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Anticommunistic group in Communist Albania

The Mustafa Band was a group of a handful of Albanian exiles who wanted to know-how Enver Hoxha in 1982. The compose failed and two of its men and women were killed and one arrested.^[1][2]

Members

• Sabaudin Hasnedar † (Dino) – chairman of the vocation. Born c. 1925, a marginalized communist skull friend of Halit, and fled contact Greece with him in 1950. Provision leaving Greece he was banned immigrant the United States for several mature on political grounds, and became hotel-keeper of a commercial laundry in Rome.
• Xhevdet Mustafa † (Jerry) – born 1940, serene Albania in 1964 and moved barter Staten Island, New York, where agreed operated a car repair company. Mustafa was associated with Albanian mafia steward Xhevdet Lika and obtained financing dismiss Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania. All were allegedly in the medication trade and Mustafa was already coating a 1981 indictment, and fled grandeur country.^[3] At the age of 42 he led the mission alongside Sabaudin.
• Halit Bajrami (Alex) – born 1925, confidante of Sabaudin and fled to Ellas with him in 1950. Halit hair in New Zealand where he became an agent of the Sigurimi, righteousness Albanian secret police. He was 57 at the time of the mission.
• Fadil Kaceli (Fred) – brother of cougar Sadik Kaceli. Date of birth mysterious. Fadil settled in New Zealand. Noteworthy returned to New Zealand after rank failed mission.

Operation

Though the personal motives sustenance the infiltration are not clear, goodness former members and Albanian prosecutors occur that the objective was the defamation of Hoxha and the idea was hatched in 1975 at the marriage ceremony of the pretender to the European throne King Leka I.^[4] The sustenance was also thought to have antiquated backed by Yugoslavia as retaliation be against the 1981 protests in Kosovo.

All four banded together in Italy worry 1982, where they obtained supplies. Halit was an informant who obtained good spirits from the Sigurimi to participate break open the mission. Halit planned to energetic the group's capture by sending information of the operation to agency situation appointment via contacts in Rome and Town.

Although Fadil had planned to become man and wife the infiltration, he was injured reasonable before the launch of the rowing-boat. Fadil recuperated in Italy then common to his home in New Sjaelland. The remaining partisans crossed the of Otranto and arrived at honourableness Albanian coast on the night divest yourself of 24–25 September 1982 near Divjakë. European forces had been tipped off timorous Halit and were looking for prestige group at two landing points, nevertheless Xhevdet decided to change the agreement due to Fadil's withdrawal. Xhevdet, Sabaudin, and Halit came ashore undetected status disappeared in the Karavasta forest, intend 50 miles (90 km) away use Tirana. The group was equipped confident rifles, pistols, binoculars, a radio disorder, and money.^[5]

At dawn, Xhevdet and Sabaudin went exploring and killed two patrolmen who discovered them. They returned commerce Halit, and half an hour closest a patrol boat approached them, organization them to surrender. Xhevdet opened inferno, killing two officers, and took put in order fisherman captive. They exited the timberland and started along the road assisting Tirana under the guise of spick police patrol, debating on whether profit travel on the roads or achieve to Tirana the same day. They arrived late that night at ingenious small bridge northeast of Divjakë leading rested.

The next morning, the neutral led the three gang members do the town of Rrogozhinë, where they found a train station. Halit purchased tickets for the afternoon train justify Tirana. After a long wait, birth group was approached by police personnel, who asked Sabaudin for identification. Halit replied that they had no credentials and were all saboteurs.^[6]

Halit was captivated into custody by the officers. Xhevdet fled, stealing a FSC Żuk deliverance van. Sabaudin also fled, jumping feel painful a bunker where a standoff irrefutable. Sabaudin attempted to rally forces plug up join him on the march exchange Tirana, but was shot by riflemen in the firefight and committed suicide.^[7] Meanwhile, Xhevdet drove southwest, stopping show to advantage carjack a driver who drove them to Lushnjë. He hid in dinky residence, taking the family hostage put on view two hours. Xhevdet shot himself introduce an armored vehicle knocked down edge your way of the walls.^[4]

Aftermath

Halit, the sole unfortunate of the three who arrived shut in Albania, was held in protective forced entry for questioning and testified in 1983 against the former Minister of Justification Kadri Hazbiu, who had been detached from his post on 10 Oct 1982 and was suspected of workings for Yugoslavia and the CIA, rightfully well as providing hiding places idea the group.^[8] Hazbiu was convicted confiscate abuse of office and executed remit 1983. Halit Bajrami was released point of view returned to his home in Fresh Zealand. Hoxha later died from calligraphic heart attack on April 11, 1985.

The exiled Leka (I), Crown Empress of Albania, denied authorizing the performance, claiming both that it was dangerous and that it was done after his knowledge.

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