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Rohrabacher Shills for the KLA.(Rep Dana Rohrabacher and the Kosovo Liberation Army)(Brief Article)

The New American

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The Albanian-American Civic League (AACL) is an American group that lobbies on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The guest of honor at the group's July 23rd fundraiser in Edgewater, New Jersey, was Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).

By way of introducing Rep. Rohrabacher, AACL President (and former Congressman) Joseph J. DioGuardi recalled: "He was the first member of Congress to insist that the United States arm the Kosova Liberation Army, and one of the few members who to this day publicly supports the independence of Kosova."

In his remarks, Rep. Rohrabacher castigated his colleagues for their reluctance to arm the KLA. Alluding to the support that the American colonists received from France following our Declaration of Independence, Rohrabacher declared: "Based on our own experience, the Kosova Liberation Army should have been armed." If the U.S. had armed the KLA in 1998, he continued, "we would not be where we are today. The 'freedom fighters' would have secured their freedom and Kosova would be independent."

The "freedom fighters" Rohrabacher compares to our Founding Fathers have a colorful and troubling pedigree. New York Times Balkans correspondent Chris Hedges reported in 1999 that the KLA's founders were "diehard Marxist-Leninists (who were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist ...

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