US airman under Serbian care
Posted on 02/07/2003 6:24:30 PM PST by Karadjordje
Open letter—April 9, 1999
To Our Troops In The Former Yugoslavia
| "We Found Out The Truth About the Serbs...When We Were Shot Down" World War II Rescued American Airmen Defend Serbs By Richard L. Felman Over 500 MlAs Saved By The Serbian People During WWII During World War II, we were in the Army Air Corps list as "Missing in Action" in the very same area you are now serving. If we may, we would like to relay to you a frank, soldier-to-soldier message about our personal experience while there—something which politicians who sent you there have not told you and something which you have not read or seen in the anti-Serb media. In 1944, the members of our committee were flying bombing missions out of Italy over Southern Europe. During that time over 500 of us were shot down over enemy-occupied Yugoslavia and saved from certain death by the Serbian people. Ours was the greatest rescue of American lives from behind enemy lines in history but has been kept under wraps all these years because of pressure from foreign sources. [Emphasis added] While we were there, those of us who were wounded were given whatever medical supplies they had even at the deprivation of their own troops. If there was one piece of bread in the house, or one egg, it went to the American airmen while the Serb went hungry. If there was one bed or one blanket, it went to us while the Serb slept on the bare ground. No risk of sacrifice was too great to insure our safety and well being. One experience which is forever seared in my memory is the time a village with 200 women and children was burned to the ground by the Germans because the Serbs would not tell them where they were hiding us. To this day, I can smell the terrible stench of their burning flesh. One does not forget such things. The most incredible part of our rescue was that before each mission, our bomber crews were briefed by the highest levels of American intelligence that if shot down over Yugoslavia, we were to stay away from the Serbian people as they were collaborating with the Germans and "cutting off the ears of American airmen" before turning them over. Only after we were shot down did we find out the amazing thoroughness with which the truth about the Serbs was being distorted. [Emphasis added] Further compounding this deception is the fact that while the Serbs were our allies in WWII, Croatians and Muslims (who we are favoring today) were allies of the Nazis, shooting at us and responsible for killing many of our fellow American fliers. In view of the lies we were told about the Serbs during World War II, we could not help but wonder if our foreign policy there today is the same anti-Serb bias we encountered 52 years ago. Could our career diplomats sacrifice former friends and reward former enemies in the name of political expediency? Could it be because in the world community there are over one billion Muslims and only 9 million Serbian Orthodox Christians with the same proportionate power in the global economy? Could it be because the Serbs have no oil wells and no unlimited oil money? Could it be because the Croatians and Muslims outspend the Serbs 50 to one on lobbyists, media firms and campaign contributions? Could this be why, "atrocities" are manufactured to make the Serbs look bad while gaining sympathy for their opponents? Could this be why the Serbs are branded "aggressors" in land they have lived on for over 600 years? Could our policy have something to do with the fact there are 540 members of Congress, none of whom are Orthodox Christians? Could the State Department’s bitter bias, against General Draza Mihailovich, the anti-Communist guerrilla leader who saved us, be based on the fact he was a Serb? Could these be the reasons the State Department has covered up the truth of our rescue all these years and opposed our petition to express gratitude for saving over 500 American lives (a petition which is supported by the 8 million veterans of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Air Force Association and which has been approved by the United States Senate.)? Could it be these are the reasons the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has also denied our petition by saying to us here are "ethnic groups in Yugoslavia" who oppose it? Are we mad? You can bet your next month’s paycheck that we are mad! We did not leave our families, risk our lives and watch our buddies get their arms, legs and heads blown off so that "ethnic groups in Yugoslavia" could tell us what we could or could not do in our own country. Now that the spring thaw has set in, temperatures and tempers will start to rise in the volatile area you now find yourselves. All we ask is that in your dealings with the local people you be made aware of the eyewitness experience of your fellow comrades-in-arms. By speaking out now we have nothing to gain except a burning moral passion to tell the truth, a sworn duty to protect our national honor, a patriotic desire to express heart felt gratitude to those on foreign soil who save American lives while they are fighting in defense of our glorious country. Now that you have been sent to foreign soil and asked to risk your lives we feel you should know the truth and not be "suckered in" by the rhetoric of highly paid public relations firms, foreign lobbyists and self-serving politicians who know absolutely nothing of the region’s history. We might also add that had it not been for the Serbian people, Air Force General Donald J. Smith, our chairman and one our rescued airmen, would not have survived the war and been able to dedicate 40 years of honorable service to his country. Had it not been for the Serbian people, technical Sgt. Curtis "Bud" Diles, another of our airmen, would not be alive today in Dayton, Ohio, enjoying retirement with his four children and 12 grandchildren. There are hundreds of us with stories just like those. Some of the greatest testimony to the many sacrifices made on our behalf us the many thousands of American children who are alive today solely because the Serbian people saved over 500 of their grandfathers during World War II. Some of them could very well be serving with you today in Bosnia. I was one of three rescued American airmen who returned last year to the former Yugoslavia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of victory in Europe with the people who saved us and to visit the cow pasture that served as a landing strip from which we were rescued. The most moving experience of our sentimental trip was being cheered by over 50,000 Serbs who gathered at a mountain top to welcome us and who kept chanting "USA, USA". As American military men, we have a proud tradition of "duty, honor and country" to uphold and a fierce sense of loyalty to those with whom we fought side by side in combat. We never forget their kindness nor do we return their battlefield sacrifices for us by bombing their women and children. The Serbian people helped us when we were desperate and in trouble. Now that the situation is reversed we can do no less. Please keep these untarnished truths in mind as you now serve our country and all it stands for, and may God bless you all as we pray for your safe return. This war will not last long. If for no other reason, it appears the US Forces are already running low on missiles. And, Clinton’s blustering threats of "escorting the Albanian Kosovars back to their home" is silliness. So far Clinton’s war has failed to even find ONE of Milosevic’s mobile units to shoot at. How does he plan on personally escort back the reported 1,000,000 Albanians his spokespersons claim have fled the country? The Serbs tied up 10 divisions of Hitler’s Crack troops—even after they lost the war. If he continues the kind of bombing he conducted last couple of nights, he is going to lose the humanitarian war on CNN. —Pictures of mothers and newborn premature babies being evacuated from the hospital 100 yards from the Interior Ministry’s spectacular blaze, a father on the street being interviewed saying it was "easy for Clinton to drop bombs on the children from the sky—but we will see what kind of man he is when he comes to our soil" or the flames from a residential area hit in last night’s bombing raids, are far more dramatic and horrifying than watching Albanian refugees who are riding trains to the border and walking across. Pictures of bombs on civilian targets. So far this week, over 1000 people are reported to have died so far in the bombing raids. That is a far higher death toll than Christiane Amanpour has been able to muster up in her drive to sell the Albanian side to a jaded, suspicious American public. The world is seeing the results of the bombs. The effort to portray the Serbs, as US News and World Report does in its April 12, 1999, issue on "Balkan Hell" as crazed killers is largely verbal so far. Stories of "summary executions," US News and World Report noted, were hard to "prove" but are "quite credible given the Serbs’ vicious record. These stories are being challenged by those, such as Col. Felman, USAF Ret., who have had personal experiences with the Serbs. We are in a whole new kind of warfare, folks, and it appears that Milosevic has pretty much won it. It already sounds like the Clinton administration is trying to figure out who it can blame for the debacle. |
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Karadjordje
Nikola Tesla, the son of a Serbian Orthodox priest was a pioneer of the
radio, inventor of alternating current that made possible the generation and
transmission of electricity at Niagara Falls--one of the major factors of
the industrial revolution in America. Tesla's patent 100 years ago on
radio-guided robots made possible our space exploration and the success of
the current robot on Mars. He also invented the fluorescent light bulb. He
electrically lit the first Broadway show at The Wintergarden Theatre.
Considered a less-educated Serb, Tesla is certainly among the foremost
contributors to 20th century scientific progress.
Numerous other Serbs have made their contributions:
Mihajlo Pupin, author, physicist, inventor, Pulitzer recipient--a building
at Columbia University is named in his honor.
Mileva Maric, the mother of Einstein's children and a mathematician now
being credited for her influence in Einstein's important work. (See Andrea
Gabor, Einstein's Wife, NY, 1995, p. XII and pp.3-32)
A building at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is named for
Lance Sijan, A Serb--for his bravery in Vietnam. He was the first Air Force
graduate to receive the Medal of Honor. The book, "Into the Mouth of the
Cat" was written about this brave American-Serb who shared a prison with
senator John McCain of Arizona, the same senator who refuses to acknowledge
the sacrifices of the Serbian people in WWII and who remained silent when a
Serbian Church in his home state was desecrated with swastikas and filthy
Croatian words on August 9, 1996.
As early as 1905, a young Serbian American from the south side of Chicago,
Rade Grba, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the United States
for his heroic actions in the Navy. There are 8 Serbian Congressional Medal
of Honor recipients. The first person in US history to receive 2
congressional medals was Lou Cukelja--he also received thehighest
decorations given by France, Belgium and Serbia.
There are hundreds of Serbian Purple Heart recipients. Serbian-Americans can
be proud of the youngest Two-Star general in the American army, Rudy
Osotvich, III and Two-star General, Mel Vojvodich. Ed Radkovich headed Air
Force Intelligence in Europe and Brigadier General George Karamarkovic the
US Marine Corp. The US Military also includes Admiral Stevan Mandaric and
Col Mitchell Page, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient--Admiral Milton
Alexich of the Navy. Vern Pupich was the test pilot of the DC3 before WWII.
Velco Gasic designed the T38, the first sophisticated trainer aircraft and
the F5. He was responsible for the B-2 and was an executive vice president
of Northrop.
Two Serbian Americans received a Pulitzer prize. Walter Bogdanich, born and
raised in Gary, Indiana, won his Pulitzer prize in journalism at the Wall
Street Journal in 1988 for his series of articles on medical fraud in
laboratory practices and Kim Komenich won his Pulitzer for photography in
1987. Dr. Charles Simic, Belgrade-born professor of English at the
University of New Hampshire, won his Pulitzer for poetry in 1990.
Ivo Andric is the only Serbian and only person from the former state of
"Yugoslavia" to receive the Nobel prize, which was awarded for his book
"Bridge Over the River Drina."
Descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia, Princess Elizabeth
Karadjordjevic, the daughter of Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, heads the
princess Elizabeth Foundation in NY . Her daughter, Catherine Oxenberg, is
widely known for her work in American television.
The Honorable Branko Terzic was Federal Energy Regulatory commissioner,
appointed by President George Bush.
Mladen Sekulovic known to the world as Karl Malden, is the recipient of the
Academy Award (Oscar) for his performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and
an Emmy for his role in "Fatal Vision." He was the president of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 - 1992. Lolita Davidovich,
Peter Bogdanovich, and Rick Rossovich add their talents to the American
cinema. Screen writer Steve Tesich was an Academy Award recipient and John
Vivian received fame as TV's 'Mr. Lucky', Natalija Nogulich won our hearts
on Broadway with Jason Robards in 'The Iceman Cometh'--Ms. Nogulich is also
known for her appearances in numerous television plays and films. Mark
Malkovich, III, known bymusic lovers as the director of the prestigious
NewportMusic Festival, is also known by hockey lovers as the founder of the
American/Canadian National Hockey League.
In the field of medicine, Dr. Ninoslav Radovanovic is recognized as one of
the world's leading cardiovascular Surgeons.
Rose Ann Vuich was the first female ever elected to the State Senate in
California in 1973. Having broken the gender barrier, a freeway in
California was named in her honor.
Desa Mamula was the first Serbian female attorney in the United States in
the 1940's. Helen Delich Bentley served 10 years in Congress, representing
the state of Maryland. Ralph Vinovic was the chief of staff for the
respected late Senator Dirksen. Today, John Vinich is the senator for
Wyoming and Rod Blagojevich a Congressman from Illinois. In the US Federal
District Court, in Chicago there is Judge George Marovich, and in the 2nd
Judicial District Court in Nevada, there is Steve Kosach. George Zenovich is
a Superior Court judge in California and George Chanak was a Supreme Court
judge for the state of Minnesota.
William Jovanovich, the single most famous name in American publishing
became president and CEO of Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, one of America's
most prominent publishing firms.
William Salatich became the president of Gillette Corp.
George Perunici was the former chairman of American Express.
Michael Bozich was the former head of the merchandising group as Sears.
Alex Machaskee is the publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Milan Puskar is president of Milan Labs, one of America's leading
pharmaceutical firms.
George B. Cavic is VP of Parke-Davis and Milan Panic is president and CEO of
ICN pharmaceuticals, became the prime minister of former Yugoslavia and
heads a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical company with divisions in 5
countries.
Dr. Alex Dragnich is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for
Distinguished Service to Vanderbilt University. He is the author of a dozen
books on Yugoslav history and politics.
Other Serbs who achieved prominence in Academia include:
Dr. Milorad Drachkovitch, Dr. Bogdan Maglich, Molecular Biologist was on the
team of four who discovered the Omega Mezon. Dr. Vasa Mihailovich, Dr.
Andrej Simic, Professor of Anthropology, USC, Dr. George V. Tomasevich,
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology-SUNY College), Dr. Stella Yaksich, Dr.
Stephen Stepanchev, (Emeritus Professor English Literature, Purdue and
Queens College), Dr. Dimitrije Djordjevich, Emeritus Professor History-UC,
Santa Barbara, Dr. Radmila Gorup, Professor of Lingusistic-Columbia
University, Dr. Sava Bosnitch, Professor of Political Science-University New
Brunswick, Dr. Svetozar Stojanovic, University of Buffalo, Dr. Srdja
Trifkovic, Professor of History, Rose Hill College, Dr. Zarko Bilbija,
Emeritus Professor, Universities of Chicago and Florida, Dr. Michael
Mennard, US Foreign Service-retired, Ph.D. History, Georgetown University,
Dr. Nenad M. Kostic, Iowa State University Research in DNA, Dr. Michael
Petrovich, Dr. Wayne Vucinich, Emeritus Professor of History-Stanford, and
Dr. Milos Velimirovic, Emeritus Professor of Music, Harvard and University
of VA. Dr. Henry Suzzalo was born in Herzegovina and was the President of
the Carnegie Foundation on the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Dimitri
Dimitrijevic was recognized for his major innovations as a psychiatrist and
administrator in the treatment of mental illness in Illinois
In sports, Bora Milutinovich was the coach of the US Soccer team in the 1994
World Cup playoffs. George Glamack waoneer in p In football, Serbs play a
major roll with such great athletes as Jim Nadich, Norm Bulaich, Pete
Stojanovich, Ed Obradovich, Lazo 'Larry' Visnic, Jim Obradovich, Mike Mamula
of the Philadelphia Eagles and Pete Lazetich. Sam Jankovich, the former
general manager of the N.E. Patriots, was the athletic director at the
University of Miami during the Hurricanes' national championship.
In baseball there are such Serbian greats as Pete Vuckovich, the 1982 Cy
Young Award winner. David Rajsich wears a world series ring earned pitching
for the NY Yankees. Eli Grba, Nick Strincevich, Walt Dropo, John Vukovich,
and Paul Popovich were outstanding in the field. Even in car racing, we
remember Bill Vukovich, two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500--who was
fondly known as the "Mad Russian", even though he was a Serb. Vel Miletich
designed the cars for the Parnelli Jones racing team.
But keep on defending your brave SS Dshihad Mudshahdein warriors.
Karadjordje
Nedaj se. Thanks for the loads of info. I got to talk to Col. Felman about a week before he died. Even in his last dying days, actually gasping for the breaths to answer me, he was still trying to get the truth out about our beloved Draza and the Serbian people. This guy NEVER let up. Never. Threads like this need to be posted and Bumped always.
To the People of the United States:
On Sunday, 28th of this present month, will occur the fourth anniversary of the day when the gallant people of Serbia, rather than submit to the studied and ignoble executions of a prearranged foe, were called upon by the war declaration of Austria- Hungry to defend their territory and their homes against an enemy bent on their destruction. Nobly did they respond.
So valiantly and courageously did they oppose the forces of a country ten times greater in population and resources that it was only after they had thrice driven the Austrians back and Germany and Bulgaria had come to the aid of Austria that they were compelled to retreat into Albania. While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken. Though overwhelmed by superior forces, their love of freedom remains unabated. Brutal force has left unaffected their firm determination to sacrifice everything for liberty and independence.
It is fitting that the people of the United States, dedicated to the self-evident truth that is the right of the people of all nations, small as well as great, to live their own lives and choose their own Government, and remembering that the principles for which Serbia has so nobly fought and suffered are those for which the United States is fighting, should on the occasion of this anniversary manifest in an appropriate manner their war sympathy with this oppressed people who have so heroically resisted the aims of the Germanic nations to master the world. At the same time, we should not forget the kindred people of the Great Slavic race - the Poles, the Czechs and Jugo - Slavs, who, now dominated and oppressed by alien races yearn for independence and national unity.
This can be done in a manner no more appropriate than in our churches. I, therefore, appeal to the people of the United States of all faiths and creeds to assemble in their several places of worship on Sunday July 28, for the purpose of giving expression to their sympathy with this subjugated people and their oppressed and dominated kindred in other lands, and to invoke the blessings of Almighty God upon them and upon the cause to which they are pledged.
Woodrow Wilson, President,
The White House, July, 1918.
Karadjordje
Karadjordje
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Karadjordje
I'am waiting ...
Karadjordje
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Don't be afraid, I will stop posting to you.
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Karadjordje
Karadjordje
The Times, "Muslim soldiers 'failed to defend town from Serbs'", July 14, 1995
Karadjordje
Stephen Kinzer
N.Y. Times News Service, 06/26/95
VISNJICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina In a raid before dawn that again illustrated the weakness of U.N. forces here, Bosnian government soldiers apparently slipped past U.N. posts on Monday and attacked this isolated Bosnian Serb village, burning several houses, stealing livestock, and leaving a dozen families homeless, a Bosnian Serb spokesman said.
Although the assault had no great military significance, it reflected both the growing frustration of government troops and the inadequacy of U.N. peacekeepers who have pledged to prevent them from leaving supposedly demilitarized enclaves in eastern Bosnia.
Visnjica is a miserable settlement perched on a mountainside a few miles from Srebrenica, one of the Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia which the United Nations has designated as demilitarized 'protected areas.' But Monday's raid was apparently launched by troops based inside Srebrenica, leading Bosnian Serb officers to denounce the United Nations for failing to comply with its promise to keep the town free of soldiers and weapons.
'There have been a number of incidents like this in the last 15 to 20 days,' said Lt. Col. Milovan Milutinovic, chief spokesman for the Bosnian Serb army. 'The Muslim soldiers who carried out this attack crossed lines patrolled by Dutch U.N. troops whose job it is to prevent just this kind of action. We therefore conclude that the U.N. forces are aligning themselves with the Muslim army.'
Milutinovic's assertion was the mirror image of accusations that the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government has been making for months. It has been denouncing the peacekeepers for their failure to prevent Bosnian Serbs from bombarding the enclaves, and asserting that this failure constitutes de facto support for the Serbs.
Attempts to reach the U.N. headquarters in Srebrenica for comment on today's raid were unsuccessful.
(U.N. officials in Sarajevo reported only that the Bosnian Serbs had shelled Srebrenica and Goradze, The Associated Press reported. It was unclear whether the Serbian shelling was in retaliation for the Bosnian government attack on Visnjica.)
Several of the impoverished farmers who live in Visnjica said they had assumed they were safe here because of U.N. pledges.
'We thought that no one could attack us from Srebrenica because the town was demilitarized and surrounded by U.N. soldiers,' said Ljubomir Vukovic, 67, as he stood in the smoldering ruins of the house he shared with two other families. 'But they came from right over that hill.'
Vukovic pointed toward a peak separating his village from Srebrenica. A U.N. post there is supposed to prevent soldiers from passing in either direction.
Villagers here said they were awakened at 4:30 on Monday morning by the sound of small-arms fire. They fled into the surrounding forest, watching helplessly as their homes were set afire and their cattle driven away, evidently to feed government units.
Asked why he and his neighbors had been targeted, one villager, Savo Madzarevic, paused to reflect for a moment and then replied: 'I suppose it is because we are Serbs.'
'We lived so well here,' Madzarevic lamented. 'We had two beds and a table. Now we will have to become refugees somewhere.'
Visnjica is one of hundreds of Serbian towns and villages in Bosnia that are among the principal prizes in this war. The Muslim- dominated government is determined to assert control over them, insisting that they are integral parts of its internationally recognized territory. But Serbs whose ancestors have lived in these places for generations pledge to hold them at all costs, and vow never to allow them to be governed by non-Serbs.
Monday's attackers may have chosen Visnjica as a target because it is isolated and undefended. When Serb soldiers arrived to repel them, they withdrew in the direction of Srebrenica, killing one Serb soldier and wounding three civilians but making no attempt to hold the village.
Government troops and their nominal Croat allies have been engaged in an offensive for more than a month, trying to break through Serb lines in various parts of the country. They have not made any substantial progress, and their principal goal, ending the Serb siege of Sarajevo, has eluded them. But as Monday's raid showed, they are still able to strike fear into the hearts of Serb villagers.
Their goal may be to terrorize these villagers into abandoning their homes, thus leaving formerly Serb areas uninhabited.
With both government forces and rebel Serbs losing confidence in the ability of U.N. peacekeepers to protect them, the fighting here seems likely to increase. The recent arrival of a U.N.-backed 'rapid-reaction force' has done little to calm either Muslim or Serb fears, and has in fact led to assertions that the force is plotting to help one side or the other.
'It doesn't do any good to obey the rules of the U.N.,' said a Serb soldier who was among those who drove off Monday's attackers in Visnjica. 'There's a war going on here, and each side has to do what it has to do. Right now there is no peace to keep. Maybe it's time for the peacekeepers to go home and let us fight this out among ourselves.'"
N.Y. Times News Service, "GOVERNMENT TROOPS ATTACK BOSNIAN SERB VILLAGE", Juny 26, 1995
Karadjordje
Believe It or Not
Believe It or Not - the "Liberal" Jews Really Did This
Wastelands-the Historical Truth is the translation of a book published in 1989. This book claims that the Jews are guilty of the Holocaust. This book also tells the reader that the claim that 6 million Jews were murdered by the European Nazis is an exaggeration. This book also denounces as a Jewish plot the effort by Jews and others to prevent the election of the Nazi Kurt Waldheim as Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria. According to this book, called in its original language Bespu’ca---povjesne zbiljnostli, Israel is a Nazi state practicing Judeo-Nazism (pp.160-161). We are further informed by the author that the Jewish G’d is a god of hatred, not of love (pp. 172-173); that the worst murder camp of World War II at Jasenovac was really a nice place allowing its inmates to roam freely without and that the management of that camp “was in the hands of the Jews” (pp. 316-319). Innumerable other lies and anti-Jewish diatribes are contained in that volume. Now, you would say that the author must have been anathema to the Jewish community, like Farrakhan or the old German Jew killers of the ‘30’s and the 40’s. Not so. Believe it or not, the author of this book was invited to the opening ceremonies of the U.S. National Holocaust Museum in April of 1993. Those who invited this hater were the members of the Jewish management of that museum. The author of this anti-Jewish diatribe was Franjo Tudjman, then the president of Croatia, a former province of Yugoslavia. You will of course recall that the United States and our allies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, bombed Serbia in March and April of 1999. This was done on behalf of the Muslims living in Kosovo, also a province of the former Yugoslavia. Many Jews, and in particular Elie Wiesel, urged President Clinton to fight for the rights of the Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims against Serbia. That being the case, we are entitled to ask “who are the Kosovo and Bosnian Muslims and why are our American Jewish leaders so anxious to defend them?” Here is the record. In 1943, when Germany had occupied all of Yugoslavia, the Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims formed an SS division of Storm Troopers called the SS Handschar Division. The men in that division had been recruited by the erstwhile “Mufti” of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian cleric who was living in Berlin and was sent to Bosnia by Hitler to bring about the organization of these troops whose assignment was to kill Jews in occupied Greece. Many of these Muslim Nazi soldiers had read the Arab edition of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. That book had been translated into Arabic by Nassiri Nasser, the brother of the late president of Egypt. In addition to their crimes against the Greek Jews the Muslim division was also responsible for the massacre at Koritska Jama gorge in Bosnia in 1941 where thousands of Jews were slaughtered. Altogether, about 20,000 Kosovo and Bosnian Muslims fought in the Nazi “Sword” division, murdering Jews in Russia and everywhere they were sent. One of the most notorious leaders of these killers was Alija Izetbegovic, lately the president of Bosnia. Believe it or not, it is for these people that the Jews of America raised the roof in Washington and insisted that we defend them against the Serbs. In 1941, when Germany had occupied all of Yugoslavia, the Muslim Albanians and brethren of the Kosovo Muslims were recruited as police units to serve in Kosovo, which then had a population of 820,000 Serbs and thousands of Jews and Roma. Miranda Vickers, in her book Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo, describes how these Albanian Muslims were involved in forced deportations of Jews and Serbs; how 10,000 Serbs and Jews were burnt out of their homes in scores of villages; how the Albanian 21st Waffen SS division entered Hitler’s army and at once murdered 210 Jews in Kosovo. Believe it or not, the American Jewish “liberals” stood up for these Albanian killers in 1999 and demanded that Serbia be bombed on their behalf. Now, the Serbs were victimized as much by the Nazi invaders of their country as were the Jews. There is no evidence that the Jews of Serbia were ever molested, let alone murdered, until the Germans and their Croat allies did so in the Jasenovac camp beginning in 1941. In fact, Serbia became a safe haven for allied airmen shot down over occuped Yugoslavia during the second world war, in that many a Serb family hid such allied aviators from the Nazi occupiers. Likewise, Serbs went out of their way to help their Jewish compatriots during the Nazi horrors. Read about this. Read any book on the Holocaust. Read the book by Gilbert, by Davidowicz or the one by Levin. Talk to people who were in Yugoslavia at that time and they will confirm what I have shown here. Yet, believe it or not, we Jews defend our murderers against our friends. Is it any wonder that Arafat, the nephew of the notorious Nazi Husseini who spent the second world war in Berlin with Hitler, view Jews as patsies and fools who will give away half of Israel and all of Jerusalem to make “peace” with those determined to destroy us? All of these stupid Jewish policies may be lumped together under the rubric “liberal.” We Jews are endlessly portraying ourselves as “liberals” because we “bleed” for everyone but ourselves. We play the “liberal”, willing to go the ends of the earth for other people's causes but not our own. Originally, the word “liberal” referred to someone who loves liberty and believes that everyone, including Jews, should live in freedom. Evidently, that word has now come to mean a “knee jerk” liberal who cries for the poor Nazis whose demands must be met in Israel and in Kosovo, lest their mission in life, the slaughter of Jews, not be adequately achieved. Appeasement of the haters does no good. It only leads to more demands, more surrenders and more bloodshed. Jewish blood, of course. We Jews need to live in the real world. We need to remember the words of Hillel, remember Jabotinsky and remember the Holocaust. Then we must act according to Jewish tradition and in the light of our right to survive. To achieve this it is vital that we substitute action for all that talk. Bonis exemplis, magis impetramus, quam bonis verbis. Shalom u’vracha. Karadjordje |
"Wherever they could, the Muslims used the considerable sympathy which they enjoyed in the outside world as a cover to undertake military operations. In December and early January [1993], they launched an intensive offensive from Srebrenica with the aim of regaining control of Bratunac, to the east on the river Drina. The Serbs were caught unawares by the attack and the Muslims moved swiftly through Serbian villages, slaughtering a large number of civilians on the way. Because the atrocities were being perpetrated by the Muslims, they received relatively little attention in the world media. They also provoked a fearsome counter-attack by the Serbs who had soon driven the Muslims back to Srebrenica. Politicians and journalists were quick to condemn the Serbs for this operation but they entirely neglected to point out that it had been provoked by the original Muslim offensive."
Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War (New York: Penguin, 1993), p. 221.
Here I cite the Ottawa Citizen again:
"According to reports, it was the Mujahadeen who were serving with General Nasir Oric in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica who committed some of the most barbaric atrocities of the war. Beheadings of Serbian civilians were commonplace, and in some villages the Mujahadeen would dynamite homes with the inhabitants trapped inside.
No attempt was made to hide such atrocities. In fact, General Oric would often address media at the site of the massacres. On one such occasion, while standing in front of Mujahadeen brandishing human head trophies, Oric pointed to a flaming ruin and proudly said to reporters, "We blew those Serbs to the moon."
The Ottawa Citizen,"Bin Laden´s Balkan Connections", December 16, 2001
Source: http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/dec01/hed4473.shtml (<- click)
Karadjordje
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