[Hoplite]

Let's try again:

Can you name anything of note directly attributable to Al Quaeda in the Balkans? What attacks have they made against American interests there?

The main thrust of the thesis here is that Al Quaeda is supported by or at least tacitly approved by the Bosnian government and is working hand in hand with the KLA, and that's simply not the case. One could make a more convincing argument that the US government was supporting the IRA based on the same methods and evidences being tried here - and making real world decisions based on misinformation makes for bad policy.

[Torie]

This all out attempt to plant this Jihadist fundamentalist Islamic template on Bosnian Muslims just hasn't had much of anything to support it has it? Could it be because it is the wrong template? The template doesn't seem so applicable to those nasty Turks either. I admire your energy on these threads, but for me, the gang has long since ceased to be relevant to anything. Time has passed them by. Their trope has been exposed as totally fictional.

[Great Dane]

and making real world decisions based on misinformation makes for bad policy.

We know that, as misinformation was all we got from officials and media during the attack on Serbia.

[F-117A]

Let's try again!

"...his organization hasn't been responsible for anything of note in the Balkans..." -- Hoplite

"The bin Ladin network supports terrorists in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Somalia, Yemen, and now Kosovo."
-- Released by the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, August 21, 1998 (United States State Department - clinton administration)

What ever the Bin Laden network did in Bosnia and Kosovo was severe enough to be included in the list of seven. I guess you consider that to be nothing of note! I suggest you take your problem up with the U.S. State Department.

U.S. State Department document

p.s. Good try at spin, but the fact that I am not privy to State Department sources does not make their clasification invalid.

[Pericles]

Can you name anything of note directly attributable to Al Quaeda in the Balkans? What attacks have they made against American interests there?

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, The World Bank became the third institution to shut down its office in Bosnia for security reasons. American and British officials shut down their embassies on Wednesday due to ``a credible security threat.''

US Attacks Put Spotlight on Bosnia Muslim Community ``Osama is our brother''

Report: Bin Laden linked to Albania

Bin Laden’s Invisible Network

The Balkan Branches of the Terror Network "in search of blond Moslems"

Terrorists Use Bosnia as Base and Sanctuary

BOSNIA: Terrorists Go Native

Indictment Made in 9/11 Hijack Case ``Martyrs of Bosnia''

[Pericles]

Can you name anything of note directly attributable to Al Quaeda in the Balkans?

Swiss Extradite Suspected Extremist "recruited volunteers to fight in Bosnia"