Other claims by Karadzic:
Mr Karadzic told his trial at The Hague that Sarajevo, where some 12,000 people died in 44 months, was “not a city under siege” by Bosnian Serb forces.
He said claims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were based on “false myths”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8545188.stm
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Groucho Marx
1. In 2002, the first known al Qaeda document was found in Bosnia and dates to the 1988/1989 timeframe -- that's at least two years before the Bosnian war began, and yet militant Islam was already on the move there.
2. Alija Izetbegovic, the first Bosnian Muslim President who had been a youth recruiter for Hitler's Muslims, wrote a document called The Islamic Declaration calling for "an Islamic Union from Morocco to Indonesia" and demanding that "Muslims take political power as soon as it is numerically possible". The original document was written in 1970 (for which Izetbegovic was jailed), but it was re-published for wide distribution in 1990, a year before the Bosnian War began. If you read the Islamic Declaration, you realize that Izetbegovic was a hardcore Islamist, and not the supposed "moderate" that our government and the media told us he was. Further Izetbegovic wrote the Islamic Declaration seven years before even Iran's Islamic Revolution and he also wrote it while living in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious country that was officially communist --Izetbegovic knew that what he was stating would mean a bloody, vicious war to put into action.
3. Izetbegovic gave Osama bin Laden a Bosnian passport, and bin Laden can be seen in this video with Izetbegovic and his imported mujahaddin in Bosnia who came to fight the Serbs.
4. Islamists in Bosnia used hospitals, schools and even UN "safe havens" from which to launch attacks so that if the Serbs retaliated, they'd hit civilians. Some 15 Dutch UN Peacekeepers are testifying on Karadzic's behalf that Muslims targeted the Un peacekeepers and were firing on them at Srebrenica. "Poor Muslim helpless victims" -- yeah right/s
5. In spite of the fact that we took the Bosnian Muslims side from the very beginning, we didn't intervene quickly enough as far as bin Laden's people were concerned. Because, in a video made before 9/11, the 9/11 hijackers stated that 9/11 was payback "for Bosnia and Chechnya".
The fact is that WE let the radical Islamist genie out of the bottle in Bosnia and arrogantly thought that we could control it for our own ends. It hasn't worked out the way that we planned so we are sacrificing scapegoats -- and Karadzic is as good a scapegoat as any. Once the civil war started, Karadzic's hands weren't clean, no one's were, but if we couldn't control the Islamist threat, how was Karadzic supposed to and still keep his hands clean?