[FireWall]

That's half right...its Gavrilo Princip and the fact that he pulled the trigger was an accident of fate. There weren't just Serbs in the Black Hand, there were Croats and a Muslim that were a part of the group as well.

Princip, like I mentioned above, just happened to be the trigger man, he was actually in the wrong place and when the previous attempts at taking the Austrain's life failed, the driver took a wrong turn down a street that Princip jus thappened to be waiting on. Princip was in the wrong spot, its by shear luck that that driver took a wrong turn. It was one big clusterf**k, they got lucky.

[B Knotts]

OK...I misspelled the first name, although a few sources do spell it that way. But, while there may have been Croats and Muslims in the Black Hand, the purpose of the group was to carry on the terrorist activities of Narodna Odbrana, a pan-Slavist society that had among its members Serbian government officials. Also, the goal of the Black Hand was to create a Greater Serbia, which would include the areas annexed by Austria-Hungary.

All I was trying to point out is that there definitely was a Serbian connection to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

As you pointed out, it was by mere coincidence that Princip was eventually successful in carrying out his plot. He had indeed initially failed, but chance fell into his hand when the Archduke's driver took that wrong turn.