unknown until October 2009 is now one of the world’s most sought after criminals after Interpol seized more than two tons of cocaine near the Uruguayan coast in an operation dubbed “Balkan Warrior.” Serbian authorities say he heads a major drug trafficking network from South Africa to Europe, and estimates that he made more than €1 billion annually. Šarić’s assets in Serbia have been seized but he allegedly still owns real estate in Montenegro.

Šarić is not the only Serb who has sought anonymity and protection in South Africa: Last week, the Daily Voice reported that the informant told them that Serbian hitman Dobrosav Gavric, convicted of assassinating Serb paramilitary leader Arkan and two others, spent three years living in Cape Town under the protection of murdered gangster Cyril Beeka.

The paper reports that Uncle Sam, 65, is on the run after a disagreement with mob superiors indirectly connected to Beeka’s murder last March and to the protection of the two Serbian fugitives. He admits running a luxury car fraud network that went awry and threatens to use a 116-page diary detailing information about the South African mafia if his enemies threaten him.

“I need to warn the public that the mafia is running the country with the help of cops and top politicians and that they have ruthless killers who will take out anyone who threatens them,” he told the Daily Voice.

The reports comes as South Africa struggles to overcome perceptions that it is a haven for international organized crime figures. Former South African police chief Jackie Selebi was convicted of corruption in July 2010 after his relationships with organized crime figures were exposed. Selebi served as president of Interpol from 2004-2008. http://www.reportingproject.net/occrp

Partner of Darko Saric and Bodo Hombach: Subotic

Serbia: Subotic Receives 6 Years in Cigarette Smuggling Case

Saturday, 29 October 2011 14:23

By Stevan Dojcinovic and Valerie Hopkins

Stanko_Subotic_Interpol The Serbian Special Court for the Fight Against Organized Crime today sentenced Serbian businessman Stanko Subotic to six years in prison for abuse of office for overseeing his company’s smuggling of cigarettes into Serbia from Macedonia and Hungary. The court sentenced Subotic’s nephew, Nikola Milosevic, to four-and-a-half years behind bars and former director of the Federal Customs Administration Mihalj Kertes to four years both for aiding and abetting the abuse of office.

Eleven other accomplices received shorter sentences ranging between 10 months and three and a half years. Two of the suspected associates were acquitted.

According to the verdict, Subotic, his employees, and complicit state authorities used MIA, a company he set up in 1991, to illegally earn €33.6 million through smuggling cigarettes in 1995 and 1996.

Although both the indictment and verdict detail Subotic’s cigarette smuggling operations, he and his associates were actually tried and convicted of abusing their positions in a private company under a seldom used law dating from Serbia’s days as a constituent republic of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. While the verdict says that Subotic and his group are guilty of “abusing their positions in a private company to smuggle cigarettes,” they were not directly convicted of the crime of smuggling cigarettes. The distinction will likely save Subotic a future extradition or problems in other countries because no country recognizes such a charge.

Subotic was arrested at a Moscow airport three and a half years ago on an Interpol warrant issued by Serbia, but released shortly thereafter by Russian officials who said the charges were based on an obsolete law. Both Subotic and Milosevic were tried in absentia…. http://www.reportingproject.net

Darko Šarić,

Name: Darko	Surname: Šarić,	AKA:
Date of birth: Oct. 21, 1970	Place of birth: Pljevlja, Montenegro	Nationality: Serbian/Montenegrin	Address:
Spouse: Nataša Šarić (former wife in Serbia), Veronika Polačekova (former wife in Slovakia)	Children: 3	Interests: Šarić controlled companies in Serbia and Montenegro.
Alleged Illegal Activities: Cocaine trafficking, money laundering		Source: Indictments against Šarić, Certificate of Citizenship, Company records
Additional Information:
Biography
According to Serbian authorities, Darko Šarić was leader of powerful Balkan criminal organization which had for a years trafficking cocaine from South America through Balkan, Italy and Slovenia to Western Europe and had profited around billion euros each year. Company records show that most of money Šarić laundered by investing it in privatization of important hotels in Serbia and in buying companies from people who were charged or convinced for involvement in organized crime, mostly cigarette smuggling. Also, Šarić got 30 millions Euro when he sold Serbia’s leading distribution company ŠTAMPA SISTEM to the German media concern WAZZ. Read full biography…

Documents

Prosecution information for public, 21.01.2010

Interpol wanted list- Dejan Sekularac

Interpol wanted list- Boris Laban

Prosecution information for public, 21.10.2009.

Bosko Nedic verdict, 20.05.2005

Bosko Nedic verdict,12.10.1999

Radan Adamovic indictment and verdict, 09.07.2008.

Radan Adamovic verdict,10.01.2000.

Radan Adamovic verdict, 30.06.1997

STR FORTUNA

DONT PLUS

MN ŠTAMPARIJA company records

ADRIACOOP business report 2009

SZR TARA

Prosecution information for public, 08.02.2010

BMG-NM company and court records

http://reportingproject.net/PeopleOfInterest/profil.php?profil=54

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Romain Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

3.2.2012 by HoisseBig.

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

A Romanian hacker by the name of Razvan Manole Cernaianu, also known by his nickname TinKode, was arrested after he hacked into NASA and Pentagon. Governments take hacking very seriously as for one, confidential information is hidden on servers and two, if it’s known that they can be hacked, well, that opens them up to even more attacks.

The guy was known for hacking into US government and military websites and exposing security issues in their systems.

To go after computer systems such as NASA and the Pentagon, you’ve got to have some serious guts. Or be stupid, one of the two. Sooner or later, you will be caught. Just ask infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick or give his recent book, Ghost In The Wires, a read.

Via PCMag:

“The accused hacker, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, accessed high profile computer systems without authorization, including those belonging to the Pentagon and NASA, then posted evidence of his attacks online, the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, said in a statement Tuesday. Cernaianu, a 20 year-old IT student from Timisoara, Romania, broke into servers belonging to the U.S. Army and stole confidential information, which he published on his blog, authorities said.”

That’s likely where he went wrong which is posting the evidence online. Sooner or later, someone screws up and leaves clues that help authorities track them down even further or, expose them completely. On the plus side, at least white hat hacking helps improve the security of systems and makes them less prone to these kinds of attacks in the future.

How long of a sentence do you think the hacker should have to spend, or should he not serve any time at all?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania

By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man from the city of Timisoara on Monday under accusations that he hacked into computer systems belonging to NASA and the US Department of Defense. more

PCWorld ( 2/1/2012 10:12:00 AM -08:00 )

‘TinKode’ suspect arrested for NASA, DoD cyberattacks

By Matt Liebowitz Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year’s breach of NASA’s servers. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, 20, from Timisoara, more

msnbc.com ( 2/1/2012 8:55:01 AM -08:00 )

NASA, Pentagon Hacker TinKode Arrested in Romania

By Angela Moscaritolo Police in Romania said they have nabbed the notorious hacker TinKode, who is known for breaking into US government and military Web sites and exposing security shortfalls in their systems. The accused hacker, Razvan Manole more

PC Magazine ( 2/1/2012 8:29:34 AM -08:00 )

NASA hacker arrested in Romania

By Dave Neal A HACKER alleged to have attacked the the US Pentagon and NASA servers has been arrested in Romania. Prosecutors from Romania’s Investigating Directorate for Organised Crime and Terrorism announced the arrest of 20 year old Razvan more

Inquirer ( 2/1/2012 6:29:48 AM -08:00 )

Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode

By John Leyden • Get more from this author Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, 20, from Timisoara, is accused of more

NASA, Pentagon hacker falls

Police in Romania have arrested a hacker suspected of breaking into the servers of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Pentagon, a computer security firm reported Wednesday (Manila time). Sophos cited a news release by Romanian more

GMA News ( 2/1/2012 2:19:58 AM -08:00 )

Romanian arrested on Pentagon, NASA hacking charges

by Elinor Mills January 31, 2012 5:12 PM PST Follow @elinormills A 20-year-old Romanian has been arrested on charges of hacking into Pentagon and NASA servers, stealing confidential data, and posting it on his personal blog, according toa statement more

CNET ( 1/31/2012 5:15:57 PM -08:00 )

Romanians Probe Man Suspected of Hacking Pentagon

Romanian authorities are investigating a 20-year-old who is suspected of hacking into several Pentagon and NASA servers and posting confidential data he retrieved from those servers on his blog, officials said Tuesday. The suspect was identified as more

ABC News ( 1/31/2012 11:14:23 AM -08:00 )

Romanian prosecutors probe man who hacked Pentagon

Organized crime prosecutors say they are investigating a 20-year-old Romanian suspected of hacking into several Pentagon and NASA servers. Prosecutors said that Razvan Manole Cernaianu posted confidential data he retrieved from those servers on his more

Sydney Morning Herald ( 1/31/2012 8:06:57 AM -08:00 )

Hacker of U.S. sites arrested in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania, Feb. 1 (UPI) — Police in Romania said they’ve arrested a notorious hacker known for breaking into US government and military Web sites to expose security faults. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, known by his hacking alias of TinKode, more

UPI.com ( 2/1/2012 1:16:36 PM -08:00 )

NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania
	Police in Romania have arrested hacker TinKode, who is notorious for hacking into US military and government websites. The 20-year-old IT student, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, was accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon servers, stealing confidential more
SlashGear ( 2/1/2012 12:48:49 PM -08:00 )

Romanian authorities arrest suspected TinKode hacker

One of the websites operated by the Royal Navy was shut down yesterday, after a hacker called TinKode gained unauthorised access to the server using an SQL injection attack. The integrity of anonymizing services – which claim to protect the identity of more

Infosecurity Magazine (US) ( 2/1/2012 12:34:06 PM -08:00 )

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

The Inquisitr ( 2/1/2012 10:54:11 AM -08:00 )

Romanian Hacker Sells Secrets

The US Embassy in Bucharest explained to the Associated press yesterday that a 20 year old information technology student has hacked into several Pentagon and NASA servers. “used sophisticated hacking tools to gain unauthorized access to government and more

WebProNews ( 2/1/2012 9:00:57 AM -08:00 )

Romanian Hacker Breaks into Pentagon, NASA Databases, Draws Investigation
	By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Romanian hacker is suspected of breaking into several NASA and Pentagon servers and posting confidential data from the servers on his blog, the Associated Press reports. more

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“Persona non Grata” in Washington: Mafia Mayor of Tirana: Lulzim Basha

1.2.2012 by CrniLabudovi.

31 Jan 12 / 17:30:47
Albanian Media Embellish Mayor’s US Visit

A spokesperson for the mayor of Washington told Balkan Insight that the mayor did not invite Lulzim Basha to the US as local media have erroneously reported.

Besar Likmeta

BIRN

Tirana

Tirana Mayor Lulzim Basha

Tirana’s Mayor is visiting the United States and the government-friendly media in Albania have already added several twists concerning the nature of the visit, even though the municipality has given few details.

Contacted by Balkan Insight on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the municipality of Tirana, could not say if the visit was “official” or who had invited Basha to Washington.

“We will compile a press statement later on and give details on the visit,” Erald Kapri said.

But pro-government newspapers in Tirana, citing sources inside the municipality, have for days filled their pages with stories about Basha’s visit, claiming he was invited to Washington by the city’s mayor, Vincent Gray.

A spokesperson for the mayor, Doxie McCoy, told Balkan Insight that no such invitation had been forwarded.

“A short meeting will take place tomorrow, Tuesday,” McCoy said. “A resident of Albanian descent asked Mayor Gray to grant the Albanian Mayor a courtesy visit and Mr Gray complied, as he often holds these kinds of meetings with visiting dignitaries,” he added.

Basha is a controversial figure in Albania. As Minister of Transport, in 2008 he was indicted for abuse of power in a highway project, which allegedly cost the state about 230 million euro. The indictment against him was thrown out by the Supreme Court on procedural grounds.

His election as Mayor of Tirana followed a controversial race. The battle for Tirana was seen as the key contest in the May 8, local elections , pitting former interior minister Basha, candidate of the centre-right government of Sali Berisha, against the opposition Socialist leader and incumbent Tirana mayor, Edi Rama.

After two months of legal wrangling, Albania’s Electoral College declared Basha the winner with a razor-thin victory, following a recount of miscast ballots, which opposition Socialists challenged as illegal.

The United States is Albania’s most important ally and local officials and the media have frequently distorted the nature of visits by officials to Washington.

After attending President Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009, for example, the press staff of parliamentary speaker Jozefina Topalli passed around a photo of her posing with a “congressman,” Bill Hanbury, who later turned out to be a tour operator.

Although blaming the mistake on a staff glitch, Topalli had more trouble explaining the fabricated news on Albanian state television, TVSH, which claimed that she had met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit.

A similar case was reported in 2001, when Iir Meta –than Socialist Prime Minister –held a meeting with the former US Vice-President, Dick Cheney.

After coming out from the meeting with Cheney, Meta briefly ran into President George Bush in the corridor. This casual meeting was also blown-up by the media at the time.

Albanian politicians, both from the government and the opposition, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in lobbying in the United States.

A review by Balkan Insight of the filings of these lobbying companies under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, FARA, showed their activities were concentrated on securing meetings with American officials for Albanian politicians and media access during their visits.

The government of Albania pays currently for the services of two lobbying firms in Washington, the Podesta Group and Patton Boggs.

Lobbyist have been employed often in the past two decades also by the opposition Socialist Party and by the current government’s junior partner party, The Socialist Movement for Integration.

Die Drogen Mafia Partei LSI des Ilir Meta, hat einen Lobby Vertrag mit der US Firma: “Bluestar Strategies”

28.1.2012: Berufs Betrüger Lulzim Basha fliegt nach Washington: “Innovation in Albania: Changing Government’s Relationship to its Citizens”

Fake Meeting in September 2011 !

false meetings: gefakte US Treffen des PM Salih Berisha mit Obama und Aussenminister Edmond Haxhinasto mit Clinton
Alle angeblichen Treffen und Meetings, zwischen Salih Berisha, mit Obama und seiner Frau, ebenso des Aussenministers Haxhinasto mit Hillary Clinton (Fotos in der Albanischen Presse), sind zusammen gefaelscht, bzw, es sind alte Fotos, von frueheren Treffen. Es gab kein Haende schuetteln etc.. und Nichts ist in den Protokollen des Weissen Hauses erwaehnt.

Das war sowieso jedem im voraus klar, weil solche Treffen mit Profi Gangstern (im Null Funktion Staat) zu peinlich waere. Der Luegner Haxhinasto, einem uralt Partner des Super Verbrechers Ilir Meta und seiner Bande, behauptet er haette ein Treffen mit Hillary Clinton gehabt! Eine Luege, es gibt ebenso, keinen Vermerk, um US Statedepartment hierueber.

Sali Berisha, traf in einem hochgeheimen Treffen, Williams Burns !

4 Tage, die Protokolle des Weisses Hauses und des US Statedepartsments, ueber alle Treffen und Fakten.

23 Shtator, 2011

Flash / Politikë | nga AMA-News

Provat/ Zbulohen mashtrimet Berisha-Haxhinasto, për takimet Klinton-Obama
Për të gjithë lexuesit e agjencisë AMA, për shkak të konfuzionit që është krijuar për vizitën e kryeministrit Sali Berisha në SHBA dhe zëvendësit të tij Edmond Haxhinasto, po japim një sqarim të plotë dhe me prova. Zyra e Kryeministrit dhe Ministrit kanë njoftuar këto ditë zhvillimin e takimeve të rëndësishme me Sekretaren e Shtetit Hillari Klinton dhe Presidentin Barack Obama.

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Privatization of Albanian Monuments to be sold, by Tirana for Albanian Boss

31.1.2012 by CrniLabudovi.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Porto Palermo (Panormo) to be sold, by Tirana for Albanian Boss

Mysterious Investments, continue to threaten The Himara Region

The Albanian government has decided to sell about 40 items of cultural monuments of Albanian State, for which the Ministry of Culture, has made nearly sales prices.

In objects that are targeted for privatization, is the castle of Porto Palermo (Panormo) for which efforts are to be bought by Boss Albania, in Tirana.

Development Plan the Himara Region, also includes Castle which is emerging in sale, and tunnels of Albanian Navy submarines.

According to sources from Himara main requirements for privatization, there are several companies that are investing mysterious stains just in tourism development plan of the Himara Region, which is expected to be approved next month in Tirana.

Annyway, the Civil Society, the orthodox Church and Community, stand against the Albanian Government and municipal administration of Himara, for the development of this plan.

As are published, all civil society organizations and communities Himara in the Diaspora, have considered this plan, as economic vassalage and attempt to change the ethnic composition of the Himara Region.31 Jan 12 / 10:43:16

Privatization of Albanian Monuments Opposed

A proposal to sell off some 40 castles and towers has encountered stiff opposition among archeologists and historians.

Besar Likmeta

BIRN Tirana

Albania Castle | Alexandr Zykov/ Flickr

The plan, spearheaded by the head of the Institute of Monuments, Apollon Bace, envisages the sale of 99-year leases to private companies.

These will then have the right to turn the historic sites into bars, cafés and inns while investing in their restoration.

In an interview for the daily newspaper Shqiptarja, Bace maintained that this is standard practice “all over the world”. He says it is also backed by Prime Minister Sali Berisha and the Minister of Culture, Aldo Bumci.

However, the proposal, which could be acted on as soon as next month, has drawn a fierce response from historians, archeologist and architects, some of whom accuse the authorities of failing to safeguard the nation’s heritage.

“The proposal from the Ministry of Culture to give concessions for cultural heritage monuments is an awful idea,” historian Auron Tare said.

“The state’s rejection of its responsibilities for cultural heritage and the transfer of this responsibility to private hands is testimony to the collapse of state institutions,” Tare said, adding that the consequences “will be unimaginable and unrecoverable”.

The Institute of Monuments has in the past rented two medieval castles to private companies and Tare maintains that the results of this exercise were poor.

“If the authorities cannot even control two single projects, the question is how will they be able to control more monuments?” he asked. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/experts-oppose-plan-to-privatize-albania-s-monuments

Castle of Clarendon, wie es

geplant durch die Ministerium Mafia rund um die LSI Banden.

http://www.gazetatema.net/web/2012/01/28/

Das Ministerium MTKRS Banditen Mafia, Schutz unverändert keine Guter Kultur, Alte Stätten - “Zone Touristik”

28.1.2012: MTKRS - Mafia: SKANDALI: Pse 40 kala dhe monumente të Shqipërisë do të “shiten” nga Instituti i Monumenteve?

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Culture of Impunity “State Capture and Polical State caputure in Serbia and Albania”

31.1.2012 by ConnieSakura.

“No attacks against Prosecution”
31/01/2012

No attacks against Prosecution

The British General Prosecutor, Keir Starmer, expressed his concern regarding the personal and public attacks toward the independent institutions in Albania.

The head of the British Prosecution declared that these attacks damage the democratic elements of the system. Starmer expressed his concern for the increasingly perception for the impunity of corruption in Albania.

“I have heard concerns for a growing perception of the impunity towards corruption in Albania, concerns about the immunity and the need to improve the Code of Penal Procedures. I have also heard about the need that the politicians have to support credible and non-militant trials, in order to strengthen the independence and the capacity of the democratic institutions. As director of an independent institution, I am concerned for the personal and public attacks against the integrity of the independent institutions and the individuals that direct them. These attacks damage not only the targeted individuals, but also the democratic elements of the system. If there are real concerns or evidence for the violations, these pretenses should be followed through the appropriate channels, rather then using just words for pressuring the individuals”, Stramer declard.

The British prosecutor refused to comment the investigations and the January 21st events, but he declared that in Great Britain, when he took decisions that were disliked by the government and politicians, he met their opposition too.

By advising the highest leaders of justice in the country, the Supreme Court members, the General Prosecutor, the Ombudsman and the media, Starmer declared that when he had been in a similar situation, he was only concerned about the continuity of the process. According to the British Prosecutor, Albania has the capacity for making a reform in justice, the members of which should not be partial militants.

http://www.top-channel.tv/english/artikull.php?id=4587

Oxford: “State Capture and Polical State caputure in Serbia and Albania” : 15.2.2010
Corruption | 20.01.2012
Acquittal highlights Albania’s ‘culture of impunity’

The charges against Meta didn’t stick

A landmark bribery case against one of Albania’s highest ranking politicians has ended in acquittal, a year after anti-corruption protests swept the nation. Observers call it a missed opportunity.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Ilir Meta lost his post last year after a video showing him manipulating a public tender was released to the public. The footage, in which he appeared to attempt to benefit from the contracting process for a planned hydroelectric power station, sparked nationwide outrage.

This week, one year on, Meta was cleared of bribery and abuse of power. Observers call it a disappointing, if not unexpected, verdict.

“The Albanians see their government as a pathological patronage system,” Balkan expert and journalist Norbert Mappes-Niediek told Deutsche Welle. “They no longer have confidence that it really acts according to comprehensible laws.”

Mappes-Niediek said that the ruling would be viewed as a scandal in Albania, and he fears it could trigger public outrage. Last January, four people died in anti-corruption protests which had been sparked by the Meta video.

Forced out

Meta, 43, is regarded as an enigmatic player in Albania’s political scene. In the late 1990’s, at just 30 years old, he became Prime Minister and later served, at various junctures, as foreign minister, deputy prime minister and economics minister.

Meta (l.) has served in several roles including foreign ministerHe is the head of the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI), a breakaway group from the Socialist Party, which Meta has led to become the third largest political force in the country. The LSI is now part of the current government coalition led by the Democratic Party.

After the release of the incriminating video, which had been filmed in secret by of one of his closest confidantes, a growing tide of public pressure built up against Meta. He resigned from his government positions in response, but maintained his innocence and remained party chairman of the LSI.

In May 2011, criminal charges were brought. The prosecutors demanded two years’ imprisonment and a fine. After the court declared him innocent this week, Meta called a news conference to hail his acquittal as a “victory of law over corruption and organized crime.”

Trial irregularities…

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15680992,00.html

Kosovo’s “incompetent … elite is free from accoun- tability” and to stupid for everything

Kosovo Tax Dodgers Flourish in Corridors of Power
A café in parliament, a restaurant owned by the Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli’s family and another owned by the family of a senior figure in the governing party, Shaip Muja, are among the thousands of companies that are breaking the law by not properly declaring taxes.

The following excerpt effectively dismantles the pompous claims of heroic “struggle for freedom and independence” and disingenuous references to the “self-determination” of an ethnic group which has already exercised its right to self-determination with the formation of state of Albania.
No, it has nothing to do with “freedom”, “independence” or “self-determination”, it is all about illicit trade, crime without punishment, lawlessness, thuggery and insatiable greed.
Criminals, Terrorists or Politicians? In Kosovo-Metohija, all Three.
Excerpt from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime report for March 2008
[pg 52] According to an Interpol statement made before the U.S. Congress in 2000:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Balkan_study.pdf
aus Balkan-Spezial

Mafia Business: Businessmen Bedri Selmani and MP Shaip Muja, both former advisors to Hashim Thaci

Mit gefälschten Diplomen zur 2. höchsten Polizistin —–> Präsidentin des Kosovo aufsteigen: Atifete Jahjaga

Show time, with the Gangsters in Washington! Topalli, Salih Berisha, Basha, Ilir Meta :: “Persona non Grada”!

Die Albaner Mafia Politiker, fakten nie statt gefundene Treffen mit Obama und Hillary Clinton in den USA31 Jan 12 / 17:30:47
Albanian Media Embellish Mayor’s US Visit

A spokesperson for the mayor of Washington told Balkan Insight that the mayor did not invite Lulzim Basha to the US as local media have erroneously reported.

Besar Likmeta

BIRN

Tirana

Tirana Mayor Lulzim Basha

Contacted by Balkan Insight on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the municipality of Tirana, could not say if the visit was “official” or who had invited Basha to Washington.

“We will compile a press statement later on and give details on the visit,” Erald Kapri said.

A spokesperson for the mayor, Doxie McCoy, told Balkan Insight that no such invitation had been forwarded.

………….

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albanian-media-embellishes-mayor-s-visit-to-washington-d-c

Drug Imperium: Haliburton, Brown and Root, Cheney, Bush, Frank Wisner, Armitage, John Negroponte, CIA, MPRI and DynCorp

Mafia: Bytyci, Muja, US Senator Eliot Engel

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Kosovo’s “incompetent … elite is free from accoun- tability” and to stupid for everything

30.1.2012 by Byron.

Kosovo heads for ruin

Posted on 30/05/2011 | Leave a comment

PRISTINA, Kosovo — In a contribution for the guardian, the former Head of the ICO Economics unit in Kosovo, Andrea Capussela, reports that the Government of Kosovo acts “fiscally irresponsible“ and is on the way to “mess up its IMF programme”. According to Capussela “the IMF is expected to make an announcement later today in which it declares Kosovo’s programme to be off-track. This would be a rare event,” Capussela states: “Both money and credibility look to be lost. … The irresponsibility of its government is leading Kosovo towards a fiscal crisis”, which is said to be due to its extensively increased budget spending. Kosovo’s “incompetent … elite is free from accoun- tability”, Capussela writes. Read the full article of Andrea Capussela.

Corruption at Kosovo customs and PTK

Posted on 09/06/2011 | Leave a comment

PRISTINA, Kosovo — As to Kosovo media two major public institutions were confronted with corruption cases on Wednesday: Reportedly the office of the Kosovo Special Prosecutor filed an indictment against Shyqyri Haxha, the CEO of the publicly owned Post Telekom Kosovo. Accusations refer to a damage of 100,000 Euro caused by a license given to the “Mobile Virtual Network Operator” Dardafon.net in 2008 and 2009. Another indictment targets the Director General of the Kosovo Customs, Naim Huruglica, as well as the head of its legal office, Lulzim Rafun. Both men face accusations to have harmed the Kosovo Budget by misusing their insider knowledge concerning a planned increase of tobacco tax. Prior to this decision the respective officials are said to have imported a sizable amount of tobacco, supported by four Kosovo companies. KON

Kosovo Tax Dodgers Flourish in Corridors of Power
A café in parliament, a restaurant owned by the Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli’s family and another owned by the family of a senior figure in the governing party, Shaip Muja, are among the thousands of companies that are breaking the law by not properly declaring taxes.

Mafia Business: Businessmen Bedri Selmani and MP Shaip Muja, both former advisors to Hashim Thaci

Mit gefälschten Diplomen zur 2. höchsten Polizistin —–> Präsidentin des Kosovo aufsteigen: Atifete Jahjaga

Kommentar: Kurz gesagt: wie auch Weltbank und US Berichte schreiben: erbärmliche Kompetenz in der Verwaltung, oder einfach zu dumm zum arbeiten.

Ex Regierungs - Aussenminister bestätigt die Echtheit, über das verrottete und kriminelle Politiker System in Albanien

SWP-Berlin: Die Mazedonische Krise 2001 und wie der schizo Verrückte Ali Ahmeti an die Macht mit Hilfe der NATO kam

Club: Idiote, Alkoholista, Mafiosi -Kuvendi i

Kosovës i njëjtë me këtë të Shqipërisë

Kuvendi i Kosovës i njëjtë me këtë të Shqipërisë

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Privatization of Albanian Monuments to be sold, by Tirana for Albanian Boss

Monday, January 30, 2012

Culture of Impunity “State Capture and Polical State caputure in Serbia and Albania”

A landmark bribery case against one of Albania’s highest ranking politicians has ended in acquittal, a year after anti-corruption protests swept the nation. Observers call it a missed opportunity.

Kosovo’s “incompetent … elite is free from accoun- tability” and to stupid for everything

Kosovo heads for ruin

Corruption at Kosovo customs and PTK