Has the UN Let a Blacklisted Islamic Charity Roam Free in Kosovo?

Serbianna.com ^ | Oct 09, 2005 | zagor-te-nej

[zagor-te-nej]

When it comes to charities suspected of terrorist involvement, at what point can a series of independent actions be said to indicate coordinated and malevolent intent? And if they do in fact indicate such intent, what should be done about it?

These are the questions that Thomas Gambill, a former security officer with the OSCE, had to wrestle with during his time in Kosovo, in regards to several Islamic NGOs and charities whose stated activities seemed benign, but whose latent motives were more suspicious.

According to Gambill, whose whistleblower testimony first came out on Antiwar.com in August, the verdict is not good: in more than one case, UN bosses of the occupied Serbian province "have turned a blind eye" to dangerous charities – including a local branch of an Islamic fundamentalist group that has been linked to terrorist attacks and/or extremism in countries ranging from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to Azerbaijan, Albania, and Bosnia – a group that has, in fact, been partially blacklisted by both the Bush administration and the UN since January 2002.

[zagor-te-nej]

Question is purely rhetorical, maybe for the sake of political correctness. Answer – of course – is Yes. Muslim Bosnia and Kosovo and Metohija are important bases for jihad.

[TheForceOfOne]

Looks like Kofi Annan and his henchmen at the U.N. should be in line for another Nobel Peace Prize. Scarfing up those awards Arafat isn't around to collect anymore. That award should be modeled after a piece of dung.