Blerim Skoro
Appearances
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're going to come to the point how I was offered from ISIS to become leader of ISIS. So September 11, I'm in a cell with one of the terrorists. The first flight hit, he jumps from the bugging bed and happy. This is from my leader. Now I'm thinking if I kill this guy in a prison or not. I see two guys coming down and they pulled a gun, shot me four times, not once.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Even like 90% is pro-US country, but two weeks ago, group of seven, I know the leader. We're going to come up to talk about the leader. His leader was killed from the drone in Syria. And Just seven members, they went and killed the best cop in my city who was investigating them. In front of the house, they executed him. Just two weeks ago, in my country. All Al-Qaeda members.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I tell you what kind of threats I receive in my first interview before, crazy. And I come out to even investigate myself, who threat me? I cannot even believe some people that threat me, if I was next to them, they couldn't even look in my face how they will scare of me. But they send me threat crazy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's not normal for me to talk, you know, because like one time I had nightmares. I couldn't sleep for a little while because when I start talking about past, what I saw, you have trouble sleeping. And I never want my kids to know these kind of stories because I want my kids to grow up to love people, not to hate. Because if you tell your child what you've been through, then they're gonna...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They're going to behave me, they're going to chop my head, they're going to chop my pieces in messages. I don't fear them. Believe me, I don't fear them. Look, I don't have no problem to die. I'm not going to live 500 years. I have a little bit to go. At least my kids know I'm proud. I have no problem. I will be a hero to my family if I get killed because I was working for the U.S.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
government, because I was protecting my family. America is not in a war with Islam, one. It's a lie. Two, it's with Albanians. America is like God for Albanians. So I'm proud to die for America. I have no problem. My people in Kosovo, they will consider me hero. I don't care for fanatics and radicals group of people. I don't care for them. They're minority. For me, it's important majority.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Majority is my people. How many people did you recruit? I can easily say maybe 30, 40. 30, 40 people in what time span? Easy, like nothing. Like nothing? Like nothing. Like a year, two years? In two years. But we're talking very fanatics, like sympathizers coming to try to support me, maybe 200, 300. And what would you tell them the mission is?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
My mission is to open the cells so we can fight America here. I was appointed from Al-Qaeda a leader. I'm here to recruit you guys.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Those, you can see how they talk in places when they was gathering. when we was in Muslim communities, and I picked the one, the more fanatics, when they say openly, we gotta kill Americans, we gotta do this, we gotta do that. Those people I would pick all the time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Invite them for food, show them guns.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Show the guns all the time. I used to show the guns all the time. Look at what I have. I'm ready to fight. They used to see. Or sometimes I used to record myself with all kind of weapons. And I said, brother, you want to see something black and white? Yeah, here, look at the video. Oh, shit, brother. You got all this? Yeah, I got everything you want. But those all destroyed.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I used to buy from different fanatics. There's a lot of guns over there. A lot of all kind of stuff. How would you communicate back to al-Qaeda from Albania? When I go over there back? Always want to go back. Always in person. They never use phones. I hear somebody from here said, how this guy communicated with the phone. Sean, it's a stupid question, man.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
There's no such thing you can sit down and make a love story in a terror camp, man. There's no phones. They changed my clothes. They give me own clothes. So you have no rights. You cannot even smell to have some phones with you. But I hear the questions, they're writing, oh, how this guy communicated, how he used the phone. They would never use the phone. I did not use the phone.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I did not use the phone. I used communicate face to face. I was in the camp.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
like every, let's say if I stay one month in Pakistan or one month in Syria, I go back, stay two, three months in Balkans, and then I come back. Remember, I was in Al-Qaeda camp, in capital of ISIS, where they declare capital ISIS, Raqqa. I was there, you have a video live. And you know how I come to record that?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, look, we need this video, I need to record for propaganda, to act like I'm a visitor, but also to recruit people. And they let me record that. In a camp. Not outside, in a camp, but this is why I'm saying now. This is why I use the language, what the CIA trained me, what I need to learn, and how can I use things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So you can tell them, look, we need some video to show people to recruit who I am. If I go tell them this is who I am and I don't show nothing, how are they gonna believe you? So you gotta show them. So this is why I used to use skills of the language So to recruit them and to have evidence where I am. Okay. And so, where did you go from Pakistan?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
have a bad feeling thinking, look at my father, what he went through. I want to hate those people too. So I don't want to give my kids idea to hate anybody. I want my kids, they are born and raised in US. I want to be free, not to be having hate in their mind. Because when you start having hate, you have no space to love people.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I used to go back to Balkan, Turkey, fly Pakistan, Turkey, Turkey, Pristina. Stay a couple of months, come back, go to Syria, go to Jordan, go to Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. Why would you go to all these places? Everywhere fanatics. Everywhere CIA appoint somebody. They used to tell me, we want to know so and so what he think. They used to tell me who they was interested in.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They used to show me pictures on them. And how would you get yourself in there? How would you get yourself? Through the reputation. Through the reputation. Through the imams in my city. Imams in my city, everybody know now I did eight years and four months in prison. I was deported. I was separated from family. I cannot see no more my family, only if they come back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So now they think this guy is going to revenge them. He has a long history of in military, two different wars. This guy is not going to play. He's going to go and revenge Americans. So this is the dream for me to do these things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Did you go to Yemen? Because I had the sources everywhere. Yemen was my last trip that day. I was going to meet al-Awlaki.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yes, because I used to have a fanatics in prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm meeting the brothers. I used to be in prison. They have family members to Al-Qaeda.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, because remember, only in Al-Qaeda can know somebody who controlled Al-Qaeda, a couple of men, one, two, three people, where there are the cells and stuff. Not all the Al-Qaeda members know everybody. It's impossible. Never. Never happened that. So let's say Bin Laden, who was running Al-Qaeda after him, he used to know, for example, who's who, where, but not everybody else.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Like we have Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bin Al-Shibi, Abu Zubaydah, all of them, they didn't know all the members, but somebody who had the control, it can be one or two, not all Al-Qaeda. How did it go in Syria? Al-Qaeda? Yeah, when you met him. Me, how I go? I go met the man who used to be, it's in a picture, he was like my best brother.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I saw him with 14 years old, 13 years old, slave, last time in 2015 or 14, I got shocked. He showed me the slave from Yazidi lady, woman, girl. I have kids that age. I said, come on, brother. It's sad. Our religion allowed us. You are 45 years old. What do you need at 13 years old? I hated that. Come on. I have two daughters. You're going to take 30. He showed me. I was talking to him live.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
This is a religion? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. If I can kill, I will kill everybody. I have no problem. Religion tells you not to bother them. Religion teach you You take hostage, you try to trade or do something, treat them very good and with dignity, not to rape them. I know the religion very well. So they're going off the religion.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's nothing in Islam what Al-Qaeda does, they're doing, nothing. I tell you, I give you another example. Jordanian pilot got burned live. Quran, Shariat, I started very good. Two years I spent only started the Shariat law. Forbids to burn human body. Forbids. Regardless your enemy what he does to you. If you believe in God, you have to pray, make a dua, make a prayer to God to change that thing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I wanted to be educated, extremely free and good, not to have ideas of the wars and murders and death. So I want to be very calm and educated and civilized.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But not you go burn. So if you imitate the way they say, doing the way your enemy doing to you, then you becoming just like them. So you're not following the Islam, Quran and Sunnah. You going against complete Islam. So this is what they're doing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Small weapons. Like, for example, one time I remember we went to one of the places, like three, four hours driving from Karachi. It was like very old, those old houses, ugly garbage. We were sleeping, 15, 20 of us in the same place, like a sardine, stinking garbage. You know, and they were shooting with RPG AKs. You know, running, showing some skills, target, all these things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What were the conversations like? How to kill Americans. How to fight infidel. Every word, to fight infidel. How to kill the infidel. What would you report back to the CIA? The way I was seeing that. Everything, the way they're telling me, that's how I, the CIA knew that I'm a CIA. So I was telling, they want to kill infidel.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Specific, for example, when I met this leader who was wanted, They asked me, I was going to meet with him. They told me, you're not going to meet because maybe it's suspicious. You are spy. Sean, he was wanted and I went and meet him. And I went in a court against him. In court, US federal court, in case if he get arrested, I can be witness against him. I went and meet with him.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He couldn't believe when he saw me like that with a beard, he hugged me. Now he tell me, you my brother. Now you can fight with us. CIA didn't believe. Another thing, I want to say it. I think you have this passport or different one. Sean, I was in Saudi Arabia. You know, when you're in Saudi Arabia, you cannot get visa to go to Pakistan. You have to be resident of Saudi Arabia or citizen.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I say to CIA, they invite, they calling me from Pakistan to go to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia. CIA said, they's trying to scam me. Maybe you're dealing with a low level Al-Qaeda or sympathizers. It's impossible you to get the visa in Saudi Arabia to go Pakistan. Sean, I got the proof. I got the visa in a Pakistani embassy in Jeddah. CIA would never believe.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I update them, I send screenshot, they thought it's a fake. I took a flight from Saudi Arabia straight to Pakistan. They didn't believe it. I said, sir, I'm in Pakistan. This is my passport. When I came back, I went trip back to back Saudi and Pakistan. Then from Pakistan, when I went back to Balkans, when I showed documents, they freaked out. How does Pakistani intelligence felt?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Two days in a row, I was interrogated from ISI, from Pakistani intelligence, in the embassy, two days, whole day. They thought, or I'm spy or maybe I'm Al-Qaeda member. I said, look, I'm here for business. I'm trying to open a leather factory business. I want to bring leather from Pakistan to Balkans. It's a BS. And I got the visa and I went in Al-Qaeda. See, I didn't believe.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Even when I showed, said, how it's possible? I said, sir, we got to communicate diplomatical way with them, how they give visa like that. And I got it, and I can prove it to you. I went in Saudi Arabia. I met with Abu Saif. He was nine years in prison for Al-Qaeda in Saudi prison. He was fighting with Bin Laden. He was diehard mentor of Bin Laden. I met with him in his house.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
CIA said, how you got the source, sir? I'm here with Abu Saif. I mentioned his name. He was eight years in Saudi prison. CIA didn't believe I was his guest. When did you start smuggling weapons? right away after I was deported.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, after I got recruited, they see how much I'm having skills, I'm capable to do everything. Like, there was... Look, when we did one mission, I don't know if I give it to you, there was seven agents, CIA agents and me. When we did one, we took the weapons and I asked, I said, please, not to make me feel good, I want to tell me how I did this job with this weapon.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
One of the CIA agents said, I will trust my mother to be with you the way you did the job. I will never be able to do, I don't have that kind of heart because I will be scared if I make a mistake, I will kill myself. And I did that. That's how they spread me everywhere. They want me now everywhere to be. And like I said, I mentioned, I thought like, I'm better than James Bond.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was doing so good, I didn't even believe myself. But you know what is the good part? Sean, when you know you have a support from a powerful agency, you have more will to do things because you don't think you can get caught and put in prison. You're free to do things like you can read the instruction. I'm free to do anything just not to kill Americans or diplomatic or anybody.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I have to shoot, shoot in the air. Don't aim to the... If you get caught up with US troops, you surrender yourself, pretend you're sick or something, but don't shoot. This is how I was instructed, and this is how I did it. Whatever they told me, I did it the way they told me. What do you think helped you the most in your mindset doing this? Mr. Devon. Mr. Devon. Yeah, the best agent, star.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I can tell you he can be running the CIA with no problem. The worst one, Chris. Chris, why was he the worst? The day when I got shot, I swear to God, if he was aiming to Chris, I would jump in a gun, me to get killed, not the CIA agent. That's how I was loyal. I swear to God, never forgive that. He left me like a dog. He was there. Yeah. He left Iran.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When they come and rescue me, I don't see him never no more. And he tell the other agents, tell him you're a new owner from today. Bullet wound everywhere. I couldn't even drive the car.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Before that... Before March, it was February, we were supposed to have a meeting. We were planning to go in Yemen. In November of 2009, I received that threat in my phone. November of 2009. And I sent the phone to Chris. I said, I received this message. He said, don't worry, sometimes somebody try to bluff and threat, but it's nothing serious. I said, okay.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was preparing my territory to go to meet with al-Awlaki. February, he said, Abu, in a communication, he never mentioned my name, always Abu or Sal. Abu, can we change meeting of February for March 31st, 2010, 2 o'clock? I said, no problem. Please bring your GPS coordination, the passport. I had one extra passport from them. and something I tracked somewhere from the weapons.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, okay, no problem. And bring a two passport picture size of yourself. I said, okay. I go like a route usual. I'm parking my car under the garage, where is the CIA safe house, like super, super careful, like very good not to trace me. I left the house 6.30, 7 o'clock a.m., changing to different cities, sitting there, sitting here, so to see if ever somebody follow me. Nobody.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I go to the garage, two floors under, so if it's any tracing device, so not to track that. So I park my car deep to ground down. I go, I'm entering the safe house. I see old man carrying the grass. And I greet him. He has the white kufi. I say, you know, salaam alaikum, alaikum salaam. No problem, it's cutting the flowers. Big building in a penthouse, it was a CIA safe house.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The way you see me stretching, in a stretcher taking out, I see two guys coming down, very calm, me. I'm between, I open the door, enter, and now I see they got separated, but I never thought, I thought maybe the Macedonians entering, and they pulled a gun, shot me four times, not once.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The first bullet went through my leg, and I collapsed pretending like, because they was not professional shooters. They're not somebody who's trained. I can see not having skills in that. And he pulled the gun right to my head, jammed the gun. I hear click once, twice, three times. All he said, oof, they couldn't kill me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I'm not moving because when I see the way I saw them, I thought they are like not the guys they have experienced, like myself, for example. I can control myself in a shooting and stuff like that. I'm very calm, not, you know. I didn't move. I saw blood everywhere. I said, let them go out. I was thinking, Let me go in a basement because I don't want to bring blood. Maybe they're coming back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And if I go in a basement, they will come behind me. If I go in fourth floor, maybe they come, they trace me, and they kill him and me. It's a moment. I said to myself, you know what, I'm going to die. I'm not going to betray them. I don't want them to think CIA, oh, he was a double agent, he killed our agent. I stayed for a moment. Blood was not stopping. I pulled myself quick.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I couldn't move much. I started bleeding a lot. I thought I got a van here, but I couldn't even look my leg because bullet went through. So I didn't know where I got shot. I see bleeding here, bleeding in the back. Like, it's a quick moment. And I went to fourth floor. We used to have a court. If you see newspaper in a floor in a Macedonian writing, so that's mean Chris is inside.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I don't have to put the keys or neighbors to hear I'm opening the door. And I see Chris inside and he said, what happened? I said, I got shot. He said, who did it? I said, I don't know, two people. I'm going there. He pulled his belt, he pulled my belt, he tied it up, you know, I stopped bleeding. And I see he's calling for backup for, you know, to help us.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And he's talking, continue, our man is down, our man is down, I need help, our man is down. And I can hear that he had this different phone using with them, saying we are in a way, we are in a way, we're going to rescue you, just, you know, careful, control the situation. bleeding and I start losing the control.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Then the, I guess, neighbors saw the blood, the local police came over there, and the secret police came. They almost clashed with each other, local police and secret police. Secret police supposed to be our friends from Macedonia. So now Chris is talking to them, it's our man is down, but he's not opening the door. And all I see when they open the door, I see AK-47 right in my head.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Now I said, they're gonna kill me because they see me with a bear. Now he's a white, clean American. I'm with a bear. Now they're gonna think maybe I'm trying to kill him. It's 10, 15 people, two different groups of agency. It's like, and I lost the control. Chris gone. They took me with a stretcher. They send me one day or two days in one hospital.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And that moment when they came after two days, they gave me a stash of money. I don't need the money. They said, from today you're in your own, from hospital.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah, that's the worst part.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's a good question, million dollar question. Sorry. I've been through everything in my life. I've repeated many times today, I don't have no problem to die, but to be betrayed like that, come on. Central Intelligent Agency, the strongest agency in the world. You rushed into judgment, you didn't investigate anything. Cameras everywhere. Sean, I went after one week, sorry.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The way I looked at one day, they did a passport for me. And the passport, they did it. It was real, my name, but I was not from that country. The people who did the passport, they stopped me one time in a border for four, five hours investigating me. Me, I was with three or four fanatics. One of them was arrested for terrorism in the border.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Same people who came out to help us that day when I got shot, same one was there. Sean, you know how Balkans function? Regardless how friend can be over there with you, they still have like a family. Like me, I have some trusted person. I tell, look, I know this. So I strongly believe agent make a mistake, leaked me my name, and they leaked the information to the fanatics. This is what happened.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So now for him not to be blamed, I don't know what he put in my jacket behind to the CIA. He can say anything, I don't know. And CIA, they never asked me. So he couldn't say anything. But they never give a chance to hear my voice like today. I did nothing wrong. If I have to start again, I will die for this country.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I was that day, the guy was trying to shoot Chris, I swear to God, I will put myself in front and get killed. Never betrayed. Doesn't matter, this job is dangerous job. I'm very proud what I did. I did for my kids and I did for U.S. And I say that early, all my family is Americans. Albanians has nothing to do with terrorism.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Did he leave when the police showed up? Yeah, sooner, they took him, yes. Chris left that moment when the police, two groups of police came, one supposed to be our friends because we used to have a code. If it's friend of Chris, that means they are our friends. So when they walk in that day, it was our friend supposed to be. And after all this, I investigate, I did research myself.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Sean, somebody who was trying to help me. March 31st, he got killed. May 9th, after a month and a half, him and three, four friends. Maybe he become victim because of me. He was trying to help me. He got assassinated. If you see the van, you will never believe how they kill him. Because he was trying to help me to find out who tried to kill me. How did they kill him? In a minivan, executed him.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Four guys, not one. All four of them. All four my friends. In Macedonia. If you see the van, you would think there was fire, 10,000 bullets in that van. He was trying to help me to find out who tried to kill me. Somebody's covering up somewhere. Sean, I went... After six days, April 7, my birthday is April 8, one day before my birthday, at U.S. Embassy, where I was recruited.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was with a can, I couldn't even walk. And I parked the car right in front of the embassy so they can see it. I entered the embassy, somebody came out to talk to me. They told me, in embassy, you cannot drive no more that car. From the agency, from the CIA. don't drive no more, don't come here no more, don't come to Macedonia, you are alone.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I tell them simple, how come it's a cameras in front of the safe house everywhere? How come you guys didn't find out who did that? I don't know, sir, I'm just passing message. When I came from the embassy, Sean, in a Macedonian border, I was threatened from Macedonians agents. cursed me badly, don't have an effing come in our country, this, that. I'm a friend of Chris.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He's telling me at the border. And I tell him straight up, F you and him. If you want to kill me, kill me. So something is behind covered. So what is something? I will advise in this interview, intelligence agency, US intelligence agency is the best. But they need to investigate the source sometimes. It's nobody perfect. I'm not perfect. I did make mistakes. I was not perfect spy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But trust me, I was diamond. I operated everywhere. I was never exposed. Never was nobody suspicious in me. I did very good, but I was not perfect. But agent maybe make a mistake. Why you don't question him? Why you want to lose the source? Sean, I can say to you, I want people to hear that. Believe me, I'm better than 100 CIA agents. I was better than 100 CIA agents. I was.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
CIA agents, they can do job. Don't take me wrong, they are intelligent. They have the money, they have the sources, everything. But I was inside. CIA agent couldn't go where I went. CIA agent couldn't sleep between Al-Qaeda members. I slept with them, with 15 of them. I was in Raqqa sleeping with 15, 20 of them. Imagine one of them just smell I'm a spy. They will burn me alive.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I did that, but CIA agent would not do that. So this kind of hard I had. So if you have a man like that, why you want to lose him? I hope they listen and they correct the mistakes. They always have a source. If they have a spy, let's see what he said. Maybe the agents make a mistake. We don't need to rush to judgment and just ban him. Let's help him to find the truth. What's behind?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But the best it will be to make changes. you want me to advise you one thing complete US agency government did with my help one thing good and I know I don't care they don't want to honor that Sean here used to be very easy to make a US passport I shrugged them how it's easy And I'm not saying 100% just my help, but believe me, U.S. passport rules was changed because of me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I teach them how to change because there was piece of cake to make a U.S. passport. A piece of cake, two days. You could make it, it's not you. And you can get U.S. passport. United States changed that because my help. I used to, I told them who doing that from inside job, how they doing. A lot of people got the passport. Even terrorists couldn't get that. And me, I blurt him score.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I teach him that. But they never say that. They always... That moment said you did a very good job. But after, who cares? I did a lot of things good. But... They don't care. You say it. That's how our agency works. If they have that, they ban you. They never come to admit or accept. I was in touch with George Stanton two times from federal prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Remember, I mentioned that with George Stanton twice in 2003 and 2004, two times with the head of CIA from federal prison. So if I was like that person, change in your agency. I don't need to know that, but have somebody to investigate that. You know, make agency stronger. We need sources.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, I was obligatory military. That time when I was in Yugoslavia, you must serve. There was no choice because I couldn't have no passport. I couldn't leave the country. So I was a complete dictator. You must, between age 18 and 20, at age 18, you have to go in a recruiting center for four or five days. So if you capable to serve. So I was in a recruiting center. I was 18 years old.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The conversation was, we're going to escort you to one of the borders nighttime. They asked me to escort me to Albanian border. I said, no. They escorted me to Kosovo border. They gave me the money. They said, you have to be on your own. Don't ask to speak with nobody from US agency. You have to be safe.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Then when I went after six days or seven, April seven, they told me to, uh, get away that car. I found two tracking device in my car at the mechanic shop under the car, two tracking device in that car, CIA purchase for me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
After my immigration case finished in 2022. So they were in contact with you again after the embassy? Two minutes. Private, no name, friend of Chris's.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah. But Sean, you see how I'm sitting with you. Believe it or not, I used to get the information from inside CIA in this few years from the source, who's very close to the CIA. American. American, not Albanian. American, who's very close to CIA. And the source told me what they're even saying about me. What were they saying? It's crazy. I don't want to even, I feel bad to say it. Why?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Because like, they use you, they use you and you're nothing. Like, I don't want people to be scared to work for the agency after this. I don't want to use those things. They want to make you look so bad. And the source telling me, source is very close to CIA, every day with them. Source will run Iraq situation war. So they don't think I came out to get to somebody who I can get things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Person who was planning in Iraq side, in Iraq war, three, four years. And this is what they're saying about you. I said, why? Sean, if somebody wants me to be bad person maybe, I believe strong that too. They want to have a business, more work, so maybe this guy go crazy. No, Sean. I'm proud to be American. Maybe somebody has crazy ideas. What were they saying about you?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I say it, it's no good people to hear that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, never. Never double essence, like, who can do that job where he did? It's bad to say it in the air. I don't wanna, you know, because people are gonna think then, hey, I would never do this job. If they say that about him like that, they're gonna say that about me, same thing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah. And then came back after, after 2012, 13, 14, they still want to communicate with me. They called my lawyer in New York City. He's in U.S. soil, I don't know how to, we can take him from U.S. soil. And I told my lawyer, tell them, you don't have to take me. You tell me where you want me to meet, I can come and meet. I don't need your help. You never helped me to take me somewhere.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I came my way. We're talking after I got burned, after I got shot. Why did they contact your lawyer? What did they want? Because I think they were scared of something. When there was a Belgian bombing, they thought I knew some of those guys. And Syria, I prized ISIS. They knew that I was in Syria. I knew it from 2008, 9, they was bringing weapons from Iraq, Sean. I was there.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then at age 19, they sent me the letter. I have to serve the country. and I took that responsibly, then I went and served the country. I thought, you know, I'm serving a normal Yugoslavian country. It's not like I'm going to be part of the committing genocide. It was a clear genocide. Nothing...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was witnessing trucks full of the weapons. This is what's going to be. But I never knew the name ISIS because still was Al-Qaeda. Then they changed to Jabhat al-Nusra, Dawla Islamiyah. Then they changed to ISIS. But it's the same people. They didn't go away. It's the same people. Al-Qaeda changed the name. It's the same fanatics. It's never different.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I had very strong source inside of the Syria. I spent three, four months in Syria. And they found out maybe it's a plan in U.S. soil. I was communicating with them. Believe it or not, somebody got... killed with a drone just because of my health, from New York. They tell me to talk to him, and I talk. And they never say because of me they kill him, but after two days I found out he's killed.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But he was talking to me in a phone in New York, from Syria. But they never, we talk in 2015. If I was bad like that, why you talking to me then?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
ISIS operates. They was using telegram system. They thought they cannot trace nothing. It's Russian control. So they was talking very free. Just now one ISIS came out. Okay. In Telegram. It's that app, Telegram from Russia. So they was using that and Signal, two of them, and Signal too. So we was communicating with them through those two things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was a time I told them what time I'm going to talk to them from here, from New York. And there was... Listen to the conversation. Sean, viewers are going to want to know if it's true or not. Sean, if I communicate with a terrorist overseas from U.S. soil, you end up in U.S. penitentiary. You get arrested in two minutes. So this is me. I was communicating from U.S. soil with terrorists.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I was not CIA source... I couldn't get, why I didn't get arrested? If I'm lying, you know, because people, look, you have a sick people everywhere. They come like one in Denmark, he worked for CIA a little bit for a couple of months and lunatic. He now, I hear he's drinking and stuff. He was not Muslim. He was converted in Islam in a prison. But I was not like that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was strongly skilled person. Are they aware, do you think, that you're coming on this show? I don't think so. No, maybe. Maybe these two, three days they listen to my conversation, but if they're going to like it, I'm 100% they're going to hate it. I'm 100%. They're going to blame you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Why this guy bring this source here now who knows people, how they're going to think for us, how it's going to be our image.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yes. That's what they told me, yes. They told me, you know, stay calm with your life. You don't need to expose yourself. In that two-minute conversation, that's what they told me. But I said, I don't need advice. I don't have no problem to die. I want people to know what I did. I'm not dirt person. I'm not garbage the way you think. I'm a normal human being. I'm father of three beautiful kids.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
it's no secrets it's i passed that uh situation it's i was there until october 13 when complete croatian city vukovar collapsed and i say it i repeat it again like i grew up with the people they didn't even believe when they hear a little bit the story they said no it's not that but But trust me, I passed very ruthless war. Look, I've been in Afghanistan.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I go on live with normal life. What did they say about the documentary? They didn't say nothing. I didn't steal here after nothing. Did you tell them you're doing it? Oh, yes, yes. And they didn't say anything? No, they didn't say anything. I told them I'm going to put the book, and it's going to be six-episode movie also. After the documentary, I'm planning to put a six-episode movie.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I know they do still have a contact there. I don't contact them. They contact me. I don't contact them. You know, we missed Sean. When I got shot, it was one more mistake in my side. You see, I say it. I have no problem to admit my mistake. I had a secret number. If I'm in danger situation, I have to call that number at the CIA, which is Washington.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's free, I can call from everywhere, only if it's a dangerous situation in my life. Like if it's threat something, I can call that number so they can help me. When I didn't call my wife because I told her if I don't call 48 to 72 hours, you need to call this number. And she called them, the answer, what is the message related? This is a message from Abu. And what is the message I can take?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
She said, my husband disappeared. And the phone after that is disconnect. And she tried to call again, no more ring in that phone. That's the mistake I make in this. all these two years or 10 years working with the US intelligence agency and one time with the weapons I, the way they told me to do the weapons, I guess they thought I was not capable to do in professional way, not to be dangerous.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I did it good. And we changed the spot where we're going to get the weapon stash. It was crazy bombs, landmines and everything. And Chris was with a crew, with two, three cars with the CIA. And I changed the spot. He came in my city. I told him not in my city because everybody knows in my city know me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
God forbid one human see me with this beard and six, seven people, Americans, with clean shave, I will be suspicious right away. So I did changes myself. I switched the place. I told him not in that place, but through the communication, not in a plan, like last minute. And he got angry in that. I said, I got to save my, I got to be safe.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't want to expose me, and you're going to tell me, F yourself, and you're alone. I changed that spot. I did the job excellent. All I did that mistake to change the job, and my wife called in the CIA. Two mistakes I did with CIA. The rest, never anything. I was perfectly clear in time. Whatever I was instructed to do, I went 100% according to the instruction from CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Where would you procure the weapons?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They were all coming in the Balkans? In Balkans, all in Balkans. But the uranium, it was coming from Russia. Through the Germany, we did investigate, and it was possible. They want to build a dairy bomb, fanatics. They want to sell it to me, knowing it's going in al-Qaeda's hand. There was a lot of money involved. And we was investigating that. One of the two brothers got shot.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're not mentioning the name because still they're investigating. Still it's under, you know, I don't know what's going on with government, but they still are there. One of them got shot. I guess because this issue. But his life. They tried to assassinate him. One of those two brothers. This is the issue. I was involved directly with them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I've been in countries, Iraq and Syria and Lebanon and Jordan and all these countries. I saw the wars. I saw what Al-Qaeda did. But this war was also dangerous too. Wow. Wow. And how long were you involved in that? Until October 13, 1991. From March 1991 until October 13. Shit. So around almost eight, nine months. And who was committing the genocide? Serbs, Chetniks. Were you guys committing?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We was trying to put hands in that because they thought it's coming, it was a missing nuclear head from the former, from that time, Ukraine, when they give up to the Russians, so that it's still saying it's a missing, so they thought maybe that's the part it's coming, and it's coming in Al-Qaeda's hand. So the Russians were selling Al-Qaeda uranium? Yes. What year was this?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was in 2009, eight or nine. You can look in the communication, it's clearly over there. And you were involved in that? I was 100% involved.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They bring from Germany to Italy, from Italy to Albania.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's a good question. If I know, I will say it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's very hard because you need a lot of skills. You have to be real professional in that part to deal with that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
100%. Did they get it to him? I have no idea. I know he was there because we was going to purchase. CIA was telling me, hold on, we're going to have an expert to do this. You cannot deal yourself. So if we get that, you're going to be disappearing. You're not going to be able no more to work. So we have to have our man to deal with that. You just have to keep them whole. You bind that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
How much uranium? They were saying it can easily kill half a million. How many bombs was this going?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Look, If it's that plan, why didn't it happen until now? And again, terrorists need to get lucky one time. Not all the time. Once they have a patient. Sean, those people are not joke. Not everyone. But their brains are really smart. That's why they want me in. after I got shot in 2010. They begged me in 2014 to go back, to be leader after I got shot.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And the best source I had, he knew that I got shot, but he never thought I got shot because I was a spy. He thought maybe our secret agents, they want to assassinate me so I'm not a fanatic, so I cannot attack U.S. So maybe it's inside job from the government of my country. Or neighbors, Serbia or Macedonia. So they try to assassinate me so I don't do something bad.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
That's the last time? Three years ago. January 2022. Six or seven January. Two minutes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Never. Never, ever. I never planned to come in your show. I was watching your show, the best show. Seeing you pass, reading your CV, they asked me to give, look, I mentioned New York Times. It's a crazy interview. Headline, New York Times. Number one newspaper. But to come here, I don't believe it. But if they're going to like it, I don't think so.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Me personally, not. No? But group in my side, yes. Yes? Absolutely. How was the woman being raped? How did that happen? It's very bad. I saw, I can't tell you this, I remember one picture I saw, like today, I never forget that, young, maybe 35 years old, when they took that child. I couldn't do much, you know, because...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We both know that. I know very well, and you know very well. Sean, if it's like that, you saw the story. You see me. I don't hide what I can do. I don't tell people in the street. I don't tell family members. But this is who I am. So why you don't work with him to keep him quiet? It's very easy. You are the strongest agency in the world. You don't need to come and bow down and say, I'm sorry.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, absolutely. Just let him stay calm with your family. Here is your... green card, U.S. passport, stay calm, enjoy. They give informer, Sean, they give a lady who was cleaning my room. Look at this. I want you to see this. Listen, they give a lady with four kids. They bring her from over there here for nothing. And you not giving me? She's a piece of garbage. Loser lady.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
She was deported from European countries, involved in the crimes. And they bring her, because she was cleaning my room, she told them, oh, he has a lot of hostage weapons. And you want me to, funny thing, joke, when the immigration prosecutor asked me, do you know, do anybody has you papers ever? Guess what?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I left envelope with some papers, this lady to touch it, she did it, and she give to the immigration that information. Just me and you, we know this borough, correct? Right now. If somebody else ask us from outside, you or me told them. So that lady told the immigration, that lady told the CIA, oh, Blarim has the weapons. That lady was cleaning the room, my house, she tell me, how you got shot?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, I got shot accidentally because I don't wanna, it's a family, I don't wanna to be scare kids because gossip. No, I said, I was playing with a gun, I got shot here. She told CIA that lie, he got shot himself. I never got shot myself because CIA helped me. Why CIA didn't go back and say, hey, why you lying? Somebody tried to kill him. You telling us he told you he got shot himself?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Do you understand? It makes sense to you? She tell them, oh, he told me he got shot himself accidentally with his gun. He likes gun. He shot accidentally himself. I don't shoot with laughter, I shoot, I'm a writer. I'm not laughter. I had no gun. You know, another thing we missed, when I was in hospital, they came, local police, to see if I have a gun power in my hands.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They did that wrapping things with aluminum thing, they do it if I was engaged with shooting. I was not engaged in shooting, I had no guns. I never crossed, I crossed the border one time, trying to show samples with uranium, to the CIA, and they tell me, please don't ever do that. It's very dangerous.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then, one time there was something, issue with some kind of size of ammunition we found, and I took it. I took it because I'm brave, I'm not scared. It's not like people can say, he's sick. No, he's not sick. I have no problem to deal with the weapons. It's like somebody do draw the flag, I'm good with the weapons. If you good drawer with the flag, I'm good with the weapons.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So this is how I am. And you taking a BS from somebody from nowhere, from source who you had decade working for you. Decade, I spent from 91 to 2010, nine years. Plus after that communicated, Sean, you're super intelligent. Look at who's John Mueller. John Mueller requested to meet with me. I met with John Mueller, head of counterterrorism unit.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Look, I thought many time if I turn my gun to everybody and kill all this, but the problem was family, because if he was doing that to Serbs and Chetniks, they was going to execute my family, because that's how they used to do to Albanians. If Albanian guy shot a Serbian or Chetnik, then they was going to kill the family. So then I was ruining my family. It's not a me to get killed.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Not the Asian, head of counterterrorism, who met Bin Laden. John Mueller met Bin Laden 25 years ago. I met with him. He requests to meet and I went to see him. And I was, after I came from Canada, after I got shot in 2015, and two, three different time I met with the CIA and FBI in my lawyer's office. Not once. So if I'm bad like that, so why you want to meet with me?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I'm no good, so why you want to meet with me? And I will not come in your show. I will not go in immigration or nowhere to put my name in the dangers and family name in the dangers. And there was comments said, you know what? We're not saying if we make a mistake or not, we're going to call the judge and say, the judge, you enjoy your life, get your papers and that's it. They never did that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They're supposed to do it. They told me, we're not like a federal prosecutors. Many times, not once. DOD, Department of Defense, twice in your county, Pennsylvania said, Mr. Skoro, we're not like federal prosecutors. We are the Department of Defense. If we say something, we keep that. None of them. I have to keep my loyalty to you and agency, but you don't keep nothing to me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We got to work something together. I'm not interested to make money of my movie and book and document. Trust me, I work. I can make a lot of money. My wife works. My two kids works. We work, four of us. It's not really money. It's no money to the CIA working, trust me. You get some money, but for me it's nothing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It can be for Afghani goalkeeper, you know, those poor guys, you give $500 or $1,000, I'm not Afghani. You know, I can earn money in proper way. You bring in 200,000 Afghanis and you say they help us. No, those 200,000 Afghanis, they didn't help us. It's stupid to think like that. It's embarrassment. We help them, they give up not to fight, they coward. I'm using this word, I'm sorry to use that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
How come they didn't find Taliban? Why they left all those weapon over there? Why they give up so quick? They didn't even fire a bullet. They run away. We spent 20 years over there. We spend all that money. We invest all that money, and now you bring in 200,000 Afghanis, but you don't want to help your source. You had a 10 year source who was working everywhere.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They destroyed all of them. They took and destroyed. They took it and destroyed. Everything. Whatever I got, all the CIA took it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They was thinking I'm getting for Al-Qaeda.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, never, because it's a strict rules. Al-Qaeda doesn't show nothing to you guys. I cannot, that's too secret. If they asked me, I would say, are you a spy? You working for somebody? Maybe you're working for Americans or foreign agency. You see the bathroom you have downstairs? I can say three or four times bigger than that place. I took C4 from the terror group. Just C4.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Two or three times least like that bathroom you have. Full. Not just a little bit, full. This with my hands. And all give to the CIA. I didn't have a problem. I never caused no damage, no CIA was ever hurt or something. Everybody was safe and good. I did everything myself. How did you get back into the US? How I came back? It's very easy. For me, it's no problem to come to US.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's no problem for me today, after 10 days, to be in Afghanistan. It's very easy. It's all open border. Sean, I always keep my sources. I always have friends. My good friends, they know I will never betray them. I will die never betray them. I'm very loyal, but I'm not loyal to terrorist. But I can be your friend, I never betrayed you. But not to terrorist. I'm not loyal to terrorist.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I always thought I was like, since I grew up, I grew up no fear. Like, I know one day I'm going to die. I mean, weren't they trying to kill you anyways? They tried. They tried. It was a time they said, look, we're going to crucify him. When I shot this group, there was rumors, oh, we're going to butcher him. We're going to make a cross in his body, those four S's.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But to friends, I'm a loyal. I can pick a phone. If I want to assassinate somebody, I can do that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In U.S., yeah. Somebody drove me from Canada. It's no problem. You have an open border, a lot of places. And so what's your status now? Oh, now I'm to stay. My status is granted from immigration judge. I have no problem now. I'm legally permitted in U.S. I have no issue no more. I have no court or nothing. I'm free. It's just I cannot fly overseas. And what do you do now? I'm a cab driver.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah. But I never talk to the customers.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No. I don't think they would believe you anyways. It's not that. And I meet all kind of people. Sometimes it's interesting. Some people, they want to show off or tell you story. And I don't buy easy. I have more skills than them. I was a car wash owner for 10 years. I had a car wash business.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I lost car wash business because my bad friends, CIA, 2016, they sending me team 50 people to arrest me in Brooklyn with helicopter, with sniper. They are arresting me like arresting Al-Qaeda leader. I couldn't believe it. What did they arrest you for? For nothing. Complaint. And they released me. What complaint? What was the complaint? They said the prosecutor, here I can give you small details.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The prosecutor who arrest a terror guy who was convicted in U.S. soil, overseas, when they came in Canada, they thought I was going to testify something against. and the prosecutor convict him with my source information. And he give credit to informers, all my information, what CIA provide to him. And then he went against me saying he's a liar, the prosecutor.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then I go in a court in front of federal judge. I said, Your Honor, I wanna, because I know now I'm not a mouse not to know my rights. And I told the lawyer who was defending me, excellent lawyer. I have the best lawyers in United States. This time. Before, I didn't have that. Now, I have the best lawyers in the United States. And they're willing always to defend me for free.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't have to pay them. They're so good lawyers, they're willing to defend me for free. Because they know I'm honest. They know I put my life in danger to protect Americans. They come, the judge say to prosecutors, are you gonna indict him? Prosecutor had no indictment. Sean, if you re-entry to US, if you have all these pictures, the prosecutor will send you for life in prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So they didn't do anything. They didn't do anything. And the same prosecutor, after one, you know, the worst part in the Justice Department are federal prosecutors. Because they work one year, two years, they don't work to stop a criminal. They just work to build a little bit of reputation to create experience so they can be private lawyers to make money. Because prosecutors don't make no money.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So a lot of people become victim for that. The way I become victim. But thank God judge make a right decision. I really appreciate. I have nothing to say to that judge. I have all the recording. Like you see the way I was talking to you today, the judge didn't know I record all the decision. I'm not supposed to do that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I was so happy when they make that decision like I'm a born for second time because my kids was there. They see and they know what I've been through. They was all the time present with me. They went in a pain the way I went. They suffer with me, my wife and kids. So the judge said, I cannot deport this guy, this guy gonna stay in my country.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
She make decision, she was a lady, she grant me stay. And I'm here. I'm happy with the judge, but I'm not happy with agency. Because agency couldn't do that, me not to be here. Sean, agency, I still couldn't help the agency a lot of things. Even after my assassination attempt, I couldn't help them. A lot. I was more brain than them. Not from all of them. Not like Devin and Scott.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, Chetniks, they have four S's, cross and four S's, because they knew that I was Muslim-born. So they were sending me threats through the soldiers and stuff. But look, Sean, I'll be very honest, I was ready to die. When I started that military, I said, regardless, if I die today or after 50 years, one day I'm going to die. So I had no kids. I was not married. I was young.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Devin and Scott I dealt in the beginning, they was brilliant agents. Super good CIA agents. And the one in the federal prison, Lieutenant Lyons. He was former Marines. He was excellent. I will welcome to work again with them. But the last one, crazy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
With no mistake. No second thought. Just I will put one condition. I want everything black and white in a paper writing. The way agents work inside of the agency, I want like that too. If you're not going to have me to have that paper because it's on contract with them, if I cannot keep that paper, my kids cannot have that, then I will not. But if you offer me that, I will do it from beginning.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And you don't believe how much this country is in danger today. You're not going to see that today. You're going to remember my interview with you after 10 years, how much I see it in a country. How it's... Fanatics growing in the U.S. How are they growing? Badly. I mean, I see it. I know they're recruiting out of the U.S. A little bit you see.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's me different because when I see what they're reading, I can tell if they're going to be bad to the country. You know, when imam tells you, hey, you don't need to ask me all the time, fight for your rights. Do what you have to do for your rights. That means he's instigating you, he's preaching you, he's brainwashing you, you to do something. That's bad. And the U.S. agency failing badly.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Another thing, they have no control of finance. How much money they give, U.S. government have zero control. And that finance goes in the bad people's hand. You know why it's quiet today? Because they want to grow. In fanatics, ideology is this. I can easily tell you that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The ideology is a sick ideology because they wanted to get strong with finance, so when it's time to fight you, they can fight you. They're not making peace with you. They're just quiet. They're telling you, yeah, like a situation in Syria. But when it's time, they will fight you back. We help Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know what the CIA agent, I read his book, I don't want to mention his name now to advertise him. He said we offer him over half a billion dollars to Bin Laden in his book. You can read that. just to come in a TV and say, I'm giving up jihad, I'm not fighting against crusaders, I'm going to live in Saudi Arabia. He said, no.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I read in his book, he was 25 years CIA agent in Bin Laden's unit, investigated. That's what he said. So same thing happened today. A lot of breeding of fanatics is there, but the agency is failing. You know, it's a joke, the biggest breeding come from the prison. From institution, crazy. You don't believe it. I believe it. I tell you, the way I see it, it's crazy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And we're going to feel the pains after 10, 15 years. But it's going to be too late. Sean, here you ask me, it's easy to get weapons? I can get weapons much as you want in the United States. Give me the money, I can buy you anything you want. Anything you name it, I can get you. So if I can get that, you think one day terror is not going to get that? Of course. Oh, I know they're getting it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So that age is, you know, the most dangerous age. Age is you don't fear nothing. You know, not everybody. I'm telling you, you have kids like, I can tell you example, I have a boy 12 years old, if you see him, he's a big giant boy, but he will not kill cockroaches. He's so like polite and nice. He would say, Daddy, no, don't kill that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We talk about it a lot on this show. I see it. So look at me. I see that what's going on, and I tell you that, and you don't want to source like that? Come on. I can make a living anywhere you want. You want to understand my mind, what I think? If you throw me in the middle of Atlantic Ocean, no clothes, no money, I come out from Atlantic Ocean with clothes and money. This is how I trust myself.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
This is who I am. I don't see movies, but I'm the person you're dealing now. I can do things. I don't need attention. I don't need my name to be there. I couldn't be very low profile like before. and do things which benefit you and the country. I didn't got no benefit. Did you see me how I was emotion? It's 54 years old, it's very heartbroken to come to that point. You betrayed me. Why?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You have a man, I can die for you. Why you don't just give me the handset, let me pull you? You don't need to drown. I can help you. I'm a normal human. I love my kids, I love my family. I did everything for my kids and family. Somebody who love the kids and family, he will not hurt you, never. Because when I saw that they jumping from 9-11, 83rd floor, people jumping, I saw.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't care what they're saying with conspiracy. I was thinking to kill that guy in my cell because he was happy seeing them. I swear it was moment. I swear to God. I'm telling you, believe it or not, I was thinking to kill that guy, that terrorist guy in cell. I believe it. Come on. I want to be happy people jumping, people who feed my kids, people who help me all the time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm going to be happy. Never. Religion, I will ban my religion. If they push me like that, I will ban. I want to live normal human being. I'd rather be with my kids, normal, than be judged like that. Oh, look at what he did. Killed innocent people. I don't have to be in a problem in a war. War, it's a war. War, it's a war.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
but not the way they do it, hijacking a plane or blowing yourself in supermarket, that's not a war. Come on.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I hope white people listen to this. I don't want attention. For me, it's quality of the people to hear this. I'm not against nobody. I'm against terrorists. I was never double, never one side. If I was double, I couldn't do a lot of things until today, a lot. But I'm proud who I am. I proudly serve this country. I deserve to be treated just a little bit like human, not too much, just a little bit.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I hope everybody enjoys that. Not taking wrong my interview.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But us was different because we had that hate between us and Serbians. So we grew up. My grandfather was executed in a communist country. My mother's father, he was executed in 1940.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Thank you very much. I'm honored to be in your place. It's an honor to have you. I'd be very honored with you. When I saw your shows, I said this is my dream place to be. The way, I never mentioned, every court in the banks and stuff, one day you have to put something, password, I put my dream job, CIA. So this is who I was. I'm a Muslim, but my dream job was CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You might want to change those passwords now.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
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Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
so and we grew up you know having that hate so if i knew it how my grandfather were executed so now automatically my parents educate me you know look we we live here but those are our enemy you know my grandfather was killed so now we cannot trust them so i was very educated and uh trained to not to trust them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So to be always prepared, you know, if you have ever to come close, you have to defend yourself or you're going to get killed or you have to kill. So this was also a religious war. It's not a religious war because like us, it was more like we grew up in communist. Albanians was not religious the way it's in Middle East. Albanians, we marry among Christians. We don't have no issue.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Albanian, it's like... one of the best example you can live in the whole world because we have no issue, Christians or Muslims. We are friends, we celebrate all Christmas, Ramadan, all together. So we have no issues between us. Of course, lately we have very dangerous fanatics.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're crazy fanatics because Albanians came out to go in a Syrian war over number one country from the population, give more jihadists to the ISIS and Al-Qaeda than any different countries. So, but... Us, we was not religious like that. So we was modernized, educate, drink. I was partying. I was drinking. I was doing life no different from you and the rest of the world.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So we was no issue with religion. But Serbians, they used to look at us like that. The other side always used to look as, oh, they are dangerous because they are Muslims, you know, they can threat us, they can kill us, but we was not like that. And they were supposedly Christian. Christians, yes, Orthodox Christians, not different from Russians. Holy shit. But Croatians are Catholics.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
With Croats, we have very good relation. We never had issues with them. Only with the Serbians, Chetniks, was they are, you know, like Slavic, not different from Russians.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
One brother passed away here eight, nine years ago. One of them, oldest one, is in Switzerland. I bring my parents and the rest, and my parents passed away a few years ago in the United States. They're all U.S. citizens, so I bring everybody. I'm the one I sponsor, bring all my family. Only my wife and kids are born and raised here. My parents become nationalized citizen from me here.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And did they fight too? No, my parents not. My father served in Yugoslav military two years, but he served 1960. Your brothers? My brother did service, but he didn't caught up in a war. The youngest one, he came young here in US, so he didn't went in a war. How did it end? The end was... It's good. My older brother, he served in the Yugoslav military. He did in 1988. So that time was no war.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And my father did 1940. It was no war that time. And the rest of the family didn't serve. How did the war end? Oh, very brutal. Still, it's a threat. Croatia separated. Yugoslavia is now seven countries. It should start Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo, Montenegro. So it's seven different countries from Yugoslavia. But still we have little issues. We have the U.S.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
military in Kosovo, which is our number one protector. To us, Albanians, we believe God is in the sky, America is in the ground. For Albanians, Albania and Kosovo, it's like a 53rd state of U.S. We are more pro, but we have also issue with the terrorists. With fanatics, definitely we have a problem. So it's not like we are clean.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Because there was Albanian from Kosovo who came out in Frankfurt, Germany a few years ago. If I don't make mistakes, six, seven years ago. He executed two U.S. Marines in Frankfurt, Germany. He shot two or three. Wow. Yeah. And not to pass the, in 1991, October 9, 1991, I tried to escape from the military, from the war zone, on November 9, October 9, I'm sorry.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I got caught entering the Belgrade airport, and my father was in a bus, and my brother-in-law, they was trying to help me to escape the war. And I got arrested from military police. And that was one of the worst ever days I passed in my entire life. I was tortured so badly. When I had to use the bathroom, I was, That's how they tortured me, Yugoslav military. How did they torture you?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They handcuffed me from the right hand with the left, and they was hitting me with those black sticks they used to use in the military. I was bleeding badly. They was letting me stay in that, and they was doing it in the right foot, just to have me to admit I'm leaving, I'm a deserter from military. Sean, for me, was or me to die or my family.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I decide to sacrifice myself, not to sacrifice my family. So what I did, I took the pain. They torture me so badly and I never admit it. I said, I'm going to die that day in military prison. I'm not gonna admit it, I'm leaving the military.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They torture me so badly after four days because in Yugoslavia, it was a communist have a little skills because 1981, my father was a police for four years in Yugoslav police that I'm a regular police. So I learned how when they torture people, if you take a pain for 72 hours, they will let you go.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So if you don't take the pain and you give up, you say, yes, I did that, then of course you're going to get tortured and you're going to get the prison. So now it was two things, or me to die or my family. So I never admitted and they took me from a military prison. They sent me right away in a war zone. And you have a piece of paper proof.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I send it to you guys and you can see it clear in October 13. one of the officers, Captain Kablinovich Vajo, he's the one who helped me sign that permit. I'm going to be for two days visiting my family.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But actually, I was not going to visit the family, but he was helping me to leave the war because I was going to go in military court minimum 25 years just to enter the military court because I did that... shot against Chetniks. So I was between 25 years or death sentence. So I had no choice to do that. And I successfully left Yugoslav army. My family thought I was dead.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I went in my city Kosovo that night. It was a 4 a.m. midnight in the morning. And I jumped from the wall. All my family thought I was dead. When I knocked the window, complete family was waiting for my dead body to send it from military. When they saw me live in my city, everybody thought I was dead. I got killed because I was arrested from the military police.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then finally I received help from some family members and I left Yugoslavia in October of 14, 1991. I went in Switzerland, took me 10 days journey to enter Switzerland from Yugoslavia.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was a long journey. I'll be very honest, not easy young guy to do like that. I guess my nature is a little bit like brave. They helped me to give me a fake passport. Not fake passport, fake my picture, but different name. I never traveled like that, but... I guess God gave me some kind of skills, my nature. That's how even I came out to CIA because I was capable. You know, I'm street smart.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Even I was not who knows what kind of education in a school, but I was a natural street smart. And I came out to use that passport. My name was... when I used that passport. I did use, at least in my life, maybe 10 or 13 different names by now. So I took that passport, I traveled from Macedonia to Bulgaria. From Bulgaria I flew to Italy, and in Italy I got arrested.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
they was not letting me go through from Bulgaria to Italy. I had a little cash with me and they keep me one night in a prison in Italy and they send me back to Bulgaria. But now, if I don't come out with my ideas, To enter Switzerland, if I go in Yugoslavia, I was going to be in a military prison and life or death.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So when you have this kind of situation, then now you got to do whatever it takes to survive. It's not like you have experience, but experience you guys do is different because you have a strong support. When you have a US military or US government, you feel more strong, you know, it's a different feeling. But me, I don't have that support. My support is only me, how I'm going to survive.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I was returning from Italy to Bulgaria, and I called from a couple of best friends and a family member to come and help me. So they smuggled me from Bulgaria to Romania illegally. And then from Romania, I did all my trips, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Germany, Belgium, Belgium, France, France, Switzerland. I entered Switzerland in October 26, 1991. Illegal.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
With money. How much money does it take? It took, that time, I believe it was not over 2,300 marks that time. So basically like $2,300. Because I was always using buses, local buses and stuff. So to pay a little cheap and stuff, not to be expensive, I never pay smuggler. So everything in my life I did, I never pay smuggler. All I did myself. So you did this all yourself? All myself.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
just using my connection friends you know like that and knowing me how i was a brave and tough so always i used to receive support i mean that's a lot of friends in a lot of countries yes yes i do even today italy germany belgium france i mean france belgium yes Holy shit. So you knew people in every one of these countries? Every one of the countries, yes. Who were they? Were they family members?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Albanians. Albanians. Everywhere Albanians. It's all connection. Even today, I'm speaking to you, I can easily say, if you pick a globe and turn and put the finger, I'm sure I have a friend somewhere, somehow. It's kind of, I'm very friendly with people, and I'm loyal to my friends. It's not the job I did. My friends are never bad guys. I never have a friend bad guys.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I said friend bad guys, meaning hating United States. All my friends are good with U.S., good with a life, regardless what they do with a personal life. When it's come to choose a US or terrorist, I don't have no friends who side with terrorists. All I have friends who side 100% with US. And so what happens when you get to Switzerland?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I came out in Switzerland, then I have 10 or 15 first cousins in Switzerland, included my older brother. He was working that time in Switzerland. I stay in Switzerland for a couple of months, from October to December. In December 23rd, I started working. After one week in Switzerland, I started working construction in Switzerland. Illegal, staying illegal.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I get arrested two days before Christmas. I'm sleeping in an apartment in Switzerland, and my brother and my first cousins, 10 of them, they was in a club. They were all young. And they come in with two cars, I think 11 or 12 guys. And the police obviously know only Albanians can beat six, seven guys in one small car. So they get arrested. So they come, now they...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When they arrest, they come close to the building I used to live. But nobody knew what floor I was living. Because one of my cousins gave me free apartment for a few months because I came from military. Everybody knew what I've been through in the Yugoslav military. So there was kind of...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
respecting me from my past where i did it so they kind of like treated me a little special than the rest the friends and cousins i was like a like a brave man to them and a special treatment so they arrested me now and uh it was uh december 23rd the police come 3 a.m in the apartment where i used to live in geneva and uh Me and one of my cousins were sleeping. The bell was ringing that night.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They taught you how to make bombs? Absolutely. What kind of bombs?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And he said, it's a bell. I said, okay, wake up and just open the door. And he said, but I see people with a white shirt. I said, it's okay, you can open the door. They just went in, 10, 15 cops, the Swiss police. with the guns and everything. And they're telling us, don't move, don't move. And they're in French. And I was very little at that time in French.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Now I know because I used to live in Geneva side and Quebec side. So I'm good in five, six different languages. And... Now they're asking me for passport. They turn the light on, and the passport was next to TV. And that night I see a very bad dreams in a war. And he said, your name? And I said, it's Samoa Yacoub Pramusholi in French. And he looked at, oh shit, no. what I'm going to do, you know?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And he, the other one get arrested. My brother get arrested and 10 other 15, 10 or 12 first cousins, all of them get arrested together. They send us in a prison in Geneva. I stay for four or five days in Geneva. Now it's my plan to survive because everybody going to get deported in Yugoslavia. And nobody's from military, only me from all of us.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So what I'm gonna do, I need to plan something myself. They're taking us from Geneva to Zurich, and from Zurich ticket to Yugoslavia. And now everybody walking in airplane, it was two days after Christmas, between Christmas and New Year 1991. I'm planning my plan B using my skills. Everybody moving in a flight, I'm the last to enter the airplane.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I'm telling the police, I'm saying to him, , the passport, which is, can you give me the passport? He said, yeah, I want to show it to you something. And he gave me the passport with a boarding ticket. I took the passport, the complete passport in front of him. And I throw in a floor and I pushed the police. and then they punched me. That's where I was looking.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was looking to get hit, so to seek the asylum. And I was in the floor, everybody walked in the flight, they closed the flight right away, the door, now they jump all the police in me. What I did? I said, And they got stuck. When you mentioned deserter, meaning deserter, it was from Yugoslav military because that time a lot of Albanians were deserting the Yugoslav military. And they believe it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They sent me back to Geneva. They gave me a translator. And I told the translator, look, I can bring my military IDs. I'm from former military. I came from war zone, from Vukovar. and they bring the translator and they give me asylum in Switzerland temporarily. That was December 1991. I stayed in Switzerland from 1991 to October 1994. in Switzerland. October 1994, I came to United States.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
How did you get to the United States? It's very good question. And it's excellent answer. In 1994, my uncle came here in 1960. He emigrated from Albania. He was a US citizen. So I dreamed all the time. I have my aunt and a lot of first cousins. They came that time. So I always dreamed the United States, you know, because they used to come from U.S. to Kosovo to visit us.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And, you know, we see like all this is good, you know, to be in the United States. You know, my first cousins, they always talk nice. Some of them, they're born in U.S. at that time. We're talking 35 years ago because I have family members. They came 50 years ago, 60 years ago. And I was dreaming to come here. And Switzerland was not giving us asylum for good like in the United States.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They was giving us just temporary. All the former military was receiving status only temporary in Switzerland. So I asked my uncle, I said, can you send me an invitation? I want to come in the United States. He said, I would send it to you, but it's not easy to get that visa. I said, look, you send it to me, I'm going to get the visa. And he sent me the visa, and with his invitation, they denied.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I did it. Now I used again my skills. I got the passport from somebody, a friend of mine, and I went in a U.S. embassy in Switzerland and got the visa myself. I got a visa with a different name, not my name, Blerem Skoro. Again, my skills to get the visa in the U.S. Embassy. And I went in Zurich and I got visa, they gave me multiply one year visa for U.S.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was obligatory service in Yugoslav army. What was the worst war ever existed in Balkans. I know you've been seeing a lot and a lot of the viewers and a lot of the guests, but I saw also very bad and a lot. I was in a group with one of the most dangerous criminal, Rajnatovich, known, aka Arkhan. Wow. And I see eyewitnesses with my own eyes, behaving, killing, rape, You name it. All of it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I got the visa, I came in JFK, I flew in October 1994, and my uncle was waiting for me in JFK, and it was funny because like I'm using my, skills not to trust still even my uncle but not to tell him what I'm coming with name so he's he's coming in information in JFK calling for blurring but my name was a different name Femi Husseini so totally different name now so He's waiting in the airport.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I took cab from JFK. I'm in Astoria going to his house. And then I see my uncle's wife. She's American, not Albanian, American born. And Patricia, she said, welcome. She's asking me, I did a few words, where's your uncle? I said, I don't see my uncle. Then she paged him, that time there was no cell phones, and then my uncle responds, said, where are you? I said, I'm in your apartment.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
How come you was not waiting? I said, because I took a different passport, different name, you know? And then he come and I start live in US 1994.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He used to come always from here in my country. Okay. He became a U.S. citizen, and he had no problem to come to visit us. And you didn't trust him? I didn't trust him because I was fearing if I get arrested, then I will put him in trouble. Gotcha. So I was trying to save him. Gotcha. You know how it's a loss. If he knows I'm coming with a fake passport, different name, he can get in trouble.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yes, yes. After the military, three, four years. So I started military in 19. I finished 20. And after 20, it's until 1994. So basically 23, 24. At a young age with strong skills.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
After a few months, I stay home. If I don't make a mistake, two or three months until I got my own apartment. My own apartment I got somewhere in February 1995. And I applied for asylum in 95. I start in December 94, and then we send the papers to immigration in 1995, and my asylum was right away approved and granted.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I tell you, my 20 years birthday was in the military. So I started 19 years old.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In May 1995, I got granted political asylum in US, which is, it was my dream come true. You know, I was always dreaming that, and I become like, very quick, very easy. A lot of people was struggling and suffering, not being able to become a U.S. resident. I did in less than three, four months. And after I got granted 95, I started working. I did a lot of different jobs in restaurant, construction.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was doorman. I was in a cleaning company. and supporting my family. I was always full-time worker, never no job. And somewhere 95, 96, it started breaking a war in Yugoslavia between my country, Kosovo and Yugoslavia, because those years it was Slovenia and Croatia where it got separated. So it was left over Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia. And it was not easy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'll be very honest, I was working hard. And a single person with one check paying the bills and supporting family was not easy. And it was good you to make a living for yourself, but that time my family was not working in Yugoslavia. So I had over my back maybe 10, 15 family members, no job. in Kosovo, so there was all dependent from me. So all my family was waiting for me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So no pension, no income, no nothing, just blur him to send him to them. And I was young, hanging out with, becoming friend with a lot of Albanians, and one day, it was 1996, I'm in a bar with all Albanians, you know, drinking party. Again, I'm a, through the religion, Muslim, but, you know, enjoying life. Nothing strict, no Wahhabi, no strict Islam.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I'm telling my friends, look, I'm having a little hardship, you know, supporting my family and stuff. But I always used to live by myself. No roommate, nobody. Just my own apartment and enjoying the life. And one day they approached me. They said, look, we can help you, you know. And I said, help? You know, how is the help possible? They said, you know, you can send drugs to Albania.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said jokes to Albina now. I never did that, you know. First time, you know, having this conversation, I was in a military service, war and stuff like that, but not, but in a community, I was highly respected in New York. So by knowing my past, how I got arrested in the military, because it was not easy somebody to survive that torture. It's crazy, you know.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I didn't believe it. First, I thought it's like something you watch in the movie. I saw a woman getting raped from those paramilitary groups of Arkhan. And there was Croatians. I was in the Yugoslav army. And... To me was, I didn't believe because when we called for duty, we called for duty to serve the country against enemy outside, not inside of the own people.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So now everybody knows that torture I did. And you know how I served in the Croatian war, you know, was one of the most dangerous war in Balkan. So kind of, not kind of, but even in a mafia community, my name started becoming among the five, six families, Gambino, crime family, Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese, all this Italian mafia included Albanians. And... I was respected.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We were hanging out in one of the Gambino crime clubs in Bensonhurst. It used to be a well-known neighborhood of mobsters in New York. I used to live in that neighborhood, you know, living all in the middle of the mobsters, so all surrounded with mafia. And I kind of blend in good with good skills and now it's quick spread the rumors, oh, he came from the war, you know.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Knowing through the media he comes from the war zone, they give you highly respect, you know, they treat you more than the rest of the people, you know, because, you know, surviving in that Croatian war is kind of big things. I start the trip, first trip, if I don't make mistake, somewhere end of 96, first drug dealing, sending drugs to Albania.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Those moments, for example, I didn't much ask because I know the nature of the mafia. It's not to ask too much questions because if you ask questions, then you're raising questions. Maybe you work for government, you know, because my asylum was granted right away. So a lot of them were still illegal because that time in the U.S., nobody was asking you for documents.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You can live here like rest of the illegal immigrants. Nobody will ask you if you have any paper. So it was like normal everybody else. And since I started hanging out with them, I said not to ask questions. All I need to follow whatever they tell me to follow. No questions. And they said they teach me how to do all these things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I said, okay, do we start, you know, hanging out, being more close to them, more, you know, but they had a good reputation. I tell you this, Albanians, Italian mafia was very dangerous, but Italian mafia would not play with Albanian mafia because they was taking them too serious. Albanians was killing them with no problems. It was more kind of serious Albanians than Italians.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I used to see them, then when I came out to the prison, then I found out Albanians was really more strong than Italians.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Absolutely, 100%. Absolutely. Even me. For example, when I was in that club, look, the time, mafia, how they was functioning, you know, when it's a club, they all know each other. Even it's not social club, but they all know each other. So now they know it is guy who came from the war and it's me. And I used to be known like Benny. My nickname was Benny. Everybody used to know me Benny.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So now, oh, Benny came from the war. So when I walk in the club, they always respect me. But I never worked with Italian mafia. I never had any, I had friends, you know, we communicated, hang out, but never any business like being in Italian mob. So it was friendly. Friendly, but never been in mob. Never crossed the business line. No, no, never. Just with Albanian.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Did you know these guys were in the mob before they approached you? No, I never knew it until I start, I think, I believe second or third trip. Then I started becoming friendly, seeing them gambling, using drugs, drinking, party, you know, all these things, and controlling gambling. You know, they used to control a lot of gambling stuff in New York City.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Albanians, they used to control a lot of the Italian mobsters. You know, it's not like, Albanians was not like a big group, but small group, very strong, very loyal to each other. Interesting, interesting.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Gambling, drugs was always drugs in them, prostitution always with them, racketeering, extortion, all this. All the bad shit. All illegal things, they used to be under the control of the mafia.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was cocaine, sending cocaine from the United States. First I start in Albania for a few trips, and then from Albania I start doing to Italy. Then I start dealing with the mobsters of Albania, mobsters in Italy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So Croats, that time when I was serving, it was still Yugoslavia, which I start in, I was, I start my service March 20, 1991. And I was serving, even that time Albanians from Kosovo, we had no rights. We was considered like second class citizens. Because history of ourself, Kosovo used to be always part of the Albania.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah, I flew from JFK to Italy, used to change flight in Switzerland or Germany. Always it was a transit, Germany, Frankfurt or Italy. And then from Italy to Albania. But mostly of the time, Germany and Albania or Switzerland, Albania. So did you live there or would you come back to New York? I would come always back to New York. I just send the drugs, bring the money.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Send the drugs, bring the money. So we used to take two pieces, one piece, one case of cocaine, send it, or two. Sometimes we used to be two, three of us, sent six, seven kilos, and come back with money. Did you have any fear about going back? Fear back to go where? Albania. No, I didn't have no fear. None? None. How would you smuggle the drugs? In the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We used to sew a little bit those, like a swimming suit tight and make a piece of pieces in the body. That time was, it's a very, I can explain a little bit. Czechs in the airport used to be very different, very easy. You couldn't smuggle, you couldn't walk. I used to have a nice three-piece suit. nice clothes and drugs inside and tie it up good in a body and you pass it through.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Before you do the trip, same clothes we wear and we go do test one day before if it's going through alarm detector. If it goes those closed alarm detector, then you change it. You do something close, no belt, so they don't ring the alarm. So the next day I used to smuggle the drugs, take the drugs from New York, send it to Albania or Italy, and then Italy sell it in the street.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I never dealt in the street life, meaning selling in the streets. Always I used to deal with big guys, like bosses.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah, just, you know, not smuggling and selling in the street. Never dealt in a street sale. So how would the cocaine be packaged? The way it comes from Colombia. It would be in a brick. Yeah, in a piece of brick, yes. Always brick. And you wouldn't break it up? No, never break. Because if you break, then they don't want to buy it. So always hard bricks.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I used to take, it was time, three kilos in the body. So one in the front and two sides. A three-piece suit, very nice suit, tie. Like businessman with a suitcase with you, pass it, no problem. Wow, how many times did you do this? I did easy, I can say minimum 10 times. Minimum 10 times? Eight to 10 times, yes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Or hanging out over there three, four days, giving to the people. We used to always have waiting people with money. Just you stay three days to one week not to be suspicious. When you come back in U.S., so not to raise suspicious how you come right away next day. So you stay, hang out, enjoy Albania, Albanian coast one week and come back, bring the money, no problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was a kilo that time was $55,000 a kilo.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So you're smuggling about three kilos a trip. Yes, 150. It was a time, one shot, I bring it, the highest amount of money, $560,000 cash. Holy shit. And that's all for you to keep? With the group. With the group. Yeah, with the group, yeah. Sharing. We was always partners and sharing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We used to share. There was three, four of us all the time sharing. How much would you be able to keep? It was time 80,000, 90,000. Per kilo, I'm saying. Oh, per kilo was maybe, per kilo I can say... $8,000 to $9,000.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
because the communism dictator, it broke up, and the Yugoslavia took over my country. But the history, it's always there. It's black and white. We cannot change it. Some people may like, some people don't like, but Kosovo was part of the Albania. So we start this uprise, you know, to be separated from Yugoslavia, but we couldn't do it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's especially like, this is a trick. You think it's big money, sweet money, but that's the worst thing. Today, I would freely say I would never even dream, even advise anybody to do any work like that because that's short time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In the beginning, nothing. Nothing? Nothing, absolutely. I need the money. So they didn't care. They have a man. It's not that everybody was brave. the way I used to with the military experience, but there still was people to do and still continue doing. They don't do the way they did it. They change all those things, but they're still doing. Drugs will never stop. It's a business.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In Europe? Yes. Always through the friends, you know, always through the names, always through the mediator. So I go, for example, to one of the family members from here in Albania, not to my family, to the members of the group. And then they waited for me in the airport. They're taking me home. I stay in the apartments in Albania.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And next day, they come in to take the drugs, giving the money, always drugs money, exchanging, never long. So always paid in a spot, in the hand, giving the drugs, taking the money. Did your family know you were doing this? No.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, nobody. You don't think they picked up on that? I never showed them money. My family knew that over there was easy to believe because I was telling them I'm doing two jobs. So I was never telling my uncle how much I'm sending over there because then he would know what I'm doing. So I tried to keep very strict because I learned one thing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In the crimes, if a person knows, he can be charged with the crime. So I learned that part to keep the secret. But after like a few years, my uncle found out I did it, and then we're going to come to the point, it's a funny part how my wife caught me doing the drug dealing, found out it's very, I didn't even believe. Let's go. I'm in a phone using different language.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Serbian, talking to somebody in Serbian, because my wife is born and raised in US. Then I was never sure she understands Serbian. I never thought she was five or six years old, they left US to live in the valley called Prasevo, which is in the Serbian side. Her parents took her for a couple of years to live there when she was young, and she went in Serbian school.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I never thought my wife, she was no Serbian. So I'm talking in the phone home, having a nice conversation. I got married. I hung up the phone. My wife, she think I'm working restaurant and I took her to work with me. And then she came out. She said, you're a drug dealer. I said, how you know? That's what you said? How do you know? Yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We always had a lot of issues and stuff, and we couldn't do it. Then I was called in March 2018. to 1991, and I start, I finished three month of training, which is in the beginning. It was eight weeks, if I don't make mistake, and I start war in Slovenia. I was in a training camp in one of the cities of Yugoslavia, city called Shabac. It's very close to the Croatian border.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, baby, she's telling me, you just had a conversation about drugs. You're talking in Serbian. And then she told me whatever I said. I said, geez, what happened with me now? That's how I caught up my wife to know. What was the conversation? I was, we was making meeting, how are we going to take the drugs? But I was home. So for my wife not to know,
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I told them, look, we're gonna talk in this language because my wife, she doesn't know. She's American born, you know? I never thought American can learn Slavic, you know? It was like common sense. How did she respond to that? Oh, she didn't like that. She didn't like that, she freaked out. If my family knows I married a drug dealer, they will beat me. Her family, it's interesting because
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Before I got married, we met each other, we dated. We met each other, it's a, in a document, it's like, some part is like a love story. I met her in 1997, I'm sorry, in Albanian party. And that time I was, you know, my name was the best in Albanian community. I was, everybody used to know it's Albanian mob, Albanian gangster, very good reputation, driving Mercedes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
few years in United States, you know, not a lot of immigrants can do that, bulletproof car, you know, all these things. I start dating her for a few months and I'm picking the phone, calling her parents, you know, to get engaged. And the first thing her father asked me, what do you do for a living? I said, I work in restaurant. How long you been here? I said, I've been here three, four years.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He said, I cannot give you my daughter. You know, you just want to marry her because you want to become US citizen. but I was very granted asylum. I didn't need to get married with my wife to become US citizen. I said, look, sir, I don't need to get married. I have my papers. I'm traveling to my country. I don't have no problem with the papers. No, he said. And he hung up the phone.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, okay, if you hung up the phone, then we start. We engaged. And she took a vacation with the parents. We planned everything. And so in June 97, they're going back to Kosovo. And they are on vacation. And after a couple of weeks, I'm going on vacation too. But I decided with my wife to get married. And I told my family, I'm going to come to Kosovo and make a wedding party and get married.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I'm going, the parents in Kosovo, they don't want to give me to get married. They told her no. And I said, look, are you going to get married? She tell her parents in front of me, you know what? I love my husband, my boyfriend. We was engaged and I'm going to go with him. She had a choice. It was 20 years old, 19, between 19 and 20.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So she left the family and come and got married with me in Kosovo. And then we come in US in 97, 98 my first daughter was born, April 98, and the second daughter was born in September 1999. But those years then I started drug dealing, working, always. I always used to have a job, so to be good to the government side, paying taxes and everything, but doing drug dealing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And your wife, she found out before you got married or after? After. She found out after we got married. And you kept doing it? I kept doing that, yes. Then money was sweet. Money was sweet. Did she come to terms with it? Then I used to take her a couple of times, a few times I used to take her with me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I used to go, then I start changing, working myself, working with Italy only, not no more with Albania. Now I build a relationship, friendship with Italians, and I used to work myself in Italy. Then I used to take her with me just to look good in airports, like a couple traveling, just, you know, like... the customs not to be suspicious in what we're doing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I used to take her and just fly from JFK to Italy, always using transit. Even going to Italy, I used to always use Germany.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They never thought I was working for Italian. I was working for myself, but I have a good relationship, friendship with mobsters. So nothing like I'm under them. I'm also in my own, but not under mafia. So there was no... No, not suspicious anything. I never, I always keep my loyalty to Albanian mobsters. How did the conversation start with the Italians? I learned the language.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
That's where I was, I start my military training for war. That's a little different than regular training. That's how I came out to see one of the worst criminal, Rajnatovich Arkhan. And there was volunteers, I was regular military. And we start those training and stuff and one time, I never talked in my life. CIA know this part, but my family, of course, knows.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The conversation started, reputation building up. I built my name from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. So when you build in New York, you're hanging out with mobsters, you know, always become friends, drinking together every night in the bars, and that's how, you know, build a friendship with them. How did they approach you?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
how they see, how they're respecting my people, how they was respecting me. They used to know I came from the military. They used to know I came from the war zone. We used to have a conversation when we in a club, we always talk, you know, I was there, you know, we did this, we did that, you know, then now you become strong, you know, because... I barely saw anybody being in the past like me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I didn't see anybody coming from the war like the way I came. So it was like only me in the group beat. Of course, there was guys in the street life where they did crazy things, beating, breaking legs, breaking arms. There was guys like that. But to them, still, they can do that, but if Benny get crazy, he can shoot us. So, Ben is respected. It's among ourselves.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We can play and joke, but still, we got to respect him for his past. So, you saw him breaking people's legs and... It's not eyewitnesses, but I knew it when they came from the situation. I knew it. They broke somebody's legs or, you know, I heard they shot somebody in the trunk. They told me we shot somebody and left him in the car, in the trunk. They would just tell you this? Yeah, yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
There's no problem. And I know who was the person who got shot. Give me one example. It's Albanian. It's considered like a traitor to them. And I can think his name because it's a long time. And they told me we shot so-and-so and then I found out he got shot and they left him in his car in the trunk.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then I know people got beat up, breaking legs, breaking jars and stabbing knife and stuff like that. I used to know, I went far, I used to know son-in-law of the Jangari, Karmai. We was in the same room in the prison. I met John Junior from Gambino crime family. I met boss of Colombo family. I met Genovese boss with one of them, Anthony Spiro, who passed away in prison. He was my cell partner.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He was head of the Genovese. Anthony Spiro was life sentence. He was my cell partner. So I spent time with co-founder of the Bloods in New York, Pistol Pete. And his son is in Florence, Colorado. I was very close with him. He was my cell partner three years. We went along excellent. Wow. Did you know who these guys were at the time? Not at the time. No? No.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In the beginning, some of the mobsters I used to know. Like from the Gambino, for example, one of the two brothers, Saul and Tommy, I knew there was a wise guy. There was a, you know, very strong in a rank in a Gambino crime family. How did you eventually get picked up? It's, again, it's my past. In prison. In a prison. I tell you, this is the best part of the story of the life. That trip, Sean...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I did not do that trip. I was set up. I was not involved in that trip. When I get arrested, it's a mistake of the US government. When I say mistake of US government, how informers was using government. So informer, one of the informers, there was two of them, he came out from the prison. And what he did, I start lending him money. We used to do lawn shark a little bit.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And he sent somebody in Pakistan for drugs. He's there today, he's deceased in a prison. They said he got killed or something, but it's not my problem. I don't care, he deserved, he got what he deserved. And this guy, he, who set me up, He said, one day we're coming from the Bronx to Queens. He said, we used to call each other son. He said, be careful, maybe government one day arrest you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They can tell you I'm informer, but I'm not. Sean, when you don't have no, when you're not in a system, federal prison, look, you have a very strong, good experience. I see you part of the life story. You've been in a SEALs, you've been in a intelligence agency, and it's excellent experience you have. But it's a different, my experience, you can know the laws a little bit. I don't know the laws.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When we was in the training, you have some pictures we can demonstrate if you want later, in the camp. It's pictures in the camp. I was ordered, it was stolen weapons in that camp from those volunteers. And when we say volunteers, it's two different groups. I was in regular military, and there was those Chetniks volunteers. Those, they're butchering people, women, raping.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Only time you learn the laws, today, speaking with you, I'm like a paralegal. I know the law very well. I can tell you about the US laws, you will never believe it. So I'm coming, informer telling me, hey, be careful if they arrest you, they can tell you, you know, I'm working for the FBI. I don't believe. One of my first cousin told me one day, look,
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
cousin, don't trust Nick because Nick is FBI informer. I said, come on, Nick cannot be informer because he knows me. I come from the war. I will shoot him. You know, he's fearing me. But I learned all these two years when I was friend with that informer, when he talked to his family, he always mentioned my name because his phone was tapped.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So if something happened, he get killed, so they know his family, who he was with, you know? So every time he's with me, he talk to his wife or somebody of family and tell him, oh, I'm with Benny, Benny, Benny, Benny, Benny. And then one day he got me paranoia and I told him, son, how come you always mention my name in a phone? Oh, no, no, just because I love you, okay? One day we play in pool
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And somebody called him from Greek. He was deported. He was arrested and deported. He stayed in a federal prison. But this guy went in a bathroom. So the phone rang and rang and... Clionthi, the guy who got killed was Vito, Albanian guy, in a trunk from the past story we was talking. It came in my head. His name is Vito, Albanian name. So he got killed from one of the Albanian mobsters.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He was shot in the head in a trunk. So now Clionthi is the guy, Albanian, who called him from the Greece. This guy is in the bathroom, the informer, but he's my friend, my ex-friend. And I answered the phone, his phone. And this guy cursing me, saying, hey, you mother eff, why you not answering the phone? You effing snitch, this, that. I said, yo, who you talking to?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, I'm not Nick, I'm Benny. Oh, I'm sorry. Where is Nick? He's not answering my phone. I said, he's in the bathroom. He said, you know, he's an informer. I said, really? So you had a lot of signs that says this guy was an informer. But Sean was too late for me. This is, it coming in 1991. It's very, government is very investigating me. They watching me. So I'm very followed from the U.S.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
government, from the FBI, MDA. So it was no more, only choice was me to stop, but there still was building case against me. So what he did, He asked me to do a favor to send him $21,000 in Pakistan. I did wire from the Western Union. I make that mistake in my name.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I was young and it's not like I thought, I used always myself to say, hey, he's gonna be scared to snitch me because he knows my past. But he didn't. He snitched me and... I don't want to use that. It was informal. You know, we're trying to be more polite in the language so the viewers not to think now I'm going rough in the people. And I sent $21,000 to somebody who was in Pakistan.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And he was connected to one of the most wanted. You have a picture with Bin Laden. So he was supporter of Bin Laden. I saw picture with him and Bin Laden after I went to Pakistan. So now I wire $21,000 and this guy comes back in somewhere November 1999. And he get arrested in New York. but he doesn't tell nobody. He gets arrested in six or seven Albanian group of the mafia.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Everybody goes in jail, only this one get bail. So now everybody rumors, how come this guy get bail? Long story short, he doesn't call me, he doesn't come to see me, he owns me $21,000. So informer Nick, He tells me, you have to go yourself in Pakistan, me to pay you the money. But he was setting me up. Now it's not, I'm not, I'm 100% clean.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Those with a group of Rajnatovich Arkhan. And since the military officers saw me like I was a little kind of skilled soldier, they put me to be security not to allow nobody to move in a base. And group of six or seven of them, they tried to sneak in, and I tell them, you cannot go in, stop. And they don't want to stop.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm according to the US laws and I'm witnessing today in this interview, I was 100% clean. I was never dealing with heroin, never dealing with Afghanistan or Pakistan. All I was dealing with cocaine with Italy, never with terrorist. So I was always used to think if I give them money, so that money is going to support terrorists. So I was keeping myself because U.S. was to me my dream place.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So regardless what I do with Italy and the gangs and mafia, long as I keep myself clean with terror group. So I don't mind dealing with mafia. I mind dealing with terror group. So this guy sent me to Pakistan.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm taking a first trip in February of 2000 in Pakistan. That's my first trip in my life in Pakistan. I'm going over there, not knowing nothing, country never visited in my life. Landing over there, I took my wife with me. which is strictly over there bad, but I never took my wife when I was meeting.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And now this informer has a good, strong relation, friendship with one of the Pakistani wanted, he's still wanted today. He's in the still FBI wanted list. And I'm going, his name, I can say it, I don't mind to say his name. His real name is Mir Kazim Shah. He lives in a tribal area in Peshawar, Mardan. It's a city, Peshawar, near the Afghanistan border. So he's still wanted from early 90s.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He's still in FBI. He's indicted twice in... Eastern District Court. First trip, landing in Karachi, Pakistan. From Karachi, Pakistan, I'm going to Islamabad, Pakistan. In Islamabad, I'm waiting for this guy. But this guy, he knew what he wanted. He was very smart. And he doesn't come in my time. He call in hotel, and hotel tell me, you have phone call from guest. And he said, it's you?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, yeah, it's me. I'm going to come and see. I waited one week, 10 days. He doesn't want to come and see me. And I'm calling the informer. I said, that time he was my friend. I said, he said, this is how it works. You got to wait only in his time. Then one time he show up nighttime. He doesn't want to get caught up in the cameras and stuff. He walks in. He's known Amir.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
AKA Amir, but his real name, Mir Kazim Shah. He said, hi, how are you? Good English speaking. At that time, he was easy. I was maybe 26, 27. He was for sure 40, 45. Said, look, you want to do this? I said, yeah. I bring some money. I give him, if I don't make mistake, another $20,000 cash to him. So for the trip. So he preparing five kilos of heroin. to bring it back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then second time, because that's how was our rules, you ask them one time to stop. If they don't stop, the second time you pull the gun, you put the bullet in the chamber, and you're ready to shoot. And they don't want to stop. That's first time in my life I shoot in a people. That was June or July of 1991. And I was age 20. I never talked in no media this part of the story.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I took, after one week, five kilos of heroin. How he did it, Sean, it's a good part. When we were sitting, I start hanging out a few times. I want to visit him. He took me to Afghanistan to see how they grow in the opinion. They have maybe at least 5,000, 6,000 security. Those Afghanis with AKs and stuff like that. But I was clean shave. It's different than working for CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I was like clean Western guy, no beard, no nothing. So it's a little bit different than when I work for the CIA. He took me over there. He said, look, we're going to plan this trip. But I want to tell you one thing. I know I'm wanted in the U.S. government. He tell me straight up, the first time. When I went in his house, he tell me, I'm wanted from the U.S. government.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I want to be bad guy, I can send a bomb the way I'm going to send the drugs. And you can leave it in JFK and blow the JFK. That's what he told me. In the first trip, in 2000, we talking. When there was not too much Al-Qaeda skin. You know the Al-Qaeda because you have experience. But now the rest of the world, you know, So at age 27, I meet him first time in somebody who hates the US.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then I see picture with not just him, with bin Laden in a crew, black and white picture. And he's in one of the corner, bin Laden in the middle. He was a former Mujahideen. He was shot in Afghan war. So he fought with Mujahideen's Russian war. So he's a former Mujahideen against Soviets. So he's not young. And we're talking nice conversation. He taking me to Afghanistan, coming back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I stay, I think, around three weeks. Where did you go to Afghanistan? Do you know? Near the tribal area. We passed through the Mardan. We went from Balochistan side. And I went as far as Kandahar. We went to Kandahar. I was in Kandahar. One time, I think, we visited for a few hours Mazar-i-Sharif.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So we spent those tribal area where it's always controlled from, that time was complete control from Taliban. It's not Taliban after collapse. So time when I was there was control of the Taliban. And nice, I came and bring. The drugs, it was excellent.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He wants to bring me in. He wants me to kind of recruit me in, in debut. My interest was just to take that drugs and bring it and get my money. My interest was nothing be Al-Qaeda, not supporting terrorist. My interest was to bring that drugs so I can get my money and finish this. So I bring the drugs. they bring the drugs, they pass the customs in Pakistan.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They bring it in a bathroom after you do all the checkpoints. Because in Pakistan, they pat you down. When you enter the airport, they pat you down. But the police, of Pakistani police, this guy has an old connection, police brings the drugs in a bathroom. So one day before, I meet the police outside, and I know that police is going to bring the drugs. So he bring west. with wearing himself.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So now when you pass the customs, Pakistani customs, they open the luggage and they put the tag that luggage is searched so they don't have to go through. And they patch you down, you go to the alarm detector and everything, and you clean, you pass the security. Before you board, it's a bathrooms. So he goes, the police goes first, he comes and watch me and I follow him.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So he goes in one bathroom, he takes his vest in the bathroom, he comes out, I enter the bathroom, I wear the vest in the bathroom. So I'm clear in the customs. Now five kilos of heroin, vest, it's in my body. So now I'm just waiting to board. When you board an airplane,
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They checked the ticket, it was screened back, the carry-on, and they know they don't have to touch it because it was went to checkpoint. But drugs is in my body. So I'm coming now from Karachi to Shannon, Ireland, and then from Shannon to JFK. When I come to JFK, I passed one time. But first trip, I came from Karachi to Canada, Toronto. I never came back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yes, it is going to be good.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
First time in my life. But when I said I didn't talk, CIA knew everything. So when you come to... I did a polygraph test to the CIA. But we're not going to change the subject where it's beginning. And... So you shot in a group of six or seven volunteers of the Chetniks, the worst Chetniks. You have the picture. I did send it to you guys, the picture.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What I did, Sean, we planned the trip for me to avoid suspicious, because when you come in customs here, they ask you where you coming from. And if you tell them you coming from Pakistan, they will right away suspicious. But when you tell them you coming from Canada, it's no problem, you know? But in Canada, when I come, look, Sean, I want to just to understand something very clear.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You plan this kind of life in an intelligent way, you to avoid detection. We planned this before how the government function, what can avoid tracing you. So when you come in from Pakistan to Canada, and in Canadian customs, I said I couldn't get a straight flight for JFK, I have one day to stay in Canada. So you just...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, one word, you're lying to them, protecting yourself, because Canadians, they think, okay, you're going to go back to New York tomorrow, so they don't need to ask you if you're bringing anything, you know? You clean, just transit one day. You understand?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So then, when you come in in Toronto, the next day, when the customs, you come straight, because in that time in Canada, you pass the customs only Canada. When you come in LaGuardia, you go straight in the street. They don't search you. They don't ask no questions. You pass in the customs in Canada. So I'm clear. I bring the drugs, five kilo. That's the first trip. How many passports did you have?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
All my life, I did maybe 12 or 13. 12 or 13 passports. Yes. Where would you get the passports? It's very easy. Everywhere. Like four or five times, I had the passports from CIA. Four times at least. not those ones yes mine mine it's uh maybe at least six seven times buying from the people they would just make them for you. No problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And come with my passport, original travel document, U.S. travel document. I used to use my name so I can be clear. I would not show the passport. I had a visa for Pakistan because, you know, to go in Pakistan, you have to have a visa, regardless if you're a citizen or anybody. Everybody who traveled to Pakistan, you have to have a Pakistani visa. You have the visas and passport.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I used to use two different passports all the time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Using two different passports.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm coming in May 2000, coming, getting arrested. When I went in May 2000, I'm going to make it short this because we have a lot of story, and he's setting me up. Now it's clear I'm not dealing. I'm going second trip because those first drugs I bring, he said it's no good, informer telling me. But informer saying to the FBI and DEA, I'm dealing with Ben, different Ben, not with Nick.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
All the drugs, he's telling the government, I'm not dealing with informer, I'm dealing with totally different source. But he's a double agent. He's profiting himself, he's using DEA and FBI. He's giving information. But he never telling the DEA and FBI he's dealing with drugs. I'm dealing with somebody. So he's only informer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So he's profiting from himself in a drug dealing and he's profiting from the government paycheck. It's a double agent. So then he's telling me, you have to go back, bring another five kilos. I said, come on, man. I go. I had a bad accident over there in Pakistan with horse. I'm not bringing drugs. two different people bringing drugs from Pakistan to Germany.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I shot in them with the AK-47 like nothing, like first time in my life shooting to the people was that in age 20. Did you kill them? I cannot say if I killed, but they don't want to say it, but I know everybody was laying down in the ground. Nobody was moving. But I pulled the trigger, and I know I'm a sharp shooter. I don't miss easy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In Germany, somebody else supposed to come. What informer does, him and his wife, sets up my sister-in-law, and my wife, so my sister-in-law to come and bring the drugs because his wife used to know my sister-in-law. But I'm with those two different carriers in Pakistan. So we bring in the drugs, then in Germany I see my sister-in-law and my wife was in Germany.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I got mad, but there was a last minute change plan. So he planned, so my sister-in-law get arrested and I take the blame. So now we coming from Germany to JFK, they're letting me go through. Informer give information about my sister-in-law. So now I pass the customs, then I see my sister-in-law get stopped and my wife. And that time it was my daughter with them, baby.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
This is one of the worst mistake in my life. I never forgive myself. This is the worst part. And then I walked in. I walked in and I said to the customs, I'm with them. I said to myself, I have no choice. But the agents, the custom agents played me very dirty in my life, very unfair. In the United States, you have to have Miranda rights.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The agent, custom agent, I remember his name to the day I die, Jamal, he left the door cracked a little bit. And my baby, my daughter, year and a half was walking around, and he's in the office with me, me and him. He said, sir, you have two choices. Or you to take this blame, or us to take your daughter to put in a shelter to somebody else. And I didn't know my rights.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I said to myself, you know what? It was a very hard feeling moments. I said, okay, let my daughter go home. I take full responsibility. I take all the blame. I didn't do that trip. I said, I'm a man, I will take the blame. And then let my daughter go home and let my wife and my sister-in-law, I took that. But I was happy. If I was given right, no.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I was happy I saw my child going home, because I make a mistake. Every father will do that for the child. And I get arrested, put in a prison, sending me to Metropolitan Detention Center. This is not first time in a prison, but regretting my mistakes. How father can let that? You know, I was meant to die. I was meant to be killed. I was meant to be shot.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But, you know, not to take a blame for your child. Every normal human being, we do that. And this is the part when I get arrested and I say to myself, you know what? It's okay. I'm going to pay this. I did that. But we missed... How old was your daughter? Year and a half. Only year and a half. She was walking. The oldest one. Before, in the drug dealing time, I was involved with KLA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm very good in the shooting, so maybe one of them went down, but definitely I did shot in a group of them, and then that's how I become like... very honor to the military, Yugoslav military. Like, you know, they, I create a trust. And then we still continue in a training camp in a city Shabbat. Exact, I will... You didn't go to make sure they were dead or anything? No, I cannot.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We missed one of the good parts. In 98, 99, I went from here to fight to help my people in Kosovo war. One U.S. bombing was in 78 days Yugoslavia. I was inside fighting for my people. I was also another war join, Kosovo Liberation Army. I volunteered from U.S., from New York City. I didn't stay long, four month. until the war finished.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then when I came from the war, I was very, like, extremely good reputation. Like, they used to look me like I'm a killer. They used to look me like I'm two different wars men. You know, one in Croatia, one in Kosovo Liberation. I'm very brave human. So now, getting arrested and not taking a blame, you know, it's... I get charged with conspiracy to import one kilogram.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Were you a killer the second time? I was warrior. What did you do? In a war. Fighting against Serbs. It's bottom of my heart. Not even thinking second thought. If I have to kill, I will kill. Did you kill? It was shoot. It was shot. You never go to see victims. You always distance. But you always shoot it. It's a war.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So if I have the gun with me, I'm in a war zone, I'm defending my country, defending my people, proudly, proudly. If I have to do with two countries, I will fight even today. I have no problem to fight for U.S. I have no problem to fight for my country. If they call me today, I'm volunteering anywhere, any zone. I have no problem. I get arrested.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I've been put now in a prison among the middle of terrorist, all kind of groups. You name it, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, Al-Aqsa Taiba. I want to share one of the pictures because it's very good pictures with, I have one of the pictures in a prison, maybe one, two, four or five different members of terror groups. with me in prison. I become very quick muezzin in a prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You become what? Muezzin, the leader of Muslims, calling for prayer and become, prisons are run from the Muslims. Every federal prison runs from the Muslims. So I become a strong leader in a Muslim community. I start dealing with the FBI and DEA, cooperating, taking my blame. When I took my blame, I was promised to be released in a short period of time. I got two years to hold pretrial prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So in 9-11, I got caught up being in a cell, with one of them of four or five guys that bring the bombing from Canada to LA, 2,000 million in bombing. One of the terrorist was my cell partner. I can mention the name, it's not a problem. It's public information, it's, you know, Mokhtar Haruri, Algerian born with Canadian and Algerian passport, Rassam and Meskine.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
There was three or four of them, the smuggling bomb from Canada to Los Angeles that time in 2000. So one of them was my cell partner, and dealing with FBI and DEA, but You know, now 9-11 become. So September 11, I'm in a cell with one of the terrorists, but he was not convicted yet. He was only arrested. So it's 2000 and 2001. So he got arrested in a Los Angeles bombing and bring in a prison.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Hopefully we're planning soon. I don't have too much control over that. It's people involved, but it's going to come soon.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So he become cell partner with me. First flight hit the Twin Tower. I'm in the seventh floor. My room, cell, it's the Freedom Tower. You can see both buildings. Hudson River, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. I'm in Brooklyn jail. So now the first flight hit, it's morning, 8.45, if I don't make a mistake, Tuesday. And this guy called me. In a prison I used to be known, Amir.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Same way, it's nickname of the wanted guy, Mir Kazim Shah Amir. I choose that name because Amir, it's kind of in Arabic, it's a leader. So , so leader of believers. So now I'm in a prison known, prison name Amir. He jumps on the bargain band and happy. God is a great, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. This is from my leader. He's happy now. And I'm looking, I'm a former KLA member.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You're not allowed because the officers come and escort me right away and they took them out and we're not allowed. It's strict rules, if you shoot, then they have to escort you, keep you in a safe place for a couple of days. And I was given a pistol extra from one of the officers in case he said, if you get problem with one gun, you have a extra spare gun.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm a very patriotic to United States. I was 78 days bombing US, Yugoslavia. Now I'm thinking if I kill this guy in a prison or not. It's my mixed feeling. How can be this human happy when I'm die hard, I'm a Muslim, but I'm also die hard patriotic. I love the country, US. So what I do, and I tell him, Habibi, come on. He said, this is where my leader, and he's continued dancing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're watching the first plane hit. Now it's coming the second flight. Hit in the second tower. I witnessed that. Because when I give some interview, I see the questions, all this conspiracy. Look, it's BS. I don't care how people think. I saw with my own eyes the second flight. I don't care what people think. I care what I see. You can tell me, oh, no, it's not true. It's true. I saw the flight.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What's behind? It's not my problem what's behind, but I know terror attack was. I saw that second flight. So now I'm staying with him in a cell. Next day, he coming from FBI and CIA counterterrorism unit. Complete institution is shut down. I'm watching people jumping from the tower. Both towers collapsed. I'm seeing all day. It's not the way you see in the movie. I'm witnessing with my own eyes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Regardless if I'm in prison, but I'm still my heart now. Now what I'm going to do? How I can pay back? They start bringing a lot of terrorists. The first day, In my life, I met the counterterrorism unit from FBI and CIA. They came to speak to me. It was September 12th, 2001.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So next day. So this is how I start myself to pay back to the US. I said, you know what? If I get in prison killed by helping government, I don't care. because I know I'm doing good. I don't care how they're going to say, oh, somebody was killed because it was informal. No, no. Me, I was looking my side. My side was I want to be clean to the Americans.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't care how about terrorists and Muslims look me. My point was American side. They came and sit down with me first day. This is how my journey started with the CIA. From that first day, and then the first name of the CIA I ever spoke, Sean Lentz. After second day meeting with the FBI, phone rings.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm walking, they opened the common area in seventh floor, I'm walking with one of the Taliban member. in a prison, and they're calling my number, 5482-0053, and I'm looking, two corrections officer over there, quiet in a prison. But there's still debris and burning of the twin towers is there, because my cell, I was in J71. J71 is pointed straight my window to the twin tower.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Only Hudson River separates. It's very close view, you can see it. And I'm going to the correction officer. He's saying, somebody wants to talk to you. I said, okay. I go in the counsel's office like a legal phone call. He said, you're attorney because you have right to talk to the attorney. And this is how I introduce. My name is Sean Lentz. I'm calling you from a CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
This is the clear conversation. We need your help. Are you willing to help us? I said, anything I can do from today, I will do it. Right off the bat, he revealed. No question, nothing. Regardless how I felt that moment when my child was with me, I forgot everything. I said, you know what? I am going to help the U.S. Intelligence Agency. No problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I tell them, anytime from today, you can count on me. And I start dealing. They start bringing a lot of terrorists from the streets. They're picking up all kind of people. from the street bringing in prison. That time CIA was not prepared, the U.S. Agency was not prepared for the 9-11. Regardless how much they say, look, Sean, I read
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So he kind of liked me, and he gave me his personal gun, and I kept for a couple of weeks or a month.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
in a prison, I will mention the name, maybe you even met the guy. The best ever two books I read, it was Imperial Anonymous. Two of this book, he was Mike Scheuer. He was in Bin Laden's unit, 25 years, investigating Bin Laden for 25 years, CIA agent. I read both of his book, the best books in a prison. I read all kind of book. I read the book of the George Tenet and that's the time
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I start, it was George Tenant, chief of the CIA, and the chief of operations was James Pavitt, running the agency. Head of the CIA was George Tenant, James Pavitt was running the field agency. So this is my first step with the CIA. in September 12, 2001.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Did that bother you at age 20 to potentially kill? Honestly, I felt very great because I knew that I was shooting in Serbians, and we considered them enemy of my country, enemy of my people. And in my, for example, I didn't talk too much Serbian, From all these 35 years about this, I left because, you know, sometimes legacy is good to leave in the end of the story of your life.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He said, we need your help. I know you're Albanian. I know you've been through with federal prison, with prosecutors. We're not like them. We're different than them. When we say things, we do it. And now we're going to bring a lot of people. We're going to need to find out who's who. Because, Sean, in a prison, When you're in the beginning, you speak right away because you need help.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Like you're in the middle of ocean and you're drowning and you see shark and you think shark gonna help you because you're drowning. So in a prison, when you get arrested, you don't know the laws, you trust people and you tell them. What's going on? So that's how I got to come out through a lot of Al-Qaeda members, a lot of people that was supporting Al-Qaeda, giving them money.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, the most dangerous was with the terror group, financial is number one. It's not hard to find the foot soldiers how much it's hard to finance. So for the intelligence agency, it was important to find out who's financing them, then to find out who's the foot soldier of Al-Qaeda. So foot soldier is not hard. They brainwash 18, 19 years old, 20 years old, 21, 22.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Some people, they have a bad past in their life. That's how they brainwash them. But finance, they get from higher level Muslims, like business people who wants to donate charity. So they want to know that. I start dealing with the CIA. For a year and a half, I was in contact always with Agent Sean Lentz. So I hope when he see this interview, he will remember me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I dealt with him from September 2012 to 2022 until I was transferred, designated to Pennsylvania federal prison. So roughly two years I dealt with the CIA in that time. What was in it for you? Did they pay you? No, they was promising me they gonna cut my sentence and recruit me to work agent in a street after.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I revealed a lot of the guys, for example, there was Al-Qaeda supporters, Al-Qaeda financer. I met with a guy who met Bin Laden after 9-11. So I met with a group of Lakhawana Sikhs. They met with Bin Laden after 9-11. So I was with them. I was with Yemeni group. I was with one of the Hezbollah member who was kidnapped in the Adriatic Coast early 80s.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't know if you remember when the TW pilot was shot in hijacking. Hezbollah member, he was with me. So it was a missing body of the Israeli soldier, and they was trying to get the information, but it was something very interesting, Sean. CIA was interested to get information from informers. Even people admitted in things, I'm gonna give you a little small detail in a short points.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, in Islam, for example, if you get arrested, you can even say you're not no more Muslim. They train them and that's only one thing I don't like in religion, if you get arrested, You give up all the information and then you say to the agency, okay, I can be with you, you know, and then you lie. Then you go in the street, you become again terrorist group, you know, terror members.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, you never get burned with a terrorist group. Even today, I give you example myself. We're going to come to the point how I was offered from ISIS. to become leader of ISIS, not a foot soldier, a leader of ISIS. Even being somebody suspicious if I was a CIA spy, they call me, I spoke with very high ranking ISIS leader. Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was a muezzin. They come in, we talking, we eating, we praying together, we reading Quran together. So now I'm picking. They would tell me, for example, I will say one name now, just his last name, Seria. He was a Hamas member. So he told me, I'm not Al-Qaeda member, brother, I'm Hamas member.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But my family knows very well the story. My kids know very well. And it's 100% true. And I communicate after 35 years with officers who helped me 35 years ago. I have communicated just recently, a couple of months ago.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So he never admitted to the government anything, but he was telling me because we want to know who's member of Al-Qaeda in a group, in a prison who's member of Hamas or Hezbollah, who's a Shia, who follows Salafi Salehin, who's the first three generation of Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him. So I found out, I tried to find all this information through communication with them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And that's how I was sharing the information with the CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If it's a threat or if it's innocent. if he did something or not. If somebody was really innocent, I would say, look, my opinion, this guy has nothing to do, he was just pick up like a wrong time, wrong place. He has nothing to do with this.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I saw people got released, not just because my opinion, but, you know, at least they wanna, you know, how they're acting in a prison and if they're saying something. And then the biggest part, when I met with all these terror groups members, I built my reputation. The CIA advised me, so it's, they, insurance was, so I can build my name among the group, Sean, these people, they talk.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I'm in a prison with them and they said, oh, we have a brother, Amir, it's very strict Salafi. He's willing to fight against US. If he come out from the prison, he's going to be number one Mujahideen. You believe or not, 98 to 99% of the correctional officers in a prison, they all used to think I'm going to be future leader of Al-Qaeda from the prison when I come out.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But they didn't know I was a in the CIA side, in the government side. My beard was up to here. I learned Quran. I read Arabic, write. I learned for at least four months Arabic. I become imam in prison. Among terror group, me, white Caucasian, to lead terror groups, you have to be step of head to know the Islam more than them. And especially when they know
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They are retired in a former Yugoslav military, and they said, we was proud what you did that time. And what did you call them? Did you call them Chechems? No, it was a Yugoslav officer, Captain First Class. It was regular officers in Yugoslav military. So that's Serbians, Chetniks. Chetniks. So when I shot, I shot in the Chetniks. So this was Yugoslav, regular Yugoslav military.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I, to the people who was interested to the CIA, I used to tell them, look, they kidnapped my daughter. I took this blame. I was not doing this crime. I was not involved. You know, a lot of the fanatics, when you tell them you got arrested coming from Pakistan, they don't think you was coming because you was involved from drugs. They think you was involved with Al-Qaeda.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So right away the trust came out for me to become very powerful in a prison. I was strong in a prison community. And that's how CIA advised me, build your reputation in prison so when you come out, You can be straight inside of Al-Qaeda high-ranking position.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Almost decade. And learning Islam a lot. Like I can freely sit and debate with any Islamic scholar. I'm good, knowledgeable. any Islamic scholar, I can talk about religion, no different from Al-Qaeda members, not foot soldiers. We're talking high-ranking Al-Qaeda. That's how they accept me, by testing me, what kind of knowledge I have in religion.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Then it came out very easy, using my family, how they hold my child, like a kidnapping. How long were you working for the CIA inside of prison? From September 12, 2001 to the day I was released, December 2007, 11 December 2007. All these years. I worked with the CIA. I want to be very clear. I worked with the FBI, Counterterrorism Unit. All the agencies used to come and talk.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Every time, anything. Sean, it was a lot of different terrorists. It's a lot of different members. I had Al-Aqsa Taiba from the Virginia group. I had the Iraqi war there, Ali Tamimi, Ali Shandia. All these, they are in Florence, Colorado. All this group, they was getting arrested after the war in Iraq. So it's not like just a little bit Mickey Mouse.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We are guest in May 21st to May 26th in California for six days. And after that, I will find out what's going to be the next step. But I am in California, in Hollywood from May 21st to May 26th. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was a lot of groups of people, a lot of dangerous people. So I was always among the most dangerous groups of the terrorists. It's not like something small, not like a foot soldier, like Lackawanna Six or... I'm going to come back to the story in 2016 when I met the leader of Al-Qaeda in a group of five in New York.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They got arrested, but we don't want to change the subject from this part to the end of the subject, the story, because we're going to come out as the leader. You would never believe what he told me, how he wants to become a leader of ISIS was the reason why he wants to become leader and why he wants to become ISIS member. I was in shock what he told me. I was in shock.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're talking in a prison where he told me why he wants to become ISIS member. Why? He wants to have a woman. He never had a woman in his life. He wants to go get those slaves over there, those Yazidi and take hostage the woman in Syria. This is the only reason he become a jihadist. That's it. Crazy. It's not for religion. It's against religion. Absolutely. And I can show it to you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He's now in prison. He's in a federal prison. I said, brother, are you crazy? You telling me you want to fight sake of God because you never had a woman. I can date woman anytime you want. You in America. He's a born American. It's not a convert. He's born US. And he wants to become an ISIS member. He's the ringleader of one of the five of the group. He said because he wants to have a girlfriend.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He wants to have a slave. He wants to have three, four wives, five wives over there. I know the guy who shot another jihadist. just to take his wife. That's not Islam. We're going to come to the point you will never believe it. People are not going to, they're going to say, this is crazy. This is like you want a prostitute. You don't want to fight sake of God. This is how they brainwash them. Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So it's a little too different. My officer didn't like them because he knew they are criminals. So he liked us. So he liked the regular military, but he didn't like the volunteers. Wow. Because volunteers is the one who commit the genocide. Wow. And what about the beheadings and the rapes?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Look, I will tell you this. I'm sitting in a yard. I have a lot of tattoos in my arms and stuff. I have AK-47. I have a tattoo right from his Bula member, his handwriting. And I'm sitting in a yard with a tank top and one of the informers, Albanian, He asked me, what do you have here? I have a AK-47 and it says, God is a great. And I said, that's Bin Laden's name, but he doesn't know Arabic.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
In 24 hours, Sean, FBI come in my, in a federal prison. Remember, not all the agency used to know I'm connected to the CIA. You know, it's very strict control. They don't share the information. It's not like a lot of times I was, informers used to give information about me, giving information to the government. I'm a terrorist. I'm very fanatic, but I was linked to CIA.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was never fanatic, but people, I was interviewed from FBI in prison. I was interviewed from DEA in prison, a few times from the FBI. And this guy, in the morning, they're calling me, go to Airbnb, meaning you're going to visit the room. And I didn't have no visit. And when I walk in, two FBI agents. I'm sitting down, my name is so and so, we wanna know what kind of tattoos you have in your body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They put me in a strip room, naked, they look my tattoo, they taking picture of my tattoo, can you tell me what you have? I said, this is God is great, another one, I be a witness there is no God but Allah, and another part here, here I have a Islamist religion of peace in Arabic, sign of peace, all this thing. They're taking picture, and I start laughing with the FBI. I said, I'm sorry, sir.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We're keeping between us. Informer Antoine give you yesterday information. I was in the yard working out. He asked me about this. Don't dependent with this informer. And I told him straight up, I work for CIA. Straight in the prison, I told him the FBI. If you don't believe, call so-and-so. And then they never came back. They said, I'm sorry. If you are like that, we apologize. They walk away.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They took him from the prison right away because they thought if I go back in the prison, I will stab him or something because I'm a leader to Muslim community. In a prison, Sean, when I was a leader of Muslims, I used to have bodyguards. I used to have Muslims. There was 150 Muslims. If I was given order something to do in prison, I couldn't put the prison shut down completely.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They was going to do my, whatever I was telling to do. It was a time I had to prove myself I'm a good Muslim. I had to beat somebody a few times, not once. Two times I used to beat a Muslim. One is Pakistani Muslim, one Lebanese Muslim, because they had the problem with a gang group. Now gangs, not to stab them, I was ordered to prove myself I'm a good jihadist.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I witnessed those volunteers, Chetniks, did to the Croats. So I witnessed a woman got... I know one part, for example, it was a woman didn't have a 12 years child, kids. She had a baby. It was a nine month or 10 month old. They killed the baby in front of me and the rest of the soldiers and they raped the lady. And then they killed the lady too. So I witnessed that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I had to go beat them in a bathroom. I had to beat them. One was bleeding. So I can prove myself, I'm a fanatic, I'm a sympathizer, I'm a jihadist. So I had to do that. And the CIA knew it, FBI knew it, I did that. SIS, the best ever in federal prison. I tell you this, he has your past 100% because he was with Navy and Marines. Lieutenant Lyons, the best ever man of American deal in my life.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Lieutenant Lyons, I hope you hear that, he was the best man. He knew everything what I was doing with CIA. Every connection, every conversation I needed, I was going through him. Every special things I was needing to do, special visit with my family, he was just telling me, Blame when you need to do that next week. I do it for you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
That was the best ever from American agency who treat me good, that's the Lieutenant Lyon in a FCI Alamut Penitentiary.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I had that one time – After I got my status from the immigration, phone call for two minutes, private, saying you don't have to worry too much now about documentaries and stuff, just enjoy your life, keep yourself low profile. And here you are. Look, Sean, I'll be very honest. If I had to go from beginning, I swear to God, I would do it from beginning. It's just the mistake of the agency.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They promise you, they promise you. The biggest problem, I want to highlight this, the biggest problem at the U.S. government, when you have a source like me, for example... Give a chance to have somebody, if I have a question, because if I deal with the agent, I dealt for a year and a half, if he make a mistake, I have nowhere to complain or to ask questions. Everything has to go through one.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was somewhere in August of 1991. I was present myself. And then there was another story. A former Yugoslav military guy finished his service and he came to visit his family in the city of Vukovar. It was one of the most dangerous wars in the city of Vukovar. So he came in that to visit his family because he finished his service.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The best intelligent, you have to have another second source, you know, to see what's going on. If the agents make a mistake, because I know agent, I was not perfect, John. I mean, I'm sorry, Sean. I was not perfect, but I was the best.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When you said why, and people wants to know why the best, look, I was not Afghani, I was not Iraqi, I was not Syrian, I was not Jordanian, I was not none of this, but I came out to operate all of these places. I went, I believe strongly if CIA was still going on to support me and work, I believe strongly I will go meet the Bin Laden. Not that I want, he will ask to meet with me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Because I came out to meet very high ranking leaders. And you know, in terrorism, this is how they go. The way they got my record from the people in the prison families, my name, that's how they go, oh, you know what? The Amir, let me see what he is. if we want to make him a leader in Balkan to recruit Al-Qaeda members or how we can use. That's how terrorists work.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They're desperate to have somebody like me in a group. It's white, Caucasian, somebody who have the skills to pass any airport. Sean, believe or not, If you tell me today, can you go in this country, I promise you in one week I can go in any country you point. Today, the way I'm exposed, if you tell me if you can travel to any country you say, one week, 10 days, I will be in the country you say.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I have no problem. I'm not young, but I still, my head works. I can do still things. the government agencies, sometimes they have an issue among themselves sharing the information. We're going to come to the point, there was an issue with them, they're trying to recruit me again after I came in the US in 2015. But they said a lot of agency has to be in a loop. I was not exposed yet.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The biggest problem, the biggest mistake they make with New York Times. When president say there's a lot of fake news, trust me, it's a lot of fake news. Why? Because New York Times put me in the first page. I was arrested for jumping something. I was never, ever, Sean, arrested in that. When they arrest me, I don't want to come to the story, this is like to the ends of the story.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When they arrest me in 2016, It was over 50 agents arresting me. Bin Laden didn't have that kind of agents. Helicopter with a sniper was in top of my car wash arresting me. And when they arrest me, I'm reading the names of the agents. They're all from New Jersey, not from New York. But in meantime, Sean, I'm meeting with head of the intelligence of New York, John Mueller.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was meeting with him like with you, with him and five of his workers in my lawyer's office. Why would you burn somebody who's meeting with John Mueller?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, I think it's more than that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's, you know, agents, they have one problem. They like to cover each other. Even if you're wrong, they want to cover. Because when I give information, Sean, I want to be very clear. I didn't talk about this. When the Al-Qaeda told me not to be in a blue area in Pakistan, I updated to CIA. Sean, I can tell you, I was communicating worldnewsrub.com. I had my code and everything.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And when I update CIA, I said, look, Please tell them, because it was in blue area, a lot of Americans. I see, because I was there. I watched. You know, them, they don't know who I am, but I know them. I can tell when it's supposed to, if it's an American agent or not. Like you, for example. I can tell. Why are you in that hotel?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When they found out he came over there, they killed his father and they killed the former soldier who served in Yugoslav military. And they shot him from the behind. They execute him, they kill his father first and then execute him. I witnessed that too. And then another part, this Chetniks, you have the pictures. They throw hand grenades, they put a woman and kids in one of the basement.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When I tell them, please, share this information because it's in a blue area. They're trying to send suicide bomber. Believe it or not, less than, I think, 24 hours, there was a suicide bomber and killed all of them. And he failed to update that. When I came to provide the information from the field back in the Balkans from Pakistan, he said, fuck, I fucked her up. I said, why, Chris?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I failed here. He couldn't update it. That's why all those people got killed. I was not spying in an agent, but if he make a mistake, he should say, you know what, I'm sorry I was late, I couldn't update to the CIA this information. I did update it from over there, right away.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said, look, it's gonna be tomorrow, after tomorrow, suicide bomb in this area, and it was suicide bomb, and I think four or five Americans got killed. So I don't want a credit. I don't want nothing. I didn't work this job because I can make money. I make money in normal life. He just respect me, said, you know what? Let's help him.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Why he got to go through the process of immigration when he was working for us? I didn't want it to be hero. I don't want to have a medal honor, but... At least, you know I did that, I have my family here. Who wants to do this dangerous job? It's very hard, especially when they start hearing this story. Look, while I talk to you, I know who works for the CIA today from my country.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I found out in my way, it's nothing. It's piece of garbage. He doesn't even know nothing. So you cannot have somebody in charge like that person, for example. They take him to train him. They train me too. I receive training too. I was trained from CIA. I don't hide that. You know, I'm capable to do anything. You tell me you want to do bomb, I can do the bomb. It's no problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And do you think Al-Qaeda don't want a member like me? Even I'm exposed today, they will take me tomorrow. Even if I'm exposed until this moment, they will still take me. They want a man like me. But why you want to avoid to have to CIA somebody who can help me? I couldn't translate things. I couldn't even decode the phone conversation. I know how they communicate the terrorists.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So why you want to like make... And look, it's crazy. We're talking like it's very interesting part. I had the sources. I was receiving information from inside of the job of the CIA just recently. Look at who I am. I received a lot of crazy stuff from the CIA in Virginia, we're talking, from the base. What CIA told people about me. CIA tried to spread a rumor very bad about me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's not to be trusted. How can I not be trusted? You burn me. And then they said, oh, we cannot, one of them said, we're not denying, but we're not accepting. You know, hey, I'm coming. I show you the picture with the Stinger missile. You think in U.S. soil you show that picture and you don't get indicted from the federal prosecutor? In heartbeat. But I was a CIA spy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I don't regret that, never. To the day I die, I'm proud of what I did. And I told my kids, if I had to do again, I would do it again. But at least treat me, man. I deserve to be treated, you know. Tell him, look, judge, this man doesn't need to be in immigration court. It's our man. It's not easy to, it cost money to train somebody like me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It cost, hey, agent came from here to train me overseas. I was in a training camp from the agent from US. So you spending all this money and losing the source like that, Come on, it's not normal.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yeah, yeah, the maximum, the highest amount I did receive one time over 40 grand, one shot, 40 grand cash.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I remember family last name Chutura, I helped them. They throw hand grenades in the basement and me and one of my officers, he's originally from Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but it was a regular military. He said it was around 2 a.m. He said, let's go, we hear the noise, they asking for help. We went in a basement where we saw in that basement all murdered, killed women and kids.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
No, not the payment. I was never accepting no more money. Just to tell the immigration judge, look, he deserved to be with his family here. He did for his family. He has a wife born and raised here. Every country in the world, Sean, They give a chance to somebody. I did mistakes in the past. I'm not clean, I'm not saying, but I deserve to have a second chance to be with my family.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I don't need to be arrested in 2016 and expose myself. They couldn't be low profile, give him his papers back and let him enjoy his life here. He deserved, he worked for us. He put his life in a dangerous to protect us, to save our country. So why we don't go and just give a, just signature, paper. I didn't ask for anything. Just a paper, tell to the judge.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He deserve to be here, let him be out with his family. I was $50,000 bond, 50 grand here for five years. And they investigate. Sean, they recruit a woman who cleaned my room, my house, I'm sorry, overseas, and gave her paper today. They brought her from overseas. She was cleaning my house in the city I used to, I was born. I was alone. I was paying her. I feel bad. Family member.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Just what she's tell them, I have a weapons. CIA knew it. I love weapons. I had the trucks, this room, it's nothing. It was four times, five times bigger than this, full of ton of weapons. But we pulled with the CIA from bad guys, from Al-Qaeda members. It was not my weapons.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
First time or second time? First time. I finished my time. You finished your time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I can be in the street working. Yes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What happens then? I'm going to the U.S. Embassy in 2008, walking in. asking, because before I got out of prison, I want to just, so it can be clear, two times I was interviewed from DOD, Department of Defense, two months before I got from the prison. They tell me, when you get back home, you want to work for us because maybe you're going to look good if they deport you. I said, yeah, no problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And what's going to be exchanged? We'll bring you back. When we promise you, we do it. We're not federal. This is always their word. When we promise you, we're not a federal prosecutor. CIA, keep the words. This is what they tell me. They promise me they're going to bring me back, help me. They say, you are going to be safe for rest of your life.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You're just going to keep your mouth shut, not to expose anything. I couldn't keep my mouth shut if you left me in the middle of nowhere. I get interview, I'm going back to U.S. Embassy in Macedonia. Walking in, meeting Mr. Devin, the best ever CIA agent I met. If he was still working with me, I would be maybe more happy. And I hope you hear that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Mr. Devin, he's the one who I started working with them. I did polygraph test, I signed the contract agreement, everything at the embassy. And they tell me from today, you work for CIA. You have a paycheck, you have all expenses paid, all the travels, whatever you're going to need it, we are here to support it. All we need now, you to collect information to see if you can come up to Al-Qaeda.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
We are interested to know if it's Bin Laden live or dead. And if you work yourself in a circle of Al-Qaeda, we'll be very happy and we're going to help you. And I said, I have no problem. They helped me. They was giving me money, no question. They paid my vacation for my wife and kids in Turkey and all these things. It's no problem.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And even today, even today, I am very grateful to the immigration. They allowed me to stay. Today I'm clean with the laws. I have no issues with the laws. Absolutely. I'm like normal, like it's just the problem I cannot travel overseas. They don't give me no document to travel overseas. I can be here, enjoy my life. I'm working, paying taxes, everything. But it's still not enough.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It couldn't be, you know, right path. My wife is born and raised. I have right to do adjustment of status so I can become U.S. citizen. My wife is born here. Every country who has a wife citizen, they still can give a chance. They don't deport them. My three kids are American born. My family's all American.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And I went in, and it was a little slippery. And I said to the officer, you have any match or anything? Because it's slippery. And my foot was inside of the baby's body. Right inside, at age 20. And It was an old lady over there calling for help in Croatian, pomogni mi, pomogni mi, and I went and took the lady, she was all butchered from hand grenades.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Mother, father, sisters, brother, all of them, even they passed away, they was American citizen. So why you abusing me? Why you went? I would never go in a media or documentary, even this documentary, if they was not going to arrest me in 2016. But they arrest me, I look like a piece of garbage. You train me, you know how much skills I have. What do you want? And I believe...
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I also believe, Sean, sometimes maybe, you know, some different informers, they want to get the credit. They think maybe, oh, you're going to become terrorist. Never. I commit suicide myself. I hang myself. I will never go against the country my kids born. Never, ever. It's impossible. So maybe informers spread these rumors to the sources or maybe Vladimir can be Al-Qaeda member or ISIS member.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Never, Sean, again, repeat it. I would never, I would hang myself, never be Al-Qaeda member. No terror group. I have a beautiful kids born American. I don't go against my family.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I'm going to the Macedonian embassy meeting with CIA agents. Okay. In embassy meeting with the CIA agents. How do they contact you? When I go over there, they put me in one room, small room. I give my ID. He came down and he said, give me a half hour. He go in office. He said, welcome back. We know who you are. All the details. He said, we're going to have to meet the next week.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
How did they initially contact you? Was it a phone call? No, I went to them myself. You went there yourself. I went to the U.S. Embassy in Macedonia myself. So to see my rights to come to United States.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then they told me, we know who you are. Come here. Then they make a meeting next week with me. We spent six, seven hours. They said, look, we know what happened with you. We know what you did in the past. We know what the prosecutors did, but this is the best time for you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Everybody knows here now you got deported, how they got arrest your family, holding them, this and that, is the best time you to be covered, to work for us, and we can bring you back. This is my first step, how I started with the CIA in 2008, field agent. Was there any discussion of pay at that initial meeting?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Payment, I had in beginning, first week I started with 400 euros, 700 euros, 1200 euros, then 2,500 euros a month and the whole expenses. And they said, we're going to help you to be with your family. Nothing more than that. No extra payment over this. But they said, always we're going to keep you safe. And so when did you take the polygraph? I think after a month or two.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
If I don't make a mistake, my first trip in Pakistan when I came back. Just to see if I'm double agent or just for the CIA. How long did that take? It took a couple of hours, three hours, I think two hours. One polygraph? One time, yes. You passed the first time? Yes, first time I passed. Right on. Not a lot of people pass that. I passed first time. And they told me. And they told me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Look, Sean, we're going to come to the stories. You will never believe what I did. And even people, they're going to say, what are you lying? I don't, Sean, in United States, if you make a story, you commit perjury, you get charged. It's a federal crime. I cannot come and say, hey, this is who I am or this is what I did.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I cannot come and say, I was trained to build a bomb so this way I can show to terrorists I can build a bomb. So if the federal prosecutors know that, in two minutes they will arrest me. I say that a few times.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What's that meeting? The next week meeting, we signed the contract. It was three agents, two male and one female. I remember like today, we spent like five, six hours that day in the embassy. And then they instruct me first, they said, build a enterprise in your city among the community. And then next trip start using the phone contacts you had in a prison. I had from Yemen, from Saudi Arabia.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I took her out, less than 10, 15 minutes, she passed away in my hand. I tried to help her. And then after like, Start seeing all this, then you get used to. It's a war. Of course, you're young in age, but when you see all this thing, then it becomes like it's a normal. You're in a war, war you have to do, you have to defend yourself, protect yourself, you not to get killed. And we did the best.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I visited, I went... I was guest to number one, the strongest Grand Mufti of Saudi. I was invited. He never knew what I was CIA spy. I was his guest. I would use the sources from family, prisoners, from being in terror charges. That's how I came out to build my name so good. I didn't even believe. There was a time I didn't even believe they trust me so much.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I said to myself, if I'm a sick or liar or something, how come they invite me so much? But I found out from the people. I used to use sources, you know, just to build my reputation. They can bring me in.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
With the CIA? Yes. First, there was how to communicate with people, language skills. And then they advised me how to do weapons deal in case. So this way, if the Al-Qaeda try test you or if you need to pull some weapons, They teach me how to do this, like we put a lot of bombs and explosives from bad guy's hands in the Kosovo, in Albania too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I took with the trucks all the explosives, TNT, C4, you name it, rocket launchers, Stingers, all of them, and all with my hands. When the CIA took them, they took like in a package, like all, when they bring me trucks, CIA brought me trucks, They're trucks. I loaded the truck myself with my people. You know, you have to take the detectors and all this, you know, so not to explode.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So I took one by one all the detectors, all the explosives. We have mines, landmines, all this stuff, put it in a truck, and the CIA took it and they destroyed it. And so how long was the training? It was, like, Like, I can tell you easy, like three, four months you can put always training when I meet with them. Like every first week, second week, eight hours, nine hours, eight hours.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It was a time, three days we never come out from the place with the CIA. Three days. Sleep day and night. how to deal, how to communicate, how to use the weapons. Three days, never come out from the place with the CIA, with three agents and me. Where was it? Where? In Macedonia. In Macedonia? Yes. They used to have safe houses everywhere.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Then they used the bone steel in the military base in Kosovo.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The first person I was sentenced 25 years or 30 years in a federal prison for supporting Al-Qaeda, his name is Salim. He was in prison. He introduced me in his family in Pakistan. And what did you ask him? I told him, when I come out from the prison, I'm going to join Brothers. Everybody knew it. When I come out from the prison, all the fanatics, all the terrorists knew it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
The first day they're going to deport me, I'm going to be joined as a jihadist. All of them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
First, he took me his brother to somebody, and that's how it started with Beytullah Massoud, the ringleader of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. So right off the bat. It's second time. Second time. Yes. And what would these meetings be like? When I meet him, when I give oath to them, they took all my clothes off. They took me with those motorcycles. They changed the car. They played.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Look, I want to say this so people can know. I knew... Sometimes they don't trust easy, but they use word, oh, we're going to put you in a trunk because if the checkpoint is police, we are from here, local. So if they see you foreigner, we're going to give them more excuse to question us and to check us, the Pakistani agency. So I said, okay. They put me in the trunk of the car for a few hours.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I was right inside of the trunk. I didn't see nothing. drafty roads and whatever, you know? Then when they put me inside, I met Abu Muhammad al-Masri. He still wanted, he's still in his life because I was reading one of the books recently for Ali Sufyan, he did it, he was a... former CIA for 10, 15 years after 9-11. He wrote the book and I see his picture, the one I was meeting with him.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
For me, for example, we never shoot innocent civilians. Even I was more poor Croats. I was more able, dreaming to help Croats because we are more close with Croats than Serbs. Serbs is Chetniks who are ally with Russia. And we consider all this enemy. So the Serbs and the Chetniks are the same. Same. All the same, yes. Chetniks are the base of them, the more fanatics.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He put in a book he still wanted. So he was there. There was another jihadist from Egyptian, but born in, fought in Bosnia. He speak Bosnian. So when he speaks, I speak Bosnian too. So when he talk, And then he tell me, brother, you still want to be with brothers? I said, alhamdulillah, that's why I'm here for. And then he hugged me and he said to introduce me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He never introduced my name to nobody. Only Amir or Abu Medina. So not to be known where I'm coming from. So Amir or Abu Medina is our new mujahideen with us. Wow. Were you nervous at all? Not at all. Because I had the strong support. Only nervous, I was just afraid not to be leaked. So then I get killed. And how would you communicate back to the CIA? Worldnewsrub.com.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I tell you, here is, I give you the detail. CIA never knew it when I was in the field, Sean. If I had to update quick something, I used to call my wife and talk to her in Albanian. And she was updating, but this is where I broke, this is where I make a mistake. Because I was told nobody can know this, but my wife knew it. I told my wife, Sean, I told my wife because
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I thought if I get killed, they're going to think I got killed in a drug dealing or something. At least somebody to know I'm working for the government. So they can be one day proud. Look, my husband got killed working for CIA, not being drug dealer. So this is the reason I told my wife.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So my kids grow up, they don't want to hear, oh, my dad got killed in a drug deal somewhere in Pakistan or overseas. But to be proud, my dad was killed because he was working for our agency to protect us, to keep us safe. So this is why I told my wife. And then... When I need to update it, I give a code to her, worldnewsrub.com, and I have all those numbers to click it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then she was writing whatever I tell her in Albanian, because over there was more easy somebody to spy on me if it's a different language than Albanian. It was not Albanian. Nobody was Albanian over there. In Al-Qaeda at that time, it was now, yes, but at that time it was nobody Albanian, only me. So I was feeling safe. And I was telling my wife, okay, tell them this, tell them that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then she was going to computer and updated. CIA never knew my wife is updating from New York City. They always knew that I'm updating from somewhere, those internet cafes and stuff like that. But I did it also in internet cafes. I did update the CIA. And I used to look around where it's poor neighborhoods. I used to go, like, I'm looking some Quranic stuff and then I'm going to my website.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Then I'm deleting complete and I'm coming out. But I was always careful because, you know, when I first time I give oath, I stay, I think, three, four days, if I don't make mistake, in Al-Qaeda camp. Then after four days, I went back and stay in the guest house. So I had the chance to update.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
There was not, Al-Qaeda, Sean, Al-Qaeda recruit me the way I saw, they thought I was going to be leader to recruit foreigners in Balkans. This was their goal. Not me to be like a foot soldier the way you saw in Iraq throwing RPG and stuff like that. They was not looking me like that. They was looking me like to be high rank in Al-Qaeda. So this is the interest of Al-Qaeda in me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And this was the best opportunity for CIA, you know, to have me like that. And so what was it inside? How would worldnews.com work? I will show it to you if you want later from my phone. It was very like you go and you click in World News, it comes news. Then you have in a site, log in. You don't think if you don't know the website. And then you have a login.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When you go login, it comes a little small place. You put your code, your numbers. I had the numbers. I don't want to mention that. I don't want to, you know, something exposed is not good. And I was clicking that. Again was giving me another code. And then it was open me. And those communication you see, write and type in. and then logging out and disappear everything.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Another option I had, I used to have some white papers somewhere when I travel. And if I need to write it, I will rewrite it. If they stop me, I can put that white paper in the water and it melts everything. And you don't see nothing no more. You just put the white paper. Yeah, everything.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Yes. And I used to have also GPS some places. When I used to be in a weapons or if I was in dangers or if I was tracing something or I want to buy something, I used to click it and they used to know what button I click it and they know where I am, the location. So it's connected. It was a small piece like that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It's like a yellow and black. You don't talk. It's a tracing device and has those buttons. If I was in a danger, I would click it three times, and they would try to help me if I'm in a dangerous situation. So if it's something for location, I used to just click one. If it's for weapons, it's two times. Only three times I was appeased to click it if I was in a danger, so I needed help.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Like we have Islamic radical Al-Qaeda and stuff, so Chetniks are in Serbians like that. So if we compare with Al-Qaeda, so Chetniks are like Al-Qaeda. And they were doing this to your people? Not to my people, to Croats. Then after a little while, when they started war in Kosovo, they was doing to my people. But first, this was 1991. And to my people was 96, 97, 98, 99.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
It never happened. So I was never in a situation of danger.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
What did they want that cell of al-Qaeda to do in the Balkans? So to see if it's going to be a threat. If it's a threat to U.S. troops, if it's a threat to somewhere, if it's a threat because it was planned, we're going to come. It was a plan. They thought I'm coming here to attack. with few guys. For example, I have to date, now we say they are our friends, like a new leader.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
But I know somebody who's in a group, you have in a picture, he was in prison with me, got deported. He would never, ever be pro-US, never. And I was close to him like my brother. And I know him like, if he can't nuke us, he will nuke today. But maybe today the thing is now become a good friend, it's a freedom fighter of Syria, it's not.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
He's a leader of freedom fighters in Syria now, but he was Al-Qaeda member, he become ISIS member. And I used to, we're going to come to the point, I used to communicate live from New York City. FBI was telling me to communicate with them in 2015, 16, 17, not 17, I'm sorry, 2014, 15, 16. I was communicating live.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I spoke to leader of ISIS from New York City, Abu Omar al-Shishani, live, like the way with you, but through the signal. I was talking, he bagged me and I told the FBI, look, tonight 10 o'clock I'm gonna talk to them. And I give the number and they hear that, they see it. We talk in 2015. He said, please brother, come to us. We give you anything you want, we need you here. This is ISIS. Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Absolutely. What kind of bombs? With TNT, C4, all kind of explosive. I can do with pressure cooking things, all those, you know, homemade stuff.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I can do anything. You name it, I can do it. I'm good in the guns. I'm good with the weapons. I'm very good. I can tell you. I shot with, you name it, all the U.S. military weapons.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
you name it i shot with every one of them snipers rpg it's a piece of cake you know those kind of weapons is nothing to me you know i'm like that and i love the guns so it's a compromise in both things training that me and in my nature i love them I cannot leave no guns.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Do you want me to give you one specific one time when we was training, when we was with agents in the field with the CIA? They throw me somewhere in the middle of crowded community. And they want maybe three, four cars of CIA to follow me with their sources if they're going to catch me. You never believe. Whole day they watch me, they couldn't catch me. Whole day they following me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You want me to tell you what I did? Second quick plan of me. I went in a mosque. Now they know me, that day I was with tactical clothes, with a 511 black. So now, CIA agents, they're following me. They see me when I came from the truck, pickup truck, they know me, blaring was with tactical, and I'm walking in a mask. Now they're waiting for me where I'm going to go. What I did, Sean,
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
So in 91, I was in a Yugoslav military. Jeez. How common was this? Look, it was not unusual. Like, from my generation, like... Even when I've given interview before in like short interview in English, one of the newspaper, I see people who I grew up, they don't know me much because we was young, 15, 16 years. And I don't talk about stories like that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I went, you know, in a mosque sometimes you have those gelebiyas you can wear so you can be praying clean, and the scarf and everything. And now all the agents, this is how they're smart, 10 or 15 of them. I don't want to, you know, insult them. So now they're all waiting how I'm going to come out, you know, with the black clothes. I wear all the white clothes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I took a scarf, you know, everything, and I walked out. And all day I walk away from them. They couldn't find me. In the evening when we was a place to meet, they all watching me, they gonna catch me, they couldn't find me nowhere. I'm just knocking to the window. And they got stuck. Oh man. This is the trainer they had.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
And then when I told them, now when I knock the window, I'm knocking them with a black loss. They said, please tell us right away how you come out from that location. And I put the, you know those clothes, they become like that. And I pull from outside, inside of my shirt, scarf and everything. I said, this, sir. Fuckin' told me. How you thought you gonna wear this so quick?
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Because I thought you guys gonna watch me with the black clothes. Our training was, you know, if you're going to catch me, yes. So this is my skills. So I need to do whatever it's good for you not to catch me. This is what I did.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I think so. I tell you, too. I think so. I should train them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
When we're going to pull the weapons, I'm going to come to the point when we pull the weapons.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
They was drunk. You can't believe we're pulling like this room weapons, two or three CIA agents, they're all drunk. They couldn't even talk. Imagine you make a small mistake, whole the city goes in the air. And I did all myself with them in my city, with American agents. And then you don't want to come to the immigration, say, let me sign for him. Come on, man.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
I go back to Balkans, update all the CIA, whatever I went through. And then Al-Qaeda thing, I'm recruiting. And I bring a lot of people. A lot of people was interested to be Al-Qaeda members. but I give information to the CIA. How would you recruit? Oh, very easy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Europeans, Balkans, soon as they find out you come from Pakistan, soon as they see one stamp, you've been in Pakistan month and a half, they know right away why you've been there. They see money. The recruiters, they thought Al-Qaeda financing me, but I had the CIA money. The Al-Qaeda thought they helping me in Balkans, people like from the charity, because it's no paper.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
You know, Al-Qaeda cannot trace me where I'm getting the money. In Balkans, they cannot trace me, but CIA knew it. I had all the money from CIA, all the new bills. Whatever I needed, they was offering me. Anything. Here's the money. Sign here. Get the money. And so what was your pitch to recruit? To see who wants to be Al-Qaeda members.
Shawn Ryan Show
#198 Blerim Skoro - CIA & FBI Asset / Al-Qaeda Infiltrator
Brother, I was meeting our Mujahideen brothers over there. Alhamdulillah, you know, they're doing good. They're interested to recruit brothers, you know, so we can fight these infidels. They're very easy in that. And especially in the young generation, it's like nothing. Like, Really? No. Look at Sean. Today, my country is becoming breeding ground.