Published: September 06, 2005
Op-Ed Contributor
Crossfire War: Balkans - Macedonian Police Find Weaponry Stored Near Kondovo
By Willard Payne
Night Watch: SKOPJE - Macedonia’s Interior Ministry announced, on Saturday, the police had uncovered a "considerable" amount of illegal weaponry and munitions near the village of Kondovo.
The weapons are known to belong to militants controlled by Agim Krasniqi whose armed group occupied Kondovo for months. This is the area Riyadh has been spreading Wahabi beliefs and where Tehran intends to use the region as an avenue of invasion into Europe.
Just 200 miles northwest of here is Tehran’s embassy in Sarajevo not to mention their being diplomatically represented in Zagreb and Ljubljana. Tehran established relations with Croatia in 1992 and stated that Croatia was their entry into Central Europe. Since then Berlin has sent to Poland Leopard tanks, Washington has helped Poland upgrade her air force and Moscow is assisting the upgrading of Poland’s Soviet era aircraft.
Islamic groups, and other contacts of Tehran-Ankara-Riyadh are active here and preparing to help the West find reasons to remain occupied with the Balkans to reduce the West’s presence on other fronts that are more important economically, like the Mediterranean and Central Asia.
The Council of Guardians are also benefitting from the seriously ill Ibrahim Rugova. He has just come back from Berlin diagnosed with lung cancer. Rugova has been a moderating influence in a region experiencing another wave of ultra-nationalism from Athens to Zagreb. His importance and presence is irreplaceable, which is why Tehran attempted to assassinate him on March 15 in a similar way they killed Hariri in Beirut.
The attempt in March was on the day after Iran’s then President Mohammad Khatami left the region after his tour of Croatia and Bosnia. Since then Khatami has been given a new title, head of the Association of Combatant Clerics, above politics, and intends to lead recognition of Jihad victories in this region.
The resulting crisis over Rugova’s succession will be just another in a long series of crisis the West instituted since 1991, when they led the recognition of the division of Yugoslavia, that Tehran’s Expediency Council will use in order to establish another front.
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