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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/kosovo-pm-may-sue-over-organ-claims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Hashim Thaci plans to sue over reports he had civilian detainees killed for their kidneys (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-kosovo-pm-may-sue-over-organ-claims.jpg" alt="Hashim Thaci plans to sue over reports he had civilian detainees killed for their kidneys (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Kosovo&#8217;s prime minister Hashim Thaci is planning to sue a European investigator whose report suggested he had civilian detainees killed for their kidneys when he was head of the Kosovo Liberation Army.</p>
<p>Thaci has contacted lawyers to pursue a libel suit against Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, said a senior Kosovo official.</p>
<p>Mr Marty&#8217;s report suggests that Thaci was behind the alleged grisly trade of kidneys on the black market and also suggested Thaci was once the &#8220;boss&#8221; of a criminal underworld behind the alleged grisly trade. Kosovo&#8217;s government branded the report as &#8220;baseless&#8221;.</p>
<p>Thaci has not appeared in public since the report was released on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Mr Marty, a Swiss senator, led a Council of Europe team of investigators to Kosovo and Albania in 2009, following allegations of organ trafficking by the KLA published in a book by former UN War Crimes tribunal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.</p>
<p>The 55-page report is an attempt to cast new light on the KLA, which received US backing in its fight to secure Kosovo&#8217;s independence from Serbia in 1999. Mr Marty says it is an attempt to unearth alleged crimes that went unpunished in the postwar period.</p>
<p>His investigation found that there were a number of detention facilities in Albania, where both Kosovan opponents of the KLA and Serbs were allegedly held once the hostilities in Kosovo were over in 1999, including a &#8220;state-of-the-art reception centre for the organised crime of organ trafficking&#8221;.</p>
<p>The report said the captives had their blood drawn and tested to help determine whether their organs would be suitable for transplant, and were examined &#8220;by men referred to as doctors&#8221; in the towns of Rripe and Fushe-Kruje.</p>
<p>Mr Marty said his findings were based on testimonies of &#8220;KLA insider sources&#8221; such as drivers, bodyguards, and other &#8220;fixers&#8221; involved in logistical and practical tasks, as well as &#8220;organisers&#8221;, or the ringleaders behind the lucrative organ trade.</p>
<p>The accounts pointed to &#8220;a methodology by which all of the captives were killed, usually by a gunshot to the head, before being operated on to remove one or more of their organs&#8221;, the report said.</p>
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