Posted on 05/09/2007 3:58:47 AM PDT by dj_animal_2000
Balkan Muslim Gratitude
By Julia Gorin FrontPageMagazine.com | May 9, 2007
On Monday, the FBI arrested six Muslims who were planning a commando-style attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey, to “kill as many soldiers as possible,” authorities said.
Four of the six men are Albanians, a fact that Fox News — which apparently thinks that “Yugoslavia” and “Albanians” are the same, and isn’t sure what those two things might have to do with “the Balkans” — reported thus:
The Associated Press reported that those captured were nationals of the former Yugoslavia, but the law enforcement source told FOX News that not all of them are of Albanian ethnicity. Federal sources also said the group is from the “Balkans.”
The only clue we get from other news sources that the four “Yugoslavs” are Albanian, and from Kosovo, is in sentences like these, which appeared in an earlier version of an AP report:
In 1999, [Fort Dix] sheltered more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia…After that war, refugees were allowed to return to the U.N.-run province of Kosovo in Serbia or to seek permanent residency in the United States.
Pat ourselves on the back for resettling those “rescuees” here. Terrorism aside, the Albanian mafia has already overtaken both the Russian and Italian ones. There was also that Kosovo Albanian whose al-Qaeda application was discovered in Afghanistan, to name just one of many such collaborators.
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Or why we are allowing them to settle here?
They’ll be back by Christmas.
“... a fact that Fox News — which apparently thinks that “Yugoslavia” and “Albanians” are the same...”
To be fair....FOX just posted the AP report. It isn’t a separate opinion of FOX News.
The first report I saw, referred to them as “ethnic Albanians” and FOX was the first to identify them as muslim.
According to Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) the answer would be:
"Just a reminder to the predominantly Muslim-led governments in this world that here is yet another example that the United States leads the way for the creation of a predominantly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe," he said April 17. "This should be noted by both responsible leaders of Islamic governments, such as Indonesia, and also for jihadists of all color and hue. The United States' principles are universal, and, in this instance, the United States stands foursquare for the creation of an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe."
Btw. here's an interessting editorial from the "Washington Times" from today on the subject:
Thanks for the link.
“ Thus they conclude with quotes like this one, which appeared at the end of CBS’s dispatch yesterday...”
And that’s why CBS is having it’s lowest ratings in 20 yrs. They have’t figured out yet what they’re doing to turn people off. lol.
It’s not yet Christmas.
Very curious of the 4 Kosovars were among those that came through Fort Dix at the time.
I’m sad that Destro and A.Pole are not on FR anymore.
I might ‘rescue’ a rattlesnake from beneath my doorstep. I don’t however bring him into the house as a pet.
But they’ll be home by Christmas!
bump for later
This is similar to US bipartisan efforts in muslim revival: carter let khomini take over iran. Started policy to arouse muslims against russians in afghanistan .. regan continued and magnified by providing them sofistacted weaponary like stringer missiles and training..
bush is chanting everyday: islam is religon of peace
if you sow the seeds .. be ready for harvest.
I, and most on FR, were against siding with the Albanian Muslimes. In fact, this issue is what got me to FR back in 1998.
I meant 1999.
Whoever dreamed up this policy knows no history. The nationalism of Balkan tribes was a huge pain to
Byzantium and was the powder keg that started WWI. Unification under Tito was a big improvement, and we should not be going back to the dark ages on this.
The guy who shot up the mall in Utah was a Balkan Muslim “rescuee.” The media has intentionally played down all indications that this guy was a freelance jihadi.
“If I recall, that plan was rather popular at the time. Still, it’s only one bad apple per thousand. Mexicans should behave so well.”
I just love those who make comments without reading the article!
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