http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bosnia/ en-us Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:52:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398873/posts ...Bosnia's head of the Islamic Community, Dr. Mustafa Ceric said he hoped Europe would restore its values, citing the recent Swiss ban on the construction minarets and the European Union's exclusion of three overwhelmingly-Muslim Balkan countries from a visa-free regime, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.... Press TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398873/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:52:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393643/posts An amateur archaeologist says he's discovered the world's oldest pyramids in the Balkans. But many experts remain dubious Sam Osmanagich kneels down next to a low wall, part of a 6-by-10-foot rectangle of fieldstone with an earthen floor. If I'd come upon it in a farmer's backyard here on the edge of Visoko—in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 miles northwest of Sarajevo—I would have assumed it to be the foundation of a shed or cottage abandoned by some 19th-century peasant. Osmanagich, a blond, 49-year-old Bosnian who has lived for 16 years in Houston, Texas, has a more colorful explanation. "Maybe it's... Smithsonian Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393643/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391808/posts Bosnia’s gradual disintegration would appear inevitable. The only question is how the international community will, and should, react to this process. A new state – “Republika Srpska” - is shortly to be born in South Eastern Europe, the eighth to emerge from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The delivery of this troubling new child will be neither easy nor straightforward. People may die, and diplomatic isolation may follow. The choices the international community makes in the aftermath of these events will be critically important to the welfare of all the people of the region. For Western policymakers it will... BalkanInsight.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391808/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391483/posts The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has reached a new low. They have selected a British attorney named Richard Harvey to "defend" former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic in his war crimes trial in The Hague -- and they've done this completely against the will of the defendant. Marko Sladojevic, one of Karadzic's chosen legal advisers, told the AP news agency that "Mr. Harvey has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about the case," and Karadzic won't cooperate with him. In my previous columns, I explained how the Tribunal denied Karadzic the same pre-trial preparation time it afforded to several high... Nolan Chart / Balkan Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391483/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:03:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383391/posts When it announced that it was giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama last month, the Nobel Committee praised the president for his efforts on climate change. It also said in its citation that, with Mr. Obama now in office, a "multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position" and "dialogue and negotiations" are the preferred instruments for conflict resolution. This commendation raises concerns for many observers, including me, who believe in American exceptionalism, and who agree with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that we are the "indispensable nation." Preserving and defending our values at home and promoting them... The Wall Street Journal Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383391/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382069/posts Dear Mr. President, Major Malik Nadal Hasan falsely swore to uphold the United States Constitution when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. For this he should be court-martialed. He should also be stripped of his U.S. citizenship, as well as tried for hate crimes and murder. You swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, but violate this by permitting entry into the USA of persons sworn to overthrow our system of government. This includes all adherents of any faith or code that calls for the destruction of the United States Constitution, a goal that is repeatedly spelled out in the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382069/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379826/posts Three Bosnian Islamists were arrested in Sarajevo on Thursday on charges of terrorism and illegal weapons trafficking, prosecutors said. Rijad Rustempasic, Edis Velic and Abdulah Handzic were arrested on charges of terrorism, the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement. Rustempasic was also suspected of illegal weapons trafficking, the statement added. The arrest follows an intense investigation including interviews with “nearly 70 different witnesses and several suspects, and collected over 1000 pieces of evidence from here in Bosnia, as well as from Germany and Austria, and elsewhere," prosecutors said. All three suspects were previously detained by Bosnian... BalkanInsight.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379826/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379685/posts SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian police arrested on Wednesday a Muslim former deputy army commander suspected of killing more than 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war, the state prosecutor's office said. The State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested Nihad Bojadzic, 47, in central Sarajevo on orders of the state prosecutor, said Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "Bojadzic is suspected of committing crimes against civilians and prisoners of war while serving as deputy commander of the Bosnian Muslim-led army special platoon 'Zulfikar'", he said. The mass killing occurred on April 16, 1993, during... Reuters India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379685/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379637/posts Radovan Karadzic’s defence against 11 charges of genocide did not get off to the best possible start at the Hague last week. The chief prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia opened proceedings by releasing transcripts of tapped telephone conversations of the Bosnian Serb leader from 1991, which record Karadzic saying: “There are 20,000 armed Serbs around Sarajevo ... it will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die. They will disappear. That people will disappear from the face of the earth.” It’s true that these recordings do not mention Srebrenica, where 7,000 captured Bosnian Muslim... Times Online UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379637/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372439/posts The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic went ahead without him Tuesday, with prosecutors branding him "supreme commander" of an ethnic cleansing campaign in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. "This case is about that supreme commander, a man who harnessed the forces of nationalism, hatred and fear to implement his vision of an ethnically separated Bosnia: Radovan Karadzic," prosecutor Alan Tieger told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Mr. Karadzic, who faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, had "ethnically cleansed vast portions of Bosnia and Hercegovina" during the war that claimed some... AFP / National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372439/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372113/posts Wiretap evidence of Radovan Karadzic allegedly discussing the mass slaughter of 300,000 Muslims was unveiled today at the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader. "The time has come," Alan Tieger, the prosecutor, quoted Mr Karadzic as telling the Bosnian Serb Parliament, as he signed the order to recapture Zepa and Srebrenica, the United Nations safe haven where Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372113/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365385/posts Constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country's leaders have warned. The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer "sustainable". The growing ethnic divisions have raised fears of a return to the fighting which claimed the lives of up to 110,000 people between 1992 and 1995. Senior European and US officials have called an emergency meeting in Sarajevo on Tuesday to meet the country's leaders to find a solution. The crisis centres on attempts to overhaul the constitution... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365385/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360665/posts Living With Osama bin Laden: First Wife Tells of Husband's Bid To Train His Sons As Suicide Bombers Daily Mail Reporter 12th October 2009 Osama bin Laden was a tyrant who trained his own children to be suicide bombers and murdered their pets, his first wife has revealed. In a new book about her time living with bin Laden, Najwa Ghanem has told how she gave birth to 11 of his 14 children because bin Laden said that Islam needed many warriors. And millionaire bin Laden would not allow any modern appliances in his home, even refusing his son medicine... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360665/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:00:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339523/posts BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339523/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347230/posts Bosnian Muslim leader weapons smuggler Sep 23, 2009 The leader of the Bosnian Muslim extremist political party, the SDA, is also the main kernel in the Bosnian Muslim network of weapons smuggling says Bosnian Muslim expert on security and terrorism Dzevad Galijasevic. Bakir Izetbegovic, the leader of the SDA and a son of the late extremist Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, who invited al-Qaeda into Bosnia, is the main organizer in smuggling of illegal weapons into Bosnia says Galijasevic and notes that the former SDA leader Hasan Cengic, who is very close to the radicals in Iran, control the black market... Serbianna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347230/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:30:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344070/posts <p>For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian Serbs, who were supported by Serbian Serbs. This was merely the overture to something much more ambitious -- a grand concert of nation-building that began when the Dayton agreement reached in December of that year calmed the Balkan furies of revanchism and revenge, for a while.</p> Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344070/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344017/posts For 11 days in late August and early September 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian Serbs, who were supported by Serbian Serbs. This was merely the overture to something much more ambitious — a grand concert of nation-building that began when the Dayton agreement reached in December of that year calmed the Balkan furies of revanchism and revenge, for a while... Political scientists Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western note that Bosnia was “once the poster child for international reconstruction efforts” and was considered “proof that under the right conditions the... Grand Forks Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344017/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:33:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335487/posts Sick Heil!By BRIAN FLYNN Published: 08 Sep 2009 CROATIAN football chiefs are using a sick fascist hatemonger to whip up a vile racist frenzy among fans. A Sun investigation today reveals the Croatian FA is behind a cynical campaign encouraging thugs - who will be at Wembley for tomorrow's match against England - to worship the right-wing nut spreading hatred and Sieg Heil chants on the terraces. Shocking songs by fascist rocker Marko Perkovic that glorify genocide and Hitler's death camps are played at Croatia's home matches. And his sick slogans are chanted by thousands of fans. England striker Emile... The Sun, UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335487/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:09:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334875/posts It is so refreshing to see that our own government helped create an Islamic stronghold within the Balkan Peninsula. Serbia jails 4 Muslims for plotting terror attack Tue Sep 8, 2009 12:28 BELGRADE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A Serbian court on Tuesday sentenced four Muslims to prison terms ranging from four to eight years for plotting to attack a football stadium in a southern town of Novi Pazar, a spokeswoman said. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334875/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318491/posts Bosnia’s Muslim spiritual leader, Reiss-ul-Ulema Mustafa Ceric, has drawn strong criticism from moderate Muslims and from Bosnian Serbs, after he called for Islamic Sharia law to be incorporated into the Bosnian constitution. Ceric made the controversial suggestion when he conducted Bosnia's first Sharia mass wedding on Saturday in the central city of Zenica. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi reportedly paid for the weddings for the 20 couples and some 500 guests..... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318491/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:50:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316846/posts Pristina, the capital of an Anglo created Islamic Jihadist state, which of course it is never sold as, is a true show case for what any Christian nation has to face if and when its majority falls from power. This of course is nothing new for our ancient ancestors who witnessed this and knew why they fought against Islam. Unfortunately, the present day West, decadent in its form, ignorant in its self love, intellectually bankrupt and lazy, refuses to see the hell they have forced on Orthodox Christian victims and that they themselves soon face. In Pristina, the show case... Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316846/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:06:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316803/posts Sarajevo today, turning into a “European Tehran”According to Leo Pločkinić, President of the Mostar-based NGO Croatia Libertas, a growing number of Croat families are selling their property in the capital of the Croat-Muslim federation of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, and moving to East Sarajevo municipalities, in the Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS). Pločkinić cited the latest example of several Croat families who said they feared for their safety and moved from the Sarajevo settlement Stup to Lukavica in the Serbian part of country, in East Sarajevo. “A straw that broke the camelÂ’s back and destroyed the last traces of... de-construct.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316803/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:04:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2305357/posts Priest, investigated by Vatican, chose to leave order and priesthood By JOHN P. CONNOLLY, The Bulletin Monday, July 27, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI has defrocked a priest at the center of alleged apparitions at the Bosnian town of Medjugorje, according to a report by the Catholic News Agency. Fr. Tomislav Vladic reportedly decided to leave the priesthood and his religious order during an ongoing investigation of his role in the claims of apparitions, including an accusation of sexual misconduct for getting a nun pregnant. Fr. Vladic was at odds with the Vatican and the local bishop of Medjugorje when he... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2305357/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305335/posts Recently VP Joe Biden went over to Bosnia and told them to play nice, but apparently they do not care what he had to say. Balkans: Bosnia 'a haven for Islamist terrorists' Belgrade, 30 July (AKI) – Bosnia has become a haven for Islamic terrorists who feel protected by local authorities and are planning terrorist acts in various countries, experts on terrorism said on Thursday. Dzevad Galijasevic, a Bosnian expert on terrorism, told Tanjug news agency that there was a “developed network of support for Islamic terrorists” in Bosnia. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305335/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:14:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304825/posts Belgrade, 30 July (AKI) – Bosnia has become a haven for Islamic terrorists who feel protected by local authorities and are planning terrorist acts in various countries, experts on terrorism said on Thursday. Dzevad Galijasevic, a Bosnian expert on terrorism, told Tanjug news agency that there was a “developed network of support for Islamic terrorists” in Bosnia. “There are about 80 prominent names in the world of terrorism, protected by a new identity,” Galijasevic said. AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304825/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:29:22 GMT