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Kosovo Albanian Nazi Past: The Untold Story

By Carl Savich, Serbianna

During World War II and the Holocaust, Kosovar Albanians killed 10,000 Kosovo Serbs and expelled 100,000. Kosovo-Metohija was made a part of a Greater Albania by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Hitler and Mussolini realized the Greater Albania ideology established by the 1878 League of Prizren. Albanian-settled areas of the Balkans — Kosovo-Metohija, western Macedonia, southern Montenegro — were incorporated in a Greater Albania.

The Greater Albania Kosovar Albanian nationalist movement murdered Kosovo Serb civilians and took over their lands and houses. Kosovo Serb women were raped. Kosovo Serb Orthodox priests were arrested, tortured, and murdered. Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were attacked and destroyed. Serbian monuments, cemeteries, and gravestones were desecrated and demolished.

The Greater Albania nationalist movement formed the Balli Kombetar, the Albanian Kosovo Committee, and the Skanderbeg Nazi SS Division, two-thirds of whose members were Kosovar Albanian Muslims. Kosovar Albanian Muslims played a major role in the Holocaust, the murder of European Jews. Kosovar Albanian Nazi SS troops participated in the roundup of Kosovo Jews who were later killed at Bergen-Belsen. What occurred in Kosovo during World War II was genocide. The mainstream accounts of World War II have censored and covered up the Kosovar Albanian role in the genocide against Kosovo Serbs and the role of Kosovar Albanians in the Holocaust. The Nazi past of Kosovo remains an untold story. [...]

Thousands Fear as Blood Feuds Sweep Albania

By Bojan Pancevski and Nita Hoxha in Tirana, Sunday Telegraph

The four siblings and their mother have lived in fear of their lives ever since their father, Martin, killed his cousin’s wife in Mnela after discovering her in bed with another man. He is serving 10 years in jail for her death, but in conservative rural Albania, justice is seldom served by courts alone. In accordance with ancient clan tradition, the murdered woman’s brothers have declared a “blood feud” against Bardoku’s family — which means any of his nearest and dearest can be killed in exchange.

[...] Bardoku’s family is believed to be one of more than 20,000 in the country who live under an ever-present death sentence because of such blood feuds. After his arrest, his children had to stop going to school and can never leave their homestead…recently, the problem has got much worse — after clan chiefs, in a bizarre adaptation to 21st century ways, ruled that families could “outsource” blood feuds to professional contract killers.

[...] The ruling, last year, has seen blood feuds being pursued with far more ruthless efficiency than before, resulting in an explosion in the number of the killings… Since the decision was made in mid-2006, the number of feud-related killings has doubled…The new freedom to hire contract killers has spread to all Albanian-populated areas, including the western part of neighbouring Macedonia, Kosovo and southern Serbia, where the number of killings has also risen. Blood feud retaliations are severely penalised by Albanian law, but prosecutors often face a lack of co-operation from traditional communities that prefer to adhere to the ancient code.

Allied Assassins?

By Julia Gorin, FrontPage Magazine

As George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice court Albania and Albania-to-be (Kosovo) — discussing Albania’s entry into NATO, Kosovo’s independence and any number of other cooperative military, intelligence and economic agreements—

explosives were found Wednesday in two places in downtown Tirana, one close to the U.S. Embassy, days before the U.S. president is due to visit, police said.

A plastic bag containing a few grams of explosives was found at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT) in a courtyard at the economics faculty of Tirana University, about 100 meters (yards) from the U.S. Embassy, according to a police statement. Experts later carried out a controlled explosion.

Half an hour later, a package containing 30 grams (1 ounce) of explosives was found at Mother Teresa Square, near the office of President Alfred Moisiu…Albanian and U.S. intelligence services are collaborating closely ahead of the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush June 10.

Bush is the first U.S. president to visit Albania. No previous administration felt the country worthy of attention from the chief executive. What’s changed? The answer lies in the very special nature of our new and tightening friendship with Albania, which demands our attention not because it’s such a good friend — as our politicians tell us — but because it’s a growing threat. Here’s what’s wrong with drawing closer to Our Friends the Albanians, which we’re doing in our relentless pursuit to find, as Chronicles foreign editor Srdja Trifkovic calls it, “user-friendly Islam.” [...]

Living With the Albanians

By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles Magazine

In the current debate on the future of Kosovo, it is often overlooked that hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other non-Albanians had fled the province under Albanian pressure well before the KLA terror campaign of 1996-1998. Under Tito, the Albanians’ share of the population thus rose from 64 percent in 1953 to 77 percent immediately following his death in 1980.

To understand the conditions that prompted the exodus of non-Albanians from Kosovo even in peacetime, we don’t need to look further than Cherry Hill, NJ. This prosperous Philadelphia suburb known for good schools is the home to the Duka brothers, three “Yugoslav” Albanians arrested in connection with the jihadist plot to attack Fort Dix.

As we now know, the extended Duka family (three brothers, a grandmother, parents, wives, children) was in the habit of slaughtering lambs in their backyard with a kitchen knife. There were numerous complaints about fetid diapers tossed into an open trash dumpster that sat in the driveway, near an array of cars and pickup trucks without registration or license plates. Roosters ran about their yard, and juveniles roamed the neighborhood, sometimes setting off fireworks.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police cited the Dukas repeatedly on disorderly persons charges, including marijuana possession, improper behavior, prowling, disturbing the peace, and obstructing the administration of law; they were fined between $20 and $830 on various occasions. [...]

My Trip to Kosovo and Bosnia

By Jesse Petrilla, FrontPage Magazine

I have recently returned to the U.S. from my trip through the Balkans which had an aim to see what the ever expanding Middle East into Europe looks like up close. Here is my after-action report for those who are interested in hearing about a situation which may chillingly parallel future events in America if we do not take action to prevent them today.

I landed in Kosovo on a flight from Istanbul directly into the Kosovo capital city of Pristina. This city is a showpiece for the Kosovo Albanians who often take visiting dignitaries and American politicians through a twisty roundabout path through the city, avoiding the many destroyed churches and other evidence of the less than tolerant attitudes so prevalent in the region. I went on a very different tour of Kosovo than what our politicians see. I didn't stick to only seeing the few good parts of Pristina, I went to other parts of Kosovo where Christians are forced to live in military-like compound ghettos, with the terror and fear of death if they ever set foot outside of their enclaves without protection. I saw a rogue and wild west region with very little self built infrastructure, and vast amounts of foreign money flowing in from Saudi Arabia and other nations hell bent on exporting their extremist ideals. The only real infrastructure I saw were remnants of Tito’s Communist Yugoslavia, with the current flow of money primarily being dumped into new construction projects of Wahabi mosques and madrases. But what is scariest of all is that I saw America several generations from now if we continue to allow Islamism to spread through the socialist and naive policies so many American politicians have adopted. [...]