Kosovo Liberation Army

KLA, UCK

12/12/2006

The Kosovo Liberation Army is an Albanian-based Islamic mujahideen force which is listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization. They are funded by European Islamic charities, the Shi'ite theocracy in Iran, al-Qaeda, and the sale of heroin. According to the Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs in Paris, "The KLA has built a vast heroin network that reaches from the opium fields of Pakistan to the black-market arms dealers in Switzerland. They transport $2 billion worth of illegal drugs annually into the heart of Europe.".

Their primary weapon has been IEDs and their favorite targets have been civilians and police. They also favor ambushes and small-arm's firefights. But they are well equipped, using an assortment of anti-tank rocket launchers, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, assault rifles, and RPGs. Most of their weapons are sourced through Iran and the People's Republic of China.

Unlike normal jihadists, the KLA wear an insignia identifying themselves on their clothing. They are numerous, trained, and disciplined. In addition to Muslim Albanians, the KLA is composed of 1,000 foreign jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Afghanistan in addition to Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims and Croat Muslims. Their technical advisors are often British and German military or intelligence officers. They work closely with the fundamentalist Islamic regime of Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia.

The goal of the Kosovo Liberation Army is to unite the Muslim populations of Kosovo, Macedonia, and Albania into a greater Islamic state. Their ruthless assault on Christian civilians and police is what prompted Milosevic to brutally crack down on the Muslim population in 1998. As fighting escalated between the Milosevic government and the KLA terrorists, several hundred thousand people were displaced and several hundred were killed. Eventually the economy collapsed.

As is the case with all Islamic jihadists, bullets and bombs manufactured more than they killed. The harder Milosevic went after the KLA the faster their numbers grew - eventually reaching more than 20,000 armed Marxist Muslim militia members.

NATO, which at Bill Clinton's urging during the Monica Lewinski affair, entered the conflict on the side of the Muslims, and thus KLA, estimated that during the first sixty days of Operation Allied Force air strikes the number of armed KLA members doubled. The bloodshed that devastated the Balkan nation was provoked by Islam with an assist from an embattled American president.

For a better, albeit distressing, understanding of the mess in the Balkans and especially Croatia, read the review on the Ustashi.