Al Qaida 'Active in Kosovo' Claim Serbs

scotsman.com ^ | Sun 1 Feb 2004 | PA

[Hoplite]

I don't know, Destro. How have things turned out in the Balkans?

Oh yeah, sucks to be you, that's how. = )

[FormerLib]

Thanks for that tip!

The bin Ladin network supports terrorists in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Somalia, Yemen, and now Kosovo.

[lepton]

As I recall, there was a top Al Queda guy we killed in Afghanistan last year who was the brother to one of the main trainers of the KLA. Don't recall the name though.

[mark502inf]

The Serbs are following up on American intel: The United States and its allies have warned in the past that international soldiers deployed in the Balkans could be attacked by al Qaida or other terrorist organisations targeting Western targets throughout the world.

Destro, this is lame even for you. An alert "in the past" to look out for Al Qaeda "thoughout the world" doesn't have any more relation to Al Qaeda in the Balkans than truth does to your posts.

[mark502inf]

Mr. Monday, over the last 10 years we've had hundreds of thousands of American soldiers stationed at various times in Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo--or as you put it--"AL QUEDA STATE IN EUROPE". A nice, fat, target-rich environment just waiting for some jihadist to strap on the old bomber belt and take out some infidels enroute to collecting all those virgins. But it hasn't happened! Not even one time. How to explain? Is it that Al Qaeda is not dangerous or or or could it be that they aren't even there? I know that would contradict Serb intelligence officials, but then again maybe that should have been your first clue.

[montag813]

we've had hundreds of thousands of American soldiers stationed at various times in Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo--or as you put it--"AL QUEDA STATE IN EUROPE". A nice, fat, target-rich environment just waiting for some jihadist to strap on the old bomber belt and take out some infidels enroute to collecting all those virgins. But it hasn't happened! Not even one time. How to explain?

It hasn't happened in the Phillipines either, Mr. Tuesday, despite also a large American military presence and loads of even nastier Muslim insurgents directly linked to Jamal Islamia. How do you explain that? Perhaps it is because U.S. intelligence and security for our boys is second to none.

[montag813]

Obsessively bigoted race hate is a really lousy hobby, Destie

Who is "Destie"? You've got the wrong number.

[FormerLib]

Ronly Bonly bin-Laden conducts himself in the manner of the worst of the anti-Serb Nazis (German SS, Croatian Ustashi, or Moslem SS units) that once held power in that part of the world. He is a hard-line defender of the al-Qaeda terrorist network and those who support them, particularly those based in Bosnia and Kosovo.

There is a very small but very dedicated group here on Free Republic that rabidly support the disasterous Clinton policies in the former Yugoslavia.

We would ignore them completely but it is rather amusing to annoy them.

[FormerLib]

And we can guess on how it is to be Hoppy!

"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."

[mark502inf]

Perhaps it is because U.S. intelligence and security for our boys is second to none.

That's what I would have thought, too. But I guess we're both wrong. Clearly, Serb intelligence is better. They have spotted all those Al Qaeda roaming around Kosovo, but our guys who are actually there haven't been able to find even one! And we've been looking for years!

Of course the Serbs must have captured dozens if not hundreds of Al Qaeda in that fighting in Kosovo a few years back. They were all over the place, right? Although maybe the reason they can't seem to produce even one Al Qaeda prisoner is that they were too busy doing other things--I mean, it takes a lot of effort to burn hundreds of villages, especially when you loot them first and then have to rob hundreds of thousands of refugees--exhausting work!

[montag813]

There is a very small but very dedicated group here on Free Republic that rabidly support the disasterous Clinton policies in the former Yugoslavia.

Probably a Muslim. Every Arab and Turk I know despise the Serbs and spout silly lies about the poor sweet Kosovars.

[mark502inf]

A little more about your "intelligence" source:

Stojanovic...headed the Yugoslav army intelligence service in Kosovo during the 1998-99 conflict. A witness at the war crimes trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague has pointed to Stojanovic as the officer who had ordered a mass killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in reprisal for a murdered Serb officer.

[montag813]

Stojanovic...headed the Yugoslav army intelligence service in Kosovo during the 1998-99 conflict. A witness at the war crimes trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague has pointed to Stojanovic as the officer who had ordered a mass killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in reprisal for a murdered Serb officer.

Yes, "mass killings". Give me a break. 2100 bodies found in 5 years vs. tens of thousands in Iraq in 5 months.

[mark502inf]

A witness at the war crimes trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague has pointed to Stojanovic as the officer who had ordered a mass killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in reprisal for a murdered Serb officer. Yes, "mass killings". Give me a break. 2100 bodies found in 5 years vs. tens of thousands in Iraq in 5 months

Montag, you're wrong yet again. The Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) for Kosovo put out a press release about a year ago on recovered bodies and numbers still missing. Excerpts from the OMPF report are below:

· Since 1999, 4019 bodies of victims of the [Kosovo] conflict have been recovered and approximately 2212 have been identified.

· According to the latest version of the Consolidated List of Missing Persons, 4233 persons are still reported as missing, of which 164 are considered dead (but the body has not yet been recovered). · According to the list, 3324 victims would be Albanian and 909 non-Albanians.

Apply the Albanian-Serb ratio of the missing to the dead and you get a total of around 6,000-7,000 dead Albanians. Not inconsiderable if you are an Albanian; especially since the proportional equivalent of that many deaths in the USA's population would be about 900,000-1,000,000.

Nice logic trail, too. Your response to court testimony of a Serb massacre is to talk about graves in Iraq.