The Brooklyn Connection

The Brooklyn Connection

57 mins | Documentary | Nov. 9, 2005

A documentary that tells one man’s story of building a guerrilla army. Florin Krasniqi, a successful 40-year-old immigrant from Kosovo now living with his family in Brooklyn, helped launch the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s. He did it by raising some $30 million and buying high-powered sniper rifles – weapons that were and still are legally purchased in the United States. He transported the weapons to Albania, again legally.

The Brooklyn Connection

57 mins | Documentary | Nov. 9, 2005

The Brooklyn Connection
A documentary that tells one man’s story of building a guerrilla army. Florin Krasniqi, a successful 40-year-old immigrant from Kosovo now living with his family in Brooklyn, helped launch the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s. He did it by raising some $30 million and buying high-powered sniper rifles – weapons that were and still are legally purchased in the United States. He transported the weapons to Albania, again legally.
Producers Eyes Wide Films
Original title The Brooklyn Connection
Directors Klaartje Quirijns
Writers Stacy Sullivan

Cast

Richard Holbrooke

as Himself