Did you even read the article? They have better uses for "the white devils" than as canon-fodder in Afghanistan & Iraq --where they'd probably get hit by friendly fire since they look more like the Americans than like the Afghans & Iraqis. The Balkan jihadi mission isn't Iraq, Afghanistan -- it's Europe, the US and Israel.
Bodansky joined in the discussion shortly later, with an analysis that found Osama bin Laden was focusing on the Balkans for a new wave of anti-Western terrorism.
He confirmed then that radical Islamists decided to use the terrorism infrastructure of the Balkans as a "key facilitator" in the proposed escalation of conflict aimed at Europe, Israel and the United States.
A new terrorist recruiter, identified by Bodansky as Shahid Emir Mussa Ayzi, a veteran of Afghanistan who was close to the al-Qaida elite as well as Taliban leadership, was appointed to run special operations.
A followup report, according to Bodansky, noted that "persons of Slav ethnicity" were being added to the Islamist jihad, and Ayzi said some of these "white devils" already had been indoctrinated and trained to carry out martyrdom-strikes "in a number of European cities."
He reported that the training actually was done under the cover of the Albanian National Army, with many senior officers being al-Qaida affiliates.
"Face it, Boka - the Serbs were the biggest terrorists in the Balkans during the 1990's, and that's why we bombed them in Bosnia in '94 & '95 and Serbia itself in '99."
That was the 90's, Hoppie. Things have changed. The US has less self-indulgent concerns than "humanitarian bombing" today.
"You can post all the revisionist BS you want, but nothing's going to change the actual facts of the matter, or our continuing policies in the region."
Only you, Hoppie, could refer to reports by a British journalist, a Bosnian Muslim paper out of Sarajevo, an Austrian Bank and a US Republican aide as (Serb) "revisionist BS".
Why don't you take a break, Hoppie, go out to Mariani Gardens (or wherever the old Ustashi hang out in the Valley these days) and say to yourself, "Tomorrow's another day, tomorrow's another day... !"
Yeah, I did. And the thesis that the locals are being held back for martyrdom operations in the Balkans flies directly in the face of our experience there over the last decade, whereas their being used for operations elsewhere suffers from the same defect as the Iraqi and Afghan story - a complete lack of supporting evidence.
Only you, Hoppie, could refer to reports by a British journalist, a Bosnian Muslim paper out of Sarajevo, an Austrian Bank and a US Republican aide as (Serb) "revisionist BS".
Osama's never been to the Balkans in person. Regardless of what you or Slobo's friends imagine, that's the best information to date.
Furthermore, Osama's efforts there were covered in detail by Evan Kohlmann, and contrary to Mr. Bodansky's writings, they were and continue to be a failure due to the local's lack of interest in Osama's cause.
Which leaves us with the Serbs. Contrary to your assertion that "that was then, this is now", now is still being colored by then, as evidenced by Serbia's continued isolation over the matter of Ratko Mladic. (But maybe Secretary Rice decertified Serbia back in June of this year because she's an Ustashi too, huh Boka?)