NATO: Network Advancing Thugs Operation? (Sibel Edmonds)

Last week Jeremy Scahill covered a very interesting story over at his blog titled ‘Paramilitary Thug with Long History with Top US Democrats Arrested for War Crimes.’ The story is about Agim Ceku who commanded the ethnic cleansing operations in Yugoslavia in 90s, and then headed KLA, an organization labeled ‘terrorist’ by the US government. I briefly covered the issues related to KLA and it’s tainted and biased coverage by the US MSM in ‘The Forbidden Apple of the US Press, and talked about their burial of the dark side of KLA and our government’s partnership with them as just another example of our hypocrisy-ridden foreign policy.

Back to Scahill’s nicely-done piece, and a summary of the case provided in the introduction paragraph:

“A US-trained paramilitary figure from the Balkans with a lengthy history with leading Clinton-era Democrats, including some now in the Obama administration, has been arrested in Europe on an Interpol warrant for war crimes. Agim Ceku, an Albanian from Kosovo, is a former Croatian Army General who was trained by the private US security firm Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI) during the Clinton Administration. Ceku, backed by the US, would go on to become the “prime minister” of Kosovo despite the fact that he was responsible for some of the worst acts of “ethnic cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and was the leader of a paramilitary organization with drug trade ties, which Clinton’s top envoy to Kosovo called a “terrorist” organization.”

For the purpose of my coverage please put your own emphasis on “…the leader of a paramilitary organization with drug trade ties.” Now a bit more on Ceku as the darling of the US government and its extension, NATO:

“Gen. Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, worked with Ceku when Clark led the bombing of Kosovo. “ could have been in anybody’s army and done well,” said Clark in 2007.”

And two important excerpts for my purposes with emphasis added:

“Despite US intelligence that indicated that the KLA was a terrorist organization with ties to narco-trafficking and networks connected to Osama bin Laden, the Clinton Administration embraced the organization as its proxy armed force on the ground in Kosovo in 1998-1999.”

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“This is not the first time Ceku has been arrested. In 2003, he was detained in an airport in Slovenia and in 2004 at the airport in Budapest. In May 2009, he was deported from Columbia.”

Since the story’s main focus is on Ceku’s role in ethnic cleansing and our shameful diplomatic relations - based on even more shameful objectives and foreign policy, there is no explanation for Ceku’s trip to and stay in Colombia. We already know he is connected to Narco-Trafficking, and we know the importance of the Balkan Route to the heroin industry. But what the hell was Ceku doing in Colombia? Is there some sort of a barter system, heroin-for cocaine and vice versa within the industry? Again, keep this thought for what’s to follow.
Reported as an update by Scahill, interestingly but expectedly, due to “international intervention” Ceku was ordered released the next day, on Thursday, June 25.

Hmmmm, international intervention? That makes it NATO-US.


I do follow Scahill’s reports and editorial pieces regularly, and he is one of very few journalists out there whom I respect. This piece got my attention especially, and brought back memories of another story I followed personally for over a year: Jan Willem Matser, another NATO Thug.


Jan Willem Matser, a Dutch Lieutenant Colonel in Staff to NATO Secretary General George Robertson in charge of Eastern Europe, whose job gave him access to classified NATO material, was arrested on February 2003 in Wemmel, Belgium, and charged with trying to launder at least $200 million for an international drug cartel from his office at the alliance’s HQ in Brussels. Other criminals involved in Matser’s case were Mohammed Kadem, a Moroccan, and Pietro Fedino, a wealthy Sicilian with a previous conviction for cocaine smuggling.

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Read the rest here: www.123realchange.blogspot.com


What are your thoughts?
Go discuss the issue. As someone who followed the Clark bid years back, I'd like to know opinions.

Too many myths and lies to unpack so early in the day.

The entire myth of soft power and humanitarian intervention serves to perpetuate the ideas of the noble civilizers and provide cover for the very brutal actions of the colossal bandits.

Man you could hardly of picked a topic so packed with misinformation as it attacks not only the hagiography of Clinton but lays waste to the edifice of the US as noble do-gooder Uncle Sam.

Excellent post BTW.

K&R

I think I have a piece somewhere that connects Matser to Stefano della Chiaie. I have some reading to do still... Very intriguing find.

Kosovo, now run by the KLA thugs, is a free-for-all crook state that is the worst example of hypocritical US foreign intervention... And yet people still think that the Balkan war was due to some "Evil Nazi Serbs"....

Well anyway. Great find. I could speculate about Columbia, but I'll wait till I can make an educated guess.

But with Madsen it is pretty clear: Pietro Fedino, as far as I remember, was implicated in Licio Gelli's part of GLADIO, he had ties to Della Chiaie ( One of those on-call Nazis that the Stay-behind used in their terror campaigns (France, Belgium, Holland, Skandinavia, Turkey etc) and Della Chiaie is known to have flown to South America and stayed there several times - Columbia, Honduras, Nicaragua - anywhere where some Right-Wing terror knowledge was needed at the time, coincidentally.

Ceku. The Kosovarion elections, which seem rigged to me. Any connection? Since the KLA outfit runs Kosovo under our supervision, who knows what he was up to there. Really intriguing.