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Posted on 9/15/2001, 5:27:21 PM by Axion

Are we Finally Switching Sides with George W. Bush as Commander-in-Chief?

By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (www.bannerofliberty.com)

September 14, 2001

President George W. Bush tells us we are "at War" against terrorism. We've BEEN at war since the early 1990s - a war started in the Balkans, and a war in which Bill Clinton made America an ally of Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. On March 23, 1999, a day before Clinton began a 79-day bombing attack on the Serbs, talk show host Michael Reagan said:

"If you listen to my show a lot you'll remember that last week Col. David Hackworth said that many of the weapons being bought and paid for by the Kosovo Liberation Army are being bought and paid for by drugs,. Mary Mostert, my editor, who has developed sources in Europe, verified the drug connection. She sent me the Prague Post article reporting that one of the 'drug gangs' of the Kosovo Albanian 'Kosovo Liberation Army,' which supplies up to 90% of the illegal heroin in Scandinavia, had been arrested. (See: http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-3.22.1999.12.html)

"It seems when there's drugs the President of the United States somehow always comes down on the side of the drug lords. Just as Hollywood always seems to come down on the side of Communists and uplifts them, the President always uplifts those who are dealing with drugs.

"He says there's a war on drugs? Maybe there is a war that is going to begin this week that's going to be paid for by drugs and we're going to be part of it."

It does. I've been writing about Osama bin Laden for years, especially his strange relationship with Bill Clinton. On August 24, 1998, I quoted from a report in December 1993,Independent News' , written by journalist Robert Fisk who met and interviewed Osama bin Laden in Almatig, Sudan. . He noted that during "the last great proxy battle of the Cold War was between the invading Russians and the Afghans." Bin Laden , son of a wealthy Saudi road contractor, went to Afghanistan to fight the Russians. He was dubbed "an Arab fighter" or a "freedom fighter." Much of his present headquarters, in fact, were reportedly financed by and helped built by our very own CIA through we he obtained training and even the US made stinger missiles with which he shot down Russian aircraft.

I wrote in the August 24, 1998 article ((http://www.bannerofliberty.com/OS8-98MQC/8-24-1998.1.html) that Fist believed the:

"contribution to the mujahedin - and the indirect result of his training and assistance - may turn out to be a turning- point in the recent history of militant fundamentalism."

Within months Bin Laden was sending Arab fighters - Egyptians, Algerians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis, Turks and Tunisians - into Afghanistan; ''not hundreds but thousands,'' he said. He supported them with weapons and his own construction equipment. ..."We beat the Soviet Union. The Russians fled.'' Bin Laden claimed.

...A small number of mujahedin have gone to fight in Bosnia-Herzegovina but the Croats won't allow the mujahedin in through Croatia as the Pakistanis did with Afghanistan.''

That prompted me to look up a story I wrote on September 23, 1996 entitled "Clinton OK'ed Terrorist Financed Weapons to Bosnia Muslims Plus Free Weapons and 'Police Training' From US Taxpayers"(http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-9.23.1996.3.html) in which I quoted a report to the Washington Post which said, "According to a senior Western Diplomat in the area, the Clinton administration knew of the activities of a so-called Relief Agency which was, in fact, funneling weapons and money into Bosnia to prop up the Izetebegovic Muslim government in Sarajevo In effect Clinton lifted the Arms Embargo SOLELY for shipments of arms and personnel from Iran to the Bosnian Muslims. The Administration's action was 'in large part because of the administration's sympathy for the Muslim government' the Post said, 'and the Third World Relief Agency and ambivalence about maintaining the arms embargo." We were told [by Washington] to watch them but not interfere,' the diplomat said.

I pointed out in that article:

"Throughout most of the Clinton Administration, beginning in 1993, Clinton not only knew of the arms smuggling scheme, he appears to have sanctioned it right up to the Dayton Peace Accord negotiations, in which he pretended a "neutral" role and promised additional weaponry free from America.

"Elfatih Hassanein organized the 'Third World Relief Agency' in 1987, evidently as a cover for his efforts to import Muslim fundamentalism into Yugoslavia. In a 1994 interview with Gazi Husrev Beg, a magazine focusing on Islamic affairs, Hassanein called for the creation of an Islamic state in Bosnia. 'Bosnia, at the end, must be Muslim Bosnia, otherwise, everything has lost its sense and this was for nothing.' When Bosnia broke away from Yugoslavia, the Muslims were not a majority in the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hassanein and other Muslim fundamentalists worked to awaken a "religious sense among Bosnia's secular Muslims." In 1992 Muslims were the minority - Christians, either Catholic Croatians or Eastern Orthodox Serbs, were the majority in the Bosnia-Herzegovina. Muslim fundamentalism was not part of the scene in Bosnia until recently.

The Clinton Administration allowing the arming of the Muslims enabled them to drive out thousands of Serbs, insuring the election of Izetbegovic and a Muslim Bosnia. ...In September 1995, German investigators -- and agents from Austria's anti-terrorist task force -- raided the headquarters of Third World Relief Agency seizing enough documents to fill three minivans" according to the Post article. The records showed that over the years it had moved hundreds of millions of dollars through its account at First Austrian Bank. Bank officials noted that $80 million flowed into the agency's account in 1992; $231 million in 1993; and $39 million in 1994 and 1995. The chief of a Western intelligence agency estimated that more than half of the $350 million was used to buy weapons for the Bosnian Muslims, and to bribe Croatian officials to allow the weapons to cross their country. "Money was also smuggled into Sarajevo on flights of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees; Bosnian government officials used the money to buy weapons from both Serb and Croat middlemen who operated inside Bosnia" one official said. Apparently in 1995 the Relief Agency was able to "wind down" its work, because of the "direct weapons pipeline between Iran and Bosnia that passed through Croatia starting in May 1995. With the approval of the Clinton administration in April 1995, that pipeline opened directly through the UN Arms Embargo when the Croatian government asked the United States if it opposed such a link. The Clinton Administration declined to respond, later defending the action by saying that "the US Congress wanted to lift the Arms Embargo." However, Congressional leaders knew none of this.

Evidently, it appears, the supplier of weapons to the Bosnia Muslims was none other than Osama Bin Laden. The result of arming the Muslims of Bosnia was the introduction into Europe of his brand of fundamentalism. Once before Bill Clinton basically sided with America's enemies in North Vietnam while other young men were risking their lives fighting North Vietnam. There is every reason to believe that Clinton, either through deliberate inaction in foreign affairs, or by looking the other way, enabled Bin Laden to build his army of terrorists.

Does this have anything to do with the killing of thousands of American in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center with one of our own jet-fuel laden airliners? It does. Guess who helped train the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group that had been a known terrorist organization for years by governments throughout the world, including the U.S. State Department? It does. Sadly, while American taxpayers were engrossed in Clinton's sex life, while the U.S. media was intent on convincing us that Clinton's lying and bizarre sex life was no big deal, billions of dollars were spent to prop up radical, even anti-American, terrorists and drug lords all over the world. It has had a particularly devastating effect in the Balkans.

You might remember, as you think and pray about the thousands of dead in those four American airplanes, in the World Trade Center and in the Pentagon, how the Serbs must have felt, and still feel, when we turned our backs on them. It was the Serbs, fighting the Nazis in their own country and all around them (the Croatians, Albanians) who literally saved Europe at the loss of more than 50% of their men and boys aged 17-50 during World War II. By their valiant battles, they delayed Hitler's invasion of Russia, causing the German Army to be bogged down in the bitter winter. They also saved the lives of more than 500 American pilots who were shot down over Yugoslavia in World War II.

And what was their reward? Bill Clinton, without any support from Congress or the UN, bombed them for 79 days on to enable the Kosovo Liberation Army, a terrorist drug dealing organization allied with Osama bin Laden to drive all Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Jews out of Kosovo - while it is occupied by NATO!

During the bombing of Yugoslavia, Jerry Seper of the Washington Times reported again the Osama bin Laden connection with the KLA. He wrote, on May 4, 1999:

"Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden -- who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 persons, including 12 Americans.

The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's 41-day bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports. The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists -- members of the Mujahideen --as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia, and that many already have been smuggled into Kosovo to join the fight.

Known to its countrymen as the Ushtria Clirimatare e Kosoves, the KLA has as many as 30,000 members, a number reportedly on the rise as a result of NATO's continuing bombing campaign. The group's leadership, including Agim Ceku, a former Croatian army brigadier general, has rapidly become a political and military force in the Balkans. The intelligence reports document what is described as a "link" between bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists.

The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA. Many border crossings into Kosovo by "foreign fighters" also have been documented and include veterans of the militant group Islamic Jihad from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Many of the crossings originated in neighboring Albania and, according to the reports, included parties of up to 50 men.

While Clinton staged token attacks on Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan camp, knowing full well he wasn't in the camp, and on a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan, he bombed our long-time Serb allies in Yugoslavia, who were fighting the kind of terrorism we have just experienced in New York and Washington, for 79 days, literally destroying the nation.

Now that the American public has been jolted awake by the slaughter at the World Trade Center, hopefully they will begin to identify the problems we really face in this nation. We have knowingly chosen during the Clinton years a leader we know was a liar and adulterer. Why did we believe him when he claimed the Serbs were committing genocide and had killed "100,000 Albanians?" We knew he was a liar. In the two years since the end of the bombing, forensic experts from many nations have reported the death of a few hundred Albanians at the hands of the Serbs - and some of those were known KLA terrorists.

I believe we have a very different kind of leader in George W. Bush. He has chosen a suburb group of people to assist him. Colin Powell, and others in his cabinet are some of the best people in America. Democrats in Congress are blocking others he nominated. He needs a full staff to begin to turn this great nation back to a moral course. Write your members of Congress and demand action now in active support of George W. Bush.

We are at war. And the war is complicated by the fact that we, like the Russians in World War II, started out on the wrong side. . The war did not start with this week's terrorism. It began, like World War I and World War II, in the Balkans when President Bill Clinton chose to use America's Air Force to help a terrorist drug cartel called the Kosovo Liberation Army take control of a large chunk of Europe.

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