Kosovo Albanian pleads guilty in Jihad terror plot against Fort Dix

November 1 2007

Editorial Comment from the American Council for Kosovo:
Nothing better illustrates the extent to which U.S. policy regarding the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija is damaging the American national interest than the guilty plea this week of Kosovo Albanian Agron Abdullahu in connection with the jihad terror plot against Ft. Dix, New Jersey.

John Bolton: I Hope that the U.S. Wont Recognize a Unilateral Declaration of Kosovo Independence;
American policy on Kosovo continues collision course with reality.

Abdullahu, who was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee under the Clinton Administration, can be considered an exemplar of supposedly pro-American Albanian Muslims grateful for U.S. sponsorship of their quest for an independent state carved out of Serbia. (Three of Abdullahus co-defendants in the plot to massacre American service personnel at Ft. Dix also were Albanian Muslims from just south of Kosovo, along with a Jordanian and Turk.) It should be noted that the U.S. Department of Justice successfully opposed Abdullahus motion for pretrial release, based in part on a depiction he scratched in his cell of a machine gun shooting at the FBI and graffiti glorifying the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a terrorist organization. The fact that Abdullahu and his comrades were even in a position to plot the attack is due to the fact that the U.S. government notably the Department of State (which does not share the common sense of the Justice Department and the FBI) supports the KLA and its cause. We have now reached the point that our skewed policy in Kosovo trumps even the priority of homeland defense.

Meanwhile, on the international front, American policy toward Kosovo continues on its collision course with reality. Flouting every concept of legality and morality, official Washington (both the Bush Administration and leading Democrats in Congress) remains dedicated to the proposition that the KLA criminals and jihad terrorists who dominate Kosovos Albanian Muslim community should unilaterally declare the provinces independence from Serbia, to be recognized by the United States without any pretense of authority from the UN Security Council. (It should be noted that nothing in the UN Charter gives the Security Council authority to break off part of a states sovereign territory without its assent. How much less, then, does any country or group of countries have that right acting even without Security Council action, as the U.S. seeks to do to Serbia.)

But the fact is, Washingtons threats are meaningless, and neither the Albanians declaration nor U.S. recognition is inevitable. Given the Bush Administrations understandable preoccupation with Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Iran, it is hoped a final solution for Kosovo can be imposed with a minimum of fuss. If it appears that will not be the case if the EU does not salute and fall into place (Cyprus, an EU member, has been increasingly vocal that it not only will never recognize Kosovo but even is prepared to veto any such action by Brussels), if important non-EU friends like Canada, India, and, especially, Israel balk a sustained effort to bully and bribe our way to a new coalition of the willing would hardly get Kosovo off Washingtons plate. (And this is not even noting the fundamental fact that Serbia never will sign on the dotted line. As noted by James Bissett, Canadas former Ambassador to Yugoslavia: In this regard it is interesting to note that in 1938, at the time of Munich, president Edvard Bene of Czechoslovakia, bullied by the British and French, signed the agreement to hand over the Sudetenland region to Germany, thus giving his consent to the transaction. It would seem that even Hitler insisted on at least the appearance of following the rules of international conduct.)

Even if the trigger is pulled on the unilateral scenario after the scheduled December 10 conclusion of the current talks between Belgrade and the Albanians, of course Serbia and Russia will not accept it. Neither would China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, and numerous other counties in Africa, whose own fragile borders reflect not demography but colonial boundaries. Likewise problematic for Washington would be Latin America, where, despite these countries historic relationship with the U.S. or maybe in some cases because of it there is a high degree of anti-yanqui popular sentiment in the region, as well as a very fastidious view about defending their sovereignty, especially vis--vis el coloso del norte, and preserving their protection under the UN Charter.

In short, even supposing Washington were to unleash the illegal and ill-advised course it now threatens, it will solve nothing relating to Kosovos status. Instead it would present the region, all of Europe, and the international community with a new and divisive predicament, in which the United States may find itself isolated -- not to mention setting off a new destabilization of the western Balkans, collapsing Serbias relationship with the U.S. (and possibly with the EU), and destroying any notion of international legality and territorial integrity of states under the UN Charter, as separatist movements around the world are encouraged to seek independence though violent and intolerant means.

The real question, then, is how much damage the architects of U.S. foreign policy are willing to inflict on American interests in pushing a policy condemned to failure, which even if successful would be harmful to all concerned. The fact that the responsible actors refuse to reassess their course in part reflects the desperation of a lame duck Administration to score a win somewhere, anywhere in this case, following a flawed policy inherited from its predecessor and kept on life support by State Department bureaucrats and the opposition party. Some win.

Thankfully, voices of reason increasingly are speaking out. One of the foremost is former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, author of a the soon-to-be released book Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad, which focuses on the State Departments dysfunctional role in formulating U.S. policy, and not only on Kosovo. Speaking to the Voice of Americas Serbian Service in a recent interview, Ambassador Bolton noted: I quote, for example, a statement of one senior State Department official who told me once that if they knew how we formulate our foreign policy, Americans would be very dissatisfied. That should be the epitaph on the gravestone of Washingtons doomed Kosovo policy.

James George Jatras

Director, American Council for Kosovo
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While various naive idiots around the Globe celebrate "kosovar independence", the mentioned article is utterly unpopular.

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So one Kosovar was involved? That's not the Kosovan peoples fault is it? Should we invade Saudi Arabia b/c a few citizens got carried away....

Under this logic we should invade ourselves b/c some of Al-Qaeda are Americans..........

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Yep. We'd better attack Iraq that has no any ties to terroristic plot...

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We had plenty of reasons to attack Iraq even if we assume they were never involved with any terrorists.

Absorb the lesson: Threaten us at your own risk.

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Yes, you have plenty of reasons to sow hatred to all American-related everywhere in the Globe. Someday you'll get a good Harvest.

What are you talking about? Nobody is afraid of the USA, the plywood rambo.

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Nobody is afraid of the USA?

Well if nobody is afraid of the USA, then Russia must be a pushover.

Plywood Rambo?

Tell me you 'Russian Bear' how's the whole Russian Navy thing going? Oh right, there is no Navy, it's all in port rotting away while the American one grows and gets more advanced each day......

Hows the Army? Still bogged down in Chechnya? Still got Conscription? Do you have Conscription for fun or b/c no one wants to join the Army that has been fighting in Chechnya for oh i don't know 15 years?

And the Air Force, well um All I say to that is look at your primary Strategic Bomber.


So to conclude the Russian Military is a joke, cannot even hold down a Seperatist movement within the country and when it sends bombers around they're always escorted by NATO fighters....

Was it like that in the Cold War? No. How big was the Soviet economy? Second. How big is the Soviet, I mean Russian economy now? Seventh.

See where I'm driving at now?

So you still claim the Russian military would not be ******* themselves if they went to war with the US? Neigh you claim that any country would not **** themselves if they went to war with the US?

Didn't think so

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Yes, my friend, you're plywood rambos. All you can is to bravely fight against tuaregs, papuases, iraqis, pacific islanders and others stone-age tribes that have no regular Army, Navy, Air Defence troops etc. Even those vietnamese (having an average height of legendary dr Tolkien's hobbit) kicked your arses. Did you forget?

More advanced, you said? I think only one missile from our Typhoon-class submarine can easily convert a group of the US aircraft carriers into a cloud of radioactive steam. Check some info from military-related sites during your spare-time.

The Army forces accomplished their task in Chechnya four of five years ago. Nowadays only some MVD troops (an analog of your National Guard) are still deployed there.

This is not our primary Strategic Bomber. Study military-related articles more attentive.

Watching Faux News channel, huh?

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2. "It" sends packs of TU-95 on routine combat patrolling over International Waters. So, nothing strange that NATO interceptors escort them.

Economy has nothing to do with the ability of kick an arse of aggressor in case of attack.

I still claim that in case of War we'd invite good ol' vietnamese. They kicked your arses years ago, they would do it once again. We'll just execute survivors from big-fat-arses camp
In case of War against Russia, all your problems such as 9/11 will look out like an innocent child's play. Oh, I forgot - you have "best-in-the-World" Commander Guy as Commander-In-Chief!

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Europe's new jihadist statelet?
THE WASHIGTON TIMES EDITORIAL

After Sunday's Kosovar independence declaration comes President Bush's stamp of approval for a Republic of Kosovo and the nod of the four major European Union powers: France, Germany, Britain and Italy. In all likelihood, the result will be Europe's 46th legally sovereign government, with a population that is 90 percent Muslim. What is far less clear is whether a weak, perpetually dependent Kosovar statelet — and make no mistake, this will be a toothless, weak and impoverished state — is in the United States' best interest.

The answer is no. Lawlessness and terrorism are likely to fester inside Kosovo — which is rife with organized criminal gangs and plagued by corruption. Slavic rešentments emanating from neighboring Serbia and Russian revanchism are a certainty. Much as the Bush administration and European governments favor independence, it creates new problems where old ones lay dormant,

There is really only one potentially positive result from an independent Kosovo: some measure of self-determination for a long-oppressed people. But at this time it is questionable whether independence is the right way to achieve this. Given the territory's recent history, it is difficult to imagine independence occurring without serious jeopardy to U.S. and European interests, at least in the short term.

With terrorism and international criminal activity being the United States' two greatest concerns in this region, Kosovo's independence surely cannot redound favorably to either. Remnants of the old drug-smuggling, arms-trafficking terrorist organization calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are still active. Indeed, many of this al-Qaeda-linked organization's alumni are alive and well in positions of influence. The KLA was among the first international terrorist groups linked to al Qaeda in the late 1990s. Western intelligence agencies observed its members training at al Qaeda terror camps a decade ago and more. Look for its veterans and their sympathizers in government to achieve a new prominence in a Kosovo freed from Serbia.

Loose European talk of incorporating the entire Balkans one day into the European Union should frighten EU citizens in this context. Then they will consider the economics of inclusion. Kosovo's 2004 per capita income is under $3,000. Unemployment is thought to hover near 40 percent. Foreign assistance comprises approximately one-third of GDP. In short, Kosovo cannot possibly sustain itself economically or militarily in the present. Indeed, it may never be able to do so.

Outside Kosovo's borders, complications are materializing, beginning with more serious Russian and Serbian resistance than previously anticipated. Yesterday, Serbia formally protested the European Union's mission to Kosovo, a 2,000-strong force of police and rule-of-law experts who officially began operations the day before Kosovo's independence declaration. But Russian obstructionism at the U.N. Security Council is a very possible second act to Serbia's opposition. Unhelpful declarations of sympathy and support, or perhaps even diplomatic recognition, for breakaway movements in ex-Soviet satellite states such as Georgia's Abkhazia region, where rebels control of an unrecognized command state, now become more easy for Moscow to justify. As former senior U.S. diplomats John Bolton, Lawrence Eagleburger and Peter Rodman, critics of independence for Kosovo right now, wrote three weeks ago in The Washington Times: „[T]he United States should not prompt an unnecessary crisis in U.S.-Russia relations.”

Of course, the long-term reason to wonder about Kosovar independence is the U.S. troop commitment there. Independence actually means perpetual dependence on NATO and other foreign forces, which will likely continue for decades. As of the fall, about 1,500 U.S. service members were deployed there. Presently, the 2,000-strong E.U. contingent shows a commitment to Kosovo's security well into the future. But at a moment when reciprocity of security commitments among NATO partners in Afghanistan is nowhere to be seen, and U.S. forces are overstretched in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, no one should bet on Europe's will to persevere a decade hence. And yet, independence creates the conditions for the United States to be called upon to stave off chaos in the event that some future roster of European leaders go „Afghan” on Kosovo.

http://washingtontimes.com/article/2...322739956/1013

Do not under estimate your opponent - is one of the major rules made clear by Sun Tzu in his famous book called The Art of War so i sugest you listen what the man says. The only reason why world thinks Russian military power is inferior to US one is because Russian branches of armed forces are not advertised as much or better said at all. People keep forgeting that the power is in knowledge and experience more than it is in technology. Most of the Russian army went trough Checnya and other conflicts in the region and are still in service, unlike where most of the US army (at least enlisted corps) leave service after one conflict. I cannot say if Russia could beat USA or vice versa but i can say that Russia is not to be mocked or pushed around.