The rest of the would-be state's revenues come from the diaspora's remittances and, even more, from the only flourishing "industry" - organized crime. That is mostly centered on international prostitution rings, narcotics (heroin) and smuggling of arms, cheap marlboro and other items, bring the Kosovars into competition, often deadly, with their Albanian kin and explain the latter's reluctance to accept Kosovo as a normal part of their country. All these realities should also be seen on the background of Europe's largest population growth rate by far!
Kosovo Albanians have consistently demonstrated their allegiance to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), even though that organization never amounted to anything but a glorified armed mafia, inept and ineffective against the Serbian military prior to 1999, but very good at public relations (at home, in Europe and in Washington) and nationalist propaganda.
The latest elections, in November 2007, in fact brought the KLA and its leader Hashim Thac,i to power in Pristina. Thac,i was a founder of the 1993 People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK), a Switzerland-based "political party" seeking a greater Albania. A very probably dysfunctional Kosovo state would naturally seek a greater cause - by supporting irredentist causes in neighboring countries, or unification with the mother country, Albania. We have seen that movie before - dysfunctional Somalia still seeking annexation of regions of Ethiopia or, worse still, Chechnya during its de facto independence in 1996-99 seeking an Islamist Northern Caucasus and thus provoking another war.



