The Farce of our Kosovo Mission

Front Page Magazine ^ | Aug 7, 2007 | Julia Gorin

[Bokababe]

After my article exposing the farce of our Kosovo mission ran in American Legion Magazine last month, I heard from a soldier in Kosovo who was incredulous that someone was actually and finally talking about the region. I proceeded to publish two letters from him in this space, about his experiences and observations there, some of which confirm the free run that jihadists have in Kosovo, the fact that Albanians are being radicalized, and the notion that we should not have intervened in Kosovo as we did. Only there since November, the National Guard soldier stopped short of confirming the ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of Kosovo’s Christians that I’ve described in my articles.

Unfortunately for the deniers, the facts are also now chronicled in a book by a UN worker, entitled Hiding Genocide in Kosovo—a Crime Against God and Humanity. ....

[Kunikuni]

[””Other than the fact that the K-Albanians aren’t radicalized Islamics, you mean?”]

Ooops Hoppy didn’t pass his Cat-Scan it seems:)

[Kunikuni]

["...Instead of trying to convince everybody with garbage how Osama is actually Bosnian born in Kosovo "...]

He wasn't Bosnian born, he was Bosnian adopted. He wasn't born in Kosovo he migrated there.

Bin Laden's Balkan connections:

Bin Laden's Balkan connections: Al-Qaeda fighters have been quietly infiltrating the ranks of ethnic Albanian guerrilla forces in Macedonia Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo for years
Posted in the Ottawa Citizen By Scott Taylor

"...Ten days later, on Jan. 27, 1999, the Arab-language news service Al Hayat reported that an Albanian commander in Kosovo, code-named Monia, was directly connected to Osama bin Laden. The piece also reported that "at least 100 Muslim mujahedeen" were serving with Monia's force in Kosovo.

In August 1998, the Washington Post reported that the CIA was not only aware of Mr. bin Laden's association with the Albanian regime, but that U.S. operatives had been "prominent" in the arrest of four al-Qaeda agents in Tirana. At the time, U.S. State Department officials even speculated that the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania might have been Mr. bin Laden's revenge for the Tirana arrests.

The al-Qaeda suspects detained by the CIA in Albania had been operating the Islamic Revival Foundation, "a charitable organization that official sources say provided a useful cover for the (suspects') efforts on behalf of bin Laden," the Washington Post reported. ..."

"...Some of the most revealing links between Albanian fighters and Mr. bin Laden surfaced in December 1998, when al-Qaeda agent Claude Sheik Abdel-Kader was arrested in Tirana for the murder of his Albanian translator. During his trial, ,b>Mr. Abdel-Kader confessed to being a senior commander in Mr. bin Laden's network, and claimed he had recruited a force of some 300 mujahedeen to fight in Kosovo.

European media covering the trial reported his revelation that Osama bin Laden -- although a wanted terrorist -- had travelled freely to Tirana in 1994 and 1998 to meet with senior Albanian officials. Mr. Abdel-Kader also confessed that when the Albanian regime of Sali Berisa collapsed into anarchy in 1997, state armouries and government offices were looted. According to Mr. Abdel-Kader, many of the 10,000 heavy weapons and 100,000 passports that went missing fell into the hands of al-Qaeda members.

Osama bin Laden -- stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994 -- is alleged to have retained the Bosnian passport he was issued in Vienna in 1993. According to a Sept. 1999 report in Dani, a Bosnian Muslim weekly paper, Alija Izetbegovic, then president of Bosnia, granted Mr. bin Laden a passport in recognition of his followers' contributions to Mr. Izetbegovic's quest to create a "fundamentalist Islamic republic" in the Balkans.
Dani also reported that al-Qaeda terrorist Mehrez Aodouni had been arrested in Istanbul while carrying a Bosnian passport. Like Mr. bin Laden, his citizenship had been granted "because he was a member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina army."

Canadian soldiers serving with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) were among the first to report the presence of mujahedeen among the Bosnian Muslims as early as 1992.
The Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal reported that, in 1993, Mr. bin Laden had appointed Sheik Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda's second-in-command, to direct his operations in the Balkans. .."

[Hoplite]

Ooops Hoppy didn’t pass his Cat-Scan it seems:)

At least I've never been reduced to lying in order to try and prove a point.

Like you.

[Doctor13]

I would like to suggest the following:

What hoplite looks for are responses to his ugly comments. Therefore I suggest, DO NOT REPLY TO ANY OF HIS COMMENTS!

If there is anything a blowhard hates is to be ignored, so that is my suggestion for what it is worth. Hoplite is nothing more than a provocatur. IGNORE HIM.

This creep has taken the name "HOPLITE," which derives from the Greek word, "hoplon" meaning an item or equipment.

See: HOPLITE If you really want to get under his skin, don't respond.

[Kunikuni]

Great post Doc and thank you for the information.
With regard to no Islamic terrorism in the Balkans as suggested mockingly by some here, see below. ..

UPDATED ON: SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007
2:34 MECCA TIME, 23:34 GMT

Serbian police arrest 'terrorists'



"Serbian police have said they have uncovered caches of ammunition and explosives in what they said was the training camp for Muslim fighters in the country's south.

They also said that they had arrested four Serbian Muslims during the raid on a complex of several tents and a cave on a remote mountain near the town of Novi Pazar on Saturday.

In a statement the police said the men belong to the Wahhabi sect of Islam and came from the town of Novi Pazar, the main town in the predominantly Muslim Sandzak region, which straddles the Serbia-Montenegro border.

In a day-long operation, the police said they found large quantities of plastic explosives, ammunition, face masks, military uniforms, bombs, food, water and other equipment.

Also found were "propaganda terrorist material, military survival instructions, geographic charts and several CDs," the police statement said.

Four people were arrested, all from Novi Pazar, while one person managed to escape, the statement said.

The police statement did not specify whether the group was planning any attacks in Serbia or elsewhere, or whether it had ties to other Islamic terrorist groups.

Western intelligence reports leaked recently have suggested that Sandzak, as well as Muslim-dominated regions in neighboring Bosnia, could be an ideal recruitment spot for the so-called "white al-Qaeda" - Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or US cities to execute attacks.

Several incidents have been reported in Sandzak within the Muslim community, with the Wahhabis accusing local Muslim clerics of failing to practice "true" Islam, and disrupting prayers at local mosques. Source: Agencies"

Al Jazeera (English)

Please note: Islamists in the balkans are only "Serbian Muslims" when caught, that's the spin,....otherwise (according to the mainstream press), they are either 'Former Yugoslavs', 'Bosniaks', or 'Kosovars', etc....

[kronos77]

“I hope you realize that Serbs are not famous for tolerance towards other nations.”

I'm half-Serb- Half-Hungarian. Brought up to respect Orthodoxy and Catholicism and to love Serbia. My Godfather is Romanian, Out of three of my best buddies, one is Serb, second is Gypsy and Third is Hungarian.
Each morning I by bread and bakery in Albanian-held bakeshop. I by my sweets and ice-cream at “Gramp Neda's” sweetshop, he is Turkish Muslim, long-time friend of family.

Yes, we Serbs are bastards.

[kronos77]

"Are you willing to have K-Albanian prime minister or we would have to witness another “escape from NATO bombing”?" --- Evry single man or woman that salutes Serbian flag, and constitution, and is good man/woman, I will vote him/her If Albanian says "I love Serbia, and I will do evrything to promote and help Serbia"- I will vote him. Though I would prefer Christian. In Serbia, at present there are 24 different nationalities. If Albanians want to leave Serbia, all they have to do is to take passeports and go. Its our country, and evryone is wellcomed. BUT! My way or highway.

[Bokababe]

"Well, there is nothing about you in your profile. Am I supposed to conclude that you are frustrated Serb who is angry at everybody because of lost Serbian wars, or that you are you Albanian who is trying to make everybody angry at Serbs by posting well known Milosevic propaganda, or maybe Croat or Bosnian... who knows ... Didn’t you see “The last samurai”, it is not polite to start conversation without introducing yourself. Are you ashamed of who you are ?"

WaterLane, you are the new kid on the block, not me. It's up to you to introduce yourself to us, not the other way around -- and this is especially true before you start hurling around accusations like you have. And a better question is "Are you ashamed of who YOU are?" and that is why you are not answering the question.

Most everyone else here knows who I am and that I am an American born & bred, of Montenegrin family roots over eighty years ago.

To someone who is Bosnian-born as you are, the name "Boka" ought to at least ring a bell, and that is where my family came from.

[montyspython]

Not really, nothing you've posted here so far eludes to your statement. The only ones laughing here are the people laughing at you.

Only a moron would concede that "Bosnian" is a separate ethnicity, Tito is dead chief, deal with it.

[montyspython]

Bosnians aren’t really people, they are a figment of Tito’s imagination. You are either a Serb or a Croat, that must really bother you.

[Bokababe]

"Boka Kotorska"? Kotor, Herceg Novi, Tivat, Risan, Perast? If you don't know that, then you are the first person from the former YU who I have ever met who doesn't, because it was a vacation destination.

My aunt lived in Zadar, and that is where my favorite cousin was from -- he was a Croat who came the US long before the wars.

[FormerLib]

I hope you realize that Serbs are not famous for tolerance towards other nations.

Then why is Serbia still the most multicultural nation in the Balkans while the Moslem Albanians have made Kosovo judenfrei?

[FormerLib]

Indeed, most Serbian-speaking Jews seem to have been infected by anti-Albanian prejudice and propaganda.

Riiiiight....! They couldn't possibly have been reacting to their treatment by the Moslem Albanian illegal immigrants that flooded Kosovo.