| 05.11.200909:23 (GMT) | A secret service official in Tirana told Balkan Insight online magazine that the activities of Albanian “Islamist radicals were being closely monitored as a serious threat to national security”. SHISH has been closely cooperating with the United States CIA since 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center in identifying, locating, and monitoring Islamic activities in Albania.
On November 2, 2009, the day when Albania was hosting the Conference on Religious Tolerance, Albania authorities shut down an Islamic library in Tirana, as the city planners needed it for another project, wrote Ramiz Zekaj in KohaJone website.
According to confidential sources from the General Prosecutor’s Office in Tirana, this library’s has do with the arrest of Muhamed Abdullah, a Wahhabi imam, who was arrested by Albanian authorities on charges of terrorism, The Examiner reveals. A source from Rasim Hasanaj’s Office of the State Committee of Cults, who asked to remain anonymous, opined that this library had to be closed because radical Islamic Wahhabies, both Albanians and foreign, were using this place to preach hatred and violence to young people. Moreover, she added that the funds to operate this library were coming from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, which have become a national security concern.
Since 1994, when Salih Berisha, then the President of Albania, signed a membership agreement with the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), despite the fact that parliament never ratified such agreement, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, and other members of the OIC, paid for thousands of young Albanian Muslim men to study Islam in Arab counties and now they are back in Albania, joined by thousands of imams from Arab counties, preaching the most radical form of Islam, Wahhabism, said a source from the Islamic Foundation in Tirana. And according to Israeli Mossad, Bashkim Gazidede, the head of SHISH under Berisha, established ties with Islamic counties that sponsored Jihad, and he personally visited Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt.
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