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>>>>>It is believed that parts of this movement later attempted to instigate and organize the Jihad, roughly translated as "struggle" or "Holy War", in the areas inhabited by ethnic Albanians, in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania<<<<<<<<<<

Ooops. So Kosovo and Macedonia are jihad operation, not "humanitarian catastrophe" as parroted by X42 and ABC gang?

Radical Islamist terrorists could be understood. But how to understand those in the corridors of U.S. power who armed, trained and supported them diplomatically, militarily and with media coverage ?
Now, when U.S. troops in Bosnia and Kosovo are in peril, this requires immediate answer:

Who are supporters of radical islamism in military, dipomacy and intelligence community?
Who are supporters of radical islamism in media and academia?

Actually the West's support of the jihadists in the Balkans is easy to understand. Our short-sighted policy makers still suffer from Cold War slavophobia, and think that being pro-Islamist everywhere except Palestine will molify the Islamic world. (I have repeatedly pointed out the universal pattern of American foreign policy: Jews trump Muslims, Muslims trump everyone else--look around the world, and until the recent UN actions in East Timor there wasn't a single counter-example. I also have the strong feeling that if the Christians of East Timor had been Orthodox rather than Roman, the Indonesians would not only still have the place, but have our blessings to keep it.)

We can pray that recent events will change our policy so that Eastern Christians can soon count on American support in opposing the Jihad. Alas, recent pronouncements from the State Dept. on Chechenya and our continued shielding of Albanian and Bosnian Islamists do not bode well. I fear it will take direct attacks on NATO troops in the Balkans by bin Laden's operatives in the Balkans to open eyes in Washington.