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To: infidel_and_proud
So, it's those infernal indfidels who are to blame.

If you can't understand cause and effect, you're not the only Serb in that state.

Take some time to consider the following:

When the carnage of war began unfolding in that spring, the Muslim-led Bosnian government was outgunned, outmanned, and almost entirely on the defensive. Western diplomatic condemnation of ethnic Serb offences was met with deaf ears, and the embattled Muslims struggled to hold out against a superior military force. The grave predicament captured the attention of sympathetic Muslims everywhere in the world, and particularly the Middle East. During the war, thousands of young men driven by a warped sense of religious chivalry travelled to Bosnia ostensibly in the hopes of defending the ancient and threatened Muslim community in the Balkans. The first of these volunteers to arrive were full of enthusiasm, but were without widespread military experience or any significant organized leadership. A glaring lack of organization naturally also entailed a regular shortage of basic military equipment and supplies. These early 'mujahideen' typically joined Bosnian civil defence forces, which by their own estimates 'proved largely ineffective.' Not surprisingly, these foreign soldiers were disappointed at the little impact their efforts were making.

It would not be long before a much more serious effort was made by distant Islamic extremists to aid the suffering Bosnian Muslims. These young men, galvanized by hateful religious and political ideologies, were determined to turn the global tide against the 'infidel' regimes, even those outside the traditional boundaries of the Middle East. 'At the forefront' of the movement of Arab volunteer soldiers to Bosnia were the mujahideen veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan, which had served as 'an institute for the teaching of jihad' and was the birthplace of Al-Qaida.

Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, pp 15-16

Following the mujahideen conquest of Kabul in April of 1992, Shaykh Abu Abdel Aziz had travelled with four other unidentified veteran Arab-Afghan commanders to Bosnia-Herzegovina to 'check out the landscape' and determine if the Balkans would serve as a fertile ground for the displaced Arab-Afghan government, which was no longer officially welcomed in Pakistan. However, unlike other remote spots in his worldwide tour of Muslim 'hot spots', Bosnia was truly a foreign land to the Islamic extremists of the Middle East. Prior to the Western media coverage of the expanding civil war there, many had admittedly never even heard of the place. In an interview with Al-Daawah magazine, Abu Abdel Aziz confessed that, at this point, 'we were unable to understand where Bosnia was, was it in America or in the southern hemisphere of Asia? We had no idea where it was. We found out that it is a part of Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe, we still had no idea how many Muslims were there and we had no idea as to how and when Islam reached there.
ibid, p 18

So let me reiterate for you:

If the Serbs didn't want wahabbis in Bosnia, they shouldn't have gotten all stupid in 1992. But in typical Serb fashion, they not only screwed themselves, but jacked up the neighborhood in the process of getting their asses beat.

62 posted on 06/17/2006 7:22:05 PM PDT by Hoplite (With apologies to plankton everywhere)
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To: Hoplite
Izetbegovic was bosom buddies with both the mujahideen and the Iranians.

For example, Izetbegovich was very close friends with, and vouched for, the TWRA head, Hassanein, and he was a lifelong supporter of Khomeini.

The TWRA had close links with the 1993 WTC bomb attempt.

The Bosnian Serbs warned the west about Izetbegovic. They were spot on too.

But in your book, Izetbegovic gets the all clear, whilst those pesky infidel Serbs should be damned to hell.

You're in a league of your own.
63 posted on 06/18/2006 1:26:03 AM PDT by infidel_and_proud
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To: Hoplite; ma bell

Hopelite....I read the paragraphs....Yes, the Serbs were taking care of an infection by Muslims. This is what we are doing also....so, I don't see the problem in killing about 2,000-3,000 in a war.... what's the big deal.


66 posted on 06/18/2006 4:13:10 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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