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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina-Europe and the United States should stop insisting on the unification of Bosnia's two ethnic ministates, the Bosnian Serb Prime Minister said Monday before leaving for Washington. Milorad Dodik, prime minister of the Bosnian Serb ministate, Republika Srpska, and the biggest opponent of unification, threatened to call for further division of the country and the creation of a loose union of three ministates. He and his biggest domestic political opponent, Haris Silajdzic, the Bosnian Muslim member of the country's Presidency, are scheduled to meet with the U.S. envoy for the Balkans, Daniel Fried, and U.S. Undersecretary of State...

May 21, 2007 9:31 AM PRISTINA, Serbia-The United Nations mission in Kosovo has ruled that Serbian Orthodox officials can continue building a protective wall around a church that serves as its local seat. The executive order, issued by Kosovo's top U.N. official Joachim Ruecker, overturned a decision by local officials in the western town of Pec. It will stay in force until the disputes are resolved, said U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko. Kosovo's local reform minister, Lutfi Haziri, had asked the U.N. to suspend the decision of municipal officials to stop works on the wall. The local officials had claimed the...

May 21, 2007 2:15 PM Bratislava (CTK) - Some ethnic Hungarians are seeking political autonomy in southern Slovakia, Jan Slota, leader of the ultra-nationalist Slovak junior ruling National Party (SNS), told journalists today. In the future, Slovakia can lose its part as Serbia did in the case of Kosovo, in which Albanians prevail, Slota added. "Some people from the ethnic Hungarian minority in Slovakia are starting a campaign for political autonomy," Slota said. He said that various T-shirts and printed material with a map of the area in question were evidence of this. Serbia was in the same situation two...

The war in the former Yugoslavia ended eight years ago but illegal arms trade and training of Islamic terrorists continues across the Balkans, particularly in Bosnia and Kosovo currently administered by EU / UN Missions. Reports of such developments came also from Gregory Copley. In his article “Strong warning indicators for new surge in European Islamic terrorism” he says that, “Intelligence sources in the Balkans and Middle East indicate that the Iranian and Osama bin Laden terrorist networks, assets and alliances built up in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Southern Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans are preparing for significant new...

After the 9/11, a worldwide “War on terror” begun in order to disband and neutralize Islamic terrorist networks across the globe. The main focus of the largest anti-terrorist campaign in history is focused in the Middle East area, as well as in Afghanistan. The Balkan Peninsula is the European area where this campaign has also taken place, with numerous arrests and a continuous effort into riding the fundamentalist out of the area. The question arising though, is how did the extremists gain a foothold in South Eastern Europe in the first place, and what was the reaction of the international...

Recent statement by the departing Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge that a profile of a terrorist must be described in a different way is an encouraging sign. Ridge said that al-Qaeda is actively recruiting terrorists among the white race: Bosnians, Chechens and among the Muslims integrated in the Western society, in particular, women. The new profile of a terrorist - the white al-Qaeda - removes another constraint in the battle against the islamic terrorism that has become a world struggle. The bad part of the Ridge's statement, however, is that it has come relatively late, and that it is partially...