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A few points

1) Mujahedin fighters in Bosnia and Kosovo made up a small percentage of the total Muslim fighters. If they were greater the Serbs would have had hundreds, if not thousands, of bodies and passports to show the world. They never had more than a few here and there.

2) The Muj fighters didn't arrive en mass to Bosnia until 1993 with the Serbs attacking from one side and Croats the other, while the West sat back and watched. No Serb attacks in Spring 1992 = few, if any, Muj in Bosnia.

3) Iran's backing of the Muslims came about largely as a result of the UN arms embargo that kept the Muslims at an extreme disadvantage against the JNA-backed Serbs and Croatia-backed HVO. Balkan Muslims first turned to the West for help and then, upon receiving none, turned to Iran. If the guns come from Allah the advice can't be far behind.

4) Most of the KLA was also local, not Muj import.

There were certainly fanatical foreign elements on the Muslims side in the Balkans, and I have no problem with them being killed. But to use that element as justification for the killing and expulsion of the secular local majority doesn't wash.