{"id":257,"date":"2003-12-09T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-03-02T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:57:41","slug":"sunday-mirror-investigators-buy-semtex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Mirror investigators buy Semtex…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in Kosovo<\/a><\/p>\n

Our 13.5kg haul of Semtex – in 108 sticks – is one of the biggest ever seized from terrorists and could have potentially armed 30 suicide bombers.And chillingly the explosive, which we bought for \u00a310,000, was of a form that doesn’t show up on metal detectors, making it much easier to smuggle into Britain….<\/p>\n

…Posing as members of the Real IRA, we were also offered three shoulder-held missile launchers, an anti-aircraft gun, and enough machine guns, hand grenades and landmines to equip a small army.<\/p>\n

We made our deal in Kosovo, a breeding ground for fanatics with al-Qaeda links.<\/p>\n

Our contact was the deputy commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Niam Behljulji, known as Hulji. The group were trained by Bin Laden’s men.<\/p>\n

Astonishingly, we met him under the noses of the British Army and UN forces – who remain as peacekeepers following Kosovo’s bloody war with Serbia.<\/p>\n

Hulji, is said to supply terrorists across Europe and has been accused of massacring Serbian women and children during the war.<\/p>\n

He even posed grinning for a photograph, holding the severed head of one his victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The KLA was supported by the U.S. during the ’99 attack on Yugoslavia, despite terrorist status<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curious Bush from the beginning of his term<\/a> sought to free these fine folks from the interference of U.S. peacekeepers. Sure, let them flourish, I suppose. Rumsfeld championed the case as well in ’01<\/a> and most recently, ostensibly in a desperate attempt<\/a> to find more boots for Iraq, is doing so again.<\/a> [2<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t the Bush administration be learning a lesson from this foreign policy experiment gone bad instead of repeating the same mistakes? Unless fighting terrorism isn’t their objective after all.<\/p>\n

Seymour Hersh on yet another failed experiment<\/a> applied in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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