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THE BALKANS: Al Qaeda Looking for Blond Recruits
strategypage.com ^ | January 20, 2004 | Q & D Headlines

Posted on 01/31/2004 8:09:43 PM PST by Destro

THE BALKANS: Al Qaeda Looking for Blond Recruits

January 20, 2004: Al Qaeda continues to show up in Bosnia. A Bosnian government official issued a statement asserting that Al Qaeda is looking for young Bosniak Muslims to enlist in a so-called “white Al Qaeda.” Here’s the telling quote, as reported by western sources from a Bosnian Serb newspaper: "Reports by international intelligence services saying that future terrorists will be blue-eyed and blond indicate that Al Qaeda is recruiting in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo. This is why the authorities should prevent radical Islamists from paying young and poor men to go to battlefields and to die there." The “recruiting” is allegedly done by “non-governmental aid organizations” funded by Islamists.

January 13, 2004: Several sources are once again reporting active Al Qaeda recruitment in Bosnia. These sources run from speculation in the Bosnian press to “unofficial” statements by SFOR. The specific targets of Al Qaeda recruiters are Bosniak Muslims who have become Wahabi (the conservative form of Islam from Saudi Arabia). The Al Qaeda recruiters are identified as Islamist mujahadeen fighters who came to Bosnia for the war against Serbia, married Bosnian women, and have “stayed on” in Bosnia. One report had Bosnian recruits fighting in Chechnya. As Europeans, it is assumed Al Qaeda believes the Bosnians are better able to slip through police and transportation security checks.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedabalkans; balkans; campaignfinance; civilization; islam; profiling; recruits
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To: FormerLib
Do the bodies of young children machine-gunned while swimming count? >>>

How many make a "mass"? Do the death of three children justify the massacre of 7000 Muslims?

I am sorry about the three children. But three children don't make genocide. 7000 men do.

I am sure that random acts of terror occur in Kosovo. But don't call it genocide until you can show the world piles of dead bodies comparable to those that the Serbs left behind at Srebrenica.
81 posted on 02/01/2004 3:39:33 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: FormerLib
YOUR buddies, Slobbo. Buddies like Seselj, and the Serbs who threw us the three finger salute in the days following.

I never met a Bosnian Muslim who was the least bit hostile to us, or who supported Bin Laden in the least.

82 posted on 02/01/2004 3:40:57 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: dirtboy
Gee, I didn't realize that Germany and Austria are part of the United States, especially since Germany vehemently opposed the United States pursuing its national interests against Iraq.>>

They are part of our defense responsibility. Or haven't you been paying attention these last 60 years?
83 posted on 02/01/2004 3:43:53 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
...and the Serbs who threw us the three finger salute in the days following.

Still getting that one wrong, I see. Gee, you just never learn anything

That sign identifies them as Serbs, meaning they were saying "We aren't the ones who did this."

I never met a Bosnian Muslim who was the least bit hostile to us, or who supported Bin Laden in the least.

Ignorance is still bliss, I see. Guess that Bosnian passport that Osama carried doesn't count somehow, eh?

And the evidence that will take that dodge away from you continues to mount.

84 posted on 02/01/2004 3:49:05 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: BulletBobCo
One day there was a blonde who was walking down the street,
smacking her chewing gum - - - oops! Won't work. Why not?
Because blondes always have a ride? Nope. Because blondes
can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
85 posted on 02/01/2004 3:52:50 PM PST by Twinkie
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
YOUR buddies, Slobbo

And a look at your buddies, Bonly-boy:

Two of the fighters who took part in defending Bosnian Muslims from Serbs and Croats in 1995 were young Saudis named Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. They went on to play an organizing role in the Sept. 11 attacks and died on the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

I'll bet they're still on your holiday mailing list!

86 posted on 02/01/2004 3:58:06 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Where are the bodies? Why can’t the Hague carnival find Milosevic guilty of anything? We’ve found more WMD in Iraq than ethnically cleansed bodies in the Balkans!

My theory is that Hussein and Milosevic made a deal. Milosevic buried his bodies in Iraq, which we have found in numbers Clinton said were killed in the Balkans. I bet if we look in Kosovo we will find Hussein’s WMD
87 posted on 02/01/2004 4:35:30 PM PST by oldmanlegg
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To: cyborg; Lazamataz; gonzo
cyborg...
You just happened to have that stashed in the computer.

No, no, no!
My computer stash is HERE!

And Laz...
With a tagline of

(WANTED: Pretty, young chick to satisfy depraved desires. Must have clown suit, monkey, and vacuum.)

You need a double dose of this...

Mmm, Mmm, GOOD!

FRegards!

88 posted on 02/01/2004 5:22:44 PM PST by Luke FReeman
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To: cyborg; Lazamataz; gonzo
Try it again...

And Laz...
With a tagline of

(WANTED: Pretty, young chick to satisfy depraved desires. Must have clown suit, monkey, and vacuum.)

You need a double dose of this...

Mmm, Mmm, GOOD!

FRegards!

89 posted on 02/01/2004 5:33:21 PM PST by Luke FReeman (Ugly filters work!)
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To: Luke FReeman
My suspicions about FReeper men have been confirmed... I'm in a den of perverts! LOL
90 posted on 02/01/2004 5:35:32 PM PST by cyborg
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To: oldmanlegg
Where are the bodies? >>>

Nice try. (Here we go again.) I've seen 4000 rotting bodies from the Srebrenica Massacre with my own eyes at the Srebrenica Victims Identification Center in Tuzla. There are another 4000 or so in mass graves which remain unescavated.

Sorry, Charlie. Your Clintonian deny-deny-deny doesn't work when an eye witness is here to state otherwise.
91 posted on 02/01/2004 5:56:11 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: FormerLib
I'll bet they're still on your holiday mailing list!>>

Only gibbering Nazis think that that is humorous.
92 posted on 02/01/2004 5:57:24 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: FormerLib
Guess that Bosnian passport that Osama carried doesn't count somehow, eh?>>>

Guess that old stupid lie refuses to go away. Kind of like bloodthirsty Serb nationalists who believe it.
93 posted on 02/01/2004 5:59:23 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
I’m not trying to pick a fight nor deny you have seen what you say you have, but you seem to be the only one that’s seen it. You need to go to the Hague and testify. Maybe you can be more convincing than Gen. Wes Clark. Milosevic made him look like the idiot I think he is.

If you are from there, and it sounds like you are, I ‘m sure things were and are rough, however the last count I seen was around 900 bodies that were questionable. Even your figures, as bad as they are, are nowhere near what Clinton et al told us.
94 posted on 02/01/2004 7:00:59 PM PST by oldmanlegg
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
You can't defeat truth with mindless anti-Serb bigotry.
95 posted on 02/01/2004 8:07:22 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Only gibbering Nazis think that that is humorous.

I'll guess you have to tell the rest of us then.

So, do you click your kneepads together when Clinton passes by?

96 posted on 02/01/2004 8:09:03 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: Luke FReeman
"...Mmm, Mmm, GOOD!..."

You're a sick man, Dave! I guess that's why I like to hang around with you............FRegards

97 posted on 02/01/2004 9:27:50 PM PST by gonzo (If I got smart with you, could you tell??)
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To: Luke FReeman; cyborg; Lazamataz
Hey Dave - I still got that picture of Rosie O'Donut in my pool!!

She never forgave me, or the pool-girl.............FRegards

98 posted on 02/01/2004 9:35:20 PM PST by gonzo (If I got smart with you, could you tell??)
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To: FormerLib
You can't defeat truth with mindless anti-Serb bigotry.>>>

Which is why I never exhibit any. Truth is truth. You just THINK it's anti-Serb bigotry.

Beam back to this universe lib. You know, the one where Spock DOESN'T wear a beard.
99 posted on 02/01/2004 9:44:01 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones (The more things change...)
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Sorry Bonly-boy, the only "Spock" in my universe wrote silly books about raising children without discipline.

Ask your mom for some of this books. ;-) LOL!
100 posted on 02/01/2004 9:47:00 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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