Posted on 12/27/2005 9:51:25 AM PST by kronos77
BELGRADE, SERBIA - A hidden alliance between terror networks and organized crime gangs that control heavily used smuggling routes in the Balkans is making it easier for terrorists to infiltrate Western Europe, according to law enforcement officials and intelligence experts.
In addition, prosecutors in Serbia believe that in some cases the money earned by people traffickers is used to support terrorist activities in Europe, which has been hit by several major terrorist attacks in the last two years, with many others prevented by police raids. ...
"This is a paradise for al-Qaida," said Marko Nicovic, former police chief in the Serbian capital Belgrade and a director of the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association. "For Europe, it can be a disaster at any time because the authorities don't know who is there and they don't know who is who. The attacks in Madrid and London showed that."
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In October, police in Bosnia uncovered an apparent plot to blow up the British Embassy and found a large cache of weapons and explosives along with propaganda vowing to retaliate for the U.S.-and-British-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Magnus Ranstorp, a specialist at the Swedish National Defense College who testified before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, said the presence of Islamic militants inside Bosnia makes it an attractive gateway into Europe for terrorists.
"They came in ten years ago, that was the first warning signal, it was the embryo of what became al-Qaida in Europe," he said. "The Iranians are supporting activity there, and the Balkans have become the crossroads where we see the merger of Islamic extremist groups who reach out to organized crime groups."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Oh look, more of the Klintoon legacy...
Also in the news, the grass is green.
Al Qaeda never had a better friend than Bill Clinton.
Using all channels'
Serbian Border Police concede they are outmanned and outgunned in the losing battle against well-organized smugglers.
"It's very easy for them to cross the Danube," said Col. Dusan Zlokas, chief of the Serbian Border Police. "We need more boats, we need radar, we need thermal imaging, we need binoculars with night vision, we need everything. We don't have the technical capacity to provide border security."
He cited the arrest in Serbia in March of a Moroccan accused of taking part in the deadly 2004 attacks on the Madrid train system that killed nearly 200 people as proof that international terrorists are using Serbia as a transit point.
"The biggest number of recruited terrorists is coming from this illegal immigrants community," he said. "It is a very vulnerable society and easy to recruit in. For sure, this jeopardizes Western Europe and the U.S.
"This is the crossroads of the trade in illegal immigrants, weapons and drugs and no one can say terrorists cannot pass. They are using all channels."
bump for publicity
He cited the arrest in Serbia in March of a Moroccan accused of taking part in the deadly 2004 attacks on the Madrid train system that killed nearly 200 people as proof that international terrorists are using Serbia as a transit point.
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International community is insisting that Serbias judicial and police force is occupied by tracking Karadzic and Mladic onstead of tracking terrorists.
Countless number of times Carla Del Ponte went to Belgrade to hurras Serbia`s democratic goverment over Karadzic and Mladic and not a single one ofered to help stoping terrorists before they blow up trains!
Morrocan is actualy arrested only thanks to expirienced policeman, who found him suspicious looking.
Ah, the War that Clinton Won (for the terrorists) rises from the muck once more to slap us in the face
While there is no doubt that Clinton did Islam a huge favor, The issue in the Balkans goes back further than that. It is much like Israel and Spain. Once under the yoke of Islam via the ottoman empire, the Serbs shook off that yoke in the early 1900's after a 200 year war against the Muslim occupation. When Slobidan began chasing out the muslims, he was trying to prevent what is now a reality thanks to Clinton. The region has become a major hub of Islamic trafficing, and terrorist movement between the ME and Europe.
My point axacttly!
Perexample, pipline is built Black-Sea-Adriatic Via Serbia. This means that Serbia can`t be detoured or surrpessed in any mean, so for pipe line you need peacfull country.
US is being left out from European plans for Balkans. While Europeans make economic deals and buissiness in Serbia, US is still in some realm chasing ghosts of the past.
That border-guard said that anyone can cross over Serbia to initiate terrorist activities. Serbs need arms and equipment to protect borders, but noone cares!
And meanwhile, those "poor muslim refugee's" which Clinton's media hammed up to get public support for his war, are armed to the teeth, picking off unarmed serbs every day, and burning down to the grown 1200 year old othadox churchs, erasing the history from the region.
It's a crying shame.
Great stupidities were done in the past, errors leading to eruption of islamic terror and cataclism of Christianity on Kosovo, but the futire must be different. Up to us is to point to blunders and impotency to stop islam.
Germany killed 6 milions and was guilty for 50 millinos in entire war, but in 1945 they lost the war. In 1949, USA started rebuo;ding Germany, and whats more, rebuilding its army, along with WWII German officers (Hans Guderian was High-Rankig advisor in NATO)but now, 6 years after Kosovo blunder, USA is doing nothing. Serbian security forces are even more expirienced in combating terrorists thgan American, and Serbian State Services comated terrorists from 1970es!
BRING BACK VLAD TEPES!!
Are we talking about Kosovo here or Mexico?
For some time most of the people here on FR compares Kosovo with US Southwest/Mexico.
USA/Mexico Illegal immigrants, drugs, crime, terrorizing locals, smuggling, prostitution.
Kosovo- same.
Thanks for the bump. It saddens me that every talk show host, with the exception of Michael Savage, knows very little to nothing regarding Kosovo and the area.
I've forwarded many many reports like this to Hannity,Fox,Rush and others. They all think it was a success
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