Posted on 12/18/2006 10:58:24 AM PST by kronos77
New York, 18 Dec. (AKI) - Serbs living in the United States are reported to be deeply disturbed and worried by recent arrests of fellow Serbs in connection with the 1990s Balkan wars, community leaders have said. In a six-state swoop, American agents arrested 13 Serb immigrants last week and are looking for another three who are still at large. One of those arrested, Nedjo Ikonic, is being investigated for allegedly having taken part in the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it was overrun by Serb forces in July 1995.
If convicted, Ikonic and other suspects face up to ten years in jail and deportation from the US. "These cases demonstrate our resolve to identify and prosecute those who enter the US under false pretences," said deputy attorney general Paul McNulty. "Especially those who hide their military past," he added.
Those arrested were poor immigrants who had no money for lawyers of bail to defend themselves from freedom, the Serbian consul in Chicago, Desko Nikitovic, told Vesti daily. He said Serbia could not help them because most were Bosnian citizens.
"Unfortunately, this is a huge operation in which only Bosnia-Herzegovina can intervene with Washington. No-one needs to spoil the relations between our two countries, which have been improving," said Nikitovic.
Milwaukee lawyer, Nikola Kostic, said he was trying to organise a team to offer legal help to the arrested and their families, because neither Serbia nor Serb organisations in America have shown much interest in helping the suspects.
"Serbs are being hunted throughout America, but no one is checking Bosnian Muslims and Croats who have immigrated to the United States in the past 10-15 years," Zika Petrovic of Denver, Colorado, told Vesti. "No one asks them whether they have concealed what they did in the wars, what army they served and whether they committed crimes against Serbs," Petrovic said. "All this is creating an unfortunate impression that the war against Bosnian Serbs has now shifted to US soil," he concluded.
Vesti, distributed throughout Serbian emigre community - which numbers a million in the US - said that there is a list of over 300 people, submitted to the United States by Bosnian authorities and the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, who are suspected of having committed crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war.
Officially, the suspects are being charged for failing to report to immigration authorities that they served in the Bosnian Serb army, which fought against local Muslims. (Vpr/Aki)
Dec-18-06 15:00
Same was in Montenegro. On Cetinje, old capitol of Montenegro children were playing with cut Turkish heads. Turks Ottomans were shocked and disgussed by that fact and were pretty much intemmidated by Montenegrin (Serb) actions against them.
Also on a seal of my home city, given to us by Austrian Emperor in 19th century abowe city panorama is arm holding sabre with Turkish head in turban stuck on the tip of the sabre...
you see, it's not my country nor the government. There are however, signficant players and those that hold a high position that are controlled by the international bankers, the rest are in line for many different reasons. Most of them are actually misinformed by generations of propaganda. General Butler sums it up and he is just about as credible as one can get......the culprits span two continents that are linked together through the CFR and RIIA.
I see Red6 has just received the coup de grace, Free Republic style: praise from Mark.
As damning an indictment as it's possible to imagine.
Red6 , I suggest you sue.
And that first photo of the set is more than a little poignant. Isn't it of an ethnic ALBANIAN couple of kids, who were RETURNING to their village when it was hit by NATO planes on the Djakovica to Prizren road in April, 99 .
They were almost certainly zeroing in on co-ordinates given by KLA target spotters. It was a death sentence to return home: to work with the Serb authorities: ruins the myth of the Serbs forcing the ethnic Albs out.
So they, and many others on that convoy were slaughtered.
As I said, it's poignant, though no doubt poignancy will be lost on the Red6s of this world.
Some more snaps.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/wb2/01.htm
Red6, you're losing it.
You forgot to compare the Serbs with the Nazis. And where's the talk of Auschwitz , etc. gone ? Surely de rigueur for any Serbophobe on the internet.
Stay on the ball.
No, Mark, what is "an insult to the United States" is that an illegal alien named Florin Krasniqi-- a Kosovo Albanian-- can steal into the US from Mexico in the trunk of a car, get his citizenship and then be seen 10 years later USING US laws to smuggle weapons to KLA terrorists, and paying off high level US politicians to buy US foreign policy! (What's the Krasniqi quote from the Brooklyn Connection? "America is a great place! You give politicians money -- and they pay you back!") That is a slap in the face to America and real Americans!
And if all those here who disagree with you are "Serb Nationalists", then why would the Chief Rabbi of Kosovo, who was driven out of Kosovo by the Albanians, agree with them? He says that Albanians from Albania came in and threw him and the other non-Albanians out, driving them from their homes and the UN would not help him!
Get it straight, Red, the former Yugoslav Muslims (in Bosnia & Kosovo) are not "the Jews" in some modern day Holcaust story -- the Albanian Muslims drove out the actual Jews to make room for more Albanians!
And what is in it for the US to have ever gotten ourselves involved in this Balkan fiasco? Nothing! It has made us more enemies than friends, because besides intervention being a mistake period, we topped it off by intervening on the wrong side!
9-11 and the GWOT came at an opportune time.
Ever since then the Serb agenda has been pushing to make the conflict into the Balkans something that it never was. They want to rewrite history.
Serbia was the antagonist. They had the means and motive to wage a war. They were told to stop because they were destabilizing the entire region and creating chaos. They were warned and threatened. Eventually they were bombed into submission with an air campaign. Now you can attempt to “spin” this reality anyway you want, but those are the facts.
“You forgot to compare the Serbs with the Nazis”
While you attempt to mock this, 48 people are convicted of crimes that were the same sort of things Nazi war criminals were sentenced for. Your defense is always the same as well, deny deny deny.
Example: http://www.un.org/icty/glance/milosevic.htm
You can create all the “free Slobodan” websites you want. The legal proceedings will continue and he will go down in flames, like 48 others so far. Because the evidence is there, and unlike here, where all you do is suck up bandwidth by repetitive screaming of irrelevant or bogus arguments, the “facts” speak for themselves.
What makes the Nazi regime what it was? They acted in a "deliberate" and "premeditated" fashion. The orders to commit these atrocities came from the top (leadership directed) and it was "systemic" of the regime in power at the time.
A bad Example: The anti war pundit in Iraq tried their hardest to connect Rumsfeld and even Bush to Abu Gharib. While complete nonsense, this attempt was to construct exactly the argument I'm making which in this case has been "Proven" correct. The leadership in Serbia directed much of what happened. The actions were systemic and widespread, it was premeditated and deliberate. Yes, it is very much so a rational argument to compare Nazi Germany with the actions of Serbia in the Balkans in the late 90s. It’s the same type of scenario where a state engages in activity that is in flagrant violation of international law.
The comparison to Nazi’s truly is over used in the media and common language. Everyone wants to compare those they don’t like to a Nazi. However, in case of Serbia in the late 90s, you have a state that fulfills all the tenants of what in essence made the Nazi regime what it was. The atrocities committed were not the actions of an individual taking it upon himself to do wrong. It was a deliberate state sanctioned premeditated and systematic behavior which Serbia engaged in reference the crimes committed, and this is very much like what the Nazi’s did, like it or not.
On a personal level, I have no love for the Muslim religion. I saw and lived with Arabs on numerous times and have no affinity for their culture. I agree that Islam is the root out of which most the worlds terrorism is borne. I think many who practice this religion sympathize with the Jihadist, even if they don’t personally blow something up. I don’t find very much admirable about this part of the world. It’s a hot ugly, backward place with nasty women. Fluent in several languages myself, I find even the sound of Farsi/Arabic to be repugnant. French is eloquent, Farsi is guttural and from the throat. But what happened in the Balkans late 90s was simply wrong. The ones who are practicing revisionism are the ones who today, in a world of heightened Islamic threat want to just exploit this “argument” as another bullet on their laundry list of fake reasons for why the leadership in Serbia acted the way it did. Truth is, this war in the late 90s was a classical case of where a state wanted to expand its influence and power, increase its area and seize the land/property of others. In complete disregard of human life and suffering, this state went on a quest to seize as much territory as possible just like Germany did in its expansion. The Serbs had the tanks, the fighters, surface to air missiles, officers, and artillery. The Serbs were calling the shots. Just like WWII was “Germany’s” war, the Balkan crisis was a product of “Serbia”. Just like many innocent Germans died in the crushing of this regime, in Serbia many innocent people died when an end was put on the state sponsored actions of that regime. Had NATO not bombed, Serbia no doubt would have just continued their conquest, and this had nothing to do with the protection of Serbs. Just like Germany actually claimed that Poland had attacked them, the Serbs today want to pretend that they were the victims. Today with the advent of the GWOT the new “spin” is that Serbia was fighting Islamic terrorists, gee, what hero’s. It’s nice when the terrorists all congregate together and you can burry them in a mass grave isn’t it? Your pick: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=mass+grave+bosnia&btnG=Search
I sure hope the good people of my country (America) realize what we are dealing with like you have. Some people here were horrified by Mel Gibson's movie "The Patriot" when he had to have his children help shoot the attacking Redcoats.
Who're the Redcoats, again?
And a Happy Festivus to you too!
= )
Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll?
Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born … a Festivus for the rest of us!
Cosmo Kramer: That must've been some kind of doll.
Frank Costanza: She was.
Many Serbian victims, camp survivors testify and give their full name in the court proceedings.
And Agim Ceku, who killed more Serbs than anyone, you attempt to seat as the Prime Minister of the stolen state of Kosovo.
Hell of a glass house you got there, Dhimmi.
marky mark, I see you think you can change propaganda into facts if you shout it loudly enough.
You are an excellent Dhimmi.
Your posts show that to be yet another falsehood.
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