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St. Louis Dispatch Shills for Bosnia Muslim Myths, Ducks Gorin

I thought Atlas readers would be interested in this exchange between intrepid journalist Julia Gorin (the foremost investigative reporter on the Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo conflict) and the dhimmi St Louis Dispatch.
It is revealing in that it exposes the media mechanisms involved in swaying (tricking) the American people into engaging in a war, wrongly taking  up arms against Christians in support of Muslims (under President Clinton) in order to pave the way for an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

Appealing to Zombies: My Brief Odyssey with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On Oct. 17, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which boasts the largest concentration of Bosnian Muslims outside Bosnia, published one of its typical Bosniak-bruise-stroking pieces, this time in the Religion section by writer Tim Townsend. The particular event being reported on was a visit paid by Bosnia’s ubiquitous chief mufti Mustafa Ceric, doing one of his usual “interfaith” numbers. Here is an excerpt from the seemingly innocuous report from that evening:

Grand Mufti of Bosnia addresses St. Louis interfaith gathering

About 420 people of all religious stripes converged on the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Thursday night to share a meal and hear from the night’s keynote speaker, Mustafa Ceric, the grand mufti of Bosnia.

Imam Muhamed Hasic of the Islamic Community Center, a largely Bosnian mosque in St. Louis, said Ceric was “the highest authority for Bosnian Muslims. He’s like the pope for us.”

St. Louis is home to between 60,000 and 70,000 Bosnians, according to the International Institute, making it the largest Bosnian community outside Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many of them fled their country during the Yugoslav civil war of the early 1990s, an ethnic conflict that killed an estimated 100,000 people, including 8,000 Bosnian Muslims during the massacre [sic] in 1995 in Srebrenica.
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“It means so much to us,” said Hasic. “He’s the most respected person in Bosnia and in the diaspora.” […]

The item recalled the steady stream of Post-Dispatch pieces which dutifully reinforce the already cemented, exclusively Muslim version of the Bosnian war that we get as the official truth. The newspaper habitually lavishes more victimhood on the Muslims than they themselves ever imagined they could garner. I recalled the Post-Dispatch article titled “The Long Shadow of Bosnia’s Genocide” by a Patrick McCarthy, a victimhood-monger who’s apparently made a career of casting the Bosniaks as innocent victims of genocide. A no longer online-accessible excerpt of his Holocaust-language-laden op-ed from 2007 reads:

Thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Catholics had been herded into the Omarska mining complex outside the city of Prijedor where they were being subjected to unspeakable acts of barbarism and cruelty. Images broadcast around the globe of skeletal Omarska inmates echoed the Holocaust and awakened the realization that genocide had returned to Europe in our lifetime.
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After working hard to reestablish themselves in a new culture, Bosnians from Prijedor now are ready to tell their wartime stories. The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center will present an exhibit this fall called “Prijedor: Lives from the Bosnian Genocide” that will feature documentary artifacts, photographs and first-person accounts by Prijedor survivors in St. Louis.
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The Prijedor exhibit at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center offers us another opportunity to witness, listen and learn as we renew a tattered commitment to the pledge, “Never Again.”

Of course, we don’t need this hack to tell us what the Omarska camp was or wasn’t. But for good measure, a St. Louis Jewish publication helped shill for that “Holocaust” exhibit at the museum, which is a department of the Jewish Federation. Even more appalling, Bosnian Ambassador Bisera Turkovic — who issued passports to mujahedeen — inaugurated the exhibit.

Then the next nauseus Post-Dispatch account came to mind, concerning a “Memorial Quilt” that the Bosnians were sewing and hoping to place in the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Here was the dripping, dramatic opening to that one:

Tribute to massacre victims
By Michele Munz
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/09/2007

Senahid, 17, student.

Saban, 48, father of six children.

Nino, 20, a journalist.

These are just three of the 20 Bosnian genocide [sic] victims whose names were woven into a quilt unveiled Sunday in St. Louis….The memorial quilt was woven in Bosnia-Herzegovina to commemorate the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.
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“It is very comparable to the AIDS quilt in how it raised awareness,” said Nihad Sinanovic, who was 11 when he escaped from Srebrenica in 1993 [i.e. bussed out by the Bosnian-Serbs along with the rest of the women and children]. “It will bring a lot of attention to how 8,000 men and boys [of fighting age] were killed.”
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[Advocacy Project director Iain] Guest hung the quilt outside the Islamic Community Center in St. Louis, where a special religious commemoration ceremony was held Sunday. He snapped pictures while women in traditional head scarves laid roses underneath the quilt.
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“It’s a perfect idea,” said Rusmin Topalovic, vice president of the local group of Srebrenica survivors. “We are going to work as much as possible to get all the names on it.” He said he envisioned the quilt eventually resting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — “to stay there forever.”

 

The same summer, some St. Louis Jews helped Bosnian Muslims get a new mosque approved by the city: “Jews help Muslims fight county council,” July 16, 2007, by Tim Townsend:

When Rick Isserman found out last month that St. Louis County wouldn’t allow a group of Muslims to build a new mosque in south St. Louis County, the story sounded too familiar.

Forty-eight years earlier, Isserman’s grandfather, Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman, fought to move his congregation, Temple Israel, from the city to the county, where the Jewish population had been relocating for some years. The city of Creve Coeur cited zoning problems and tried to block the move, but the rabbi and his flock took the case to the Missouri Supreme Court and prevailed.
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In the spring, the St. Louis County Council refused the Islamic Community Center’s request to rezone a 4.7-acre parcel it bought a year before for $1.25 million. The Muslims — mostly Bosnian immigrants — planned to build a second mosque and community center in addition to the current mosque and center off South Kingshighway in St. Louis.

When Khalid Shah, a member of the mosque and a friend of Isserman’s, told him about the council’s decision, the 53-year-old Department of Agriculture employee began making the connection to his family’s legal legacy. “I’m fighting the same battle as my grandfather 50 years ago,” Isserman said. “It’s a different community and a different place, but it’s the same issue.”

A county attorney brushed off notions that the dispute is rooted in dramatic constitutional questions of religious freedom… “They didn’t think it was appropriate zoning,” [Robert Grant] said…[T]he charge of discrimination is contentious, even among Bosnians. “In my opinion this was not religious discrimination,” said Sukrija Dzidzovic, publisher and editor of Sabah, a Bosnian-American weekly newspaper based in St. Louis. “This was a mistake on Imam Hasic’s part. He should not have bought land that was zoned for commercial use, hoping that he could change the zoning.” […]

Finally, I remembered another Post-Dispatch piece from that year, titled “Local Bosnians condemn U.N. acquittal of Serbia in genocide,” (Feb. 27) which yet again presented the Muslim side with sympathetic indignation:

They saw their houses destroyed, family members killed and were forced to flee their homeland. On Monday, many Bosnians in St. Louis suffered what they called their latest indignity when the International Court of Justice cleared Serbia of direct intent to commit genocide although it says the country failed to prevent the 1995 massacre [sic] at Srebrenica.
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On Gravois Avenue near Bevo Mill, in the heart of the St. Louis Bosnian community, the court’s ruling was met with indignation and anger. “Obviously, I’m upset,” said Enes Bajric, as he sat in a booth at Cafe Milano, smoked and sipped strong coffee. Bajric, 24, came to St. Louis 10 years ago. He lost an uncle and two cousins in the war. “It can never be repaired, what’s been done to us,'’ he said. “They killed us.”
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“With this ruling, the world has confirmed that genocide and extermination of European Muslims was justified, and anyone who wants to continue and do it again will have support from Europe,” said [Amir] Hotich, a travel agency owner who also operates a Bosnian language newspaper.

SO GETTING TO THE POINT. By the time I read about the mufti’s recent visit, I’d already had enough. So I decided to politely reach out to one of the nobodies who runs that small pond press. The letters editor seemed like a logical choice to start with. And so I emailed letters editor Jamie Riley the following:

Dear Ms. Riley,

Is it too late to respond to a piece that ran on Oct. 17??

It’s actually a rather important letter, as it responds to the benevolent presentation of the Bosnian mufti to your readers. In fact, he speaks out of one side of his mouth when speaking to Westerners, and out of another when speaking in Bosnia or to Muslims in Europe. Criticized recently by the Bosnian-Muslim media (for glossing over a pedophilic imam’s crimes), he accused the Bosnians of Islamophobia. But that’s the least of the disturbing news about chief mufti Mustafa Ceric. He’s not the man that Tim Townsend is portraying to your readers.

Sorry for the yapping. Would just like to hear if it’s not too late to proceed with a letter about the grand mufti.
Best,
Julia Gorin
Las Vegas

I got an immediate, pleasant reply:

From: Jamie Riley [mailto:jamieriley@post-dispatch.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:20 PM
To: Julia Gorin
Subject: RE: quick question: is it too late…

It’s not too late.

I look forward to reading your letter.

Jamie

So I wrote the following letter and emailed it to Ms. Riley that night. Here is what it said:

Dear Jamie,
I spent the last three hours cutting this in half. I’m still over the proper word count, but I wanted to give you the option of determining what’s most interesting to keep in, and what can go. Thanks again, and I’ll stay tuned.
Yours,
Julia Gorin
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Dear Editor:

Your paper should be careful about inuring readers to the Bosnian mufti Mustafa Ceric as he does the interfaith tango on our shores. (“Grand Mufti of Bosnia addresses St. Louis interfaith gathering,” Oct. 17.) These one-way tolerance-building exercises have been a good cover for the mufti, who says one thing to Western audiences and another to European Muslims. They also help fair-minded Americans let their guards down. But Ceric’s background calls for our guards to be up.

Ceric twice this summer called for incorporating Sharia law into the Bosnian constitution — which also governs increasingly wary Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs. He recently conducted Bosnia’s first mass Sharia wedding, paid for by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Before that, Ceric suggested that all European Muslims should have a single political and religious leader, and last year he defended fundamentalists who beat up a TV crew reporting on a pedophilic imam. When criticized, Ceric called the Bosnian media Islamophobic.

Ceric regularly insists that no one in Bosnia is cooperating with al-Qaeda. In addition to the disrupted, Bosnia-hatched plot to assassinate world leaders at Pope John Paul’s funeral in 2005, the Washington Times in 2003 reported that Bosnia “now serves as a base for al Qaeda operatives.” A 2004 AFP dispatch read, “Osama bin Laden is actively directing terrorist cells in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia.” Further, Bosnia’s Zenica region provided the training ground for those who conducted a series of Baghdad suicide attacks in August 2003. And a 2005 raid on a Sarajevo apartment turned up suicide vests, exploding bullets, rifles and a machine gun, to be used on the British embassy. The International Herald Tribune recalled that “Bosnia gave passports to more than 800 former fighters and ‘aid workers’ from the Middle East.” These included 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, whom Bosnia had secretly granted citizenship to.

In 2007 Ceric attended a Mecca conference, hosted by the Saudi-funded Muslim World League, which has called Jews and Christians “apes” and “pigs” and beseeched the world’s Muslims to “put pressure” on Serbs and Jews. Ceric’s co-panelists included authors of textbooks denouncing Christians and the “wicked nation” of Jews as enemies of Muslims. The same year, Ceric dispatched imam Sulejman Bugari to tour North America. Bugari has told his Sarajevo flock, “With the Americans’ help, [Jews] have again outsmarted the entire world, especially the economy. We consume American-Jewish products every day…” At sermons he reminds worshippers that “jihad was necessary and will be necessary.”

Ceric was recently named by the Bosnian NGO ‘Croatia Libertas’ in charges it filed against Bosnian-Muslim political, military and religious leaders for war crimes committed at over 300 concentration camps set up for non-Muslims by the Bosnia-Herzegovina government in 1991-95. And yet St. Louis Bosnians refer to “the most respected” Ceric, “the highest authority for Bosnian Muslims,” as Tim Townsend reported.

Townsend’s article was just the paper’s latest in a continuous stream of dutiful affirmations of exclusively Muslim victimhood and Serbian villainy. This doesn’t do any favors for the wider readership, surrounded by the “largest Bosnian-Muslim community,” as the paper likes to boast. The longer we adhere to Bosnian war dogma, the harder it will be to stray from it later, as more light is shed on that era. The Post-Dispatch must start giving St. Louis a more realistic and balanced assessment of the war, and thereby of the community in its midst. Salt Lake City got that assessment the hard way, via the 2007 Trolley Square massacre. The Bosnian shooter’s father lied about his military record on his refugee application. He wasn’t the only one.

The following day passed without a peep from the initially responsive Ms. Riley. And so did the next day. Not even a rejection, nor a response to my one-sentence follow-up asking if I should shorten the letter further, nor to my note below:

From: Julia Gorin
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:58 PM
To: ‘jriley@post-dispatch.com’; ‘jamieriley@post-dispatch.com’
Subject: so am i still staying tuned?

Dear Jamie,
Just checking in — since October is almost over and Oct. 17th is seeming more distant. You said you were looking forward to getting the letter that I therefore proceeded to work on. I submitted it yesterday morning. Just hoping to get a status report. Thanks much.
Julia

So it was pretty obvious that my usual experience with mainstream editors and their great wall of silence concerning the Balkans was replaying itself at yet another clone paper. But in the event that Ms. Riley had taken a sudden vacation or died, I decided on Friday morning to just make sure my letter would be considered, and therefore emailed the next nobody — the paper’s editorial page editor, Gilbert Bailon. Here is what I sent him:

From: Julia Gorin
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 4:58 AM
To: ‘gbailon@post-dispatch.com’
Subject: The Post Dispatch’s Bosnian-Muslim coverage

Dear Mr. Bailon,
On Tuesday Oct. 27 I emailed Jamie Riley asking if it was too late to respond to a piece that ran on Oct. 17. I explained why the Bosnian chief mufti whose visit Tim Townsend covered was not someone that St. Louis readers should be inured to…Jamie emailed back almost immediately saying that it wasn’t too late, and that she was looking forward to my letter.

After crafting it for several hours, then spending as many hours cutting it in half, I sent it to her Tuesday night, so that she would have gotten it Wednesday morning. But in contrast to her initial responsiveness, the entire rest of the day — and then all of Thursday — I got only stone silence…

I fear that, unless she coincidentally took a vacation these past two days, the letter may have scared her off. (I include it for you below.) This is actually a frequent phenomenon when editors are faced with the unthinkable: a dissenting voice on the official narrative of the Bosnian war…

In addition to illuminating mufti Ceric’s background, my letter made a wider point, and perhaps that’s what scared off Ms. Riley. It was asking for a more realistic, balanced, and accurate approach to Bosnia-related coverage than your paper habitually gives…I’m not going to use the hostile word “pander” when I say that I understand your paper’s need to serve your 60-70,000-strong Bosnian-Muslim community. But sometimes a readership is better served when it is challenged, and not always nodded to. The readership should be challenged to recall what many Muslims of the armed Srebrenica “safe haven” did to neighboring Serb villages — for years before they finally met with a response.

I’ll understand if you simply delete this email. Not to sound too dramatic, but I speak from my own experience and that of others when I say that casting a critical eye on the Balkan wars is the hardest thing a journalist can do — and so most don’t. Certainly if you endeavor to present readers with a more realistic and accurate picture of the war and therefore some of those 60-70,000 in your midst, the paper will not have the peace it currently enjoys with the news and opinion as it is. After all, Serbian-Americans are used to the one-sidedness, the demonization and the futility of asking for balance, and therefore do not call, fax or email by the thousands with angry reactions or threats every time a paper publishes another fictitious claim about the 1990s. But if your coverage ever did do what journalists used to do — create controversy by presenting uncomfortable truths — you’d see a clear change in reaction.

If you’ve gotten this far, I thank you. The reason I wrote to you specifically is that I don’t know what forum in your paper I could make this point in other than the opinion section (there is no ombudsman section for longer letter-publishing). In the unlikely event that you would be willing to publish my nearly commentary-length letter below as an op-ed (it’s 500-some words), I’d be willing. Or I could compose an altogether new piece if you indicate what you feel are the most compelling points between what I’ve written above and the letter below. Thanks very much.
Yours,
Julia Gorin

True to clone form, Bailon didn’t write anything back either. And so the complacent Post-Dispatch continues to enjoy the temporary peace it gets from coddling its Muslim readership. Such that when the St. Louis version of the Salt Lake City shooter Sulejman Talovic finally introduces himself to Post-Dispatch readers, it will take them completely by surprise.

No sooner did I call this small pond press’s attention to the real Mustafa Ceric than there was an update on the good mufti, who has it in for the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, Raffi Gregorian, whom he accuses of being behind a recently published report and criminal-network diagram “that featured a number of top Bosnian Muslim political, religious and business leaders. Ceric and Fahrudin Radoncic, the owner of the country’s largest newspaper publisher Avaz, were shown at the centre of the criminal network, which also included the Muslim member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency Haris Silajdzic and the leader of the Muslim main Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Sulejman Tihic. …Ceric said the published documents resembled the “(Nazi Germany’s) final solution for Jews in Europe.”

The episode echoes Ceric’s comments from the summer of 2007, when Gregorian finally first admitted that many of the still un-deported mujahedeen in Bosnia have al Qaeda links and that there are Bosnian officials who help al Qaeda by “hiding agents [and/or] giving financial assistance or false documents.”

In response, Ceric “accused Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian of spreading Islamophobia with his claims that some persons of Afro-Asian origin who were granted Bosnian citizenship are probably linked with this terrorist group… ‘It is a sin and immoral to link Bosnian Muslims with terrorist organizations,’ Ceric said. ‘Such statements give us grounds to fear that this is an introduction for the next act of genocide against our people,’ Ceric told believers who gathered in the south-eastern town of Nevesinje for the ceremony of opening a reconstructed mosque. In his strong-worded address, Ceric said that the same language had been used about Jews before the Holocaust was committed.”

So that’s our Bosnian mufti. An excellent summary of this “pope” to St. Louis Bosniaks follows, from blogger Colin Meade in 2006:

[Ceric] demanded the introduction of religious education in schools, and said that Muslims had to reject “European trash” — alcohol, drugs and prostitution. He launched a campaign against ethnically mixed marriages. He prohibited the sale of pork in Sarajevo — an order taken by the Western media as proof that Islamic fundamentalism was penetrating the heart of Europe…He has suggested that Bosnian Muslims should follow the example of the world’s 1 billion Muslims and reject western secular society.

According to Ceric himself, Bosnia today is a halfway house between the House of Islam (Dar al-Islam) and the House of War (Dar al-Harb). In this halfway house, known as the Dar al-Sulh (House of the Truce), “Islam or the shariah cannot be implemented fully, but the government should endeavour to put it into practice as much as possible”. [So in Bosnia] “it is unrealistic to expect us to implement shariah completely. That’s what I want, of course, but it will not happen just like that.”

On interfaith dialogue, Ceric has this to say: “Muslims who want to meet people of other faiths have every right to do so but it is wrong to accept much from such forums (…) Islam is the religion of God and it is the best way forward known to man. In it lies the salvation of humanity, dignity and all that is required for a creature to be classified as a human”. [incidentally does the last bit mean that non-Muslims are non-human creatures?]

In Europe, as Ceric explained to the BBC’s Dominic Casciani in February 2005, “governments must essentially buy the trust of Muslims by institutionalizing their faith — giving it state sponsorship through schools, official bodies and so on…” He also calls for the establishment of a unified European representative Muslim agency at European level. Thus, according to Ceric, the way for Europeans to integrate Muslims is to allow — or even force them — to live under an Iranian-style system governed by authoritative figures such as himself in the very heart of Europe.

In interviews with Western journalists, Ceric gives replies of the utmost obscurity, hoping that our fervent desire that there should be no “Muslim threat” will lead us to hear what we wish to hear.

But the Mufti dissembles. “At a dinner to honour the [British] foreign guests who attended Mustafa Ceric’s installation as Ra’is al-Ulama”, writes a British Muslim who was there, “Dr Ceric…spoke brilliantly, totally at ease, free of the constraints that the presence of non-Muslims had imposed elsewhere.”

In closing, I’ll just note that my odyssey with the Post-Dispatch was actually my second attempt to get a letter into its pages. I’d sent the first one to the previous letters editor, a Maureen Tomczak, in response to the 2007 Put-Our-Quilt-in-the-Holocaust-Museum article, and it too was summarily ignored:

Dear Maureen,
This is the letter I had in mind. Just a warning: it’s not pretty, it’s not politically correct, and it will be a bitter pill for many to swallow…

“Tribute to Massacre Victims” (July 9) quoted Srebrenica survivor group spokesman Rusmin Topalovic as saying that he envisions the memorial quilt eventually resting at the US Holocaust Museum. If the museum does agree to hang the quilt, it should do so after it hangs up photographs of the Bosnian Muslims who fought alongside the Nazis during WWII as part of the Waffen SS Handzar and SS Kama divisions. These, too, are an important part of Holocaust history. As is the Jerusalem Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, who created these units of Bosniaks with the intention of clearing Europe, and then Palestine, of the Jews — killing thousands of Serbs, Roma (gypsies) and Jews along the way.

Next to the quilt and these companion exhibits, the museum should display a photo of the late fundamentalist Muslim president of Bosnia, Alija Izetbegovic, who remains a hero to Bosnian Muslims everywhere for starting Bosnia’s war of independence from multi-ethnic Yugoslavia — and who in his youth was a recruiter for the Waffen SS. This would be the same Alija Izetbegovic who resurrected the Handzar Division in 1991 and unleashed them upon Serbian and Croatian civilians.

[In 1991, six months before the civil war started], the cover article of a glossy Bosnian-Muslim youth magazine named “VOX” was titled “The Handzar Division is Ready…The Fourth Reich is Coming; Welcome,” and showed a drawing of a Muslim in a Nazi SS uniform and a fez, with his boot on the blood-dripping, severed head of the Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (pictured next to three other severed Serbian heads). This Sarajevo-based magazine should be included in the exhibit as well, along with photos of the mutilated, decapitated and burned bodies of 3,262 Serbs killed by Srebrenica Muslims who were launching attacks from that designated “safe haven.”

With the full exhibit thus in place, Bosniaks might better understand how it came to be that between 3,000 and 7,000 of their males of fighting age were put into their graves after they refused to surrender their position at Srebrenica and later fled with their guns blazing. Further, with the above-suggested reminder of the contributions by their parents, grandparents and revered leaders to the Holocaust, Bosniaks might also understand why their quilt should be rejected by a Holocaust museum, though it probably won’t be.

As a post-script I’ll add that, in the midst of my back-and-forth with the Post-Dispatch, the next clone paper committed more of the same. This time it was Connecticut’s Hartford Courant, publishing a Bosnian Muslim with his usual lamentations about Western indifference to the self-imposed Bosnian-Muslim suffering. So again, I set pen to paper and promptly heard nothing back:

Dear Editor:

It couldn’t escape my notice that every relative Mr. Duric mentions as killed in the Bosnian war ( “I Dream, but I’m Still in Bosnia,” Nov. 1) was a male of fighting age. He might notice that he, a seven-year-old, was left alive in the Serb-run concentration camp that the West gives Bosnian Muslims free reign to compare to WWII concentration camps — where upon arrival Jewish children were sent to the gas chamber and babies had their skulls smashed into walls. The same happened to Serbian children in Croatia’s never-mentioned WWII concentration complex Jasenovac, where Bosnian Muslims guarded the grounds and helped round up Serbs, Jews, gypsies and anti-Fascists. So naturally, when Croatia and Bosnia illegally seceded and usurped the internationally recognized borders of UN member Yugoslavia, the regions of Serbs they took with them weren’t prepared to live under the knife of the Croatians who had killed their families, nor under the Islamic state that was the ambition of our pal, the fundamentalist Bosnian wartime president Alija Izetbegovic.

Mr. Duric wants readers to think that in the 90s only Muslims were placed into concentration camps; pay no attention to the charges filed by the NGO “Croatia Libertas” against Bosnian political, military and religious leaders for war crimes committed at 331 concentration camps set up for non-Muslims by the Bosnian government. Indeed, as Mr. Duric describes the feeling of seeing the man who killed his father — perhaps in combat, but the writer won’t tell us — walking freely, he doesn’t seem to have any qualms about the free-walking Naser Oric, commander of the Srebrenica Muslims who slaughtered whole villages of Serbs nearby. Nor is the writer disturbed by any number of other Bosnian-Muslim commanders and soldiers who were either acquitted or had their sentences reduced or overturned after the Hague — almost 10 years into the Tribunal’s mandate — finally started prosecuting more than just Serbian war criminals.

Amid the phantasmagoria of exclusive and pure Bosnian victimhood, there isn’t an iota of print space devoted to even one non-Muslim victim of a war that the Muslim side forced — and then ensured when Izetbegovic removed his signature from the 1992 Lisbon Agreement. There are more documented cases of Serbian women raped by Croatians (800) than the long-debunked figure that Mr. Duric recycles of “50,000” Muslims raped by Serbs. (See Peter Brock’s 2006 book “Media Cleansing.”) Mr. Duric’s statistical handiwork reappears with the “200,000” Bosnian war dead that he attributes “to some sources.” Mr. Duric is cleverly referring readers to pre-2005 sources, since the figure has been reduced to a confirmed 93,000 on all sides, expected to go up to 100,000, according to Sarajevo’s Investigation and Documentation Center, as first reported by Reuters in 2004.

Mr. Duric continues to berate the West for not doing enough and reproaches the UN weapons embargo — an embargo which we went around illegally in order to help the Muslim side, which was also receiving help from Croatia, Iran, and thousands of mujahedeen. Why was the West supposed to do even more than we did on behalf of the bellicose party? Neither our one-sided help nor the one-sided history we’ve been writing on their behalf is enough for Bosnian Muslims. But having thus reinforced their sense of grievance, in response we get Bosnian Muslim Sulejman Talovic shooting nine Americans in the 2007 Salt Lake City massacre (killing five); a Bosnian conspirator named Anes Subasic in the North Carolina-based plot that was disrupted over the summer; a Bosnian nexus for the plan targeting world leaders at the pope’s funeral in 2005; and a Bosnian soldier’s bomb instructions found by our troops when they invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001. To name just a few.

I am not going to call Mr. Duric a liar, because when a person has suffered greatly, as Mr. Duric clearly has, it’s natural to engage in self-deception about the big picture in whose crossfire he was caught — as were so many Serbs and Croats who suffered at the hands of Bosnian Muslims and their chainsawing mujahedeen accomplices. But it doesn’t mean the rest of us also have to keep lying to ourselves about that war and continue swallowing the cartoonish and exclusively Muslim version of it.

The Balkans Piece Pajamas Media wouldn't run: America’s Tangled Kosovo Web

What follows is a Balkans piece that Julia Gorin penned for Pajamas Media that was scheduled to run tomorrow but was ..... killed. What is up with PJM anyway? What are they? What is their mission? All that  money and resources for what? Another timid, left leaning website. Yawn.... pity, because there are a number of good people over there who have sold out to the almighty dollar.

Here Gorin reacts to the PJM cancellation:

From: xxxxxxpajamasmedia.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:00 PM
To: Julia Gorin
Subject: RE: so I'm still staying tuned....

Hello,

Piece is scheduled to run tomorrow.

Kindest Regards,
xxxxxxxx

FOLLOWED BY:

Hello,

A couple editors more aware of the topic than myself have looked at the piece today, and don't think it is right for us. I apologize for the long wait and the previous acceptance, but it looks like we are going to pass.

Kindest Regards,

xxxxxxx
PJM xxxxx

And  so Julia wrote him back:

Yeah, that's the usual pattern when it comes to the Balkans. I get an email from an editor accepting a solidly researched piece, then I know to scroll down a few more emails to find the one where someone has talked him or her out of it.

And so the truth of Kosovo (like that of Bosnia and Croatia) stays unexposed, and our bureaucrats continue operating in the shadows. It's something they've come to rely on in the region, knowing the public has no clue that we work with "allies" there who not only double-deal with Islamists, but keep us "on course" through the threat of violence. It's the blackmail of America that no one knows about (aside from the internationals working there). And so our position has come to mirror the Albanian one. Meanwhile, the American flag waves in Kosovo. It's a very twisted situation. As for the bigger journalists who could expose it, they've got Pulitzers to protect, won based on the official fabrications--and so the narrative must remain as is.

Sorry if I sound a bit dramatic (and cryptic); it's actually an understated tone against the backdrop of what America has gotten herself into there. Sadly, it's a situation that was originally all driven by a handful of Clinton holdovers, but is now official U.S. policy--irrespective of presidential administration.

Just so you know: When you encounter people who are, as you say, "more aware of the topic" than you, that generally means they've been more thoroughly propagandized. This is usually--but not always--why they're resistant to such a piece. I get this every week, from every publication (except American Legion Magazine and WorldNetDaily), regardless of an editor's political leanings.

 I hope I haven't alienated you. Am just exhausted by painful predictability and by the futility of trying to sound the warning bell.

Best,
Julia

All I can say is thank G-d for Julia Gorin. She is relentless in the pursuit of the truth in the Balkans. And shame on Pajamas; they will continue in their pursuit of the irrelevant to which they have rendered themselves.

America’s Tangled Kosovo Web by Julia Gorin

Re-reading a 2007 Der Spiegel article recently, I came across some information about the brother of indicted war criminal and U.S. buddy Ramush Haradinaj. Daut Haradinaj was speaking at an event honoring a dead Albanian poet-nationalist after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter.

According to the article, many saw his appearance at the ceremony “as a sign of his willingness to fill the breach if his brother Ramush is sentenced at his upcoming trial in The Hague.”

As we know, some heavy U.S. and UN pressure (and evidence-tampering) later — and a few dead witnesses later — Ramush Haradinaj was acquitted because of “insufficient evidence.”

Haradinaj picked up his political career where he left off, with the blessing of the U.S. and UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo), and so Daut didn’t need to step in, but at least we know our pal Ramush has an equally competent and murderous brother who would have been encouraged to pursue politics had things turned out differently. Indeed, according to the article, the Haradinaj clan has more than just two such winners:

According to the indictment, Ramush Haradinaj, a.k.a. “Smajl”, was accused of 37 counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, kidnapping and torture, during the Kosovo war in 1998.

The indictment also stated that his brothers, Daut, Frasher and Shkelzen, were among the members of the “criminal organization” headed by Haradinaj, and that the family home in Glodjane was periodically used as a command center to plan and commit the crimes. Thirty-two corpses of Serbs, gypsies and Albanians, some severely mutilated, were found near the farm. So far Haradinaj has denied all accusations.

Sören Jessen-Petersen, the former UN administrator, long viewed the presumed war criminal as a “close partner and friend” who “sacrificed and contributed so much to a better future for Kosovo.”

By 2005, that Haradinaj homestead lined with mutilated bodies served as “a banquet hall where [high-ranking UN and NATO representatives] could meet with Haradinaj to discuss bringing peace to the region.”

I’ll get back to Daut Haradinaj in a moment, but just to complete the picture about this great friend of the U.S., Ramush Haradinaj:

A report by the UN police force in Kosovo has linked Haradinaj to the cocaine trade. And according to a 2005 analysis by Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Haradinaj and his associates play a key role in “a broad spectrum of criminal, political and military activities that significantly affect the security situation throughout Kosovo. The group, which counts about 100 members, is involved in drug and weapons smuggling, as well as illegal trading in dutiable items.”

If the BND analysis is correct, Haradinaj has apparently made himself a major player in one of Kosovo’s key industries. According to experts, the €700 million budget of this province, 90 percent of which is populated by ethnic Albanians, pales in comparison to the revenues earned in the drug trade in Kosovo.

As if this weren’t messy enough as regards Ramush, who is welcomed to our shores by our leaders with open arms, let’s go back to that ceremony at which Daut spoke:

When the event ends [Daut] Haradinaj jumps into a waiting car in front of the center and is taken to a secret restaurant. At the restaurant, Besiana-F, he meets Ali Ahmeti, the leader of the 2001 Albanian uprising in Macedonia. Ahmeti and his equally famous uncle, Fazli Veliu — both of whom are on a US terrorism watch list and have been banned from entering the United States since May 2003 — have crossed the border into Kosovo to join in the day’s celebration. [There is no longer any effective border between Kosovo and Macedonia.]

Upon leaving the restaurant Ahmeti and Haradinaj embrace briefly. Then they climb into SUVs with darkened windows.

So what we have is our good friends the Haradinaj Family naturally being in close ties with folks who are on our terrorism watch list. While Ahmeti and Veliu aren’t doing anything in Macedonia that the Haradinaj clan didn’t do in Kosovo — indeed, Ahmeti is the leader of a governing political party in Macedonia — the former two randomly ended up as “terrorists” just as Haradinaj randomly ended up as a “peace partner.”

The difference between them? Once the Albanians expanded their war into Macedonia, we figured out what their game was, and while the Albanians knew that Kosovo was just one leg of the war for Greater Albania, we had only signed on for Kosovo. Realizing our mistake but unable to undo it, we’ve been keeping up the charade and continuing to term the Kosovo-Albanian terrorists our “allies,” while trying to figure out how to discourage their allies in Macedonia.

Over time, we’ve been given a better “understanding” of our agenda in the region, and therefore eventually started facilitating Albanian terror in Macedonia. After all, if we want to keep the Haradinajs as “friends” in Kosovo, eventually we’re going to have to make friends with their friends in Macedonia. Otherwise, try navigating around this one: “Throughout the fighting,” Chris Deliso writes in his book The Coming Balkan Caliphate, “jihadis were also penetrating Macedonia from the other, western front in Tetovo and reportedly had connections with Kosovo Albanian officials such as Daut Haradinaj, chief of general staff of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)…according to other Macedonian military sources.”

Turns out, our pal Ramush’s own brother is on our blacklist as well. He reportedly met in August 2001 — just two months after we rescued 400 Albanian terrorists from Macedonian security forces — with Ayman al-Zawahiri’s brother Muhammad. According to the Serbian daily Blic, a “number of intelligence services know about this. There is proof that Daut Haradinaj took part in the clashes with Macedonian security services, because of which he was put on the U.S. terrorist blacklist and thrown out of the Kosovo Protection Corps.”

This reminds us that Albanians walk their own tightrope, in their equally contradictory dealings with us. They are constantly torn between — and always playing — their two key allies, which are each other’s mortal enemies: Washington/London/Brussels vs. the Saudis and bin Laden himself (who helped train and arm the KLA while we did the same).

How to serve and shower love on both, without offending the other? That is the Albanian dilemma.

Of course, even if the Albanians paraded their al-Qaeda connections, would anyone in the mainstream establishment — the same one that repeated their lies and came up with their own to justify the “liberation” and “independence” — actually call them on it? Somehow I doubt it.

To further illustrate the randomness of which Albanians we term “allies” and which ones “terrorists,” let’s take the last name Thaci. If it’s Thaci of Kosovo, it gets a warm welcome in the U.S., since it’s probably our friend, “prime minister” Hashim Thaci. However, if it’s Thaci from Macedonia, it’s probably Mendux (or Menduh) Thaci, the leader of the main opposition Albanian party but for some reason on the U.S. blacklist.

It's riveting. Read the whole thing here.

2007 UTAH MALL SHOOTING: BOSNIAN MUSLIM MURDERER WAS JIHADI

Julia Gorin digs through the FBI report on the Salt Lake City Valentine's day massacre of 2007. Here is previous extensive coverage of the jihad in Salt Lake here. One detail it mentions, which we didn’t hear about before, is that Talovic was wearing a miniature Koran necklace while he shot the people at the mall. This is new information, which we’re finding out only because someone made a Freedom of Information Act request.

Why the FBI and the corrupt media insists on keeping the motive of these massacres a secret is a matter for a different post.

Here's an excerpt from Gorin's must read post:

“Inconclusive” Final FBI Report on Trolley Square Shooter is Conclusive: Jihad by Julia Gorin

What may be the final follow-up to the Valentine’s week massacre of 2007 got local coverage only — in the Salt Lake Tribune and by Salt Lake City radio station KSL. But at least a couple of the findings in this recently released FBI report on the incident go unmentioned by either news organization. Here are the significant findings in the report about Bosnian-Muslim murderer Sulejman Talovic, who killed five Americans and wounded four:

1) Talovic was described as a religious Muslim, attending mosque on Fridays and praying outside of mosque as well.

2) He wore a necklace with a miniature Koran at the time of the shooting.

3) His body was prepped at a mosque before being sent to Bosnia.

4) He told his “girlfriend” the night before that “tomorrow will be the happiest day of my life…” (a likely reference to martyrdom).

5) He held prejudicial beliefs against Serbs, homosexuals, and blacks.

6) Police were called to his school in 2004 after Talovic was caught looking at guns on the internet and making the statement that his “grandfather was in the jihad.”

That last one indicates that Bosnians secretly know they were engaged in a jihad even as they claim victimhood.

In this redacted FBI form, meanwhile, a co-worker said that Talovic would sometimes do Nazi salutes.

But for some reason, the emphasis in this Salt Lake Tribune article is not on the fact that Talovic had a history with Islam, hatred and violence (all mutually-fueling factors), but on the fact that he had a history with the mall as a hangout:

FBI found Talovic had a history with Trolley Square (May 16)

When 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic walked into Trolley Square and opened fire on shoppers, he was returning to a childhood hangout, according to newly-released FBI documents.

Talovic and his family used to live one block from the mall, and one person told agents Talovic played there with his sisters as a child.
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But in 745 pages of reports, the FBI did not conclude why Talovic committed the Feb. 12, 2007, shooting or uncover any evidence of a wider plot behind them…

And of course, if there is no wider plot, then let’s block out the possibility of Sudden Jihad Syndrome as well.

…The FBI wrote that Talovic in 2001 or 2002 “made a statement that he was going to shoot white people, like Serbs.” The nine people Talovic shot at Trolley Square were white.

“…white people, like Serbs.” That would be a reference to us, Folks. How many times do I have to say it? In the Balkans, Serbs were target practice for Muslims — like Jews are in the Middle East. Practice for the rest of us. And so we helped the Muslims take aim.

…One of the people later told the FBI Talovic said he liked white supremacist music.

“I don’t like black people,” Talovic reportedly said. “That’s why I was in the KKK.”

Another witness said he once saw a wound on Talovic’s arm and asked about it.

“Talovic said he had previously gotten a swastika tattoo and had then removed it himself, by cutting it off,” according to notes of the witness interview. Talovic said “he did not know what the swastika meant and stood for when he had gotten the tattoo.” Talovic’s family told agents he did not have a tattoo.
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One person…told the FBI Talovic said he hated “faggots” and was smoking opium and crystal meth.
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Talovic wore a necklace containing a miniature Quran during the attacks, documents say, and FBI agents asked many people about Talovic’s Islamic faith. Family told agents Talovic once attended a mosque for prayers every Friday but stopped when he left school and began working. Co-workers did not observe Talovic praying during the day. The FBI found no evidence his religion was a factor.

Stacy Hanson, a Talovic victim who is confined to a wheelchair as a result, in an interview Friday said… “It doesn’t change anything, but it’s nice to know something about this guy because our lives have been changed — every single one of us.”

UPDATE: Speaking of which: “The Green Corridor in the Balkans”, which is part of the book “Kosovo: The Score 1999-2009”. Grab it - it’s an excellent analysis of the folly of U.S. policy in the Balkans.

Serbia: The Hoax Goes On

It is a pity that in Obama's endless global partying and surrender tour - that in all his groveling to America's enemies he couldn't find one word for the persecuted Christians in Serbia. But Obama only apologizes for the good that we do, my bad.

Julia Gorin has a searing, meticulously researched essay here exposing the hoax and how Americans were duped into paving the way for an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

The Hoax That Continues a War Julia Gorin

We are still in the midst of the 10-year anniversary of our NATO attack on Serbia on behalf of bin Laden-trained/financed KLA terrorists, to help steal Serbian land because Albanians reached a majority in part of that country. The 1999 bombing lasted from March 24 to June 10, a symbolic and historic day for Albanian supremacism.

If Americans deign to recall, the “trigger” event that was used to touch off the NATO assault (which was already being planned for a year at that point), was something called “the Racak Massacre.” Following is my account — written for a compilation of essays titled “Kosovo: The Score” — of the American-staged atrocity that led the free world to join the jihad:

On January 15th, the tenth anniversary of “the Racak massacre” — disproved as such even in mainstream media such as the Toronto Sun — Kosovo “prime minister” Hashim Thaci and “president” Fatmir Sejdiu awarded the “Gold Medal of Humanity” to William Walker, head of the Kosovo Verifying Mission that ensured a NATO intervention on behalf of Walker’s KLA friends and masters in 1999. (The ceremony, “dedicated to the martyrs of the Racak massacre,” was reported by the KosovaLive news agency: “Kosovo leaders vow at Racak massacre memorial never to forget Serbian crimes.”) There couldn’t have been a better comedy roast for the year 2009, the tenth anniversary of NATO’s war against Yugoslavia — launched by a staged atrocity in the town of Racak.

This comes nine years after Thaci himself admitted the Racak ploy the very year following its success. Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie, former UN Protection Force commander in Bosnia, cited the admission in an April 2008 statement to the Lord Byron Foundation:

The current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was the leader of the KLA. He has admitted that the KLA orchestrated the infamous Racak “massacre” dressing their KLA dead in civilian clothes, machine gunning them and dumping them in a ditch and claiming it was a Serbian slaughter of civilians. NATO bought into the ruse and on its 50th birthday looking for a role in the post cold war world the alliance became the KLA’s air force and bombed a sovereign nation from the safety of 10,000 ft.

… More recently, a biography came out last October about the Finnish forensic dentist Helena Ranta, revealing that her report on the massacre was coerced…

Indeed, at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, Professor Slavisa Dobricanin — former director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Pristina, who was in charge of the forensics team that autopsied the Racak bodies — revealed that the British general in charge of planning the verification mission, John Drewienkiewicz, threatened “to ship Judge Marinkovic off to The Hague if she tried to conduct an onsite investigation in Racak,” trial observer Andy Wilcoxson reported on April 13, 2005, adding:

It is worth noting that William Walker, the head of the OSCE-KVM, was given access to the village by the KLA while forensic investigators were kept out. Walker, instead of taking steps to secure the alleged crime scene, brought journalists to that gully and let them trample all over the place. One of the journalists was Franz Josef Hutsch, a German newspaper reporter.

According Mr. Hutsch, who testified at the trial on October 12, 2004, Walker just stood there while journalists moved the bodies around to take their pictures. He said that the bodies “were put upright, for example, at the edge of the slope so that they would have a bit of shade so that the excessive head wounds wouldn’t be seen in a photo to be published. And they were taken from their original positions.”

…Five days before beginning airstrikes, Bill Clinton thundered, “We should remember what happened in Racak…innocent men, women and children were taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt and sprayed with gunfire.” The London Times, Peter Worthington wrote in his Toronto Sun article, was even more imaginative, printing “that victims had their eyes gouged out, heads smashed in, faces blown away at close range, all ‘farmers, workers, villagers, aged 12-74, men, women, children.’”

The New York Times, meanwhile, reports the website Srpska Mreza — which had been following the Kosovo war propaganda — caught something interesting:

On Friday, the day before American ambassador William Walker sensationally “discovered” the so-called massacre in the village of Racak in Kosmet, State Secretary Madeleine Albright held a meeting behind closed doors in Washington, at which she revealed to a few members of the team close to her that the agreement on normalization of relations in Kosmet was due to fall apart at any moment, The New York Times wrote on January 19.

The New York paper cites the statement of an anonymous official in the American administration who pointed out that Albright, obviously, had reliable information regarding events in Racak and practically announced them.

[The] text in The New York Times clearly shows that Washington knew in advance of the whole scenario….

As soon as Walker delivered his lines, Albright picked up her cue, calling Racak “the ‘galvanizing incident’ that meant peace talks at Rambouillet were pointless, ‘humanitarian bombing’ the only recourse,” wrote Worthington, whose article was titled “The Hoax that Started a War.”

Shedding light on what led up to the Racak hoax is Balkans analyst and writer Nebojsa Malic, who recalled that then U.S. Special representative Ambassador Richard Holbrooke had Milosevic sign an agreement in October, 1998 to withdraw Yugoslav army and police from Kosovo, in exchange for not getting bombed:

The KLA were not a party to the agreement and had no obligations under it. (Maybe Slobo, ever the sap, thought there was an implied obligation to restrain our clients. Fat chance!) The KLA responded to the withdrawal of the Yugoslav forces with an offensive that seized control of about half of Kosovo, forcing tens of thousands of Serbs to flee. Eventually, around December, Milosevic decided he had to send forces back in. The US responded with the usual threats and heavy breathing that he was going to be held accountable. Not sure when, but the OSCE observer mission with the orange vehicles was sent in to monitor Yugoslav behavior (not KLA behavior, of course) and watch out for any atrocities. (Wink wink, nudge nudge, let’s have a trigger.) Racak duly occurred.

Indeed, between October 13, 1998 and January 14, 1999, continued the above-mentioned Srpska Mreza report from 1999:

Albanian separatists carried out a total of 599 terrorist attacks and provocations, of which 186 were against civilians, while 413 were against members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic of Serbia. In these attacks, a total of 53 persons were killed (37 civilians and 16 policemen) and 36 persons suffered serious bodily injury (13 civilians and 23 policemen). A total of 43 persons were kidnapped (39 civilians and 4 policemen); of those, three were killed (one civilian and two policemen), while the fate of the other 22 civilians and one policeman remains unknown.

About the attacks on police that triggered the Serbian counteroffensive in Racak, the Greek daily Exusia fairly observed in a January 19 article titled “Serb killed by ‘unarmed’ Albanians”:

Regardless of the fact that the Albanian side is responsible for the latest fighting, warnings continue to be directed only to Belgrade, along with the threat that NATO forces will be activated for military intervention.

…The very day that the Western monitors were helping stage and corroborate a “civilian massacre” for the KLA, the KLA couldn’t resist shooting at them:

Peace Monitors ‘Shot Deliberately’ (BBC, January 16, 1999)

The head of the international monitoring mission in Kosovo says he believes that two monitors, shot and wounded on Friday, were deliberately targeted…The two men — a Briton and his locally-recruited interpreter — were in a convoy with Serbian police when they were hit. They were not seriously injured. /span>

…The incident happened as the group were on their way to mediate in a confrontation between ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb forces in the western region of Pec. Mr Walker said: “What I’ve heard so far about the firing, it was not just one shot or two shots, it was sustained firing. That would lead me to believe that it was a deliberate shooting.”

He pointed out that the monitors drove distinctive vehicles and that everyone in the area had been informed that they were going out on patrol…A spokesman for the international monitoring mission said the shots appeared to come from a sniper in territory held by the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army…UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he was shocked and concerned about the shooting of two members of the KVM.

None of this, however, threw Western leaders off-program, as BBC reported the next day:

Nato is to hold an emergency session on Sunday to consider its response to the massacre of more than 40 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. An American state department spokesman said there should be no doubt of Nato’s resolve.

The Nato Secretary-General, Javier Solana, said it would not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and repression in Kosovo.

President Clinton and the head of the international observer mission in Kosovo both blamed Serbian forces for the killings…Those killed in the village of Racak, south of Pristina, were mostly men who had been rounded up and shot at close range. Some had been mutilated.

International monitors say they have also seen the bodies of three women and a 12-year-old boy.

The massacre has prompted the International War Crimes Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia to open an urgent inquiry…Local villagers say the slaughter of the victims, mostly men aged between 18 and 65, was carried out by Serb forces who rounded the group up on Friday night…The Kosovar Albanian political leader, Ibrahim Rugova, has declared Sunday a day of mourning in Kosovo.

Germany, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, said the international community would not accept such acts of persecution and murder.

In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry expressed disgust at the massacre and called for a meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to investigate who was responsible.

UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, said: “Those responsible for the crimes must be held to account before international justice.”…The US special envoy, Richard Holbrooke, condemned the killings, saying they were the most serious offence since the outbreak of the violence which has plagued the province in recent months.

So notorious is the architect of the Racak incident, William Walker, that his name is known even to non-watchers of the Balkans, as a 1999 piece titled “Meet Mr. Massacre” by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi, currently of Rolling Stone magazine, shows:

…After a brief review of the town’s 40-odd bullet-ridden corpses, Walker searched out the nearest television camera and essentially fired the starting gun for the war. “From what I saw, I do not hesitate to describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against humanity,” he said. “Nor do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of responsibility.”

We all know how Washington responded to Walker’s verdict; it quickly set its military machine in motion, and started sending out menacing invitations to its NATO friends to join the upcoming war party.

How Russia responded is less well-known…It probably sent a chill up the community’s collective spine, and pushed its generals into rapid preparations for a new cold war with the United States. As connoisseurs in the art of propaganda and the use of provacateurs [sic], they recognized a good job when they saw one.

…Walker was in Latin America virtually throughout his entire career, until he arrived in Kosovo. He had no experience in the region which qualified him to head the verification team in Yugoslavia….There is a widespread belief not only in Russia, but in other countries, that Walker’s role in Racak was to assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre that could be used as an excuse for military action. Already, two major mainstream French newspapers — Le Monde and Le Figaro — as well as French national television have run exposes on the Racak incident. These stories cited a number of inconsistencies in Walker’s version of events, including an absence of shell casings and blood in the trench where the bodies were found, and the absence of eyewitnesses despite the presence of journalists and observers in the town during the KLA-Serb fighting.

Eventually, even the Los Angeles Times joined in, running a story entitled “Racak Massacre Questions: Were Atrocities Faked?

…given that 1990s Serbian crimes against Albanians, real or imagined, are the basis of the consensus that states Serbia lost all right to Kosovo, why haven’t the Albanians who have been terrorizing the province’s non-Albanians for the past 10 years (not to mention in preceding decades) lost any right to Kosovo? Perhaps for the same reason that Slobodan Milosevic remains “guilty” despite not having ordered a single crime while Kosovo’s leaders are “innocent” despite having committed crimes with their own hands, in addition to ordering them directly.

Meanwhile, the decaying Walker marches on. Shortly after meeting with Walker last June, “opposition leader” Ramush Haradinaj told the UN to get out of Kosovo to make way for the EULEX law and order mission. Walker of course seconded his dangerous clients’ motion, telling UNMIK to end the mission once Kosovo’s constitution comes into effect.

For his dutifulness William Walker has been rewarded with, among other things, honorary Albanian citizenship. And like Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Eliot Engel, George W. Bush, and Wesley Clark, Walker has a street named after him in Kosovo — like so many other KLA members to whom monuments have gone up all over Kosovo.

When he’s not lying in newspapers about his last hoax, Walker is preparing the next one. He has been making frequent trips to Kosovo, where he has met with his old KLA contacts to make a plan for taking Kosovo’s more ornery Serb parts by force. Walker’s return to the region in March 2007 alarmed French intelligence, the newspaper Novosti reported at the time, in an item titled “William Walker Gives Tasks to Albanian Extremists for an Attack on Northern Kosovo”:

The information of French intelligence officers is that [two weeks ago] Walker met with many former KLA members that he had personally trained for special operations against the Serbian forces. The goal of his arrival is the preparation of a scenario and ordering of guidelines to Albanian terrorists for taking measures to seize northern Kosovo…In Pec in the hotel “Metohija” he met with ex-members of [Ramush] Haradinaj’s special unit which in 1999 conducted the [harshest] crimes against the Serbs and other non-Albanians…He also met with all of his old spies which he recruited during his Kosovo stay as leader of the UN Verification mission prior to the NATO bombardment.

…According to what the intelligence services of the big powers had informed their governments, Walker was on a mission of preparing terrorists and extremists for performing the final phase in the realization of the project on an independent Kosovo in case plans are not resolved “peacefully.”

…The Americans are afraid that the French will give out such plans to the Serbs in northern Kosovo…Certain KFOR contingents that have forces in northern Kosovo received the task of systematically provoking the Serbs everywhere and causing their reactions…Certain KFOR contingents openly fear a sudden operation of Albanian terrorists towards the north, which is possible in the coming months…The plan is to provoke the Serbian security forces to react in the protection of Serb convoys and to then urgently request the intervention of international forces in the protection of the “jeopardized Albanian population in the Presevo Valley from Serbian security forces that are revenging over the loss of Kosovo.”

No sooner did Walker have his meetings than Tanjug reported the following:

International representatives have observed, over the recent days, intensified regrouping of armed groups in black uniforms with insignia of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the territory of Drenica, Pec and Djakovica in Kosovo and Metohija province, the Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti [Evening News] said on Saturday…Forces of the local United Nations (UN) administration UNMIK and the peacekeeping force KFOR have been given strict orders “not to engage in conflict or discussion with the armed groups, and, upon sighting them, to abandon their mission and immediately return to base,” Vecernje novosti [“Evening News”] said.

In March 2008, that plan was put into effect when UN and NATO arrested and paraded the mostly female Serbian squatters who wanted their jobs back at the Mitrovica courthouse — in front of cameras and through an Albanian neighborhood. More recently, Albanian houses in Northern Kosovo were set ablaze, with news reports promptly attributing the explosions to Serbs. Since the Albanians haven’t yet secured Northern Mitrovica as part of breakaway Kosovo, the completion of the Walker-KLA directive is still ahead for the Kosovo war, now in its tenth year.

Albanian Righteous Being Used to Further Albanian Nazi Goals

Julia Gorin wrote me to set the record straight. Aaron Klein got it wrong.

I’m normally a fan of Aaron Klein’s, so I was devastated to find that he had WND fall for the Albanian PR ploy regarding World War II that’s been making the rounds since 2005 ( “Forgotten history: Muslims who save Jews; Exhibition honors Albanians who risked lives during Holocaust” ). The Albanian Righteous of World War II are being used quite deliberately at this time to get American Jews to push Israel to recognize Kosovo. Essentially the same “exclusive” piece WND published this week had graced the pages of the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh just two weeks ago, as the PR makes its rounds to all Jewish and Jewish-friendly publications, for the fourth year now. The same coverage that Klein gave to Muslims saving Jews appears on Islamic sites as well.

In 2007, I wrote a response op-ed for the New York Jewish Week after they also fell victim to the scheme. (The original Jewish Week link is no longer available, but the provided link serves.) More important is the direct response to Norman Gershman’s and Yad Vashem’s exhibit – and therefore Klein’s piece – here: “Can We Please Stop Using the Jews?”

One important point is that while Albanians are on top of their Jew-saving PR, it never occurred to Serbs – exponentially more of whom saved Jews during World War II – to compile a list of their Jew-saves for credit and flaunt it in the event that an expansionist rival would use its own Jew-saves as a weapon against them. Among the thousands of Serbian families who risked their lives to save Jews, only about 150 are documented at Yad Vashem, still more than the 60-some Albanian Righteous documented there and getting all the attention.

There is an insidious and ironic motivation behind this parading of World War II’s Albanian Righteous: to promote the birth of the supremacist state of Kosovo. Gershman is one of a handful of Jewish front men helping out with the Kosovo theft, wittingly or not. Last year he got his exhibit into the famed 92nd St. Y in New York, as well as into the halls of the UN. Here is one eight-minute film by him, meant to be positive, which nonetheless reveals the true nature of “Besa,” the Albanian honor code that Gershman’s exhibit, and now WND, celebrate. Besa is part of the blood code that makes Albanian society so terrifying. It is primitive, and it’s nothing to be glorified.

In general when dealing with questions of Albanian Righteous vs. Serbian Righteous and who has the greater affinity for/history with the Jews, in addition to the numbers that tell the story one must look at the wider history: Jews and Serbs died together in World War II concentration camps and mass executions. Both were targeted then. And both are targeted today. Albanians were not targeted; Albania was an Axis ally that contributed SS divisions to the Nazi cause. And the Albanians are not imperiled today; indeed, they are getting a second state – they are expanding.

It’s true that the Albanians have never particularly had it in for the Jews, but they’ve always been out to exterminate the Serbs – and when opportunity knocks (WWII, 1999), they make new friends fast. Let’s keep in mind that it wasn’t Serbs who rounded up almost all the Jews of Kosovo (annexed to Albania) during World War II for the Nazis; it was Albanians. That is not a reflection on the Albanian Righteous, but it is key to the big picture.

Among the Albanian-generated buzz phrases going around is that “all of Albania’s Jews were saved” and that “Albania had more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning.” That’s because Albania had only 200 Jews to start with. One must ask why. The answer is that most had left Albania by the end of World War I because of persecution. In addition, Italy controlled Albania early in World War II and was not interested in the Final Solution. Today Kosovo has 50 Jews left and Albania has fewer than 10.

This is what is relevant. For Yad Vashem’s purposes, both the Albanian Righteous and the Serbian Righteous are correctly viewed as equal. But before setting pen to paper, as the responsible journalist that I know he is, Aaron Klein should have first asked why we are hearing exclusively, and so much, at this time about the Albanian Righteous, far less numerous than their enemy Serb Righteous. What I have stated above is well chronicled at the Jewish Virtual Library.

****UPDATE****

While the WWII Albanians-Saving-Jews propaganda continues making its rounds to Jewish and conservative media to help get Israel to commit suicide by recognizing an independent Kosovo, let’s remember what former leader of Kosovo’s tiny Jewish community said in an interview in 2000, about 1990s Kosovo:

[Cedomir] Prlincevic: First of all, a large part of the ethnic Albanians wanted to return to the situation that existed a hundred years ago, under the Ottoman Empire, and again during World War II, when Kosovo was under Nazi- Albanian control. Most of the Albanian population had been won to this goal by the secessionist movement…And of course, many Albanians believed that during World War II the German Nazis had set Albanians free.

The Yugoslav constitution of 1974 didn’t help. It weakened the central government and thus encouraged those in Kosovo who wanted to return to the W.W. II regime when Albanian nationalists ruled Kosovo under the German Nazis and terrorized the Serbs, Roma [’Gypsies’] and Jews. After 1974 the abuses against Serbs and Roma increased. This was openly manifested during the ethnic Albanian riots in 1981.

These were race riots, with Serbs as the targets, both the Serbian clergy and ordinary Serbian citizens. After that the Americans entered the picture and magnified the secessionists’ political strength ten times over.

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GORIN'S LOVE LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES GOES UNPUBLISHED

I tip my hat to Julia Gorin's patience in the face of such denial, dhimmitude and plain stupidity. Is it me or has the Times been moving more to the left? ........... Will the appointment of Richard Miniter as editor of the editorial pages and vice president of opinion stop the slide? We live in hope.

As the 10th Anniversary of America’s Greatest Crime Approaches, its Architects, the KLA, Con the Washington Times Posted by Julia Gorin

My unpublished letter to the Washington Times:

The Washington Times recently gave print space to William Walker, described as a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer and former ambassador. But Walker is much more than that. In Kosovo, he remains a hands-on operative who has trained, and implemented the demands of, our terrorist ally the KLA — which as predicted now controls the Serbian province as its “legitimate” rulers. The piece (“A Separate Take from Serbia”, Feb. 24) was presented as a response to an op-ed by Serbian President Boris Tadic, when in fact it was an attempt by essentially a KLA apparatchik to recycle and reinforce the long disproved propaganda that conned us into becoming the KLA’s air force in the first place. Walker, like so many D.C. bureaucrats and lawmakers, is desperately trying to bury our blunder and seal our deal with the devil.

In 1999, the Washington Times understood better what we’d wrought in Kosovo than it does today after 10 years of Clinton’s war being exposed as a farce. On May 3rd, 1999 it ran the headline, “KLA finances fight with heroin sales – terror group linked to crime network.” The following day the even more disturbing headline appeared: “KLA rebels train in terrorist camps - Bin Laden offers financing, too.”

It’s certainly interesting that Walker is sweating as he is for our adopted demon child, Kosovo, at a time that his forensic investigator, Helena Ranta, is finally revealing the truth about his having coerced her report on the January 1999 Racak “massacre” that was used as a trigger for Clinton’s NATO bombing. A biography about Ranta, released in October, reveals that as head of the Kosovo Verification Mission, Walker “broke a pencil in two and threw the pieces at her when she was not willing to use sufficiently strong language about the Serbs,” the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported. Quoting Ranta herself now: “[Walker] says to this day that it was a massacre and that the Serbs were to blame. But I never said that. I never made any reference to the perpetrators.” She added that Walker has been “putting words into my mouth…What angered him most was that I refused to use the word massacre and say who stood behind what happened in Racak.”

News organizations including the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Die Welt, BBC and Le Figaro raised doubts about the alleged massacre early in 1999, after forensic investigators concluded the bodies weren’t civilians but armed KLA guerrillas who started shooting at Serb police when the latter came to make arrests for ambushes of Yugoslav police. An AP TV crew filmed the entire day of fighting as it followed the Serbian police around, and witnessed no massacres. The conclusions of the above-cited newspapers, like those of Belorussian, Yugoslavian and ultimately Finnish forensic experts, were that the bodies had been disarmed, re-dressed in civilian clothes, then shot additional times and cut with knives several hours after death.

Milosevic trial observer Andy Wilcoxson noted in April 2005 that Walker “was given access to the village by the KLA while forensic investigators were kept out [initially]. Walker, instead of taking steps to secure the alleged crime scene, brought journalists to that gully and let them trample all over the place. One of the journalists was Franz Josef Hutsch, a German newspaper reporter. According Mr. Hutsch, who testified at the trial on October 12, 2004, Walker just stood there while journalists moved the bodies around to take their pictures.”

Walker’s propaganda job is repeating itself as the tenth anniversary of America’s greatest historical crime approaches this month — on March 24, the day America bombed Europe on the cusp of a new century. The Washington Times’ desire for balance is understandable, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of the truth. Walker is still trying to portray the KLA as “a tiny band attempting to stem the tide of violence inflicted by the government,” when the late Daniel Pearl and the NY Times’ Chris Hedges demonstrated as early as 1998 and 1999 what the supremacist KKKLA is all about. The KLA itself has been clarifying it over the course of the past 10 years that it’s had the run of Kosovo and 250,000 non-Albanians have fled the province. Ask the Albanians who sit with their mouths shut in Pristina in fear for their lives — as the author of the book Hiding Genocide in Kosovo can attest — whether Walker’s KLA resembles the one they know and had to cheer on February 17, 2008 along with the in-denial Albanian Diaspora in Times Square and everywhere else.

To reinforce his house of cards, Walker writes, “In the mid-1990s a tiny group of Albanians — tired of seeing their villages attacked, looted, burned to the ground; their men and boys jailed, tortured and executed; their access to education, health care and other public services cut off by Belgrade — took up arms and attempted to defend their villages, their families.”

As any student of the Balkans would know, it was the brutish Kosovo-Albanian policy that threatened death for any Albanian “collaborators” who acknowledged Belgrade’s legal rule — even by working for the postal service or police. Albanians had to “voluntarily” alienate themselves from the host society by refusing the above-mentioned “access to education, health care and other public services.” It was not “cut off by Belgrade,” as Walker lies, knowing that American readers won’t know any better. The Albanians of Kosovo set up a parallel system, in which there were Albanian schools, hospitals and administrative offices which shut out non-Albanians, such that pregnant Serbian women had to cross to Serbia proper to give birth.

As Cedomir Prlincevic, former leader of Kosovo’s banished Serbian-speaking Jewish community, told interviewer Jared Israel, of the Emperor’s New Clothes website in 2000: the Albanians of Kosovo pretended they had been locked out of the schools when actually it was an organized boycott:

In Kosovo, a foreign Superpower supported the secessionists for well over a decade. Because of this support, the Albanians were psychologically prepared to achieve — no, not to achieve, to be given — secession. As a gift. The secessionist leaders, starting with Rugova, had promised them, “Do this, do that and the US will intervene and we will get Kosovo.” They had been promising this for years. “Sacrifice your children by boycotting the schools; sacrifice your health by boycotting the hospitals; use your suffering to show foreign public opinion how we suffer under the Serbs, and the U.S. will come to our rescue.”

Serbs were once the majority in Kosovo, but today Kosovo is 97% Albanian. Who, then, was being “ethnically cleansed”? Within months of Albanians getting their NATO assistance against Serbia, they were on to Macedonia, where they now use the same arguments: that they’re being discriminated against and frozen out of jobs even though they hold government office and occupy the western half of the country as Greater Albania marches on, with U.S. blessing.

The “policy of repression, of ethnic cleansing, of systemic rape, pillage and murder” that Walker cites about Belgrade far better describes how the Albanian hyper-nationalists whom we side with were running the province for three decades leading up to Milosevic’s crackdown. But that’s been the trick all along: invert what was done to Serbs with what was done “by” Serbs, as Daniel Greenfield wrote for the website “Israel e-News” upon Kosovo’s independence: “Kosovo and the Palestinian Authority are both triumphs of terrorism, victories by racist nationalists whose aim has always been religious and ethnic cleansing, who have nevertheless managed to portray the countries they have torn to shreds as racist nationalists practicing ethnic cleansing.”

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Serbia: Kosovo Invests in Suicide Vests

Julia Gorin has more on the coming Islamic state of Kosovo. Clinton and the democrats' war. Another stroke of military genius. American men and women actually fought for the jihad and the installation of a militant Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

Kosovo Invests in Suicide Vests Julia Gorin

“What is a Palestinian?” and debunked the myth of Palestinian nationhood. The piece might just as well have been titled “What is a Kosovar?”, since that nationhood is at least as false. Everything in the paragraphs below about the Arab Palestinian “nationality” applies to the Albanian Kosovar “nationality”:

Arabs have been flocking to Israel ever since it was created and even before, coinciding with the wave of Jewish immigration into Palestine prior to 1948.

Winston Churchill said in 1939: “So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.”

And that raises a question I never hear anyone ask: If Israel’s policies make life so intolerable for Arabs, why do they continue to flock to the Jewish state?
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According to the most liberal claims by Arab sources, some 600,000 to 700,000 Arabs left Israel in and around 1948 when the Jewish state was created. Most were not forced out by Jews, but rather left at the urging of Arab leaders who had declared war on Israel.

Yet, there are far more Arabs living in these territories now than ever before. And many of those who left in 1948 and thereafter actually had roots in other Arab nations.

It’s also worth revisiting a piece that came out in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper in the days following Kosovo’s secession:

Kosovo is already here

…The day may not be far off when the Arabs of Galilee start clamoring for political independence, too. In recent years, many of them have been cutting themselves off, psychologically and physically, from the Jewish-democratic State of Israel.

The Muslims of Kosovo constitute an absolute majority of the population, and the same is true for the Galilee Arabs. Quite a few Jews have been leaving the Galilee, especially since October 2000, and not many are joining the sparse Jewish population there, despite an array of financial incentives…Israeli governments have resigned themselves to the blatant, unconcealed separatist actions of the Galilee Arabs, and this only perpetuates the phenomenon. Shimon Peres, who was appointed by several governments to oversee measures ultimately aimed at increasing the Jewish presence in the Galilee, talked a lot but did little. Political correctness, such as halting the campaign to “Judaize Galilee,” was his guideline.
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Kosovo is already here, even without a formal declaration of independence…This inertia will probably continue, with the Zionist state financing, via education, health, national insurance and other state monies transferred to citizens, a population that is de facto establishing a Palestinian state within the sovereign State of Israel - separate, of course, from the Palestinian state that the Arabs are pushing for in Judea and Samaria. [Note: Serbia continues several of these kinds of subsidies for the breakaway Albanians, who still line up for their Serbian passports.]

So Kosovo is already in Israel, and by the same token, Gaza is already in Serbian Kosovo. Note the last sentence of this paragraph that I wrote back in 2006:

Balkan-update dispatches used to start, more or less, like this: “Lifting themselves up from under the the ash heap of communism, the very secular and very peaceful, not-very-Muslim Albanians are rediscovering their roots and religion and have built a mosque to honor their peaceful religion…” Now, as we can see, these articles are starting with: “In a rare foray into politics, Islamic leaders in Kosovo…” Next they’ll read, “In a rare foray into suicide bombings, the Islamists of Kosovo…”

Lo and behold what the one-year anniversary of Kosovo’s “independence” in February brought with it:

Kosovo Albanian with Suicide Vest Arrested (Feb. 16):

A Kosovo Albanian from the city of Kacanik has been arrested in a cafe in the southern village of Strpce in Serbia’s province of Kosovo[,] report[s] police spokesman Arber Beka.

The arrested Albanian wore a suicide vest loaded with explosives.

He was arrested in the cafe called Kvatro around 8:00 pm today. Police and NATO troops have surrounded the perimeter and are investigating.

The arrest came after a cafe patron spotted that one of the three Albanians who just walked into the cafe had wires under his jacket.

The police [were] immediately called in and after a search, the police found explosive[s] in a suicide vest on the body of Arben Husi, one of the 3 ethnic Albanians who came into the cafe.

In addition to the explosives, the police found a grenade and a Kalashnikov.

The witnesses say that one of the Albanians ran out of the cafe, while the second one was held on. After the search, the police tied Husi up to the chair and then took him to the police station.

It is not clear whether Husi planned to commit a suicide bombing or to just plant the explosive inside the cafe and activate it after.
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Strpce is located just under the slopes of the Sar mountains and is populated by Serbs.

[A] Few weeks ago, 2 Albanians stabbed a Serb from Strpce in [the] chest.

There is one overarching point that needs to be made.

Go here for the rest of Julia's extraordinary piece.

ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS IN SARAJEVO ARE TAKING OVER

Aren't you glad Clinton sent America into war in Bosnia against the Christians?

Islamists Gain Ground in Sarajevo

By Walter Mayr

Radical Muslim imams and nationalist politicians from all camps are threatening Sarajevo's multicultural legacy. With the help of Arab benefactors, the deeply devout are acquiring new recruits. In the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," Islamists are on the rise.

The obliteration of Israel is heralded in a torrent of words. "Zionist terrorists," the imam thunders from the glass-enclosed pulpit at the end of the mosque. "Animals in human form" have transformed the Gaza Strip into a "concentration camp," and this marks "the beginning of the end" for the Jewish pseudo-state.

Over 4,000 faithful are listening to the religious service in the King Fahd Mosque, named after the late Saudi Arabian monarch King Fahd Bin Abd al-Asis Al Saud. The women sit separately, screened off in the left wing of the building. It is the day of the Khutbah, the great Friday sermon, and the city where the imam has predicted Israel's demise lies some 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) northwest of Gaza.

It is a city in the heart of Europe: Sarajevo.

"Tea or coffee?" Shortly after stepping down from the pulpit, Nezim Halilovic -- the imam and fiery speaker of the King Fahd Mosque -- reveals himself to be the perfect Bosnian host. He has fruits, nuts and sweetened gelatin served in his quarters behind the house of worship. A chastely-dressed wife and four children add themselves to the picture. It's a scene of domestic tranquility that stands in stark contrast to the railing sermon of the controversial Koran scholar.

Familiar Allegations

Sarajevo's King Fahd Mosque was built with millions of Saudi dollars as the largest house of worship for Muslims in the Balkans. The mosque has a reputation as a magnet for Muslim fundamentalists in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the imam is said to be the patron of the Wahhabites, although they call themselves Salafites, after an ultra-conservative movement in Sunni Islam.

Halilovic is familiar with the allegations and the usual accompanying thought patterns: Wahhabite equals al-Qaida, which equals a worldwide terror network. He says he has nothing to do with that, but he "cannot forbid a Muslim from worshiping in my mosque according to his own rites." He explains the general air of suspicion surrounding the King Fahd Mosque as follows: "The West is annoyed that many Muslims are returning to their faith, instead of sneaking by the mosque to the bar, as they used to do, to drink alcohol and eat pork."

Many Bosnians have despised "the West" since 1992, when the United Nations arms embargo seriously impeded the military resistance of the Muslims in their war against the Serb aggressors. It wasn't until four years later, and after 100,000 people had died, that the international community -- at the urging and under the leadership of the US -- finally put an end to the slaughter. Over 80 percent of the dead civilians in the Bosnian War were Muslims.

Despised the West before we went and fought and died for Islamic supremacists.

This traumatic experience left a deep mark on the traditionally cosmopolitan Muslim Bosnians -- and opened the door to the Islamists. 

Blame the infidel!

Years later, the religious fundamentalists have declared the attacks by Christian Serbs and Croats a "crusade" by infidels -- and painted themselves as the steadfast protectors of Muslim Bosnians.

Imam Halilovic served during the war as commander of the Fourth Muslim Brigade. A photo shows him standing next to a 155 milimeter howitzer, dressed in black combat fatigues, a flowing beard and a scarf wrapped around his head. He witnessed the arrival of the first religious warriors from countries in the Middle East and northern Africa. These fighters brought ideological seeds that have now found fertile ground -- the beliefs of the Salafites, Islamic fundamentalists who orient themselves according to the alleged unique, pure origin of their religion and reject all newer Islamic traditions.

Read it all.

"Bosnian mujahideen" aka Al Qaeda Tried Western Journalists for Spying

A BBC reporter was, for all intents and purposes, kidnapped and tried by al qaeda during the Balkans war. Bear in mind while reading the following excerpt that the US was in Bosnia fighting for the Muslims, (the mujahideen).

The US in Bill Clinton's war was allied and fighting with/for the jihad just months after the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Think about that. Why would Clinton choose to make the march to global Islamic supremacism easier?

'I was put on trial by al-Qaeda' BBC (hat tip Kasper)

' The BBC's Allan Little reported on the Balkan wars of the 1990s, following at close range the fighting between Bosnian, Serb and Croat forces. But, one day in 1993, he came face to face with a different group, the "Bosnian mujahideen".

What's different?

BBC correspondent Allan Little reporting from Sarajevo in 1992

A year into the war, hundreds of men from other parts of the Muslim world had arrived in Bosnia. Many had come to train. Some - though we did not know it at the time - had already fought in Afghanistan.

We Western reporters knew they were there. What we did not know is that they were already part of a nascent global jihad led by a group whose name was not yet familiar to us: al-Qaeda. We thought them a sideshow - irrelevant to the much more compelling dynamic of the war between actual Bosnians.

One bright cold morning a camera crew and I drove from our house in the Lashva Valley to the town of Zenica accompanied by our translator, a brave and formidable young woman called Vera Kordic.

Aggressive

We made our way quietly through deserted outskirts. We turned into the main thoroughfare. And then we saw them: a column of men hundreds strong marching towards us in ordered ranks.

They wore green uniforms, and bandanas, and carried banners with slogans written not in Serbo-Croatian but in Arabic script. Some wore turbans and heavy beards.

Members of the Seventh Muslim Brigade on parade in Zenica in 1996

We saw the green shimmer of the Saudi national flag, and the red and green bands of the Iranian. They were highly charged, pumped up with a raw, aggressive energy, chanting, brandishing weapons above their heads.

Instinctively, we did what TV crews do. We started filming. Suddenly we were surrounded. I heard the cocking of an AK47 at my side, felt a pistol at my temple.

Cameramen are notoriously the most vulnerable of us. They watch the world through a viewfinder and can see only what is on the end of their lens.

Greg, our cameraman, had not seen the pistol at his own head. I told him to stop filming. We were manhandled down the street and into a walled compound.

The foreigners who had come to Bosnia had organised themselves into an independent fighting force known as the Seventh Muslim Brigade. Local commanders had little control over them.

On trial

Presently we were led into a room. There, behind a table draped with green cloth, sat three middle-aged men, too dark-skinned to be Bosnian. Throughout what followed, they never spoke.

A local man, bearing the insignia of the brigade, told us we were on trial, that this was a tribunal. I asked what we were accused of. "Spying," he said.

They began to call witnesses. "Yes I saw the spies trying to run away when they were arrested," the witnesses said, one after the other.

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We are the civilian police and we try to uphold the law, but there are so many of them and they are well armed. They do what they like Unnamed police chief, Zenica

The local man asked me whether I understood the seriousness of the charge, whether I understood that the rules of war demanded that spies be shot?

I began to play over and over again in my mind the moment we had made what I now thought of as our fatal error. If only we had turned left and not right. If only we had arrived 20 minutes later, or 20 minutes earlier. We sat and waited to hear our fate.

Three men arrived. They directed us to the town's police station.

The police chief was large, taciturn, manifestly exhausted. We were in his custody now. He had a piece of paper taped to his door identifying him as the "INSPEKTOR ZA STRANCI" - the inspector for foreigners.

In my anxiety, the title struck me as bizarre. There were no foreigners in Zenica except aid workers and peace keepers and us. And then it struck me. Of course there were other foreigners.

The Seventh Muslim Brigade. The so-called foreign mujahideen

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Attack

Years later, long after 9/11 had changed the world and the war in Bosnia was all but forgotten, I found myself at a drinks reception at a London think tank.

New York's World Trade Centre after the fatal bomb explosion in 1993

I fell into conversation with a war crimes lawyer who worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Hague.

I related this story to him.

"When was this?" he asked. "In November 1993," I said.

His eyes widened. "Do you have any idea how much trouble you were in?" he said.

"It was a few months after the first attack on the World Trade Centre in New York which killed six people," he added.

"Some of those guys were already on the run.

"No wonder they didn't like your cameras around."

I was put on trial by al-Qaeda will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 8 February and Sunday 16 February at 22.45. Or listen again via the BBC iPlayer.

Bosnian-Serb PM Milorad Dodik Sends Letter of Support to Israel

Julia Gorin has the exclusive. Go. Here. Now. Serbs for Israel ..... and we fought and died for this?

Bosnian-Serb PM Milorad Dodik Sends Letter of Support to Israel

Thanks to Aleksandar in Belgrade for the translation from the Serbian-language site “Vladars.net” (Jan. 17):

Serb Republic Prime Minister Milorad Dodik Sends Letter of Support to Israel

Prime Minister of Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik yesterday sent a letter of support to Israeli President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Dodik in his letter conveys his understanding of the precarious position of Israel and its citizens, at the same time giving full support to the Israeli effort to ensure security and peace to the Israeli people.

Dodik states in his letter that the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) does not support anti- Israel demonstrations and gatherings that have been organized in the other part of Bosnia (the Muslim-Croat Federation).

Prime Minister Dodik at the same time expresses his belief that soon a long-term peaceful solution will be found for the conflict in which Israel finds itself.

For speaking in support of Israel, Dodik was reproached by Bosnia’s Muslim-dominated state-run television, as Andy Wilcoxson informs:

Bosnian Serb PM sends letters of support to Israeli president
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - January 19, 2009 Monday

Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 17 January

[Presenter Sanjin Beciragic]

[Bosnian] Serb Republic premier Milorad Dodik has sent a letter of support to Israeli President Simon Peres, expressing understanding for, as he called it, the difficult position in which Israel and its citizens find themselves. At the same time he expressed his full support for efforts to secure peace and security for the people of Israel. The letter says that the RS [Serb Republic] does not endorse the anti-Israeli protests and events organized in the other part of B-H [Bosnia-Hercegovina], i.e. in the Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation.

Mr Dodik perhaps needs reminding that Israel has killed more than 1,000 civilians in Gaza so far, including 300 children.

Dodik was further condemned by Bosnia’s two main Muslim parties:

Bosnian opposition party condemns Serb PM’s support for Israel
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - January 19, 2009 Monday

Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 17 January

[Presenter Sanjin Beciragic] The SDP [Social Democratic Party] have reacted [to letter of support by Bosnian Serb Republic PM Milorad Dodik to Israeli President Simon Peres] saying that by justifying the Israeli bombing of Gaza, Milorad Dodik actually justifies the policy of killing innocent civilians pursued in this region by his idols as personified by Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.

Main Bosnian Muslim party calls Serb PM’s Israel support “moral plunge”
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - January 19, 2009 Monday

Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 18 January

[Presenter Mersiha Novalic]

The SDA [Party of Democratic Action], too, reacted today to a letter of support sent to the Israeli president by Bosnian Serb Republic Premier Milorad Dodik. They believe that Dodik’s letter represents the ultimate expression of a moral plunge of the inhumane principle running counter to civilization, to which Dodik subscribes, while thousands of civilian victims are still being counted in Gaza. The press release says that these values of Dodik’s cannot and are not shared by any reasonable person, including the Serb people in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Every person naturally distinguishes between good and evil, and even more so [discerns] the principle that innocent people must not be subjected to massive killing for the sake of a political idea, notes the press release.

My fellow Americans, please bear in mind that it is the latter mentality that your government is working to centralize in Bosnia-Hercegovina by changing the country’s two parts into a single entity, eventually dissolving the Serb half.

On a related note, Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, has just been made an honorary citizen of the city of Novi Sad in Serbia. Today is the last day of a three-day, first-ever major conference to be launched by the center in Serbia on Holocaust history and education. Mr. Zuroff received the honor on Monday.

Zuroff Novi Sad honorary citizen

20 January 2009 | 11:04 | Source: B92, Beta

NOVI SAD — Simon Wiesenthal Jerusalem Center Director Efraim Zuroff has been awarded the title of an honorary citizen of Novi Sad.

The decision to confer the title was taken back in October of last year as a token of gratitude and as recognition of Zuroff’s struggle for justice and truth.

For years, he has led the fight to find and bring Nazi Second World War criminals to justice.

Accepting the title, Zuroff said that the political will to bring these criminals to trial was fading fast, but stressed that Nazi war crimes never expired and that the perpetrators of these crimes had to be brought to account.

US BLOOD AND TREASURE FOR MUSLIM BOSNIA

Julia Gorin  has reported  again and again that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Muhammed Atta  held Bosnian passports and/or were veterans of the Bosnian war: And most recently (back in June) how Bosnia Helped Fund the 9/11 Attacks on America.

Trifunovic has also found new links between Bosnia and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the London and Madrid train bombings. Specifically mentioned are Mohammed Atta, who coordinated the 9/11 outrage, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Bosnian citizenship holder and war veteran, former Al Qaeda ‘Operations Chief’, who - according to Dr Darko Trifunovic - took over the leadership of the Al Qaeda media campaign (’the Committee’) during the planning of the 9/11. Atta’s place of residence was a Bosnian hamlet before launching off to Hamburg and the US for his fatal mission.

Bosnia granted citizenship to 9/11 mastermind Jihad Watch

Citizen of Bosnia

The secular Muslim Bosnians, as everyone knows (except inveterate "Islamophobes"), are moderates who are deeply committed to moderation and represent the hope for rapprochement between the West and the Islamic world, for after all, they have nothing, nothing, nothing whatsoever to do with jihad violence or Islamic supremacism -- except, of course, when they granted citizenship to a Kuwaiti who worked for a Muslim Brotherhood front and ended up planning the 9/11 attacks. And then they kept his citizenship a state secret. "Bosnia: Senior Al-Qaeda figure granted citizenship, says report," from AKI, January 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Sarajevo, 20 Jan. (AKI) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the senior Al-Qaeda official credited with masterminding the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, was granted Bosnian citizenship before the attacks, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Born in Kuwait to a family originally from the Baluchi region of Pakistan, Mohammed reportedly went to Bosnia in September 1995, disguised as a humanitarian worker for an organisation called Egyptian Relief.

He obtained Bosnian citizenship in November the same year, Bosnian daily Fokus said, quoting local intelligence sources.

The newspaper said Egyptian Relief was just a cover for the Cairo-based Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Fokus said war-time authorities knew about Mohammed’s presence in Bosnia and his citizenship was kept a state secret.

Thousands of mujahadeen from Islamic countries came to Bosnia in the early 1990s to fight with local Muslims and many remained in the country after the war, acquiring Bosnian citizenship....

Yes, we fought and died for this: Julia Gorin has this:

Muslims Themselves Making the Case that Bosnian “Genocide” was a Hoax

Mottaki likens carnage in Gaza to Bosnian genocide (Dec. 31):

Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime’s recent criminal acts against the people of Gaza are undoubtedly acts of genocide similar to the one committed by the Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stated on Tuesday.

Addressing foreign diplomats in Tehran, he deplored the international community’s inaction to halt war crimes in Gaza.

“There is no doubt that the Zionist regime’s recent acts are in breach of the Geneva Convention and all other international rules and regulations,” he pointed out.

“The Zionist regime’s crimes in the past sixty years are obvious examples of crime against humanity which must be categorized as genocide similar to the many horrendous events in the recent years like the Serb forces’ acts in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Mottaki insisted.

He called the situation in Gaza a “test of impartiality” for the international community.

Stopping Israel from perpetrating such crimes requires “immediate and united action” and Iran is ready to team up with other “free nations” to demonstrate their ability to put an end to the criminal acts and to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, he added.

He called on all the states and international organizations to condemn the Zionist regime’s crimes and urged the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session to pass a resolution to halt Israeli blitz against Palestinians.

Mottaki said Tehran believes that the UN General Assembly should also hold an emergency meeting to discuss Gaza. […]

And here the Bosnians tacitly admit their own hoax, including with signs reading “Srebrenica 1995 — Gaza 2009″:

Bosnia genocide victims protest Gaza offensive

Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo on Thursday to call on Washington to stop Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Munira Subasic, who lost her son and husband when Bosnian Serbs took over the eastern town of Srebrenica, said she felt solidarity with the Palestinian people.

“In 2009, Palestinian mothers are going through ordeals we experienced in 1995 and we are raising our voice because we know about pain and suffering. We know how it feels to lose a child or husband,” said Subasic.

Protesters said they felt they had to react to killings of more than 660 Palestinians and the suffering of refugees in the 13-day-old offensive launched by Israel.
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Hundreds joined the Sarajevo protest, some with placards reading “Stop the killing of innocent children” and “Srebrenica 1995 — Gaza 2009.”

“I believe the United States, as the leading world power, could stop the bloodshed of civilians and, even worse, of children in Gaza,” said Murat Tahirovic, the head of an association of Bosnian wartime camp inmates.

“During the war, the blood, the suffering and the pain were our everyday scenes and I cannot help but sympathise with the Palestinian people,” said another protester. “It all reminds us of what we went through during the war and it must stop.” […]

Must be tough. Concocting atrocities is a hard business. But just like the Palestinians, the Bosnians are old hands at it, which is what he must be talking about.

As Dragan, an observer in France, wrote in an email he distributed on the subject:

Certain media should rather restrain [from] making approximations and comparisons just in order to make some sort of scoops. “Bosnian victims of genocide” on one side and “Gazans” on the other. What is the similarity? If the Bosnian Muslims were “victims of genocide”, then most logically the “Gazans” or members of Hamas are also the victims of genocide. But, most evidently the Western governments, USA in particular, claim that Israel is fighting terrorists in Gaza, and is right to do so.
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[I]n Srebrenica region there were mostly jihadists and foreign mercenaries, and it is known that they shot Bosnian soldiers and those who tried to flee [surrounding] Serbian forces. If the elimination of Muslims “was a Serbian program”, in Bosnia or in Kosovo, which is completely false, how come those nations tripled ever since, and the Serbian population diminished? [Just as, Michael Medved points out, the Palestinian population has increased.]

[The] West should make up its mind. Either Palestinians, Hamas included, are terrorists and Israel has [the] right, and therefore…the others [do as well], to fight terrorists, or they are victims of genocide. But not [because of] certain interests and affinities [are] ones “liberation armies” and the others “terrorists” [while] they both fight legal authorities and forces.

And a letter from Nick Petrovich, a Serbian-American now living Mexico City:

Ironically, [the] American Jewish Congress (Henry Siegman) on April 26, 1993 sent an open letter to Bill Clinton asking him to intervene on the side of the “peaceful, secular Bosnian Muslims” against the vicious Christian Serbs. Obviously, this was the result of the campaign mounted by the public relations firm Ruder Finn to get the American Jews to associate the civil war in Bosnia with the Holocaust…When all was done, Harff, the head of Ruder Finn said, “We outwitted three big Jewish organizations - the B’nai Birth Anti-Defamation League, The American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress..”

Getting these organizations to publish a pro-Bosnian Muslim ad in the New York Times was a tremendous coup, Harff said[, particularly because wartime Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic was a fundamentalist Muslim].

In other words, American Jewish organizations have been used. However, the Israeli public was much harder to decieve, because they are much more aware of history and they knew well that the Serbs had been their only ally during the Holocaust which was carried out in Yugoslavia by both Croatian fascist[s] and Bosnian Muslims.

Serbs worldwide were appauled at what American Jewish organizations ha[d] done, while Jews of Yugoslav origin in Israel were mortified and said, “We must see our shame.” By turning their back on the Serbian people, Jews had nothing to gain, as the following pictures from Sarajevo tell who is who!! [Note the nice Arabic these Bosnians have.]

Boy, it sure is a good thing American Jewry supported the Bosnians’ war:

From Serbianna:

A graffiti “Kill a Jew” has appeared on the fence of the Croatian National Theater in the center of the Bosnian city of Mostar.

The graffiti “Kill a Jew” also appeared on [trash] containers across the city of Mostar.

A symbol for the Croatian Nazi Ustasha, the U, along with the Star of David was also drawn next to the slogan at the Theater fence.

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(Good thing these are the “non-Muslimy” Muslims that were worthy of Western intervention against Christians.)

On prior occasions, Semso Tankovic also said that the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in New York were planned out by the Jews.

The protests in Zagreb where Tankovic spoke was reported on the front page of the official web site of the Bosnian Islamic Community where it also made an appeal to Bosnian Muslims to visit a website on Facebook.com, Support Palestine, where they should donate money to the Hamas-ruled Gaza.

Flashback:

 

ANOTHER [MUSLIM] COUNTRY HEARD FROM: BOSNIA "KILL A JEW" GRAFFITI

Doesn't it make you feel all warm inside that the Clinton administration spent all that blood and treasure to "protect' the Muslims from the Christians in Bosnia and pave the way for an Islamic state in Kosovo? A NEWLY "REVIVED" ISLAMIC BOSNIA

“Kill a Jew” graffiti appear in Bosnia Serbianna (hat tip rut)

A graffiti “Kill a Jew” has appeared on the fence of the Croatian National Theater in the center of the Bosnian city of Mostar.

The graffiti “Kill a Jew” also appeared on containers across the city of Mostar.

A symbol for the Croatian Nazi Ustasha, the U, along with the Star of David was also drawn next to the slogan at the Theater fence.

The Croatian media is attributing the appearance of the graffiti to extremist Bosnian Muslims who are upset over Israel’s intervention against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

“Almost every time when something is happening in the Gaza strip, we in Mostar are having such problems,” said a representative of the Jewish community in Mostar.

He also said that, across Mostar, posters have appeared with a map of Israel and a word Palestine written over the territory.

“These kinds of incidents, by rule, happen on the left coast of Mostar,” said the representative of the Jewish community of Mostar, who wanted to remain unidentified.

The left side, or the western side, is where Bosnian Croatians live. Croats were allies of Hitler in the second world war and ran several concentration camps in the Balkans were they were murdering Serbs, Jews and Gypsies.

Authorities in Mostar rarely took initiative to remove the anti Jewish public outbursts and Jews had to appeal to the authorities often or take their own initiative to remove the message of hate.

These graffiti in Mostar are but the latest in many anti Jewish demonstrations held across the region.

Last weekend, Bosnian Muslims held an anti Jewish rally in Croatia’s capital Zagreb where some 300 protesters accused Jews of committing a genocide against Muslims.

“This bloodshed in Gaza is a paradox; those who were the victims of nazism in the second world war now are committing the same to the people of Gaza,” said at the Zagreb rally Semso Tankovic, a Bosnian Muslim member of the Croatian Parliament.

On prior occasions, Semso Tankovic also said that the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in New York were planned out by the Jews.

The protests in Zagreb where Tankovic spoke was reported on the front page of the official web site of the Bosnian Islamic Community where it also made an appeal to Bosnian Muslims to visit a website on Facebook.com, Support Palestine, where they should donate money to the Hamas-ruled Gaza.

A NEWLY "REVIVED" ISLAMIC BOSNIA

Check this out in, of all places, the paper of the jihad, the New York Times. The article employs the same pathetic dhimmi excuses that the NY Times if infamous for, but read between the lines.The facts are all there.  Clinton's war - no national security at stake, no nothing, essentially a  war against the Christians. Imagine all that blood and treasure to expand Islam. And now Bush supports an independent Kosovo? Suicide!

An Islamic Revival in Bosnia Tests a Fragile Nation’s Secular Cast ...

More than half a dozen new madrasas, or religious high schools, have been built in recent years, while dozens of mosques have sprouted, including the King Fahd, a sprawling $28 million complex with a sports and cultural center.

Before the war, fully covered women and men with long beards were almost unheard of. Today, they are common.

Many here welcome the Muslim revival as a healthy assertion of identity in a multiethnic country where Muslims make up close to half the population.

Healthy for whom? Not women, children and other living things.

But others warn of a growing culture clash between conservative Islam and Bosnia’s avowed secularism in an already fragile state.

Two months ago, men in hoods attacked participants at a gay festival in Sarajevo, dragging some people from vehicles and beating others while they chanted, “Kill the gays!” and “Allahu Akbar!” Eight people were injured.

Muslim religious leaders complained that the event, which coincided with the holy month of Ramadan, was a provocation. The organizers said they had sought to promote minority rights and meant no offense.

In this cosmopolitan capital, where bars have long outnumbered mosques, Muslim religious education was recently introduced in state kindergartens, prompting some secular Muslim parents to complain that the separation between mosque and state was being breached.

Sounds oh so cosmo!

Bosnia’s Muslims have practiced a moderate Islam that stretches back to the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century. Sociologists and political leaders say the religious awakening is partly an outgrowth of the war and the American-brokered Dayton agreement that ended it, dividing the country into a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serb Republic.

Blame Bush for centuries of Islamic jihad!

“The Serbs committed genocide against us, raped our women, made us refugees in our own country,” said Mustafa Efendi Ceric, the grand mufti and main spiritual leader of Bosnia’s Muslim community.

“And now we have a tribal constitution that says we have to share political power and land with our killers,” he said. “We Bosnian Muslims still feel besieged in the city of Sarajevo.”

Muslims besieged, now that's rich.

That resentment is evident. As several thousand worshipers streamed into the imposing King Fahd mosque on a recent Friday, a young man sat outside selling a popular conservative Muslim magazine with President-elect Barack Obama on the cover.

"Hussein, Will Your America Kill Muslims?" the headline asked, using Mr. Obama’s middle name, a source of pride for many Muslims here.

Religious and national identity have long been fused in multifaith Bosnia.

It was tradition in villages to refer to neighbors by their religion — Muslim, Orthodox, Catholic, rather than as Bosniak, Serb or Croat.

In the nation-building that followed Dayton, that practice has become stronger.

In Sarajevo, a predominantly Muslim city, dozens of streets named after Communist revolutionaries were renamed after Muslim heroes, and political parties stressing Muslim identity gained large constituencies.

Osama Bin Laden, perhaps?

Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs, meanwhile, cleave to their own religious and cultural identities. Church attendance is on the rise; in the Serb Republic, even ministries and police departments have their own Orthodox patron saints.

Muharem Bazdulj, deputy editor of the daily Oslobodenje, the voice of liberal, secular Bosnia, said he feared the growth of Wahhabism, the conservative Sunni movement originating in Saudi Arabia that aims to strip away foreign and corrupting influences.

Analysts say Saudi-financed organizations have invested about $700 million in Bosnia since the war, often in mosques.

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Still, violent episodes have occurred. Earlier this year, after an explosion at a shopping mall in the town of Vitez killed one person and wounded seven, Zlatko Miletic, head of uniformed police of the Muslim-Croat Federation Interior Ministry, warned that a group in Bosnia linked to Salafism, an ultraconservative Sunni Islamic movement, was bent on terrorism.

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“Children are fasting on Ramadan, going to the mosque more than their parents,” he said. “We had de-Islamification for 40 years during Tito’s time, so it is natural that people are now embracing the freedom to express their religion.”

Children going on their own? Sans parents? They think we are idiots.

BOSNIAN MUSLIMS: AMERICAN MAKEOVER (/NOT!)

Julia Gorin gives us a snapshot of the American makeover in Bosnia.

Bosnian wants her husband back from Guantanamo soon (Nov. 26):

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Hajj Boudella’s children will have to wait a while to see their father, even though a U.S. federal judge ordered his release last week from the Guantanamo Bay prison after nearly seven years.

“After the ruling, my children asked if this means their dad would come home that same night,” Boudella’s wife Nadja Dizdarevic told Reuters in an interview this week.

“Their faces fell when they realized it may be a long time before they see him again,” said the mother of four who has to move from apartment to apartment each time her landlord finds out about her husband’s case.

It may be seven years since the kids have seen their father, but have they ever seen their mother:

If I were a landlord, I wouldn’t need to hear about her husband’s case to keep something like this out of my building. But apparently, the “non-Muslimy” Muslims of Bosnia aren’t worried when they see this full Islamic regalia and it’s well-known connection to mischief; they only get worried if someone was caught for the mischief as her husband was. Back to the article:

It may take up to two years before Boudella, one of five Algerians ordered released last week from Guantanamo, returns home to Bosnia, where he first went during the 1992-95 war to help organize humanitarian assistance.

An Algerian is being released to his home. In Bosnia. A Bosnian wife waits for her Algerian husband to come “home”. Courtesy of the Clinton administration (being re-released soon to a White House near you). Algerians’ homes never used to be in Bosnia. Nor have women in Bosnia dressed in the full Muslim gear since the Ottoman times.

Thousands of volunteers [terrorists] from Arab and African countries came to Bosnia during the war to fight along with Bosnian Muslims against Serbs and Croats. Some worked for Islamic aid groups [jihad front organizations, then set up bases in Bosnia].

Boudella stayed on past the war after marrying Dizdarevic, who was widowed with one child when her first husband died in the war. They have three children of their own.

“He has never seen our youngest daughter who was only eight days old when they kidnapped him,” Dizdarevic said, referring to extradition by Bosnian authorities of the six Algerians to the U.S. military authorities in January 2002.

Bosnia picked up the men in October 2001, shortly after the Sept 11 attacks on the United States by al Qaeda militants. U.S. President George W. Bush said later the six men had been planning a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo.

Justice Department attorneys said last month they would no longer rely on those accusations but that the men should continue to be held because they planned to go to Afghanistan in late 2001 to fight U.S. forces there.

The U.S. court ruled last week that there was enough evidence to keep one of the six men in detention but that the evidence against the other five was too weak.
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The men were taken to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba the day after a ruling by a top court in Bosnia that they should be released due to a lack of evidence.
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Their final release from Guantanamo is pending a decision by the U.S. government on whether to appeal the ruling, and on a request by the Bosnian authorities for their immediate release, human rights activists said. […]

So let’s review. Bosnian women before Western intervention:

Bosnian women after Western intervention:

Ah yes, another one of those blue-eyed Bosnians who are so impervious to the Islamist influence.

There lots more. Go.

UPDATE: And speaking of Bosnian Muslims:

Muslim waitress sues over 'sexy' dress code: report hat tip rut

LONDON (AFP) — A Bosnian Muslim waitress has demanded compensation from the London bar where she worked over a red dress she was asked to wear, British media reported Thursday.

Fata Lemes, 33, told an employment tribunal that she felt forced to wear the sleeveless dress with a low neckline and an open back, thought the Rocket bar was run like a "sex club" and filed for 20,000 pounds in compensation.

Lemes described the dress as "physically revealing and openly sexual," according to the Daily Telegraph.

"It was indecent. If you put this dress on you might as well be naked. I did not want men looking at my body," the newspaper quoted her as saying.

"I was brought up a Muslim, and am not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes."

According to reports, Lemes said she originally began working at the bar in May wearing loose-fitting black clothes to work, but after about a week, she was told to wear the red dress.

After trying it on, she refused to wear it, and said she was immediately fired.

Spring and Greene, the restaurant group that owns the Rocket bar, rejected the claims, however, and said the dress had been chosen by two other waitresses to give a "summery" look.

UPDATE: December 20th - Gorin comments on the above:

It was indecent. If you put this dress on you might as well be naked. I did not want men looking at my body,” the newspaper quoted her as saying. “I was brought up a Muslim, and am not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes.”

So she was raised Muslim in Bosnia after all. This goes part and parcel with the way that we convinced ourselves these weren’t like “those Muslims” and therefore could be sided with against Christians (hey, they drink alcohol and eat pork! we were told). Except when it came time to count the supposed 60,000 Bosnian-Muslim women raped by Serbs, we ended up with a couple hundred documented cases — fewer than the 800 documented Serb women raped by Muslim and Croatian soldiers. How come? Well you see, said our entirely aligned government-media complex at the time, as Muslims it’s shameful to be raped, and so that’s why few women came forward. Of course, lying to the infidel about the whole thing to begin with is a sacred rite whether a Muslim is wearing a shmata or jeans, or a shmata and jeans.

Let’s review: when it’s convenient, Balki isn’t Muslimy. And when it’s convenient, Balki is a proud Muslim indeed. For world image purposes, or when Balki wants Western assistance against his Christian enemies, Balki is a “Western, secular, non-religious, tolerant” kind of not-really-Muslim Muslim. But when Balki has a beef with the West, or inevitably wants to turn on it altogether, lo and behold! Balki is Muslim after all.

Please note that even Muslims partaking of alcohol, pork and jeans are Muslim enough to stage an atrocity. See Bosnia and Kosovo.

U.S.-Supported Bosnian President Heads al Qaeda-Bosnia, US lone vote for Islamic Independent State in Heart of Europe

What is most deeply depressing is our deadly obstinacy to see Bosnia/ Kosovo/ Serbia as it is, not the way we would like it to be. Despite events to the contrary, The US pursues a perverse policy.

Yesterday, while 77 countries voted in favor of the Serbian initiative requesting the ICJ to rule on the legality of the unilateral secession of its Kosovo province, take a look at the power team voting against: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Albania and United States of America. Gorin has it all here:  Non-Binding Victory for Serbia and Justice at the International Court of Justice. AND: America’s Stature Revealed REVEALED: What the U.S. has done to its stature via the Balkans

From Dmitry Medvedev’s blog: Statement of the Day

“Perhaps 48 countries did recognize Kosovo independence, but it may be worth mentioning that the other 144 did not.”

– Dumisani Kumalo, South Africa’s Ambassador to the UN, in response to American ambassador during General Assembly’s debate about Serbian initiative

Serbia Wins Majority Support in United Nations
Oct 8th, 2008 | By De-Construct.net | In Current, Kosovo-Metohija Crisis

US and Albania, Part of a Painfully Small World Minority

Serbian resolution requesting an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on “whether the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo is in accordance with international law” was accepted in the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, with 77 countries voting in favor and 6 against….74 countries abstained but, according to the General Assembly voting regulations, Serbia needed a simple majority, where only the votes ‘for’ and ‘against’ are being counted, while the abstentions are not taken into account.

“We are surprised with the number of states which voted for the resolution. We support the International Court of Justice opinion, but an advisory opinion cannot affect Kosovo independence”, Britain’s UN Ambassador John Sawers said after the vote.

Previously, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic urged the representatives of the United Nations to support Serbia’s ICJ intiative.

Jeremic: Voting Against Means Secessionists Always Win

Sending the resolution to the court, Jeremic told the UN General Assembly, would reduce tensions in the region and in the rest of the world.

“The Republic of Serbia believes that sending this question to the ICJ would prevent the Kosovo crisis from serving as a deeply problematic precedent in any part of the globe where secessionist ambitions are harbored,” Jeremic said explaining Serbia’s request.

“We also believe that the ICJ advisory opinion would provide politically neutral, yet judicially authoritative guidance, to many countries still deliberating on how to approach UDI in line with international law,” Jeremic added.

He stated that Serbia believes “that recourse to the Court would strengthen the rule of law in international relations, and make the proposed course of action a symbol of the world community’s resolve to take the UN Charter as its guide”.

“Supporting this resolution would also serve to reaffirm a fundamental principle: the right of any member State of the United Nations to pose a simple, basic question — on a matter it considers vitally important — to the international court,” Jeremic set out, noting that to vote against would be in effect a vote to deny the right of any country – now or in the future – to seek judicial recourse through the UN system.

Jeremic underscored that “to vote against would also mean accepting that nothing could be done when secessionists in whichever part of the globe assert the uniqueness of their cause, and claim exception to the universal scope of the international legal order”.

Read it all. And then read Gorin's latest on the administration's  refusal to remove its head from its ass:

U.S.-Supported Bosnian President Heads al Qaeda-Bosnia

So the Muslim part of the rotating Bosnian president, Haris Silajdzic — who as foreign minister and then prime minister during the Bosnian war had the West’s support — goes well beyond fostering fundamentalism, and it appears he did more than just provide passports to foreign mujahedeen ‘out of desperation’ to ‘defend’ Bosnian Muslims. Muslim dissident Dzevad Galijasevic — a lone voice among “non-Muslimy” Bosnians (one out of nine of whom has something positive to say about the Wahhabi presence there) — has been on the case for a while, at great danger to himself, and now has this to say, from Serbianna:

Kosovo Connection to the Georgian conflict

For those readers interested in getting a better understanding of the Kosovo connection to the South Ossetia conflict and others like it that will follow like dominos if Kosovo independence continues apace, Julia Gorin offers three illuminating blog posts (one long and the other two short):

Albanian Love Gets More Expensive: Toll Booth, Georgia

“Munich” Author George Jonas, on S. Ossetia

Even Staunch U.S. Ally Poland Recognizes the Un-Americanness of U.S. Supporting “Kosova” — and its Consequences, e.g. S. Ossetia

Also of interest:

Bosnian Ambassador to Iran: “We hope that expansion of cultural and religious cooperation with Iran will help revive our Islamic identity.” 

And please comment only after if you've read them.

Today’s “Palestinians” Include Bosnians and Albanians

It's the jihad stupid.

The inestimable Julia Gorin: Today’s “Palestinians” Include Bosnians and Albanians

From Midstream magazine, December 1992 by author Paul Ginieweski: “The Palestinian-Bosnian Connection”

In several respects, two contemporary conflicts, the Serbo-Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia, and the Arab-Israeli struggle, are intertwined. Their linkage should be explained.

First, a well known fact, documented in detail in specialized literature, is largely ignored by the general public and neglected by the media all over the world: a number of present-day Palestinians, who consider themselves and qualify or pose as “Arabs,” are recent descendants of Muslim immigrants from European lands, from Bosnia-Herzegovina in particular.

When the Ottoman Empire lost Bosnia to Austria in 1878, huge numbers of Bosnians were resettled in the Middle East, in the framework of a general policy of Muslim colonization of Turkey’s troubled areas. Quoting from various former studies, the historian Bat Ye’or explains how Ottoman law granted lands in Palestine to the Muslim colonists, with a 12-year exemption from taxes and military service. In the Carmel region, Galilee and the plain of Sharon and Caesarea, lands were distributed to the Muslim Slavs from Bosnia and Herzegovina; Georgians were settled around Kuneitra on the Golan Heights and Moroccans in lower Galilee.
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At the same time, measures were taken against non-Muslim immigrants. In the same year 1887, a law was passed forbidding Jews to immigrate to Palestine, to reside there, to buy land, to restore houses, or to live in Jerusalem. It applied only to Jews….

In the course of the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Turkish authorities settled over two million Muslim colonists from the Balkans and Crimea in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia and Anatolia, in order to Islamize these countries and to undermine the national aspirations of the indigenous populations…

The pretense of the Palestinian “Arabs” to be the only natives in a country where Jews are deemed newcomers and intruders, is a myth. Great numbers of Palestinian “Arabs” are Arab in name only, and immigrants of more recent date than many Jews, whose presence in the land of Israel goes back 3,500 years. Many “Palestinians” immigrated even after the mainwaves of Zionist Jews: they came to the land of Israel in the thirties of the 20th century, attracted by the economic prosperity engendered by the Zionists.

Other facts ignored in good faith by some, or concealed and fabricated, belong to the history of a recent Palestinian-Bosnian partnership in war crimes.

In 1942, during World War II, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El-Husseini, leader of the Palestinian Arab activists, settled in Berlin in order to add to the German war effort and to pour fuel on the flames of the Shoah. (He was later listed as a war criminal by the Western democracies.) The mufti met Eichmann, Himmler and Hitler and visited the extermination camps. Many relevant written documents have survived about the mufti’s role, including exhortations to speed up the deportation of the Jews and to prevent their escape. In 1943, the mufti created a legion of Waffen-SS, the “Legion Handjar [alternate spelling: Handzar; Hanschar],” recruited among Muslims from Bosnia. These 19,000 murderers were…abundantly utilized in the Nazi media and the propaganda war. A number of photographs depict the Muslim German-clad muftis and mullahs. The military value of the legion appears to have been close to nil. But the Muslim SS committed various atrocities against the Resistance and the Jewish population in Yugoslavia. They participated in the guard of the railway link between Auschwitz and the Balkans…

It happened half a century ago. But the Palestinian Arabs have neither forgotten nor forfeited their link with their Muslim brothers in Bosnia. During the summer of 1992, a delegation of Arab Israelis visited former Yugoslavia, pledging to establish a camp for Bosnian children in the Jewish State.
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The Muslim Bosnians are strongly connected with the Arab-Muslim world. They supported Saddam Hussein during the Kuwait crisis and the Gulf War. [Recall that Yasser Arafat did the same, briefly becoming a pariah in the Muslim world.] Libya is assisting them militarily.

From this past May in the San Francisco Sentinel, by Seth J. Frantzman, a doctoral student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose MA thesis was on the Christian Arabs in the 1948 war: Fascist Muslim Group Expected to Loot Tel Aviv in 1948

On a pleasant Thursday in December 1948, Emilio Traubner, a correspondent for The Palestine Post, found himself near Abu Kabir, not far from Jaffa. Trenches and expended cartridges were strewn about, reminders of the fighting between units of the Irgun and local Arab forces that had taken place there seven months previously. There was a large Arab villa from where Traubner recovered a diary. It turned out to be the daily record of Yusuf Begovic of Pale, a town near Sarajevo in modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina. In it Begovic had described his activities as a cook for the “Arab Army of Liberation.”

Traubner described who Begovic had been serving: “35 Yugoslav Muslims who had a good reason to expect to be among the first to occupy and loot Tel Aviv, were part of a group of some thousands who came to the Middle East to join the jihad against Israel.”

What were Yugoslav Muslims doing in Jaffa in 1948? How had they managed to get themselves all the way to the Holy Land? What had motivated them? Who had recruited them? What was the Bosnian or Albanian connection to the Palestinians, if there was one?

There was a Bosnian connection: Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, had been in Bosnia in the 1940s. Had he recruited these men? What had become of them?

It turned out that in 2005 a Bosnian had given an interview in Lebanon to a Croatian newspaper and claimed to have fought in the 1948 war. The story began to crystallize.

Gorin: And how Kosovo will get Israel nuked

Catching up on Gorin. Devastating.

Two-thirds into the Year of the Rat … And how Kosovo will get Israel nuked

By Julia Gorin

Every 12 years, the Year of the Rat returns. According to the Chinese calendar, 2008 is the Year of the Rat, and if one looks up what a Rat year signifies, one finds, simply, "Chaos". Indeed, this Year of the Rat has seen the Olympics hosted by China itself - further legitimized by an American president's insistence on taking the unprecedented step of attending an out-of-country opening ceremony. The commu-fascist nature of Red China was on proud display during that ceremony, demonstrating a precision by every performer marching to the same beat to almost superhuman perfection. China's unaborted women and girls were featured prominently (though not seven-year-old singer Yang Peiyi, because of her imperfect teeth). As many have pointed out, the 2008 Olympics abomination we've witnessed — in China's preparation for which young Chinese gymnasts were beaten in training; peoples' homes were demolished (prison and beatings for those who requested compensation or protested); human rights activists were arrested, broadcasts and websites blocked, journalists denied access, and UK athletes initially forced to sign a gag order against making any political statements or even telling their colleagues of any mistreatment they may witness, much less emailing or blogging about it -- has happened before. The year was 1936, when the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, and the English football team was ordered to give a Nazi salute in Berlin. (This year, the American team wore communist Red out of "respect" for the host country.) A quick calculation reveals that, like 2008, 1936 was the Year of the Rat. And we know what chaos it brought on.

This Year of the Rat also happens to be an election year, one in which we witnessed the most chaotic primary season in recent election history -- with no one knowing for the longest time who would be the presumptive Democratic nominee. And yet, amid the chaotic events of the Rat's year, the U.S. presidential campaign seems comparatively the least newsworthy item. Let's recall that the year began with still another great act of appeasement, its enormity amplified by the tininess of the territory in question. In February the U.S. and major European powers rewarded with a second state separatists who used terrorism throughout the 1980s and 90s to wrest a chunk of land from the host society it belonged to. This was the Kosovo giveaway — executed at gunpoint (Albanians threaten the West and the West threatens the Serbs)--whose predicted repercussions the world is only starting to witness on a grand scale as Russia utilizes the clear precedent in the first flare-up of many that will follow--in South Ossetia. It was not lost on the Czech Republic that its reluctant decision to recognize Kosovo "independence"--after succumbing to U.S. and EU pressure-took place on the territory of the former Sudetenland.

In another stunning historical parallel, John McCain's statement calling on the U.S. and EU to bless the illegal land grab was prepared for a February security conference in Munich. While the campaigning Democratic candidates at the time likewise expressed support for the land grab, John McCain was on board from a time before Americans had ever heard the word Kosovo, helping to get the Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists armed by the U.S. and even pressuring Bill Clinton to send in ground troops to kill Christians on behalf of Muslims falsely claiming genocide. (Fortunately, Clinton knew better than to imperil American lives in a war that he knew was fictitious but he needed desperately.) In a cosmic coincidence, 72-year-old John McCain was himself born in the Year of the Rat -- specifically 1936, the year the world bestowed the Olympics upon Hitler's Germany -- and his ascent is taking place the year the world bestowed the Olympics upon Red China, took away Kosovo from the Nazis' bitterest enemy Serbia, and restarted the Cold War.

DUTCH SOLDIERS TO TESTIFY FOR KARADZIC DEFENSE: "In Srebrenica at the time we had to protect ourselves from the Bosnian Muslims, rather than protect the Muslims from the Serbs"

Slowly but surely the truth trickles out. The Byzantine blog has the whole truth.
"In Srebrenica at the time we had to protect ourselves from the Bosnian Muslims, rather than protect the Muslims from the Serbs", Dutch soldiers who served as UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica during the Bosnian civil war said in Belgrade. Photo: Dutch battalion in Srebrenica, 1995.

Dutch Soldiers from Srebrenica Battalion Offer to Testify in Karadzic's Defense Some 15 Dutch soldiers of the former

Netherlands battalion stationed in Srebrenica during the Bosnian civil war came to Belgrade on Wednesday, offering to testify in the Hague tribunal on behalf of Dr. Karadzic, a member of Radovan Karadzic's defense team Milivoje Ivanisevic told Vecernje Novosti.

"We talked about their possible testimony. They stressed that the Serbs did not commit war crimes against the Muslim civilians when they were passing through several dozen of their villages [in Srebrenica municipality] the Dutch soldiers were securing. They came over at their own expense and said they will testify and invite more of their fellow soldiers to testify too. They left Belgrade on Thursday," Ivanisevic said.

GEORGIA: The Poisonous Fruit of an "Independent" Kosovo

The obscure and terrible result (apart from the obvious bloodshed, displacement, and ruin)  of the hostilities in Georgia is what a break, what a victory it is for Islam. The global jihad could not have engineered it better.  Islam is served by a break in a US-Russo alliance.

Had we followed the Bush doctrine, a coherent plan of opposing jihad and Islamic expansion we could have kept our policies clear and cogent, and consistent of application, not in the least having an opportunity to maintain if not cordial at least not crises level communication with Russia, with no costs to allied policies such as advancing and promoting democracy and market economies consistent with our own. Instead, Condi,  Burns, Hadley were so busy trying to establish a terror state in the heart of Israel, theys have got this all fubar, "fucked up beyond all relief."  and, they delude themselves into thinking they advance American interests, in some odd, "complicated"  fashion.

Instead of defining our  philosophy "by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and "scrupulously logical deliberation' -- we "accumulated a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown." Ayn Rand

The line in the sand was drawn with the US backing of an independent Kosovo.

 Bush offered military aid to a breakaway Kosovo. The Russians were The Serbian Parliament is set to rejected Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence and Russia signaled that it will support Belgrade on this issue.

The Kosovan chickens are coming home to roost. *sigh* Back in February, Glick warned, KOSOVO'S STARK WARNING.

Back on March 8th I reported  that South Ossetia was seeking recognition - (with the rejoiner , "Hate to say I told ya so .............they won't be the first or the last) and Dr. Eldad wrote here, "The Muslim Republic of Kososo".

"The independence of Kosovo is a precedent that all EU countries with an ethnic minority should pursue"

South Ossetia: The perfect wrong war

Let's review the battle of arguments in the South Ossetia conflict and try to analyze the essence while keeping an eye on the bigger picture, the one that affects democracies' national security and international efforts against terror forces.

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The roots of the local conflict

Since 1999, the outcome of the Western campaign in Kosovo brought about a parallel status quo to the one established in South Ossetia and in Abkhasia. In short, NATO had created an autonomous area for the ethnic Albanians inside a sovereign country, Serbia; while Russia and the CIS have insured autonomous status for South Ossetians and Abkhasians inside another sovereign state, Georgia.

From a Russian perspective the two cases were linked and would eventually be resolved via negotiations. From a Western perspective Kosovo was "unique" and was to be resolved differently, that is granted independence unilaterally. But as long as Russian-American relations especially under Presidents Bush and Putin were warm, the de facto enclaves in Kosovo and Ossetia lived in stability.

The challenge began when during winter 2008, the US and the European Union decided to unleash Kosovo's separation despite Serbia's opposition. In international jurisprudence, breaking away entities need validation by the country the partition is going to affect. In Canada for example, Quebec would always need the other provinces to agree on separation. Agreement of "both sides" is usually sought.

But in the case of Kosovo, for international political motivations, including a gesture to please the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the midst of a campaign to win hearts and minds, Washington and Brussels went ahead swiftly and endorsed Pristina's declaration of separation from Belgrade. The Western powers argued that going back to Serbia was out of question for the Kosovars; therefore going forward was the only option, despite Serbian claims inside the province.

The underlying geopolitical reasoning was that no force including the Russians would be able to oppose the move. "They are too far" to intervene, assumed the diplomats. But Moscow made its intentions known the day of Kosovo's declaration of independence.

And of course for more on  the Kosovo factor -  Julia Gorin today at Republican Riot:

All the Confused Imposters Weigh in on South Ossetia

As people weigh in on the South Ossetia showdown now that a Balkans-rooted crisis finally has their attention, they are starting the clock, and their observations, from this incident as if it were isolated from that which precipitated it. For example, you get posts like the one from Political Maven Monica Crowley yesterday, drawing a Munich analogy well after the real Munich-style appeasement was done in Kosovo when she wasn’t looking — at her country’s hands. Crowley writes:

When Nazi Germany seized control of Czechoslovakia in 1938, appeaser extraordinaire Neville Chamberlain referred to it as “a faraway country of which we know little.”

The Nazi invasion was based on the simple and reasonable enough-sounding pretext that ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland wanted to be annexed to the Fatherland. Hitler’s invasion of that small, seemingly insignificant country led, of course, to total war in Europe and a global conflict that cost 100 million lives. All because the Western democracies didn’t see—or didn’t want to see—the unsatiable appetites of an expansionist power led by a coldly calculating mass murderer.

The insatiable appetites of an expansionist power are those of an expansionist Islam, which early on set its sights on the Balkans. And the West has been helping secure that prize for it. The “faraway country of which we know little” was Yugoslavia, and the Munich analogy culminated in a faraway province of which we know little, called Kosovo. In Kosovo, the Albanian-wrought NATO invasion was based on the simple and reasonable enough-sounding pretext that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo wanted to be annexed to the Fatherland (something that Albanians have made no secret of despite our leaders’ denials and decoy reasons for our support of a policy driven by the threat of violence).

The much more solid Kosovo-Munich parallels abound, including from the author of the book Munich and from former Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Jiří Dienstbier, who pointed out that the Czech Republic’s reluctant decision to recognize Kosovo in June took place on the territory of the former Sudetenland. For God’s sake, John McCain’s statement calling on the U.S. and EU to recognize the illegal Muslim land grab in Kosovo as independence was prepared for a February security conference in Munich!

The current Russia-Georgia crisis is the “total war in Europe and a global conflict costing millions of lives” of which Crowley speaks. It is part of the chaos stemming from the U.S.-led NATO “invasion of that small, seemingly insignificant country,” in which we did the Muslim Albanians’ bidding — first downplaying their Muslimness, then proudly announcing that we were doing it to buy Islamic good will. Of course, one would have to have been paying attention to the fallout from Bill Clinton’s congressionally unapproved war to have a clue.

Crowley continues:

Russia has used the pretext that ethnic Russians living in a part of the independent republic of Georgia want to be folded into Russia. The Georgians, they say, are doing “ethnic cleansing” of the Russians there, requiring Russia to intervene to defend them.

Of course, this requires Russian tanks, fighter jets, and now ground troops to sweep into Georgia proper, killing thousands while they begin to occupy the country.

Where is Crowley’s cynicism about the “ethnic cleansing” claims that continue to be used to justify wresting Kosovo from sovereign Serbian land even nine years after those claims were debunked the very year of our invasion by every major newspaper after we all moved on — including by the late Daniel Pearl? An invasion in which we didn’t have even the minimal interest and kinship that the Russians can use for their much more solid pretext. An invasion which “of course required [NATO] tanks, fighter jets, and” — if Wesley Clark, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and even George W. Bush had their way –”ground troops to sweep into [Serbia] proper, killing thousands while they begin to occupy the country.”

Go, read Gorin.

ETHNICALLY CLEANSED SARAJEVO NOW ENTIRELY MUSLIM

As the useful tools of the media and the Muslims spin their silly tales, the Muslim takeover continues apace.

Bosnia: Muslims dominate capital, claims Croatian MP   Adnkronos

The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, once a symbol of ethnic diversity, has become an entirely Muslim city, a Croat deputy in the Bosnian Parliament, Branko Zrno, said on Wednesday.

"Sarajevo definitely isn't a multi-ethnic city, but the city of one group, the Bosniacs (Muslims), " Zrno told local media. He pointed out that Serbs and Croats in Sarajevo have no institutional protection, and continue to leave the capital. Zrno echoed allegations from Bosnian Serb leaders, including Serb entity Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, that non-Muslims in Sarajevo suffered discrimination and were denied their rights.

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Serbs claim that in the city of 400,000 only 7,000 Serbs have remained, compared to 160,000 before the 1992-1995 civil war.

Thanks Bill Clinton!

The Serb claims have been supported by the Muslim President of the Bosnian Helsinki committee for human rights, Srdjan Dizdarevic, who said in a recent interview that Sarajevo had become a "monoethnic" city.

"Over 90 percent of Sarajevo inhabitants belong to only one group, the Bosniacs," Dizdarevic told weekly Fokus.

"Ethnic cleansing in this city has, unfortunately, been successfully completed. If the will exists to reconstruct Bosnia on multiethnic principles, one should start with Sarajevo," he concluded.

But as ethnic tensions deepened, the Muslim chairman of a three-man rotating state presidency, Haris Silajdzic, on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on the Serb entity.

Silajdzic repeated earlier claims that the Serb entity is a "symbol of genocide" allegedly perpetrated by its first president, Radovan Karadzic.

The hoax.

Karadzic is currently in detention and the Hague-based war crimes tribunal last week charged him with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

"Karadzic has been arrested, but his project continues to live," Silajdzic said.

So said the Muslim President  preceding over a city of Muslims, ethnic cleansing accomplished.

"The international community is obliged to remove consequences of the genocide," Silajdzic added, referring to the Serb entity.

So said the Muslim President  preceding over a city of Muslims, ethnic cleansing accomplished.

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Bosnia's majority Muslim leaders have continued to call the Serb entity a "genocidal creature" that should be abolished - a move strongly opposed by Serbs.

The Pictures That Fooled The World - Yugoslavia Death Camp Hoax

You must first view the video: The Pictures That Fooled The World - Yugoslavia Death Camp Hoax The dheath camp of Karadcic was fake it was staged by a western left camera team, from England.(hat tip Lucky Bee)

And read Media Cleansing, Dirty Reporting: Journalism and Tragedy in Yugoslavia by Peter Brock and David Binder 

Julia Gorin sent this to me on Totten’s Atheist Muslim Albanians of Kosovo

I recently wrote a response for Jihad Watch, which also appeared on Atlas, to a blog post by war reporter Michael Totten in Commentary magazine online, titled “This is a Kosovar Muslim” and showing a photo of a Kosovo Albanian wearing a pro-USA sweatshirt.

The following morning, Dr. Andrew Bostom , author of Legacy of Jihad, forwarded an exchange he had with Totten about his Commentary post (it starts with Totten’s response to Bostom’s initial query):

TOTTEN: You do know that the majority of people here are atheists, right? There is no religious state or religious majority. “Dhimmi” does not apply to anyone here. The local troubles are ethnic, not religious. Catholics are very deeply respected. It is the Serbs and the Orthodox who are not, thanks to Milosevic and his apartheid and ethnic cleansing regime.

You are never going to understand this place through a Muslim/infidel lens.

BOSTOM: Do you think “secular/atheist” Kosovo will join the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference], which has clamored for its creation?

TOTTEN: I don’t know. But I wonder why you are putting “secular” and “atheist” in quotation marks. Do you actually believe most people are religious Muslims? I wish we could have this argument in Prishtina. It would be a different argument.

BOSTOM: Not only don’t you know (why you don’t know, or won’t at least hazard your best guess is one question), you apparently don’t think the question is relevant, when what actually happens may be pathognomonic of the problem of creating truly secular Muslim societies in the first place…Can’t you see that? The OIC serves one primary purpose: Islamization. Why would a secular society need to join such an entity?

TOTTEN: Albania joined in 1992, and Albania is overwhelmingly atheist, even more so than Kosovo which is also majority atheist. I’m done arguing with you about this, Andrew, unless you come out here.

BOSTOM: It probably won’t register with you, but “secular” (NOT!) Turkey — which has progressively re-Islamized since the Menderes government was elected by pandering to an Islamic revival in 1950, and now has an openly fundamentalist govt which represents a majority fundamentalist populace — is a major player in the OIC, and a (rather vile) Turk heads the OIC.

Again, I ask you, why would any truly secular nation be part of the OIC?

Let’s start with Totten’s most embarrassing and callous but commonly used canard about the Serbs: “It is the Serbs and the Orthodox who are not [respected], thanks to Milosevic and his apartheid and ethnic cleansing regime.”

In addition to U.S. policy analyst Martin Sletzinger’s casually stated comments that it is “nonsense” to think that Kosovo’s becoming a country has something to do with Milosevic’s supposed oppression — and in addition to the fact that when Sletzinger started working in Congress in the 1970’s, the Albanian lobby was “giving us maps of Iliria, which included Kosovo, half of Macedonia, a good portion of Montenegro, and of course Albania” — we also have Andy Wilcoxson laying it out in this post:

On April 2, 1981, rioting erupted in Kosovo. Nine people were killed and scores injured as police broke up a mob of 10,000 ethnic Albanian demonstrators who were rampaging through the streets of Pristina smashing shop windows and destroying factory machines. The demonstrators, some armed with guns and firing at the police, pushed children in front of them to make it more difficult for security forces to disrupt the march.

The Yugoslav Government said the rioting was the “worst outbreak of separatist demands” since World War II, and imposed martial law to bring the situation back under control. Eyewitnesses reported that cars and trucks were overturned and burning in the center of Pristina while the army guarded public buildings and ambulances toured the streets to pick up the injured.

The separatist nature of the rioting was clear to one and all. When the New York Times reported on it their lead paragraph read: “Yugoslav tanks and troops took up positions today in a province in the south to put down anti-Government riots by Albanian separatists … the separatists want to unite with Albania, the small and selfisolated Communist country on the Adriatic.”

According accounts published in the Washington Post, the demonstrators were said to be chanting “Long Live Enver Hoxha” along with slogans demanding Kosovo’s unification with Albania.
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Things flared up in Kosovo a month later when Pristina University was forced to close its doors amid student demonstrations demanding Kosovo’s unification with Albania.

In 1982 Becir Hoti, an ethnic Albanian official in Kosovo’s ruling Communist Party, explained the situation quite well. He told the New York Times: “The nationalists have a two-point platform. First to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a Greater Albania.”

This is significant because today’s Western narrative claims that the Kosovo-Albanian population wants to secede from Serbia because they allegedly suffered mistreatment under the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

That thesis is exposed as fallacy because Slobodan Milosevic’s political career didn’t even begin until 1983, when he took a job as economic advisor to the mayor of Belgrade…Kosovo-Albanian separatism had already erupted violently in 1981 and 1982 — long before the public even knew who Slobodan Milosevic was.

Totten’s State Department ventriloquism reminds me of this unbelievable sentence from a November email from, appropriately enough, a “Wilhelm”:

The reason orthodox churches are burnt is only due to their identification with Milosevic-type politics not because Albanians are Muslim let alone them being extremists.

What this airhead is saying is that as the Albanians increasingly expose their long-awaited designs on the region through, among other things, the ongoing, viscerally carried out destruction of Orthodox churches eight years after the Serb-led ouster of Milosevic, we should instead believe that this has something to do with the 1990s decade, and not with the similar attacks on Serb holy sites in Kosovo that went on for a century before that, including during WWII when Greater Albania was undergoing a similar ascension, under the sponsorship of Adolf Hitler. Like Totten, Welhelm wants to believe that the desecration and destruction of thousand-year-old churches by Albanians not only has nothing to do with religion (despite the demonic-like zeal with which Albanians pried off, by hand, the crosses from the churches during the 2004 pogrom), but it doesn’t even have to do with the ethnic intolerance which preceded Milosevic and which tripled after his ouster — that is, after the Albanians were “freed”.

Never, never has the world seen such a persistent, widespread, irrational and singular hatred as that reserved for Serbs. Even age-old anti-Semitism doesn’t compare, given that there are so many thinking, fair-minded people who don’t engage in it. In contrast, people who otherwise have minds make sure not to use them when Serbs are involved.

Notice Totten’s insistence on continuing to use the term “ethnic cleansing” in reference to Kosovo regardless of how many times and ways that notion has been debunked — including by every major U.S. paper in late 1999 after Americans lost interest in Kosovo, and most recently by documentation I provided in my Jihad Watch response to his piece. But Serbs aren’t worth the trouble of a mouse click.

On Totten’s ventriloquism regarding the religious question — “There is no religious state or religious majority…The local troubles are ethnic, not religious. Catholics are very deeply respected” — here is Chris Deliso on Kosovo’s direction, based on developments in long-independent Albania:

Perhaps the most significant emerging trend in the case of Albania is the rise of internecine strife based on religious difference. Rallying a decade ago under the nationalist banner of “one nation, three religions,” the paramilitary KLA claimed support from Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox Albanians during its war in Kosovo. Today, while most Albanians still do feel their ethnicity strongly, religious tensions have nevertheless been growing. In october 2003, police arrested author Kastriot Myftari, charging him with inciting religious hatred against Muslims for writing that Albanian Muslims should convert to Catholicism.
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In the northern, Catholic majority city of Shkodra, which borders on Montenegro, mutual provocations between Catholics and Muslims are suddenly emerging. A cross was put up in the city, and then mysteriously vandalized in January 2006. And when civic leaders decided to honor national hero Mother Teresa with a statue, three Muslim groups — the Association of Islamic Intellectuals, the Albanian Muslim Forum, and the Association of Islmaic Charities — publicly protested. The [Albanian Muslim Forum], which allegedly supports interfaith relations, declared that a statue of one of the world’s most renowned humanitarian figures would be a “provocation” to Muslims, and that the religious situation in Shkodra was “not so calm.”

Deliso also explains that “the end of the national question in Kosovo is the beginning of the religious one, as new challenges to the social and clerical order arise from radical Islam.”

Regarding Catholics being “deeply respected” in Kosovo: Aside from Catholics and Muslims having some deep roots in eliminating Serbs and Jews together during WWII, I addressed Kosovo’s religious “pluralism” in my blog post titled “Kosovo’s Religious Pluralism“, which demonstrated, among other things, how an Albanian Catholic priest felt more in common with, and was better to, Albanian Muslims than his Croatian Catholic flock. Because the point is Albanianism Uber Alles. Until it isn’t. As Jim Jatras reminds us:

Typically these begin as what are represented as “national liberation movements,” the desire of a group of people described in national or ethnic terms — Algerians, Afghanis, Kosovo Albanians, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Iraqis, etc. — to have their own independent national state. But at some point — either after achieving that goal…or in the process of the “national liberation” struggle…the movement shifts to a primarily Islamic jihad orientation, in which the national element is downplayed and the jihad element is emphasized. This transition coincides with the marginalization or elimination of the non-Muslim social elements (Christian Arabs, Albanian Catholics, etc.), some of whom may have been militant supporters of the first, national phase but who will have no future in the Islamic new order.

But apparently the big picture is irrelevant to Totten, who is interested only in what he observes on the surface and two feet in front of him. Trends? What’s that? Indeed, what is all this nonsense about the Islamization of the world and a caliphate forming? You don’t see me wearing a burqa, do you?

Let’s hear from another Catholic Albanian priest:

Some tensions appeared after the war. In its December 1999 report, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation, OSCE, said that following the withdrawal of Serbian troops from Kosovo, ethnic Albanian fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, were harassing Catholic Albanians over their alleged lack of commitment to the KLA cause.

The OSCE report said: “Catholic Albanians and evangelical groups have faced continued intimidation and harassment.” It went on: “A common feature of many attacks was the underlying intention to force minorities to leave and/or to ensure their silence through fear. This strategy was effective.”

According to a US State Department report for 2003, certain Catholic-populated areas within Kosovo had previously been “under suspicion of collaboration with the Serb regime,” adding: “Such suspicion was fuelled by the fact that Catholic Albanian villages suffered relatively little damage during the conflict.” [Indeed, clearly they weren’t doing enough for the KLA terrorists/separatists.]

The Catholic Church in Kosovo condemned ethnically-motivated riots in 2004 when dozens of Serbian Orthodox Churches and other properties were damaged or destroyed. “I felt ashamed after what happened in 2004. We were under some pressure as well,” said a Kosovo Albanian Catholic who has since moved to neighbouring Montenegro.

Gosh, I wonder what made him move out of Kosovo. But notice that this Albanian feels shamed by the actions of his fellow Albanians, and considers them reprehensible. Too bad Totten can’t be as honest. But then, Serbs deserve to suffer, according to Totten’s first paragraph at the top of this post. Note also that bullying of Catholics in Kosovo didn’t start only after the war, but was practiced in the 70s and 80s as well, and many of the Albanians who moved out of Kosovo (often to Serbia) along with the Serbs who were fleeing in those decades were Catholics. From one of my earliest articles on Kosovo, based on an interview with a Jew who was raised there (Branko, whose brother is Slobodan):

Slobodan’s best friend, Bardy, was a Catholic Albanian married to a Serbian woman. “He had just called me a few months ago,” Branko reminisces, “because he was so excited about his new dog — a Rottweiler, like so many in America have. When the KLA came in with NATO, he was killed, just for not being a ‘good’ Albanian.”

Another friend, a Serb named Ilija, died while an “internally displaced person” in Serbia, from what Branko calls “sorrow and anger.”

The Serb Ilija, the Albanian Bardy, and the Jew Slobodan were three best friends who got married on the same day, alternately serving as one another’ s best man.

As for Totten’s point about most Albanian Muslims not being religious, surely we don’t have to explain that a Muslim doesn’t have to be religious to sympathize with the cause and buy into the universal Muslim sense of aggrievement. He also states above that there is no religious majority, which is strange, given that about 95 percent of Kosovo is Muslim. That these Muslims are still recovering from their communist-imposed atheism is irrelevant. But it shouldn’t be too long a process, given that Islam is a popular religion among recovering atheists. Does Totten think that Kosovo lends itself to Islamic indoctrination less than Russia, where “especially the atheist groups are gradually getting inclined towards Islam because of extensive propaganda and activities of the Islamist NGOs.” And here is something related from a 1994 article in the London Chronicle by former Thatcher adviser Sir Alfred Sherman:

[I]t should be noted that in Britain and Western Europe, individuals and groups faithful to Moscow’s line in world affairs for years, though mainly atheist, inexplicably back the Muslim fundamentalist government [of Bosnia].

Incidentally, does Totten think that the Bosnia war we abetted, which brought Bosniaks exponentially closer to Islam, doesn’t have echoes in the Kosovo war we abetted?

Totten’s shrug at Albania’s membership in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, meanwhile, is also worth noting. Like I said, all thinking is suspended if the subject is the Balkans. Here was the OIC upon Kosovo’s “independence”:

RIYADH (Reuters) - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference has welcomed Kosovo’s declaration of independence, saying it would be an asset to the Muslim world.

“Kosovo has finally declared its independence after a long and determined struggle by its people. As we rejoice in this happy result, we declare our solidarity with and support to our brothers and sisters there,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the head of the OIC, said at the opening of a meeting in Dakar on Monday.

“The Islamic (umma) nation wishes them success in the new battle awaiting them, which is the building of a strong and prosperous state capable of satisfying its people. There is no doubt that the independence of Kosovo will be an asset to the Muslim world and further enhance joint Islamic action,” he said in comments sent to Reuters.

It doesn’t matter if both we and the Albanians take Totten’s advice and steer clear of seeing “this place through a Muslim/infidel lens.” The umma certainly sees Kosovo through a Muslim/infidel lens — as was the premise of Deliso’s book and the reason for its title The Coming Balkan Caliphate.

“‘Dhimmi’ does not apply to anyone here,” Totten admonishes Bostom. Aside from the fact that one can be a dhimmi just to the Albanian violence being threatened should their cause not be promoted to its conclusion (as that Hungarian parliamentarian demonstratedwhen he explained the awarding of a state to an intolerant population by saying “we’re afraid of them”), what do you call the populations (Serbs, Croats, Roma, Jews and even Gorani Muslims) who are at the mercy of their Albanian-Muslim “hosts” in the event that the armed KFOR guards blink?

Beyond that, there is this fact: Even if dhimmitude weren’t being imposed by the master population on the untermenschen in its mist, or on the master population’s Western benefactors, that doesn’t mean people won’t behave as dhimmis preemptively, of their own accord (we are seeing this everywhere now) in an attempt to please the wider population of Masters. We started calling Albanians ‘Muslims’ and declaring the Kosovo project to be about the U.S. creating a Muslim state in Europe even when the Albanians didn’t — with Tom Lantos asking Muslim countries and jihadists to take this action into consideration, and outgoing Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns hailing support for Kosovo from the OIC and “happily claiming that a ‘vastly majority Muslim state’ has been carved out of Serbia, a European Christian country.”

Which brings us to a phenomenon that I’ll call Dhimmi Irony. Because despite our efforts to please our masters, only five out of 57 member states of the OIC (which includes a “Palestine” that would benefit directly), have recognized Kosovo’s independence:

More and more countries are getting ready to recognize Kosovo’s independence, but many are hesitant, including some Arab and Muslim countries despite Washington’s appeals to display solidarity with Kosovo Muslims.

During a briefing on Kosovo after its declaration of independence, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns welcomed the recognition of this step by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and hence, by the governments of its member countries. He said: “And we think it is a very positive step that this Muslim state, Muslim majority state, has been created today.”
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Today, the most urgent issue is whether Kosovo will create a precedent for other territories. This is why many Muslim and other countries do not rush to accept Kosovo’s independence. The United States hoped for Islamic solidarity, but in vain.

Only three [sic] OIC members - Turkey, Afghanistan and Senegal [plus Albania and Burkina Faso] - have recognized Kosovo’s independence out of almost 60 members of the organization. Others have adopted a wait-and-see attitude because of the potential threat of a domestic split, or destabilization in neighboring countries.
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For the time being, no politician in these conflict-prone zones has loudly expressed readiness to follow Kosovo’s example…Kosovo’s independence is threatening primarily because a decision on it was made without a UN Security Council resolution. It is solely based on the support of the United States and some European countries. In other words, political circumstances have prevailed over international law.

To close, here is a blogger lamenting the lack of Muslim solidarity in walking the Kosovo walk and not just talking the talk:

“When Will Pakistan Recognize Kosovo Independence?”

With the new government one hopes Kosovo is recognized sooner rather then later. The above map shows the countries which have recognized Kosovo in blue. The ones who are expected to soon are shown in yellow. It is startling how many countries in the Middle East are still to recognize the country.

By the way I do not support how Kashmir is shown as a part of India in the map. I got the map of a website called ‘Kosovo Thanks You.’ The Kosovons of all people should know about the struggle for freedom of the Kashmiri people.

For a laugh, here is a comment under the post, from “Kosova_girl”:

Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan….cmon people, support your muslims brothers and sisters. I am sooo dissapointed by the lack of recognition by so many muslims countries. Oh and then we wonder why are muslims always oppressed.

UPDATE August 2: The media cannot report a straight story when it comes to Serbia.

CNN Adds Video of Riots in Budapest to Report of Riots in Belgrade

 

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, CNN decided that they didn't have enough video of rioting in their recent story on unrest in Belgrade, Serbia, so they decided to add in footage of rioting in Budapest to sexy up the story. I have to say, if the Kosovars intend to make the cut with CNN in the future, they'd better start rioting to the satisfaction of CNN's video editors. Either that, or CNN can start showing us all some truthful video with their stories. Whatever the case, CNN's misstep doesn't just make them look bad, it makes all Americans look bad.

On July 30, CNN aired a report in their international news titled "Serb Ultranationalists Rally" in which footage of riots in two different cities and two different countries were edited together to represent the unrest in Kosovo. Serbian TV was a bit mystified by this embellishment, and rightfully so. RTS asserted that since CNN didn't have violent enough footage for their riots story, they "resorted to their favorite Hollywood trick" of "montaging and pasting together the sequences from Budapest and Belgrade protests" to accompany the story. (See foreign language report from Serbian RTS TV)

Naturally, since the original airing and posting on the Internet, and since people began to ridicule CNN for the melding of video of riots in different countries, CNN has removed the video without comment. Making matters worse, many now see a conspiracy where they originally just saw incompetence.

MIsguided (yet again) in the Balkans

Julia Gorin:

Par for the Course: Purported Serbian Killer of Muslims Arrested; Confirmed Muslim Killers of Christian Serbs Acquitted, Embraced

and this from best resource on Kosovo and the Balkans (Gorin)

In Perspective: Karadzic 101Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot

This is all the context anyone needs to interpret the significance, or lack thereof, of the Karadzic capture. From Dr. Srdja Trifkovic in Chronicles Magazine: Karadzic’s Arrest: Bosnian Myths Rehashed

More depressing Bush policy

Our Misguided Policy in the Balkans by Richard Jansen

Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on February 17 this year with the backing of the United States.

Kosovo’s new Constitution took effect on June16, nine years almost to the day that the Kosovo war ended with UN resolution 1244. President Bush will welcome President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci of the Republic of Kosovo to the White House on July 21, 2008. According to an announcement from the White House: “The President looks forward to meeting with President Sejdiu and Prime Minister Thaci during their first visit to the United States as leaders of an independent Kosovo. The visit will provide an opportunity for the President to discuss with President Sejdiu and Prime Minister Thaci his strong support for the efforts of the Kosovo Government to build a democratic, prosperous, multiethnic state with institutions that serve all of Kosovo’s citizens”

As reported by Yahoo News on July 17 His Grace ARTEMIJE, Bishop of Ras and Prizren, and pastor of Orthodox Christians in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija issued the following statement: "On July 21, President George W. Bush is scheduled to meet with Hashim Thaci, styled by some 'Prime Minister' of the separatist Albanian Muslim administration in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. As pastor of the Orthodox Christian people of Kosovo, I protest to the fullest possible degree the fact that President Bush would bring dishonor on his office and sully the good name of the American nation by receiving such an infamous terrorist, war criminal, and organized crime chieftain." This is not good news. The Serbian Parliament is set to reject Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence and Russia has signaled that it will support Belgrade on this issue.

Read it all. 

"We Bombed G I JOE"

An exchange between WW2 war heroes ....

[....]President Wilson on July 28, 1918 ordered that the Serbian flag be raised over the White House and all public buildings and he said, “The gallant people of Serbia were called upon by the war declaration of Austria-Hungary to defend their territory and their homes against an enemy bent on their destruction. Nobly did they respond.” Well, my generation was called upon to fight not only against the invading Nazi hordes, but also against their cutthroat collaborators Croatian fascists and Bosnian Muslims whose SS Waffen divisions [slaughtered] Serbs , and while doing this we were stabbed in the back by Tito’s Communists, and betrayed and sold down the river by our beloved Allies.

Warmest regards, Nick

Dear Art,
You are discovering a terrible truth — the anti-Serbian mindset.

As you well know, over 1,000,000 Serbs died during WWII at the hands of Germans and their ferocious collaborators, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and Kosovo Albanians. And who torpedoed the Pact with Germany on March 27, 1941? Of course, the crazy Serbs, provoking the biggest power in Europe — the Nazi Germany and paying the price. All these savages worked together to destroy Serbia and its people, culture, thought, creativity and talent to no avail. But paradoxically some sick, perverse souls in America are still at it big time. You can find them in the media, government and academia trying to prove that they are cured of racism and are opening America’s gates to millions of Muslims who bring stupidity, racial intolerance and extremism, crime, and openly plan the murder and destruction of their American hosts. These miserable creatures are consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others. When Yugoslavia fell apart, the Serbs in Bosnia refused to live under the Muslims who served as Hitler’s executioners, but the Arab world sold them to Washington as moderate-secular people, and Washington sided with them and turned a blind eye on Iranian arms shipments to Tuzla airport and infiltration of the Jihadists in the Bosnian army who are now killing our troops in Iraq.

Of course, those in America who sponsored the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo against Christian Serbs and received fat lobbying fees from the Arabs will never permit the truth to be told because their crimes would be exposed.

Julia Gorin has written an explosive, breathtaking post. The ugly, painful truth must be exposed so that these terrible mistakes don't lead to even more disastrous consequences. The idea of an independent Kosovo is   is so unsettling,  an Islamic state in the heart of Europe. The demonization of the Serbs has become rote and the poisonous fruit of our failed policy is result if further unfathomable bloodshed.

These Serbs were our allies and fought and died beside us and for us. But in the interest of serving Arab interests, we threw them to the dogs.  I have excerpted chunks from Gorins post but if you read nothing at all today, please read this.

SHAME ON AMERICA

Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot

God bless the America that was, as embodied in veteran Arthur Jibilian, the last surviving member of Operation Halyard, the biggest airlift rescue of World War II. It is also the most suppressed rescue mission, given that it was made possible by Serbs.

This past June 15th — the day the U.S. was committing yet another act of war against this nation of rescuers (by enacting the next phase of the land seizure — the Kosovo constitution), the Toledo Blade newspaper ran the following:

Fremont veteran saluted for saving lives of 500 U.S. fliers: Former Toledoan operated behind enemy lines

With more than 500 tiny American flags flapping in the breeze — each one symbolizing a life saved during World War II — a crowd at Metcalf Airport yesterday saluted Arthur “Jibby” Jibilian.

Mr. Jibilian, 85, who grew up in Toledo and now lives in Fremont, was a member of the Office of Strategic Services, a U.S. intelligence agency that was the predecessor of the CIA.

Mr. Jibilian parachuted behind enemy lines to take part in Operation Halyard, a 1944 mission to save the lives of downed American airmen in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.

The mission, which lasted several months, was successful, with more than 500 men rescued to return safely to their homes and families.

Mr. Jibilian is a key character in a book that was written about the operation, The Forgotten 500.

Yesterday, recalling the events of more than 60 years ago, Mr. Jibilian explained how, as a wireless operator, he used Morse code to relay his location to Allied forces and bring in planes to evacuate the airmen.

While doing that, he and others had to move constantly to avoid detection by Nazis. They were aided by Serbian villagers. “They protected [the airmen] at the risk of their lives,” he said.
…
The ceremony kicked off just as a restored World War II-era B-17 bomber carrying Mr. Jibilian made a low pass over the airport, while the crowd below waved and cheered.

After the plane landed and Mr. Jibilian disembarked, he was given a proclamation [and honorary degree] from the University of Toledo….Mr. Jibilian was attending the university when the war broke out and he joined the Navy.

Yesterday, he thanked the Serbian people and the late Gen. Draza Mihailovich for the aid they gave him and other Americans during World War II. General Mihailovic was executed after the war by Yugoslavia’s Communist government. […]

“A restored World War II-era B-17 bomber carrying Arthur Jibilian made a low pass over Metcalf Airport before landing.” ( THE BLADE/LORI KING )

Local Toledo news channel WTOL also covered the event, which included a gun salute and singing of the Star Spangled Banner:

…Jibilian is the last survivor of Operation Halyard. That mission returned more than 500 American airmen home to their families.

“I get goose bumps just thinking. It’s unforgettable. This episode brings back a whole bunch of memories,” says Jibilian…”When you’re 19, 20, years-old, death is not a thought… You’re indestructible,” Jibilian says.

As a radioman, Jibilian was key to Operation Halyard, known as the largest airlift operation behind enemy lines…”It’s a story that’s not known, that I think should be known. We owe them a debt and there aren’t that many people that the American’s owe a debt to,” Jibilian says.

The proclamation by the University of Toledo read:

Arthur Jibilian

…WHEREAS you completed training as a radio operator whose primary purpose was to deliver valuable intelligence, often from behind enemy lines; and

WHEREAS your selfless patriotism led you to a mission in Yugoslavia in August 1944, when you parachuted into territory occupied by German troops to liberate Allied airmen; and

WHEREAS you eluded the Germans’ repeated efforts to capture you and collaborated with Gen. Dragoljub Draza Mihailovich and the Serbian resistance, who risked their own safety to feed and shelter the airmen; and

WHEREAS you remained behind enemy lines for six months during Operation Halyard to liberate more than 500 Allied airmen; and

WHEREAS after honorable discharge from the Navy in September 1945, you learned that Gen. Mihailovich had been accused of war crimes; and

WHEREAS you joined a “Mission to Save Mihailovich” from unjust crimes against the Allies and campaigned tirelessly on his behalf for more than six decades, long after his 1946 death; and

WHEREAS you returned to the old Yugoslavia—now Serbia—in 2004 to honor Gen. Mihailovich and the Serbian citizens who risked their lives to assist Allied troops; and

WHEREAS you were instrumental in presenting a Legion of Merit Award to Gordana Mihailovich, daughter of Gen. Mihailovich, in 2005; and

WHEREAS you have drawn attention, pride and awe as one of “The Forgotten 500” heroes of World War II, and are the lone survivor of Operation Halyard; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT PROCLAIMED that The University of Toledo Board of Trustees, administrators, faculty, staff and students express their gratitude and the indebtedness of the entire campus community to you for a lifetime of exemplary bravery, service and leadership.

BE IT FURTHER PROCLAIMED that The University is immensely proud to proclaim that you are an accomplished alumni of our institution.

A press release from the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Toledo chapter read: “Father’s Day is a perfect time to honor Jibilian. If not for Jibilian and the other members of Operation Halyard, those men would have perished and never had the opportunity to raise a family.”

As former Mihailovich guerrilla Nick Petrovich, a Serbian-American now living in Mexico City, said:

Finally! Cheers for a great American-Armenian who “collaborated” with the Serbs in rescuing more than 500 US airmen, the fact that was hidden for years in the dungeons of the State Department in order not to offend Tito’s Communist regime!!!

I’m posting below an email exchange from last summer between Petrovich and Jibilian, who re-connected only last year, more than 60 years after their collaborative mission:

Dear Art,
Here is a Chetnik brigade that kept the enemies away [while] you were loading the DC-3s, and I was there with my Mauser rifle, a couple of hand grenades, a piece of corn bread and 20 bullets in the bag, and a lot of pride to be in this historic act!

All the best,
Nick Petrovich

******

[Nick,]
Hey, you might appreciate this photo of the “gathering of the chutes”…It is from my first mission… I have the distinction of having been with both the forces of Tito and Mihailovich.

…When I was with the Partisans, our every move was watched. People were in obvious fear of the Partisans. They would not speak to us when Partisans were present, but, whenever we had a moment when we could, they would ask, “Why are the Americans backing Tito?” I could not answer the question and asked [fellow Halyard member] Eli Popovich what or how I could respond. He said, “simply say ’samo Bog zna’ (only God knows). (Forgive my spelling, please)

While with the Chetniks, when we entered a village, peasants came out dancing, strewing flowers in Chica Draja’s path. It was a time for great rejoicing and celebrating. People were smiling, laughing and hugging each other.

Regards,
Arthur

******

Yes, you are unique…After having been captured sick and almost dying of dysentery by Tito’s Partizans in Bosnia, I spent four months in a communist correction camp—brainwashing, forced labor, Marxist theory every night, and a few robust beatings to say the least.

When the war came to an end in May 1945, I was inducted in Tito’s army and my division was sent to Bitoli, Macedonia. Then, in October 1945 when my unit was assigned a task at the Greek border, one night I deserted to Greece with my two ex-Chetnik buddies [Mihailovic-aligned fighters] who went through the same ordeal and from there on it is history.

So we got something in common!

Best regards,
Nick

******

Nick, what I went through pales in comparison to your suffering!!!! To see your country invaded by the Germans and then feel the pain of a civil war while still attempting to fight the Germans, to be betrayed by the British and America (your “allies”?); to witness the atrocities committed by “Yugoslavians” against each other; and then to be captured, tortured and brainwashed just to mention a few. I cannot begin to comprehend the pain and suffering you and your people went through, even though I was there and saw a part of it for myself. I was not a Serb, did not have family members involved, and it was not my country. You and the Serbs have my deepest admiration and that is why the story of Mihailovich, the rescue of 500 American airmen, and the sacrifice the Serbs made on their behalf MUST be told to the whole world and especially the American public. Mihailovich’s name must, and will, be cleared.
Arthur

******

Well Art,
I still cannot figure it out what it was — sheer luck, divine providence, or some other strange thing, that helped me survive the terrible chain of events of which you are well aware. For some inexplicable reason I never thought for a second that the end is near, at least not for me. There was almost an obsession for survival and a drive to see my Serbia free again. My grand fathers on both sides fought the bloody Turks, and my father and two uncles fought in WWI against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, retreated through Albania in the Winter of 1916 while being fired upon by the savage Albanian tribes. They were rehabilitated on the Corfu island and in 1918 stuck their bayonets in the backs of retreating Austrians and victoriously marched into Serbia.

I heard their stories many times and I believe that this was the ingredient that played a vital role in my survival. The only difference is that they were hailed as heroes by their allies, and President Wilson on July 28, 1918 ordered that the Serbian flag be raised over the White House and all public buildings and he said, “The gallant people of Serbia were called upon by the war declaration of Austria-Hungary to defend their territory and their homes against an enemy bent on their destruction. Nobly did they respond.” Well, my generation was called upon to fight not only against the invading Nazi hordes, but also against their cutthroat collaborators Croatian fascists and Bosnian Muslims whose SS Waffen divisions [slaughtered] Serbs , and while doing this we were stabbed in the back by Tito’s Communists, and betrayed and sold down the river by our beloved Allies.

You know the rest of the story better than anybody else. But Art, we are lucky to still be here and talk about it.

Warmest regards,
Nick

From Petrovich to Jibilian in a separate exchange:

Dear Art,
You are discovering a terrible truth — the anti-Serbian mindset.

As you well know, over 1,000,000 Serbs died during WWII at the hands of Germans and their ferocious collaborators, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and Kosovo Albanians. And who torpedoed the Pact with Germany on March 27, 1941? Of course, the crazy Serbs, provoking the biggest power in Europe — the Nazi Germany and paying the price. All these savages worked together to destroy Serbia and its people, culture, thought, creativity and talent to no avail. But paradoxically some sick, perverse souls in America are still at it big time. You can find them in the media, government and academia trying to prove that they are cured of racism and are opening America’s gates to millions of Muslims who bring stupidity, racial intolerance and extremism, crime, and openly plan the murder and destruction of their American hosts. These miserable creatures are consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others. When Yugoslavia fell apart, the Serbs in Bosnia refused to live under the Muslims who served as Hitler’s executioners, but the Arab world sold them to Washington as moderate-secular people, and Washington sided with them and turned a blind eye on Iranian arms shipments to Tuzla airport and infiltration of the Jihadists in the Bosnian army who are now killing our troops in Iraq.

Of course, those in America who sponsored the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo against Christian Serbs and received fat lobbying fees from the Arabs will never permit the truth to be told because their crimes would be exposed.

And a general email sent out by Petrovich:

Hi Kids,
I provided [Forgotten 500 author Greg] Freeman with some valuable information regarding the Halyard Mission… and you will most probably find my picture in it. My guerrilla unit provided the cover to ensure that the Germans could not interfere or abort this mission. The US government never mentioned this incredible mission in order not to offend Tito’s Communist government, and after Tito’s death Washington sided with the Muslims of Bosnia and the Neo-Nazi Croats against the Serbs, their allies in two World Wars.

How perverse!! This sellout was done to please the Arabs…and now we are paying through the nose! Many Al Qaeda members were trained in Bosnia 1992-96, and Osama was issued a Bosnian passport at that time.
President Truman awarded posthumously [a] Legion of Merit to Gen. Mihailovich for his great contribution in defeating the Nazis during the WWII and for rescuing 500 American airmen who were shot down by the Nazis, but this was concealed by the cowardly State Department for 20 years until the rescued airmen dug it out…

Regards,
Nick D. Petrovich

Petrovich guarded the airfield in the village of Pranjane during the evacuations of the airmen. He joined Mihailovich’s guerrillas on Zlatibor Mountain at the age of 16. After the war and after deserting the Communist army, Petrovich — barely 18 — joined the Greek army to fight the Communist guerrillas trained by Tito. He wrote me an abridged autobiography about the rest:

Then played soccer and studied at the University of Athens. From there to Italy to play soccer in Rome, and work in the “Quo Vadis” movie (Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr). In 1948 I became a DP (Displaced Person) and given the UN International Refugee Organization protection (food and shelter). In December of 1950 with several hundreds of other refugees from various communist countries I arrived to New York on a Liberty ship, and in 1956 was naturalized in Hammond, Ind. ..Landed a job with Monsanto Chemical Company - International division - and worked in Spain Belgium, Argentina and Japan. Finally wound up in Mexico — a Spanish wife — three kids in the US…

Saludos,
From your crazy Serb in Mexico

A teenage Serbian guerrilla: 16 year-old Chetnik Nick Petrovich guards access to the Pranjani air field

Petrovich today:

Arthur Jibilian in 1945

Some rescuees and rescuers, November 1944 (Mihailovich stands in the center behind Jibilian, who is kneeling in the center.)

At the 2004 dedication of the Pranjani airfield both the Serbian and American national anthems were played.

After Jibilian sent Petrovich a photo labeled “Last Day in Yugoslavia,” referring to the Halyard Mission members’ final day of the rescues, Petrovich wrote:

But for the Chetniks from this day on was a tragedy. Abandoned by the Allies, the Soviet army advancing into Serbia from the East, Tito’s proletarian brigades returning to Serbia from Bosnia where they were kept for three years. No alternative but to continue fighting. A large contingent embarked on a tragic journey through Bosnia toward Italy with a hope of meeting the advancing Allied armies. An estimated seventy thousand died from typhus, hunger and Ustashi bullets from one side and Bosnian Muslims from the other. As you well know, Draza refused your offer to be airlifted out of the country, and stayed with his people fighting until March 1946. How many leaders would have done this? Perhaps Patton but not powdered and perfumed Gen. [Wesley] Clark!!

Warmest regards,
Nick Petrovich

Related, from The News-Messenger in Fremont, OH, October 2007:

TRUTH FINALLY COMES OUT
U.S. Vet Says Book Reveals True Story of Ww2 Rescue

We just happened to be the three that were lucky enough to bring this thing to fruition. But it was Mihailovich and the Serbs who did the brunt of the work.

Arthur “Jibby” Jibilian by Charlie Longton/News-Messenger

More than 60 years ago, a handful of U.S. soldiers parachuted behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia to save 50 airmen whose planes were shot down while trying to bomb German oil fields in Romania.

Art Jibilian, one of the original soldiers who spent six months on the mission, has waited all these years for the true story of the mission to be told. But it’s not because of personal glory. Instead, it’s to clear the name of Gen. Draza Mihailovich, a Yugoslavian leader who protected the airmen and made the rescue possible.

Jibilian and his mission are the subject of “The Forgotten 500,” a recently published book by Gregory Freeman. For the first time, Jibilian said, the true story of the operation has been published, including Mihailovich’s key role in the rescue.

“It’s a story the American people should know,” said Jibilian, who now lives in Fremont.
…
Although Mihailovich and his soldiers provided information and support for the mission and located and protected the downed airmen, Jibilian said he was betrayed by the U.S. and British governments, who said he collaborated with the Germans. Mihailovich was eventually captured by a rival general and executed.

Jibilian said the details of the operation were kept quiet over the years because of politics, and he simply wants the Serbian people and Mihailovich to get the credit they deserve. Now that the book is out, he said he wants to live long enough to see it turned into a movie in order to reach a wider audience.

“We just happened to be the three that were lucky enough to bring this thing to fruition,” Jibilian said. “But it was Mihailovich and the Serbs who did the brunt of the work.”

The Halyard Mission was a top-secret mission executed by the Office of Strategic Services, which later developed into the Central Intelligence Agency. Jibilian, then a radio operator, as well as two others parachuted into Yugoslavia in order to locate about 50 airmen who were shot down while trying to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti in Romania. The team met up with Mihailovich, and their goal was to locate the airmen, set up an airfield, and evacuate the troops, all without the Germans knowing.

But when they arrived, they discovered there weren’t just 50 soldiers hiding throughout the country. There were more than 500. Mihailovich’s soldiers hid the airmen and funneled them toward Jibilian and the OSS.

“What started out as a 10-day mission stretched out into six months during which time we brought out 500 American airmen,” Jibilian said.

The mission was often dangerous and difficult. The airfield set up to evacuate the airmen was a short distance from a German garrison, and American fighter planes dive-bombed the post as a distraction.

In addition, many of the downed airmen were injured. Jibilian still has shoulder problems after lifting wooden ox-carts over large stones to avoid jarring the wounded soldiers inside. Little food was available, but Jibilian said Mihailovich and his men sometimes went hungry to make sure the airmen had something to eat.

When they left Yugoslavia, the airmen returned the favor by giving up their shoes to the Serbs, an item that was difficult to find at the time.

(Halyard members dumping their shoes)

After returning to the United States, Jibilian and the other members of the rescue mission were disturbed by how Mihailovich and his men were abandoned by the allies.

Even today, he said few know the true story. Now, he said, he’s hoping to get word out about the book in order to clear Mihailovich’s name.

“All we wanted really, was to have this story be told, that Mihailovich be given credit for it and the airmen to be able to say ‘Thank you,’” Jibilian said.

Throughout the 1990s — right up to the turn of the century — we were bombing the Serbs. This year the unending betrayal is renewed as we declare war on the Serbs yet again, lumping them with Russia so that our illegal position seems to make some kind of sense. The anti-Serb propaganda, meanwhile, is being recycled ad nauseum. Perhaps the most perverse aspect to all this is that when we bombed the Serbs, we bombed G.I. Joe:

Mitchell Paige (August 31, 1918–November 15, 2003) was a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II…for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on October 26, 1942, where, after all of the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, he operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment.
…
Mitchell was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. His parents were Serb immigrants who arrived in the USA from the Military Frontier, their last name being Pejić. His mother kept him and his brother in touch with their roots, reminding them of the Battle of Kosovo, but also told them to be proud Americans…[He] served as the model for a G.I. Joe action figure — the Marine Corps figure in a series honoring Medal of Honor recipients from each branch of the U.S. military.

The Wikipedia entry above also notes that Paige received a belated Eagle Scout award from Boy Scouts of America on March 24, 2003 (coincidentally the four-year anniversary of our bombing the birthplace of his people), making him one of only six known Eagle Scouts to receive the Medal of Honor.

From an article in the Serbian-American newspaper American Srbobran, titled “Who are these ‘Despicable’ Serbs?”, by author William Dorich:

There are maritime treaties between Serbia and the US more than 115 years old. Serbs were our allies in two World Wars and lost 34% of their population fighting and dying for freedom. American Serbs have proven time and again their dedication and commitment to the United States. Serbs proudly served in the American Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. The Dokman family of Kansas City, MO, and the Grbich family of Reno had seven sons in the military service at the same time during WWII. A building at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is named for Lance Sijan, a Serb, for his bravery in Vietnam. He died in his prison cell shared with Senator John McCain [who would later accept Albanian money to push for arming the KLA, bombing the Serbs and even sending in ground troops, which Bill Clinton declined to do].
…
In 1905, Rade Grba, a young Serbian-American from the south side of Chicago was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the US for his heroic actions in the Navy. There are 8 Serbian Congressional Medals of Honor recipients. The first person in history to receive 2 Congressional Medals, Lou Cukelja, was a Serb who also received the highest decoration given by France, Belgium and Serbia. There are thousands of Serbian Purple Heart recipients. Serbian-Americans can be proud of the youngest Two-Star general in the American army, Rudy Ostovich III and Two-Star General Mel Vojvodich. Ed Radkovich headed Air Force Intelligence in Europe and Brigadier General George Karamarkovic the US Marine Corp. The U.S. military also included Admiral Stevan Mandarich and Col. Mitchell Pa[i]ge.

The NASA space program is replete with Serbian engineers and scientists. Vern Pupich was the test pilot of the DC3 before WWII…Thirteen top executives in the Apollo space program are Serbs. After the Apollo disaster, the new escape hatch was redesigned by Danilo Bojic. Mike Vucelic received the Freedom Award from President Johnson for his work in the Apollo program.

Sending American sons and daughters to Kosovo to defend terrorists who have succeeded in reducing the Serbian population of Kosovo from 21% ten years ago to less than 3% today is a mockery of our belief in democracy and freedom. Amputating 15% of Serbia’s territory because it has been invaded by Albanians is illegal and violates the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act and numerous international laws.

People often ask me what my “thing for the Serbs” is — why do I care so much. The answer is that the United States of America is engaged in a continual and repeated betrayal. We picked every savage over our rescuers and allies. First in Croatia, then in Bosnia, and now in Kosovo. Well done, America. Well done.

The shame and immorality of today’s America is made manifest in the pride and morality of yesterday’s, as represented by Americans such as Art Jibilian. (See his original letter last July 4th in response to my article in American Legion magazine.)

Mihailovich cover of TIME magazine, May 1942: “The Eagle of Yugoslavia”

Mihailovich in prison after England and America’s betrayal:

This July 4th weekend, it’s not God Bless America, but May God have Mercy on America’s Soul.

And what a perverse Father’s Day this year, as the U.S. proudly gave birth to its Muslim demon child on Serbian land, after nine years gestation in the jackal’s belly.

Atlas Exclusive: Julia Gorin Takes on Conservative Bloggers who call the Kosovo Jihad by Another Name

Road trip! Well sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Michael Totten in a sweet, unstudied fashion, has decided to weigh in on the Kosovo controversy by taking a road trip through Kosovo and Bosnia. Eating his way through chocolate chip cookies and bad twinkies he counts bullets in Kosovo (not a lot) and Bosnia (many more!) and goes on to anecdotally deduce and draw his own conclusions. It's silly and cute but it don't fly. Sorry. It's dangerous because Totten has done excellent work on Iraq. Lending his credibility to a fallacious argument will drive what little thoughtful discourse there is on this complicated controversy further down the rabbit hole. Totten has clearly become what Gorin coins "another Western propagandist for Albania and for the "continued, recycled demonization of the 'anti-American' Serbs. The response by Serbs to America feeding them to Muslims and Nazis is not a cemented, blood-embedded “anti-Americanism” as these types portray".

Here is the first in a series of rebuttals that I am going to publish by Julia Gorin, a leading expert in the matter of Kosovo and Bosnia.

Julia Gorin exclusively at Atlas: 

In some conservatives’ goodly but naïve quest to find pro-American and truly moderate Muslims, many are sticking their noses into Albanian-dominated Kosovo, a region and situation to which they are imposters, as they have not been following developments there for the nine years since our bombing of Belgrade on behalf of Muslims claiming nothing less than genocide, later downgraded to “ethnic cleansing” which later--when no one was looking--was further downgraded by major newspapers (including the Wall St. Journal's Daniel Pearl) to what it actually was: a counter-terrorist operation rooting out KLA insurgents in a turf war between ethnic Albanians and their host society of Yugoslavia.

One imposter is the otherwise reputable blogger Michael J. Totten who, like the rest of the herd (in a case of the blogosphere being strangely indistinguishable from the mainstream media it polices), started his foray into Kosovo with a blog post on Commentary magazine’s website. I responded on JihadWatch.com, with an article that I reproduce below.

Since my response to Totten’s sudden interest in Kosovo (which coincided with Kosovo’s very recent reemergence in the headlines) Totten has jumped into Kosovo with both feet--literally and figuratively--perhaps spurred by the controversy that I am vitally stirring. In a desperate search of the universe for signs of pro-American life, Totten, like other simplistic patriots, believes he has found it in Albanians. And he seems to have cemented his resolve to add his name to the long list of Western dupes for Greater Albania and for the continued, recycled demonization of the “anti-American” Serbs.

But what Totten’s and others’ recent reintroduction to the region and therefore shallow knowledge prevents them from understanding is that “anti-Americanism” is not in the Serbian blood. The current climate is a response by Serbs to America feeding them to Muslims in Kosovo and Bosnia (and earlier to Croatian Nazi revivalists). Serbian anger at the U.S. is a recent and reluctant development, a direct reaction to geopolitical intrigues we’ve been playing at their expense. These intrigues are not something that can be learned in the few months since Kosovo reentered the headlines. I have been studying the region for nine years and have only scratched the surface myself. But I am happy to share what I know with Atlas Shrugs readers.

I will start with my responses to Totten’s increasingly regular hack jobs on Serbs and Kosovo--an important undertaking, given that Totten is something of a demi-god in the blogosphere. And yet here he is, post-9/11, taking the “moderate” Muslim side--like the Clinton policy that has now been institutionalized--against Christians in the Balkans. The Balkans is where a different set of rules applies when it comes to recognizing and classifying jihad and the nationalist supremacy that ushers it in--despite Serbia’s being the second country (after Israel) targeted by resurgent Islam on a macro scale.

In the case of Israel, a different set of rules likewise applies when it comes to recognizing and classifying jihad. The problem is that the conservatives who do apply rules fairly to Israel have singled out Serbia to which to apply double standards. Herewith is the opening post:

Julia Gorin: This is a Kosovar Muslim?

In my fellow conservatives’ desperation to find a country that doesn’t hate America, and in the universal struggle to find a truly moderate Muslim population, articles and blog posts such as this one by Michael Totten, shamefully in Commentary magazine online, become ubiquitous.

It’s titled “This is a Kosovar Muslim” and has a picture of an elderly Albanian man wearing a “USA” sweatshirt with an American flag on it:

I'm writing this from the capital of Kosovo, the least “scary” Muslim country on Earth…Kosovo is surprising even to me. Islam in this country is so thoroughly liberal (“moderate” doesn't quite cover it) that, if it weren't for the mosques, there would be no visible evidence that Kosovo is a Muslim country at all…Bosnia notoriously welcomed thousands of Salafist mujahideen fighters from the Arab world during Yugoslavia's violent demise. But the Kosovo Liberation Army brusquely told them to stay the hell out of their country--even while they faced an ethnic cleansing campaign directed from Belgrade. [They didn’t.]

American flags are on sale at kiosks everywhere. They fly in front of government buildings. The world's second largest replica of the Statue of Liberty sits atop the five star Hotel Victory. The largest street downtown was renamed Bill Clinton Boulevard…Clinton is rightly hailed as a liberator, but one resident told me “We are Republicans here in Kosovo.” They want a strong American President who won't back down from commitments. Just a few short blocks from Bill Clinton Boulevard is the Israeli Odyssea Bakery. It is not just a Jewish bakery, but an Israeli bakery owned and operated by an actual Israeli.

As with everyone else who has deigned to finally write about Kosovo now that it’s back in the headlines, Totten sees only what’s on the surface, because he didn’t bother following Kosovo from 1999 on (not to mention pre-1999). Yes, Albanians are pro-American, thanks to our distinctly un-American operation on their behalf. The last time someone expanded Albania for them, Albanians were so grateful that they formed two Nazi divisions to show their appreciation, rounding up Jews for Bergen-Belsen, and killing Serbs. Before that, they converted to Islam to benefit from Ottoman patronage, get higher status and get the upper hand over the Slavs. Albanians will be whatever they have to be, and the love is always conditional.

As I wrote in an article titled “The Pro-American Terrorists” and in another titled “Why Do They Love Us?”: Whoever secures more land for Albanians--in the current case a second country (while Jews still struggle for just one)--that’s whom they’ll love. So now we’re their patrons. Ottomans. Nazis. USA (along with Saudi Arabia and UAE). Which means that just as there is a Clinton mural in Kosovo, there is also a Hitler diner and a “bin Laden Mosque” (dubbed as such because of all the photos of bin Laden that adorned its walls until the Americans complained).

Totten further reveals his credentials as an imposter to this issue when he writes that the “Kosovo Liberation Army brusquely told [mujahedeen] to stay the hell out of their country--even while they faced an ethnic cleansing campaign directed from Belgrade.”

The ever-present use of State Department-issued language concerning “ethnic cleansing directed from Belgrade” aside (and please note that when it comes to any discussion of Kosovo, there is no variation from government to media to art), the KLA did in fact have Islamist help. Bin Laden co-financed, co-trained and co-fought with the KLA. Even the Brooklyn-based gun smuggler Florin Krasniqi listed al Qaeda as among those helping his KLA in a PBS-aired documentary (2005), saying that he would have worked “with the devil” too. Just as Totten’s article was being published the other day, al Qaeda-linked Kuwaitis were admitting that they were also fighting in Kosovo, in addition to every other kind of mujahed—one of whom told a journalist in 1999, “This is my eighth jihad.” As one National Guard source recently told me, the jihadists come and go as they please.

But I would certainly be interested in seeing some documentation for the notion that Totten conjured up of KLA telling the mujahedeen to “stay the hell out of their country.” I’d like to see even something quoting an Albanian leader, an “ex” KLA fighter or international administrator making this up, but Totten naturally offers zero documentation in his Commentary blog post, which reads like a ventriloquist act to anyone who has heard it all before—from Albanians.

To understand how things work in Kosovo and surrounding areas, Totten needs a heavy dose of Chris Deliso’s book The Coming Balkan Caliphate, from which he would glean that the Albanians have an “arrangement” with the fundamentalists that goes like this: If your boys touch the internationals here--who are giving us what we need--we will kill them. Tell them to keep their heads low, and they can continue to operate in the region.

While Albanians are slowly reawakening to Islam after a communist slumber, Kosovo is filling with mosques and is the center of al Qaeda heroin-trafficking. In case anyone ever seeks to question why U.S. leaders and the State Dept. sabotaged Serbian-Albanian negotiations at every turn, using absolutist language throughout (e.g. “Independence is the only option”), he or she will find that we were responding to the perpetual threat of violence by the Albanian leadership, our new “friend”. Of course, the Albanian leadership does not mean all Albanians, but even those Albanians who don’t have blood on their hands are all too happy to accept their independent Kosovo/Greater Albania however the KLA managed and bludgeoned to win it. They take their goodies from whoever is handing them out, and however they can get them.

Meanwhile, the receptiveness that the jihadists have found among young Albanians (like young Bosnians) to fundamentalism isn't unlike the void that Islam is filling in millions of young people everywhere. But the point is that our intervention opened that floodgate, and we continue down the same road even post-9/11. Instead of promoting multi-culturalism, we promoted the most radical elements, ethnic supremacy and a victim mentality that ultimately seeks out the old faith. And that faith is making inroads in Kosovo with access it didn’t have before 1999. (Just look at how surprised the famous shill for Balkan Muslims, Stephen Schwartz, was on this bus trip.)

Totten goes on to assert not only Albanians’ pro-Americanism, but their pro-Semitism:

Accomplished businessman and practicing Muslim Luan Berisha told me that 90 percent of Kosovars support Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict. I don't know if that's really true. But if so it means Kosovo is more pro-Israel than even the United States…No one in any Arabic country would say such a thing. Kosovo sharply contrasts also with nearby Serbia on this question, where General Wesley Clark is seen as a sinister Jewish figure who plotted Belgrade's destruction, and where Saddam Hussein was considered an ally.

Forced into dealing with countries that weren’t part of the Western-led sanctions, boycotts and bombings against it, Serbia was isolated and had few options. Hence the dealings with Saddam Hussein, who was our ally as well when we needed him. While Wesley Clark is rightfully hated in Serbia, Israel is supported and, as Yohanan Ramati, Chairman of Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense, wrote in the Jerusalem Post in 1995, “Israelis are still liked and welcomed.” There was goodreason that Israel was against the bombing of Serbia and was providing covert assistance to Belgrade even while providing humanitarian aid to “Kosovars”.

For years, Serbia continued to face Westward despite our crimes against it, even offering troops for Afghanistan and Iraq. But having dug ourselves into a hole, we continued to dig—and continued to kick Serbia’s teeth in. Whatever geo-strategic advantages and goals we’ve managed to carve out of our disastrous 1990s errors (quietly admitted to here and there), at least as much could have been accomplished working with our WWI and WWII ally, Serbia, which also has an incredible intelligence apparatus and had good border security in Kosovo until we dismantled it. (Recall it was Serbia that caught a key suspect in the Madrid bombings 16 months after the attack--as he transited untouched through Europe, most likely on his way to Kosovo or Bosnia, writes Deliso.)

While Totten is in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, he should look around and ask himself why it’s so pristinely Albanian. And while showing us “This is a Kosovar Muslim,” he should remember that so was one of the Fort Dix Six planning to massacre American soldiers—and three others were Albanian Muslims from western Macedonia, a.k.a. Greater Kosovo. Indeed, Totten’s timing on this post couldn’t be better, as today is the one-year anniversary of the arrests that should have been America’s red light on Kosovo independence.

Too bad conservatives can’t distinguish themselves from the Democrats and other appeasers on this front.

UPDATE: China Confidential reports Nazis, Islamists flourish in Albanial

Al Qaeda-associated Islamists and Nazis are thriving in Muslim Albania and Kosovo, as shown on the left by the recent photograph of the insignia on a Pristina wall of Bali i Kombetar, the Albanian Nazi party. It was a volunteer Kosovo Albanian Nazi organization formed in 1939. Himmler described it to Hitler as the most elite of Kosovo Albanian Nazis responsible for slaughtering thousands of Serbs and Jews in WWII. Today, the revived Albanian Nazi organization is freely flourishing under the protection of NATO troops.

Bosnia Helped Fund 9/11 Attacks

While the whitewashing of Bosnia continues ..........  Gorin drops this bombshell.

Bosnia Helped Fund the 9/11 Attacks on America Julia Gorin

On the website of Andy Wilcoxson, the only American to cover the Milosevic trial (which was billed as the “Second Nuremberg” and prosecuting supposedly the “biggest atrocity since World War II”), we have a report from a predominantly Muslim Sarajevo TV station.

Bosnian TV alleges Muslim official linked to 9/11 attacks
BBC Monitoring European. London: May 9, 2008.

Excerpt from report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 5 May

STOLEN KOSOVO

The truth eventually emerges despite the history's gatekeepers and propagandists and a media stranglehold . The machine  shoves  their narrative down our throats. The Serb blog is running a post (with the video) of  "Stolen Kosovo" a documentary censored in the Czech Republic: Suffering of Kosovo Serbs Cannot be Shown on National TV.

It is almost inconceivable, still, that the US under Bill Clinton would engage the US forces in "humanitarian bombing" against the Serbs to assist the brutal Albanian Muslims.

Over at the Serb blog:

"A few days ago, Byzantine Art Blog ran the story of a made-for-state-owned Czech-TV film called, "Stolen Kosovo" that became a political hot potato for Czech TV. After the network financed it and Vaclav Dvorak made this fine film, the network decided to quash it as "unbalanced" (the code word for "showing the un-PC side of the story"). Once some Czech politicians shoved through "Kosovo recognition" -- a decision that shamed even the Czech president-- this film would have been on its way to never-to-be-seen oblivion."

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

If you ever wondered "what really happened in Kosovo?", "what the NATO Bombing was all about?", or "the truth about US involvement in Kosovo?" , the this film is a must see.

Saudis Gave Millions to Al Qaeda Mujahideen

If this isn't reason enough to cut the head off the Saudi snake. then what? We should have taken out the Saudis after 9/11 along with Mecca and Medina. No matter how you twist the logic, the Saudis are the enemy.This story is a jaw dropper from an al qaeda commander for  Europe's new jihadist statelet.

Al Qaeda Commnader: Saudis funded Al-Qaeda mujahideen  The Philadelphia Inquirer hat tiip rut

DOBOJ, Bosnia - For years, Saudi Arabia flatly denied it had provided money and logistical support for Islamist militant groups that attacked Western targets.

But that assertion is disputed by a former al-Qaeda commander who testified in a United Nations war-crimes trial that his unit was funded by the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a government charity.

Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad, the former al-Qaeda fighter, gave the same account to The Inquirer in an interview in this struggling city in the central Balkans.

"Because it was the biggest charity, [the commission] helped the mujaheddin the most," Hamad said, adding that it had provided "everything a person needed to exist."

Hamad, 37, is expected to be called as a witness in a lawsuit filed by Cozen O'Connor alleging that Saudi Arabia and affiliated charities financed al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups as they geared up for the 9/11 attacks.

[]As a convicted terrorist, Hamad is an imperfect witness.

During the Balkans war, from 1992 to 1995, jihadists from North Africa and the Middle East were accused of atrocities against indigenous Serbs and Croatians.

This is who Bush is backing in recognizing the illegally declared independent Muslim Republic of Kosovo, a radical Islamic state in th heart of Europe.

Hamad admits having done "bad things" as an al-Qaeda fighter, and he is serving a 10-year sentence in a Bosnian jail for his role in a 1997 Mostar bombing.

"Bad things"

Yet Hamad's account of his time in the Balkans went largely uncontroverted during the U.N. trial, where he was a prosecution witness.

He contends that the Saudi High Commission, an agency of the Saudi government, and other Islamic charities supported al-Qaeda-led units that committed atrocities. Mujaheddin units, he said, recruited fighters, prepared for battle, and financed their operations in the Balkans.

He said the Saudi High Commission had poured tens of millions of dollars into mujaheddin units led by al-Qaeda operatives who fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Money intended for humanitarian relief bought weapons and other military supplies.

The charities also provided false identification, employment papers, diplomatic plates and vehicles that permitted Islamic fighters to enter the country and pass easily through military checkpoints, Hamad said.

Several charity offices, including those of the Saudi High Commission, were led by former mujaheddin or al-Qaeda members, at least one of whom trained with Hamad in an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, he said.

Like other al-Qaeda fighters, Hamad said, he was an employee of the Saudi High Commission for a time and traveled through the war zone in commission vehicles with diplomatic plates.

Kosovo Serbs were butchered for organs by Muslims

I posted on this incomprehensible barbarity here. Kosovo Serbs butchered for their organs by Muslims. The same Muslim Albanians Clinton went to war to forand the same Muslim Albanians the Bush administration is backing in their declaration of an independent Islamic state. vid hat tip John

You read it at Atlas first here.

Kosovar Albanians have been selling human organs of kidnapped Serbs to western countries, including Italy, since the 1998-99 Kosovo-Serbia conflict.

The Belgrade Daily Press said on Thursday that a protected witness, known as K-144, had made the allegations to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte.

According to the International Red Cross up to 3,000 Serbs have been reported missing or killed since 1999 and 200,000 fled the province.

The paper said the Serbs kidnapped by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), were transported to northern Albania where their internal organs were allegedly removed and then sold in Italy and western countries.

The KLA was a paramilitary guerrilla organisation that sought independence for Kosovo from the now defunct Yugoslavia and later Serbia in the late 1990s.

Glick    Bolton and Bostom and Williams and Jatras and Gorin and  Atlas weigh in on an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

Serb prisoners 'were stripped of their organs' by Kosovo Muslims,so GIVE 'EM A STATE!

You read it at Atlas first here. Ed over at Lock and Load has more.

Serb prisoners 'were stripped of their organs in Kosovo war' UK Telegraph

Serb prisoners had their internal organs removed and sold by ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war, according to allegations in a new book by the world's best known war crimes prosecutor.

Harry de Quetteville: Snippets from Carla Del Ponte's book

Carla Del Ponte, who stepped down in January as chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal for crimes committed in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, said investigators found a house suspected of being a laboratory for the illegal trade.

Carla Del Ponte: allegation
A senior adviser to Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister and a leading member of the Kosovo Liberation Army which is accused of benefiting from the trade, yesterday denied the allegations.

"These are horrible things even to imagine," said Bekim Collaku. "But this is a product of her [Miss Del Ponte's] imagination."

Miss Del Ponte reports that the allegations were made by several sources, one of whom "personally made an organ delivery" to an Albanian airport for transport abroad, and "confirmed information directly gathered by the tribunal".

According to the sources, senior figures in the Kosovo Liberation Army were aware of the scheme, in which hundreds of young Serbs were allegedly taken by truck from Kosovo to northern Albania where their organs were removed. Miss Del Ponte provides grim details of the alleged organ harvesting, and of how some prisoners were sewn up after having kidneys removed.

"The victims, deprived of a kidney, were then locked up again, inside the barracks, until the moment they were killed for other vital organs. In this way, the other prisoners were aware of the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified, to be killed immediately," Miss Del Ponte writes.

The claims in The Hunt: Me and War Criminals have renewed tensions between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo, which declared independence two months ago. In it, the Swiss ex-prosecutor reveals how her efforts to bring alleged war criminals to justice were stymied by lack of co-operation from all sides - Serb, Albanian and even Nato. But it is her report of the organ traffic that has caused most shock, even in a region long hardened to horror.

Hashim Thaci [centre] in 1999 while head of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s political directorate

Vladan Batic, Serbia's former justice minister, said: "If her allegations are true, then this is the most monstrous crime since the times of Mengele, and it must be made a priority, not only of the domestic judiciary but also of the Hague Tribunal." The book reports a visit by Hague tribunal investigators to a house south of the Albanian town of Burrel where they found traces of blood across a wide area, as well as medical equipment.

"The investigators found pieces of gauze, a used syringe and two plastic IV bags encrusted with mud and empty bottles of medicine, some of which was of a muscle relaxant often used in surgical operations," she writes. However, she concludes that the finds do not amount to sufficient proof for a war crimes tribunal. In Belgrade, the Serbian capital, an association of families of Serbs still listed as missing since the Kosovo war, said it would sue Miss Del Ponte, alleging that she had failed to act over the alleged organ-farming scandal. Serbia's war crimes office announced it had opened its own investigation.

KOSOVO MUSLIMS HARVEST SERB ORGANS

And Bush is supporting giving them a Muslim state. Un-freakin-believe.  Ed over at Lock and load has the whole thing:

Kosovo: Serbia probes human organ sales

Belgrade, 27 March(AKI) - Serbia is investigating reports that Kosovar Albanians have been selling human organs of kidnapped Serbs to western countries, including Italy, since the 1998-99 Kosovo-Serbia conflict.

The Belgrade Daily Press said on Thursday that a protected witness, known as K-144, had made the allegations to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte.

According to the International Red Cross up to 3,000 Serbs have been reported missing or killed since 1999 and 200,000 fled the province.

The paper said the Serbs kidnapped by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), were transported to northern Albania where their internal organs were allegedly removed and then sold in Italy and western countries.

The KLA was a paramilitary guerrilla organisation that sought independence for Kosovo from the now defunct Yugoslavia and later Serbia in the late 1990s.

Serbian prosecutor for war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, confirmed that his office was investigating the reports.

“We are verifying the reports that in 1999 two trucks of kidnapped Serbs were transported to Albania,” Vukcevic said. “We received these reports from the ICTY.”

RELATED: JIHAD IN THE BALKINS

MCCAIN SUPPORTS ISLAMISTS IN KOSOVO

It's one thing to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk and as I've said over and over and over, a Muslim country in the heart (what's left of it) in Europe is a very ead thing

McCain Supports Radical Muslims in Kosovo  Accuracy in Media

McCain, who says he wants to wage a vigorous war against Islamic radicals worldwide, is prepared to let Muslim extremists come to power in Kosovo and even have their own sovereign state.

Conservatives should contemplate what is happening here. McCain, who says he wants to wage a vigorous war against Islamic radicals worldwide, is prepared to let Muslim extremists come to power in Kosovo and even have their own sovereign state. This is itself a major gaffe. But McCain compounded it when he gave a speech urging the building of “international structures for a durable peace,” including strengthening NATO. This sounds good, except that McCain has to know that recognizing Kosovo’s independence has split Western nations and even NATO itself. It is a major foreign policy blunder that the next administration, Democrat or Republican, may never recover from. It represents a direct threat to the international order of nation-states. That is why many nations have not recognized this new state of Kosovo. They realize that Kosovo’s independence could spark other groups to wage wars against established regimes around the world.

BUSH OFFERS MILITARY AID TO ISLAMIC KOSOVO

More insanity from a bush administration that has utterly lost its mind.  And it all began with a hoax.

Bush Offers Military Help to Kosovo AP hat tip Michael

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday authorized military assistance to Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia last month.

Bush signed a Presidential Determination granting Kosovo eligibility to receive defense articles and defense services under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act, which require that the president determine that military assistance "will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace."

World peace, my ass. He sound like a Miss USA contestant.

Neo-Nazis in Sweden Side With Kosovo Muslims.......

U.S. Recognition Of An Al-Qaeda Infiltrated Kosovo Is Indefensible

February, 19, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As we predicted in a 2005 piece, 10 Years And Counting - Still No Exit Plan From Clinton Created, European Al-Qaeda Base the radical Muslim game plan in the former Yugoslavia, which was evident from the mid 1990s has now been realized by what is perhaps George Bush's most serious foreign policy error, the recognition of an illegal and radical Muslim state in East Central Europe - Kosovo.

As has been the case in most of America's blunders regarding radical Islam, the United States embarked upon this disastrous path under the Clinton administration:

"Ignored by the leftist participants in rage-filled street demonstrations is the fact that the Clinton team's Balkan policies were viewed by establishment politicians as so outside the normal confines of American diplomacy that the actions of the US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith and then NSC Director Anthony Lake were referred to the Justice Department by the House of Representative for possible criminal action.

"...The Iranian presence and influence [in Bosnia] jumped radically in the months following the [Clinton] green light. Iranian elements infiltrated the Bosnian government and established close ties with the current leadership in Bosnia and the next generation of leaders. Iranian Revolutionary Guards accompanied Iranian weapons into Bosnia and soon were integrated in the Bosnian military structure from top to bottom as well as operating in independent units throughout Bosnia. The Iranian intelligence service [VEVAK] ran wild through the area developing intelligence networks, setting up terrorist support systems, recruiting terrorist 'sleeper' agents and agents of influence, and insinuating itself with the Bosnian political leadership to a remarkable degree. The Iranians effectively annexed large portions of the Bosnian security apparatus [known as the Agency for Information and Documentation (AID)] to act as their intelligence and terrorist surrogates. This extended to the point of jointly planning terrorist activities. The Iranian embassy became the largest in Bosnia and its officers were given unparalleled privileges and access at every level of the Bosnian government." - Final Report, House Select Subcommittee to Investigate the United States Role in Iranian Arms Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia, page 201 [source, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=bosniaislam.htm]

The Islamist penetration into the Balkans especially Kosovo should be alarming to anyone concerned over the growing threat of Islamic jihad.

Read the rest at Pipeline News

 

Atlas Shrugs: Pandora's Box:"The independence of Kosovo is a precedent that all EU countries with an ethnic minori

Six EU member states oppose recognizing Kosovo's independence for good reason. And not for the obvious I have been hammering for years. Citing Kosovo as a "breakaway role model", the native are restless and stoked.   It cannot be lost on anyone that the outbreak of World War I began in this very part of the world.

Separatist Movements Seek Inspiration in Kosovo

A lot more here:  Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia: Militant Islam

 

Kosovo Reverb: South Ossetia

Hate to say I told ya so .............they won't be the first or the last.

South Ossetia Seeks Recognition Reuters

South Ossetia said Wednesday that it had asked the world community to recognize its independence from Georgia following the West's support for Kosovo's secession.

South Ossetia, which declared independence in the 1990s, called on the United Nations, the European Union and Russia to recognize it as a sovereign state.

"The Kosovo precedent has driven us to more actively seek our rights," a spokeswoman for South Ossetia's separatist leader, Eduard Kokoity, said by telephone.

The region's local assembly has passed a resolution that says Kosovo's independence had created a precedent showing that regions desiring sovereignty should be recognized by the international community.

Dr. Arieh Eldad, Knesset, PM Candidate: "The Moslem Republic of Kosovo"

Dr. Eldad is my candidate for Prime Minister once Olmerde's term is mercifully up. Eldad gets it. He is unbowed, unafraid and without corruption [Emphasis and bolding mine]

The Kosovo Precedent By Arieh Eldad

The Moslem Republic of Kosovo declared its independence this week.  The United States and several European countries have already recognized it.  News reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry was urging swift Israeli recognition were denied, and reporters were told that Israel does not want to be the first to jump, but once the list of countries recognizing Kosovo is longer, Israel will be one of them.

If Israel does recognize Kosovo, this will certainly be the result of a decision made by the prime minister and foreign minister. Such a decision will be indubitable proof of the foolishness and malignant shortsightedness from which they suffer. If their willingness to establish an Arab terrorist state in the heart of our own country can be explained by their having internalized the Peace Now ideology concerning what they call the “occupation” and the demographic problem – there can be no such explanation for Israel’s giving support to Islamic imperialism in Europe. 

The fear of the spread of Islam is expressed today in increasing support for conservative parties in Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany.  These are not extreme right or neo-Nazi parties but rather mainstream conservative parties. They view Israel as a frontline fortress of Western culture facing jihad, and they fear that this fortress may fall under Arab pressure and because of the weakness of Israel’s leaders.  Such Europeans fear the separatist trends among millions of Moslem immigrants in Western Europe, the demands to apply Islamic Sharia law in those countries, and the ideological and financial support the immigrants are getting from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Al Quaida.  They are worriedly counting the thousands of mosques being built in Western Europe, and they are made anxious by their understanding of how Moslems have exploited Europeans’ collective guilt feelings over the destruction of the Jews to win surrender to Moslem demands for collective rights, free immigration, and multi-culturalism – all so that the Europeans will not be accused of racism.  Millions of Moslem immigrants in Europe supported by billions of Saudi dollars are garnering more and more “rights” and influence.

Islamic proliferation in Europe took in a new country this week. The Moslem minority in Serbia in the Kosovo region bordering the Islamic state of Albania declared its independence.  Serbia is a sovereign country, a member of the United Nations, with an ethnic minority.  Based on the standards being used for Kosovian independence, the Basques should now be able to set up an independent state in Spain.  Such states may also be established in Russia, Slovakia, Greece, and Cyprus.  The flag of Kosovo is that of Islamic proliferation and a source of serious anxiety to Europe.  Those European countries recognizing Kosovo are doing so under economic pressure from oil-rich Arab countries, the markets of Islamic countries, and internal pressure by millions of Moslem voters in Europe.

Expressing complete political blindness towards the nature of the conflict between Moslems and the rest of the world, Olmert and Tzippi Livni are convinced that establishing an Arab state in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza is in Israel’s political interests.  Only someone who doesn’t understand that the conflict has nothing to do with a parituclar boundary can think that drawing such a boundary line along the 1967 borders will solve anything.  Only someone who doesn’t understand what the Moslems in Europe want can think that the establishment of an independent Kosovo will resolve the conflict in the Balkans.  If Israel joins in recognizing Kosovo, there will be no political, legal, or moral claim it can make to oppose establishing an Arab state in the Galilee and Northern Negev.  For what is the difference?  An ethnic minority with territorial contiguity to neighboring enemy states demands, following a bloody war, to tear pieces from a sovereign country, and proclaim its independence.  This is or will be exactly the demand of the Arabs after the first stage in the “strategy of stages,” the establishment of an independent Palestinian state is, Heaven forbid, attained.  And we cannot forget that Arabs and the haters of Israel in Europe portray Israel in colors no less cruel than those used to portray the Serbs, and accusations of genocide are thrown at us just as they were thrown at them.  When the day comes when the Arabs in the Galilee declare independence, Israel will have no way to oppose it, assuming it today recognizes a country formed on exactly the same basis.

I have heard commentators explaining that neither we nor Europe should fear Kosovo because the Kosovians are “moderate Moslems.”  It was from these moderate Moslems that Haj Amin el-Husseini gathered tens of thousands of volunteers for the 13th SS Division (“Handschar”) and 21st SS Division (“Skanderbeg”).  On them he built his dream of marching with Hitler’s armies into Palestine and destroying the Jews of Eretz Israel.  Today Israel, together with its European partners, must present a solid front to stop the spread of Islam in Europe, for as long as the Moslem strength there increases, the tendency of European countries to prefer the Arabs over Israel will also increase. 

Pandora's Box:"The independence of Kosovo is a precedent that all EU countries with an ethnic minority should pursue"

Serb protesters march in sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo's independence. | PHOTOS | VIDEO

Six EU member states oppose recognizing Kosovo's independence for good reason. And not for the obvious I have been hammering for years. Citing Kosovo as a "breakaway role model", the native are restless and stoked.   It cannot be lost on anyone that the outbreak of World War I began in this very part of the world.

It's not just the "Palestinian" Islamic jhadis that are emboldened by this move ..................

Separatist Movements Seek Inspiration in Kosovo Speigel

Kosovo is turning out to be a huge source of conflict, both in the Balkans and across Europe. Six EU member states are against recognizing Kosovo's independence, because they fear it could lead to problems with their own ethnic minorities.

AFP

Ethnic Hungarians in Romania have long been interested independence from Romania. Kosovo's declaration of independence has whetted their appetite.

 

Spain: The Basques and the Catalans Cyprus: The Turkish Cypriots

Part 2: 'A Cancer in the Body of the Slovak Nation'

Romania: The Magyars in Székely Land

Bulgaria: The Muslim Pomaks

Greece: The Turks of Western Thrace

Slovakia: The Hungarian Minority

SPIEGEL ONLINE profiles six countries that are refusing to toe the EU line. Read the whole thing here

Glick Eviscerates West on Kosovo

Glick weighs in on Kosovo and not surprisingly, sees it as   Bolton and Bostom and Williams and Jatras and Gorin and  Atlas does). Another intellectual leading light sees the terrible mistake we are making in supporting an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

KOSOVO'S STARK WARNING Caroline Glick
[...]

Additionally, the prosecution of Albanian war criminals is "hampered by the unwillingness of the local population to testify" against them. This is in part due to the fact that "there is still no specific legislation on witness protection in place."

The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province.

According to a 2002 Wall Street Journal report, al-Qaida began operating actively in Kosovo, and in the rest of the Balkans, in 1992. Osama bin Laden visited Albania in 1996 and 1997. He received a Bosnian passport from the Bosnian Embassy in Austria in 1993. Acting on bin Laden's orders, in 1994 his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri set up training bases throughout the Balkans including one in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The Taliban and al-Qaida set up drug trafficking operations in Kosovo to finance their operations in Afghanistan and beyond.

In 2006, John Gizzi reported in Human Events that the German intelligence service BND had confirmed that the 2005 terrorist bombings in Britain and the 2004 bombings in Spain were organized in Kosovo. Furthermore, "The man at the center of the provision of the explosives in both instances was an Albanian, operating mostly out of Kosovo... who is the second ranking leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Niam Behzloulzi."

Then, too, at its 1998 meeting in Pakistan, the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared that the Albanian separatists in Kosovo were fighting a jihad. The OIC called on the Muslim world to help "this fight for freedom on the occupied Muslim territories."

Supporters of Kosovo claim that as victims of "genocide," Kosovar Muslims deserve independence. But if the Muslims in Kosovo have been targeted for annihilation by the Serbs, then how is it that they have increased from 48% of the population in 1948 to 92% today? Indeed, Muslims comprised only 78% of the population in 1991, the year before Yugoslavia broke apart.

In recent years particularly, it is Kosovo's Serbian Christians, not its Albanian Muslims, who are targeted for ethnic cleansing. Since 1999, two-thirds of Kosovo's Serbs - some 250,000 people - have fled the area.

The emergence of a potentially destabilizing state in Kosovo is clearly an instance of political interests trumping law. Under international law, Kosovo has no right to be considered a sovereign state. Even UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999, which the KLA claims provides the legal basis for Kosovar sovereignty, explicitly recognizes Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.

For Israel, Kosovo's US-backed declaration of independence should be a source of alarm great enough to require a rethinking of foreign policy. Unfortunately, rather than understand and implement the lessons of Kosovo, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is working actively to ensure that they are reenacted in the international community's treatment of Israel and the Palestinians. Today, Israel is enabling the Palestinians to set the political and legal conditions for the establishment of an internationally recognized state of Palestine that will be at war with Israel.

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You must, of course, read it all.

Bostom Bashes Bow to Islamic Kosovo

Glad to see the mighty mighty Bostom weigh in on the recent set of tragic events going down in Kosovo. Once again, Bostom and I are on the same page. Read, in particular, what the "moderate" Izetbegovic wrote about "Occupied Palestine", i.e., Israel, circa 1970.

Our Kosovo Folly: More Fulfillment of Izetbegovic’s “Moderate” Vision?.

Izetbegovic (d. 2003): Are We Helping to Realize His Caliphate Dreams ?

The intrepid Julia Gorin details why US support for an independent Kosovo is dangerous folly. Kosovo is a narco-jihadist vipers nest bent on ethnically cleansing its residual native pre-Islamic Serb inhabitants, in fulfillment of regional, and perhaps larger Islamic goals.  

My forthcoming “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism” includes a poignant description of the chronic plight of Serbs under Muslim rule—a plight shared with Balkan Jewry, as per the system of dhimmitude—by the early 20^th century sociologist and geographer Jovan Cvijic. In La Peninsule Balkanique, Paris, 1918, his detailed psychosocial analysis of the Serbian and other Christian dhimmis under Muslim, including, notably Albanian rule, Cvijic described how the fear of recurrent violence accentuated their submission, engendering prototypical dhimmi adaptive behaviors: 

[they became]…accustomed to belonging to an inferior, servile class, whose duty it is to make themselves acceptable to the master, to humble themselves before him and to please him. These people become close-mouthed, secretive, cunning; they lose all confidence in others; they grow used to hypocrisy and meanness because these are necessary in order for them to live and to avoid violent punishments. The direct influence of oppression and violence is manifested in almost all the Christians as feelings of fear and apprehension. Whenever Moslem brigands or evil-doers made their appearance somewhere, entire districts used to live in terror, often for months on end. There are regions where the Christian population has lived under a reign of fear from birth until death. In certain parts of Macedonia, they don’t tell you how they fought against the Turks or against the Albanians, but rather about the way that they managed to flee from them, or the ruse that they used to escape them. In Macedonia I heard people say: “Even in our dreams we flee from the Turks and the Albanians.” It is true that for about twenty years a certain number of them have regained their composure, but the deep-seated feeling has not changed among the masses of people. Even after the liberation in 1912 one could tell that a large number of Christians had not yet become aware of their new status: fear could still be read on their faces.  

It is worth recalling that our “moderate” Bosnian Muslim ally in the 1990s, was President Alija Izetbegovic. Mr. Izetbegovic was a youthful recruiter for Himmler’s Nazi Bosnian Muslim Handschar Division, pious Muslim polygamist with four wives (as David Binder’s N.Y Times obituary [10/20/03] noted, “He is survived by his first wife, Halida, who lives in Turkey; a son, Bakir; two daughters, Leila Aksami and Sabina; his second wife, Melika; and his third wife, Amira, whom he married in 1993 under Shari’a, the Islamic code of law. In February 1995, the newspaper Slobodna Bosna published congratulations to him on his fourth marriage, without naming the woman.”), and author of the 1970 Islamic Declaration—in which he openly avowed support for a revived Caliphate—under Shari’a—of necessity including, of course, a vigorous re-Islamization of the Balkans.Here are some of Izetbegovic’s “moderate” views, including his wish to destroy Israel (“occupied Palestine”), as expressed in this 1970 Islamic Declaration:;

The implementation of Islam in all fields of individuals’ personal lives, in family and in society, by renewal of the Islamic religious thought and creating a uniform Muslim community from Morocco to Indonesia. A nation, and an individual, who has accepted Islam is incapable of living and dying for another ideal after that fact. It is unthinkable for a Muslim to sacrifice himself for any tzar or ruler, no matter what his name may be, or for the glory of any nation, party or some such, because acting on the strongest Muslim instinct he recognizes in this a certain type of godlessness and idolatry.

A Muslim can die only with the name of Allah on his lips and for the glory of Islam, or he may run away from the battlefield. … 

The shortest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of faith and law, upbringing and force, ideals and interests, spiritual community and state, free will and force. As a synthesis of these components, the Islamic order has two fundamental premises: an Islamic society and Islamic authority. The former is the essence, and the latter the form of an Islamic order. An Islamic society without Islamic power is incomplete and weak; Islamic power without an Islamic society is either a utopia or violence.

A Muslim generally does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. He must change the world or be changed himself. History knows of no true Islamic movement which was not at the same time a political movement as well. This is because Islam is a faith, but also a philosophy, a set of moral codes, an order of things, a style, an atmosphere - in a nutshell, an integral way of life. … 

…The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the “Islamic faith” and non- Islamic societies and political institutions.

… Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion. … 

… Islamic order may be implemented only in countries where Muslims represent the majority of the population. Without this majority, the Islamic order is reduced to authority only (because the other element is lacking - the Islamic society), and may turn into violence. …

… the Islamic movement should and must start taking over the power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough to not only overthrow the existing non-Islamic, but also to build up a new Islamic authority. …

In one of the thesis for an Islamic order today we have stated that it is a natural function of the Islamic order to gather all Muslims and Muslim communities throughout the world into one. Under present conditions, this desire means a struggle for creating a great Islamic federation from Morocco to Indonesia, from the tropical Africa to the Central

And of course on the jihad to destroy srael as an independent Jewish State, NOT under the Shari’a, Izetbegovic opines:

EXCLUSIVE PAUL WILLIAMS: CLINTON'S MUSLIM BRIGADE

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Paul Williams wrote a stunning piece that makes points that others have missed regarding the "Kosovo independence" farce. The bin Laden connection has been overlooked by the MSM, as well as what Williams calls "Bill Clinton's Muslim Brigade". The same game plan is at work in the "peace process" being rammed down their throats in Israel. Israel is now being threatened and cajoled into allowing NATO "peace-keepers" assume positions in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza strip. The refusal to allow foreign troops to place a Trojan horse within our borders has been a cornerstone of Israel policy since 1948, but the traitors Olmert and Livni are moving forward with plans to do just that. (BTW, where are the women?)

UPDATE 2:30 pm: Protesters have broken into the U.S. embassy. There are no injuries reported. Around 600,000 - 700,000 Serbs, according to MSNBC, are massing in Belgrade outside the U.S. embassy. Serbs have set the US Embassy ablaze (video here)

US Supports Terror State

  BUSH ADMINISTRATION UNITES WITH AL QAEDA IN KOSOVO by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

(author of DAY OF ISLAM)

America's war on terror has come full circle.

By pledging his support of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia, President George W. Bush has sanctioned the genocide of thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans and the creation, thanks to al Qaeda, of a radical Muslim state at the doorway to Europe.

After announcing their independence from Serbia on February 16, thousands of ethnic Albanians (Muslims) took to the streets waving American flags and singing patriotic songs.

While the national press provided glowing coverage of these demonstrations as proof that the "Kosovars" were adamantly pro-America, few media outlets took notice that the demonstrations were preceded by the sacking of Christian churches and the burning of thousands of Serbian books.

But book-burning is the least of the sins of our new friend and ally. The Kosovars have also sacked churches, raped nuns, and mass-murdered approximately 4,000 Christian Serbs in and around the town of Srebrenica and its adjoining towns and villages (Bratunac, Skelani, Milici, et al) as well as the town of Gorazde.

In a letter to Fatmir Sejdui, the president of the new "republic," Bush wrote: "On behalf of the American people, I hereby recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state. I congratulate you and Kosovo's citizens for having taken this important step in your democratic and national development." He also pledged to increase the amount of foreign aid to the Balkan state from $77 million in 2007 to $335 million in 2008.   

Kosovo had formally remained a part of Serbia even though it has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since 1999, when strategic NATO bombings ended the Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.

Ninety percent of Kosovo's two million people are ethnic Albanian and Muslim— and they see no reason to stay joined to Christian Orthodox Serbia.

Despite calls for restraint in the wake of the announcement of Kosovo's independence, tensions flared on February 19 in northern Kosovo, home to most of the territory's 100,000 minority Serbs. An explosion damaged a U.N. vehicle outside the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, where thousands of Serbs chanted, "This is Serbia!"

The crowds in Kosovska marched to a bridge spanning a river dividing the town between the ethnic Albanian and Serbian sides. They were confronted by NATO peacekeepers guarding the bridge, but there were no outbursts violence.

Another 800 Serbs staged a noisy but peaceful demonstration in the Serb-dominated enclave of Gracanica outside Pristina.

The Serbs were not alone in their protests.

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton maintains that the creation of an independent Kosovo "will give a boost to Islam extremism." Bolton voices his agreement with Alekandr Botsan-Kharcenko, Russia's ambassador to the Balkans, who said: "Any unilateral declaration of independence by Pristina [capital of the new nation] would not be legal and could trigger separatist movements in the world and could undermine international order and the structure of international relations."  

A PRIMER TO THE PROBLEM

The turmoil in Kosovo began in 1989 when Slovodan Milosevic, president of Serbia and the Free Republic of Yugoslavia, set out to create a greater Serbia by annexing Kosovo. When the Kosovo assembly approved this measure, ethnic Albanians (the sanitized way of saying native Muslims) rebelled. In 1990 Milosevic dispatched troops into Kosovo to squelch the rebellion and restore order. In 1992, the ethnic Albanians responded to this military measure by establishing their own government in Kosovo - - the Republic of Kosovo - - with self proclaimed pacifist Ibrahim Rugova as its president.

With two governments in one tiny country, the situation quickly became downright ugly. In 1993 Milosevic ordered the arrest of thirty ethnic Albanians for planning an armed uprising. In 1995 a Serbian court sentenced sixty-eight members of Rugova's government to prison for setting up a parallel police force.  

BIN LADEN IN THE BALKANS

To aid in the struggle for independence, the ethnic Albanians turned to Osama bin Laden and the mujahadeen. Muslim warriors from Chechnya, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia traveled in droves to Kosovo. By 1995 more than sixty thousand holy warriors, including members of al Qaeda, had made their way to the Balkans to prepare for the struggle against Milosevic and the Christian Serbs.

Bin Laden visited the area three times between 1994 and 1996. In the wake of these visits, al Qaeda training camps popped up in Zenica in Bosnia and Malisevo and Mitrovica in Kosovo; elaborate command and control centers were set up in Croatia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria; and a central headquarters for the mujahadeen was established in Tropje, Albania, on the property of Sali Betisha, the former Albanian premiere.

          In addition, Bin Laden provided seven hundred million dollars to establish the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The purpose of the KLA was to drive Christian Serbs from Kosovo, to topple the government of Milosevic, to undermine the peace initiatives of Ibrahim Rugova, and to unite the Muslims of Kosovo, Macedonia, and Albania into the Islamic Republic of Greater Albania.

BILL CLINTON'S MUSLIM BRIGADE

          By 1997, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Secretary of Defense William Cohen came to view the KLA as "freedom fighters." Millions in U.S. aid began to flow to the Muslim rebels. America, unbeknown to its citizens, was now in league with the terrorists who were intent upon the destruction of western civilization. Human history, going back to the tree-swinging apes, does not get much crazier than this.

          By 1998, the KLA became a formidable army of 30,000 highly trained troops with sophisticated weaponry that included shoulder-launched antitank rocket launchers, mortars, recoilless rifles, and antiaircraft machine guns. From Tropje, the KLA began to conduct hit and run terror attacks throughout Kosovo. They bombed police stations, killed scores of police officers and government workers, and desecrated Christian cemeteries.

          Milosevic, in outrage, responded by burning homes and killing dozens of KLA foot soldiers in the Drenica region. A full-scale conflict erupted, culminating in the infamous massacre of January 15, 1999, when the bodies of forty-five ethnic Albanians were discovered in a gully near the small village of Racak.

          Confronted with the crime of genocide, Milosevic insisted that the bodies had been planted by the KLA to implicate the Serbs and to justify Western involvement in the conflict. Milosevic's claims were supported by investigative journalists from Le Figaro and Le Monde, who discovered that the bodies had been placed in un-natural positions; that the site of the so-called "massacre" was devoid of cartridge shells; and that the villagers were unable to identify a single victim.

PUTTING THE SCREWS TO SLOBODAN

Convinced that Milosevic was engaging in ethnic cleansing, President Clinton summoned his NATO allies and began a bombing campaign that reduced Kosovo to a heap of rubble. At the start of the campaign, Secretary of Defense Cohen said that 100,000 ethnic Albanians of military age were missing and may have been deported by the Serbs to Albania and Macedonia. "They may have been murdered," Cohen added.

Between March 24 and June 10, 1999, 37,465 bombing missions took place, destroying 400 Serbian artillery weapons and 270 armored personnel carriers, and causing 1.4 ethnic Albanians to flee for their lives - - the greatest mass migration of refugees since World War II.

Milosevic and the Serbs were forced to toss in the towel. The accord of June 21, 1999 ended the air strikes, eliminated the presence of a Serbian government in Kosovo, and authorized a NATO force of 1,700 police officers to establish law and order until democratic elections could be held.

But the situation in Kosovo was far beyond the capability of 1,700 police officers. The ethnic Albanians who had fled for safety from the Serbs now returned with a vengeance. A pogrom got underway in the Balkans, and neither Bill Clinton nor the United Nations uttered a word of protest.

THE REAL ETHNIC CLEANSING

The Muslims wasted no time in exacting their pounds of flesh. More than two hundred Christian churches and monasteries were destroyed before the NATO peace-keeping force. Some of these Christian shrines, including the Devic Monastery, the Cathedral of St. George, and the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, had been built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Reports surfaced of mass executions of Serbian farmers, the murders of scores of priests, the rape of nuns, and "granny killings" - - the drowning of old Christian women in bathtubs.

Of the two hundred thousand Serbs who lived in Kosovo before the conflict, only four hundred remained after Kosovo became a NATO protectorate. The vast majority of the Christians had gathered their belongings and fled for their lives. The 400 Serbs who remained in Kosovo were sequestered in three gloomy apartment buildings, where the international police stood guard day and night.

In the aftermath of the war, hundreds of Wahhabi mosques and schools, thanks to the contributions of wealthy Saudis, now appeared in every town and hamlet throughout the country. The back-door to Europe had been pried open by bin Laden and the mujahadeen for the drug trade and the movement of weapons of mass destruction.

MILOSEVIC WAS THE MUSLIM'S PATSY

In 2000, NATO dispatched forensic teams from fifteen countries and eight human-rights organizations into Kosovo to find the killing fields and evidence of Milosevic's crimes against the ethnic Albanians. Mass murder is difficult to hide. One need only recall the entry of war-crime inspectors into Nazi Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda to understand that the execution of thousands of people leaves behind massive and undeniable evidence for the world to see. But the bodies of the ten thousand victims of Milosevic's "reign of terror" were nowhere to be found.

The claims of the Clinton administration were based on flawed intelligence from the CIA.

Despite the failure to uncover mass graves, Milosevic was accused of crimes against humanity and placed on trial in February 2002 before an international criminal tribunal in The Hague. There was scant chance that he would receive a favorable verdict. The United States, in an unprecedented move, demanded and received the right to censor all evidence. Slobodan's goose was cooked. He was found dead in his cell on March 11, 2006, after court officials denied his request to seek medical treatment at a cardiology clinic.

Revelers celebrate Kosovo's declaration of independence, as they gather near a sculpture spelling out the word 'Newborn,' in Kosovo's capital Pristina.

AND SO IT GOES

The real genocide in Kosovo, i. e., the killing of Christian Serbs, continued under the collective noses of the George W. Bush Administration. In March 2004, the ethnic Albanians, in a last ditch effort to eradicate the remaining Serbs, torched Serbian homes and destroyed almost all of the remaining Serbian Orthodox Church sites, and even the UN facilities. But no protest came from the White House.

Instead, President Bush visited Albania on June 11, 2007 and declared: "At some point, sooner rather than later, you've got to say, 'Enough is enough - - Kosovo is independent.'"

On February 17, 2007, enough became enough. Kosovo declared its independence and the mujahadeen dream of the Islamic Republic of Greater Albania began to crystallize into a reality.

Small wonder.

George W. Bush has always been a staunch defender of the faith.

Islam is a religion of peace," he assures us.

UPDATE: The Sultan has a great post: Kosovo and Islam's Balkanization of the World

Even as the world rushes to embrace the newly manufactured Kosovo as a country, the rise of a splinter Muslim country in Europe can't help but give hope to Islamic terrorists fighting to create breakaway states in Thailand, the Philippines, Israel, India and Kenya among many others.

Balkanization, or divide and conquer, has always been a key element in bringing down countries and with a global Islamic war, each country with a Muslim minority, natively converted or imported, is on the same track as Yugoslavia.

What Hitler did with the Volksdeutsche, ethnic Germans, across Eastern Europe, his former Muslim allies are doing across the world with Muslim populations. With the Volksdeutsche, before a single soldier of the Reich even set foot in a country, the Volksdeutsche would radicalize and foment unrest that would either carve up the target country or justify military intervention to "liberate" them. When the country was conquered, the Volksdeutsche would quickly become occupation forces.

With Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Ayatollahs either being direct allies of Hitler or influenced by Nazism, it's no surprise that Muslims have adopted Nazi tactics and Kosovo and its Muslim population that had formerly collaborated with the Nazis, is their greatest victory, a Muslim state carved out of the heart of Europe through ethnic cleansing, with the world's approval.

Whether in Gaza or the Paris riots, Kosovo or Kashmir, Balkanization is Islam's greatest weapon. Lacking a Nazi Germany to invade on their half behalf, Muslims practice violence and terrorism combined with manipulative publicity aimed at the world to convince them to take their side. And time and time again it has worked.

There's much more. Go.
 

Islamic Kosovo: a Threat not a Country

Of course, nothing happens in a vacuum. And while the declaration of an independent Kosovo is a death sentence for the remaining Christian Serbs the reverberations extend far beyond the borders of Serbian Kosovo and Bosnia.This undeniable victory for Muslims will "inspire" Islamic savages worldwide as exhibited by the barbarians in Gazastan.

Perhaps if the "Palestinian" Arabs declare independence unilaterally (like Kosovo) Israel will no longer have to fund, feed, and water the Islamic jihad in Gazastan. Instead it can finally fight for its survival against a hostile, invading enemy.

I suppose we can expect Muslims to declare statehood in other European countries like France, Britian, The Netherlands etc. sometime in the future.

Palestinians and a Kosovo Pipe Dream

Yasser Abd Rabbo makes wave with his Kosovo headline

The proposal by senior Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo put forward Wed Feb. 20 to copy the Kosovo example if Israel continued to mark time in talks for a Palestinian state was quickly knocked down by his colleagues, but eyed with interest by Israel.

Tuesday, prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni held another round of negotiations with Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qureia.

There is a must read piece by James George Jatras who was on my radio show with Julia Gorin a few months ago (Listen here)

'Independent' Kosovo: A threat, not a country Exclusive: James George Jatras notes Christian Serbs are now 'bracing for the worst'

Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking the rhetorical question: "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg."

That pretty much sums up the recent unilateral declaration of independence by Albanian Muslims in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Several countries, disgracefully led by the United States, have recognized Kosovo. Major media have hailed creation of the "world's newest country." But calling Kosovo a country doesn't make it one.

Serbia has denounced the move as the illegal creation of a "separatist entity" on its sovereign territory and has handed down criminal indictments against several of the top Albanian Muslim leaders. Now under way is a sharp global competition to see which governments will recognize Kosovo and which will not. Under heavy pressure from the U.S. State Department, most European countries will meekly comply. Some, like Cyprus with its Turkish-occupied north and Spain with its Basque separatist movement, will not.

In short, an action State Department bureaucrats touted as "settling Kosovo's status" has resulted in anything but. Outside of Europe, the picture is even fuzzier. Russia will reject Kosovo's independence, and expected to take the same line are China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil and many others. Russia will veto any effort to extend Kosovo membership in the United Nations.

Any sovereign state with restive ethnic or religious minorities would recognize Kosovo at its own peril. What Washington seeks to inflict on Serbia today could be the fate of the American southwest tomorrow. Israel, in particular, is closely pondering its next move. While loath to anger Washington, Jerusalem must consider that a Kosovo precedent could, absent any negotiated agreement, prompt proclamation of a Palestinian state, to be recognized by Arab and Muslim regimes. The same precedent could apply to heavily Muslim areas such as Galilee and the Negev within Israel's formal borders.

UPDATE: Fitzgerald on Independent Kosovo. Nails it.

Even within Europe there are nations that oppose this independence -- Spain -- and others where many are uneasy. It would have been politically possible for the American government to have thought a bit more about the implications, the consequences, of having another Muslim state -- the product of centuries of Ottoman rule -- within Europe, and to have thought a bit more about the historical treatment of the Serbs under that same Ottoman rule, and their understandable bitterness.

There is an independent Albania. Those Albanians who might wish to be in a state that politically embodies their desires could move. The notion that when Muslim populations exist, they must never be asked to endure minority status, and that only the non-Muslim populations are to be asked to do so, is wrong.

[...]

One are the tricks one can play with the region whose heads are being counted. If you rip Kosovo out of Serbia, then you will indeed have an area, “Kosovo,” where the Albanians constitute most of the population. Is that the end of the matter? I can find, and so can you, all kinds of places, now part of larger countries, where this or that minority constitute, in a particular area or city, the majority -- even if they are the minority elsewhere. So what?

Surely there were other things to consider. What has happened to Serbian monasteries and churches in places now under full Albanian control -- that is, those Albanians who are Muslim? Is there a tradition of treating non-Muslims, in this case Serbs, well or ill?

In alerting people to the attacks on Serbs, to the destruction of ancient monasteries, on the infiltration into the area of Arabs with a brand of Islam quite different from the relaxed, syncretistic, version -- not exactly full-bodied Islam in practice, because that local practice was affected by the centuries of proximity to non-Muslims, and to the effect of Communism, one is not endorsing any massacres by some Serbs. One can distance oneself -- most Serbs do, unfeignedly -- from Milosevich and those atrocities that were committed by some Serb forces. And one can also keep in mind both the exaggerations of those atrocities, and the minimizing or even ignoring not only of the atrocities committed by the Muslims, as well as the entire history of the area, the centuries of Muslim rule, the devshirme, and the deep fears evoked when Izetbegovic wrote that he intended to create a Muslim state and impose the Shari'a. Had the Western world shown the slightest intelligent sympathy or understanding of what that set off in the imagination of many Serbs, there might never have been such a reaction, and someone like Milosevic might never have obtained power.

Why wasn't there? Why didn't those in the West study what Izetbegovic said? Why didn't they read what Serb historians, and writers, including Ivo Andric (in his doctoral dissertation, recently-reprinted, "The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule") were aware of, and that had never been forgotten? When Clinton ordered the bombing of the Serbs, had he heard, ever, about the devshirme? Did he know that Izetbegovic had written about imposing the shari'a? No, of course not. But had he, and had others, they might have reassured the Serbs long before, and helped to make them less panicky, less prone to give power to someone like Milosevic. The West entirely mishandled Serbia.

And then there is the larger scheme of things. Does it make sense, at this moment in history, to give Muslims the sense that they are on the march, that they are establishing beachhead after beachhead in Europe itself -- even if, for all we know, that sense of triumphalism is based on a misunderstanding of the devotion to Islam of the Albanians (now "Kosovars") in question? Assuming that the Chechens have a point (and they did have a point, considering the history of Stalin's treatment of them), was that reason enough to support the Chechens against Russia, or should one have refrained from so doing, because of the larger context, in which any Muslim victory feeds the assurance that other victories are sure to come, that Islam is unstoppable?

Perhaps the rule should be, all over the Western and larger Infidel world, this: whatever makes the Umma happy, or the O.I.C. happy, is to be opposed for that very reason. That's a rule of thumb. What, after all, is Man, if not Homo pollex?

FITZGERALD!

Give 'em a State!

Europe's new jihadist statelet?

Bush making the world safe for Islamic  jihad states.  I guess after Gazastan, this abomination is a freakin walk in the park. This is wrong. 

Kosovo Wins Recognition of America, Others

PRISTINA — America and major European powers said today they would recognize Kosovo a day after the province's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia. Kosovo's leaders sent letters to 192 countries seeking formal recognition and Britain, France, and Germany endorsed the declaration. But other European Union nations were opposed, including Spain, which has battled a violent Basque separatist movement for decades.

[...]

But Serb-controlled northern Kosovo was tense with thousands demonstrating against independence and an explosion damaging a U.N. vehicle. No one was hurt.

By sidestepping the United Nations and appealing directly to America and other nations for recognition, Kosovo's independence set up a showdown with Serbia — outraged at the imminent loss of its territory — and Russia, which warned it would set a dangerous precedent for separatist groups worldwide.

From Save Kosovo here and www.srpskapolitika.com

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Violence Against Christian Serbs and Their Holy Places (hat tip Jan)

Crimes of Albanian Muslim Nazis against Serbs during the WWII

Rape of Serbian girl by Albanian Muslims - in year 1941.

Raped young Serbian girl (age 9) from Zitinje near Vitina, in arms of her father Stojan Peric (year 1983)

Djordje Martinovic (photo after being killed) - photo by Mica Popovic: "May, 1 1985."

Serbian man beaten by Muslim Albanians - Pristina, summer 1999, foto by UNMIK Police.

Slaughtered body of Slavoljub Radunovic. Photo by UNMIK Police. His body, in a plastic bag, was given to his mother in a monastery.

November 29, 1999. Murder of a University Professor, a Serb from Pristina, photo by UNMIK Police

Scene of the murder of Serbian university professor Basic by a crowd of Muslim Albanians in Pristina, after the arrival and jurisdiction of KFOR and the UN Mission - photo by UNMIK Police

Mrs. Borka Jovanovic, age 75, injured by the gang of Muslim Albanians in Pristina, November 29, 1999. In this same accident, her son in law, Professor Dragoslav Basic, was murdered, while his wife was injured. Grandma Borka died as a consequence of this injury, a few days latter.

Serbian woman that was beaten by Muslim Albanians in Pristina in August 1999. The most frequent target are unprotected Serbian women and elder people.

Serbian Princess Katarina visiting a Serbian man beaten by Muslim Albanians in Pec, Kosovo and Metohija, in August 1999.

After a terrorist attack by Muslim Albanians on the bus with Serbian civilians (February 17, 2001) in which 11 persons were killed (of which two children) and 40 persons were injured, UN police arrested a few suspicious Albanians. The main culprit Florim Ejupi was directly linked to the terrorist circles of organized Muslim Albanian crime, under "former KLA" and its successor KPS (Kosovo Police Service) under UN/NATO troops. In spite of all security measures in place, Ejupi escaped from American prison in Camp Bondsteel. British "Sunday Times" in its article by Bob Graham on July 29 2001, unraveled: "Mistake by British troops allowed the bomb attack on bus" indicating that N sources believe that Florim Ejupi was working for CIA. His trial would have been a big embarrassment, confirms the same source."

Serbian child injured in terrorist attack

UNHCR bus was transporting Serbian civilians when Albanian Muslim terrorists attacked the bus with a rocket propelled bomb in February 2000. Attacks on humanitarian convoys of non-Albanian civilians was a special method of terror used by Muslim Albanian terrorists specially against Serb civilians.

It gets worse .... here

UPDATE: INTERVIEW WITH BALKANS EXPERT DUSAN RELJIC '

Kosovo Is not Independent, It Is an EU Protectorate'

St. Louis "Little Bosnia"

Julia Gorin, my most valued resource on Bosnia, serves up this dose of syrup of ipecac. There ought to be a law against building ginormous minarets .........

Don’t Meet Me in St. Louis, Part IIJulia Gorin under Republican Riot

I mentioned last week that a local St. Louis radio station reported that a minaret (Islamic prayer tower) was being built — but that I was awaiting confirmation. Well now we have it from reader Zachary B., who has taken photos of it for us, as it’s fewer than six blocks from his house.

A snapshot of the new Americana:

 

 

Zack writes, “Welcome to St. Louis, grab yourself a prayer rug!”

Mind you, this isn’t just any minaret that will be broadcasting the satanic verses. It’s the minaret of what is known as St. Louis’s “Little Bosnia”. That’s right — a Bosnian minaret, Bosnians being those secular Muslims we helped to kill Serbs in the 90s while transplanting the “refugees” here so that one of them could shoot nine Americans for Valentine’s Day last year.

More from Zack’s accompanying note:

I can’t believe in a day and age where the ACLU is tracking down anyone who even utters the word Christ in public like a pack of hungry wolves, we see a prayer tower being constructed where daily prayers will be heard being read from the Muslim holy book 5 times daily.
…
The parking lot of the Islamic center shares itself with Big Lots, Burlington Coat Factory, Office Depot, and a Payless Shoe store. So these customers will happily also share in the 5 daily call to prayer announcements.

Read it all here.

KOSOVO: THE BUSH RUSH TO AN ISLAMIC STATE IN EUROPE

During a visit to neighbouring Albania, Mr Bush said: "At some point, sooner rather than later, you've got to say, 'Enough is enough – Kosovo is independent'."

Why? Why is Bush insisting that Kosovo be independent and who will then save the Christians?

US pressuring EU to recognize rogue Kosovo  Serbianna.com,

Fried was also noted of saying that the Islamic world would be glad to recognize Kosovo after Slovenia's lead. Saudi Arabia recently invited Kosovo Albanian ...

Young ethnic Albanians (Muslims) celebrate Kosovo's coming independence in Pristina yesterday. Check out the keffiyeh on the right.

5000 Bosnian Muslims rally behind Jihadists

A shameful conspiracy 
...  then demand independence. There is no historical Albanian state of Kosovo that was forcibly absorbed  ...  Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins and Serbs, who were Christians, although divided by Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

Bosnia’s Serbs stepped up threats to secede their entity from Bosnia and Herzegovina if Kosovo declares unilateral independence this weekend and recognized by the Western countries.

Ethnic Albanian extremists burning books in Serbian language

Stressing his great concern for the destiny of the entire literal fund in the Serbia's southern province, Ristic said that, according to the eye witnesses, in some cases ethnic Albanian barbarians massively burnt, destroyed or threw away books in the bare eyes of KFor.

Ethnic Albanian extremists have also set on fire the City library in Pristina, which had been the richest library in the entire province, containing some 400.000 units of the literal fund. According to Ristic, besides the books in Serbian language, the fire most probably destroyed books in Albanian, Turkish and languages of the other ethnic groups, an act suitable to the barbarian behavior of the ethnic Albanian extremists [Muslims]

Kosovo's Serbs vow to defend Serb hold on breakaway province

The real Srebrenica Genocide

[NOTE: About 18 months ago Nathan Pearlstein, Robert Peter North and Felix Quigley began educating Israpundit readers as to the truth about the fighting in Serbia. As a result we came to understand that the US was at fault and the Serbs were innocent.]

Introduction by Nathan Pearlstein

Why are the mainstream Western media, the US administrations under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as the governments of NATO and the EU covering up this monumental crime against humanity?

Why are the Serbs - whom apart from the Jews were the major victims of the Holocaust during World War 2 - being cast as the perpetrators of genocide while the real perpetrators of genocide - the Islamofascists loyal to Alija Izetbegovic - are being cast by the corporate media, the US, NATO and EU governments as “the victims”?

Why was Naser Oric - the Islamofascist commander of Srebrenica and perpetrator of a massive genocide against Serbian men, women and children in Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 - given only a 2 year sentence for this monumental crime against humanity and allowed to walk free from NATO’s Scheveningen ICTY prison: the former Nazi SS dungeon for patriotic Dutch resistance fighters against the Germans during World War 2 in The Hague, Holland?

Our dear friend and colleague at 4International, Peter Robert North, has graciously allowed us to reproduce in full his outstanding work here on what really happened in Srebrenica and Gorazde from 1992 to 1995. A revelation of truth which is of enormous historical significance and importance to all good people across the globe but especially for all patriotic Jewish people in Israel and the diaspora.

We all remember the Western media hoaxes and fakery concerning the events in Jenin and Qana recently and how these media frauds were used to demonize Israel and the Jewish people. So it is absolutely crucial that we also expose the Western media fraud concerning the events in Srebrenica, Bosnia in July, 1995, in order to reveal just how corrupt and dishonest the Western media, the US, NATO and EU Imperialist governments are when they turn the world upside down by demonizing the victims of a massacre in order to prop up the Islamofascist perpetrators, thereby creating new independent Islamist states for the Islamofascists (as the US, NATO and EU are doing right now in Kosovo on behalf of the Islamofascist terrorist group: the KLA).

The following article, my dear readers, is the horrific truth about what happened to the Serb civilians of Srebrenica and Gorazde - a shocking truth which the Fascist Left supporters of Hamas and PLO/Fatah, as well as the pro-NATO Imperialist cowards on British website “Harry’s Place” - especially Oliver Kamm and Marko Attila Hoare - are so desperate to hide from the people of the world.

The following is a dire warning to us all! We ignore this at our own peril.

The Real Srebrenica Genocide: The mass murder of Serbs in Srebrenica and Gorazde from 1992 to 1995 by Alija Izetbegovic’s Islamofascist terrorists

By Peter Robert North

The real Srebrenica Genocide not reported by the corrupt, racist pro-Islamist-Nazi Western corporate-controlled media, was the brutal mass murder - using axes, knives, daggers, sledgehammers, iron bars, flamethrowers and explosives - of 3,870 Serbian elderly men, women and young children in and around the town of Srebrenica and its adjoining towns and villages(Bratunac,Skelani,Milici, et al) as well as the town of Gorazde.

Bosnian Muslim military forces from Srebrenica killed Bosnian Serb Milan Vujicic, mutilated his body, and then roasted his corpse.

Go read complete post over at Israpundit -- WARNING! IT IS GRAPHIC! -- But you have to understand what's at stake here.

EUROPEAN ANALYSTS SEE IRANIAN
HAND BEHIND KOSOVO CONFLICT

By Steve Rodan (hat tip Michael)

[March 24, 1999] To most in the West, the fighting in Kosovo is the result of an oppressive Yugoslav regime that seeks to quell independence for an Albanian majority in the province. But quietly European defense and diplomatic representatives regard the Kosovo rebellion as a success of radical Islamic states, such as Iran, and groups such as that of Osama Bin Laden.

As they see it, Kosovo has become the latest and most significant arena for radical Islamic states and groups that seek to widen their influence in Europe. Nobody argues that Islamic elements fomented the conflicts in the Balkans. But they say Iran, Saudi Arabia and some of their terrorist beneficiaries have exploited the fighting to establish a sphere of influence that spans from Greece to the Austrian border.

Islamic groups as far away as Pakistan have called for support of the fighters in Kosovo. "The type of cruel and oppressive tactics followed by Serb aggressors in Kosovo and the Balkans is a declaration of war against humanity and the whole Muslim Ummah," the Jamaat Islami, Pakistan, said in a recent statement.

That realization, the diplomats and defense sources say, is why European leaders are increasingly hesitant in approving NATO strikes against Yugoslavia.

"The gap between the public political rhetoric and the private professional discussions is huge," a European defense official said. "Europe is beginning to realize that Kosovo is not just about a rebellion. It's about a growing Iranian attempt to support and dominate movements in states in Europe."

UPDATE: Previous Atlas posts Bosnia: Militant Islam

UPDATE: A Jacksonian asks  the question: why are we letting al Qaeda associates set up shop as the leaders of Kosovo?

UPDATE: I see Ambassador Bolton and I are on the same page. Why am I not surprised?
 

Independent Kosovo will endanger the stability in the Balkans once again, estimated the American ambassador at the UN, John Bolton.

I think that there is a significant risk that the instability in the Balkans will continue in Bosnia and other areas where ethnic groups do not live in a country they refuse, said Bolton in an interview for Glas Amerike reported in Serbian language.

Kosovo will be a weak country submissive to Islamic radical forces which will spread its influence in the area with the support of singular Albanians and so potentially open the door to radicals in Europe, Bolton estimated.

More here.

WRONG ON SERBIA!

The beatings, the torture, systematic destruction of churches by Muslims. And Bush wants to give them a state in Kosovo. Paving the way for a radical Islamic state. Go over to Serbia Liberation for the horrible photo essay of the "cleansing" taking pace."

Wounded and beaten Serbs hospitalized in the "Simonida" Hospital at Gracanica

British Armored Contingent of KFOR helplessly watching Serbian houses burning

Wounded and beaten Serbs hospitalized in the "Simonida" Hospital at Gracanica

Destroyed the only remaining hospital in Serbian enclave in town Kosovo Polje

P> Destroyed the only remaining hospital in Serbian enclave in town Kosovo Polje

The pictures here are a stunning indictment. Clinton was wrong and Bush is wrong.

Jane sent this terrible link with the following remark,"Obviously the west has betrayed Serbia in favor of Islam.  What people don’t get is that our leaders are also setting the stage for the same fate to befall Israelis.  But, it won’t stop with the Serbians and Israelis, as our leaders have forsaken their own people throughout the west.  Those in charge are puppets of Islam and traitors. This is our future if we don’t stop them. "

She is absolutely right. If you haven't heard my radio show Islamic Bosnia: "It Began with a Lie" with Julia Gorin and James George JATRAS, Director of the American Council for Kosovo (www.savekosovo.org), it is a MUST LISTEN. Go here.

UPDATE: What he said.

And a very good post on all of it here.

U.S. Kosovo Policy Is Bad for Non-Muslims

"U.S. Kosovo Policy Is Bad for Israel"

From Israel's prestigious Begin-Sadat Center, Bar Ilan University: The more you pull the thread to appease the jihadists, the more the sweater unravels. Hand them Kosovo today, the more pressure builds to chop up Israel too.

"Strong American support for the independence of Kosovo is detrimental to Israeli interests. Washington futilely hopes to curry favor with the Islamic world through appeasement; effectively gives a fresh impetus to the ongoing growth of Islamic influence in Europe; and denies the fact that the putative state's leaders are tainted by terrorism, criminality, and well-documented links with global jihad. Most importantly, it betrays a cynically postmodern contempt for all claims based on the historical rights and spiritual significance of a land to a nation" -- claims at the heart of modern Israel.

Authored by Jim Jatras (a member of Jihad Watch advisory board) and Serge Trifkovic (author of the superb Sword of the Prophet). Read more here.

BOLTON: SAY NO TO KOSOVO

Instead of paving the way for an Islamic state, BBBBBBolton saysالمسبار (heh, he didn't really say that.) The United States stands foursquare in the creation of an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the heart of Europe (Lantos said that.) Does America Really Want A New Rogue "State" Led By Jihad Terrorists And Criminals? This Time In Europe? ( More on that here.)

Tomorrow guys, me and Bolton. One on one. That's the way, uh huh, I like it. Uh huh uh huh.

Ex-U.S. ambassador to UN criticizes U.S. Kosovo policy B92 News

WASHINGTON -- John Bolton is higly critical of Washington's approach to Serbia as a whole and Kosovo in particular.

Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the UN, told Voice of America yesterday that he hoped the United States will not recognize a unilateral proclamation of Kosovo independence, but assessed, however, that things seem to be going in that very direction, and voiced fear that this could bring more harm than benefit to the Balkans.>

Such a decision, reached under the threat of violence, would actually represent an award for bad behavior, Bolton said.

He added he believed that the two sides should resolve the Kosovo issue at the negotiation table.

"Ever since the disintegration of Yugoslavia, we have been trying to ensure stability in the Balkans, but we have not succeeded in this completely and a number of issues have remained unresolved," Bolton continued.

"However, it seems to me that the last thing we should do is plant a seed of future conflicts yielding to the pressure of this or that side," he assessed.

Bolton said he believed that the State Department had been pushing "an anti-Serb policy for over 15 years now."

"When Yugoslavia was falling apart and when Milošević was pursuing his policy, it was only logical that we opposed such a policy," he pointed out.

"Unfortunately, [our] partial policy continued although there is no logical explanation for it any longer," Bolton concluded.

"Today Kosovo, Tomorrow All of Europe"

James George JATRAS, Director of the American Council for Kosovo is  interviewed here on CBN. If you missed his appearance  with Julia Gorin on Atlas on the Air a couple of weeks back listen to the podcast here. Thanks to Rachel Ehrenfeld for sending me this video.

"The United States stands foursquare in the creation of an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the heart of Europe."  [Jewicidal] Tom Lantos, 17 April conference.   

Does America Really Want A New Rogue "State" Led By Jihad Terrorists And Criminals?
This Time In Europe?

More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that creating an Islamic rogue state in Kosovo is not in America's interest. The truth about Kosovo -- jihad terrorism, organized crime (drugs, weapons, sex slaves -- including children!), destruction of churches and attacks on Christian Serbs by Muslim Albanians -- is becoming impossible to ignore. Still, incredibly, elements of the international community -- including some sectors of the U.S. government and important voices in Congress -- have accepted the idea that the only "solution" for Kosovo is to detach it formally from democratic Serbia and create an independent Islamic state! This would mean the eradication of the remaining Christian Serb population from the historic cradle of their spiritual and national life. It would also mean officially handing power to the criminal and jihad terrorist leadership of the supposedly disbanded "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA), who would then become the "sovereign" government of a new state in Europe! These are the same men who already have made Kosovo a black hole of organized crime, and who have a demonstrated history of war crimes and links to al-Qaeda -- including to Osama bin Laden personally -- and to the government of Iran.

http://www.savekosovo.org/documents/G...

In 2001, the civilized world was outraged when the terrorist Taliban regime in Afghanistan demolished two gigantic statues of Buddha. But the post-1999 destruction and desecration of Christian churches and monasteries by mobs of Muslim Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo is barely noticed. The Taliban destruction of the Buddhas was an offense against the world's cultural and spiritual values. But the jihad violence in Kosovo is not directed against just artifacts but living people: to remove the remaining Christian Serb population from the historic cradle of their spiritual and national life. Criminal and jihad terrorist elements of the supposedly disbanded "Kosovo Liberation Army"(KLA) maintain a reign of terror over Kosovo's still-dwindling Christian Serb population in what has become Europe's black hole of organized crime activities -- drugs (heroin derived from Afghan opium), sex slaves, weapons -- and the criminal gateway to the rest of the continent. Major figures in the KLA leadership have documented links to al-Qaeda -- including to Osama bin Laden personally -- as well as to the government of Iran. Personnel,money, and explosives tied to terrorist actions in Europe (such as the London and Madrid bombings) have been traced back to Kosovo. The terrorist Taliban regime in Afghanistan is defunct, thanks to bold U.S. action. But in Kosovo, incredibly, elements of the international community -- including some sectors of the U.S. government and important voices in Congress -- have accepted the idea that the only "solution" for the province is to detach it formally from Serbia and to make Kosovo an independent Islamic state! This would mean officially handing power to the criminal and jihad terrorist KLA leadership, who would then be empowered as a "sovereign"government.

http://www.savekosovo.org/documents/G...

The United States should not support a misguided course of detaching Kosovo from Serbia to create an independent Muslim Albanian state dominated by terrorist and criminal elements! Doing so would --

_ Lead to the elimination of the remaining Christian Serb population;

_ Strengthen global jihad terrorism and organized crime; and

_ Fatally undermine the rule of law in international affairs.

Say "NO" To Kosovo Independence!

Read all my coverage on Kosovo and Bosnia here

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BOLTON SAYS NO to Indie [Islamic] Kosovo

Why am I not surprised that Ambassador gets it so right on Kosovo? It began with a lie and the terrible repercussions of Clinton's war will be compounded if Kosovo  independence is recogonized. The Serbs cannot lose Kosovo where Christian churches, monasteries and homes were burned to the ground in pogroms in March 2004. "They cannot lose Kosovo to Albanian Muslims, whose fates are now entirely in the hands of the international Islamist factions with whom they, and we, cast their lot." (Julia Gorin) There are hundreds of radical Islamic Holy warriors hiding in Bosnia, a decade after the end of the war. There is a growing radicalisation, and a new base for Al Qaeda.Let's us not hand the Islamists another victory and pave the way for an Islamic state.

Bolton: U.S. Kosovo policy "all wrong"

LONDON -- Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton says that the U.S. would be wrong to recognize Kosovo's independence.

He thinks a solution should be founded on an agreement between the two sides.

Speaking in a Serbian-language program on the BBC, Bolton added that the State Department "had led anti-Serbian politics ever since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia," not distinguishing between today’s democratic Serbia and that of the former Slobodan Milošević regime.

"I think the U.S. would be making a mistake if they unilaterally recognized Kosovo. The only reasonable solution would result from talks between the Serbs and Kosovo Albanians. A potential imposed solution could lead to violence, which is in no-one’s interests," warned Bolton.

In his opinion, the fact that "the Europeans are predominantly against a recognition of Kosovo independence without a Security Council resolution, could have a bearing on the U.S.’s position."

As Russia’s position on the Kosovo issue is "crystal clear", Bolton reckons that it is very unlikely that the UN Security Council will even have a chance to decide on the matter.

"The matter has now moved from the Security Council to the wider diplomatic picture. That’s why a potential unilateral U.S. recognition of Kosovo independence would destabilize the region, and have completely the opposite effect to what American policy-making has been striving for these last fifteen years," says the former ambassador.

He says that Washington did not decide on Kosovo independence until after he had retired from the post of U.S. Ambassador to the UN.

"Until 2006, the aim had been to find a mutually acceptable solution. And I still think that’s the best way. But, since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the State Department has been leading anti-Serb politics, not distinguishing Milošević’s Serbia from today’s version, which has made great strides towards democratization. In spite of this, the State Department’s position remains firm," says Bolton.

He repeated that "there is no doubt that there is a possibility of the U.S. unilaterally recognizing Kosovo independence."

"That would, of course, be a mistake and I’m not yet sure whether it’s inevitable," Bolton concluded

Kosovo – The Epicenter of Islamofascism?

Kosovo Albanian extremists present map of areas “where Christians have not been expelled or murdered yet” (January 2007)

Explosion slightly damages Serb house in Kosovo's tense north (March 2007)

More on one of those other explosions

Kosovo Serbs victims of fresh attacks and robberies (March 2007)

Albanians attack Serbs, steal cattle near border with Kosovo (April 2007, Serbian TV)

Official sees "coordination" in shooting of Kosovo Serb police in ambush (September 2005)

From Reuters on this:

And this AP item was posted on a military blog: Ax-attack on Elderly Serb Couple in Kosovo (March 2005)

Daily Stabs of Violence in Kosovo Rattle U.N. (March 2005)

Like West Bank Jews who occasionally get fired upon while trying to commemorate their dead--Attack on Serbs Visiting Cemetery (November, 2005):

There was a similar incident in November 2006

“What if?” What would happen if the U.S. changed its policy and did not feverishly support Kosovo independence? Nobody discusses the issue with that premise in mind, but this is what has the politicians and UN workers terrified. (Recall the rare candor of the Hungarian EU parliamentarian who in February explained what else drives the West’s Kosovo policy: “We’re afraid of them.”) But giving the Albanians what they demand by violence or threat of violence only encourages further violence. Did concessions to Palestinians engender moderation, or even more radical—and overtly Islamic—violence? Julia Gorin here.

On Bosnia: Atlas Backs Julia Gorin

A U.S. diplomat has warned that the Al-Qaeda terror network is using Bosnia-Herzegovina as a transit point. Raffi Gregorian told the "Dnevni Avaz" daily that Al-Qaeda "sympathizers" in the country are prepared to help hide agents as well as provide the group with funding and false documents.

Hundreds of fighters from Islamic countries entered Bosnia-Herzegovina to fight with the Muslim Bosnian army against Serbs and Croats during the 1992-95 war. More here

While Bosnian Muslims  shout "Sieg Heil" and  do the Nazi salute at an Israeli soccer game, Julia Gorin responds to a piece by  Ray Robison, one of those two conservatives on American Thinker who has called  her a racist and con artist for her  Balkan writings. This past Thursday FrontPage ran an “exchange” between Robison and Gorin, titled “Kosovo—The Epicenter of Islamic Fascism?” Like Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men," "you can't handle the truth."

More on the Bosnian Lie here.

Here's excepts from the exchange;

Kosovo – The Epicenter of Islamofascism?

It is very true that good people, well meaning people can come down flatly wrong on a divisive issue. Such is the case with the blog storm Julia Gorin is leading against the Kosovo Albanians. Never one to be short-winded Julia Gorin has laid out a stream-of-consciousness argument for FrontPage warning of a looming Islamic extremist epicenter from not Egypt, not Saudi Arabia, not Pakistan but Kosovo. The real harm here is that some other mostly reasonable people have begun to be swayed.

Note the "short winded" barb. The small minded dysphemism for well researched.

And why Kosovo instead of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc as epicenter of Islamic extremism? How about in addition to?

First I will make the obligatory upfront concessions. There are Islamic extremists in Kosovo. There have been for years as evidenced by the Clinton Administration’s germination of a controversial policy called “rendition”. It was in Bosnia and Kosovo that the rendition of Islamic terrorists to nations like Egypt - which would obviously employ torture and in some cases murderous interrogation methods - began.

[...]

In addition, Kosovars have consistently expressed a closer identity to the West than towards fellow Muslims in Asia. I have to believe them considering my own experiences in Kosovo with the 101st Airborne. More anecdotal reasoning here.

There are two issues at hand which Gorin continues to commingle as the self-appointed Paul Revere of Albanian Muslim extremism. The challenge for us is to determine whether Kosovar Muslims are a danger to us or are acting as an aggressor against a helpless people. We should never ally ourselves with an aggressor “nation” against an innocent population or one that is a threat to ourselves. So we can rely on dubious and biased reports on websites or perhaps we can just think for ourselves.

Vs. Gorin's fact based argument;

Response to Robison By Julia Gorin

[...] “[When] anyone brings up the fact of Islamic war crimes, these leaders use the excuse that it was just foreign fighters and not them, when in fact they were the ones who brought those foreign fighters to the land.”

The U.S. has been playing a similar Balkans game, starting with the Clinton administration, as Chris Deliso writes in his new book The Coming Balkan Caliphate: “[T]he United States both cracked down on extremists and allied itself with Islamic leaders in the Tirana government funding these radicals.”

In Kosovo, the KLA which represented the aspirations of most Kosovo Albanians, as the New York Times reported in 1999, and which now comprises Kosovo’s uncompromising nationalist leadership is whom we continue to bank on in Kosovo. In the desperation Robison shares with our policymakers to make an exception of the Balkans so we can find that dreamy moderate-Muslim ally, he misses the point: the Balkans policies we pursued, which never took a new direction after 9/11, have created a safe haven for militants and promoted Islamization of the region. As Petrilla put it, the Balkans are a picture of “the ever expanding Middle East into Europe.” Deliso sums it up in his book:

The outright favoritism and support [the U.S.] had provided to the Bosnian Muslims in a complex civil war had the disastrous effect of transubstantiating the holy war from Southeast Asia to the heart of Europe. Indeed… the Bosnian jihad had essentially created a global empire for terror. To fulfill its extreme pro-Muslim Balkan policy, the United States was actually cooperating…with state sponsors of terrorism such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, and Pakistan. With European allies like Germany and Austria, the United States aided and abetted their secret services, their banks, and their charities and thus created the terror network in both Balkan and Western European countries that would later provide the logistical support and some of the manpower for the 9/11 attacks…

We couldn’t admit our Bosnia mistake, and so we duplicated it in Kosovo. Now we can’t admit the Kosovo mistake, and so we are seeing it through to the end, which will be our end.

Refuting the Bosnian Lies

Ah yes, my agenda. My nefarious agenda that we should be fighting the terrorists instead of helping them. That we shouldn’t be staking our future on a Greater Albania, whose “nominal” Muslim loyalties face toward Mecca, as Jesse Petrilla--founder of the United American Committee--wrote in his recent article, “My Trip to Bosnia and Kosovo.” Is it a devious agenda to convince Americans to discontinue helping Muslims cleanse Christians from Kosovo, and to quit sacrificing a small Christian community in the hopes of winning jihadist good will? Julia Gorin

She answers her critics today on Front Page. If you are not up to speed on Islamic Bosnia, listen to my radio with Julia Gorin here. Here is but a small excerpt;

THE FARCE OF THE KOSOVO MISSION Julia Gorin

After my article exposing the farce of our Kosovo mission ran in American Legion Magazine last month, I heard from a soldier in Kosovo who was incredulous that someone was actually and finally talking about the region. I proceeded to publish twoletters from him in this space, about his experiences and observations there, some of which confirm the free run that jihadists have in Kosovo, the fact that Albanians are being radicalized, and the notion that we should not have intervened in Kosovo as we did. Only there since November, the National Guard soldier stopped short of confirming the ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of Kosovo’s Christians that I’ve described in my articles.

Unfortunately for the deniers, the facts are also now chronicled in a book by a UN worker, entitled Hiding Genocide in Kosovo—a Crime Against God and Humanity.

But a National Guard soldier named Nicki Fellenzer, who runs a blog and also read the Legion article, found the piece to be at odds with her experiences in Kosovo. She (along with fellow military blogger Brad Staggs), wrote that my commentary was “filled with wild accusations, inaccuracies, distortions and downright lies that serve only to hurt our peacekeeping mission in Kosovo and shed a negative light on the Soldiers who are carrying out said mission…We're disappointed in [Julia Gorin]...for holding [her] agenda as more important than the troops who are sworn to protect [her] freedom to promote it.”

In her attempted deconstruction of my argument and unnamed agenda, Fellenzer made the fantastical claim that the KLA no longer exists (something that causes Albanians to erupt in laughter when they hear it) while dutifully recording some standard written quotes from military bureaucrats about the goodness of the U.S. mission in Kosovo. She also cited in-house intelligence analysts at Camp Bondsteel where she’s based as saying that the destruction of 150 churches and monasteries since 1999 is vandalism and not ethnically motivated.

Anyone who has even the first clue about Kosovo knows the diminishment that the administrative and military internationals in Kosovo have been practicing since 1999, to make things look not nearly as disastrous as they are, so that we can move toward Kosovo independence and wash our hands of the ethnically pure, narcoterrorist mafia-state we’ve helped create.

There is so much more. Read it.

Kosovo Albanian extremists present map of areas “where Christians have not been expelled or murdered yet” (January 2007)

Explosion slightly damages Serb house in Kosovo's tense north (March 2007)

More on one of those other explosions

Kosovo Serbs victims of fresh attacks and robberies (March 2007)

Albanians attack Serbs, steal cattle near border with Kosovo (April 2007, Serbian TV)

Official sees "coordination" in shooting of Kosovo Serb police in ambush (September 2005)

From Reuters on this:

And this AP item was posted on a military blog: Ax-attack on Elderly Serb Couple in Kosovo (March 2005)

Daily Stabs of Violence in Kosovo Rattle U.N. (March 2005)

Like West Bank Jews who occasionally get fired upon while trying to commemorate their dead--Attack on Serbs Visiting Cemetery (November, 2005):

There was a similar incident in November 2006

Like I said,  read it.

UPDATE: Our Muslim friends in the Balkans...