29.8.2008, 21:21
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Former KLA spokesman, Jakup Krasniqi, considers media reports of a connection between former Albanian guerrillas and Islamic fundamentalists as a Serbian and Macedonian attempt to recast the group's struggle as one driven by religious dogma, not liberation.
"Everyone knows that we were fighting Serb repression. These Serb and Macedonian allegations are absurd," he told IWPR.
Krasniqi acknowledges that when the KLA faced total annihilation by Serb forces in September 1998, mujahedin groups did offer to travel to Kosovo to join the fight, but he says the KLA's military command decided to decline the offers.
"There has never been, nor will be, any organised mujahedin group in the ranks of the KLA, such a presence would damage our position. We were supported by the Americans and Europeans, whom we considered our allies. People should understand that we belong more to Western Europe that the Orient," he said, pointing out that the KLA included in its ranks volunteers from Sweden, Belgium, the UK, Germany and the US. In Macedonia, political representative of the NLA Ali Ahmeti also refutes allegations of mujahedin involvement in the Albanian guerrilla movement.
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=bcr&s=f&o=248...6bf0d86e537b3b | Citim:
But not only Albanians are embraced by war fever. Franck Brucker, a Frenchmen who is fighting since two months as volunteer with KLA, is lying heavily wounded in the Tirana hospital and risks to loose a leg after a battle with Serb forces close to the border where 4 other KLA fighters were killed. In the same hospital there is a German with KLA uniform risking the life.
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