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Originally Posted by Rob
Once the groups are no longer needed, they are declared "terrorists".
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Precisely, but sometimes it goes in opposite direction. In Kosovo , KLA was defined as terrorist organization and they were attacking ,ambushing, killing people for years. At the end, USA gave them their own criminal muslim state in the middle of Europe.
Reminder:
The Yugoslav authorities, under Slobodan Milo?ević, regarded the KLA as a terrorist group. In February 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, condemned both the actions of the Serb government and of the KLA, and described the KLA as "without any questions, a terrorist group".[64][65][66] UN resolution 1160 took a similar stance.[67][68]
But the 1997 US Department's terrorist list hadn't included the KLA.[69] In March 1998, just one month later Gerbald had to modify his statements to say that KLA had not been classified legally by the U.S. government as a terrorist group,[68] and the US government approached the KLA leaders to make them interlocutors with the Serbs.[70][71][unreliable source?] A Wall Street Journal article claimed later that the US government had in February 1998 removed the KLA from the list of terrorist organisations,[70][72][73] a removal that has never been confirmed.[68] France didn't delist the KLA until late 1998, after strong US and UK lobbying.[74] KLA is still present in the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base list of terrorist groups,[39] and is listed as an inactive terrorist organisation by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.[75]
During the war, the KLA troops collaborated with the NATO troops, and they were qualified by NATO as "freedom fighters". In late 1999 the KLA was disbanded and its members entered the Kosovo Protection Corps.[70]