26 / 11 / 2008
By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer.
Selecting the right adviser is not an easy affair after all. Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, an adviser to the Barack Obama campaign and godmother of chief Obama foreign policy adviser Dr. Susan Rice, has strong ties with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci extending well beyond the the scope [...]
Past and present hot Balkan politics
By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer.
Selecting the right adviser is not an easy affair after all. Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, an adviser to the Barack Obama campaign and godmother of chief Obama foreign policy adviser Dr. Susan Rice, has strong ties with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci extending well beyond the the scope of the politics of diplomacy. As per WMR reports Thaci was in his late 20s and early 30s when he was having the affair with Albright, who was in her sixties at the time.
On December 10, 2007, WMR reported: “It is rumored that during negotiations on Kosovo in Rambouillet, France in 2000, [Secretary of State Madeleine] Albright had more than a diplomatic interest in Thaci, who was then 31. Thaci is to become the Prime Minister of Kosovo. The New York Daily News reported that when Albright walked into the hotel room of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet at midnight, one Albanian told her to ‘go away’ and come back in five minutes. The Albanians thought Albright was a hotel cleaning lady. Albright reportedly exploded in rage and hurled explicit language at the Albanians.”
Thaci’s close relationship with Albright allowed him to press Washington during both the Clinton and Bush administrations to support Kosovo’s independence cause. Currently, Kosovo, recognized by the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, but diplomatically shunned by Russia, China, Greece, Spain, and other nations.
Born in Prague to Czech parents, Marie Jana Korbelovα , or Madeleine Albright as the rest of the world knows her, was often seen by foreign policy experts in the State Department as clouding her judgment on dealing with the Balkans crisis. However, additional confirmation that Albright was having sexual trysts with the leader of the KLA, despised as a terrorist by Serbia, made her untrustworthy to Belgrade and raised a lot of eye brows throughout the Balkans and the rest of Europe, according to French and German intelligence sources according to the same WMR report.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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