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US moves to strip citizenship from war criminals [Bosnian Muslims: Rasena Handanovic, Edin Dzeko]
Associated Press ^ | Apr 4, 2018 6:36 PM EDT | Tom James

Posted on 04/04/2018 9:19:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Federal authorities on Wednesday began legal proceedings to strip U.S. citizenship from two Bosnians, including one living in Oregon, for war crimes including executing civilians during that country’s civil war in the 1990s.

The move by the U.S. Justice Department comes years after Rasema Handanovic and Edin Dzeko were extradited and later convicted by courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2011. After serving her sentence, Handanovic returned to Beaverton, Oregon, according to a statement from the Justice department, while Dzeko has not yet been released by Bosnian authorities.

The department filed denaturalization lawsuits against the pair in federal courts in Oregon and the District of Columbia Wednesday. It wasn’t immediately clear if Handanovic has an attorney in Oregon, and information about an attorney for Dzeko was not immediately available.

Members of the same military unit during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, the pair were convicted of executing civilians and unarmed soldiers during a massacre in the tiny mountain village of Trusina. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Russia; US: Oregon; US: Washington; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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1 posted on 04/04/2018 9:19:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

When will the Nazi collaborator George Soros be stripped?


2 posted on 04/04/2018 9:22:55 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Olog-hai

Why even allowed back?


3 posted on 04/04/2018 9:55:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: NTHockey

$$$


4 posted on 04/04/2018 9:55:23 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: NTHockey
Might not have enough time to strip his citizenship:


5 posted on 04/04/2018 10:30:26 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Olog-hai

More winning!


6 posted on 04/04/2018 11:43:14 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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>> Bosnia and Herzegovina

I have zero confidence the media portrayals of that war was remotely truthful.


7 posted on 04/05/2018 12:45:54 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

I believe you are correct. I go with Bismarck’s aphorism;”The entire Balkan’s are not worth the bones of one good Pomeranian grenadier.”


8 posted on 04/05/2018 2:23:49 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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