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The big difference is that while their were some moderate Muslims in the Bosnian militias, the KLA, and their Macedonian wannabes, the folks interested in religious tolerance and equal rights for everybody weren't the ones receiving money, training, troops, and supplies from Iran and al-Qaeda.

One of the big al-Qaeda strategies is to "hijack" legitimate political struggles (like that of the Uighurs in China, who are fighting one of the worst regimes on the planet) and radicalize them with their dream of an Islamic World Order. Based on what I've read about the Balkans, that's basically what happened there.

I'm not trying to whitewash the Serbs by any means, just saying that sometimes the cure can be every bit as bad as the disease. Kosovo is being used by Macedonian Muslims as a safe haven while they sow chaos in the neighboring state. I'm also given to understand there are training camps every bit as nasty as those in Afghanistan at Ljabinot, Tropoja, Kuks, and Bajram Curi in Albania. And post-9/11, I'd be real anxious to know who was attended them.