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Sarajevo, 30 August (AKI) - A Bosnian Muslim newspaper on Tuesday joined a chorus of mostly Serbian news reports on the existence of training camps for Islamic terrorists, accusing the international community of closing its eyes in front of this danger. The weekly Slobodna Bosna (Free Bosnia), whose editor is Senad Avdic, a moderate Muslim, in its latest issue described in detail how and where the alleged terrorist camps operate in Bosnia. The paper criticised the commander of the international forces in Bosnia (Eufor) David Leaky for his recent statement that he had no knowledge of the existence of such...

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Serbs were killed and two wounded on Saturday night when their car was shot at in southern Kosovo, a local political leader and police sources said. Serbs have been the target of frequent attacks in Kosovo by the ethnic Albanian majority since the end of the 1998-99 war, which led to the withdrawal of Serb forces from the southern Serbian province and the arrival of a U.N. administration. The four Serb men were fired on from another car shortly after 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) as they drove near the town of Strpce near...

Albanian-American roofer Florin Krasniqi has been living in Brooklyn and smuggling American guns into Kosovo to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army--this time for war against its erstwhile saviors, NATO and the UN. The KLA are the bin Laden-trained, Iran-backed narco-terrorists whose 1999 jihad against the Christian Serbs we helped fight, abetting secession and creating a mono-ethnic terror haven and future Islamic republic in Europe. Krasniqi, who raised $30 million from fellow Albanian-Americans to help finance the KLA's war, is the subject of a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns, titled "The Brooklyn Connection," which will air Tuesday night at 10...

Recently, "Hannity & Colmes", of the usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel, treated us masses to a "genocide" video that's been handed over to the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring even more fuel onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted caricature of the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video "pure evil" and "evil incarnate." Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the network had been had. The circulation of, and the outrage surrounding, this tape...

The suspected Saudi frontman of the Al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, Yunis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari of Morocco, was killed in a shootout with security forces in Riyadh Sunday, the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel reported. "The chief of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Yunis al-Hayari, was killed in a shootout in the Riyadh eastern neighbourhood of Rawda," the satellite channel reported. Two other wanted men were injured in the overnight clash, it added. Hayari topped a list of 36 wanted men issued by the Saudi interior ministry last week. The Moroccan had reportedly had "extensive contact with al-Qaeda and handles the financial...

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE June 17, 2005 page H4712 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Marchant). Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Franks) is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, in April of this year, my office expressed a deep and sincere concern to the State Department over agreeing to the designation of Bisera Turkovic as the new Bosnian Ambassador to the United States. At that time, State was postured to recommend an agreement on this appointment. After several discussions, the State Department asked me not to go public with my...

“SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES” IN SARAJEVO Former JNA military prosecutor in Sarajevo, General Radomir Gojovic testifies at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic how in 1992 “the Muslim forces shelled themselves” and how “Muslim snipers recognized Serbian men by their caps and Serbian women by the black clothes they wore.” THE HAGUE, 15.3. (SENSE)  -  In the first three days of May 1992, JNA lost 26 officers and soldiers in Sarajevo, without firing a single bullet - this is what General Radomir Gojovic claimed today at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. When the war broke out in BH, he was a military...

FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia' From Justice Producer Terry Frieden Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Posted: 10:06 PM EDT (0206 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI officials said Wednesday.The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York and other Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality, the officials said.

    Search this site   In this section Rule of the rapists The glorious Groves Kerry will win the patriot game Are the Conservatives really the new New Labour? Blair's claim is simply incredible The Milosevic trial is a travesty Comment The Milosevic trial is a travesty Political necessity dictates that the former Yugoslavian leader will be found guilty - even if the evidence doesn't Neil ClarkThursday February 12, 2004The Guardian It is two years today that the trial of Slobodan Milosevic opened at The Hague. The chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, was triumphant as she announced the...

Friday, 23 August, 2002, 12:53 GMT 13:53 UK Kostunica to run for Serb presidency Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has said he will run for the Serbian presidency in next month's election, ending months of speculation. I have decided after long contemplation to propose to the main board of the DSS that it accepts me as candidate for President of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica The decision sets up a contest between two camps of the reformist movement which ousted former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. On one side are Mr Kostunica's moderate nationalists, and on the other are pro-market liberals, whose...

Milosevic Spouts Facts. Who's Spilling Secrets? By IAN FISHER BELGRADE, Serbia, March 17. A secret document is a sexy thing, a sort of striptease whose lure is less what it reveals than the aching promise. Bogoljub Bjelica, president of the Committee for the Freedom of Slobodan Milosevic, would allow the briefest peep of a United States government file that he got his hands on and that he expects may make its way to Mr. Milosevic's trial for war crimes. "The answer to the question, 'Who produced war in the Balkans?' must be found," said Mr. Bjelica, suggesting conspiratorially that the...

March 09, 2002 Serbs accuse Kosovo leader of murder From John Phillips and Dragan Petrovic in Belgrade TENSION between Belgrade and Kosovo's new Government mounted yesterday when the Yugoslav authorities formally accused the province's new Prime Minister of torturing and decapitating a Yugoslav soldier. Bajram Rexhepi, 47, a former field surgeon with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and a respected former Mayor of Mitrovica, was elected Prime Minister of Kosovo's semi-autonomous administration last Monday. Within days, Bebojsa Covic, Belgradepound;s special envoy for Kosovo, alleged publicly that Dr Rexhepi had taken part in the torture and decapitation of a Yugoslav soldier,...

======================================= 'Why They Were Indicted' Dusan Vilic, Bosko Todorovic Grafomark, Belgrade, 2001 Nebojsa Malic, translator Jared Israel, editor [Posted 16 February 2002] ======================================= ‘Why They Were Indicted’ provides a point-by-point refutation of the ICTY’s Kosovo 'indictment' of Slobodan Milosevic and other Yugoslav leaders. For the first time, journalists, scholars and the general public can read Yugoslav Army documents that refute the unprecedented campaign of slander which has been conducted against the Serbian people and their leaders. We wish to publish this book with the addition of  essays by George Szamuely and myself. To do this we need financial help.  ...

Rebels spend drug millions on gunsBy Christian Jennings in Skopje (Filed: 16/02/2002) EXTREMIST Albanian rebels seeking to start a new round of conflict in the southern Balkans have been buying millions of pounds worth of weapons with the proceeds of heroin smuggling from Afghanistan to the streets of a dozen European capitals. Senior drug trade analysts from the United Nations Drug Control Programme in Vienna and Western police officials say much of the heroin being sold in countries such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland is starting to come from multi-billion pound stocks of Afghan heroin in Central Asia.   ...

By CRAIG PYES, JOSH MEYER and WILLIAM C. REMPEL, Times Staff Writers ZENICA, Bosnia--Herzegovina -- Hundreds of foreign Islamic extremists who became Bosnian citizens after battling Serbian and Croatian forces present a potential terrorist threat to Europe and the United States, according to a classified U.S. State Department report and interviews with international military and intelligence sources. The extremists include hard-core terrorists, some with ties to Osama bin Laden, protected by militant elements of the former Sarajevo government. Bosnia-Herzegovina is "a staging area and safe haven" for terrorists, said one former senior State Department official.

OSAMA BIN LADEN:  THE BALKAN CONNECTION by Srdja Trifkovic So we are at war. Terrorism is the enemy, personified by Osama Bin Laden. But before America commits its treasure and risks the lives of its young men (ìand womenî) to this epic struggle, a few stables need to be cleaned and some unpleasant skeletons removed from government cupboards.  Bill Gertz, writing in today's (9/18) Washington Times, proves conclusively that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network is thriving in Albania. [Read the article] It is not enough to bewail the fact that bin Laden's rise was facilitated by the hefty support he ...

STANBUL, Aug. 26 ó A local company owes a huge debt to Motorola, and the dispute is threatening to disrupt Turkey's efforts to restore foreign confidence in its economy. Motorola, the American wireless technology giant, is getting help from the American government and former senior American officials to try to collect a $2 billion debt from the Turkish company, Telsim, the country's No. 2 cellular phone company. Telsim is owned by a Turkish family whose fortune has been battered by the nation's economic problems. The loan helped Telsim buy Motorola products, but Motorola says the Turkish company has been in ...

  August 6, 2001U.S. Attempt to Quiet Fighting in Macedonia May BackfireBy CARLOTTA GALL RISTINA, Kosovo — When the Bush administration announced in June that it was freezing the assets of people it considered to be supporting ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia or southern Serbia, the immediate fallout was felt here in Kosovo. Five names on the list were senior officers of the Kosovo Protection Corps, the civilian force that was set up after the war in Kosovo to absorb the Albanian guerrilla fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The head of the corps, Agim Ceku, a former general ...

TIME.com: World -- Despite New Cease-fire, Macedonia Crisis Persists Despite New Cease-fire, Macedonia Crisis Persists Last-minute NATO mediation averts a tragedy — for now  BY TONY KARON SRDJAN ILIC/AP A refugee flies the Macedonian flag as a convoy of refugees leaves Skopje From CNN: Macedonian Peace Talks to Resume Related: Can Macedonia Be Saved?   Thursday, Jul. 26, 2001Western diplomats may have brought Macedonia's flat-lining cease-fire back from the dead for the umpteenth time, but few are optimistic about the prospects for saving the patient. Ethnic-Albanian guerrillas began withdrawing Thursday from territory they seized in and around the second city ...

July 18, 2001 MILOSEVIC'S EXTRADITION: A SAD DAY FOR THE SERBS, FOR THE RULE OF LAW, FOR "WESTERN VALUES" Interview with Srdja Trifkovic  (abbreviated transcript) 1330 WNTA Rockford, Chris Bowman Show TRIFKOVIC: . . . It's a complex and arcane story. Bear in mind that you have a two-tier political authority in Belgrade. One is the government of Yugoslavia, the rump federation consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, headed by President Vojislav Kostunica. Then we have nominally the lower tier, the governments of the two republics, those of Serbia and Montenegro. The most powerful figure in the government of Serbia ...