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October 29, 2004

US expert believes Osama network active in Bosnia

Bosnia, of course, is held up by some "experts" as a bastion of Islamic moderation. And in many ways it is just that; but the moderates' lack of a theological foundation within Islam makes them always vulnerable to radical encroachment. From AFP, with thanks to Ali Dashti:

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina : Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is actively directing terrorist cells in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia, a top US terrorism analyst told a local daily.

Yossef Bodansky, director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US Congress, told the Glas Srpske daily that terrorists responsible for the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad last year were trained near the central Bosnian town of Zenica.

"There is a terrorist network in Bosnia, composed of several well-trained and connected groups, which are directly or indirectly responsible to ... Osama Bin Laden," he was quoted as saying in the Serbian-language paper.

He said the cells were using Bosnia as a training ground and a gateway to send terrorists to western Europe or to hide them on their way to the east if they were on the run.

"The network in Bosnia ... is training and controlling terrorists who later travel to Western European countries," Bodansky said in comments translated from Serbian.

"On the other hand, terrorists for whom arrest warrants have been issued in the west are coming back to Bosnia where 'liaison officers' welcome them and provide accommodation and hiding places, and they are later transferred to the east." ...

Foreign Muslim fighters were ordered to leave Bosnia under the 1995 peace accords, but some of them stayed and obtained citizenship either on the basis of their army service or by marrying local women.

Posted by Robert at October 29, 2004 6:48 AM
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"US expert believes Osama network active in Bosnia"

This is a joke or what??? Osama was working with the KLA back in the 90's -- everyone knew that.

It was Osama and company who funded the resistence against the serbs and who sponsered the wholesale slaughter of the serbs in kosovo in what was latter termed "ethnic cleansing" and attributed to the serbs.

This is what Milosovich was responding to -- and don't forget-- Kosovo was 90% serbian before Saudi money entered into the fray.

Clinton, Albright, Clark, Straw, Blair, and the rest of the gang thought they could "work with" an islamic empire within the heart of Europe once it was established.

Clinton and company kept their end of the bargin civialian targets were bombed in Belgrade; the Serbs withdrew as expected; and a kind of quasi-islamic state exists in kosovo which was historically christian.

Now, its "pay-back" time and "the experts" are shocked????

We knew this going in to kosovo in the first place but the hope was that by "containing, appeasing, and manageing" the neo-islamic state there would be peace of a kind.

Since pax-americana was prevailed in this region; the only thing that has flurished in once peaceful kosovo is: trafficing in young children for prostitution; drugs; weapons of EVERY variety; islamic radicalism; and now -- terrorism.

Well, surprise; surprise; surprise. "Good Morning America!"

Why the hell do you think the Serbs were fighting against bin Ladin in the first place? Cause he was a nice islamic cleric with a cute beard and a nice sheet for an over coat ???????

Posted by: witness [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 7:38 AM

There would be NO problem in Bosnia if Islam had kept out of Europe - but of course the 'Religion of peace' needs constant blood sacrifices and conversion by fire and sword. Once Christian, the inhabitants were either forcibly converted to Islam or killed - does this concern Curious Citizen from Sweden?

Posted by: Morgane [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 7:38 AM

Relevent and timely post at serbianna.com - http://www.serbianna.com/columns/borojevic/011.shtml -
in which former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, James Blissett says this -

"...it seems clear to me that if the Democrats get back into power in the next election, we are
going to find the same old “Serb-hating” gang in power. That is: Madlene Albright, Richard
Holbrooke, Wesley Clark and a number of others. These are all people who are very much anti -
Serb. Holbrooke’s book and his remarks about the Serbs are clearly racist. All these
individuals are committed to a Greater Albania in the Balkans. The Kerry election campaign
is also getting a tremendous amount of funding by the Albanians.

Dutch Television showed a documentary produced by KLA, with KLA members in a room in New
York City giving cheques to Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark. It showed Richard Holbrooke
phoning a man by the name Philips, telling him they collected great amount of money. The figure
of US $ 500.000 was mentioned. It is very clear that if they are in power, the Democrats will
demand the independence for Kosovo."

The Kosovan Lineration Army (KLA) is an ethnic Albanian muslim terrorist group believed to have links to Al-Queda.
It is responsible for killing over 2,000 Serb civilians in an ethnic cleansing operation that has
included the destruction of hundreds of ancient Serb churches and monasteries. 200,000 Serbs fled
Kosovo - their homeland - and are too frightened to return as those who have tried to reclaim their
homes have been murdered or intimidated.


Why are the Democrats so keen to set up these Taliban-like states (Kosovo, Bosnia) in Europe??? Do they really still think defunct Communism is a Bigger Threat today than militant Islam?

Posted by: Benelux [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 8:15 AM

Correction: Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)

Posted by: Benelux [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 12:04 PM

Hmmm. So evidently, you say we bombed the wrong side in Bosnia, eh?
Remember 'Wag the dog" where the president wages a mock war on "Albania". Wish they'd do it for real this time....

Posted by: voletti [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 4:07 PM

Meantime, on the EASTERN FLANK of this badly mistitled “War on Terror” (WWIV!):

Yesterday’s triple terror-bombings in Thailand herald escalating frictions in an already strife-ridden arena in this planetary struggle. The Royal Thai Government’s blamed the unfortunate demise of the 78 Islamist malcontents on Monday, in its southern province of Narathiwat, on “accidental asphyxia during transport”, calling it “regrettable”. (A further half-dozen’d been shot in the rioting for which these men were arrested, three or four more were drowned.)

Whether this steep death-toll was inadvertent or was a show of the nation’s security apparatus’ “Iron Fist” policy against Terrorism, it’ll be of MAJOR interest to see how large and how well-behaved (or wild) the “big street-protests”, which are being promised there tomorrow, will be.

Probably, the protests’ll turn out to be preponderantly peaceful, since the area’s Moslem clerics, marshalling the demonstrations, don’t wish the inhabitants’ century-long Islamic “separatism” to be GENERALLY perceived for what it’s grown into today, a JIHAD, preferring the image of the Islamist violence there as “the victims’ resistance” to Thai “occupation” - excusing “aberrative” butchery as “defence against oppressors”, who create the “desperation” driving the “Martyrs”.

But it’s likely that militant elements, incited and coached by local (and a sprinkling of foreign) “Afghanis”, will want to “TEST” the Thai Police and Army’s ability to maintain order, striking with weapons during the gatherings, hoping to provoke the military into a harsh response, putting the previous tally to shame. They’re bidding to illustrate the brutality of the Government and, so, the “righteousness” of their own indefatigable striving, (ostensibly) to set up a Koranic State.

Through classic “Revolutionary” violence - causing the authorities to deal forcefully with an increasingly propagandized people, terminally alienating them - the Jihadis plot to radicalize the predominantly-Moslem populations of Narathiwat, Patani, Yala & Songla Provinces, eventually garnering a “mass” acquiescence to their seizure of power there and secession from Thailand.

Meanwhile though - much more to their point - they seek to expand a key front and entrench a strong base there, for their planetary Jihad of Terrorism - in order to spread their enemies even thinner (well aware that both Australia and the US have security-treaties with Bangkok).

A chronic, ongoing conflict there, as they view things, will COMPLEMENT the gruesome, contemporary insurrections in the southern Philippines (“guided” by Abu Sayaf, an el-Qaeda affiliate) and the carnage in Aceh, northern Sumatra, Maluku, southern & central Sulawesi & Irian Jaya, Indonesia (except for the first, each is a direct “inspiration” of Jemaa Islamia, el-Qaeda’s old Southeast Asian confederate, culpable for the Bali bombings).

Parallel, incipient, atrocious “Holy Wars” are now being instigated by el-Qaeda-affiliates, based in Bangladesh, in the adjacent Arakan Province of Burma and in India’s Assam. The Jihadis are fully confident that a regional epidemic of such bloody clashes will MORE RAPIDLY usher in the “freedom” of all of peninsular & archipelagic Southeast Asia from the despised “infidels” - once they’re in control - when Indonesia and the Philippines’ve been fragmented, Malaysia’s been infiltrated, Brunei subverted and Singapore physically overrun.

Then, according to their ambitions, it’s on to AMALGAMATING this sector with the rest of the Islamic States, which are meant to be shaping simultaneously in the Middle East & North Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia and East and West Africa. Next, their appetite’s for Australia, Japan, Latin America & the Caribbean and Indochina, followed by Europe and Russia, setting up then to swallow North America (unless Canada, tragically, folds earlier) and India and finally, China.

The Islamo-fascists everywhere burn to build (in the “infidels”’ 21st Century, UPON THEIR CORPSES) their fondest dream - the West’s worst nightmare -their cruel and regressive, arch-totalitarian “Grand Qalifa”, across the length & breadth of the Earth, to hang on FOREVER....

Posted by: HGII [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 8:23 PM


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