Posted on 07/06/2007 4:51:36 PM PDT by kronos77
The mujahideen moved to Bosnia as part of a process of "Islamicisation" of the conflict, which took place under the watchful and approving eye of the Clinton administration. In 1993 and 1994, the Clintonites gave a green light to Iran, Saudi Arabia and various highly dubious radical Islamic charities to arm the Bosnian Muslims.
Despite having denounced Iran as "the worst sponsor of terrorism in the world", the Clinton administration told both Croat and Bosnian Muslim leaders that they should accept shipments of weapons, ammunition, anti-tank rockets, communications equipment and uniforms and helmets from Iran. ... Once inside Bosnia, the mujahideen fought with the Bosnian Muslim army, at a time when it was being supported politically and militarily by Washington. In 1994 and 1995, Washington surreptitiously supplied the Bosnian Muslim army with weapons and training, even though it had hundreds of mujahideen in its ranks. The mujahideen formed a battalion of holy warriors which was, according to Evan Kohlmann, directly answerable to then Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic.
In other words, America armed and trained a military machine that was using mujahideen as "shock troops". As the United Nations said in 1995, the period of America's secretive arming, the mujahideen were "directly dependent on [the Bosnian Muslim army] for supplies". ... Many of the mujahideen who fought in Bosnia went on to become al-Qaida operatives. They learned their trade of simplistic moral fury and brutal violence on the battlefields of Bosnia, where they were enticed and inflamed to execute holy war against the Serbs by western meddling and western media coverage.
They were the armed wing of western liberal opinion, the shock troops for the western liberal prejudice of their age: Serb-baiting.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentisfree.guardian.co.uk ...
Ping!
This is the UK Guardian?... taking shots at billy boy and the European “third way” left?
Bosnia actually started here with purging.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850713/posts
Robert Fisk: Disgraced UN chief and Nazi war criminal Waldheim, dies aged 88
"We bombed the wrong side!"
I believe that this incompetent blunder not only enabled and empowered the dar al islam contingent in Bosnia, but pretty much gave the green light to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Iran to "go for it", culminating in the 911 attack.
Leaders are judged by the results of their actions, not by their "good intentions".
BS, the radicals have always been there 1500 years before Bosnia.
It is not the West’s fault that murders are a part of Middle East.
Brendan O'Neill was one of the founders of "Living Marxism".
Simply, he preys on the weak and the stupid, using weak and stupid arguments.
btt
But he's smart enough not to kneel before the Jihadists, eh pancake boy?
Calling all morons.
Kronos: The author provides no citations in terms of "How Many". As such, it's vague and uninterpretable.
Why are you calling yourself, huh?
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