Sedition in the military: Learn from Yugoslavia

Last month, National Guardsman Ryan G. Anderson was arrested and taken into custody at Fort Lewis, Wash., accused of attempting to provide information to the al Qaeda network. The arrest happened to fall on the two-year anniversary of the trial against ousted Serb. president Slobodan Milosevic. The confluence is not entirely unsymbolic. ...The attempts to sabotage the armed forces should not be catching us off guard. Not because of any cynical assumption that Muslim Americans are naturally traitorous and can't be trusted in the military, but because we've seen this before: in Yugoslavia.

The article fails to mention that the K-Albanian who shot four of his comrades killed 2 Bosnian Muslims in the process, and arose from a dispute between the gunman, Aziz Kelmendi, and one of the Bosnian Muslim soldiers he killed, Safet Dudakovic.

Also killed were Serb Srdjan Simic, Croat/Slovene Goran Begic, and Bosnian Muslim Hasim Dzenanovic.

Were the US to handle the incident the same way the Yugoslav authorites did, we would have arrested all the black soldiers in Sgt. Ahkbar's unit, trumped up racially motivated charges, and fomented a race war in the US in the process.

Fortunately, we're not Yugoslavia.

At any rate, Kelmendi's suicide the morning after the murders fulfilled your request.

>>>>At any rate, Kelmendi's suicide the morning after the murders fulfilled your request<<<<<

Since you have so much details, do you happen to know whether 2 "Muslims" were the members of Communist Party (SKJ) and what the conflict with one "Muslim" was about?

You fail to mention that Kelmendi commited suicide only after being surrounded and outgunned by the Military Police. According to Kosovo Albanian extremists, he did not even commit suicide, but was shot and killed by MP. At any rate, he died like hunted fugitive, not an honorable man.

The way how you stretch the truth always amaze me.

  Soldier Aziz Kelmendi broke into the official fire-arm cabinet where he found and took ten bullets, 7.62 mm, with which he loaded an automatic rifle that he had for official duty, and then from the living facilities he went towards the guard post.

  There he threatened to kill the watchman, Corporal Riza Alibasic, and he took two rounds of ammunition from him. Pointing the weapon at Corporal Alibasic's back, Kelmendi took him back to the living facility. Kelmendi demanded that Alibasic tell him where the soldier Safet Dudakovic slept. Alibasic refused to answer. After arriving at the building, Kelmendi ordered Alibasic to step aside and then entered the sleeping room. After finding the soldier Dudakovic sleeping, he opened fire and killed him, and then he sprayed shots over the other soldiers, killing Srdjan Simic and Goran Begic and wounding two more soldiers. Immediately after that, he entered the next sleeping room and wontonly sprayed shots, killing the soldier Hasim Dzenanovic and wounding two more soldiers.

  After that, thanks to the chaos in the night, Kelmendi managed to escape from the military base. A chase was organized. Around 8:00 A.M., he was found dead approximately one kilometer away from the base with clear signs of having committed suicide.

   The reaction of the military security and the guard in the base were analyzed. The reaction of the guard could have been different, but there had not been a possibility to avoid the bloodshed because of the express determination of the killer.

   The killer obviously had planned his actions earlier. He had developed then and within a very short period of time he carried them out.

   The unit in which Aziz Kelmendi was serving his military duty did not yave any information that would have indicated that he was a sick man or a subversively oriented personality. Conversations with soldiers and officers after the crime indicate that Kelmendi was a loner who had a personal complex because he was ugly and quite nervous. Sometimes he reacted as an explosive person in an aggressive way. He socialized mostly with his compatriots [Albanians]. On two occasions he had a confrontation with the soldier Safet Dudakovic.

   According to his health records, Kelmendi had applied several times for a medical check-up, mostly because of digestive problems, headaches, and once because of aches in his spine.

   An examination of Kelmendi's prior service record outside the base shows that Kelmendi had been punished with fifteen days of prison because he had tried to escape to Albania in 1983 and that he behaved nationalistically in high school and at the university. He had a record of expressing an aversion toward learning the Serbo-Croatian language.

  Discovery of the real motives of this crime as well as other circumstances under which it was performed will come up during the investigation.

  9/10/87 Statement of the Yugoslav Federal Secretariat for National Defense, as printed in Novisti 8 and quoted in Kosovo, How Myths and Truths Started a War, Mertus, 1999.

The way how you stretch the truth always amaze me.

Whatever.

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