U.S. Department of State: "...Many Albanians, and ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo region of the Former Yugoslav Republic (FRY) are heavily involved in the smuggling operations and have connections to the drug trade in Switzerland and Germany. The proximity to major European drug markets, connections between Albanian and organized crime elements from Italy, Turkey, and parts of the former Yugoslavia, are further facilitating the growth of the drug trade in Albania..."

The Carter Center: "...Albania, Macedonia to fight arms smuggling to Kosovo... Albanian authorities admitted last December that some of the hundreds of thousands of weapons looted during the Albanian unrest a year ago had gone to Albanian separatists in Kosovo... (AFP, March 17; AP, March 12, 16, 1998)..."

CORRIERE DELLA SERA, March 6, 1998: "...Albanians from Kosovo involved in drug smuggling in Switzerland, Germany, and the U.S. are the basic source of financing for terrorist activities...."

Belgrade, June 26 1998 (Politika) - The AP photo showing American UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke sitting with "KLA fighter" in Kosmet village Junik, became the photo of the day in the world media primarily because of the bizarre detail - ambassador's legs in socks, without shoes, in the foreground...

...Holbrooke's statement that he does not know who the leader of so called Kosovo Liberation Army is, Vucic characterized as a fabrication because his blunder would be very difficult to justify in the international diplomatic circles...