Lino: I demanded the arrest of government mafiosi Former U.S. ambassador to Tirana speaking in Washington The anti-corruption effort should have started with the ministers on page 3

EDITORIAL Smuggling that does politics Sami NEZA While trying to marginalize the factors in Kosovo from the official Tirana, there has still not even been an essay for a day of explanation where the leaders of this government would travel toward your directions indifference As for the provisional government, Hashim Thaçi, the press close to the government with orders burns from its columns, from Saturday to Friday, with allusions among the most convenient to the political figure of the KLA leader. The reason is clear and completely understandable for these pseudo-politicians in Tirana who do not know one another. Besides, they still are not giving the public any clarity and, divided over the KLA and domestic politics with their own interests, they are enriching themselves and thinking of buying a decision in a dirty politics.

VIII Bufi, bribes from tire smuggling on page 7

PD, not only to democratize, but also to discipline itself Our debate - PD before Parliament PD, not only to democratize, but also to discipline itself RAGIP HYSENBERGASI on pages 8-9

Today, 338 days since the killing of the leader of December Day by day, the official version of the new government about the reasons for the killing of Azem Hajdari is becoming clearer on the scene. Leaving aside the degrees to which the meaning of such a man can be compared with a conjuncture that does not belong to it, today's government is carefully assessing the manner in which his killing was carried out. This is clear from the columns of the press close to the government, especially in recent days, which are filled with statements, emotions, and judgments that try to build a possibility manipulated publicly by propaganda. The eventual killers still do not know who was the suspect who was executed in revenge and who was the order-giver. Today's government seems to have prepared one or several ideas to be declared to the public. Everyone has had their own questions about why Azem Hajdari was killed in such a publicist and political assassination attempt.

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The truth of the '97 amnesty, who benefited from the pardon at the time on page 2

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