Posted on 12/18/2003 10:47:58 AM PST by Destro
Last Updated: 12/17/2003 15:31:25 Middle East
GREECE DEEMS THREAT FROM BOSNIAN ARABS
ATHENS [MENL] -- Greece has determined that its national security interests are being threatened by Al Qaida-aligned Arab agents in Bosnia.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Costas Simitis has convened to discuss what officials termed the threat from an estimated 2,000 Bosnian Arabs to the Olympic Games in August 2004. Officials said Western intelligence agencies have assessed that some of those Arab nationals could be training to carry out attacks on Israeli, U.S. or other targets during the Olympics in Athens.
Officials said the threat of an Al Qaida-related attack will be one of the scenarios in a series of exercises scheduled to take place in February and March 2004. They said the United States has been pressing to revise security arrangements agreed upon a year ago.
"Greece, as well as every other country, has the fundamental obligation to safeguard its internal and external security," Greek Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos said. "And it is evident that military planning for the country's security takes into consideration the simple fact that the country is a member-state of NATO and, consequently, our military planning takes NATO planning into consideration."
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Thank you, Bill Clinton, for making the Balkans safe for al Qaeda.
Meanwhile, the US has been in Bosnia since 1996 and hasn't had any problems with Al Qaeda as it is in Afghanistan or Iraq, where a real problem exists and is being addressed.
In short, the Greeks need to worry about finalizing the victory over their own terrorists, who have actually killed Americans, rather than running off at the suck about hypotheticals coming from Bosnia where we've got the situation under control, regardless of what misinformed nitwits with not so hidden agendas for the region would have us believe.
Uh, Hoplite, al Qaeda is a problem wherever it exists or whatever it may be doing or not doing. And Clinton's interventions had the unintended consequences of turning Bosnia and Kosovo into new safe havens for al Qaeda.
The Soviets caused the problem in Afghanistan, and Milosevic caused the problems in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Lay the blame where blame is due, not where it's convenient or expedient.
No, I'm more prone to blame Bush the elder from not following up in Afghanistan - but, then again, we never a full military presence in that country. However, we have turned Bosnia and Kosovo (especially the latter) into lawless zones where the peacekeepers control their bases and the thugs control the countryside.
Not really big on retention, are you.
Milosevic and his goons did their damdest to remove civil society from Bosnia and Kosovo - we are picking up the pieces he left behind and cleaning up where he shat the bed, and doing a much better job of it than you or our Slobophilic peanut gallery give credit for: Bosnia and Kosovo are nowhere near Afghanistan or Iraq, and to not have intervened would have meant either 2 million Muslim refugees in Europe from Bosnia, or 2 million Muslim refugees in Europe from Kosovo.
Remember Muslim refugees in Pakistan from somebody else's war and the consequences that followed?
You seem hell bent on trying not to.
Number of Americans killed by "Bosnian Arabs" in America? 3K+!
Still, keep trying - it keeps you off the street.
Number of Americans killed by "Bosnian Arabs" in America? 3K+!
Number of Americans planned to be killed by "Bosnian Arabs" in Bosnia? Over 3K+!
Al-Qaida Plot Revealed in Sarajevo "in Sarajevo something will happen to Americans similar to 9/11"
You're beginning to refer back to previous threads a lot in your posts.
I hope you're keeping a backup! ;-)
It was Greece that begged America NOT TO SUPPORT Balkan Muslims.
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