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Posted on 12/31/2006 9:33:43 AM PST by kronos77
After the 9/11, a worldwide “War on terror” begun in order to disband and neutralize Islamic terrorist networks across the globe. The main focus of the largest anti-terrorist campaign in history is focused in the Middle East area, as well as in Afghanistan. The Balkan Peninsula is the European area where this campaign has also taken place, with numerous arrests and a continuous effort into riding the fundamentalist out of the area. The question arising though, is how did the extremists gain a foothold in South Eastern Europe in the first place, and what was the reaction of the international community over the previous years.
So, the outbreak of the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992 presented an unparalleled opportunity for the international Mujaheedin to storm Europe, establish safe havens in the area and thus initiate re-conquest of regions they previously ruled. The leader of Bosnia, Alia Izebegovic was eager to obtain as much assistance as possible and didn’t hesitate in providing the necessary framework by which the Islamic ties were forged. In the same year, a variety of Islamic mercenaries flocked into the Balkans in order to support the “Holy cause”, meaning the establishment of the first Islamic state in Europe. The end of the war in 1995 saw quite a few of those mujahedin, acquiring Bosnian citizenship and establishing the first Islamic community in the village of Bocinja Donja.
"Ethnic Bosnian Muslim commander talks about Jihadist determination to kill "enemies of Allah" just before the attack on Pocjelovo. "It is a Jihad... and with even greater spark to kill Allah's enemies because today they are strong and pronounced as they have never been before"
video: http://www.serbianna.com/columns/michaletos/007_files/pocjelovo.rm
(Excerpt) Read more at serbianna.com ...
Yes, USA supported Tito`s Regime.
from 1952-1959 Yugoslavia was member of Balkan Pact Yugoslavia-Greece-Turkey against USSR.
All of Yugoslav airbasess were built according to NATO standards (than), and camuflage of Yugoslav AF was made according to NATO paint scheme. All Yugoslav-made jets were armed by US-made missiles (AGM-65B Maverick)
During Iraq-Iran war Yugoslavia sold $30 bn to Iraq, with US blessing.
And the anwser about ties with Sadam you gave yourself.
"Oil speaks louder than hatenance toward dictator".
Serbia was forced to buy oil from Saddam and Khaddafi, for simple reason- we couldn buy it anywhere else, cause Clinton barred us to.
We are training their Military....SANG, advised by OPM-SANG. I was one of the security specialist tasked with providing security for their facilities after 1996 for three years. Also worked for Vinnell that trains the Saudi national Guard......what protects the Royal Family. Different and "separate" from MODA and MOI.....by mission and tribes even.......
They were shaking hands especially after we profited from the sale of Biologicals and Chemical weapons......
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1213-02.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/08/EDG6PKE1EG1.DTL
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/iraq.php
for example.......
More than simply helping Iraq unleash chemical and biological weapons against Iran, the US got even more involved, as William Blum wrote in 1998:
According to a 1994 Senate report, private American suppliers, licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, exported a witch's brew of biological and chemical materials to Iraq from 1985 through 1989. Among the biological materials, which often produce slow, agonizing death, were:
• Bacillus Anthracis, cause of anthrax.
• Clostridium Botulinum, a source of botulinum toxin.
• Histoplasma Capsulatam, cause of a disease attacking lungs, brain, spinal cord, and heart.
• Brucella Melitensis, a bacteria that can damage major organs.
• Clostridium Perfringens, a highly toxic bacteria causing systemic illness.
• Clostridium tetani, a highly toxigenic substance.
Also on the list: Escherichia coli (E. coli), genetic materials, human and bacterial DNA, and dozens of other pathogenic biological agents. "These biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction," the Senate report stated. "It was later learned that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found and removed from the Iraqi biological warfare program."
The report noted further that U.S. exports to Iraq included the precursors to chemical-warfare agents, plans for chemical and biological warfare production facilities, and chemical-warhead filling equipment.
The exports continued to at least November 28, 1989, despite evidence that Iraq was engaging in chemical and biological warfare against Iranians and Kurds since as early as 1984.
Helping to arm a country engaged in a bloody war is fun, but getting your hands dirty yourself is even better. National Security Council staff member Teicher revealed that President Reagan and Vice President Bush did just this, directly involving themselves in the advising of Iraq.
For example, in 1986, President Reagan sent a secret message to Saddam Hussein telling him that Iraq should step up its air war and bombing of Iran. This message was delivered by Vice President Bush who communicated it to Egyptian President Mubarak, who in turn passed the message to Saddam Hussein. Similar strategic operational military advice was passed to Saddam Hussein through various meetings with European and Middle Eastern heads of state. I authored Bush's talking points for the 1986 meeting with Mubarak and personally attended numerous meetings with European and Middle East heads of state where the strategic operational advice was communicated.
While most of the arms and machinery America helped Saddam Hussein get his hands on came through intermediary countries, many others were direct from the US. Among them were more than 100 helicopters (some of which, the Los Angeles Times reported, were used in gassing the Kurds in 1988). William Blum also reports that: "U.S. companies sold Iraq more than $1 billion worth of the components needed to build nuclear weapons and diverse types of missiles, including the infamous Scud."
After the gassing of the Kurds came to light, the United States Senate unanimously passed sanctions against Iraq to cut off their line to US technology. The move was squashed by the White House, and among other internal reason given, declassified documents show that such sanctions would hinder American companies receiving "massive post-war reconstruction" contracts.
Indeed, the bulk of Iraq’s war machinery came from countries other than the United States, but they still came with the US seal of approval, and in many cases, direct US involvement. Teicher reported on this, too, in his ’95 affidavit:
"I personally attended meetings in which CIA Director Casey or CIA Deputy Director Gates noted the need for Iraq to have certain weapons such as cluster bombs and anti-armor penetrators in order to stave off the Iranian attacks. When I joined the NSC staff in early 1982, CIA Director Casey was adamant that cluster bombs were a perfect "force multiplier" that would allow the Iraqis to defend against the "human waves" of Iranian attackers. I recorded those comments in the minutes of National Security Planning Group ("NSPG") meetings in which Casey or Gates participated.
The CIA, including both CIA Director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Iraq. My notes, memoranda and other documents in my NSC files show or tend to show that the CIA knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, munitions and vehicles to Iraq."
In 1989, George H. W. Bush took office as President of the United States. His policy on Iraq, not surprisingly, followed directly in the steps of Reagan’s:
The Bush administration became a particular focus of criticism because it followed its predecessor in making strengthened U.S.-Iraq relations a key objective, despite the fact that the end of the Iran-Iraq war had eliminated a major rationale for this goal. A transition paper prepared for the new presidency outlined the conflicts that characterized U.S. policy toward Iraq. The paper recommended assigning high priority to U.S.-Iraq relations because of Saddam Hussein’s potential as a "major player," but reviewed persistent divisive issues, including Iraq’s chemical weapons use which "aroused great emotions" in the U.S., and its "abominable human rights record." These negative factors were contrasted with Iraq’s value as a market and its potential as a trading partner, and wit the fact that it shared an interest with the U.S. in containing Iran. The paper recommended that the new administration should begin with a high-level message calling for further development of political and economic relations.8
Secretary of State James Baker personally intervened to promote strong ties with Baghdad. A briefing paper prepared for a March 1989 meeting between Baker and Iraqi Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Nizar Hamdoon discussed Iraq’s active involvement in chemical and biological warfare and missile programs, and recommended stressing the sensitivity of Iraq’s chemical weapons use for U.S.-Iraq relations.9 Hamdoom and Baker discussed Iraq’s wish for medium-term Eximbank export credit guarantees, and Baker assured him that he would take a personal interest in the question. (The State Department later warned Baker that moving forward with the credits would be problematic, given strong congressional opposition to Iraq’s recent chemical weapons use.)10 In June, Baker wrote to Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter to ask him to increase the size of the CCC’s GSM-102 program by $1 billion, to solve a problem "that has consequences for both U.S. foreign policy and agricultural exports."11 Soon thereafter, the Agriculture Department informed the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies (NAC), an interagency group responsible for approving economic programs involving foreign countries, that Agriculture planned to offer Iraq $1 billion in export credit guarantees for FY 1990.
Eximbank guarantees were provided through the Atlanta branch of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro:
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, relying partially on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loans, funnelled $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. Some government-backed loans were supposed to be for agricultural purposes, but were used to facilitate the purchase of stronger stuff than wheat. Federal Reserve and Agriculture department memos warned of suspected abuses by Iraq, which apparently took advantage of the loans to free up funds for munitions. U.S. taxpayers have been left holding the bag for what looks like $ 2 billion in defaulted loans to Iraq.
Leave Hoplite alone. It is his tactics.
main subject of this article is video of Muslims in Bosnia declarinh "Holy war" against Christians, and he is deniying that ever hapened.
He just wants to distract our argument from real subject:
genicidal Muslims.
Happy new year everyone!
You are well on your way to reveling in living on your knees.
tgambill,
That's a myth. I can find facts and figures about France, Germany and Russia who sold Saddam BC technology too.
You are probarly using chemicals and biological agents in your own home right now and you don't even know it.
I'm sure we sold Saddam's Regime chemical and biological agents just like any other country did.
But I'm going to argue an old point.
"Guns don't kill People....people kill People"
And that can be apply to use of chemical and biological technology.
Do you know we use chemical and biological technology in our argricultre and medicine?
You need anthrax vaccinations for your lifestock to protect them from anthrax which is very common in arid regions of Iraq or use pesticides to protect your crops from bugs that will eat everything you plant in arid regions.
Botox is in medicine to help stroke victims or for treatment from overactive sweat glands. In large doses it's a poison.
Next time your caught up at the train crossings...check out the containers. How many different chemicals are being shipped in special containers to companies who make cleaning products?
If the train jumps its tracks...we have an enivornmental disaster on our hands because clorine burns your skins, lungs and eyes.
Mustard Gas is made from Clorine.
If Saddam acquired all his chemcials and biological agents then he is responsible for weaponizing these weapons not the world community.
If you watched FoxNews during Saddam's hanging. It was interesting. Saddam's lawyer said Saddam was not responsible for the Kurdish death. Iranian were using chemcial weapons too.
If you check out United Nation Resolution back in 1988 they did not say Saddam killed the Kurds. Only thing they said in the UNRES was chemical weapons were being used during Iraqi-Iranian war.
The UN did not place sanctions against Saddam back then only after the first Gulf War. UN told the world community to police themselves and restrict certain types of technology.
I don't think sanctions would allowed to go through because Russian and China who belong to the UNSC would vote no on it. Russia was a big supplier of military equipment...including China.
tgambill,
Here's interesting reading.
Find out who sold Saddam the most.
He acquired everything from around the world.
Bowling for Columbine? You can't be serious. You going to believe Michael Moore?
Wisconsin Project Publications on Iraq's Suppliers:
Date Article
04-13-03 The Means to Make the Poisons Came From the West Graphic
03-24-03 A Vile Business
09-15-02 Psst ... Can I Get A Bomb Trigger? (476K)
10-01 Commentary: Letters from Readers - Scott Ritter's Letter and the Project's Response
07-01 Shopping with Saddam Hussein
06-18-01 UN Sanctions Didn't Stop Iraq from Buying Weapons
03-19-01 Technology Two-Timing
12-13-99 Saddam's Shopping Spree
07-18-93 Who Armed Iraq?
04-26-93 Iraq's Bomb - an Update
06-04-92 Iraq's Bomb, Chip by Chip
12-22-91 How Western Greed Created Hussein's Iraq
06-25-91 Military Export to Iraq Come Under Scrutiny
06-20-91 US-Approved Exports May Have Aided Iraqi Army, Says Report
06-20-91 Study: Commerce Dept. Aided Iraqi Arms Buildup
06-91 Licensing Mass Destruction
03-91 Iraq and the Bomb
11-29-90 Better Nuclear Prevention than Cure
07-29-90 Must the U.S. Give Brazil and Iraq the Bomb?
http://www.iraqwatch.org/suppliers/index.html
I tremble, nay, absolutely quake with dread.
No doubt you have a PhD in Drama Queenery or some other such mark of distinction with which to try and impress me with.
I thought you held the only such degree granted, Dhimmi?
good points. I would agree, in most cases. I am aware of the military industrial complex that has a specific agenda. We financed and had a major role in the Bolshevik revolution and putting the communist in power, our military industrial complex was largly responsible for supporting with money and materials to get Hitler started and the his machine going throughout the war.......the same for Castro, Milosevic with recruiting...etc.......
The Military Industrial complex, although organized through the Counsel on Foreign Relations (A front organization) and the RIIA in England, they promote and instigate wars for profit. This is factual......they play both sides of a conflict to make sure the conflict happens.......so, in this case, it's a special strategy.....
your examples are good reading and will work well for future study, thanks. I know that in Desert storm a warehouse was bombed that contained nerve agent sold to Saddam by one of our companies.....and it exposed about 100 Army troops downwind. The intell was askewed and wasn't aware of this..........
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nice duk pictures.........:) poetry in a photo.....yep.
They're loons.
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wow...you sold your soul, amazing. The reality is, we fired things up after the soviets left Afghanistan. We sent up to 10,000 trained Jihaders to cleanse the Serbs from Bosnia and stir up trouble. Milosevic just got stupid and allowed his paramilitaries free reign. However,
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-intro.pdf
http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/mem.htm
This one is replay of what I observed in Kosovo from 1999 to 2004, as I got the reports of one village after another being abandoned because the "Black Eagles" (Albanian terrorist group) would murder one or two in the village and the residents moved......more than once.
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-massacred.pdf
:)) i do declare, lurkker, you got uh'picture of loons that one culd frame.... I know dat thar are sum foks that luv...ducks...but, it might appear that you culd luv a loone, naw thats kinky....ouuuuuuu weeeeeeeeee. A little spashing in warter are ye....
I wrote this so as you could read it....lolol...:))))
Nice site......this is appreciated. Gives very good references.
http://www.iraqwatch.org/suppliers/USapproved.htm
That agenda is 'making money.'
We financed and had a major role in the Bolshevik revolution
Bullsh**.
our military industrial complex was largly responsible for supporting with money and materials to get Hitler started
Double bullsh**.
the same for Castro
Triple bullsh**.
This is factual......
Only in the minds of raving lunatics.
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