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NATO'S New Terrorist Partner.(Albanian leader Ali Ahmeti)(Brief Article)
Cleaving with remarkable consistency to the Balkans policy of its predecessors, the Bush administration has not opposed the rechristening of Albanian terrorist leader Ali Ahmeti as a "statesman." This duplicates the Clinton administration's feat of rechristening the leaders of the narco-terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as "freedom fighters" and "democratic reformers."
In June, a presidential directive listed Ahmeti, head of Macedonia's National Liberation Army (NLA), a KLA spin-off, as a terrorist forbidden to travel to the United States. The same executive order banned financial contributions to the NLA -- which meant that the guerrilla group was officially recognized as a terrorist organization. A month later, Macedonian officials issued an arrest warrant for Ahmeti, charging him with terrorism and similar offenses.
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- News wire article from: United Press International September 5, 2001 700+ words
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- News wire article from: United Press International May 24, 2001 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor July 26, 2001 700+ words
...Albania." More radical ethnic Albanians, such as former Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaci and National Liberation Army (of Macedonia) political leader Ali Ahmeti, have also steered clear of calling for a unified state. In fact...
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- Magazine article from: Commonweal PFAFF, WILLIAM September 14, 2001 700+ words
...Albanian militants, organized as the Kosovo Liberation Army, demanded Kosovo's independence. The...of cultural but not political identity. Ali Ahmeti, the head of the Albanian Liberation Army in Macedonia, says he accepts the liberal...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor August 23, 2001 700+ words
...troops, will spend a month collecting the weapons that the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) willingly gives up. Giving up arms NLA leader Ali Ahmeti has pledged that his men will disarm, as part of a deal between ethnic Macedonian...