Talk:Kosovo Liberation Army

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Report adopted by Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, body of Council of Europe

Recent report adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of Council of Europe shed new light at the nature of KLA. The findings of the rapporteur Mr Dick Marty were hailed by the former prosecutor of the Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, Mrs Del Ponte. As such I believe that they express official attitude of the Committee towards the events on Kosovo and the role of Mr Thaci and KLA, and these should be reflected in the WP article. It was followed by all major media outlets including BBC, Gardian, The Times, etc.. These statements were previously indicated in the book of Mrs Del Ponte. She as a prosecutor of the UN criminal tribunal had opportunity to conduct investigation on Kosovo. Furthermore, report by Dick Marty cites intelligence data of NATO member states as a source. By adopting the report the appropriate Committee of the CoE gave credibility to Mr Marty's findings and his sources and it became official. These are not only the words of a single person, but a legal body and their appointed rapporteur in charge for the investigation which took 2 years. As such they need to be highlighted in the WP article on the KLA. The CoE is the most important institution for fostering human rights in Europe and its opinions have heavy weight. I ask the superior editor to adjudge on this issue. I also invite everyone involved to read the lengthy report of Mr Marty.

Foreign support (validity of sources?)

Regarding alleged German support, the "Foreign support" section makes use of an article written by a "French expert" in "The European", a British weekly that seems as an extremely unreliable source, see http://norumbega.co.uk/2008/06/30/the-european/ Also the Sunday Times article, regarding alleged US and UK support, cannot traced on the Times Online site. Can someone verify if these articles do really exist? Thx.

Non-Albanians who joined KLA

Here’s an example: an Australian doctor of Yugoslav origin, Craig Jurisevic, in the BBC World Service.--189.62.202.58 (talk) 18:37, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

About the article

I find it extremely biased and non-suitable for Wikipeadia standarts. It seems like it was written by the hands of an extreme serbian nationalist. Please leave Wikipeadia out of the so called idiotic "internet-wars" of people from the Balkans in general. Wikipeadia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a fight club.

If you don't like this article check other articles related to Kosovo and you will find they more less the same.Unfortunately almost all of them in current state are close to the truth and some people such as you might not find them pleasant to read as real facts are different then ones presented by media. How can you know that this article is biased or written by so called "serbian nationalist" if you weren't involved in Kosovo War? Good day to you. ="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.190.240 (talk) 02:01, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

State Department's Terrorism List

The sources in this article asserting that the KLA was de-listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department in February 1998 are not based on physical State Department documents. If one goes to the State Dept. web site at http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/ one will see that the KLA was never listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Whether or not it functioned as a terrorist organization is another matter of debate. Klesteve (talk) 07:33, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

In fact, Timothy W. Crawford in "Pivotal Deterrence and the Kosovo War: Why the Holbrooke Agreement Failed" in Political Science Quarterly (pp. 499-523) made the point that not adding the KLA to the 1997 terrorism list was a missed opportunity to use leverage on the Kosovars during the 98-99 negotiation process. Therefore, it is a factual error to assert that the KLA was ever on the State Deptartment's list of Foreign Terrorist Organization Designations let alone de-listed from it. ="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned comment added by Klesteve (talk • contribs) 07:55, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I tried to find more sources and rewrite that section. Tell me what you think. --Enric Naval (talk) 10:59, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Radical Islamist?

Please immediatly erase this lying, the KLA is probably a terrorist organization, but it had not islamist ideology but albanian nationalism, while the motto is "the religion of albanian people is to be albanian". The flag is this of Skanderbeg, consideres by the pope of his time as "an athlete of the christ". All christians albanian are supporters of the independance of Kosovo, it's just a problem of nationalism, islam has nothing role in this. ANd the source of this affirmation doesn't exist, the link drive to nothing.

Thank you.