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Blkan crisis over

'Greater Albania

by dith Hassma i Wiesbaden

The Balka peisula, which gave its ame to the strategy of fragmetig atiostates for te beet of imperial strategic goals, is primed to explode oce agai Thefootsoldiers of British ad Soviet itellgece servces areo the march there, as are the overlappig fremasoicad religious fudametalist etworks of te acietEurope oligarchy whose histrical headquarters isVeice

A old piece of Veetia turf, the Albaia ethicprovice of Kosovo iside Yugoslavia, is the poit ofleverage The Albaia of Kosovo, which is a part ofthe Serbia epublic, have demaded from Belgradercogitio as a idepedet republic ad thereby theright to secede from the Yugoslav fderatio ad seekmerger with the "motherlad, Albaia

iots swept Kosovo last sprig, i the wak of whichthe commuist party there has suffered oe purge afteraother Local polce were reiforced with special uitsfor cobattig the udergroud atioalist movemet,provig at least the appearace of calm But i Octo

ber, the Lodo Economist. which relects the priortiesof British itelligece circles, advised the Yugoslav goveret to rat the Kosovars tir republic ow iorder to avoid "a biger explosio later The Kosovostory is by o meas over

Abroad, the atiYugoslavia activities of KosovoAlbaias have reached the poit of terrorism I July, a"CroatiaAlbaia udergroud orgaizatio,fouded i Sed ot log beor, claimd rsposibility for a attack o two Yugoslav diplomats i BrusselsAccordig to the West Germa Press Agecy (DPA),this group aouced tat tr would be further acts of

terror uless its demads for a idepedet Croatia ad"the retur of Albaia rgios to Albaia ere satisfied Th Kosovo Albaias ar demadi tat theirfutur "republic ecompass Albaias wo live i Macedoia ad Moteegro, to or of Yugoslavias sixcostituet republics At dostratios held tis pastsumr i Washigto, Stockolm, Geeva, ad rakfurt, Kosovo emigs distributd ap dpictig"reater Albaia It provod ated dbats i tGreek parliamet, becaus t map ot oly coveredareas iti Yugoslavia, but also claied a part oforther Greece "Great Albaia chauviis rvivd

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i Kosovo culd set mt al the the natnatquestios i the Balkas whh eman unsled sneWorld War II Whle Greek mmetatos ad pltcias ow charge that Greeks l Aana areoppressed, the Yugoslav Repu f acedoa eproaches the Tiraa (Alaa) reme f repressosagaist Albaas acedoan mnorty

Whe urest broke out amn the Alaa populatio i Kosovo last Mah t was dcult for someoutside obsevers to uderstand why the peple of thsprovice i southe ugoslaa wh thaks t eographical proxmty ommo lauae ad kshp elatios, are etter ifomed tha ane else out thewretched codtios wth Aaa ould everthelesstake to the streets ude suh slogas as "og LeEver Hoxha or "We Wat a Unted Alaia Oeexample sufcies to illustrate the dfferee lvstadard I Kosovo thee s e a to a famly thecities ad oe o every thee famles the outryside;

i Albaia, there are ot eve ylesTo discove why Brtsh tele ds Aaachauvism the est leve f shakn the etre natalities structure the Balkas wth the am of destalig Yugoslava e must eame the hstoral oectios, etworks ad tradts whh the Bitish havealready mobled ma tmes hstory fo potcalpower purposes The athword s Bakan War

Scr oc of DrvA compariso may e daw wth the destablato

of Ira by Khomeis hodes iety peet of the

Albaias i ugoslavia ae uslms ad oly 10percet are Christans As one obseer stated reetlythe Catholic populatio i osovomost likely oistructos from the atca mediated throuh loalprestshas maitaed strit dstae from the uestwhich was exclusively cared out by Alaa uslmsI his recetly publshed book Sderfall Albaie (TheCase of Albania), Alaa affas epert BerhardTs writs that thse Muslms are iueced to osmall extet by a umerall smal roup of oders ofDervishes These ervsh des ae aized as seretsocieties, so that very ltle i kw aout them

Eve if the uprisgs osovo wee aried out byMuslims, the reader may object, this does ot explathe "Great Albaa character of the movemet Howca a Muslim cosder as hs homelad athestic Alaia, where all religos are baed ad the mosques (adchurces) locked?

At this poit, a error must be eared up: thecommuist ladership of Albaia has alwas waged abitter struggle agaist the Catholic relgio, as a represetative of Wester culture, whle the historcally "positive role of Islam ad the Orthodo Church is dgifid ve i the writigs of Albaia commuist chef

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Ener Hoxha Oe effet of the oo ne nroi but perhaps an intended one wa to h heSerbian Orthodox Curh nto promnene n " e-taular rapprohemet with the entra ahote nBelgrade, as oe Frenh report put t mtAlbaia atioaism, the goernment empoy ernnatioalism whih hs gie erban Orthody ne

opportutiesI ts ow righ ad as atayt of h pee neighboring territories, Albana whh ft me neVeetia ontrol in the 12 entury and then e years uder Turksh rule ha remaned from he -ito of oial idependene in 1912 p to the eenday, a bulwark of rientali on the Erpean t-et

T BkThis hitorial ontinuity tem aoe fm he

fat that Albaia for enturie ha een the hen

of the Bektashi Dershe who oday t napproximately 15 to 20 perent of the Ann -lation ad mot probaby hae ntae ee hemeber in the Central Committee f not the otof the Communist arty Despte rkh repnKemal Atatrks haing banned the oder n 9 theeare probably 7.5 million Bektah in Aa nr

The Bekashi Order, whoe fonder Hh khVeli came from ersia, expanded nto the kndurig the period of Turkih rue nne ee tas "a patheistic hiite set with pronouned n-hea iuee It unite "pagan Chrtn nd

Islami elements i its philosophy and t meme ethe oly oes beside the u myt to aept the -alled "Hurufi umer theory a "reeton whhholds that diine reation repeat tsef n enyle, ad that eah yle lat 1 ,360 year

Sie the order is organized a a eret oey ndits members are wor to protet the eet moutsiders, few detais of Bektashi mytm are kwBektashi oly me are distinguhed, howeer y theiew that they, uike orma morta ae e tahiee uity wit Godwho ot ony dwe n eeryma, but also peeps out from behind eery pnt eery

leaf ad eery musial notein one moment f "p-ioate oe Their opponets in the rthod mamp reproah them for holding orgiati t eem-nes, i whih at ight, behind oked door they enyueiled wome ad aoholi mean of ntnThe Bektashi also beliee i trasmraton of ; thas bee reported that their monks ued to wer e their shoes to scare away iet, for hey fee heymight otherwise trampe a aestor to deh ke thtof the freemasos, the Bektashi organzaton h fe-ent degrees of initiation ito the eret knwedefrom the lower degrees of dowright y hopo

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p to the hghet degree of "elighteed patheismotiay, the Bektashis over the eturies were

way enemies of the Ottoma Empire a fat whihproe useful for their rapid expasio uder the l-anan tribal chiefs ad feudal lords Their Shiitebeef rejet ay worldly govermetal power his setpoesed enormous iuece the Ottoma Empire:

nt the utas iftry the Jaissaries, was disbad-ed in 1826, it was the military ar o the Bektashisrather tha that of the empire I the areas of Bektashinene i the Balkas ad Asia Mior the moaster-e of the order eer lay more tha six hours joureyapat o that ay traeler i t Ottoma Empre wasompeed to make use of their "hotel serce heektahi Grand Vizier Ali asha employed te brothersof the oder as spies ad diplomats I te t eturythey were the mai moers of the soalled Youg urkmoement whih as the Britis Epire wihed toepedte the diitegratio of the Ottoa Empire was

gned appropriate subversie tasks by the Eglishand talan freemasost might eem a paradox that the Bektash,

throghout their log politial career, always supportedthe fundamentalist, atiWester ad atiprogress liesn the Islam world, while their leaders right up utiltoday, ultiated persoal otacts with the "telletualete of Wester Europe I the last etury foreampe the bledig of Bektashis a freemasoswent o far i Albaia that the two ults fouded jointodges Regardless of ay EastWest oloratio of thee the commoality of world iews betwee te

ektah and the freemasos resides i the fat thatoth arepagan ults whih, altough rightly baed bythe great religios as heresies, evertheless ejoy greatpport among ertai irles as istrumets for estab-hng a ne-feudalist. oligarhial world order Weneed ony refer to te eamples of Club of Rome co-fonder Aexader Kig, who s a Su myst ad thereenty killed Ayatolla Behesht, who beloged to aeemn ode in Hamburg n Abana theepan pantheiti ideologies hae suried i uadu-terated form

' rlgo of Al Alhi key phrase from the oabulary of Eeroxha brng us bak to the irumstaes uder hih"Aanan natoalism was formulated i the seodhaf of the last etury The Abaia atioal mythmut omehow deal with the fat that the triba hiefsand feuda lords oupied a privileged positio uderthe urkh oupatio ad that the "Beys lookeddown with great cotempt o the eighborig Slaipopuato, who were employed as guest workers other etate Albaia was "Bektashilad

he two leaders of the soalled atioal rebirth of

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Aania, Nai Frahri (18461900) and hi rtherSami (18501904) were jut right fr the tak. Nai, aBektahi thegian and Sui mytic, made n ecret fhi ope that Bektahi myticim wuld ne day ecme"the reigin f al Abania and be the cnnectingtiue binding togeter the variu Alanian trie andreigin.He i the creatr f a racit natinal ideogy,

ti aive tday, whic i mixed tgether with thepantheitic Bektahi utlk and Nietzchean upermanphiloopy. Here i a mre frm Nai' petry:

Men are aed a in certain race,Each ne a it different type,Te wite ae i te et f them,A in everything, o a in it face.The other al have different colr,Yelow, black, re, brwn;However many men tere are in thee race,They are al, o t peak, bararian ....Te white race i divided into natin,And i pit into ranche....Of tat race wic came into Eurpe,And then divided into many piece,The fremt bviuy are the PelagianAnd teir n, we Aanian.

cience 1888

Since Alania ecame independent in 1912, theBektai have payed an imprtant role in running thegvernment apparatu. Many miniter came frm thigroup and dminated cultural ife. Wen the AbanianFacit Party wa founded in 1939, unde the Itaian

ccupation, it party newpaper bore te name thegreatet Bektai hrine in Albania, the Tomri muntain. During World Wa II, te Bektai leader Martanei fougt in te communit reitance mvement edy Enver Hxa. Matanei, who made Hxa aBektai cief, wa killed in 1947 by other Derviheecaue, follwing Hoxa' policy o iolatin, e wante to eve t oe' tie to it botr in Aia Minorand oter countrie.

Te latet accompliment of te order may be teidelogical, if notdepite te official banthe pernal preparation of rapprocement between Albania and

Komeini' Iran, wic ound it preliinary cumination in te viit of Iranian Deputy Pime Miniter aito Tirana (etymogically, little Teeran) in eruay.

Spl So Uot te turn f te centuy, te Briti empire,

woring toug freemaonic ntwork, teered Albanian natinalim and tat of oter alkan nation rtagaint t Tur an ten againt t AutHungarian Epie. ligt trategic micalculation occurredin te effort, ic le to Worl Wa I. Britain'

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ga in the regin fr thi centur i t fragment thSviet Unin.

During Wrd War II, the ritih were areadcultivating te Bektahi Albanian a a future TrjanHre in te Sviet bc. Churchi' "generuconceion t Stali, that Aania ud eng t thecmmunit phere f infuence whie the Soviet with

dew fm Geece a a retur favr, mut be interpretedagaint thi backgrund. Sir Juian Amery, the Britihiain fficer in Aania, ad trict intructin tprmte, a bet e cud, ny the cmmunit part fthe reitance movement, which wa a upprted the Bektai and a geat numer f the Aanian feudord. The cief of th Specia Operatin xecutie(SOE) ureau in Cair, repnie fr the entire MiddeEat including Alania, wa Jame Kugman, the verame Kugman wh in the 1930 had uit cmmunitce at Cambridge Univerity tgeter with Guy Burgeand Harld "Kim Piy, the mater py f ater

year. In te 1950, Kugman attained the pt fPitur memer in the Cmmunit Party f GreatBritain, whie i comrade Phiy defected t the SvietUnion. l ti wa preceded y an SOE peratin inAlania, intended to eighten Phiy' wrth in Svieteye. In 194 7, Aanian mnachit panned a andingoperatin by ea and by and, t free their hmeandfrm "the cmmunitwith prmied Britih andAmerican aitance, natually. Pilby, at that time nduty at a igranking pt in Britih inteigence,etrayed thi idiculu undertaking t the SvietUnion. Since i fligt eat, Phiy ha enjyed a

meteoric career, reacing the ank f KGB genea.Fro ti poition, he promted Khmeini' eizre fpowe in Iran and i generay knwn t pur the Svitleadeip toward upport f Iamic fundamentaim.

Briti intelligence count n hi inuence in itpreentday Abanian opeation. There are indicatintat Londn i peculating on the piiity f inducing, by mean of te curent manifetatin f GreatAbanian nationalim, te apprpriate KGB netwrkin te Balkan t uprt the reein f KvAbanian againt ugoavia. Lndn hpe that,wile ti picy cud be ld t the Sviet nin a a

poible power gain in te Bakan, the variu natin-alitie in te Soviet nin wud fllw the exampe fte Koovo Albanian and pu the Mocw eadehipto grant te igt of elfdetermination t natinaitiein te Soviet Union itef.

Ironic a it may ound, te Alanian party chiefEnver Hoxa, aintaining hi obtinant antiSvietieology, a opoe o a te cntructin thitategic ancatle, wic woud detabilize n nte Balan, but te entire internatinal ituatin.Wen Hox i gone, all te am will break, recentycomt one xprt on Albania.

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