Is there any pattern in NATO member countries towards the crisis in ex Yugoslavia?
In Western media KLA is upheld as a self-respecting nationalist movement struggling for the rights of ethnic Albanians. Following a pattern set during the War in Bosnia, public opinion has been carefully misled. The multibillion-dollar Balkan narcotics trade has played a crucial role in “financing the conflict” in Kosovo. Amply documented by European police files, acknowledged by numerous studies, the links of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army to criminal syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union have been known to western governments and intelligence agencies since the mid 1990s. America’s special envoy to Bosnia, Robert Gelbard, had described the KLA last year as “terrorists”. Christopher Hill, US chief negotiator at Rambouillet has also been a strong critic of the KLA for its alleged dealings in drugs. The proceeds of the narcotics trade have enabled the KLA to rapidly develop a force of some 30.000 men. According to the US Observer mission reports the role of the KLA
