[Pericles]

Also by Dr. Nikolaos A. Stavrou Clintonisim and the News Media (My Title: How Clintonisim corrupted domestic and foreign institutions)

FILE--Unidentified Muslims march in Sarajevo in this March 2000 file photo during a protest organized by local Islamic youth organizations to demand the world community put a stop to Russia's offensive in Chechnya. The banner reads "Allah is the only one, and Muhammad is his envoy on earth." As the United States widens its war against Osama bin Laden, signs that a radical fringe is trying to stir up Bosnia, one of the largest Muslim areas in Europe, are being taken seriously. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)

Bosnia's radical Muslim fringe under close scrutiny as anti-terror war intensifies

Saturday October 13 1:28 PM ET

Former Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic speaks at a press conference in Sarajevo, Friday, Oct. 12, 2001. Izetbegovic urged U.S. President George W. Bush and other world leaders on Friday to address the motives for terrorism even as the United States leads a campaign against it.(AP Photo/Sava Radovanovic)

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Posters exhorting Bosnia's Muslims to rise in holy war against America were printed and ready for pasting about the time the first U.S. cruise missile slammed into Afghanistan. "We want a third and a fourth world war for Islam -- long live bin Laden," reads one of several posters recently confiscated by police. "Afghanistan, Bosnia -- why wouldn't you fight for oppressed men, women and children?" asks another.

Mostly secular or religious moderates, the overwhelming majority of Bosnia's more than 1 million Muslims poses no terrorist threat. Most remain thankful to the United States for its support in their 1990s war against Serbs and Croats and condemn the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"It's always the innocent who die," said Lejla Hamic, 20, a deeply observant Muslim covered head to toe in traditional garb. "I feel sorry for the people of America."

Still, as the United States widens its war against Osama bin Laden, signs that a radical fringe is trying to stir up Bosnia, one the largest Muslim areas in Europe, are being taken seriously. Besides the posters, radical Muslim clerics have occasionally called for jihad.

Chief U.N. war crimes tribunal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said this week she had turned over information to the United States on "people who were staying in Bosnia in connection with terrorist groups."

And Muhamed Besic, interior minister of the Muslim-Croat half of Bosnia, acknowledged that "terrorism is a danger" as he announced the arrest of Bensayah Belkacem, who was carrying Yemeni and Algerian passports and is accused of discussing -- on the phone with a key bin Laden aide -- how to procure foreign passports.

Twenty other suspects are currently being screened on U.S. request, he said.

Bosnia is home for up to 200 Islamic fighters, or mujahedeen, who came to the country mostly from the Middle East to fight on the Muslim side in the 1990s war against Serbs and Croats, then stayed and married local women. Some of those who fought in Bosnia have been linked to terrorist acts, including three Saudi nationals who confessed to the 1995 bombing of a U.S. base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to a report compiled for the U.S. Congress. It says the three also fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

Bosnia's mujahedeen lead secretive, separate lives. Before dropping out of sight, their Palestinian leader, Imad al Hussein Abu Hamza, last month distanced himself from the "killing of children, women, innocent people and civilians."

But alluding to the still-to-come U.S. strikes on Afghanistan, he said "the entire Islamic world" has an obligation to defend Muslims there, should they need help. Since Sept. 11, potential radicals, including the Islamic fighters, have been under increased surveillance by police working with the FBI and NATO intelligence, international officials say.

Most of Bosnia's terror-related problems have roots in the past. Years of lax border controls allowed thousands of immigrants from the Middle East to enter. Most were economic migrants, but some were likely radicals who have now gone underground either in Bosnia or elsewhere in Europe, international officials say.

The new government in the Muslim-Croat federation appears to have been goaded into action by the attacks and Western pressure to get tough or lose crucial financial and political support.

"The messages from the mosques deserve our full attention," said Deputy Foreign Minister Ivica Misic of the "expressions of sympathy for jihad" being uttered by some religious leaders.

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[Pericles]

fyi to bump around

[monkeywrench]

"went unheaded by Bill Clinton's simplistic policy of "one victim one aggressor." Another link in the clinton chain.

[prov1813man]

The title of this post brings rise to a thought I have been having. No need to go to Bosnia for Blonde Muslims. What many folks don't realize is that Alexander The Great left a legacy in the Khyber of blonde-haired, blue-eyed Muslims. While I have been one to advocate profiling, this awareness makes me aware of the potential folly of this approach.

[novakeo]

Great work Pericles. Do you mind if I email this transcribed article to some to inquiring minds?

[crazykatz]

Many Bosnian muslims are blonds....Serbs are usually dark haired.

[Great Dane]

Perhaps you need to educate good old Rivera, by sending him these articles......... not that he would bother reading them, but at least he couldn't claim ....'he didn't know.'

[father_elijah]

This is what we have been talking about on several other posts.

There are also blue eyed fair haired Tuareg in North Africa. While they are secretive as a rule, I wouldn't be surprised if Al-Quaeda hadn't recruited a few.

[father_elijah]

Alija Ali Izetbegovic was Muslim genocidal maniac in his own write. His writings ooze ethnic cleansing and Islamic supremacy in the Balkans. That Bill Clinton and his folks didn't see this can only be explained by their having been the greatest lot of idiots to ever lead a great nation or they were in the employ of evil in one of its various guises. Izetbegovic dressed western and always looked neat, and underneath that appearance was a mind and heart as dangerous as Ramzei Youssef or Usama bin Laden.

[nomoreheroes]

Fusion, Where are you? Come out, come out, where ever you are!

Excellent work as always Pericles. Further proof of the sober analysis from Greece about the Balkans. If Mr. Stavrou represents the rational thinking behind Greek strategic thinking about the Balkans then a "Greater Albania" is doomed.

So far, Bush has charted an excellent course for American Foriegn policy in the Balkans in terms of turning around the Clinton Admin's efforts by singling out terrorism as the enemy.

The greater Albania that people like fusion like to push down our throats is built on lies, deception, and evil. Here today and gone tommorrow. What will triumph is rational thinking, just goals, and dedication to the rule of Law. Values that are the hallmark of western thinking.

Greeks have consistently dealt with the events in the Balkans under these terms.

[Eva]

I saw a blond muslim woman on the street in London this summer. It seemed so strange to see a woman with blonde hair sticking out from under her veil.

[madrussian]

I can't believe someone who have ethnic mostly Christian kin can forget about their forcibly converted ancestors and be a devout muslim. A muslim Slav is an ugly sight.

[Pericles]

They published this commentary in the Washington Times for those who want to easily refrence it (The Washington Times added a "?" at the end of the title not found in the original which I transcribed from The National Herald - English weekend edition):

The Balkan Branches of the Terror Network?

[Eva]

I had read this link, but thank you anyway. I remember remarking that I had seen a fair skinned, light haired Muslim woman wearing Muslim garb in London, last summer. I was quite amazed at the time, now I am not so surprised. Muslims seem to be everywhere.

[xm177e2]

The Arabic text, translated into English, says "America Stole Our Teeth"

[AuntB]

I'm reading your links, Pericles, and appreciate it.

[demosthenes the elder]

oh, well, s***can ethnic profiling and go for the -ah- meat of the issue. use a "pork litmus test". every passenger must eat a ham sandwich in front of armed security.