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Fiery Campaign Imperils Bosnia’s Progress, Officials Warn
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/world/europe/27bosnia.html?ref=world ^

Posted on 08/26/2006 12:39:48 PM PDT by kronos77

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 23 — For a month usually devoid of political activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, August has been unusually fraught, as several incidents have raised ethnic tensions to a level not seen in years.

On Aug. 11, a bomb severely damaged the tomb of Alija Izetbegovic, the former Bosnian president. Last week in eastern Bosnia, a group of Muslims forced their way into a Serbian church built on the former site of a mosque. And the broadcast of a videotape showing the wartime killing of an unarmed Bosnian Serb by Muslims prompted calls for a senior Bosnian general to be tried on war crimes charges.

Those incidents have been accompanied by a sharp increase in the expression of nationalist sentiments that is worrying international officials here as the country prepares for parliamentary and presidential elections on Oct. 1.

Milorad Dodik, the prime minister of Bosnia’s Serbian republic, which makes up almost half of Bosnia’s territory, has been the most outspoken.

On Aug. 18, he compared the Muslim-dominated Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, to Tehran, and he has repeatedly hinted over the summer that his republic should become an independent state.

In an interview with BN TV, a Bosnian Serb television station, Mr. Dodik said he was “sick and tired” of the politics of the Muslim leaders, “which makes fools of us so that we look like war criminals.”

“That is all over,” he said.

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Haris Silajdzic, a Muslim, a former foreign minister and a presidential candidate, has campaigned against the proposed changes, saying they would leave the Serbian republic in place. The Serbian entity should be abolished and absorbed into a stronger Bosnian state, he contends. That idea, diplomats here say, is unrealistic, but it appeals to nationalist Muslim voters.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristianity; balkans; bosnia; christianity; clintons; ihoppy; islambosnia; islamofascism; islamofascists; jihad; mark502ss; pancakeboy; serbbosnia; serbia; sorosfluffers; terror; toothlessdhimmi; wrongplace; wrongside; wrongtime; wrongwar
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1 posted on 08/26/2006 12:39:50 PM PDT by kronos77
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To: joan; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; Banat; ...

fake country needs to be devided so that Christins live free.


2 posted on 08/26/2006 12:40:52 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: kronos77
Clinton should have never jumped in to protect the muslims.
3 posted on 08/26/2006 12:45:35 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

Dhimmitude apparently is an appealing lifestyle for some but it doesn't work for Serbs.


4 posted on 08/26/2006 3:03:46 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

They need some advanced weaponry ASAP.


5 posted on 08/26/2006 3:15:20 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kronos77
Mr. Dodik said he was “sick and tired” of the politics of the Muslim leaders, “which makes fools of us so that we look like war criminals.”

Srebrenica Suspects Revealed

The Bosnian daily newspaper Oslobodjenje has started publishing a list of over 800 Bosnian Serbs who allegedly participated in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, and are still believed to be in positions of power.

These names are just a small part of a much bigger list of some 28,000 people who, according to the Republika Srpska, RS, authorities, were directly or indirectly involved in the massacre.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck...

Meanwhile, as to the Republika Srpska ever achieving the SDS leadership's war time goal of an ethnically pure Serbian statelet in Bosnia, the Bosnian Serbs are free to talk about it as much as they like, but that's about as far as it'll ever go.

6 posted on 08/26/2006 3:43:06 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: kinoxi

As you can see from the above post, there are even people here on FR who gleefully support the Muslims over the Christian Serbs.

I understand they get special "Dhimmi" kneepads when they enlist.


7 posted on 08/26/2006 4:38:35 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Hoplite

Do you feel lonely being one of the last here on FR to suggest that shooting jihadi terrorists is a bad thing?


8 posted on 08/26/2006 4:40:40 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Hoplite
I hope you can realize and experience what you defend. I here Sudan is looking for immigrants. They might not like this little thing called the Internet there though.
9 posted on 08/26/2006 4:45:40 PM PDT by kinoxi
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I hope you can realize and experience what you defend.

And what, exactly, to you assume that is?

10 posted on 08/26/2006 5:08:44 PM PDT by Hoplite
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And what, exactly, to you assume that is?
You're defending the 700 year old muslim attempt at invading Europe. I hope you experience your goal of sharia.
11 posted on 08/26/2006 5:12:47 PM PDT by kinoxi
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You're defending the 700 year old muslim attempt at invading Europe. I hope you experience your goal of sharia.

Wrong on both counts.

But thanks for playing anyway.

12 posted on 08/26/2006 5:14:47 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

What are you defending then?


13 posted on 08/26/2006 5:15:54 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

I think he's really in support of the destruction of Christianity.

Either that or he just likes his official Dhimmi-issued kneepads.


14 posted on 08/26/2006 5:24:34 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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Hoppy experiences more kicking to the curb as yet another American Freeper learns of his support of the jihadists.


15 posted on 08/26/2006 5:26:29 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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What are you defending then?

American interests in the region, though I would have thought the link to Ambassador McElhaney's statement would have made that clear.

Who's interests are you pursuing?

16 posted on 08/26/2006 5:28:21 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

A better question might be why are you defending them?


17 posted on 08/26/2006 5:32:40 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi
A better question might be why are you defending them?

Why am I defending American interests?

Do I really have to enumerate the reasons?

18 posted on 08/26/2006 5:49:29 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
You need to go over to the democratic underground. They understand your mental deficiency. I am not currently equipped to handle your level of degeneration. I support people who kill muslim terrorists, you do not.
19 posted on 08/26/2006 5:54:48 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Hoplite

Muslims call you "our useful idiot"


20 posted on 08/26/2006 5:56:00 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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