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Al-Qaeda "Roots Easily" on the Balkans
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Posted on 04/29/2004 9:01:41 PM PDT by Destro

Al-Qaeda "Roots Easily" on the Balkans

Politics: 28 April 2004, Wednesday.

Al-Qaeda spreads its roots on the Balkans rather easily.

US antiterrorism experts have voiced an alarm that due to the relative poverty of the local people terrorist and mafia groups meet little resistance along their channels for drug, arms and human trafficking.

The Al-Qaeda affiliates is actively searching for new routes eyeing the Balkans as a perfect location for settling their terrorist cells, experts said.

Lax institutional control and corruption practices offer additional tints of attraction to terror groups' interest in the Balkans.

Antiterrorist experts have warned also about the spotted increased terrorist recruitment activity in the region.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedabalkans; balkans; campaignfinance
Clinton-Blair/NATO made the Balkans easy nesting for al-Qaeda.
1 posted on 04/29/2004 9:01:42 PM PDT by Destro
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To: *balkans
Islam - reintroduced into the Balkans thanks to Uncle Sam.
2 posted on 04/29/2004 9:03:08 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro
The opportunistic infection theory applied to criminal activity and terrorism.
3 posted on 04/29/2004 9:04:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
Especially true when NATO weakens the even more anti-bodies for such infections to take root.
4 posted on 04/29/2004 9:05:57 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro
Way back in 1998 or 99 we posted stories here about arms being shipped from Iran to points in the Balkans.
5 posted on 04/29/2004 9:09:33 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Destro
So true.
6 posted on 04/29/2004 9:22:55 PM PDT by Burkeman1 ("I said the government can't help you. I didn't say it couldn't hurt you." Chief Wiggam)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
FreeRepublic kept me sane during that time.
7 posted on 04/29/2004 9:32:44 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
This what you looking for Fitz?

Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

8 posted on 04/29/2004 9:51:17 PM PDT by F-117A
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To: Fitzcarraldo
The KLA's main staging area is in the vicinity of the town of Tropoje in northern Albania [Jane's International Defense Review, 2/1/99]. Tropoje, the hometown and current base of former Albanian president Sali Berisha, a major KLA patron, is also a known center for Islamic terrorists connected with Saudi renegade Osama bin-Ladin. [For a report on the presence of bin-Ladin assets in Tropoje and connections to anti-American Islamic terrorism, see "U.S. Blasts' Possible Mideast Ties: Alleged Terrorists Investigated in Albania, Washington Post, 8/12/98.]

source

9 posted on 04/29/2004 9:57:36 PM PDT by F-117A
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To: Destro
jihad bump
10 posted on 04/30/2004 12:06:21 AM PDT by Dajjal
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To: F-117A
B I N G O
11 posted on 04/30/2004 6:05:06 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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