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SEMTEX SEIZED IN NORTHERN FRANCE WAS FROM BOSNIA: JUSTICE OFFICIALS
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | April 4, 2005

Posted on 04/05/2005 4:56:49 PM PDT by joan

PARIS, April 4 (AFP) - A haul of some 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of Semtex explosives seized at the weekend by French police in the northern town of Hazebrouck came from Bosnia and was destined for the criminal underground, justice officials said Monday.

Five people were detained after the Czech-made explosives, along with a stock of detonators, were found on Saturday concealed in a lorry containing metal parts bound for a company in the area.

Three were arrested at the scene and two others -- the suspected purchasers of the Semtex -- were detained later in Paris. The ring-leader was a former Bosnian soldier, Le Parisien newspaper reported.

The seizure was ordered by a Paris magistrate as part of an investigation opened last month into organised crime. According to sources close to the enquiry, the explosives were due to be delivered to Paris, but the judge decided to take preemptive action.

The explosives may have come from Bosnian army stocks, justice officials said. They were brought by road to France via Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Belgium.

Police have long expressed concern that supplies of arms and explosives reaching criminal gangs in France are being supplied from the former Yugoslavia.

A kilogram of Semtex can fetch up to 4,000 euros (5,150 dollars) on the black market, Le Parisien said. Investigators believe Saturday's haul was to be divided up and sold off in bits.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alqaedabalkans; alqaedafrance; balkanalqaeda; balkans; bosnia; bosnianarmy; captured; explosives; france; gwot; jihadineurope
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
The shooters were caught on TV.

And one of the shooters had a limp - Prazina.

22 posted on 04/06/2005 8:25:42 PM PDT by joan
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon

There are several items which they should have known from the arrests...but didn't tell. The bottom line is that criminal interests in the Bosnia region (including Crotia, Yugo, etc)...are all reverting to their old small Mafia arts. If they aren't fighting wars against each other...then they are working illegal or criminal affairs to bankroll their house and relatives.


24 posted on 04/06/2005 8:34:14 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
This Jusuf Prazina had a concentration camp for Serbs in Sarajevo [have Serb and non-Serb sources for this], and later when he went to Mostar to fight with the Croats, he and his men reportedly killed 700 Muslims.

In the "Viktor Bubanj" facility in Sarajevo many were murdered and otherwise abused. It had the distinction of being staffed with 20 mujahadeen guards (foreign Muslims).

As head of the BiH Army's paramilitary units, Juka became the warden of a prison camp set up in the Viktor Bubanj army barracks. The detention facility became known as «Viktor Bubanj», but was also called «Juka's Prison». Over 200 prisoners were held there and subjected to torture, hunger, and hard labour. The camp commander allegedly committed many criminal acts, including rape and murder. *119

This is what he did to his own kin "Bosniaks" in Mostar:

Juka and his men reportedly conducted ethnic cleansing operations in Mostar after joining forces with the HVO. Juka's forces evicted, imprisoned, physically abused, and killed many civilians. The London Times reported in May 1993, that Juka and his men drove out every Muslim civilian living in Mostar on the west bank of the Neretva river to «deny vantage points to snipers». *121 Homes were looted and men were beaten up and arrested. *122 Witnesses stated that sometime before 15 July 1993, Juka's forces allegedly evicted the wealthy Muslim residents of Mostar from their apartments, which were then looted and turned over to members of the HVO paramilitary formations. According to reports, Juka's forces were masked and heavily armed when they surrounded the apartments. They then blocked exits, fired their weapons in the air, and demanded that all Muslim residents evacuate the building. *123 Witnesses stated that Juka and his men killed as many as 700 people in and around Mostar and that they ran detention facilities for Muslim civilians at the heliport outside the city. *124

25 posted on 04/06/2005 8:34:18 PM PDT by joan
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To: pepsionice
"There are several items which they should have known from the arrests...but didn't tell."

Since when has the media ever kept quiet when a Serb was a suspect?

26 posted on 04/06/2005 8:35:45 PM PDT by joan
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Comment #28 Removed by Moderator

To: Great Prophet Zarquon
The French bombed Serbs during the Kosovo war, and didn't they fly some bombing missions against the Bosnian Serbs too?

The French are just sneaky. During the March 2004 pogroms against the Kosovo Serbs, many French who had been friendly with Serbs, decided not to do anything when the Albanians attacked. What kind of friends are the French? They betray everyone.

29 posted on 04/06/2005 8:47:24 PM PDT by joan
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
>>>>>>Having fantasies that everyone who understands what happened in Bosnia in 1992 is really a Islamist and an anti-Serb bigot" is yet another, and describes your rants to a T. <<<<<

Your posts show that You lack understanding of what happened in Bosnia in 1992. You only parrot Soros/Islamic party line. Or, pardon me Your Greatness, they parrot yours :-)

32 posted on 04/07/2005 6:12:51 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
WRONG, ergo! The French bombed the Serbs...wasn't that two French Mirage fighter jet pilots downed by the B-Serbs and held captive by them as well? What an idiot you are!

FRANCE DENIES DEAL OVER BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMINAL Former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic said at the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague on 9 July that French President Jacques Chirac in 1995 offered immunity from extradition to the tribunal for Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic in return for the freeing of an unspecified number of French pilots captured by Serbian forces in Bosnia, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. Lilic added that he and Milosevic called Mladic a "cretin" in their talks with General Momcilo Perisic in 1995 about the Bosnian Serb commander. In Paris, Chirac's office said in a statement later on 9 July that the French pilots were freed in Bosnia during the conflict without any deal between Paris and the Serbs. PM

33 posted on 04/07/2005 7:42:46 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". Major General Chesty Puller, USMC)
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To: DTA

No, it is "This gets better with each passing minute!", Han to Lando and Darth Vader.


34 posted on 04/07/2005 8:02:16 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". Major General Chesty Puller, USMC)
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To: ma bell
>>>>>No, it is "This gets better with each passing minute!", Han to Lando and Darth Vader.<<<<<

Han Solo would say: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

Can you guess on whose side Jedi knights would be in our little dispute over the events in the Balkans?.

A hint: For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.

Don't underestimate the force, it's trembling is telling you something.

35 posted on 04/07/2005 8:34:49 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon; Lion in Winter; Destro; Honorary Serb; RussianConservative; Incorrigible; ...
Serb Partisans on Free Republic will assert that it MUSTA BEEN THE MOOSE-LIMBS in knee-jerk reaction.

And the Islamfascist supporters will return to using their pre-ban responses to conceal their support of the enemies of the US. Get a new line Bonly-boy! Your patented bigotry is getting old.

36 posted on 04/08/2005 9:19:45 AM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: FormerLib
I have been enjoying reading this thread.

By the way, didn't TWO of the murderous MONSTERS on 9-11 have BOSNIAN passports??? HEY, they were not Christians or Jews either... they were mohammedans.

37 posted on 04/08/2005 2:32:14 PM PDT by Lion in Winter (LIFE SPRINGS ETERNAL!!)
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To: FormerLib; DTA; joan; ma bell; Great Prophet Zarquon
And the Islamfascist supporters will return to using their pre-ban responses to conceal their support of the enemies of the US.

Are you referring to the False Prophet ronly-bonly? My message to the False Prophet is the same as always: BEGONE, DISRUPTER!!!!

39 posted on 04/08/2005 5:14:00 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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