Posted on 01/04/2006 9:43:54 AM PST by kronos77
Yeah, obviously.
As shown by his full answer, which deals exclusively with Bosnia.
I know it's asking a lot, but you'd do well to familiarize yourself with the sections on Albania and Kosovo, when they appear, so you're not stuck mindlessly repeating your post as if it were some sort of mantra.
Consider the following from a briefing given in 2002 by General Pace, the Vice Chairman of the JCS:
Mr. General, my name is Miroslav Lozansky (sp). I am military correspondent from Belgrade, Yugoslav daily Politika. My first question is, do you have any fact about al Qaeda group in Bosnia, and maybe in Kosovo? And second question is, after Iraq, who is next?
Gen Pace: The first answer is no.
Well, there you have it. The JCS are telling us that as of 2002, we don't have any facts about Al Qaeda in either Bosnia or Kosovo, so if you wish to continue throwing your out of context interpretation of Holbrooke's answer around, simply imagine that I've responded by repeating General Pace's answer as given above, and you can go on ad infinitum happily all by your little lonesome.
[...] Fareed Zakaria: But we’ve stopped for a long time, right; the United States and Britain have for years now been actively opposing Al Qaeda, but they--they still continue, right. But you’re saying we created a Frankenstein’s monster?
Nafeez Ahmed: I’m saying something worse; I’m saying that many ties with--with the Mujahideen have actually continued into the--into the post-Cold War period in--in different forms. We didn’t just completely disconnect ourselves after the collapse of the Soviet Union and there are many examples to this I discuss in the book ["The War on Truth"]. The example in the Balkans; it’s been confirmed from the official Dutch inquiry on the--Srebrenica Report--that showed that the Pentagon had arranged the flight of--of Mujahideen into--into the Bosnian conflict, obviously to--to move the conflict in a certain direction. Now whatever the--the interests were that were behind that whether they were sincere intentions or not that was a big mistake; in the end Bosnia became what has been described as a safe-haven for terrorists and has been--and has--within Europe itself, you know there is--Bosnia has become a problem. And again, with--in the Balkans…[....]
http://foreignexchange.tv/?q=node/865
IMO, the question of whether any connections with Al Qaeda exist are irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether there are any with Al Qaeda per se. The fact remains: Islamist terrorists HAVE BEEN and ARE present in the Balkans. Whether they're from Al Qaeda or not is not the point, really. I see no difference between Al Qaeda and any other Islamofascist group bent on murdering innocent people around the world.
Which is why some Serbs and others are trying so damned hard to tie both the Bosnians and Albanians to Al Qaeda, as opposed to Hizallah or Hamas.
These claims do not come exclusively from Serbian sources.
If it's terrorist training camps, EUFOR investigates, like NATO did before it, as noted in your link.
Either way, Bosnia isn't the haven for terrorists some are attempting to make it out to be.
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