The country is overwhelmed by violence, crime, and gangs; the latest developments from the State Department for American citizens still in Albania are becoming increasingly pressing. Everything that is of interest is struck by sadistic crime, he says ON PAGE 3

After the prime minister’s son is caught with drugs, Greek Interpol plans a search of Fatos Nano’s home ON PAGE 4

The White House announced on Thursday that Americans firmly believe it is necessary to hold people accountable for the recent terrorist attacks. It has threatened other anti-American extremists. Shikrat warns of bombings in Kosovo A White House spokesman, quoted by REUTERS, said that American officials are convinced that Osama Bin Laden, exiled in Afghanistan, and his movement financed, ordered, and enabled the terrorist attacks against the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in which 257 people were killed. U.S. President Bill Clinton has stated that the United States is ready to undertake military action against these extremists. Analysts believe it may have been only a matter of time before the United States launched an attack against Bin Laden, since he lives freely in Afghanistan. However, doubts still remain as to whether Bin Laden was the one who organized involvement in several terrorist attacks. On Wednesday, after 5:00 p.m., Osama Bin Laden responded to the threats from the United States by denying any role whatsoever in organizing the two suicide attacks. According to the Arab press, he even declared that he would not know anything about the country. Hysni Shaqiri of Nano sides with the anti-NATO forces in Kosovo The deputy commander of the armed rebels in their fortified base in southern Albania has expressed his personal interest in the leader of the army for the liberation of Kosovo and the Islamist rebels in northern Albania, as they were ready to send fighters against the Serbian enemy, Reuters quotes the rebel deputy commander, Hysni Shaqiri. "Half a million Kosovo soldiers can be gathered," he claimed while near the village of Maminas, near Tirana. He was also cited by the Albanian Islamist militant leader Festim Lato [?], as well as the anti-American Arab cleric Mohammed al-Massari, exiled in London. "We have thousands of troops and anyone who comes will be welcomed," he said. According to reports from Tirana, Hysni Shaqiri has publicly criticized the government of Fatos Nano for preventing Albanian volunteers from crossing the border to defend the Albanians of Kosovo. Reuters notes that Hysni Shaqiri has ties to the key organization of Nano’s party.

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all week in search of Fatos Nano Reason: hiding the crisis in Kosovo, say sources close to the Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha: The Albanian political class urgently needs a broad and very serious consultation about the grave and threatening situation created around the tragic developments in Kosovo and throughout the region. At this moment, no ambiguous, divergent, or hostile positions toward one another should be taken, as they would create confusion and strengthen the positions of the enemy regime in Belgrade. Sources close to the Albanian prime minister and the presidency state that during the last three days President Rexhep Meidani, Albania’s Prime Minister Fatos Nano, the Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Cërvenkovski and the U.S. Undersecretary of State, Janes Rubin, as well as Kosovo’s Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi, have been in a secret meeting in Greece, a meeting organized by the United States and Greece. Unofficial sources speak of discussion of a platform of Albanian resistance in the event of a violent Serbian intervention in Kosovo. Officially, no one confirms this, and even officials in Tirana are doing everything possible to keep such a thing in the shadows. ON PAGE 3

Albania, the ideal gateway for terrorists after the socialists came to power The American involvement in Egypt and the government of Fatos Nano dominates with speculation, accusations, and exonerations on Albanian television and in the press. However, one thing remains clear: the Albanian government after 29 June has thrown an unprecedented amount of disinformation onto the Albanian market. The truth is that the so-called first Egyptian “terrorist” came to Albania before the socialists came to power. Asked a week ago by "RD" whether she had had contacts with the persons in question before 29 June, the former Albanian Foreign Minister, Arta Dade, gave no answer. ON PAGE 2

Nano’s regime considers all electoral officials to be the opposition The latter socialist government has drawn up a draft government instruction, in which, by means of a normative act, the suspension of the work of the District Councils is demanded until the conditions of the law are met, and the appointment of an administrator. ON PAGE 2

Property, the Assembly Council and the President and Justice in the Government Draft BY Gazmend KAPLLANI In the socialist draft constitution, the provisions dealing with the role of the President of the Republic, the functions of the Council of Ministers and of the judiciary have remained almost unchanged from the 1976 Constitution. ON PAGE 6

40,000 mothers’ hunger strike for the war prisoners ON PAGE 5 VIII Bull throws out miners’ demands ON PAGE 5 The policeman who checked Alben Malaj’s mother is arrested ON PAGE 4 Pogradec’s chief of police leaves as a “scapegoat” ON PAGE 4

: Until 13 November, no American in the land of crime and gangs