[Balto_Boy]

The question is whether Osama bin Laden was in the Balkans.

I see your point. Literally, maybe not, but in influence, definitely.

...the fighting in the Balkans was never about religion as much as it was a simple power struggle cloaked under a religious vestment.

Is that so uncommon?

Serbia has Muslims living peacefully inside its' borders, but they never posed a political threat to Milosevic, ergo, they were allowed to stay - not so the non-Serbs living in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo who threatened Milosevic's power.

I don't know about Croatia or Bosnia, but the separatists in Kosovo were at it long before Milo had any power to threaten.

[Hoplite]

What I'm taking issue with here is the view that Osama Bin Laden is some Deus ex Machina pulling strings in the Balkans. I haven't seen any evidence to support that contention, and, as it's being used to support the view that the BiH is, by association, a nation supporting terrorists, and I'm going to see this thread referenced on another thread as some kind of proof in the future, well here I am.