Journalist Klodiana Lala has responded to the verbal attack made against her by former State Intelligence Service chief Vlora Hyseni, who, after being asked whether she had distributed state secrets, as the Special Prosecution suspects, accused the reporter of meeting with Serbian agents.

Journalist Lala described Hyseni’s statement as a personal attack and blackmail, in revenge for informing the public about the details of the accusations weighing on the former SHISH chief and the criminal activity she is suspected of being involved in.

The News24 reporter called the language used by the former head of the Albanian Secret Service vulgar and highlighted her silence on her own criminal case.

“Asked by News24 whether she had distributed classified materials to citizen Ergys Agasi, the MP chose to counterattack with vulgar language against journalists and to blackmail them over meetings in different hotels. That was Ms. Hyseni’s response, but not a word about the materials she distributed and which, according to the Special Prosecution, she is suspected of having distributed to citizen Ergys Agasi,” Lala said.

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Richard Grenell, Trump’s presidential envoy, has reacted to the decision of the Specialist Chambers, calling on Prime Minister Albin Kurti to take swift steps toward dissolving it. According to Grenell, Kurti should also be supported in this initiative by members of the Kosovo Assembly.

Grenell described as shameful the sentence handed down by the Hague court to Hashim Thaçi for a war fought 25 years ago.

He stated that no one is protected from international courts, where, he claimed, academic elites make political decisions. Grenell alleged that the three judges and the American prosecutor are all far-left and that they ignored Bill Clinton’s advisers, who, he said, had made it clear that Thaçi was not directing the war.

According to Grenell, Swiss judge Guénaël Mettraux was in fact the leader, while he disregarded legal matters and chose Jack Smith’s politics instead.

He called for all these courts to stop being funded immediately, while urging the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Todd Blanche to respond without delay. Grenell said that Americans are paying for these political prosecutions and that this must come to an end.

In his response, Grenell also called on Albin Kurti to act quickly to dissolve this foreign court. He urged members of Parliament to work with Kurti to achieve this, emphasizing that Kosovo does not need a court in the Netherlands.

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This Wednesday, in a post on the social network Facebook, Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted to the decision in The Hague concerning the former KLA leaders.

Rama wrote: “Shame.”

Decisions:

– Kadri Veseli was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

– Jakup Krasniqi was sentenced to a total of 25 years. Below is the judge’s statement.

– Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaçi, was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Specialist Chambers in The Hague.

– Rexhep Selimi was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

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In a post on the “X” platform, renowned American economics professor Steve Hanke once again reacted to the protest movement in Albania, directly calling for Prime Minister Edi Rama to leave office.

Hanke said that the so-called “Flamingo Revolution” is gaining increasing momentum, stressing that the time has come for the head of government to pack his bags.

The American economist, who has previously commented on the protests that have continued in Tirana for three months, linked this civic reaction to dissatisfaction with the authorities and opposition to certain development projects.

In support of his position, Hanke also shared an “Al Jazeera” report on the arrival of three vessels from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” on the coast of Vlora.

The ships joined this movement in protest against a project to build a luxury resort linked to businessman Jared Kushner.

According to the organizers, the initiative raises major concerns about land expropriation and environmental protection, becoming one of the key points of civic resistance.

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Former Director General of the Fire Protection and Rescue Service Arben Cara has reacted after being removed from office, accusing the authorities of mishandling the wildfire situation in the country.

Cara said that “fires are not fought with news reports and photographs,” implying the need for greater commitment and concrete measures on the ground.

His removal from the leadership of the Fire Protection and Rescue Service came at the height of the severe wildfire situation in several areas of the country. It was initially reported as a resignation, but documents and reports later emerged indicating that Interior Minister Besfort Lamallari had revoked, on August 10, the order delegating Cara authority to lead the service.

Arben Cara’s post:

A decision made in six minutes and judged for six months!

Fire cannot be equated with water and equipment. Thinking this way is a doctrine that leads you toward the wrong decisions. Throughout my career, at every meeting, in every report and on every television program after a major fire, the question has almost always been the same:

How many vehicles did you have? Almost no one has asked me:

What decisions were made during those few critical minutes?

We have built a culture in which seriousness is measured by countable things:

🚒 How many fire engines were deployed.

💧 How many tons of water were dropped.

🚁 How many flights the helicopter made.

✈️ How many aircraft came from abroad.

These numbers look good, can be photographed and have one indisputable quality: they can be counted. But no matter how large the figure, it is not enough.

If the fire is extinguished, we say: the equipment put it out. If the fire is not extinguished, we say: the equipment was not enough. In both cases, no one was at fault. And the request for the following year is once again the same:

“We need more equipment 🚒🚔🚑.”

I have seen major fires lost with 20 vehicles on the ground and major fires won with five. The difference was not always the quantity. The difference was whether someone had thought, in the first hour, about where the fire would be in the fourth hour.

🧠 Fire requires a mind…

I am going to say something that may not win me much sympathy, but it is true and every professional who has led a major fire knows it:

An aircraft cannot put out a major fire on its own.

It slows one flank, cools one front and buys minutes.

The final work is done by people on the ground: with a fire line, a team and hand tools. If there is no team to immediately consolidate the area after the drop, the water evaporates and the fire may return.

But the aircraft has another feature:

✈️ It flies across the eight o’clock news.

It tells citizens that the state has arrived. It closes the public debate for 24 hours. But a fire does not end simply because the flames are no longer visible. Do not look only at the high, searing flames.

🔥 Smoldering combustion can continue in the humus layer, among roots, inside hollow trunks and in piles of leaves. This burning can move slowly while retaining heat for a long time.

This is the “ignored” danger.

The one that causes extensive damage. The one for which no one often takes responsibility, because no one understands where the wrong decision was made. Because the commander saw the flames subside and left.

The cooling phase was not considered an operation, the entire perimeter was not inspected and the cause was not investigated. And when I say the cause, I do not mean only the arsonist.

🧭 Nine principles for a fire commander

1️⃣ Decide based on the future, not the present

The vehicle that leaves now may arrive in 40 minutes, at a completely different fire. Every decision is made in response to the projected fire, not only the one that has been reported.

The commander does not ask only:

Where is the fire?

He assesses:

Where will the fire be when the team arrives there?

2️⃣ A calm decision in the fifth minute is better than a panicked decision in the third hour. The commander must establish the criteria in advance, not improvise responses. If the wind changes direction and crosses a predetermined threshold, the sector is withdrawn. If the front crosses a certain line, the evacuation begins. A good decision is one that was considered before it became urgent.

3️⃣ Decide within the rhythm of the fire, not within the rhythm of the institution. The faster the fire, the shorter the hierarchy must be.

🔥 Fire does not wait for paperwork.

🔥 Fire does not wait for a meeting.

🔥 Fire does not wait for a long chain of approvals.

4️⃣ Build the command structure in the first hour

The most valuable thing a commander does is not issue endless tactical orders. It is to build the structure that will support the orders to come, including:

• Command.

• Communication.

• Sectors.

• Information.

• Safety.

• Logistics.

5️⃣ Without continuity in tactics, there is no strategy

A commander who reacts only to what he sees at any given moment is not directing the fire. He is following the fire. Strategy changes when conditions change.

6️⃣ Make decisions while always knowing where the people are

👨‍🚒 No tactical objective is more important than the safety of the team.

The commander must know:

Where are the people? Where will they be? Where will they exit? What danger is approaching?

7️⃣ Rank the non-negotiable priorities…

1. ❤️ The lives of firefighters

2. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The lives of the population

3. 🛡️ Stabilization of the situation

4. 🏠 Property

5. 🌲 The environment

6. 🦘 Livestock and other living creatures, etc..@

Priorities do not change because media pressure changes.

8️⃣ Ask: Is this method physically feasible?

Flame length, thermal radiation, wind, terrain and fire behavior are physical limits, not suggestions. You cannot order a team to enter a situation that physically does not allow them to survive.

Tactics must obey physics.

9️⃣ Withdrawal and evacuation are not failures

↩️ Withdrawal is competence.

🚨 Evacuation is a command decision.

A good commander is not measured only by how many meters he advanced. He is also measured by whether he understood in time when he needed to stop, withdraw and change the plan.

⚠️ But nine principles do not solve every fire

Neither nine nor 19, because principles do not make decisions. People do.

And people make decisions according to how they have been trained to think, not simply according to how they have been ordered to act. A memorized list has never saved a situation. What matters is training in critical thinking, experience, simulation and a culture of command.

🎯 Ultimately, the problem is not only how much equipment we have

An aircraft may cost as much as a very large portion of a service’s annual budget. A person trained to think clearly during critical minutes costs much less.

And here is the paradox: We invest millions in the capacity to respond, but far less in the capacity to make decisions. Every summer, we make the same choice.

And every September, we pay for it.

🔥 Fire is not fought with water alone.

🚒 It is not fought with equipment alone.

✈️ It is not fought from the air alone.

Fire is fought through the right decision, at the right time, by the right person. Because a good decision does not always make for television. It is not photographed, it is not counted in a report and it does not always become news.

But it has one feature:

Its positive consequences are invisible.

Because they are precisely the things that did not happen.

And that may be a fire commander’s greatest success.

On August 17, Lamallari presented Ervis Gjoshi as the acting head of the General Directorate of Fire Protection and Rescue.

Cara’s reaction comes at a time when the country continues to face wildfires and debates over how the situation is being managed, while his removal has raised questions about the reasons and circumstances surrounding the decision./SHEKULLI

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Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted on social media following the incident in Pustec, where the Albanian national anthem was not played at a cultural event attended by North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski.

Rama said that Pustec Mayor Pali Kolefski had requested in advance that the Albanian anthem also be performed at the event, but his request was ignored.

The prime minister also stressed that Albania considers minorities a national asset, not merely a statistic.

“Pustec Mayor Pali Kolefski had requested in advance that the Albanian anthem also be played. He was ignored and then apologized for something that was not his fault. He proved himself to be a statesman and a worthy citizen of European Albania, honoring himself and his North Macedonian community, for which we want only the best. We have also honored that small community with special status as a municipality in its own right, precisely because, for Albania, minorities are not a statistic but a national asset, and minority citizens are not numbers but brothers and sisters with the same freedoms and rights as all of us,” Rama wrote.

The head of government also commented on the reactions that followed the incident, describing the situation as an “ancient flag circus in the age of artificial intelligence.”

“Now, this occasional arrival in our territory of the circus troupes of Balkan national folklorism, sometimes from one country, sometimes from another, and sometimes from yet another, does not concern us in itself—not when it comes to Albania’s sovereignty, certainly not—nor does it concern the balance of political life here at home, where there are no Trojan asses raised in our hills or a ‘diaspora’ exported from within our own neighborhood to shake us,” the prime minister wrote.

Reaction:

What happened in Pustec is a meaningful parody of our differing worldviews in this neighborhood of Europe.

Pustec Mayor Pali Kolefski had requested in advance that the Albanian anthem also be played. He was ignored and then apologized for something that was not his fault. He proved himself to be a statesman and a worthy citizen of European Albania, honoring himself and his North Macedonian community, for which we want only the best.

We have also honored that small community with special status as a municipality in its own right, precisely because, for Albania, minorities are not a statistic but a national asset, and minority citizens are not numbers but brothers and sisters with the same freedoms and rights as all of us.

Now, this occasional arrival in our territory of the circus troupes of Balkan national folklorism, sometimes from one country, sometimes from another, and sometimes from yet another, does not concern us in itself—not when it comes to Albania’s sovereignty, certainly not—nor does it concern the balance of political life here at home, where there are no Trojan asses raised in our hills or a “diaspora” exported from within our own neighborhood to shake us.

Nevertheless, today I expressed sincere regret to all the sponsors of this ancient flag circus in the age of artificial intelligence, while to the patriots among us who, on such occasions, leap in front of their digital mirrors, demanding an answer in kind, I say:

No, Albania—the Europe of the Balkans—cannot and will not allow itself to lower the currency of its values to the level of the Pustec parody.🇦🇱🦅🇪🇺

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Erblin Ademi, the son of missing surgeon Adem Ademi, has reacted after human remains were discovered during excavations in the Kalludër area of Zubin Potok. Adem Ademi was one of 23 Albanian intellectuals who disappeared during the war in Kosovo.

In a public post, Erblin Ademi said that for 27 years he had chosen to remain silent about the case of his father and the group of intellectuals. However, recent developments have prompted him to speak out.

He described it as a day filled with mixed emotions for himself and his family. He said the pain was immense, as after 27 years they were once again confronting the harsh truth that their father and the other 22 people were killed and disappeared during the last war in Kosovo.

Speaking about his father, Ademi said he was a surgeon and a respected doctor who had dedicated his life to saving people. During the war, he also helped treat soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

He stressed that the family had spent nearly three decades waiting, in anguish and without answers about Adem Ademi’s fate. Since the post-war period, they had information that the group had been killed in the very area where excavations are now being conducted.

According to Erblin Ademi, the arrest of people suspected of involvement in the crime and the start of the excavations give the impression that the truth is finally close to being uncovered. However, he called for all institutional and forensic procedures to be followed and for the remains to be officially identified with professionalism and dignity.

Ademi described the incident as a massacre and a serious crime. He stressed that for 27 consecutive years, the victims’ families had endured relentless psychological suffering because they did not know where their loved ones had been laid to rest.

He said the family now feels a certain sense of relief, not because the pain has faded, but because the uncertainty may be coming to an end. Knowing where a relative rests and having the opportunity to honor them with dignity is, he said, a fundamental human right that his family has been denied for nearly three decades.

In his statement, Erblin Ademi also called for justice, insisting that every perpetrator and everyone responsible for the crime be held accountable.

He stressed that not only those who committed the crime must face justice, but also those who ordered it, participated in it, concealed the massacre or protected those responsible. Only after they receive the punishment they deserve, he said, can a full step toward justice be considered to have been taken, because without justice there can be no true peace.

Concluding his post, Ademi explained that his voice represents not only his own family, but also all the families that have continued to seek the truth about the fate of their loved ones for 27 years. He expressed hope that one day they, too, will receive the answers they await.

Erblin Ademi concluded by saying that his father would be remembered not only for the way his life was taken, but above all for the life he lived. He remembered him as a man who saved lives, a devoted doctor and a loving father, adding that this legacy is why the family will always remember him with pride.

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