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By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Ivica Dačić was born in Prizren. So was I. He was born on 1 January 1966. His father was a Serbian policeman who had come from Serbia on a posting to our city. Those were the Ranković years, and Kosovo Albanians know what the police of those years meant for …
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A range watched for two years and photographed from the hill above it. A NATO air base in Albania mapped sortie by sortie. A freighter photographed through the fence at Pristina. The collection is published and persistent, and neither Albania nor Kosovo has visibly disrupted it. Drizan Shala, Security Desk For more than two …
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A Serbian-facing collector is watching Albania’s army. The purchase meant to shut that window sits in a criminal file that leaked on its first day. SPAK has every right to investigate; Albania’s allies have every reason to ask whether the country is investigating itself into permanent exposure. Drizan Shala, Security Desk On 2 October …
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What Albanian law says about the file SPAK has opened: what counts as evidence, how the state buys military equipment, who may open a classified page, and who answers if one reaches a portal. Renada Bici (Legal Desk) A prosecutor’s file now sits between the Ministry of Defence and the public. On Friday, according …
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This desk asked for evidence in place of verbs. On Friday a prosecutor went to fetch it. What SPAK must look for, who answers for what, and the one way the investigation could finish what the tape began. Drizan Shala, Security Desk At midday on Friday, Albanian media reported, agents of the National Bureau …
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No shipment, no payment, no state order. A broker’s boast, the word “Israeli”, and a defence minister who was never in the room. Three weeks later a NATO member’s arms industry stands convicted by all three. Drizan Shala, Security Desk On 19 September, day 112 of the protest in Tirana, an activist told the …
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The United States kept its chair in Tirana empty for three years. The town talked to the chair as if it were a throne. A letter to the man who sat down in it on Saturday. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Welcome to Tirana. On Saturday you presented your credentials to the president. For three …
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By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On the morning of 22 September, Albania learned that the director of its State Intelligence Service, SHISH, had been placed under house arrest and suspended from duty. The measure had been signed the day before by the Special Court for Corruption and Organised Crime, at the request of the …
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On 23 September 1998 the Security Council warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo. On 23 September 2026 Serbia’s president told the General Assembly it never happened. Albania counted the people who arrived. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 1 April 1999 the buses stopped several kilometres short of the Morina crossing, and the people …
