[Synthex]

Mr Tieger then revealed evidence from a series of recorded phone calls from 1991 in which Mr Karadzic chillingly considered the fate of Sarajevo, the multi-ethnic Bosnian capital which Serb forces besieged for 44 months.

To an array of empty desks reserved for Mr Karadzic and his defence team - who has boycotted his trial in The Hague - the prosecution began its opening statement by quoting the words uttered by Mr Karadzic on the eve of the Bosnian conflict - the bloodiest seen in Europe since the Second World War.

The phone taps record Mr Karadzic saying: "They have to know that there are 20,000 armed Serbs around Sarajevo.... it will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die. They will disappear. That people will disappear from the face of the earth."

[2banana]

the bloodiest seen in Europe since the Second World War.

Ignoring the millions killed by socialists and communists in Europe since WWII...

[wardaddy]

what was your former freeper nick...just curious

[Buckeye McFrog]

this would you’d think cause Muslims to pause and consider the consequences of turning 5/6 of the world’s population against them

[Ulysse]

ping

[Pan_Yan]

I guess it all depends on whether or not you subscribe to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

There is ample evidence of the ties between Al Qaeda and the Bosnian Muslims. Does that justify genocide? Should we excuse it? Maybe not. But there is no doubt that the Serbs were fighting a war against some of the same ideology and possibly some of the same people that we are fighting.