West feeling the fallout of efforts to aid Bosnian Muslims a decade ago

Starts and Stripes ^ | April 14 2002 | Gregory Piatt

[swarthyguy]

Lots of points of discussion regarding the US turning a blind eye and even encouraging fundy islamatic activity.
But the fact that this appears in the Stars and Stripes is significant, IMO, as is almost an expression of mea culpa, particularly the sidebar report's references to Gen. Wesley Clark and to the policy.

[swarthyguy]

OOps, Stars and Stripes, not starts.

[Spar]

Mujahedeen used to live in this house in the village of Bocinja. Those who took over homes illegally were evicted from the Serb village, but some of their Bosnian followers still reside in several houses they bought from the pre-war Serb residents. The house with loudspeakers now serves as the village mosque.

A town sign greets entrants to the village of Bocinja in Bosnia and Herzegovina where foreign Islamic fighters — Mujahedeen — used to live.

Great post swarthyguy! I am glad I am not the only one posting the connections anymore.

Stars and Stripes, eh? What took "them" so long?

We on FreeRepublic have been saying this from day one.

For background go to BIN LADEN GATE

Regarding the sidebar article Report: No evidence of U.S. weapons assistance Evidence that that there was such assistance can be found in this posted article (also linked via the BIN LADEN GATE thread) Argentina's Menem to be freed in arms case (Clinton used him to smuggle arms to Bosnian Muslims)

The truth is breaking free and the those traitors in our govt in this and the past administration will have much to answer for. I expect many sudden "suicides" in the near future.

[swarthyguy]

Well Actually it had been posted earlier today but not with the stars and stripes headline but with the word mujahideen in the headline that had been composed by the poster.
Thanks for the comp. Regards

[Spar]

"Al-Qaida trained Mujahedeen to go and fight in Bosnia during the early ’90s, and bin Laden’s Services Office also maintained an office in neighboring Croatia’s capital, Zagreb."

The Mujahedeen came into Bosnia from Croatia, the colonel said. "They came into Croatia at the ports of Split and Rijeka. Those were big centers."

[swarthyguy]

Also one of the regrettable things is AntiWar.com's jihad against the US. THey were very good in getting out information during the Balkan crisises and also from my pov during the Kargil War of 1999. But they seem to have completely internalized the 'root causes' with the US being the root of all evil. Oh well, I guess BushInc., the Zionists and the HinduFascists with a Catholic Def. Minister will have to carry the day/decade/century.

[Spar]

fyi

[Spar]

The BIN LADEN GATE link I provided originated with Accuracy In Media NOT antiwar.com

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[Hoplite]

He said there were about 500 Mujahedeen who came to help Bosnia from 1993 until the end of the war.

It's nice to finally have a number to play with - but this one really puts a damper on claims of an entire Brigade of Mujahadeen in Bosnia.

Guess we'll have to settle for a Battalion.

[Travis McGee]

ping

[F-117A]

Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission -- and more importantly, to the safety of the American personnel serving in Bosnia -- is the unwillingness of the Clinton Administration to come clean with the Congress and with the American people about its complicity in the delivery of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has, according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified intelligence community sources), "played a central role in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia."

[Michael2001]

I hope this gets picked up by the "mainstream" media. But I'm not betting on it

[Spar]

It's nice to finally have a number to play with

NATO analysis lists 9 Islamic terrorist organizations in Bosnia "some 6,000 terrorists"

[F-117A]

Try this

[MarkWar]

>Many of the foreign Muslim fighters who participated in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina flowed into the region with U.S. and NATO knowledge through an arms pipeline that evaded a U.N. embargo. Now, the West is feeling the fallout of its attempts to help the Bosnian Muslims in their fight.

Gee. Where have we heard this before... (Possibly someone in power should reconsider the always ill-advised notion that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...")

Spar -- I'm interested in the whole Serb situation, but I confess that I'm overwhelmed by the complexity of it, and the intense passions on all sides. Do you -- or any lurkers -- know of any thread or site that presents a well-organized and reasonably concise overview of what happened there, and the fallout?

Mark W.

[swarthyguy]

Fat chance; now its RobertBlakeTV all the time. THe Church of the nativity Seige is sidelined; there's nothing going on in Afghanistan, only those foreign troops ie UK going after alqaeda. What a TVmedia; one middling hollowwood actor and all our blowdried fluffbranins are all googoo over the case.

[swarthyguy]

OK my apologies; i saw it on aw.

[swarthyguy]

Serbianna.com is a good start; onesided, yes but good detail. & do you really want to hear adnauseum about how the muslims were mistreated.
Brig. Gen Satish Nambiar of the Indian army detail of the UN peacekeeping force in an article detailed his doubts about the infamous market bombing of 95 in Sarajevo was conducted by the bosnian muslims and cleverly blamed on the Serbs. You may recall this eventually led to the Dayton Accords.

[swarthyguy]

But they've married and are now producing lots of little jihadis....