22/08/1999
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Gazeta Shqiptare

22 August 1999

“I did 13 years in prison because I deceived Kadri Hazbiu”

DOSSIER / HYSEN RADESHI TELLS HIS STORY, THE FAKE OFFICER WHO FREED PRISONERS After listening to him to the end, Minister Hazbiu addressed him: “What you have done to us, nobody has ever done to us. And in 1947, when I was not yet a minister, but was a simple operative, not even a German agent penetrated so deeply into our ranks. Well done, you played the officers.” On pages 12–13 Hysen Radeshi recounting his adventure

USA: Tirana must do its homework

THE AMERICANS’ REQUEST CANNOT BE MET BY THE BUDGET

Tropojë, on a mission with the special forces

SPECIAL REPORT

Islami: Ah! Why didn’t I become an artist

PROFILE On page 4

on a mission with the special forces

From our correspondent Artan Hoxha What is happening in the tough northern town, two weeks after the “Police” uniforms arrived. The powerful men have fled to the mountains. There are 50 people trying to “reunite” this area with Albania. How the state’s emissaries live and how ordinary people from Tropojë feel, people who for two years had not dared to raise their voices in the street. The strict regime of “sheriff” Gani Malushi and the blocking of all the roads leading to Kosovo. The smuggling that goes unspoken, and the cars carrying surrendered weapons that come down from the mountains every day On pages 6–7

Apartment buildings will be built for police officers

On page 5

USA. Tirana should abolish customs duties

On page 2