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Released : Sep 11, 2005 12:37 PM BERLIN-German police said Sunday they were holding a Bosnian man over the discovery of about 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of explosives in a cookie tin on a bus traveling from Sarajevo to the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Customs officers found the TNT on Saturday during a routine check in the German port of Rostock, police said. Prosecutors said they asked a city court to formally arrest the 44-year-old suspect. The man's name wasn't released. Police temporarily closed the terminal where the bus and its about 50 other passengers were waiting to board a ferry....

Last Updated: Monday, 25 April, 2005, 17:03 GMT 18:03 UK Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia Survivors of a World War II death camp have been mourning the victims of Croatia's Nazi puppet regime. As the BBC's Nick Hawton and Marko Kovac report, war crimes committed long before the atrocities of the 1990s still haunt Croatia as it seeks EU membership. The atrocities at Jasenovac shocked even the Nazis In the vast open field, on the banks of the Sava River, the survivors came to pay their respects. Sixty years ago, this was the scene of some of the worst atrocities of...

Al-Qaeda on Trial: The Hague and Bosnian Muslim War Crimes, Part II By Carl K. Savich The continuation of yesterday’s piece on the war crimes trials of Bosnian Muslim commanders at the Hague, this article provides vivid examples of mujahedin tactics as well as the fallout of supporting their cause for the US, up to and including the war in Iraq. The El Mujahed Unit: Makeup, Objectives and Tactics The mujahedin in Bosnia were “incorporated and subordinated” within the 7th Muslim Brigade when it was formed on November 19, 1992. On August 13 of the following year these holy warriors...

Al-Qaeda on Trial: The Hague and Bosnian Muslim War Crimes, Part I The war crimes indictments and trials of mujahedin and high-ranking Bosnian Muslim military leaders have received scant coverage in the US and Western media. The US government and media do not want to see the unraveling of their lies and deceptions in regard to the true goals and actions of the Islamic regime they aided and abetted during the 1990’s civil wars in Yugoslavia, as the full truth is too devastating. It damns the Clinton administration, other Western allies and media for aiding war criminals and terrorists while...

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily reported October 1 a Global Information System (GIS) report from Sarajevo that the Saudi and Iranian governments are working through Bosnian terrorist groups to support Chechen Islamist terrorist and guerilla operations against the Russian government.A secret Wahabbi terrorist organization, Kvadrat (Quadrant), whose membership practice "Islam from the roots," was founded in Sarajevo in 1995. Kvadrat has expanded dramatically during 2004 in operations and funding by opening a new string of offices and facilities in Bosnia and in the Raska (Sandzak) Muslim area of southern Serbia. A new base for future operations is being built in...

The UK head of a charity which runs mine clearing courses around the world has been arrested in Albania after two pupils died in an explosion, it emerged today. Graham Rees, 45, from Aberconwy, north Wales, was working in northern Albania for the French humanitarian group Handicap International. Six people remain critical and seven others were injured in the blast which killed two in the northern city of Kukes, in Albania, on Monday. But a spokesman for the charity insisted today that Mr Rees was not in the country when the device exploded. They say he returned from neighbouring Kosovo...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnian Serb authorities offered details of six previously undisclosed mass graves in the town of Srebrenica on Friday, their first step in cooperating with a commission investigating the worst civilian massacre in Europe since World War II. Bosnian Serb military and police officials submitted details of the graves to the chairman of the commission studying the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. The Muslims were massacred when Serbs overran the eastern Bosnian enclave during the 3 1/2-year war in the former Yugoslav province. "The mass graves are located in the wider Srebrenica...

<p>As if the difficulties of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan weren't bad enough, now Kosovo is back in the headlines.</p> <p>On March 24 five years ago, President Clinton ordered the bombing of Serbia to get that country's government, led by Slobodan Milosevic (currently on trial at the Hague as a war criminal), to stop oppressing the Albanian majority in Kosovo, a province of Serbia then and now.</p>

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The how and why 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were massacred eight years ago may finally have been answered at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Doubts had lingered as to the degree to which the killings were coldly planned or were improvised in chaos, says the New York Times. Those doubts arose because most of those killed were unarmed prisoners, boys and men, shot in groups, or sometimes one by one. No architect of the crime that turned Srebrenica into a symbol of a modern European nightmare has ever explained in public what...

Ex-leader of Balkans confesses to crimes Serbs' 'Iron Lady' regrets ethnic acts Wednesday, December 18, 2002 BY SUSANNA LOOF Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- In a statement of deep contrition, a former president of the Bosnian Serb republic told the U.N. war crimes tribunal she will always regret "soiling" the reputation of the Serb people and urged the court to pass a sentence that will bring justice both for her and all war victims.Biljana Plavsic, the first high-ranking Bosnian politician to plead guilty to ethnically motivated war crimes, stood before her three judges and accepted responsibility for her part...

April/May 2000 In This Issue From the EditorThe Arab/Muslim Nazi ConnectionOld Man and the SeaIDF Leaving Lebanon After Assad Sinks Golan DealOslo in a RutSchedule Revised, But Same Old Issues Plague Israel-PA TalksMixing Faith And PoliticsIsrael, PA Court Pope During Holy Land TourViewpoint - Les Enfants TerriblesNews BriefsMiddle East Hourglass Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection Left: A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of...

SARAJEVO, March 24 (AFP) - NATO-led troops raided the home of an Orthodox priest on Sunday as part of a campaign to hunt out illegally-held arms, but found no weapons, SFOR spokesman Scott Lundy said. Father Novice Cebic told AFP by telephone that around 15 people entered his home in the southeastern Bosnian town of Kopaci and searched the house for an hour as the priest's wife and three children stood by. They even looked in the washing machine, Cebic said. The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) said they were acting on a tip off and admitted finding nothing. SFOR has...