TERRORISM-2 Global Network of Islamic Fundamentalist’s – Part II

New Book | July 31 2004 | Darko Trifunovic

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TERRORISM Global Network of Islamic Fundamentalist’s – Part II -Modus operandi- Model Bosnia

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2. OSAMA BIN LADIN’S CURRENT BALKAN TERRORIST LINKS IN BOSNIA& HERZEGOVINA

In his 28 September interview, Ossama bin Laden is quoted as follows: "I can go from Indonesia to Algeria, Kabul to Chechnya, Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir." he continued… "This is not a question of my survival. This is the question of the survival of the Jihad (holy war). Wherever required, I will be there."

Why is it that Bosnia is listed as country with active Al-Qaeda cells? Well this answer to this question lies partially in the fact that former Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic became the first president of the Bosnian Muslims in early 1990, and by November he was the Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency. During World War Two he led the "Al Hidaya" organization, a subset of the "Young Muslims." And, then from 1943 onward Izetbegovic was the head organizer of recruiting drives for the Waffen SS division, "Handzar ," (13th Waffen-Gebirgsdivision den SS) as well as one of its founders. Moreover, Izetbegovic associated with Hitler’s secret services (Abwehr AND the Gestapo) as well as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Hitler’s close associate and the founder of the "Handzar." Religion was an important motivational tool for these fascist divisions, so Himmler even went as far as to allow each battalion to have its own "Iman" and each company had one "Mullah."

Books were produce at that time for a means of encouraging the Islamic religion, and were distribute throughout its ranks. It was even reported once that Hitler himself sent each member of these fascist divisions a pendant with a miniature Koran attached to it. The 13th Waffen-SS Division committed numerous war crimes against the Serbs residing within the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Owing to their many war crimes against the Jews, Romes and Serbian people, the Supreme Yugoslav Military Court (566/46, dated June 15, 1946) sentenced Izetbegovic to five years imprisonment for the many gravely vile war crimes against the Jews, Romes and Serbian people and the Bosnian state itself. After serving this sentence, Izetbegovic continued his work on stoking ethnic, religious and racial hatred in the Bosnian Herzegovina regions where possible, eventually leading to the 1990 Bosnian Civil Wars. His activities were primarily based on both the spreading Islamic fundamentalism and preaching ethnic and religious differences between the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Izetbegovic’s "Islamic Declaration," he wrote:

"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Muslim faith and the non-Muslim institutions, both social and political." Moreover, he continued…"By laying the claim to define its own universe, Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of any other ideology to exist in its midst. There can be no secular principle. The state should support and express the moral concepts of the faith. This is my message to all the Muslims of the world: we say clearly that there is no promised land, no miracles, no Mahdi. There is only the path of work, struggle and sacrifice."

Then on March 14th 1983 President Izetbegovic was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to 12 additional years imprisonment for gross violations of Article 136, Section 2 of the SFRY Penal Code (initiating grave hostilities towards and within the Country), and Article 133, Section 1 of the SFRY Penal Code (committing acts of instigating enemy propaganda). After his sentence, expired Izetbegovic continued working to construct a monolithic Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also was founder of the Political Party named, SDA (Party of Democratic Action).

The Presidency of the Association of the Islamic Clergy (Ilmia) for Bosnia and Herzegovina published in 1992, an enormous printing of its annual Takvim. This writing played a very important role in the Country’s libraries owing to that Islamists would access these radical Islamic Fundamentalist writings in the state libraries and became so-called enlightened Muslims. In one of the chapter’s in this writing entitled "What is actually a Jihad"?, there were among others, these explicit Islamic religious instructions:

"Jihad in Islam is not only a war in the name of Allah. In reality, Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program that aims at changing the social system of the whole world and order it in harmony with its regulations and ideals. (p. 67) Islam wants to destroy all the states and governments everywhere here on earth, which stand opposed to the ideology and program of Islam, regardless of the state or the nation that lies in its power. The purpose of Islam is to establish the state based on its ideological theology program, no matter which nation becomes the bearer of Islam or which nation is undermined in the process of establishing the ideological Islamic state". (p. 68)

Osama bin Laden formed formal military alliances with Bosnian Muslims during Bosnia's (1992-95) civil wars. He reportedly funneled both money and arms intto Bosnia's Muslim-led government and also to other followers of bin Laden whose guerrilla groupings were comprised of Muslims coming to fight in Bosnia from many other Islamic nations to fight alongside Bosnia’s Muslims.

One should not look at the contemporary world for the roots of terrorism used as a means of fighting by Islamic extremists. Though it can be said that contributing causes of Islamic terrorism are social and economic circumstances and the ideological replacement of Communism by Islamic fanaticism, the main cause motivating Islamic fanatics for centuries has been the establishment of a global Islamic state - the Ummah. In this way, Islam itself has been abused as an excuse for the fanatics’ ambitions. There is also the issue of misinterpreting the Koran, mostly by those Muslims who publicly declare Islam a religion of peace while in private dedicate themselves to the pan-Islamic cause that simply excludes the existence of others. Among those who engage in religious manipulation without hindrance – indeed, with approval of the highest religious authorities – are terrorists of the Al-Qaeda network. Bosnian Muslims’ religious authorities and the international community ought to be very concerned that Al-Hussein Hilmi Arman Ahmad, a.k.a. Eslam Durmo, was at the head of 16 madrassahs during the Bosnian civil war, and six afterwards. He was identifying as the ideological leader of the radical Islamic Wahhabi movement in Islamic terrorist circles. According to official Egyptian sources, Eslam Durmo is actually Al-Hussein Hilmi Arman Ahmad, born 14 January 1960 in Cannae. Egyptian authorities suspect him of felonies such as document forgery and the 1997 terrorist attack in Luxor. Durmo was also indicat as an associate of Osama bin Laden. As a member of “El-mujahid” unit of the “Bosnian Army,” which connected to heinous war crimes and atrocities against civilians and POWs, Durmo published a religious instruction book, titled “Ideas that need to be corrected” (Shvatanja koja treba ispraviti). This pamphlet was printed by the Kuwaiti so-called humanitarian NGO “Islamic Thought Revival.” What could this man, with a criminal past and terrorist ties, teach Bosnian Muslim youth about religion? Who allowed him to engage in religious instruction at all? The answer is not so elusive when one considers that many governments, Iran most of all, share Eslam Durmo’s opinions and beliefs. Former Iranian leader and president Ayatollah Khomeini publicly advocated Iranan leadership of a global Islamic revolution. In Qom, on 14 January 1980, reviewing a company of 120 Pakistani officers training for terrorism and sabotage operations, he said: “We are in a war against infidels. Take this message with you – I ask all Islamic nations, all Muslims, all Islamic armies and all presidents of Muslim nations to join the Holy War. There are many enemies that need to be killed or destroyed. Jihad must triumph. ” A religious leader, a terrorist – or both? Long before anyone else, Khomeini began to attack Western targets with suicide bombers. He trained extremists to practice suicide attacks in Lebanon. Thousands of young Muslims from around the world were trained for suicide attacks at the Besheshita camp near Karay, west of Tehran. In addition to men, some 300 women were trained at this camp, under the instruction of Zahra Rahneward. There were many other camps for military and theological instructions, all in the function of pan-Islamic revolution. Former Iranian leader Khomeini is also the originator of the idea of using airplanes for suicide attacks. In the early 1980s, Iran had ordered a number of DC-7 airplanes for just this purpose. Pilots were sent to North Korea for suicidal training, and sent upon their return ton the newly established Shahid Chamran Airbase near Busheher. Members of these suicide squadrons were called the “Pasdaran pilots.” Other nations besides Iran have accepted the ideas of Islamic revolution. Initially, the fledgling terrorist network of Islamic extremists operated on two tracks. The first, and legal, relied on Islamic organizations such as the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the World Islamic League (RABITA) and “Islamic Committee for Palestine,” who practiced influence through mutual solidarity, financial aid and a network of connections in Western Europe and the US. The other, and illegal, focused on achieving the fundamental ideas of the Ummah through extremist groups practicing violence and terror, with the help of terrorism-sponsoring governments and the aforementioned organizations. Such groups were, for example, the “Muslim brotherhood” and “Gama’a al – Islamiyya” of Egypt, and the “Armed Islamic Group” (GIA) of Algeria. These and other terrorist groups of Islamic extremists help Muslims anywhere in the world who fight for Islamic extremist causes, offering them ideological and military assistance. That some of today’s most notorious terrorists took part in the civil wars of the former Yugoslavia – especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo-Metohia and the possible conflict in Raska – casts a new light on the nature of these conflicts and the true aims of Islamic extremists in the Western Balkans. More alarmingly, these extremists have found military and political support from the West. For example, Issa Abdullah (a.k.a. Abu Abdullah), a naturalized US citizen of Palestinian origin and a “Hamas” member, who came to BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA to train mujahid’din with other US Special Forces instructors, proceeded to conduct terrorist activities unhindered, with the full knowledge of the Clinton Administration. Other members of Abdullah’s group were assembled at a New Jersey mosque, and trained on a private property nearby. Officials who had a key role in bringing in the mujahid’din from North America to Bosnia and the Balkans are Safet Catovic , Ivica Misic and Muhamed Sacirbey.

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