"Mujahideen were part of Bosnian Army" (testimony of Bosnian army general)

B92 ^ | September 20, 2007

[joan]

20 September 2007

Bosnian Army general Kadir Jusić told a Hague judge that the El Mujahid Detachment was part of the Bosnian Army 3rd Corps.

Jusić, former chief of staff of the Bosnian Army 3rd Corps, is testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Army chief Rasim Delić.

"From mid 1993 until the end of the war, the El Mujahid Detachment was part of the 3rd Corps, ‘formally, in organizational terms and according to the establishment," he said.

During the operation to liberate Vozuća in the summer and fall of 1995, the detachment was once again subordinated to the 35th Division in the 3rd Corps, he went on to say.

General Jusić, the court was told, is one of the best educated people the Bosnian Army had during the war.

He was the chief of staff in the 3rd Corps from March 1995. In his examination-in-chief, he said that the El Mujahid Detachment had been commanded by a foreign fighter called Abu Mali.

The Mujahideen base was next to the Zavidovići-Luka road. He passed it by several times in 1995.

Through his testimony, the prosecution tried to prove that the Mujahideen had played a key role in the operation the Bosnian Army launched in September 1995 to liberate Vozuća. The operation was codenamed Farz.

The witness confirmed that in July 1995 members of the El Mujahid Detachment had participated in the attack on Paljenik, a key hill on the Vozuća axis, noting that at that time the detachment had been subordinated to the 35th Division in all elements of combat readiness, "from command and control down to logistic support."

This action was planned by the 35th Division command independently from the 3rd Corps command, he confirmed in cross-examination.

When Danish judge Harhoff asked who had commanded the El Mujahid Detachment, the witness replied that the commander of the 35th Division had been in charge.

He could only assume that this commander had actually been able to exercise command, he added, because the Mujahideen were impossible to command.

[joan]

ping

[2banana]

Thank you Bill Clinton!

[Ronin]

Well, golly gee.... I am sure surprised! Imagine that!

[FormerLib]

Only the very dimmest of Dhimmwits deny the involvement of the Jihadists in Bosnia.

But I wonder where he is, these days?

It’s been a while since he’s posted any lies or nonsense to a Balkans thread.

And our pancakes are getting cold.

[antinomian]

There is a excellent documentary, Yugoslavia, the Avoidable War, which can be found on various Bit Torrent sites. It chronicles how many of the atrocities were staged managed for the western media.

[F-117A]

According to the captured diary of Anwar Shaban, there were regular meetings between senior Al-Qa’ida members and the leadership of the Bosnian SDA and Bosnian Army, including General Staff Chief Rasim Delic.

[joan]

A Freeper, getoffmylawn, was part of the production crew on that documentary.

[Diocletian]

the documentary is far from excellent and is nowhere near objective.

[Barnsleys Beck]

And it seem the Mujahideen unit were firm favourites with many of the local muslims.

http://www.un.org/icty/transe83/070709IT.htm

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Let's go to the next document. This is a report, 15 June 1995, information report, concerning the El Mujahedin and intelligence, and it reports right at the outset members of the El Mujahedin Unit continue to conduct reconnaissance: "In the past ten days or so, members of the unit destroyed several dugouts, liquidated tens of Chetniks, instilled panic and fear. Following the killing of a member of the El Mujahedin Unit, they organised a squad of combatants who barged through defence lines, 2 liquidated a number of Chetniks, slaughtered two, and carried their heads through the villages down the Krivija [phoen] River, showing them to the locals and the school children. On the front line, soldiers are receiving food and fruit from them, the El Mujahedin Unit, as well as ammunition and other necessary things, and saying they would not want the unit to leave their AOR; that is, other ARBiH units did not want the Mujahedin Detachment to leave: "We will continue to follow the conduct of El Mujahedin Unit members through operative work in the field and subsequently report to you."

Charming gentlemen.