Did I hear correctly ?

[kentuck]

I heard one of the witnesses at 9/11 hearing (Clarke?) say that Clinton had stopped al Qaeda from taking over in Kosovo and Albania, by his actions in that war. Is that true? Was al Qaeda involved in the war in Kosovo?

[proud patriot]

1. I believe that was mentioned on Democracy Now this morning

I forget who Amy was interviewing this morning .

[bedtimeforbonzo]

2. Kosovo is on fire right now

SVINJARE, Kosovo, March 23 — There is not much left of this village. Every Serbian house has been burned — all 136 of them. Smoke still rises from some of the embers of buildings where some 320 people lived until last week, when they were forced from their homes by an ethnic Albanian mob.
The only houses left standing were a group in the center of the village, each with an Albanian flag on the door or roof to ward off intruders.

Yet Svinjare is in a region of Kosovo under the authority of the United Nations. It lies just 600 yards from a camp of United Nations peacekeepers whose task is to protect the people living there.



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/international/europe/24KOSO.html?hp

[lutherj]

3. My impression is it was Bob Kerrey that said it when he was

questioning Cohen. He was talking about how he supported the Kosovo action.

[LandOLincoln]

4. Probably. I haven't looked into it (an al Qaida connection

in Kosovo) but Wes Clark said this in his Rolling Stone interview last year:

"You know, I had the job Eisenhower set up as the first supreme allied commander of NATO. I had 70,000 Americans under my command and eighty-nine countries to worry about, from the Netherlands to South Africa. When I went for a walk, I had thirty-five bodyguards jumping around in trees behind me to protect me. I was under threat from Al Qaeda and the Serbs. In other words, it was a big government job. My wife said, 'Why do you want another one? Is there something about you that likes to be institutionalized?' "

http://rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=1970&cf=2047815

[Florida_Geek]

5. It's in his book

pg 138-140 on Bosnia

[LandOLincoln]

8. Waging Modern War? I read it three months ago

over Christmas break, and already I'd forgotten that.

Sheesh...

[maggrwaggr]

6. I remember there were militant muslims sending arms and fighters there

to help their fellow Muslim Albanians.

[Spazito]

7. I recall Wes Clark speaking about this...

talking about al Qaeda planning to use Kosovo as a central "command" and that was stopped because of NATO involvement in Kosovo.

[htuttle]

9. Weren't there connections between the KLA and al Queda?

Or, rather, wasn't al Queda assisting the KLA, or at least fighting 'on their side'?

[pscot]

10. I ran across the same factoid today

but I've been surfing around and I can't remember where I saw it. I thought it was on Josh Marshall's blog, but I checked back and couldn't find it. Might have been a link. Information Overload!