- While the United States is relentlessly bombing Afghanistan
with the official aim of getting Osama bin Laden, one of bin Laden's top
collaborators is running a terrorist training camp in an area of Kosovo
that is under U.S. control. The shocking revelation has been confirmed
by multiple sources: Macedonian intelligence agencies, as reported by
several Macedonian media, including the leading daily Dnevnik; Russian
press agencies, including Novosti and ItarTass; and the London Independent.
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- This intelligence coheres with Lyndon LaRouche's assessment
of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, as a strategic covert operation
by an enemy within the U.S. and "allied" security services,
for geopolitical purposes.
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- The Russian media quoted, as the source of their detailed
revelation, the Russian troops stationed not far from the reported terrorist
training camp. This is in itself exceptional, in the sense that there
is hardly a precedent of the Russian military in Kosovo reporting events
of such gravity to the leading news agencies.
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- These revelations, and the clear position taken by Macedonian
intelligence in confirming and expanding them, are now reopening the explosive
question of the protection and sponsorship granted to the narco-terrorists
by Anglo-American agencies.
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- But this is only a small part of the new strategic geometry
opened up by the revelations. The red-hot political point concerns the
very basis for the "war against terrorism" launched after the
war-like attacks of Sept. 11, and the immediate concentration on bin Laden
and Afghanistan as the perpetrators of those attacksóand the threatened
extension of the "infinite war" to Syria, Iraq, and so on. If
the Anglo-Americans are at "war" with bin Laden's terrorism,
why are bin Laden operatives active in Kosovo in an area totally controlled
by NATO? Furthermore, in the U.S. zone in Kosovo? Investigations on the
bin Laden connection into the Balkans and Kosovo could, according to experts,
lead to even more explosive truths in a very short period of time.
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- Keep The Clash Going
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- On Oct. 16 Novosti reported: "A training camp of
Albanian militants functions near the village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska
Kamenica, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which is controlled by the
American force, sources from the Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo
reported on [Oct. 16]. According to [the sources], the camp is now training
50 Afghan and Algerian mujahideen, led by Zaiman Zawahiri. He is reportedly
the brother of one of the closest associates of international terrorist
Osama bin Laden. This camp prepares militants for terrorist formations
in Kosovo and Macedonia. Their 'instructors' are former [ethnic] Albanian
officers who, in 1991-92, deserted from the Yugoslav Army."
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- The Independent reported on Oct. 21 that Interpol has
linked bin Laden to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) crime gangs, and that
he "supplied one of his top military commanders for an elite KLA
unit" in Kosovo
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- That was only the beginning. The target of the terrorist
gangs' deployment into Macedonia: to prevent, by violence, the return
of Macedonian refugees into the villages "cleansed" by the KLA
during this year; and to take over the water reserve on which the Macedonian
capital, Skopje, depends.
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- Beyond that, these extremists are out to re-ignite the
ethnic "Clash of Civilizations" in the Balkans, to crush the
escalating resistance of Macedoniaówhich has been actively playing
the LaRouche card in response to its national crisis (see EIR, Oct. 19)óand
to continue the march of destruction, possibly triggering in the near
future, an ethnic upheaval in Greece or Bulgaria.
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- The fact that such an operation is taking place in the
middle of the "war on the Taliban and al-Qaeda"óthe fact
that NATO's Lord George Robertson, U.S. Ambassador James Pardew, and the
European Union's Javier Solana insist, to this very day, that Macedonia
has to surrender to the KLA ultimata, including the subversion of the
Macedonian Constitution, opens up a dramatic contradiction. That contradiction
throws light on the virtual reality the world has been propelled into
after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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- Who Runs Al-Zawahiri?
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- The Macedonian daily Dnevnik reported on Oct. 19 that
the group led by the brother of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the closest associate
of bin Laden, had crossed the border from Kosovo into Macedonia. Quoting
intelligence sources, Dnevnik wrote: "The younger brother of the
chief of the Balkan headquarters of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, with around
50 mujahideen, has entered Macedonia and has started building fortifications
in the Skopska Crna Gora region. The aim of the terrorist group is to
attack the water supply" for Skopje.
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- The newspaper reported that the gang had been stationed
earlier in the training camp near the village of Ropotovo, Kosovoóas
Novosti also reportedóand received orders to enter the Macedonian
town of Matejce. On Oct. 16, a convoy of refugees, who were previously
expelled by the KLA, were supposed to visit their destroyed houses. However,
the observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
entered the village first, and reported that at least 50 armed men had
communicated they were going to fire on the convoy if they dared to enter
Matejce. The OSCE order to the heartbroken refugees was: Go back, we cannot
guarantee your security!
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- But who is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, whose brother Zaiman
is running terrorist camps under NATO protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo?
As the London Guardian wrote recently, "Even to say he is bin Laden's
right-hand man may understate his importance." He is considered by
many to be the real head of what is known as the bin Laden group. "Some
analysts believe that in his current role in Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri
has taken over control of much of bin Laden's terrorist finances, operations,
plans, and resources," wrote the Guardian. His known terrorist career
started no later than 1981, with his involvement in the assassination
of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; it includes the massacre of 70 people
on a tourist bus in 1997 Luxor, Egypt, and the assassination attempt against
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995.
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- Strangely enough, according to an expert who testified
before a U.S. Congressional committee in January 2000, al-Zawahiri was
granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Serviceósomething
almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain. Should we
be surprised that one of the centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was
London, where one of his closest relatives resided? President Mubarak
is believed to have referred to him when, after the Luxor massacre, he
stated: "There are people who carried out crimes and who were sentenced
[in Egypt] and live on British soil."
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