15.7.2007 by Lupo.

Pilgrims in the 1920s or 30s at the tomb of Rabbi Danon
Look carefully in Sarajevo and sometimes you can see a reminder of its Jewish past. These are the doors to a dentist’s surgery Zelenih beretki street in Bascarsija. When closed you can see that they say, in Italian, from where some Bosnian Sephardi families came from: “Sons of Zadik Danon.” A Tzadik (Zadik) in the Jewish tradtion is a righteous or pious man. Danon was a common Jewish name in Sarajevo. - Copyright (c) Tim Judah
Kotor
S T O L A C

The Rabbi of Stolac

Until the Holocaust the Jews were Bosnia’s fourth nation. Many came in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition of 1492. In 2005 Stephen Schwartz published a fascinating collection of his essays on the Jews of Bosnia and other parts of the Balkans. One of the stories he retells is that of Rav (or rabbi) Moshe Danon of Sarajevo whom he notes is sometimes called “the rabbi of Stolac”. Danon however did not come from Stolac, was a not a rabbi there but he did die there and is buried nearby. “Rav Danon,” writes Schwartz, “is a Bosnian Jewish saint, or, as Muslims would say, a wali. ” The story goes that in 1817 one Dervis Ahmed of Travnik, in fact a Jewish convert to Islam, began to agitate against the Jews. He was executed by the Ottomans but then some of his followers complained to Rudzi-pasha, the next governor of Bosnia who then seized ten of Sarajevo’s leading Jews including Rav Danon, demanding a ransom to save them from execution. However a respected member of the community, one Rafael Levi, now exhorted his Muslim neighbours to help. The next day some 3,000 of them freed the Jews. In 1830, Rav Danon decided to leave for the Holy Land. On his way to take a ship from Dubrovnik however he died at a coffee house in Stolac. From then on, until the Second World War, his tomb became a place of annual pilgrimage for Bosnian Sephardim. The tomb, at Krajisni, a few kilometres west of Stolac remains and this is what it says:

THIS STONE IS HERE PLACED
SO THAT IT BE A SIGN AND MONUMENT
FOR THE BURIAL OF THE SAINTLY PERSON
WHOSE WORKS WERE WONDEROUS
AND OF WHOM IT IS SAID THAT HE WAS PIOUS
AND SAINTLY
HE WAS OUR MASTER TEACHER AND GREAT
HAKHAM RAV MOSHE DANON HIS GOOD
WORKS AID US. AMEN.
HE LEFT THIS WORLD ON THE 20TH DAY OF SIVAN
5590

Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook. Stephen Schwartz. 2005.
[pp63-64. Saqi / The Bosnian Institute]

January 2007

http://www.saqibooks.com/saqi/display.asp?K=9780863565922&sf=CAUTHOR&sort=sort_title&st1=Schwartz&x=6&y=6&m=1&dc=1

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15.7.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

USA

15/07 12:22 CET

Katholische Kirche von Los Angeles schließt Rekordvergleich

Eine stolze Kirche - ein riesiger Skandal. Fast eine halbe Milliarde Euro will die katholische Kirche von Los Angeles nun zahlen - an Menschen, die von Priestern des dortigen Erzbistums sexuell missbraucht worden sein sollen.

Für morgen war der erste von fünfzehn Prozessen angesetzt. Die Anklage wollte sogar den Erzbischof in den Zeugenstand des Gerichts rufen. Das bleibt dem Kardinal nun aber wohl erspart. Nun wird es darum gehen, ob der Richter den Vergleich zwischen beiden Seiten billigt.

Der Opferverband zeigt sich froh, betont aber auch, es gehe nicht um das Geld. Kein Beschluss und kein
Urteil befreie die Opfer vom Schmerz, sagt eine Vertreterin. Kein Geld bringe den Kindern von damals ihre verlorene Kindheit zurück.

Diese Fälle reichen zurück bis in die vierziger Jahre, mehr als fünfhundert Menschen hatten sich der Klage angeschlossen. Derartige Prozesse haben sich in den USA gehäuft. Speziell in Kalifornien trug dazu ein Gesetz bei, das die Verjährung solcher Taten aussetzte.

Die jetzige Entschädigungssumme übertrifft aber bei weitem alles, was von der katholischen Kirche in den USA je gezahlt wurde. Das Erzbistum von Los Angeles will nun Grundstücke verkaufen. Für den größeren Teil der Summe war es aber versichert.

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15.7.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

Beste Quellen wie Janes die Geheimdienst Bibel Nr. 1, das CATO Institurt, CRS, Türkischer Geheimdienst usw..

Die älteste Quelle und älteste US Zeitung brachte den ersten Artikel darüber.

Erster Beitrag war schon im Mai 2003 bei Telepolis

Grundlagen Sammlung: aus

BF Spezial

http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=3456540&forum_id=42273

Sunday, May 18, 2003
Local Time: 12:46:46 AM

The perfect enemy: Terrorists who can’t be caught because they don’t really exist or because they’re CIA assets

The perfect enemy: Terrorists who can’t be caught because they don’t
really exist or because they’re CIA assets
Posted on: 5/12/2003 11:50:00 AM - Columnist

War provides the perfect cover for those waging it to commit crimes
against not only enemies but also friends. Amid the patriotic flag
waving and somber ceremony, the populace is cowed into distraction
and for the most part will not see the chicanery and manipulation
that not only created the conditions FOR the war, but also will not
perceive that the purpose OF it is not to defeat the enemy, but to
financially castrate and sociologically neutralize those who are
actually helping to wage the war.

Such is the process by which those in power consolidate their
advantage among their so-called friends.

The Christian Crusades of millenia past provide an apt example of
this deceptive process. With no enemies nearby and a surfeit of armed
and affluent noblemen itching for aggressive acts, kings and
ministers of past empires dreamed up external threats by which to
distract their powerful friends from contemplating revolution.
Jerusalem and the dark-skinned Muslim realms have always been a
popular target. The subsequent conflicts not only reaped new riches
for the warmaking kingdoms, but also depleted the ranks and resources
of those sent to fight, thereby lessening the potential political
threat to the very people who dreamed up the wars in the first place.
Two birds with one stone.

http://www.lewisnews.com/article.asp?ID=57344

Turkish Intelligence: Al-Qaeda a U.S. Covert Operation

by Kurt Nimmo

Global Research, August 18, 2005

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NIM20050818&articleId=840

Der Erfinder für diesen imaginären Freind ist schon 4 Jahre vor
Al-Quida der angeblich gemäßigte Colin Powell, der angebliche
Widersacher von Rumsfeld.

Please remind the “Base Force” doctrine was designed in 1989, four
years before Al Qaeda, “The Base”, started to threaten the US as a
new post-cold war enemy in 1993.
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U.S. National Defense Policy in the post-Cold War World
by Lawrence J. Korb
Council on Foreign Relations
June 14, 2000

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http://www.cfr.org/public/armstrade/korb_postcoldwar_paper.html

Das hoch angesehene CATO Institut: Wie die Al-Quida Bedrohung geschaffen wurde
navy

Ganz kurz gesagt: nach dem kalten Krieg, haben die Amerikaner halt
einen neuen Feind gebraucht um ihre Imperialen Ziele zu
verwirklichen, damit sich Leute wie Rumsfeld und Co. austoben dürfen.

The “Green Peril”:
Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat
by Leon T. Hadar

Leon T. Hadar, a former bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, is an
adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.

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Executive Summary

Now that the Cold War is becoming a memory, America’s foreign policy
establishment has begun searching for new enemies. Possible new
villains include “instability” in Europe –ranging from German
resurgence to new Russian imperialism– the “vanishing” ozone layer,
nuclear proliferation, and narcoterrorism. Topping the list of
potential new global bogeymen, however, are the Yellow Peril, the
alleged threat to American economic security emanating from East
Asia, and the so-called Green Peril (green is the color of Islam).
That peril is symbolized by the Middle Eastern Moslem
fundamentalist–the “Fundie,” to use a term coined by The
Economist(1)–a Khomeini-like creature, armed with a radical
ideology, equipped with nuclear weapons, and intent on launching a
violent jihad against Western civilization….

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-177es.html

To begin with, Al-Qaeda is not a traditional terrorist organisation.
It does not have a clear hierarchy, military mindset and centralised
command. At best, Al-Qaeda is a network of affiliated groups sharing
religious and ideological backgrounds, but which often interact
sparingly. Al-Qaeda is a state of mind, as much as an organisation;
it encompasses a wide range of members and followers who can differ
dramatically from each other

http://www.janes.com/security/law_enforcement/news/pr/pr030807_1_n.shtml

aus

http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/go.shtml?t=1&T=Al-Quida%20navy%20Erfindung&sres=1&msg_id=6678345&forum_id=67182&k=894f767a53737e0c7b0f8120aafc9ece

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15.7.2007 by Lupo.

U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee - Larry E. Craig, Chairman - Jade West, Staff Director

January 16, 1997

Extended Bosnia Mission Endangers U.S. Troops
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

“‘There is no question that the policy of getting arms into Bosnia was of great assistance in allowing the Iranians to dig in and create good relations with the Bosnian government,’ a senior CIA officer told Congress in a classified deposition. ‘And it is a thing we will live to regret because when they blow up some Americans, as they no doubt will before this . . . thing is over, it will be in part because the Iranians were able to have the time and contacts to establish themselves well in Bosnia.’” [”Iran Gave Bosnia Leader $500,000, CIA Alleges: Classified Report Says Izetbegovic Has Been ‘Co-Opted,’ Contradicting U.S. Public Assertion of Rift,” Los Angeles Times, 12/31/96. Ellipses in original. Alija Izetbegovic is the Muslim president of Bosnia.]

“‘If you read President Izetbegovic’s writings, as I have, there is no doubt that he is an Islamic fundamentalist,’ said a senior Western diplomat with long experience in the region. ‘He is a very nice fundamentalist, but he is still a fundamentalist. This has not changed. His goal is to establish a Muslim state in Bosnia, and the Serbs and Croats understand this better than the rest of us.’” [”Bosnian Leader Hails Islam at Election Rallies,” New York Times, 9/2/96]

Introduction and Summary

In late 1995, President Bill Clinton dispatched some 20,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia-Hercegovina as part of a NATO-led “implementation force” (IFOR) to ensure that the warring Muslim, Serbian, and Croatian factions complied with provisions of the Dayton peace plan. [NOTE: This paper assumes the reader is acquainted with the basic facts of the Bosnian war leading to the IFOR deployment. For background, see RPC’s “Clinton Administration Ready to Send U.S. Troops to Bosnia, “9/28/95,” and Legislative Notice No. 60, “Senate to Consider Several Resolutions on Bosnia,” 12/12/95] Through statements by Administration spokesmen, notably Defense Secretary Perry and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Shalikashvili, the president firmly assured Congress and the American people that U.S. personnel would be out of Bosnia at the end of one year. Predictably, as soon as the November 1996 election was safely behind him, President Clinton announced that approximately 8,500 U.S. troops would be remaining for another 18 months as part of a restructured and scaled down contingent, the “stabilization force” (SFOR), officially established on December 20, 1996.

SFOR begins its mission in Bosnia under a serious cloud both as to the nature of its mission and the dangers it will face. While IFOR had successfully accomplished its basic military task — separating the factions’ armed forces — there has been very little progress toward other stated goals of the Dayton agreement, including political and economic reintegration of Bosnia, return of refugees to their homes, and apprehension and prosecution of accused war criminals. It is far from certain that the cease-fire that has held through the past year will continue for much longer, in light of such unresolved issues as the status of the cities of Brcko (claimed by Muslims but held by the Serbs) and Mostar (divided between nominal Muslim and Croat allies, both of which are currently being armed by the Clinton Administration). Moreover, at a strength approximately one-third that of its predecessor, SFOR may not be in as strong a position to deter attacks by one or another of the Bosnian factions or to avoid attempts to involve it in renewed fighting: “IFOR forces, despite having suffered few casualties, have been vulnerable to attacks from all of the contending sides over the year of the Dayton mandate. As a second mandate [i.e., SFOR] evolves, presumably maintaining a smaller force on the ground, the deterrent effect which has existed may well become less compelling and vulnerabilities of the troops will increase.” [”Military Security in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Present and Future,” Bulletin of the Atlantic Council of the United States, 12/18/96]

The Iranian Connection

Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission — and more importantly, to the safety of the American personnel serving in Bosnia — is the unwillingness of the Clinton Administration to come clean with the Congress and with the American people about its complicity in the delivery of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has, according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified intelligence community sources), “played a central role in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia.” Further, according to the Times, in September 1996 National Security Agency analysts contradicted Clinton Administration claims of declining Iranian influence, insisting instead that “Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel remain active throughout Bosnia.” Likewise, “CIA analysts noted that the Iranian presence was expanding last fall,” with some ostensible cultural and humanitarian activities “known to be fronts” for the Revolutionary Guard and Iran’s intelligence service, known as VEVAK, the Islamic revolutionary successor to the Shah’s SAVAK. [LAT, 12/31/96] At a time when there is evidence of increased willingness by pro-Iranian Islamic militants to target American assets abroad — as illustrated by the June 1996 car-bombing at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 American airmen, in which the Iranian government or pro-Iranian terrorist organizations are suspected [”U.S. Focuses Bomb Probe on Iran, Saudi Dissident,” Chicago Tribune, 11/4/96] — it is irresponsible in the extreme for the Clinton Administration to gloss over the extent to which its policies have put American personnel in an increasingly vulnerable position while performing an increasingly questionable mission.

Three Key Issues for Examination

This paper will examine the Clinton policy of giving the green light to Iranian arms shipments to the Bosnian Muslims, with serious implications for the safety of U.S. troops deployed there. (In addition, RPC will release a general analysis of the SFOR mission and the Clinton Administration’s request for supplemental appropriations to fund it in the near future.) Specifically, the balance of this paper will examine in detail the three issues summarized below:

1. The Clinton Green Light to Iranian Arms Shipments (page 3): In April 1994, President Clinton gave the government of Croatia what has been described by Congressional committees as a “green light” for shipments of weapons from Iran and other Muslim countries to the Muslim-led government of Bosnia. The policy was approved at the urging of NSC chief Anthony Lake and the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith. The CIA and the Departments of State and Defense were kept in the dark until after the decision was made.

2. The Militant Islamic Network (page 5): Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin (”holy warriors”) from across the Muslim world. Also engaged in the effort were several other Muslim countries (including Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkey) and a number of radical Muslim organizations. For example, the role of one Sudan-based “humanitarian organization,” called the Third World Relief Agency, has been well-documented. The Clinton Administration’s “hands-on” involvement with the Islamic network’s arms pipeline included inspections of missiles from Iran by U.S. government officials.

3. The Radical Islamic Character of the Sarajevo Regime (page 8): Underlying the Clinton Administration’s misguided green light policy is a complete misreading of its main beneficiary, the Bosnian Muslim government of Alija Izetbegovic. Rather than being the tolerant, multiethnic democratic government it pretends to be, there is clear evidence that the ruling circle of Izetbegovic’s party, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), has long been guided by the principles of radical Islam. This Islamist orientation is illustrated by profiles of three important officials, including President Izetbegovic himself; the progressive Islamization of the Bosnian army, including creation of native Bosnian mujahedin units; credible claims that major atrocities against civilians in Sarajevo were staged for propaganda purposes by operatives of the Izetbegovic government; and suppression of enemies, both non-Muslim and Muslim.

The Clinton Green Light to Iranian Arms Shipments

Both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Select Subcommittee to Investigate the United States Role in Iranian Arms Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia issued reports late last year. (The Senate report, dated November 1996, is unclassified. The House report is classified, with the exception of the final section of conclusions, which was released on October 8, 1996; a declassified version of the full report is expected to be released soon.) The reports, consistent with numerous press accounts, confirm that on April 27, 1994, President Clinton directed Ambassador Galbraith to inform the government of Croatia that he had “no instructions” regarding Croatia’s decision whether or not to permit weapons, primarily from Iran, to be transshipped to Bosnia through Croatia. (The purpose was to facilitate the acquisition of arms by the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo despite the arms embargo imposed on Yugoslavia by the U.N. Security Council.) Clinton Administration officials took that course despite their awareness of the source of the weapons and despite the fact that the Croats (who were themselves divided on whether to permit arms deliveries to the Muslims) would take anything short of a U.S. statement that they should not facilitate the flow of Iranian arms to Bosnia as a “green light.”

The green light policy was decided upon and implemented with unusual secrecy, with the CIA and the Departments of State and Defense only informed after the fact. [”U.S. Had Options to Let Bosnia Get Arms, Avoid Iran,” Los Angeles Times, 7/14/96] Among the key conclusions of the House Subcommittee were the following (taken from the unclassified section released on October 8):

“The President and the American people were poorly served by the Administration officials who rushed the green light decision without due deliberation, full information and an adequate consideration of the consequences.” (page 202)

“The Administration’s efforts to keep even senior US officials from seeing its ‘fingerprints’ on the green light policy led to confusion and disarray within the government.” (page 203)

“The Administration repeatedly deceived the American people about its Iranian green light policy.” (page 204)

Clinton, Lake, and Galbraith Responsible

While the final go-ahead for the green light was given by President Clinton — who is ultimately accountable for the results of his decision — two Clinton Administration officials bear particular responsibility: Ambassador Galbraith and then-NSC Director Anthony Lake, against both of whom the House of Representatives has referred criminal charges to the Justice Department. Mr. Lake, who personally presented the proposal to Bill Clinton for approval, “played a central role in preventing the responsible congressional committees from knowing about the Administration’s fateful decision to acquiesce in radical Islamic Iran’s effort to penetrate the European continent through arms shipments and military cooperation with the Bosnian government.” [”‘In Lake We Trust’? Confirmation Make-Over Exacerbates Senate Concerns About D.C.I.-Designate’s Candor, Reliability,” Center for Security Policy, Washington, D.C., 1/8/97] His responsibility for the operation is certain to be a major hurdle in his effort to be confirmed as CIA Director: “The fact that Lake was one of the authors of the duplicitous policy in Bosnia, which is very controversial and which has probably helped strengthen the hand of the Iranians, doesn’t play well,” stated Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Shelby. [”Lake to be asked about donation,” Washington Times, 1/2/97]

For his part, Ambassador Galbraith was the key person both in conceiving the policy and in serving as the link between the Clinton Administration and the Croatian government; he also met with Imam Sevko Omerbasic, the top Muslim cleric in Croatia, “who the CIA says was an intermediary for Iran.” [”Fingerprints: Arms to Bosnia, the real story,” The New Republic, 10/28/96; see also LAT 12/23/96] As the House Subcommittee concluded (page 206): “There is evidence that Ambassador Galbraith may have engaged in activities that could be characterized as unauthorized covert action.” The Senate Committee (pages 19 and 20 of the report) was unable to agree on the specific legal issue of whether Galbraith’s actions constituted a “covert action” within the definition of section 503(e) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. Sec. 413(e)), as amended, defined as “an activity or activities . . . to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly.”

The Militant Islamic Network

The House Subcommittee report also concluded (page 2): “The Administration’s Iranian green light policy gave Iran an unprecedented foothold in Europe and has recklessly endangered American lives and US strategic interests.” Further –

” . . . The Iranian presence and influence [in Bosnia] jumped radically in the months following the 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.” (page 201)

Not Just the Iranians

To understand how the Clinton green light would lead to this degree of Iranian influence, it is necessary to remember that the policy was adopted in the context of extensive and growing radical Islamic activity in Bosnia. That is, the Iranians and other Muslim militants had long been active in Bosnia; the American green light was an important political signal to both Sarajevo and the militants that the United States was unable or unwilling to present an obstacle to those activities — and, to a certain extent, was willing to cooperate with them. In short, the Clinton Administration’s policy of facilitating the delivery of arms to the Bosnian Muslims made it the de facto partner of an ongoing international network of governments and organizations pursuing their own agenda in Bosnia: the promotion of Islamic revolution in Europe. That network involves not only Iran but Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan (a key ally of Iran), and Turkey, together with front groups supposedly pursuing humanitarian and cultural activities.

For example, one such group about which details have come to light is the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian organization which has been a major link in the arms pipeline to Bosnia. [”How Bosnia’s Muslims Dodged Arms Embargo: Relief Agency Brokered Aid From Nations, Radical Groups,” Washington Post, 9/22/96; see also “Saudis Funded Weapons For Bosnia, Official Says: $300 Million Program Had U.S. ‘Stealth Cooperation’,” Washington Post, 2/2/96] TWRA is believed to be connected with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Binladen, a wealthy Saudi emigre believed to bankroll numerous militant groups. [WP, 9/22/96] (Sheik Rahman, a native of Egypt, is currently in prison in the United States; letter bombs addressed to targets in Washington and London, apparently from Alexandria, Egypt, are believed connected with his case. Binladen was a resident in Khartoum, Sudan, until last year; he is now believed to be in Afghanistan, “where he has issued statements calling for attacks on U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf.” [WP, 9/22/96])

The Clinton Administration’s “Hands-On” Help
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http://www.senate.gov/%7Erpc/releases/1997/iran.htm

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BILL CLINTON: FIRST NEOCON PRESIDENT
Written by Peter Chamberlin
Saturday, 14 July 2007
by Peter Chamberlin

Bill Clinton seems to get blamed by this neocon administration for many things, but most of all for “losing bin Laden.” The ugly truth is that, in this case, they are probably right. Clinton’s team probably had good information on Osama’s whereabouts most of the time, since they were playing on the same team for most of Clinton’s two terms. It is becoming clear from the accumulating evidence that Bill Clinton resurrected Ronald Reagan’s Afghan strategy of using Islamist guerillas as his own covert foreign policy in Europe and other intransigent hot spots that seemed to be immune to normal diplomacy. Clinton’s foolish toying with Islamist killers is probably the spark that ignited the international jihad against America.

Those of us who are diehard “Bush haters,” like to blame Bush senior for creating Al Qaida, when he abandoned Afghanistan. The problem is, even though Bush did abandon the Afghans, it fell to the next misled president to breathe life into Al Qaida. According to Gen. Hameed Gul (former head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence-ISI- during the war against the Soviets), when Vice President George H. W. Bush became president in 1989, he threatened to “clip ISI’s wings.” (Gul now serves as an adviser to Pakistan’s extremist religious political parties. He may also be the source of the Al Qaida rumors that it was the Israeli Mossad, not bin Laden, that carried-out the 9/11 attacks, as well as the idea of creating an Islamic Caliphate, beginning with Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics.) After the withdrawal of the Soviets on February 15,1989, Bush began to make good on that threat. According to author George Crile, in Charlie’s War, on September 30, 1991, the end of the fiscal year, the flow officially stopped (except for $200 million [matched by the Saudis] hidden within the defense authorizations bill for 1992). After the US abandoned Afghanistan, to attack Saddam Hussein, the ISI was left alone to manage the Afghan tribal bloodbath and civil war. Soon after the liberation of Kabul, their man, Hezb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (long the main recipient of CIA weaponry) started the civil war, by firing rockets at Kabul. (The ISI later created the Taliban regime and installed them in power in 1996.)

In 1993, the stage had been set for Clinton to take over, after Bush had walked off the field. His common history with the radical Islamists began shortly after he took office, when he acceded to the demands of the Muslim governments, who were wanting to send aid to their brethren in Yugoslavia. Clinton began a covert operation with Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, to send money and arms to Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to a lengthy Congressional report by the Republican Party Committee, published in 1997 (while the Republicans were pre-occupied with learning about the president’s sexual habits), the Clinton administration “helped turn Bosnia into a militant Islamic base,” by recruiting and arming thousands of Mujahideen through the “Militant Islamic Network.” The report then went on to claim administration “…complicity in the delivery of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in Sarajevo.., involvement with the Islamic network’s arms pipeline… (and using Muslim “charity” groups who were) connected with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Bin Laden…” [Washington Post, 9/22/96]

The result was an illegal Iran-Contra style operation which utilized Iranian militants and elements of Al Qaida in Albania some of which were under direct command of Al Qaida “number two” Ayman al-Zawahiri), to smuggle weapons and mujahedeen though Croatia into Bosnia. This secret program was later duplicated with the Kosovo Liberation Army, and again in nearby Macedonia, as well as in Chechnya. According to author and researcher Yossef Bodansky (director Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare), Clinton also used these Al Qaida offshoots against Egypt, after President Mubarak opposed Clinton’s use of force against Iraq in February 1998. Some of these Islamists, again led by Zawahiri, had tried to assassinate Mubarak in 1995. (Zawahiri had earlier gained notoriety as one of the conspirators, and spokesman, for the assassins of Anwar Sadat.) In Bosnia, the Islamists staged attacks upon fellow Muslims in order to elicit international sympathy and thus intervention. The outcomes of these actions effectively converted NATO into the Islamists’ air force, the Western press into their propaganda organs, and American troops into their proxy forces.

The Saudis provided most of the money for the covert program in Yugoslavia (just as they had matched all US funds to the original mujahedeen), the Iranians supplied the arms, and the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) brought the “Afghan-Arab” veterans to the fight. The ISI is widely known as a surrogate of the CIA, which had created them, as well as SAVAK, the Shah of Iran’s secret police. During the Afghan jihad, the CIA used the ISI to create the drug/arms pipeline that supplied the war effort and promoted the smuggling of heroin into Afghanistan, in order to turn the Soviet troops into heroin addicts. (Echoes of Iran-contra CIA drug-running charges.) After the fall of the Soviet puppet Najibullah in 1992, the veteran Arabs took their skills back to their homelands, where they began to spread the militant disease, sharing the technical skills that we had taught them, creating local cells of “the base.”

The ISI sent thousands of the remaining jihadis to Kashmir, to wage a new covert war against India, after the alarming series of nuclear tests which both countries had just conducted. ISI seeded thousands of their own paramilitary forces in with the mujahedeen, to lead the fight in the disputed territory. How can we possibly tell the Taliban and Al Qaida from the Pakistani undercover ISI agents? For that matter, is there even a difference? Who is to say if “Al Qaida” is not really just another Pakistani covert operation? Bin Laden himself never used the term before 1999. In 1998 he created the “International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders.” According to former agents of the French secret service, “al Qaida” (”the base” in Arabic) was the name for a database of an early version of the Internet that had been created by Saudi Arabia, for families of the Afghan mujahedeen to use to communicate with their honored “freedom fighters.” Did Al Qaida originate as a generic name for the entire Islamic mujahedeen support network?

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http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1976/81/ 

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15.7.2007 by Lupo.

Bruno Stojic

Kontext : Ex-Jugoslawien Urteilsort : IStGH (Jugoslawien) Status : Laufender ProzessStatusbeschreibung : Stellte sich am 5. April 2004 freiwillig; der Prozess hat in Den Haag am 26. April 2006 begonnen; am 10. Juni 2007 vorläufige Entlassung gewährtFunktion : Verteidigungsminister des HVO FaktenVerfahrenBruno Stojic wurde am 8. April 1955 in Hamzici, einem Dorf in Bosnien-Herzegowina, geboren. Er wurde zum Assistenz-Innenminister in der Zentralregierung der Republik Bosnien-Herzegowina in Sarajevo gewählt. Ab dem 18. September 1991 gehörte er zum neu gegründeten Krisenstab der Partei, welcher später zum Kern des militärischen Arms des HVO werden würde. Am 3. Juli 1992 wurde er zum Leiter des Verteidigungsdepartments des HVO (später Verteidigungsministerium genannt) ernannt. Am 16. Dezember 1993 wurde ihm die Position des Leiters des Büros für Produktion und Verkauf von Waffen und Armeeausrüstung der kroatischen Republik Herceg-Bosna übertragen.

Gemäss der Anklageschrift soll Bruno Stojic zwischen dem 18. November 1991 (oder früher) und ungefähr April 1994 an einem gemeinsamen kriminellen Unternehmen teilgenommen haben, welches zum Ziel hatte, bosnische Muslime und andere nicht-kroatische Einwohner des heutigen Bosnien-Herzegowina politisch und militärisch zu unterwerfen. Es soll in diesem Zusammenhang beabsichtigt worden sein, diese Gebiete über kurz oder lang zu einem « Gross-Kroatien » zusammenzuschliessen. Dazu sollen Zwang, Furchterregung oder Androhung von Zwang, Verfolgung, Gefangennahme und Inhaftierung, Zwangsumsiedlungen und Deportationen, Zwangsenteignungen und Zerstörung von Eigentum, ebenso wie weitere Mittel, eingesetzt worden sein.

Dieselbe Anklageschrift wirft Stojic vor, er habe ab Mai 1992 an ethnischen Säuberungen in der Stadt und Region von Prozor, in der Gemeinde Gorjni Vakif, den Städten Sovici und Doljani und in der Gemeinde Mostar teilgenommen, welche mittels Angriffen auf bosnische Muslime, mittels Plünderung, In-Brand-Setzung und Zerstörung von Häusern bosnischer Muslime und anderer Gebäude, mittels Festnahme und Inhaftierung zahlreicher bosnischer Muslime und gegen sie gerichteter grausamer Behandlung, sexueller Gewalt, Tötungen und anderer Formen der Verfolgung ausgeführt worden seien.

Der HVO benutzte zwischen September 1992 und April 1994 das Lager Heliodrom, südlich von Mostar, als Gefangenenlager zur Inhaftierung von bosnischen Muslimen aus Mostar. Die Anzahl Lagerinsassen betrug im Durchschnitt mehrere Tausend Personen, wobei geschätzt wird, dass bis maximal 6000 Gefangene gleichzeitig festgehalten wurden. Die Haftbedingungen im Konzentrationslager Heliodrom waren unmenschlich. Auch die Lager Fojno und Ljubuski, nördlich von Mostar, wurden für die Inhaftierung von bosnischen Muslimen verwendet. Die Gefangenen wurden oft besonders schweren Misshandlungen unterworfen und, bis zu ihrer Deportation zwischen April 1993 und März 1994, für Zwangsarbeit eingesetzt.

In den Gemeinden Stolac und Capljina wurden im Jahr 1993 die meisten männlichen bosnischen Muslime verhaftet und unter grausamen Bedingungen festgehalten, teilweise auch getötet. Der HVO vertrieb systematisch bosnisch-muslimische Frauen, Kinder und ältere Personen aus ihrer Heimat und zerstörte ihre Häuser…………….

http://www.trial-ch.org/de/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/bruno_stojic_492.html

Andere Kroatische Verbrecher um Stojic aus dem Raum Mostar

[ Valentin Coric
Slobodan Praljak
Jadranko Prlic
Berislav Pusic
Bruno Stojic

Lt. Aussage von einem unabhängiem ausl. Beoachter beim ITCY, gab es damals Falken und Tauben bei den Kroaten, wobei Stojic, ein Rädelsführer der Falken war. Stojic sagt selbst, das alle Scharfschützen Terroristen der Kroaten, in diesem Raum unter seinem Befehl standen.

http://www.sense-agency.com/en/stream.php?sta=3&pid=10006&kat=3

Valentin CoricMilivoj PetkovicSlobodan PraljakJadranko PrlicBerislav Pusic
Lt. Aussage von einem unabhängiem ausl. Beoachter beim ITCY, gab es damals Falken und Tauben bei den Kroaten, wobei Stojic, ein Rädelsführer der Falken war. Stojic sagt selbst, das alle Scharfschützen Terroristen der Kroaten, in diesem Raum unter seinem Befehl standen.

Sense News Agency
13 July 2007

- ICTY -

HAWKS AND DOVES IN HERCEG-BOSNA

THE HAGUE, 13.07.2007.

Dutch EC monitor who signed his reports from Mostar in the summer of 1993
as “flying Dutchman” says that the in the reports the personnel of the
Spanish Battalion divided the Bosnian Croat leaders into hawks and doves

Antoon van der Grinten, a Dutch member of the European Community
Monitoring Mission, signed his reports as “flying Dutchman”. In them,
he noted that the personnel of the Spanish Battalion in Mostar divided
the Bosnian Croat leaders into hawks and doves. The reports were
admitted into evidence as prosecution exhibits at the trial of the
six former Herceg-Bosna leaders.

The witness agreed with the division, he said, explaining that for him,
the term “hawks” referred to “pronounced nationalists” who refused to
cooperate with the international community, while “doves” were more
moderate nationalists “who did not display their nationalism so openly”.

The Herceg-Bosna defense minister Bruno Stojic was among the hawks,
the witness said. Van der Grinten met with Stojic several times
during his tour of duty in Mostar, as he described in the first
part of his testimony. On one occasion, in response to the monitors’
accusations that the HVO snipers had shot at a SPABAT soldier from
the “glass bank building”, Stojic said it was “impossible”, because
all the HVO snipers were under his control.
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all the HVO snipers were under his control.

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&P=29335

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15.7.2007 by Lupo.

Owner of this house: Ahmed Bedier, Executive Director of The Council of American Islamic Relations

Islamic activists want FBI to look into arson and vandalism of Sarasota County home
By LATISHA R. GRAY

SARASOTA COUNTY — Islamic activists are calling on the FBI to investigate a hate crime in which a Bosnian family’s home was burned and spray painted with anti-Muslim slurs.

Hasib Sejfovic, 43, walked through what was left of his Avila Avenue home Friday afternoon. He looked at the charred remains of his couch, and the kitchen he recently spent $15,000 remodeling.

Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, followed Sejfovic with a camera, filming the words “Kill all Arabs” that had been spray painted in red on the floor.

“These people aren’t even Arab,” Bedier said. “They are European. That shows you how smart the people are who did this.”

Bedier said it is the worst case of anti-Muslim discrimination he has seen, and he wants to know why it has not received more public attention.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070714/NEWS/707140330/1417/RSS02US Islam Faschist in action!

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15.7.2007 by Lupo.

Schiesserei im Kosovo zwischen uniformierten Kriminellen und der Kosovo Polizei! Und oh Wunder, niemand ist dabei verletzt worden. Im nordwestlichem Kosovo nahe dem Dorf von Radisheve, geschah der erneute Vorfall, wo Unbekannte öfters in Uniformen, illegale Baum Fäll Aktionen betreiben. Das Dorf liegt an der Grenze zwischen Albanischen und Serbischen Siedlungs Gebieten. Kurz gesagt: Niemand wird verletzt, niemand wird verhaftet, als die Albaner Polizei kam und wie im BND Report Kosovo 2007 festgestellt wurde, funktioniert sowie weder Justiz oder Polizei im Kosovo. Die Kriminellen die dort in angeblichen Serben Uniformen herum liefen, warum “Bekannte” der Albaner Polizei, und konnten so wie immer entkommen.

Die IEP-BND Studie Kosovo 2007   122 Seiten pdf

http://balkanforum.org/IEP-BND/iep0001.PDF

Reuters
14 July 2007

Kosovo police trade shots with “uniformed” gunmen

PRISTINA, July 14 (Reuters) — Police in the breakaway Serbian province
of Kosovo were fired at on Saturday when they went to check reports
from villagers that uniformed men with weapons had been spotted on
a mountainside.

They fired back but no injuries were reported, police said.

Police and troops of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission were searching the
area, in northwestern Kosovo near the village of Radisheve, well south of
the internal border with Serbia proper. Local sources saw NATO helicopters
overhead.

“Kosovo police received a call that some local people, while they were
cutting wood, saw some armed men in uniform,” police spokesman Besim Hoti
told Reuters. “Police went to investigate and someone started shooting
at them.”

Local sources said the men were wearing Serbian police uniforms –
a distinctive blue camouflage. This could not be immediately confirmed.
Rural Kosovo has seen a number of shooting incidents in the past years
over illegal wood-felling by villagers.

Radisheve lies between ethnic Albanian and Serb municipalities in the
tense north of Kosovo, one of the many areas where NATO’s KFOR patrols
maintain a close watch to prevent ethnic violence between the two
communities.

Unease is growing among Kosovo’s 90 percent Albanian majority over
further delays in a U.N. plan, backed by the West, which would lead
the province to independence under European Union supervision.

Russia, supporting Serbia’s total refusal to consider independence, has
blocked the process by threatening to use its U.N. Security Council veto.
Serbia has ruled out any change to its borders but has no plan to
reintegrate Kosovo’s two million Albanians into the country’s political
life.

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAM460138.htm

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