Police, an arena for warfare between Mafia clans ON PAGE 4

Who is fueling the confrontations in Sarandë ON PAGE 4

Tirana residents risk infections due to burst pipes ON PAGE 5

The press is more threatened than ever. Stop the violence, censorship, and surveillance of the media ON PAGE 3

Berisha: It is a major mistake to talk about an intervention by Albania in Kosovo “Power should not be the objective; winning rights and freedoms for the Albanians of Kosovo must be the number-one objective of Albanian politicians and non-politicians in Kosovo” ON PAGE 3

The agrarianist leader of Balli disappears mysteriously ON PAGE 3

The anonymous Bolinnari cannot change anything in the positions of the DP and Berisha nothing in the positions of the DP and Berisha “Gazeta Shqiptare” on Milošević’s side Statement by the DP press spokesperson ON PAGE 3

DP: We will confiscate any assets stolen from creditors ON PAGE 3

Nano legalizes political killings and imprisonment. Politicians from various parties react after the law is passed The new law on the Security Service requires, under compulsion and legal sanctions, that all Albanian citizens become collaborators of the Security Service, thereby seeking mass incrimination and division among Albanians, turning them against one another ON PAGE 2

Local government is being ignored again. The majority is not cooperating in drafting the disarmament law ON PAGE 2

The man who left us five castles is refused a monument The Ministry of Culture categorically opposes approval of the 2 million lek fund for erecting his monument ON PAGE 7

The Christian Democrats call for international recognition of Kosovo’s independence ON PAGE 3

DELOITTE & TOUCHE FAR FROM V.E.F.A ON PAGE 5 DELOITTE & TOUCHE FAR FROM V.E.F.A

“Bolinism” will go down in the history of the Albanian press as the ugliest example of a journalist and newspaper being used by the darkest circles of the regional mafia and by the services that work day and night against Albania. It is the phenomenon in which the blackest and most racist things against a people are repeatedly disguised in attractive packaging and with the supposed strict application of news theory by journalists who come and go through the doors of the “Gazeta Shqiptare” newsroom, while the evil remains there. By bringing back to Tirana the name of a newspaper forgotten since the Second World War, one that praised fascism and invited it to invade Albania, Bolino can today take pride in the fact that his publication has the same degree of Albanophobia as its predecessor in the 1940s. Just as “Gazeta Shqiptare” once whispered over the blood of Albanians who fought against the Italian occupiers, today’s paper is trampling on the blood of Kosovo Albanians who are being killed and massacred and then carried to mass graves by the Balkan Mussolini, Sllobodan Millosheviç. In an article emerging from the offices of the secret services of those fighting against Albanians in Kosovo and Albania, Mr Bolino tried to divert international public opinion’s attention—not toward where children, women and the elderly are being massacred, but toward Albania, where his friends from the Puglian mafia have found a paradise of drugs and smuggling. By fabricating a story about the opposition, Mr Bolino and those who commissioned his article are trying not only to panel-ize the Democratic Party, which they see as an obstacle to the mafia’s acceptance in Albania, but are generally trying to persuade all Albanian actors to convince the West that the time for military intervention in Kosovo is now passing. This entire unscrupulous and unprecedented fabrication in the Albanian press is, in fact, an attempt to create the impression that the war should be sought in Albania, where it is nowhere to be found, and not in Kosovo, where it has been raging for some time. This point alone would be enough for this man to be thrown out whence he came, although that would be excessive courtesy toward someone like him. For it is inconceivable that a newspaper published in Tirana and bearing the surname “Albanian” should so mercilessly attack those who are surviving the bullets and flames of the war in Kosovo, wishing for that fire to engulf Albania as well. To reach this point—the dirtiest in his career in Albania—Bolino’s newspaper has been ruthlessly used and put to work by the National Intelligence Service, following the annual tightening grip of former State Security operatives. It is no coincidence that Bolino’s return to Albania, after a temporary pause, coincides with the return to power of new scoundrels from the State Security and former Albanian communists. Hundreds of insinuations and fabricated stories published in its pages can be counted, targeting the opposition, but often also Albanian fighters and politicians in Kosovo. Indeed, in some cases, stories published by SHIK and other anti-Albanian secret services have been placed in the newspaper and promoted because they reached the newsroom at the last moment, as the paper was closing. But why is Mr Bolino so fierce and so motivated against today’s opposition and yesterday’s government? As a spokesperson for the Puglian mafia’s leadership, with its dubious connections and extraordinary influence, the director of “Gazeta Shqiptare” is driven by an interest in making the Albanian cause lose the battle in Kosovo, while in Albania the old status quo of smuggling and corruption continues. The mafia bosses who finance Bolino and the counterintelligence chiefs of neighboring countries who pay for “Gazeta Shqiptare” articles could not find a more acceptable partner than Fatos Nano to govern Albania. It is the left-wing coalition government, which supports Bolino and his “Albanian” paper with all its might, that guarantees the Italian mafia leadership a suitable Albania for drugs, weapons, stolen cars, prostitution, cigarette and coffee smuggling, and the timber trade. And all these activities are connected to organized crime. That is also why Bolino is so committed to attacking everyone who was once an opponent and is now viewed as a potential opponent of organized crime and smuggling, which feed the mafia and its offspring—whose ranks include motorcycle-riding thugs who make it easier to erase, from time to time, the work of intellectuals or journalists who pretend to weep over the crimes of their predecessors, and, from time to time, government officials in expensive suits, who are plentiful in Albania. From the very first day he arrived in Tirana, Bolino has been eager for an Albania of crime, prostitution, smuggling and corruption. Now he is in his “own waters,” helped by the mafia clan running Albania, which has not only national ties with the regional mafia, but also direct connections and shared interests. “Bolinism” is a pernicious disease that entered the Albanian press stealthily, at times presenting itself as professional journalism and at times as entirely neutral, always ultimately seeking to stab Albania and the Albanians in the back. It has done so with such regularity and devotion that only people have failed to see it. Now that Albanians are fighting in Kosovo, Bolino has turned the muzzle of his anti-Albanian newspaper toward those being killed and massacred as they defend their lands and homes. Now is the time—in fact, it can be said that it has already passed—to ask the simple question: what is this anti-Albanian doing among Albanians, and what is his genetic makeup?

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