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Kentucky woman accused of Bosnian war crimes
Boston Herald ^ | 3/17/11 | Jennifer Hewlett

Posted on 03/17/2011 1:39:59 PM PDT by Bokababe

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. authorities have arrested a 51-year-old Croatian-born woman in Kentucky who is accused of war crimes against civilians during the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s.

Azra Basic, who was living in Stanton, Ky., is accused of torturing and murdering ethnic Serbs at prison camps from April to June 1992. Bosnia and Herzegovina officials want Basic returned to that country to stand trial

Eyewitnesses Radojica Garic and Dragan Kovacevic said Basic murdered Blagoje Djuras, who had been beaten to unconsciousness by Croatian police and soldiers, by slitting his throat with a knife, according to a court document.

"After that, Azra took us by the hair and dragged us to the wound on the neck from which the blood ran and made us drink that blood," Garic said......

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: azra; azrabasic; azrakovacevic; balkans; basic; bosnia; croat; issabell; issabellbasic; kentucky; kovacevic; neildiamond; serb; waronterror
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Gruesome.
1 posted on 03/17/2011 1:40:05 PM PDT by Bokababe
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...

2 posted on 03/17/2011 1:41:14 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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3 posted on 03/17/2011 1:44:26 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Bokababe
Azra Basic

10 input "what is your name?" n$
20 if n$ = AZRA Then Goto Jail
30 END

4 posted on 03/17/2011 1:45:46 PM PDT by NativeSon
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To: Bokababe

then lets see if she gets the death sentence too and what will this administration do as well.


5 posted on 03/17/2011 1:46:04 PM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: Bokababe
This lady has everything this country needs.

No wonder INS waved her on in.

6 posted on 03/17/2011 1:48:02 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Bokababe
Obviously a different Kentucky woman.


7 posted on 03/17/2011 1:48:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Bokababe

on what type visa was she entered into the OS????

what is her status??


8 posted on 03/17/2011 1:53:16 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: evets

Maybe the gay, lesbian and transgender folks will fund her legal defense. (She looks like one of them.)


9 posted on 03/17/2011 1:58:38 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Bokababe

She carved crosses on the prisoners. Was she a muslim or Christian?


10 posted on 03/17/2011 2:00:16 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: Slump Tester

lol


11 posted on 03/17/2011 2:01:09 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: icwhatudo

If she were a Muslim this probably wouldn;t make the news


12 posted on 03/17/2011 2:02:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: icwhatudo

Azra is a Muslim name.


13 posted on 03/17/2011 2:05:50 PM PDT by JadeEmperor
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on what type visa was she entered into the OS???? what is her status??

I have no idea. This article is all I know about her at this point. It does, however, say that Interpol has known who she is, where she is and what she'd done, since 2004. The US has known about her since 2007, but "demanded more evidence" before they'd arrest her. Nice to know that the US is "protecting her rights".

14 posted on 03/17/2011 2:07:26 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: icwhatudo

She was marking them as Serbs. The cross with the four “S” or C’s in Cyrillic is the symbol of Serbia.


15 posted on 03/17/2011 2:09:16 PM PDT by JMS
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She’s have to be a Christian otherwise they wouldn’t bother with it. Wesley Clarke, Jeffrey Sachs, George Soros et al...you are bastards!


16 posted on 03/17/2011 2:14:11 PM PDT by bronxville (‘if science disagree with the Bible, it means that science hasn't caught up w/ all the facts yet.')
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To: JadeEmperor
Azra is a Muslim name.

Yes and no, from what I understand.

It means "star" in Arabic and is often used as a girl's name in some Muslim countries.

But there was a Croatian band named Azra, and from what I can see there are also some Croat women from Bosnia with that name.

Her married name "Basic" is definitely Croat, I have a Croat friend with that last name.

17 posted on 03/17/2011 2:15:36 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

Men are sadistic, you know. If only more women were in the government, there would be no wars...</sarcasm>


18 posted on 03/17/2011 2:19:20 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: icwhatudo

If she’s ethnically Croat, she’s Catholic. If she’s Croatian (ie, simply born within the borders of Croatia), she could be Muslim.


19 posted on 03/17/2011 2:27:14 PM PDT by Terabitten ("Don't retreat. RELOAD!!" -Sarah Palin)
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To: Bokababe

“Croatian-born woman...”

Oh, thank Goodness. From the headline I was afraid they’d just snagged some random hillbilly gal. /h


20 posted on 03/17/2011 2:33:22 PM PDT by PLMerite (Thanks for fixing the clock.)
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