Restoring order, raising VAT, transparency on usury — The government is implementing the three conditions The IMF grants $11 million, opening the green light for Brussels. The Prime Minister: Now, aggressive reform Page 3 Yesterday Prime Minister Fatos Nano signing the “Commitment Agreement” Photo REUTERS

By Kiço Blushi The dumbabists lost their game in Albania, so they no longer have power, a party, mandates, or moral credibility. Almost no newspaper, of any color, still prints their diarrhea-like scribblings, since the names of the dumbabists discredit newspapers in the eyes of public opinion. Nevertheless, it is now more than clear that they carried out their mission: they managed to sow the seeds of regional, religious, and national division. Never in Albania’s history have the crude dumbabist pseudo-ideas been so vilely inflated, according to which even Skanderbeg is made guilty because he was Christian and fought against Turkey (so, that is where our historical misfortune begins), and those who did not Islamize him, that is, those who today are Christians, Orthodox, and Catholics, are supposedly by nature anti-Albanian: Vlachs, Greeks, Serbs, Francophiles, pro-Italians, pro-Americans, etc. For every reasonable Albanian, even without schooling or knowledge of Albanian history, it is more than clear that these dumbabist pseudo-ideas are nonsense. And who is spreading these ideas is already known, so I consider it offensive to mention their names, but I want to raise a very simple question: Who is financing these people? Have there been direct or indirect, open or secret funding from fundamentalist foundations outside Albania, entering here in the name of religious sects? Is their activity known, and what responsibility does the Albanian state bear if one day Albania is identified as an airport for Islamic terrorists? I say this not because these dumbabists publish books and because (at least this much I know) publishing a book, especially a newspaper that does not sell, requires considerable funding, but because several years ago on Yugoslav television, a Serbian deputy raised this strange question during the live broadcast of parliament: Where did the millions of dollars that the Yugoslav government gave to destabilize Albania go? And the live broadcast was interrupted... Why was it interrupted? Why? That answer is not so hard to give; the hard question is this: So where did the millions of dollars go, who took them, and why were they brought into Albania? No one has answered this question, which could solve many enigmas that seem to be linked not only to Shkodër, but to many events and people who today pretend to be nationalists (that is, dumbabists). One day this will be clarified, but I fear (Continued on page 4)

Vehbi Alimuçaj: My bank accounts have been robbed The company suspends the distribution of capital and all other financial activity Yesterday all financial relations of the VEFA Company with its creditors and employees were interrupted by an order given by Vehbi Alimuçaj himself. Meanwhile, relations with the Minister of Finance continue to worsen. P. 11

Party secretaries: Ministers, withdraw the appointments Ruling coalition, crisis deepens P. 4 PD activities in the northern districts conclude Assembly: Delegates from the South absent P. 5 Yesterday meeting of the Socialist parliamentary group PS deputies accuse the government P. 4 Workers’ strikes against the government expand After Memaliaj and the Port of Durrës P. 10 The Otranto tragedy, the Albanian government gets involved Recovering the bodies, national day of mourning P. 13 Major operation by the Italian security forces 82 Albanian bandits arrested P. 2 TELEBINGO new season restarts Read on page 7