Clinton's Allies in Bosnia - The 7th Mujahedeen Brigade

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7th Bosnian Muslim Brigade, based in Zenica - the international Islamic mercenary force known as the mujahedeen

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7th Bosnian Muslim Brigade, based in Zenica - the international Islamic mercenary force known as the mujahedeen


Alija Izetbegovic with memebrs of 7th Brigade
"... The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non- Islamic societies and political institutions. ... Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion. ..." page 22 "The Islamic Declaration" book ("Islamska deklaracija"), written by Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian Muslim leader.

In preparing the ground for the conflicts between Bosnian Cristians (Croats and Serbs) and Bosnian Muslims, residents of different Arab countries who in the B&H had recognized the elements and challenge of “a holy war” - jihad. Coming from different Arab countries, most of them were from Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Afghanistan, and bringing with them experience from a war from some of the Islamic trouble spots.

Mujahedin, or «holy warriors», is a generic term for Muslim volunteers fighting in the former Yugoslavia. Many Mujahedin originate from Muslim countries outside the former Yugoslavia. It was reported that the Mujahedin began arriving in BiH as early as June 1992. (Tom Post & Joel Brand, «Help from the Holy Warriors», Newsweek, 5 October 1992, at 52). Reports on the number of Mujahedin forces operating in BiH vary, but it is unlikely that the Mujahedin forces have made a significant military contribution to the BiH Government's war effort (Christopher Lockwood, «Muslim Nations Offer Troops», Daily Telegraph, 14 July 1993, at 14. According to Lockwood, Muslim nations depended on Western logistical support to deliver troops to BiH. He concludes that the same logistical troubles which kept the Muslim troops promised in July of 1993 from joining UN forces in the UN declared «safe havens» also limited the number of Muslim volunteers in the BiH armed forces. He states that the number of Mujahedin in BiH never exceeded three or four hundred. See also Mohamed Sid-Ahmad, «Muslim World Between Two Fires», War Report, January 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 63744. However, the Belgrade Daily, Vecernje Novosti, reported that as many as 30,000 Mujahedin were operating in BiH. «Other Reports in Brief: Muslims from Abroad Settling in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgrade Daily Claims», BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts, 19 September 1992. )

The Mujahedin forces came from several Muslim states and many of them were veterans of the Afghan war. (Andrew Hogg, «Arabs Join in Bosnia Battle», Sunday Times, 30 August 1992)

Reports submitted to the Commission of Experts alleged that the Mujahedin have been responsible for the mutilation and killing of civilians, rape, looting, the destruction of property, and the expulsion of non-Muslim populations. The deputy commander of the BiH Army, Colonel Stjepan Siber, has said, «it was a mistake to let them [the Mujahedin] here . . . They commit most of the atrocities and work against the interests of the Muslim people. They have been killing, looting and stealing.» Andrew Hogg, «Terror Trail of the Mujahedin», Sunday Times, 27 June 1993.

Several reports indicate that the Mujahedin were placed under the command of the BiH Army.(See «Some 400 Mujahedin Volunteers Fighting with Bosnian Muslims», Agence France Presse, 22 September 1992; Andrew Hogg, «Arabs Join in Bosnia Battle», Sunday Times, 30 August 1992; see also Charles McLoed, ECMM, «Report on Inter-Ethnic Violence in Vitez, Busovaca and Zenica», April 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 20178- 20546, at 20207; Croatian Information Centre, Weekly Bulletin, No. 9, 4 October 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 36434-36438, at 36435; US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62648, 62724, 62730, and 62756)

The Mujahedin forces were closely associated with the 5th Corps, the 6th and 7th Zenica Brigades, the 7th Travnik Brigade, and the 45th Muslim Brigade which belongs to the 6th Corps in Konjic of the Army of BiH (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62648; see also Croatian Information Centre, Weekly Bulletin, No. 9, 4 October 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 36434-36438, at 36435; «Continuing Clashes in Northwestern Enclave Reported from Both Sides», BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts, 14 December 1993.)

They also allegedly fought alongside the Muslim Police, the Krajiska Brigade from Travnik, units of Kosovo Muslims, Albanian soldiers, and paramilitary groups such as the «Green Legion» and the «Black Swans».(Charles McLoed, ECMM, Report on Inter-Ethnic Violence in Vitez, Busovaca and Zenica, April 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 20178-20546, at 20207; Croatian Information Centre, Weekly Bulletin, No. 9, 4 October 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 36434-36438, at 36435; US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62648, 62724, 62730, and 62756.)

Reports also indicate that the Mujahedin had the support of President Izetbegovic and his government. *57 This was demonstrated in the Bihac pocket, where the Mujahedin joined BiH forces loyal to Izetbegovic. Together, these forces battled separatist forces who entered into a separate peace treaty with Bosnian Serbs («Continuing Clashes in Northwestern Enclave Reported form Both Sides», BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts, 14 December 1993)

In Zenica, between 31 August and 2 September 1992, 250 Mujahedin troops allegedly come to BiH from Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain and Iran. These troops worked alongside the Green Legion and HOS paramilitary groups stationed in Zenica. The Mujahedin allegedly also operated a camp at Arnauti.(Charles McLeod, ECMM, Report on Inter-Ethnic Violence in Vitez, Buscovaca and Zenica, April 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 29043-29131, at 29064; Biljaja Plavsic, Republic of Serbia Presidency, To Serbs All Over the World, 30 September 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 48072- 48093, at 48081)

It was reported that a unit of the Mujahedin, called the «Guerilla», participated in the 16 April 1993 attack on Vitez and attempted to exchange 10 HVO hostages for foreign prisoners held in HVO prisons. (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62629; see also Charles McLeod, ECMM, Report on Inter-Ethnic Violence in Vitez, Busovaca and Zenica, April 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 29043-29131, at 29072 (attack on Vitez).

The Croatian Ministry of Defence is reported to have provided information about an event occurring in June 1993 -- a joint BiH/Mujahedin unit reportedly attacked Travnik, allegedly forcing 4,000 Croatian civilians and military personnel out of the town. (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62650. Media reports however claim that Croats left Travnik voluntarily. The incident was investigated by an organization, which reported that the forceful eviction did not take place)

The Mujahedin allegedly fought alongside the 6th Muslim Brigade from Zenica and the Krajiska Brigade from Travnik. Witnesses stated that they saw Mujahedin operating in small patrols ahead of the approaching BiH troops.

According to HVO intelligence, Mujahedin forces arrived in Travnik sometime before June 1993 and came from Algeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. The Mujahedin trained at a camp at Mehurici, where they were allegedly financed and equipped by a man named Abdulah, the owner of the «Palma» video store in Travnik. Once in town, the Mujahedin were linked to the Seventh Brigade of the BiH Army, and were reportedly assembled into units of 10 to 15 men, and moved about on regular patrols. The Mujahedin created tension in Travnik in the days prior to the attack on 3 June. One witness stated that the Mujahedin directed their actions towards the HVO personnel in town. They allegedly demonstrated, shouted slogans and fired their rifles in the air.

Mujahedin allegedly participated in the attack on Maljine in Novi Travnik on 8 June 1993, killing 20 to 30 HVO members and transporting Croatian women and children to the training centre at Mehurici.(Croatian Information Centre, Weekly Bulletin, No. 1, 9 August 1993)

In Konjic, the Mujahedin were part of a 100 member force stationed at Liscioi and led by Haso Hakalovic. The unit was assembled in February 1993 and included some Kosovo Muslims and members of the Black Swans from the Igman mountain region. (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62756)

Allegedly, Mujahedin troops killed and expelled villagers, and looted and burned homes, when they moved against the Jablanica- Konjic area. The Mujahedin troops and members of the Black Swans reportedly conducted occasional raids without members of BiH forces. (at IHRLI Doc. No. 62752 and 62756. The village of Vrci was attacked on 25 May, and the village of Radesine was attacked on 10 June. See also Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Fifth Periodic Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1994/47, 17 November 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 52399-52435, at 52405 (alleging that the Mujahedin were involved in attacks at Kopjari on 21 October, Doljani on 27 and 28 June, and Maljane on 8 June). UN Special Rapporteur Mazowiecki claims that corpses of Mujahedin victims displayed evidence of protracted cruelty and mutilation. )

Reportedly, the Mujahedin volunteers arrived in Konjic in small groups. It was reported that they were from Afghanistan and that they claimed to be students. They were allegedly armed with Hekleri automatic weapons and former JNA equipment. Some Mujahedin were reportedly former students with no military experience.

Mujahedin forces were present in Mostar since early June 1993. They were reportedly stationed in the Santica neighbourhood on the Muslim/HVO front, where they manned bunkers, usually in groups of six or seven, armed with 7.62 millimetre semi-automatic weapons, machine-guns, and Zolja anti-tank weapons. They were billeted in a building they shared with the Muslim military police on the east bank of the Neretva River. The Mujahedin forces apparently left Mostar on 15 August. (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62742 and 62677. For more details on the location of the Neretva living quarters, see Id. at 62739)

FRY reported that the Mujahedin began operations near Teslic in July and August of 1992. Troops from Saudi Arabia allegedly killed three Serbian Territorial Defence members and placed the victims' severed heads on poles near the «Tesanj turret». (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Second Report Submitted to the Commission of Experts, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 28401-29019, at 28533)

Beheadings of Serbs by Mujahedin forces have also been reported in other areas.

The Mujahedin were also alleged to be part of the forces that invaded the village of Trusina near Foca on 15 April 1993. According to the report, attackers wore white ribbons on their arms and fought beside Albanian Muslim troops. Twenty-two civilians reportedly died in the attack. (US Department of State, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 62612-62877, at 62648; Croatian Information Centre, Weekly Bulletin, No. 9, 4 October 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 36434-36438, at 36435)

The Mujahedin allegedly performed crude circumcisions upon Serbian police forces, who were later treated by an American surgeon at the Kosevo hospital in Sarajevo. (Letter dated 7 December 1992 from the Deputy Representative of the US to U.N. Secretary-General, U.N. Doc. S/24918, 8 December 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 3160-3177, at 3173; Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Second Report Submitted to the Commission of Experts, 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 28401-29019, at 28566)



This photograph was seized from Saudi Arabian fighters captured in Crni Vrh near Teslic, Bosnia. A Muslim solder displays the severed head of Blagoje Blagojevic, a Serb from the village of Jasenovo near Teslic.


The severed heads of three Serbs (identified as Blagoje Blagojevic, Nenad Petkovic, and Brana Djuric) beheaded by Muslim fighters. This picture was seized from Saudi Arabian solders captured near Teslic in Bosnia.



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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/timbeat4.htm

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http://members.tripod.com/Balkania/resources/geostrategy/bodansky_peace/bp_part1.html

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Washington Post - Iranians Form Terror Force in Bosnia
http://impact.users.netlink.co.uk/namir/sreport.htm

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US Senate Document; Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm

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[Hoplite]

And did Izetbegovic and Zimmerman go about planning and then executing a scheme involving the cleansing of 70% of Bosnia and bring back Concentration Camps to Europe after a 47 year hiatus?

No, they didn't, did they.

Lisbon would have resulted in the partitioning of Bosnia into 3 ethnically based areas, and the Croats, Muslims, and Serbs were mixed up enough to make it an unworkable scheme, given what was transpiring next door.

The Lisbon plan, by the way, allotted 44% of Bosnia to the Serbs (in discontiguous lumps), yet in '92 they went and grabbed an extra 26% of the country.

Just to show that they were bargaining in good faith, I suppose.

[Hoplite]

King and Louima got to face their tormentors in court and they're not dead.

Thanks for helping to illustrate post #13.

In 1993 Iran offered to provide 10,000 troops to help secure the safe areas of Srebrenica, Zepa, and Goradze.

Those troops were turned down.

I wonder why that was...

[Alexandre]

Camps... those without barb wire, gun towers - right? Or you mean the concnentration camp on football field of Prishtina?

[Hoplite]

Go away and read some more Living Marxism articles.

Back issues, of course.

[Alexandre]

All you have to say, braindead one?

[bob808]

This whole cause and effect thing escapes you, doesn't it.

Oh c'mon, you're full of sh#t on that one, Hoplite - who illegally seceded first? Was it the Serbs who decided to forcefully tear apart the country first? Of course, shame on those evil Serbs for not promptly destroying all their churches and cultural landmarks and meekly giving way to Mr Islamic Manifesto Izetbegovic. How dare they fight back, and - gasp - even get the upper hand. Surely they all deserve to have their heads chopped off by the noble mujadeen, right?

[crazykatz]

hoppie is not braindead...his head is just so far up klintoon's A--h---e that he cannot think straight! HE really believes that klintoon is America's greatest prez.....eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk.....YUK......he is a kla lover too.

[constitutiongirl]

I'm in perfect agreement with you.

[Hoplite]

Guess what, Bob. No Russian invasion of Afghanistan, no Mujhadeen - Western backed or not.

No Serb cleansing of Muslim areas of Bosnia, no Mujhadeen in Bosnia.

It's not that complicated at all.

Just think what could have been if Milosevic was actually interested in keeping Yugoslavia together instead of creating ethnically pure adjuncts in Croatia and Bosnia.

If the Serbs were interested in keeping Yugoslavia together, they weren't interested in having the Croat or Muslims in it, based on their actions in the RSK and RS.

Those poor guys in the picture weren't the only Serbs who lost their heads in the '90s.

[Vojvodina]

We declared "jihad" on Nazism, Fascism and Islamic fundamentalism in Europe. We defended our own! Not an inch of the land that hadn't belonged to them in the first place was taken over by the Serbs - ever.

Hey, take a look at our enemies and you'll learn a lot about us!

[Vojvodina]

What concentration camps, B? Will you ever, ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, provide some evidence? Oh yeah, those "Serbs" in the photo have WHITE STRIPES hanging from their shoulder. Pretty uncommon for the BSA, if you ask me.

[Hoplite]

Your enemies include women and children who aren't Serbs.

As to the white stripes, you can be so forgetful at times, you know?

Am I the only one around here who remembers previous threads?

[Hoplite]

Your enemies include women and children who aren't Serbs.

As to the white stripes, you can be so forgetful at times, you know?

Am I the only one around here who remembers previous threads or actually reads what has already been posted before sticking my oar in?

[Hoplite]

Feh.

[Pericles]

Iran, Hoplite??? Gotcha!! You do know that the Iranians sponsor suicide bombers in Lebanon and Israel??? Of course you do. I so love it when I make you hang yourself with your own words.

PS: Judging by the fighting qualities of the Iranian military (who pioneered the tactic of charging Iraqi machine gun nests with unarmed children) against the much smaller Iraqi army, I think that would have been 10,000 more notches on the Serbian military's belt.

[Hoplite]

Gotcha

Your logic escapes me.

Elucidate.

[Pericles]

should I re-type it in Iranian?

[Hoplite]

Sure - Noose is kamand in Farsi, btw.

Not that you'll need help or anything.

[branicap]

Both pictures posted here are genuine and true!About the second one from Bjeljina:people on the ground are Muslims and are dead!I have some others,even more gruesome,but can`t post it!Soldiers on the picture are Arkan`s boys!But...There is always,but!What was done in Bjeljina,in the presence of reporters is a crime and stupidity,and has no excuse!It doesn`t metter that Bjeljina Muslims promised Serbs that they will be slaughtered.It doesn`t metter that all Serbs in the police were fired in `90,and many of them from schools,hospital and municypal services!It doesn`t metter that lists were prepared in the SDA(Muslim Party)of the prominent Serbs and their failies to be killed!Bijeljina is a strategic point in Bosnia and when Serbs performed this preemptive strike to secure the town(and that is what it was)killings like this were unnecessary and inhumane!One picture(despite the fact that number of civillian casualities was very low,arr two dozen) was enough to criminilize the whole thing!The fact that this family was taken out of the house from which fire was opened on Serbian forces,makes no difference!Dead woman,kicked in the head,is enough for me!Army doesn`t fight like that!Period!

Hoplite,I admire your "simplistic" view of history!If Soviets didn`t invade Afganistan we wouldn`t have Taliban and Mujahedins in Bosnia!!!!!

The fact that Russians introduced civic society,with schools for everybody,medicare,and our(Christian) sistem into Afganistan is unknown to you!It would be nice if you could,as a great researcher,find a monumental TV series "Cold War"!Maybe,just maybe,than,you would learn some things!

Your comment about "Serbs in April-Mujahedins in June" is so sad and laughable that doesn`t deserve an answer!

Another pearl of wisdom is "Iranian offer of 10 000 soldiers refused"!Well,Hopie,we(US) can`t so blatantly introduce Iran into the hearth of Europe!Volontiers are more convinient!

You see,Hopie,(you don`t mind if I call you Hopie,do you?)some of us have an (dis)advantage of living previously in Yugoslavia!You,I assume,don`t!So,some of us knew the atmosphere,bar talks,TV programs,newspapers,participated actively in some events!And expirienced war!

You didn`t!

You ,Hopie,don`t know a thing about Yugoslavia,former or present!And,not only about Yuigoslavia!

It is a pity that time machine is impossible,because I would like to invite you (and not only you) on a trip in `89!So that you can listen fascist rant of Tudjman`s followers in my birth town of Mostar!"We didn`t kill enough of you,Serbian dogs!This time we`ll finish the job!" "Ante(Pavelich) rise !" "Serbs on willows! Dogs(Serbs) go over Drina!"Or that you can see letter U (for Ustashe) written everywhere!

Or,I would take you on the other side of town to hear Muslims saying"You and Croats were always raya(serfs) and we were always beys(masters)!When we reach 50,0001% of Bosnian population we (Muslims) will fuck your mother!"Nice,isn`t it?

Or,I would give you a Motorola in 91 to listen the conversation between Croat and Serbian policemen in Krajina in which a Croat(former colleague and "friend" of thhe Serb) is describing what he and his palls will do to the Serbs and someones wife and children in particular!I would like you to see the tears of a man who didn`t cry when I amputated his foot but cried at the hatred and betrayal of a man who he considered to be a family friend!And,I would like you to hear a Muslim guy from Bihach,joining in the converstaion and promising that "next year (92) will be a play-off in Bosnia and that both Chedo(Chetnik-Serb) and Ujo(Ustasha-Croat)will have their throaths slitt!Alahu Akbar!"

I would really like to introduce you to your friends, nice Croats and innocent Muslims,not to mention your beloved KLA!It would be a true memorable expirience!

But,for what purpose?People like you don`t learn!

[Hoplite]

Nice incoherent rant.

Did you make up the part about the Tigers taking fire from the house those people were pulled from or did someone else? Also, there were no lists - this was a common ploy to scare Serb residents into distrusting all of thier Muslim neighbors, playing off of the fears of a repeat of the 1940's.

Not surprised you fell for it. You seem to be a perfect example of the ignorant puke who's head was filled with B.S. in order to get you to hate people who haven't done a damn thing against you or your 'kind' in their entire lives.

At least you seem to have some scruples against killing innocents, at least until someone tells you they took fire from where they were pulled from.

It's a start, I suppose.