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Dientsbier says terrorism is with international blessing, Makfax, October 30th 2002

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Makfax) - Terrorism, including the latest terrorist act in Moscow, did not break out last September when the United States was under attack, it started much earlier in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo, said the former Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Jiri Dientsbier, who was also the U.N. human rights special envoy.

In Friday's interview with the Prague newspaper Pravo, Dientsbier said not only the media but also the politicians, who divided the terrorists into 'good ones' and 'bad ones', were doing service to terrorism. This is the case with the Chechens and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as well.

"When Osama bin Laden founded his own humanitarian organizations in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Albania, and later on he entered into arrangements with Algerian terrorists in Albania (1994), nobody could assume the eventual link to terrorism. During the NATO-led bombardment on Yugoslavia, the Kosovo Liberation Army was used as a ground force. The KLA engagement during the NATO-led air strikes on Yugoslavia enabled this organization to rule in Kosovo and mastermind and carry out attacks in Macedonia, southern Serbia and Montenegro", Dientsbier said.

Dientsbier underlines that U.S. President George Bush had added a number of KLA members under the Executive Order on Extremism in the Western Balkans, including the leader of the National Liberation Army (NLA) Ali Ahmeti, who won some 70 percent of the Albanian vote in Macedonia's parliamentary elections.

Dientsbier says the Albanian extremists had also killed thousands of Albanians, adding that ongoing efforts to arrest those responsible turned inconsequent.

"The international representatives in Kosovo fear that the former KLA members could resort to violence against the U.N. representatives and KFOR soldiers", Dientsbier said in an interview with the Prague newspaper Pravo.