Posted on 05/29/2002 6:56:06 PM PDT by Spar
UN Lawyer Turns Over Hijacker Info
Wed May 29, 4:06 PM ET
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor has turned over information about one of the Sept. 11 hijackers to the United States, France and the Netherlands, the U.N. spokesman said Wednesday.
The cooperation between the United Nations (news - web sites) and other countries, especially the United States, has raised concerns that Washington may be exerting undue influence on the world body.
But U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said the United Nations should cooperate in the fight against terrorism — just as its 189 members were asked to do by the Security Council and the General Assembly after Sept. 11.
"The United Nations considers that it too has an obligation to assist countries, particularly if a state has been the target of terror activities," he said.
The war crimes prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said last October that information concerning people "with connections to terrorist groups," primarily in Bosnia, was provided to Pierre Prosper, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes.
On Wednesday, Eckhard confirmed for the first time that the information included material related to "one of the named terrorists said to have been on one of the hijacked aircraft" on Sept. 11. Eckhard refused to name the hijacker but said the information was also shared with the French and Dutch governments.
The United States is clearly interested in any information the United Nations can provide.
"Since Sept. 11, we've had discussions with various U.N. officials on how we can improve the international effort to fight terrorism," a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
But some U.N. officials contend the United States has exerted too much power.
Madeline Rees, the head of the U.N. human rights office in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, asked for an investigation in January into the way the United States pressured Bosnian officials to turn over six Algerian terror suspects. She suggested that the move damaged the very legal system Washington was trying to build in postwar Bosnia.
"The international community had definitely played a role in this unlawful handover," she said Wednesday.
Following the terrorist attacks on the United States, Del Ponte was approached by the U.S. Embassy in The Hague (news - web sites), Netherlands and asked for information in identifying those responsible, Eckhard said.
"The office of the prosecutor did in fact have some information in relation to one of the named terrorists said to have been on one of the hijacked aircraft," he said. An electronic version of some of the information was then given to Prosper as well as French and Dutch officials, Eckhard said.
Florence Hartmann, the spokeswoman for Del Ponte, said U.N. investigators may have had information about some Muslim fighters who stayed on in Bosnia after the civil war ended in 1995.
"There were some documents that could be linked" to the hunt for terrorists that were handed over, she said Wednesday.
EDITORS: Associated Press writers George Jahn and Aida Cerkez-Robinson contributed to this report.
That's nothing but a muslim BIG LIE, which would be laughable if so many people didn't die because of islamic subversion in Bosnia, and if the muslim entity in Bosnia had not become such a nest of terrorists who are even attacking America.
Here's the truth about Izetbegovic, who is cut from the same cloth as Khomeini and Bin Laden, but can put on a smooth-talking "diplomatic" front:
President Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration, first published in 1970 when it earned him a prison sentence, demanded a fully-fundamentalist Muslim state in Bosnia without scope for non-Muslim institutions or any division between religion, politics, and economics. The book was republished in 1990 in Sarajevo (by Mala Muslimanska Biblioteka). It scathingly attacks Attaturk's reforms and holds up Pakistan as a model to be followed.
An excerpt from the "Declaration" (p. 22):
"... The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non- Islamic societies and political institutions. ... Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion. ..."
The does not seem to be a complete text of the islamic Declaration on the internet, but the quotes that I cited are all over the place--on Serbian, Croatian, British, French, American, and other websites. You can get photcopies of the relevant pages (in "Serbo-Croatian") by contacting Peter Makara at http://www.srpska-mreza.com, if you don't mind getting them from a Serbian "disbeliever". The 1990 edition was published by Mala Muslimanska Biblioteka in Sarajevo, and tranlated into English and other languages. Several libraries that specialize in South Slavic materials also have copies, at least of the "Serbo-Croatian" edition.
As for whether there were islamic fundamentalists/supremacists in 1970--although there were none of the current wave of CIA-spawned jihadists, there have all throughout the history of islam been "fundamentalist" movements. Some well-known ones are the Almohads who conquered muslim Spain in the 12th century, and ended the "golden age" there, and the Madhist movement in Sudan in the 19th century.
More relevant are the 200-year-old Wahhabi movment in Saudi Arabia, and Khomeini and his movement, which was active in the West in the 1960s and 1970s, before taking power in Iran in 1979. Izetbegovic was in contact with at least the Iranians from an early time.
Izzie himself was part of another islamic supremacist movement in the 1940s, the Nazi/muslim movement founded by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The young Izzie fought for the Nazis in al-Husseini's thuggish Bosnian muslim units, and founded the Young Muslims (Mladi Muslimani) to carry on the islamic supremacist cause in Bosnia. The Young Muslims formed the core of Izzie's party, and of the "Bosnian" government, in the 1990s.
Their goal was always the formation of a "Bosnian" state--no matter how small--that could be dominated by muslims, and serve as a launching pad for the islamization of Europe. And it also became a base for attacks against America. The mirror image of Izzie's small Bosnia is of course Republika Srpska and probaly a Croat Herceg Bosna as well. The existence of these Christian ethnic enclaves is made necessary by Izzie's strategy, and is NOT the result of some mythical plot to create a "Greater Serbia"!!
As for Pakistan--its "secularism" has always been relative. Pakistan was created as a state for muslims who did not want to live together with Hindus and others in India. It is thus by design islamic supremacist. Pakistan has always had a legal system that is influenced by sharia, even when it has not fully implemented islamic law. (That is also true of many other islamic states such as Egypt.) Pakistan is far, far away in its laws, govenment, and customs from the only islamic country that is a secular state, Turkey. And it has always had an expansionist and warlike streak, which is now worse than ever!!!
47. On 12 May 1992, at the 16th session of the Bosnian Serb Assembly, Radovan KARADZIC announced the six strategic objectives of the Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These objectives included (a) Establish State borders separating the Serbian people from the other two ethnic communities; (b) Set up a corridor between Semberija and Krajina; (c) Establish a corridor in the Drina river valley, that is, eliminate the Drina as a border separating Serbian States; (d) Establish a border on the Una and Neretva rivers; (e) Divide the city of Sarajevo into Serbian and Muslim parts and establish effective State authorities in both parts; (f) Ensure access to the sea for Republika Srpska. On the same day, these strategic objectives were promulgated in a Decision signed by Momcilo KRAJISNIK in his capacity as President of the Bosnian Serb Assembly.
THese decisions were made publicly in the Serb Assembly, they cannot be denied.
You're DEAD WRONG!!!! Here's a bio of Alan Fogelquist:
Since completing his Ph. D. in Modern Balkan and Comparative History at UCLA in December 1990, Alan F. Fogelquist has dedicated full time to research and analysis of the post communist conflicts in former Yugoslavia the former Soviet Union and international policies towards these regions. He has spoken at numerous public forums on the current situation in the Balkans and participated in conferences at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D. C. and the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He has worked as a consultant on War Crimes for Helsinki Watch and provided consultation to members of the United States Senate and United States Congress and the Bosnian [sic] Mission to the United Nations. Alan Fogelquist is author of the monograph Handbook of Facts [sic] on the Break-up of Yugoslavia, International Policy and the War in Bosnia Hercegovina (Ann Arbor, Michigan: AEIOU Publishing, 1993) as well as several articles for scholarly publications and newspapers. He is currently writing a comparative study of conflicts arising from the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Dr. Fogelquist has visited Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosova [sic! This is the Shiptar spelling of Kosovo], Macedonia and other areas of former Yugoslavia on several occasions. He lived in Sarajevo from 1981 to 1984. He has an excellent knowledge of Bosno-Croatian [sic! This terminology is truly SICK!], Spanish and Portuguese and a good working knowledge of Persian, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, and French. Alan Fogelquist is currently a post-doctoral scholar in Modern Balkan and Comparative History at the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA.
From his biography, he obviously has a BIG ax to grind!!!! He is a PAID AGENT of the New World Order (Rand Corporation, etc.), a professional "human rightser", and also a PAID AGENT of the muslim entity in Bosnia as well ("Bosno-Croatian" MY FOOT)!!!! This pseudo-intellectual whore makes his living by LYING for the NWO to cover up the real aims of their muslim thug allies!!!! I'm a pretty well-connected American, and I know people like this!!!!
It's these kinds of cover-ups of muslim aims, especially including muslims in Bosnia, that set us Americans up for Sept. 11th!!!! And as a Christian, I TOTALLY ABOMINATE his demonizing my Serbian brothers and sisters in Christ,and setting them up for mass murder and theft of their ancestral lands!!! So PHOOEY to Alan Fogelquist, and all others like him!!!!
The Serbian people have lived in Bosnia since at least medieval times, when Bosnia was undisputably a Serbian kingdom. After WWI, ALL OF Bosnia was awarded to Serbia by treaty. But the Serbs helped form the new kingdom of Yugoslavia.
When Bosnia seceded, and Izetbegovic reneged on the Lisbon agreement (for the peaceful cantonization of Bosnia), the Serbs--who had lived in Bosnia for over half a millennium--found themselves surrounded by hostile forces (the same hostile ustashe and musilm supremacist forces that massacred them in WWII). Especially in muslim areas, foreign mujehadin were brought in who slaughtered Serbian people, cut off their heads, roasted them alive, or impaled them!!!
Of course Serbs had to make a separation between themselves and these hostile forces. I would have done the same thing. It was no war crime, but SELF DEFENSE!!!
No Christian, anywhere in the world, should have to live under muslim supremacist rule!!!!
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