After a decade, all that's been gained has been one village filled with displaced Mujahadeen who are under close watch by our intel guys, and a couple Bosnian teens who've decided that martyrdom is the way to go.
This is just more Serb BS trying to retroactively justify their war by turning it from a war against the 'Turks' and 'Ustashe' (forget about the hundreds of Catholic churches dynamited by Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia) into a war against Al Qaeda - but nobody with half a clue is buying it.
Which is why our Balkan policy hasn't changed much through three successive Presidential administrations, Serbia is still on our sh*t list, and our Balkan threads remain such interesting places.
Still trying to blame all of the anti-Church actions of the collective Communists on the Serbs alone, eh Hoppy? No one buys that Bravo Sierra, not even Soros.
So can anyone guess what town has a sign on the road leading into its village which reads.
'Be afraid of Allah.'
Also how was it that Bin Laden was issued a Bosnia-Herzegovina passport in 1993? Or how a number of suspected terrorists traveling the globe utilizing legally issued Bosnia-Herzegovina documents? Or why Bin Laden’s name constantly crops up in regards to aid given to the Bosnian Muslims and Albanians in Kosovo, both financially (weapons procurement) and in training? Or why would the Bosnian Government let Mehrez Aodouni, another terrorist with close ties to Bin Laden, join the Bosnian Army which BTW helped him OPTAINE Bosnian citizenship and a passport.
And we CAN'T forget the premature detonation of an automobile bomb in Zenica that is widely speculated it was a "Thank You" gift from our friends the Muslims, oh wait I can't call them that now can I (sarcasm), the "Mujahadeen" to US NATO troops serving in Bosnia-Herzegovina as revenge for the life sentence given to Sheik Omah Abdel Rahman, the brain behind the World Trade Centre bombing in New York.
Oh yeah, and we CAN'T forget that little raid conducted by NATO forces on the training center of the Bosnian Muslim secret police (AID)...remember that little doozie? If memory serves me right there several arrests made of persons for preparing to conduct terrorist actions. Iranian instructors were teaching future terrorists from AID how to disguise bombs as children’s toys, dolls, and plastic ice cream cones.
Hey, how 'bout that terrorist who confessed to serving in Alija Izetbegovic’s Bosnian Muslim forces. You know the one who blew up the Al Khobar.
And lets not forget the assassination plot of Pope John Paul II which was going to be carried out in 1997 by a terrorist group which consisted of former mujahadeen from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Italian authorities discovered the assassination attempt in time and managed to arrest 14 members of the terrorist cell.
Sources - New York Times, Dani, Oslobodjenje.
"Last year, sources in Jordan say, the Mukhabarat, the intelligence service, alerted the C.I.A. to at least three plots by Bosnia-based Islamic terrorists to attack U.S. targets in Europe."
The NY Times/February 6, 2000
I forgot, who's side did the US take in the Balkan conflict again? How come we don't see any Serbs carrying terrorist attacks against us? Like THAT question needs to be answered. ;)