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"Those people have sacrificed..."/ Former SHIK leader reveals untold stories from the KLA war: How did we get the news that Hashim Thaçi was killed?
2025-10-17 10:13:29 / AKTUALITET
Former head of the National Intelligence Service, Fatos Klosi, while commenting on developments regarding the pro-KLA protest that will take place tomorrow in Tirana, revealed in "Off the Record" by Andrea Danglli, on A2 CNN, some untold facts from the KLA's battles.
Klosi confessed that in one of Hashim Thaçi's attempts to enter Albania during the war, SHIK received information that the commander had been killed while trying to cross the border, which was controlled by Serbian forces.
" I don't know what happened in a city, on this date, on that date. I have my opinions about those people I collaborated with. I even worshipped them in a way because they were sacrificing themselves. I know very well that they were sacrificing. Hashim was even once said to have been killed at the border, then it turned out that it wasn't someone else, he was confused. They are not that stupid. I know them to be smart people. For them to fall into such positions, to be criminals, when the freedom of their country was approaching and they were the heroes. It made no sense ," Klosi revealed.
" In that period that they are accused of, from mid-98 to mid-99, these were heroes and they had no reason to support someone in a crime. They absolutely did not allow it. They had just as many opportunities. Those were the opportunities. I say that the situation up to this point is why the prosecutors did not get what they thought. They started with Dick Marty, they started with many Kosovar witnesses who, for personal reasons, for various problems, someone's brother was killed... I said that you remember that this is how they were taking revenge. It turned out that they were false testimonies, that's why they were closed.
Supposedly to protect them, they were closed to see that the evidence was... at least the ones that were open were until one person said they threw salt at them. I'm glad that the defense witnesses came out as they did. They are important characters. I can also say that I have never called them terrorists, I have called them heroes and I adored them to be honest. They had the opportunity to do something great for their country, but the Americans were a little clear and cold. That is, the Americans, the British because we did not cooperate with terrorists. For me, the prosecution team failed there, they set out with a lot of noise and they failed and now they will try to justify their failure.
The situation in Kosovo from the beginning of the bombing is May. From the beginning of the bombing until June, which is the indictment. In May, the bombing began until June of 1999, which is the indictment period. Of course, there was a turbulent situation in Kosovo, a country that was going from a system of an occupied country to a country under NATO forces that gave great hope that it would end in independence. So the issue is not whether they killed, but the issue is, the discussion there is that the KLA was a structure and the way the orders came from the KLA was more organized. This is being discussed in The Hague. No, they killed them, or they weren't killed, that could be the case. And they were killed. NATO forces considered that they were the ones who had responsibility for security in Kosovo. It no longer made sense for the KLA to remain armed. A meeting was held there. I found that most of the zone commanders met each other for the first time. "They met each other for the first time. They hadn't met because you understand the area where you fight in that it was an area in the territory of the Serbian army. In the territory of the Serbian army. It's not like they moved easily ," Fatos Klosi confessed in "Off the Record" by Andrea Danglli, on A2 CNN.
He further added that he personally knew these people who are being accused today in The Hague. According to Kloasi, there was a two-week effort to convince the KLA commanders to hand over their weapons after the war, and the Americans entered the game.
" I have known these people personally. We considered them heroes even during the war, because they have also sacrificed. They are not those generals who sit in a headquarters and soldiers are killed below. They have also crossed that border several times, which was really very difficult to come to Tirana, they have gone to international meetings, that is, they have been in danger themselves. Ramushi is one of the most responsible, but this Selimi is also the commander of an area where there was serious fighting, while Hashimi and Kadria were politicians. Kadria was the head of the intelligence service. Yes, politics were played there too. So these are not the people who were in the war, man. Then I cannot imagine that any of them would have pulled the trigger. They are being accused of why the Kosovo Liberation Army at the end of the war and a few months of the accusation is after the entry of NATO forces into Kosovo when the responsibility was no longer there. I have witnessed the efforts that were made to disarm the KLA. There was a big meeting in the general staff. Then they took the Americans, they took all the commanders there to America. They kept them for two weeks to convince Kosovo and be honest that they are still defending Kosovo. It is not the Kosovo army that provides the guarantee in Kosovo. It is NATO that provides the guarantee ," said Klosi.
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