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against Fatmir Limaj, one of the KLA commanders. 82 Because of that, at the court Rehaj
changed his original testimony. Besides that, Bllaca admitted that he also killed one
witness in Limaj‘s case. 83 Anyway, Haradinaj was just another KLA leader that was
proclaimed innocent in front of ICTY because their prosecutors did not have enough
evidence to put him in jail. Also, this KLA leader had very expensive lawyers from the
law firm where one of employees is Cherie Blair (wife of British Prime Minister, at that
time, Tony Blair who was a strong advocate of bombing as well as independence of
Kosovo) for which he paid millions of Euros. 84 Once again, different than for many
Serbian generals, money was not the problem. However, at present signals from Hague
are giving some hope that Haradinaj might have a renewed trial, but it is yet to be
confirmed.
Serbian Intelligence Agency (BIA) in her ‗White Book‘ also presented some
valuable information regarding the KLA. According to BIA, between 1996 and 1999 the
KLA have received 900 million of German Marks, and half of that was made by drug
trafficking. Besides that, Albanians from Europe that were in charge of the financing of
the KLA where involved in trafficking persons, and the smuggling of weapons. A
sizeable amount of money was collected through imposed tax to Albanians that work
abroad (3% of their income) which they were forced to pay. The KLA had a special
department in charge of Serbians enclaves. Their task was to make the remaining Serbs to
leave Kosovo and at the same time make sure that Serbs that are IDPs (Internal
82 Limaj was accused along with three other KLA members of torturing and killing civilians, BBC Online,
―Prominent Kosovo Suspect Held,‖ February 19, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2778079.stm
83 Vuk Z. Cvijic and Nedjeljko Zeljak. ―Zastrasivali Svedoke da ne Optuze Tacija i Limaja,‖ Blic Online,
December 12, 2009, http://www.blic.rs/hronika.php?id=123394
84 The Centre for Peace in the Balkans Online, ―U.S. Praises Incident Former Kosovo P.M,‖ May 1, 2007,
http://www.balkanpeace.org/index.php?index=article&articleid=14323