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Crime / Politics / International Imagine Waking Up to the Headline That the Leader of Your Country Has Been Running a Criminal Organization That Kills People for Their Organs
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime.Hashim Thaçi is identified as "the boss" of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the run-up to the 1999 Kosovo war, and has held powerful sway over the country's government since.
The report of the two-year inquiry, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by the Guardian. It names Thaçi as having over the last decade exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade.
Figures from Thaçi's inner circle are accused of secretly taking captives across the border into Albania after the war, where a few Serbs are said to have been murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market.
Holy shit.
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I've been saying for years that the black-and-white image of the Serbia/Kosovo conflict is deeply wrong.
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Not Serbian propaganda. The contract that KLA/Kosovo had with the PR firm Ruder Finn has expired.
Not Serbian propaganda. The contract that KLA/Kosovo had with the PR firm Ruder Finn has expired.
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That macabre 'Bodies' road-show that has been everywhere, including Seattle? A lot of its raw material comes from China, which is happy to get the trade. These are rumored to be executed prisoners. I'm sure the organs are not wasted, either. Think of that the next time you are buying plastic shit at Walmart or Costco.
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Good thing we bombed the shit out of Serbia to make sure these guys could have their own country to run, right?
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@10 - Not to mention, we would've cracked down on ethnic-separatists for harvesting the organs of American civilians and called them terrorists, too. Not saying that Serbia didn't do some shitty bullshit fucked up horrible stuff, but to pretend that the US was protecting the good-guys from the bad-guys is laughable.
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