During his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević quoted from a purported FBI report that bin Laden 's al-Qaeda had a presence in the Balkans and aided the Kosovo Liberation Army . He claimed bin Laden had used Albania as a " launchpad for violence " in the region and Europe . He claimed that they had informed Richard Holbrooke that KLA was being aided by Al-Qaeda but the US decided to cooperate with the KLA and thus indirectly with Osama despite the 1998 United States embassy bombings earlier . Milošević had argued that the United States aided the terrorists , which culminated in its backing of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
Osama bin Laden