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
To E-Mail Mary Mostert, Analyst - Mary@bannerofliberty.com
Hi, I'm hopeless. the kids are picking on me and calling me a liar..tell em to go away, please? boo hooo hooo!
The US administration of Clinton, Albright, et.al. supported the Islamic militants in the former Yugoslavia instead of Orthodox Christians. This is yet another example of the liberal appeasement theory that those who wish us evil should be understood, instead of dealt with.
So you're changing your accusation from "indiscriminate" to "targeted".
Noted.
I'd ask you to say what you mean the first time around, but let's face it, you don't know what you're saying at all.
"So you're changing your accusation from "indiscriminate" to "targeted"."
**** thar you go again...the one sided thinking. It was both in some cases indiscriminate and there were targets that were targeted and shouldn't have. When the targets that are non-military are targeted you dunce...it's called indiscriminate. Don't even try to mince words, you don't have the sofia-ication....:)) lolol...
No, that would be called a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I, Art 85, Sect 3) and thus a war crime, but like the rest of the drones who unwittingly follow the IAC's line on the matter, the necessary conclusion, that American servicemen are guilty of perpetrating war crimes, escapes you.
So step up to the plate, Tom. Earn your dinars - are you accusing American servicemen of perpetrating war crimes or not?
How many bombs did they release over target? How many individual missions did they plan or review before said missions went out and contravened the "articles of war" you reference?
Without the guys at the end of the spear (the pilots and planners) perpetrating the supposed crime, how can there be a crime?
We both know that neither you, nor any of your fellow travellers hereabouts have the balls to say what you actually mean and declare that American servicemen who participated in Allied Force are war criminals, so just drop it already.
War criminals drop bombs deliberately on civilians who are not in any way supporting a war of aggression. It is one thing to drop bombs on German cities whose recalcitrant military and ENEMY refuses to surrender. Quite another to indiscriminately kill civilians who are in no way to blame and NOT our enemy with lists provided by Muslims I might add.
Yes, the Easter bombing was a new low in US military history...but followed a pattern of left wing political manipulation of the military (WWII). Scary.
As for what the "fellow travelers mean": Many believe that NATO is not an "allied force" and was the wrong agency to respond to Kosovo and that it was a defensive alliance never contemplated to be catalyzed into action by internal conflict (kosovo and Bosnia).
Your fellow travelers have re defined and recast a defensive organization (NATO) into and a force of agression against allies.
You not only lack the courage to say what you mean, you don't know what you want to say in the first place.
And yet you think that self-appointed PR spinmeisters such as yourself are going to change Serbia's fortunes.
Priceless.
People like those you despise need to get the truth out...to the detriment of those like yourself whose agenda is to hide and obfuscate.
Serbia is already coming back strong and Belgrade is a city like no other in the Balkans. But then again it is a Christian city not an Isalmic hellhole like what they have turned Sarajevo/Muslim Bosnia into.
You lose again and again. Only natural.
Is that report available online?
"you accusing American servicemen of perpetrating war crimes or not?"
Of course not...just the Clinton Administration and their policies in the Balkans. Funny you bring that up. Good thinking hopless. now, where would clark fit in this scheme.....hmmmmmm. laser guided...?? Now, we should revisit the Balkans with a congressional hearing. Now, wouldn't that be fun.
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