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U.S. FAILS TO PLACE KLA ON LATEST LIST OF TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS
NEW YORK - Washington has once again shown that it pursues a hypocritical policy of double standards even as regards terrorism because it has failed to place the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a major threat to stability in southeastern Europe, on its latest list of terrorist organisations.
By failing to include KLA in the list of incriminated groups believed to be most dangerous, the United States has openly shown that it supports and protects this terrorist organisation.
Top U.S. officials use generally-accepted criteria for defining terrorism extremely selectively, taking into account only the fact whether terrorists in question jeopardise U.S. interests or not. The entire activity by terrorist organisations is then considered from the political point of view to see whether they can contribute to U.S. interests in certain parts of the world.
KOSOVO PROTECTION FORCE COMMANDER CEKU UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR WAR CRIMES
LONDON - Commander of the newly-formed Kosovo Protection Force and the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Agim Ceku is under investigation by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for war crimes committed against Serbs in Croatia, The Sunday Times of London reported in its latest issue.
Members of the team of the tribunal's newly-appointed chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte told London's leading weekly that an investigation might be launched against Ceku also for war crimes that KLA has committed against Serbs in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Ceku is under investigation for his role in the massacre of Serbs in the villages of Medak, Citluk and Pocitelj near Gospic, Croatia, in 1993. He was at the time commander of the Croatian army's notorious Ninth Brigade that was mainly made up of mercenaries.
He was also one of the Croatian army officers who were promoted to the rank of brigadier general and trained by U.S. instructors for the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in the Knin Krajina area.