Avdil Jakupi
Albanian fighter (born 1974)
Avdil Jakupi (Macedonian: Авдил Јакупи), also known by his nom de guerre "Commander Jackal" (Albanian: Komandant Çakalli; Macedonian: Командант Чакала), is an Albanian commander of Albanian National Army (ANA), former member of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB) and National Liberation Army (NLA).
Life
Advil Jakupi was born on 20 April 1974 in Tanuševci, SR Macedonia (now North Macedonia). He was a member of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac and National Liberation Army. Jakupi led a group formed in 2003. British defense intelligence officer Anthony Tucker-Jones estimated that he had not more than seventy fighters. In the 2000s, he was placed on United States' blacklist. On 27 August 2003, Jakupi and fifteen other members of the ANA kidnapped two policemen. Jakupi demanded that an ethnic Albanian man who was imprisoned for placing bombs in Kumanovo be released. The policemen were freed. The Macedonian National Security Council gave the green light to the police to arrest ethnic Albanian gunmen active in the northwest of the country.
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