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Al-Zawahiri's Connection to the Balkans
Banner of Liberty ^ | 19 August 2006 | Stella L. Jatras

Posted on 08/19/2006 8:29:04 PM PDT by Doctor13

A Time/CNN report stated, "Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri.

Al-Qaeda's decade long activities in the Balkans were well known, as reported in The Wall Street Journal article of 1 November 2001: "For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia [FYROM], Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia."

As long ago as 1992, Jerry Seper of The Washington Times, sounded the alarm when he wrote "KLA Rebels Training Camp," and that "some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden" Seper goes on to write: "Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could have netted the KLA profits in the 'high tens of millions of dollars.' It said the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money, along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States."

A report which should have been a good indication of the quagmire that the Clinton administration was moving our country towards was witten by Army LTC John E. Sray, titled, "Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware," covering Bosnian Muslim government propaganda.

Journalist Julia Gorin of Front Page Magazine on 20 March 2006, asks, "How many Americans know that the terrorists who carried out a spate of suicide attacks in Iraq in August 2004 were trained in Bosnia, or that al Qaeda's top Balkans operative al-Zawahiri's brother Mohammed had a high position with our terrorist KLA 'allies'?." Apparently, terrorism is a family affair.

The signs were all there, yet nobody connected the dots that would have led them back to the terrorists in Bosnia like al-Zawahiri and bin Laden himself. With all of this available information, congressional hearings, the 9/11 Commission Reports and numerous political organizations and advocacy groups have ignored the festering sore of Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.

President Bush assured us that we would never negotiate with terrorists, yet on 19 June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, an indicted war criminal. According to Jane's, in 1993 Ceku masterminded the massacre of Bosnian Serbs at Medak. Also known as The Battle of the Medak Pocket, the battle is remembered in Canada as that nation's largest military action since the Korean War when Croatian troops attacked The Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry who were trying to stop the ruthless massacre of Serbian women and children. In 1995, Ceku was one of the key planners of "Operation Storm," which ethnically cleansed over 250,000 Serbs from their ancestral homes in the Krajina region. Thousands of Serbian civilians were murdered, most of the victims being elderly and disabled persons who were unable to flee the carnage.

The American Council for Kosovo> (www.savekosovo.org ) is working to prevent another colossal mistake in the Balkans, a mistake that would be detrimental to US interests. The last thing America needs is another rogue state run by terrorists and criminals.

Time/CNN Report
The Wall Street Journal Europe, Al Qaeda´s Balkan Links
KLA Train in Terrorist Camps
Selling the Bosnian Myth: Buyer Beware
Kosovo May Explode --
Kosovo May Explode -- Here
War Criminal, Ally, or Both?"
The American Council for Kosovo Protests the Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku
The American Council for Kosovo Protests the Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; balkans; islamicnazis; jihadinamerica
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1 posted on 08/19/2006 8:29:06 PM PDT by Doctor13
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To: Doctor13
President Bush assured us that we would never negotiate with terrorists...

So why are we diddling around with the UN in terms of Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, etc. Then there's our friends the Saudis...

Realpolitick has to come in somewhere, but if we want to win this war, we have to stick to the Bush Doctrine across the board.

2 posted on 08/19/2006 8:36:39 PM PDT by SeenTheLight
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To: Doctor13

We were on the wrong side in that conflict.


3 posted on 08/19/2006 8:39:44 PM PDT by Inkie (Attn Dems: Loose Lips Sink Ships -- but hey, I guess that's your goal))
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To: Inkie

yup you guessed right.


4 posted on 08/19/2006 8:41:01 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: Doctor13
A report which should have been a good indication of the quagmire that the Clinton administration was moving our country towards was witten by Army LTC John E. Sray, titled, "Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware," covering Bosnian Muslim government propaganda.

My screen name is no accident.

5 posted on 08/19/2006 8:44:54 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup (Assistant to the traveling secretary.)
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To: SeenTheLight
We are diddling around with the UN to give cover to Jordan who will have to help in a coming war with Iran. It's called Realpolitik.

The Israelis left no choice for cease fire because of Olmert's tactical and strategic blunders.

The main event may start as early as october, if it doesn't start earlier.
6 posted on 08/19/2006 8:48:38 PM PDT by Perdogg (Democrats = terrorists)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Good tagline!


7 posted on 08/19/2006 8:48:48 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: Inkie
Attributable, to a significant extent, to the arrogant incompetence of M. Albright. A perfect example of how Clinton's penchant for choosing form (i.e. a liberal woman who HIllary approved of) over substance has put our children, and the world at risk.
8 posted on 08/19/2006 8:51:35 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Doctor13
If the Serbs had their way, we'd have invaded Bosnia and Kosovo after 9/11 rather than Afghanistan. (We were already there, but so what...)

We're not fighting their lost ethnic wars for them, no matter how hard or creatively they or their friends try to rebrand them.

We'd be far more interested and pleased if the Serbs would clean up their own house, taking out the Milosevic era trash, rather than continually trying to play "Deny responsibility, attempt to shift blame, & make counteraccusations."

Ain't gonna happen, I know, but that's Serbia's loss, not ours.

9 posted on 08/19/2006 9:50:11 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Don't forget Jimmah, the source of all this crap.


10 posted on 08/19/2006 10:27:37 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

thanks


11 posted on 08/19/2006 10:29:09 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Welcome to Free Republic! We need you!


12 posted on 08/19/2006 10:37:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: Doctor13

We should have let the Serbs destroy those Muslim swine.


13 posted on 08/19/2006 11:00:14 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Doctor13

For those who don't know, the Balkans is the exceedingly dangerous part of the world which served as home to Victor Drazen and his family.


14 posted on 08/19/2006 11:23:35 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

ping for Stella!


15 posted on 08/19/2006 11:32:25 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Doctor13

By the way folks, what else do you need to know? http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,91134-bosnia_p3705,00.html


16 posted on 08/19/2006 11:43:56 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Hoplite

If Serbs hade their way, you wouldn`t need to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.

I ment If Serbs hade their way in 1389, 1804, 1835, 1878, 1912, 1945, 1992.

All above wars were defencive and liberation against Islamic agressors and occupators.

If you are refering to war in Bosnia 1992-1995, that is just another war against Islam... and their allies, like you are.


17 posted on 08/20/2006 4:39:57 AM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: Hoplite; ma bell; tgambill; joan; montyspython; getoffmylawn; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; ...
Hoplite you see what you want to see. As the ISLAMIC terrorist aggression against the west continues they will eventually succeed somewhere sooner or later. It is a fact that the KLA received weapons/training from Islamic terrorists in 1998 and onwards. I reviewed the NATO intel. reports. The British maid it a priority to start gathering information on the KLA from day one. Why the urgency Hoplite because of the threat the KLA Islamic terrorist connection posed. The British saw it for what it was, a threat, meanwhile the US military were cosing up to the KLA, codling them and of course whining to the UN Civilian Police in the British Sector about getting seized weapons returned to the KLA commanders that had been confiscated. And Whine they did. UNMIK with help from the British Military were getting weapons off the streets of Pristina while the US military were insisting on them being returned to the KLA Terrorists, you know the same ones in bed with the Islamic terrorists. The same weopons being used to kill the remaining Serbs in Kosovo. Unbelievable!

Milosevic is dead and gone so get over it. The Serbs are our best alternative in dealing with the Muslim terrorists now entrenched in Bosnia and Kosovo. As this now global terrorist war continues to expand the NATO will need all the friends it can get. The Serbs will always be there right in the front line facing this Islamic threat just like they have been doing for centuries. In time you will see they are our friends and with or with out NATO will continue to fight the Islamic invaders. If there are more people like you in the US Hoplite the war is lost, will be your way of life in the trailer park, imagine not being able to watch the Simpson's because its time for Koran lessons or else...

"(We were already there, but so what..)"

No Hoplite real U.S. soldiers where in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afhanistan not you. You were in your trailer park developing a gut from all the cheap beer you get delivered...

18 posted on 08/20/2006 6:42:01 AM PDT by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe

Hoppy, I just viewed the video linked at reply #16.

Could you point out which one is you?


19 posted on 08/20/2006 7:33:53 AM PDT by F-117A (They say there is no such thing as an ex-Marine,.Murtha disproves that!!!)
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To: Hoplite; Wraith; tgambill; montyspython
Why would the Serbs want the US to invade BiH and Serbia? The Serbian Army can quickly defeat the KLA in the Kosovo region within 7 days with a two week mop-up. The VRS can defeat the BiH Muslim Army in less then five days, 8-10 if you throw in the HVO getting involved.

The VRS did not need help fighting and defeating the muslims nor the Croatians. You were not there, get over it. You don't know the carnage of death the Serb civilians endured at the hands of Oric, Ceku,Gotovina and their likes, foreign imports (except Oric).

Where do you get off (exept in the privacy of your own residence) making heroes out of Oric, Ceku, Thaci and Gotovina?

20 posted on 08/20/2006 9:03:45 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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