Posted on 03/18/2006 5:46:16 PM PST by tgambill
The War on Terror suffered a major blow three years before it was ever announced. It happened when the people of this democracy were misled into attacking the sovereign, emerging post-Communist democracy of Yugoslavia, over rumors of genocide and ethnic cleansing that proved false. In so doing, we delivered the Balkans to al Qaeda.
Today we are being asked to seal that historical blunder, the repercussions of which are still escalating seven years later. The people we "rescued" have turned their weapons against United Nations and NATO forces.
While NATO spends most of its time rooting out terror cells in Kosovo and Bosnia, which served as the planning bases for the London and Madrid bombings, the 2006 deadline to complete our eagerly forgotten debacle and determine the province's final status is fast approaching.
To persuade the international community that only one final status will be acceptable, our Albanian "rescuees" have been stepping up the violence. This is a message to the West that it has only one possible exit strategy: grant unconditional independence -- without border compromises with Serbia and without protection guarantees for what's left of the non-Albanian minorities.
Here is the size of that hole so far: In November, 2001, what should have been an explosive article appeared in the European edition of the Wall St. Journal. Headlined "Al Qaeda's Balkan Links," it read: "For the past 10 years ... Ayman al-Zawahiri (bin Laden's second in command) has operated terrorist training camps [and] weapons of mass destruction factories throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia ... Though the Clinton administration had been briefed extensively by the State Department in 1993 on the growing Islamist threat in former Yugoslavia, little was done to follow through ...".......
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(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
That's probably true I'm not sure what an XSTIAN is.
I was always against our intervention and bombing. Milosovich was very bad but the Jihad always is much worse. Muslim expansion is much worse. So Muslims now will have a nation in Europe called Kosovo. Which their drug pushing gangs have used a base of operation for years. To sell drugs in Western Europe. The Albanian mafia scared the crap out of the Italian mafia so much they abandoned the drug business to them
When you see Serb Orthodox churches being dynamited and burned down you know for sure you have a Jihad. One way Muslims make Jihad is to build Mosques. Another is to destroy churches and synagogues. That's how it's always been for this pestilence
The Bosnian Jihad: (snip)
The Western governments and the compliant media demonized the Serbs and attributed almost every atrocity committed to the Serbs. In November 1998 The Times of London published a letter quoting General Sir Michael Rose, Former UN Military Commander in Bosnia: “We were escorted by a woman from the US Embassy as we flew towards Tuzla. She pointed at all the destroyed villages and exclaimed excitedly ‘Look at what the criminal Serbs have done.’ In fact they were Bosnian Croat villages ethnically cleansed by the Muslims…Later (we) visited Mostar where the Croats had virtually destroyed the Muslim sector. The US official cried: ‘Well at least this was done by the criminal Serbs.’ The woman burst into tears when it was pointed out that the Croats had been to blame.”
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/joksimovich/002.shtml
LOL! Yeah, that's me all right... You're seriously deluded, sir, ma'am, or otherwise.
**It's sad, but anything of a historical nature just doesn't attract very much interest.**
I read it last night and just wanted to let you know there are those of us who do appreciate historical pieces. Knowledge of the past is very much needed, if we are to understand the strange times, we now find ourself living through.
thanks, very encouraging to hear.
BRAG????? He wrote a book about it! Go figure that one out. It's beyond comprehension....or common sense. to document your failure....??
An expensive cover up. They're not suggesting independence, they are pushing and promoting it. Even after knowing it will more than likely unravel Europe.
It just befuddles my mind..............
actually, the Mafia's work together....the Albanians, Russians, Serbians, Croatian, and Italians for starters......they have a link from Italy to the Balkans...
The woman burst into tears when it was pointed out that the Croats had been to blame.”
***** what was that all about? What was her concern?
So you really can't refute the facts then? Is this your position?
Beg your pardon?
Lion in Winter presented you a few facts, you never refuted them. Is your position to ignore them or not?
--Lion in Winter presented you a few facts, you never refuted them. Is your position to ignore them or not?
Is there really any use?
Are you refuting them or no? It's a simple question.
Probably not. There's precious little news coming out of the area.
So you're in the business of making completely useless comments and offering no value to the discussion. Thanks for the clarification.
I think you're sweet.
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