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Al-Zawahiri's Connection to the Balkans
Banner of Liberty ^ | 19 August 2006 | Stella L. Jatras

Posted on 08/19/2006 8:29:04 PM PDT by Doctor13

A Time/CNN report stated, "Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri.

Al-Qaeda's decade long activities in the Balkans were well known, as reported in The Wall Street Journal article of 1 November 2001: "For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia [FYROM], Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia."

As long ago as 1992, Jerry Seper of The Washington Times, sounded the alarm when he wrote "KLA Rebels Training Camp," and that "some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden" Seper goes on to write: "Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could have netted the KLA profits in the 'high tens of millions of dollars.' It said the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money, along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States."

A report which should have been a good indication of the quagmire that the Clinton administration was moving our country towards was witten by Army LTC John E. Sray, titled, "Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware," covering Bosnian Muslim government propaganda.

Journalist Julia Gorin of Front Page Magazine on 20 March 2006, asks, "How many Americans know that the terrorists who carried out a spate of suicide attacks in Iraq in August 2004 were trained in Bosnia, or that al Qaeda's top Balkans operative al-Zawahiri's brother Mohammed had a high position with our terrorist KLA 'allies'?." Apparently, terrorism is a family affair.

The signs were all there, yet nobody connected the dots that would have led them back to the terrorists in Bosnia like al-Zawahiri and bin Laden himself. With all of this available information, congressional hearings, the 9/11 Commission Reports and numerous political organizations and advocacy groups have ignored the festering sore of Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.

President Bush assured us that we would never negotiate with terrorists, yet on 19 June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, an indicted war criminal. According to Jane's, in 1993 Ceku masterminded the massacre of Bosnian Serbs at Medak. Also known as The Battle of the Medak Pocket, the battle is remembered in Canada as that nation's largest military action since the Korean War when Croatian troops attacked The Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry who were trying to stop the ruthless massacre of Serbian women and children. In 1995, Ceku was one of the key planners of "Operation Storm," which ethnically cleansed over 250,000 Serbs from their ancestral homes in the Krajina region. Thousands of Serbian civilians were murdered, most of the victims being elderly and disabled persons who were unable to flee the carnage.

The American Council for Kosovo> (www.savekosovo.org ) is working to prevent another colossal mistake in the Balkans, a mistake that would be detrimental to US interests. The last thing America needs is another rogue state run by terrorists and criminals.

Time/CNN Report
The Wall Street Journal Europe, Al Qaeda´s Balkan Links
KLA Train in Terrorist Camps
Selling the Bosnian Myth: Buyer Beware
Kosovo May Explode --
Kosovo May Explode -- Here
War Criminal, Ally, or Both?"
The American Council for Kosovo Protests the Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku
The American Council for Kosovo Protests the Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku

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KEYWORDS: alqaeda; balkans; islamicnazis; jihadinamerica
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1 posted on 08/19/2006 8:29:06 PM PDT by Doctor13
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To: Doctor13
President Bush assured us that we would never negotiate with terrorists...

So why are we diddling around with the UN in terms of Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, etc. Then there's our friends the Saudis...

Realpolitick has to come in somewhere, but if we want to win this war, we have to stick to the Bush Doctrine across the board.

2 posted on 08/19/2006 8:36:39 PM PDT by SeenTheLight
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To: Doctor13

We were on the wrong side in that conflict.


3 posted on 08/19/2006 8:39:44 PM PDT by Inkie (Attn Dems: Loose Lips Sink Ships -- but hey, I guess that's your goal))
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To: Inkie

yup you guessed right.


4 posted on 08/19/2006 8:41:01 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: Doctor13
A report which should have been a good indication of the quagmire that the Clinton administration was moving our country towards was witten by Army LTC John E. Sray, titled, "Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware," covering Bosnian Muslim government propaganda.

My screen name is no accident.

5 posted on 08/19/2006 8:44:54 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup (Assistant to the traveling secretary.)
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To: SeenTheLight
We are diddling around with the UN to give cover to Jordan who will have to help in a coming war with Iran. It's called Realpolitik.

The Israelis left no choice for cease fire because of Olmert's tactical and strategic blunders.

The main event may start as early as october, if it doesn't start earlier.
6 posted on 08/19/2006 8:48:38 PM PDT by Perdogg (Democrats = terrorists)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Good tagline!


7 posted on 08/19/2006 8:48:48 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: Inkie
Attributable, to a significant extent, to the arrogant incompetence of M. Albright. A perfect example of how Clinton's penchant for choosing form (i.e. a liberal woman who HIllary approved of) over substance has put our children, and the world at risk.
8 posted on 08/19/2006 8:51:35 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Doctor13
If the Serbs had their way, we'd have invaded Bosnia and Kosovo after 9/11 rather than Afghanistan. (We were already there, but so what...)

We're not fighting their lost ethnic wars for them, no matter how hard or creatively they or their friends try to rebrand them.

We'd be far more interested and pleased if the Serbs would clean up their own house, taking out the Milosevic era trash, rather than continually trying to play "Deny responsibility, attempt to shift blame, & make counteraccusations."

Ain't gonna happen, I know, but that's Serbia's loss, not ours.

9 posted on 08/19/2006 9:50:11 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Don't forget Jimmah, the source of all this crap.


10 posted on 08/19/2006 10:27:37 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

thanks


11 posted on 08/19/2006 10:29:09 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Welcome to Free Republic! We need you!


12 posted on 08/19/2006 10:37:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: Doctor13

We should have let the Serbs destroy those Muslim swine.


13 posted on 08/19/2006 11:00:14 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Doctor13

For those who don't know, the Balkans is the exceedingly dangerous part of the world which served as home to Victor Drazen and his family.


14 posted on 08/19/2006 11:23:35 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

ping for Stella!


15 posted on 08/19/2006 11:32:25 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Doctor13

By the way folks, what else do you need to know? http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,91134-bosnia_p3705,00.html


16 posted on 08/19/2006 11:43:56 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Hoplite

If Serbs hade their way, you wouldn`t need to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.

I ment If Serbs hade their way in 1389, 1804, 1835, 1878, 1912, 1945, 1992.

All above wars were defencive and liberation against Islamic agressors and occupators.

If you are refering to war in Bosnia 1992-1995, that is just another war against Islam... and their allies, like you are.


17 posted on 08/20/2006 4:39:57 AM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary (Go IDF!))
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To: Hoplite; ma bell; tgambill; joan; montyspython; getoffmylawn; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; ...
Hoplite you see what you want to see. As the ISLAMIC terrorist aggression against the west continues they will eventually succeed somewhere sooner or later. It is a fact that the KLA received weapons/training from Islamic terrorists in 1998 and onwards. I reviewed the NATO intel. reports. The British maid it a priority to start gathering information on the KLA from day one. Why the urgency Hoplite because of the threat the KLA Islamic terrorist connection posed. The British saw it for what it was, a threat, meanwhile the US military were cosing up to the KLA, codling them and of course whining to the UN Civilian Police in the British Sector about getting seized weapons returned to the KLA commanders that had been confiscated. And Whine they did. UNMIK with help from the British Military were getting weapons off the streets of Pristina while the US military were insisting on them being returned to the KLA Terrorists, you know the same ones in bed with the Islamic terrorists. The same weopons being used to kill the remaining Serbs in Kosovo. Unbelievable!

Milosevic is dead and gone so get over it. The Serbs are our best alternative in dealing with the Muslim terrorists now entrenched in Bosnia and Kosovo. As this now global terrorist war continues to expand the NATO will need all the friends it can get. The Serbs will always be there right in the front line facing this Islamic threat just like they have been doing for centuries. In time you will see they are our friends and with or with out NATO will continue to fight the Islamic invaders. If there are more people like you in the US Hoplite the war is lost, will be your way of life in the trailer park, imagine not being able to watch the Simpson's because its time for Koran lessons or else...

"(We were already there, but so what..)"

No Hoplite real U.S. soldiers where in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afhanistan not you. You were in your trailer park developing a gut from all the cheap beer you get delivered...

18 posted on 08/20/2006 6:42:01 AM PDT by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe

Hoppy, I just viewed the video linked at reply #16.

Could you point out which one is you?


19 posted on 08/20/2006 7:33:53 AM PDT by F-117A (They say there is no such thing as an ex-Marine,.Murtha disproves that!!!)
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To: Hoplite; Wraith; tgambill; montyspython
Why would the Serbs want the US to invade BiH and Serbia? The Serbian Army can quickly defeat the KLA in the Kosovo region within 7 days with a two week mop-up. The VRS can defeat the BiH Muslim Army in less then five days, 8-10 if you throw in the HVO getting involved.

The VRS did not need help fighting and defeating the muslims nor the Croatians. You were not there, get over it. You don't know the carnage of death the Serb civilians endured at the hands of Oric, Ceku,Gotovina and their likes, foreign imports (except Oric).

Where do you get off (exept in the privacy of your own residence) making heroes out of Oric, Ceku, Thaci and Gotovina?

20 posted on 08/20/2006 9:03:45 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: Hoplite

NO you are 10 years too late...as usual.

We should have let the Serbs destroy the Muslims apparatus in the 92...but we let the gang that couldn't shoot straight or at all control the WH of 8 lost years.

Serbs: our allies

Balkan Muslims: enemies

Got it?


21 posted on 08/20/2006 9:13:52 AM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: Doctor13

Disinformation campaign and how it was done:

http://www.shofar.de/disinformation-e.html


22 posted on 08/20/2006 9:38:59 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

And here are excerpts from http://www.shofar.de/disinformation-e.html :

Dictionary of "appropriate wording":
- assassinate = kill, when your enemies are killing.
- mass grave = where your enemies have buried your friends.
- war criminal = who makes war and is not of your side. Very often (and perfidiously) used to indicate someone indicted for war crimes and not yet sentenced guilty.
- extremist = more extremist than you.
- fascist = to be pronounced first by you, because it can be applied to you as well as to your enemy.
- racist = who makes a difference between Islam and Christianity.
- terrorist = who uses violence and is not of your side.
- deviationist = in a political group, who does not agree with you.
- totalitarian = politics of your enemy.
- fanatic = someone who believes in something different than you.
- nationalist = who loves his country and is not of your side.

Example of use of appropriate wording (interpretation) :
In the following list, there are two different ways to describe the SAME FACT. Note that whatever formula is chosen, it can perfectly be inverted from pro- to anti-, and there is no way to be accused of lying or even distorting the truth.
- Serbs are killed, Albanians are massacred or assassinated.
- Serbs dig mass graves, Albanians dig tombs or communal graves.
- A Serbian soldier with a Kalashnikov is a sniper, a KLA soldier with a Kalashnikov is a freedom fighter.
- Serbian corpses have battlefield wounds; Albanian corpses have traces of tortures.
- Serbian refugees are leaving Kosovo; Albanians refugees are ethnically cleansed from Kosovo.
- A Serbian refugee convoy is a line of cars; an Albanian refugee convoy is a deportation.
- Ethnical cleansing of Albanians is an atrocity, ethnical cleansing of Serbs is a logical payback.
- A smiling Serbian soldier is arrogant, a smiling KLA soldier is happy.
- Serbian soldiers are slovenly-looking, KLA soldiers clearly suffer from equipment problems.
- Serbian civilians killed by NATO are collateral damage; Albanian civilians killed by NATO are a terrible mistake.
- Serbian civilians killed by Albanians are war casualties, Albanian civilians killed by Serbians are war crime victims.
- Milosevic is Milosevic; Clinton is the President of United States Bill Clinton.
- There are Albanian eyewitness' corroborating testimonies reporting that..., there are Serbs saying that...
- Serbs living near a military target are neighbor population, Albanians living near a military target are a human shield.
- A successful Serbian attack is a slaughter, a successful KLA attack is a victory.
- Serbian nationalists are extremists, Albanian nationalists are patriots.
- Serbs commit atrocities, Albanians commit exactions.
- Ten torched Serbian houses are a brutal reality; ten torched Albanian houses are evidence of Serb savagery.
- Serbs insulting Albanians are making terror reign, Albanians insulting Serbs are angry people taking revenge for their humiliation.
- Serbian soldiers take Muslim enclaves, Albanian soldiers defend their homeland.
- The Krajina is liberated by the Croats; the Bosnia is occupied by the Serbs.
....

The gigantism of the "Operation Serbia" gave rise to number of false notes.

- A child killed by a sniper in a bus (Sarajevo, Aug 1992) called "muslim" by the TV. The funerals show Orthodox ritual.
- A 1992 TV report showing Serb victims in Vukovar, reprinted with the caption "Is there any way to stop Serbian atrocities in Bosnia?" (Newsweek, Jan 4, 1993)
- Reports of massacres of 14 Muslims and then 10 Muslims supposedly killed by Serbs (CNN March and May 1993). The victims later turned out to be Serbs. Not corrected.
- Photo of a Croat woman from Posusje grieving for a son killed in Serb attacks (NY times Aug 1993). Fighting in the Croat village of Posusje was between Muslims and Croats and has caused 34 Bosnian Croat deaths, including the son of the woman in the photo.
- A photo of a woman in front of the grave of her son, presented as Croat. The name is written in Cyrillic, she is Serb.
- A photo of a tortured man with the 3 main fingers cut, presented as Muslim. He has his wedding ring at the 4th finger of its right hand, he is a Serb.
- Armed paramilitary men, particularly sinister, presented as Serbs. They wear the Croat check pattern insignia (Corrected and apologized by "Le Nouvel Observateur", No 1470 and 1473).
- Testimony of Anisa, a child, saying that she saw Serbs cutting noses and ears in Tuzla. Tuzla has never been occupied by Serbs.
- Images of a fragments of a downed "Mig-29" (CTV Mar 26, 1999, 22h42). There is a mention in English "ANNUAL INSP" +references painted on one of the fragments.

As a conclusion, Serbia is now synonym of Nazi Germany, and the Serbian people, sentenced to poverty and slow death by years of embargo and full devastation by the US+NATO coalition, is now considered by all the West as the pariahs of mankind. The "Operation Serbia" has been 100% successful.

Congratulations. Sad but true.


23 posted on 08/20/2006 9:49:41 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: eleni121
Serbs: our allies

Balkan Muslims: enemies

Got it?

Here's a list of our coalition partners.

See Bosnia Herzegovina? Yup.
See Serbia? Nope.

As a matter of fact, the only two countries in the former Yugoslavia not present in the coalition are Montenegro and Serbia.

Hmmm... As a matter of fact, the only two countries in the Balkans not present in the coalition are Montenegro and Serbia.

Got it?

Of course not - you just wouldn't be you if you did. I'd point out to you that President Bush the Senior set the tone for our relations with Serbia back in 1992 when he imposed sanctions on Belgrade, but it would just be a waste of time - so you go right on believing it was all Clinton, and that the current President Bush is being stymied in his efforts to embrace the Serbian people by a hidden conspiracy of Clinton-era holdouts, or embrace an alternate reality where Serbia is our ally and any evidence to the contrary can simply be ignored.

24 posted on 08/20/2006 10:06:58 AM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe; Wraith; kronos77; eleni121; ma bell; tgambill; joan; montyspython; ...



Hoplite does not get the connection
between Islamofacism and Nazism.
He needs more pissing on!

 

25 posted on 08/20/2006 11:34:07 AM PDT by Smartass ("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe; kronos77; eleni121; ma bell; tgambill; joan; montyspython
If some third party was going to hand over a nice chunk of your property to someone you don't particularly care for, can you blame the Serbs for reacting the way they are in regards to Kosovo? Now do you get it!
26 posted on 08/20/2006 11:44:39 AM PDT by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: Hoplite

I also see Saudi Arabia on that list, and if you think Saudis are "our friends", then you are one lost caue.

You said that the main reason that you came to FR was basically "to make the Serbs pay" -- so tell me when is it enough? Serbs have paid more and longer than Germany did for WWII, and according to you, it's still "not enough"!

Get a life an get a grip, Hoppie. Islam is not "our friend" and it is not the friend of anyone who loves freedom and democracy!


27 posted on 08/20/2006 12:27:30 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
Lemme see if I understand this correctly:

You take the following statement:

No angle other than ensuring the facts get their fair shot, and my stake is simply continuing the thread of what initially brought me onto Freerepublic in the first place - taking issue with Serbs who bitch about how America is wronging them, instead of honestly looking at the reasons behind America's treatment of Serbia.

and turn it into

to make the Serbs pay

Do I have that right? Or were you referring to some other post I made? If so, be specific, with a link, please.

28 posted on 08/20/2006 12:48:01 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
"We're not fighting their lost ethnic wars for them, no matter how hard or creatively they or their friends try to rebrand them."

The only reason we went to the former-Yugo in the first place was because YOUR FRIENDS "wanted us to fight their lost ethnic war for them" -- and they did it by lying to us and using us. Every American Serb I know wanted the US to stay out of it, because we knew we were being lied to. So don't try and turn this around, Hoplite.

We had no business gettiing involved in the Balkans, period. But now that we made a mess, we need to clean it up. The Serbs have never done a damn thing against the US and have done much for it -- if that isn't the definition of "a friend", I don't know what is!

29 posted on 08/20/2006 12:48:51 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe; Wraith; kronos77; eleni121; ma bell; tgambill; joan; montyspython; ...

I know you're lurking and hanging around Hoplite...
There still may be some hope for you.   Read and
understand this article,
specially the last paragraph!


History of Jihad

"The relations of Muslims and non-Muslims were set in a context of a war:  jihad. Its justification by Qur'anic verses and hadiths provides to jihad, the war against non-Muslims, a theological base. Jihad establishes a single pattern for relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and is central to their relationship. Jihad can be examined at three levels: its doctrine, its institutions, and its historical manifestations."

"The ideology of jihad was conceived after Muhammad death. It encompasses a doctrine aiming at the Islamization of the world, supported by military institutions and tactics of war, all being considered as binding the Islamic community (umma). Jihad represents the Islamic worldview of war and peace, it constitutes a specialized domain of Islamic theology and law."

"Jihad doctrine divides the peoples of the world into two irreconcilable groups: the dar al-Islam (the land of Islam) and the dar al-harb, (land of war) the non-Muslim world, destined to come under Islamic jurisdiction either by the peaceful conversion of its inhabitants, or by armed conflict.  Jihad is the permanent state of war of the dar al-Islam against infidels until they submit to Islamic domination. Peace is accepted only temporarily according to circumstances. The institution of jihad regulates the conduct of war according to religious rules."

Source:  Click here

 


30 posted on 08/20/2006 1:02:05 PM PDT by Smartass ("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")
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To: Smartass; Balkans

A huge amount of understanding in 3 paragraphs....


31 posted on 08/20/2006 2:43:08 PM PDT by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: Wraith
Thank you.
Yes, paragraph three, as short as it is, explains volumes about the world wide beast we're confronting in Bosnia and Kosovo.   All PC niceties must be put aside and go directly to the words, and their meaning in #3 to understand what evil has been placed on the earth.

Clearly, if Bosnia and Kosovo falls to Islamofacists, all of Europe will be facing a UN sanctioned al Qaeda stronghold. As I mentioned in another post, conceivably Osama bin Laden could move there, and become a prime minister or president, with all diplomatic amenities.   IMO, the long term consequences in Bosnia and Kosovo are being taken way to lightly by Western governments.



    ;  
Support the war on terror


 
 

32 posted on 08/20/2006 3:11:57 PM PDT by Smartass ("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")
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To: CarolinaGOP

Ping for later reading.


33 posted on 08/20/2006 3:15:14 PM PDT by CarolinaGOP ("A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: Hoplite
To compare Bush senior's Sanctions - with Klinton's indiscriminate bombing of Serb civilians requires the gall only those who smoke crystal meth can exhibit.

Yes - the coalition: That coalition includes Saudi Arabia and Yemen. LOL.

The only positive thing is that the Serbian red berets are in Iraq now. A couple thousand more would do the trick.
34 posted on 08/20/2006 5:01:53 PM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: eleni121
To compare Bush senior's Sanctions - with Klinton's indiscriminate bombing of Serb civilians requires the gall only those who smoke crystal meth can exhibit.

In the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian action, the U.S. will be prepared to employ military force against Serbians in Kosovo and in Serbia proper.
Dec 24, 1992. "Christmas Warning" from GHW Bush to Slobodan Milosevic.

Some people you just can't reach.

As far as gall, how's about calling a 79 day bombing campaign, comprising 23,300 strike missions, of which 90 (0.39%) caused civilian casualties "indiscriminate"?

I'd note that Yemen has had and continues to have US Special Forces operating in the country alongside Yemeni forces in the War on Terror, and the invasion of Iraq wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation of Saudi Arabia, but it would be pointless, wouldn't it.

Lastly, if we wanted to lose our wars, we'd invite the Serbs along. They're such subject matter experts in getting their asses handed to them that their biggest holiday is the commemoration of a national defeat - d'oh.

35 posted on 08/20/2006 6:23:33 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
ergo..those "defeats" were Political losses, not military losses. To note, the VRS was counterattacking the C-M Fed, the Croats began aligning themselves with VRS units around B.Luka.

The VRSK split the HVO into two before Slobo ordered VRSK arty officers appointed by Slobo to shell his own troops that were disobeying his orders. The KLA was having their asses handed to them by the Serb Army bfore the KLA cried mercy and had to call in NATO.

If you claim the Serbs are such bad soldiers, why does it take an international force to confront them? But, the Serbs still are not defeated but immediately counterattack and regain lost ground..further baffling and quite literally pissing off the NATO planners and Administration. "how can the Bosnian Serb Army continue being this effective with the sustainment of bombing they are enduring?"

Yet, it still didnot do the job. It was a political defeat, much like Vietnam was a "political defeat"...sound familiar, schmuck?

36 posted on 08/21/2006 12:22:18 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: Hoplite

"and the invasion of Iraq wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation of Saudi Arabia, but it would be pointless, wouldn't it."

****Once again hopper, you fail to include all the information. The only reason Saudi Arabia helped was because were using our tax dollars and military machine to take away a threat to them. We did the deed for them. Of course they cooperated you dunce.....


37 posted on 08/21/2006 1:49:30 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: ma bell; Wraith; tgambill; Bokababe; DTA; F-117A; getoffmylawn
This thread is classic, it's a "bitch-slap Hoplite extravaganza"... LOL!!
38 posted on 08/21/2006 7:04:32 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: tgambill

What else would you expect from our resident Saudi Ho?


39 posted on 08/21/2006 7:09:01 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: montyspython; Hoplite; Bokababe; kronos77; eleni121; ma bell; tgambill; joan
The Hopper is once again attracting attention. Kind of makes you wonder what his angle is, possibly to piss people in order to see what points of view are presented? The Dude must be writing a book which will read on the back cover "A special thanks to those that bitch slapped me profusely on FR while at the same time providing me with everything that I don't know"....
40 posted on 08/21/2006 7:59:08 AM PDT by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: Hoplite; Bokababe
It's not about percentages - you sound about as dopie as Weasely Clark.

It is rather the intent and infliction of death. One bomb can inflict more damage on innocents than a thousand bombs. And these were real innocents many of whose family members fought alongside the Allies in WWII...not like the hezzie families putting up their jihadis.

Only fools would believe that the Yemeni and SA govts. are willingly going along with the coalition. They are in it for survival and money...and make no bones about letting their surplus qat addicted cheap males go anywhere to blow themselves up.

You seem to be a permanent resident of the sultan's harem. Get real.
41 posted on 08/21/2006 8:17:01 AM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: montyspython
yeah, hopeless the shmuck cries
when he is scolded and
publicly exposed
as a liar.

Hi, I'm hopeless. the kids are picking on me and calling me a liar..tell em to go away, please? boo hooo hooo!

42 posted on 08/21/2006 8:21:17 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: ma bell; Wraith; tgambill; Bokababe; getoffmylawn; F-117A; DTA
Here's Hoplite's Friday afternoon prayer bitch slap.


43 posted on 08/21/2006 10:03:55 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Inkie
We were on the wrong side in that conflict.

The US administration of Clinton, Albright, et.al. supported the Islamic militants in the former Yugoslavia instead of Orthodox Christians. This is yet another example of the liberal appeasement theory that those who wish us evil should be understood, instead of dealt with.

44 posted on 08/21/2006 10:09:57 AM PDT by OldCorps
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To: eleni121
It's not about percentages - you sound about as dopie as Weasely Clark.

It is rather the intent and infliction of death.

So you're changing your accusation from "indiscriminate" to "targeted".

Noted.

I'd ask you to say what you mean the first time around, but let's face it, you don't know what you're saying at all.

45 posted on 08/21/2006 10:20:46 AM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

"So you're changing your accusation from "indiscriminate" to "targeted"."

**** thar you go again...the one sided thinking. It was both in some cases indiscriminate and there were targets that were targeted and shouldn't have. When the targets that are non-military are targeted you dunce...it's called indiscriminate. Don't even try to mince words, you don't have the sofia-ication....:)) lolol...


46 posted on 08/21/2006 1:51:12 PM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: tgambill
When the targets that are non-military are targeted you dunce...it's called indiscriminate.

No, that would be called a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I, Art 85, Sect 3) and thus a war crime, but like the rest of the drones who unwittingly follow the IAC's line on the matter, the necessary conclusion, that American servicemen are guilty of perpetrating war crimes, escapes you.

So step up to the plate, Tom. Earn your dinars - are you accusing American servicemen of perpetrating war crimes or not?

47 posted on 08/21/2006 2:19:33 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was carried out in contravention of articles of war prohibiting destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Guilty of war crimes is none other than Weaseley Clark, the real Mr Danger. He and his political double klinton - have a lot to answer for...just like the Nazis.

Shills for the sultan's harem can think about this every time they go to sleep...that the truth is known and will win out. Nighty night...
48 posted on 08/21/2006 3:53:17 PM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: eleni121
Guilty of war crimes is none other than Weaseley Clark, the real Mr Danger. He and his political double klinton - have a lot to answer for...just like the Nazis.

How many bombs did they release over target? How many individual missions did they plan or review before said missions went out and contravened the "articles of war" you reference?

Without the guys at the end of the spear (the pilots and planners) perpetrating the supposed crime, how can there be a crime?

We both know that neither you, nor any of your fellow travellers hereabouts have the balls to say what you actually mean and declare that American servicemen who participated in Allied Force are war criminals, so just drop it already.

49 posted on 08/21/2006 5:28:50 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

War criminals drop bombs deliberately on civilians who are not in any way supporting a war of aggression. It is one thing to drop bombs on German cities whose recalcitrant military and ENEMY refuses to surrender. Quite another to indiscriminately kill civilians who are in no way to blame and NOT our enemy with lists provided by Muslims I might add.

Yes, the Easter bombing was a new low in US military history...but followed a pattern of left wing political manipulation of the military (WWII). Scary.

As for what the "fellow travelers mean": Many believe that NATO is not an "allied force" and was the wrong agency to respond to Kosovo and that it was a defensive alliance never contemplated to be catalyzed into action by internal conflict (kosovo and Bosnia).

Your fellow travelers have re defined and recast a defensive organization (NATO) into and a force of agression against allies.


50 posted on 08/21/2006 6:12:36 PM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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