Kosovo
Albanian drug-boss admits friendship with al Qaeda leader
September 28, 2006 -- A Kosovo Albanian drug-boss, Princ Dobrosi, says
that he is a friend of a Pakistani-born al Qaeda leader Arfan Qaeder Bhatti
who was recently arrested in Norway on charges of planning to terrorize
Israeli and American embassies in Oslo, Norway.
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Albanian Princ Dobrosi, left, escorted by police in this 2000 file photo. |
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According to a Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes, Bhatti has solicited
operational help from a Kosovo Albanian drug-boss Princ Dobrosi in order
to plan attacks on the Czhech capital, Prague.
"We got acquainted in the Ringerike prison in Norway a few years ago,"
Dobrosi admitted to the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes by phone from his
home in Pec.
Dobrosi's drug empire was once based in Prague where he was arrested
and subsequently escaped.
Dobrosi headed the strongest Kosovo Albanian drug mafia gang that was
in control of the northern branch of the Balkan route headquartered in
the Albanian dominated Serb province of Kosovo. Dobrosi's gang controlled
the distribution of heroin and other drugs from Kosovo to Nordic countries
via the Czech Republic.
Various Kosovo Albanian clans maintain distribution branches in other
European cities. Dobrosi is the first of the ethnic Albanian drug bosses
to admit direct links to al Qaeda.
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are predominantly Muslim.
