Kosovo: Agim Ceku Offers 3,000 KLA Fighters For Afghan, Iraqi Occupations

[Ivo Skoric]

Predrag - what's wrong with having Albanians fighting as mercenaries 
for the US in Afghanistan? Serbs are already there. And Turks are 
soon going to be in Baghdad (after all the promises given to Kurds, 
that this would not happen...). The US Foreign Legions are growing. I 
bet between generals Ceku and Radosavljevic, Afghanistan would soon 
be a nice orderly place for family run businesses.
ivo

On 7 Oct 2003 at 15:59, Predrag Tosic wrote:


   [ The commentary below is from a Chicago-based friend, but I would
gladly sign everything he wrote with my own name, as he is, as usual,
right on the mark. ]


http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/10/4-SEE/see-061003.asp

[Note: The US government site Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty officially spells the name of the Serbian
province of Kosovo as 'Kosova.' The so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army clearly appreciates the fact. If in
fact the US takes its ally Ceku up on his offer it
could mark the closest thing Washington is likely to
get in the way of UN endorsement for the occupation of
Iraq, as war criminal Ceku's racist killers are
currently on the UN payroll as members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps.]


Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
October 6, 2003

U.S. REPORTEDLY TURNED DOWN KOSOVA'S OFFERS OF HELP IN
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

-Agim Ceku, who heads the civilian Kosova Protection
Corps (TMK), has offered to send some of his 3,000
men, many of whom are former guerrillas of the Kosova
Liberation Army.


"The New York Times" of 6 October reported that
Kosova's president, Ibrahim Rugova, and parliamentary
speaker Nexhat Daci have between them made several
offers to send police to Iraq or Afghanistan but were
turned down or ignored by Washington. Agim Ceku, who
heads the civilian Kosova Protection Corps (TMK), has
offered to send some of his 3,000 men, many of whom
are former guerrillas of the Kosova Liberation Army.
The Kosovars argue that they have much experience of
value to Iraq and Afghanistan, noting also that most
Kosovars are Muslims. Elizabeth Jones, who is
assistant secretary of state for European affairs,
reportedly told Rugova that he should concentrate on
building democracy in Kosova. Pro-U.S. feeling is very
strong in Kosova as result of U.S.-led efforts that
stopped the Serbian crackdown there in 1999. PM


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