Montenegro: Crime and Amnesty and the serbian mafia

5.5.2011 by HoisseBig.

Mafia hostages (In English/In English)

MONITOR Weekly, 5 November 2010 Mafia hostages That’s how it is when the mafia has a country. After months of delay and upon pressure, the government signs an agreement on extradition of its nationals, .

Crime and Amnesty

 

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Monitor weekly editorial, 22 October 2010
Crime and Amnesty

Deputy Director of the Croatian Office for fight against corruption and organised crime Slobodan Sasic, in his final word upon a marathon court trial, demanded 40 year prison sentences for each of the six defendants accused of killing Ivo Pukanic, co-owner of Croatian weekly Nacional, and his colleague Niko Franjic. Pukanic and Franjic were liquidated in 2008, in downtown Zagreb.

“Acts against freedom of journalistic expression have been committed, acts against democracy” – said Sasic. He explained that the group was assembled by Sreten Jocic¹, allias Joca Amsterdam, while his right arm was Slobodan Djurovic² a businessman from Bar. Jocic allegedly paid 1.5 million euros for the assassination.

The solicitors and financiers of this crime are still unknown. However: “only the tobacco mafia could provide such significant funds for funding criminal organisations” - claims Sasic. One of the witnesses in the process, Ratko Knezevic³, stated that the top bosses of the tobbacco cartel are Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic⁴ and his business partner Stanko Subotic Cane⁵

In another court investigation, Italian Prosecutor Giuzeppe Scelsi marked Milo Djukanovic as the leader of the group that smuggled cigarettes accross the Adriatic and caused multibillion euro damage to the Italian budget. Italian Supreme Appelate Court approved in 2004 an order for arrest of the Montenegrin Prime Minister, based on suspicion that he is the boss of an organised mafia group. Later on, the case against Djukanovic was archived. At the same, business between Berlusconi and our Prime Minister flourished. Montenegrin electricity utility was purchased by Italian A2A.⁶, which is now preparing, together with Djukanovic’s government, to swamp Moraca and destroy Tara⁷

Although later on Mr Djukanovic’s court case was archived, more precisely post-poned due to immunity, the Italian investigation against other members of the tobbacco mafia, mainly Djukanovic’s intimates, is proceeding. In Serbia, Stanko Subotic Cane is being tried, as is also the cocaine trafficking band of transcontinental dimensions led by Darko Saric⁸ from Pljevlja.

Montenegrin judiciary is paralyzed. Much earlier than Pukanic, over here was liquidated Dusko Jovanovic, who also wrote about the tobacco mafia. Neither the direct perpetrators, nor the organisers and solicitors of the murder of Chief Editor of the daily Dan, have been identified. Also unresolved are assassinations of high police officers and businessmen, some of whom have been associated with tobacco and cocaine business ventures. Saric’s associates from the indictment are freely strolling around in Montenegro, while their businesses are expanding. from Pljevlja.

Eighteen years upon the crime of deportation of refugees from Bosnia and Hercegovina⁹ only low ranked police officers are sitting on the courtroom bench. Efforts are underway to discredit the brave witness, police inspector Slobodan Pejovic, who on that grim year 1992 opposed the crime, and to make out of him a perpetrator of this horror, in which more than hundred people have perished. In the process, all means are being used to blur the context and to kill the truth. Pejovic went public long time ago, in the nineties, and experienced a torment.

According to Pejovic’s and other testimonies, the order for arrest of refugees was signed by the then police minister Pavle Bulatovic, who was later killed in Belgrade under still unclarified circumstances. , only low ranked police officers are sitting on the courtroom bench. Efforts are underway to discredit the brave witness, police inspector Slobodan Pejovic, who on that grim year 1992 opposed the crime, and to make out of him a perpetrator of this horror, in which more than hundred people have perished. In the process, all means are being used to blur the context and to kill the truth. Pejovic went public long time ago, in the nineties, and experienced a torment.

But, wasn’t Milo Djukanovic his superior? In a strictly centralised state apparatus, a police minister could not even dream of making independently a decision on massive deportation. It would have been a putch. No one is mentioning the accountability of top state leadership for this state crime.

This is a logical outcome. In a country at whose helm is the man who ran the show during the Bukovica events¹⁰ and deportations, during the smuggling and opaque privatisations, law and justice are not achievable. Only lie and great deceit.

This is not anymore only our problem. Those western diplomats and countries that support Djukanovic’s Montenegro are accomplices in the obstruction of justice and hiding of crimes – from the horrible one in 1992, up to everything that followed whilst the big shadow deals were piling up. Can the gratouitously donated canyons, hydropower plants and remaining unspoiled resources which Djukanovic intends to sell off, now to western partners, amnest the authorities for all wrongdoings, which in the last twenty years have converted Montenegro into a land of unpunished crime? and deportations, during the smuggling and opaque privatisations, law and justice are not achievable. Only lie and great deceit.

Milka Tadic Mijovic

1 Sreten Jocic, infamous Serbian crime boss and contract killer
2 Slobodan Djurovic, controversial Montenegrin businessman and Jocic’s best-man
3 Ratko Knezevic, former Montenegrin diplomat and Prime Minister’s best-man
4 Milo Djukanovic, Montenegrin Prime Minister or President since 1991
5 Stanko Subotic Cane, alleged cigarette distributor and money launderer
6 A2A , one of leading Italian electricity utilities, based in Milan, Italy
7 Moraca and Tara, Montenegrin rivers and canyons that would be devastated by hydropower plants proceeding. In Serbia, Stanko Subotic Cane is being tried, as is also the cocaine trafficking band of transcontinental dimensions led by Darko Saric
8 Darko Saric, alleged cocaine trafficking narcoboss, born and raised in Pljevlja, Montenegro
9 Police deported Bosnian Moslim war refugees back to their country following a massive raid
10 Bukovica, moslim populated Montenegrin village in which war crimes have been committed

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History

In the early 1900s, a known outlaw was Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga, a hajduk in Slavonia who joined the “Band of mountain birds” (Kolo gorskih tića, tići) a group of robbers who ravaged the countryside of Slavonia. The 1991 biographical film Čaruga was the last Yugoslavian film.

Ljuba Zemunac was known as a godfather of the Serbian Mafia, during the 70’s and 80’s he operated in Germany and Italy where he formed his gang. He was killed in 1986 by rival Goran Vuković “Majmun”.

Joca Amsterdam operated in Netherlands and become one of the strongest gangsters through his elimination of rivals while working as a hitman and overtaking the drug market. He obtained the cocaine from contacts in Colombia and earned a name as the “Cocaine King”. He worked for “Duja” Becirovic as an underboss. He later lived in Bulgaria where he was successful in drug smuggling until his arrest in 2002. Upon returning to Serbia, he took over companies through with the force of the Surčin clan, one of three then most powerful “clans” of Belgrade; Serbia. Joca was later in 2008 involved in the car bomb of Ivo Pukanić and Niko Franjić.

Also up-and-coming “Arkan” was successful bank robber in Western Europe during the 70’s. He had convictions and warrants in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. He managed to escape several prisons and had made connections with several known criminals from Yugoslavia during his time there. In the 80’s he returned to Serbia where he started with illegal businesses and led the Red Star Belgrade supporter club Delije Sever Ultras.

The real breakthrough for criminal organizations in Serbia occurred in 1991 when wars broke out in Yugoslavia after deteriorating relations between the republics and ethnic groups. Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks fought over territory in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. International sanctions were imposed on Serbia since 1991 and the Republic was economically isolated. The economic disaster prompted the breakthrough for criminal organizations. Desperate for money, many former military and youths turned to crime.

In 1992, the gang of “Peca” was arrested, one of the members was Dušan Spasojević, the later head of Zemun clan. A young mobster from Vozdovac Aleksandar Knežević “Knele” is murdered in October, prompting brief wars in Belgrade, he was the son of Belgrade gangster “Buca Al Kapone”

Arkan was the founder and leader of the Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan’s Tigers) a Serbian paramilitary unit that fought during the war, made up of Red Star Belgrade hooligans of Delije Sever and gangsters from Serbia. The members profited from the battlefields and business from Serbia. He founded the Party of Serbian Unity in 1993. When he returned from the war, he was the most powerful of the Serbian Mafia, he soon married Turbo-Folk singer Ceca, the most popular singer in Serbia. His lawyer, Giovanni Di Stefano paid the wedding of Arkan and Ceca, he was a colleague of Arkan in Europe during the 70s, now a controversial lawyer and close friend to Milošević who has defended Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali.

Slobodan Milošević, the President, protected the Mafia in exchange for favours, thus being in direct connection with the Mafia. The business that profited the Mafia was cigarettes and oil smuggled during the start of the Yugoslav wars because of the sanctions. The businessman Stanko Subotić is one of the names that made huge profit in these times, his net worth is €650 million, of which the greater part was made after 1993 in the cigarettes trade; he was the leader of the so called “Tobacco Mafia”.Nacional.hr After the fall of Milošević, Subotić maintained connection with the Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović. Cigarettes were produced in the Republic of Macedonia and sold into Central Europe.

From 1994-2000 illegal cigarette smuggling in Italy was operated by the Serbian Mafia together with the Italian Mafia.

The 1996 Documentary film “Vidimo se u čitulji” (See you in the obituaries) follows the gangsters of New Belgrade.

The veterans of the wars turn to crimes in high rates. The most common crimes are assassinations, kidnapping, trafficking, robberies, money laundering, racketeering and illegal software production. The high profits from criminality, corrupt environment and possibility for money laundering make the organized crime vulnerable to the international community.

In 1997, 350 kilos of heroin was seized at the Serbian-Bulgarian border.“Working Paper” Anastasijević

On 15 January, 2000, Arkan was murdered in the lobby of Continental Hotel Belgrade. The killer, Dobrosav Gavrić, is a 23-year-old police mobile brigade’s junior member. Gavrić had ties to the underworld.

When Slobodan Milošević lost the power in the October 2000 Bulldozer Revolution. However, a bloody feud soon emerged amongst the different “clans”. The feud grew into an open war in which many of the mafia bosses were assassinated.

In 2000, a total 841 million € was determined to have been illegal profits in Serbia

Organized crime in Serbia had more money and better armed than the government and police, the Serbian Interior Minister Dušan Mihajlović said in 2001. He said Slobodan Milošević had given life to crime-syndicates as “state-sanctioned mafia”. Prostitutes from the Soviet Republics working in Northern Europe were working for Balkan organizations. After Milošević lost power the Mafia was seeking a new contact in the government In September 2001, 700 kilos of heroin was found in a bank vault rented by the BIA in central Belgrade. The illegal safekeeping was never explained nor brought up. The Zemun gang had “special training courses” with the BIA, lending them information on Kosovo Albanian terrorists.

In 2002, a “White Book” was compiled with 52 criminal organizations of Serbia, none of which had been terminated by the year’s end. The same year it was concluded that the Protection rackets in the harbor cities of the Black Sea were run by Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian OC.“Transnational organized crime and international security: business as usual?”

In February 2003, Serbian police busted several pharmaceutical factories near Belgrade with a large quantity of amphetamine, the ringleader Milan Zarubica produced tonnes of drugs that he exported throughout Europe. He got 12 years and fourteen of his associates got sentences as well.

During the period that started with the Yugoslav wars and ended with the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in March 2003, connections between the mafia and the government were obvious and corruption was rampant in most branches of the government, from border patrols to law-enforcement agencies. In March 12, 2003, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated by former Serbian Special Operations Unit (Red Berets, transformed from Arkan’s Tigers) Milorad Luković also known as Legija, member of the Zemun clan. Đinđić had connections within the Surčin for the earlier overthrowing of Milošević. The government set in motion a major bust on criminality in - “Operation Sablja” (English: Sabre), which led to more than 10,000 arrests. New Belgrade malls, a frequent place of gangsters, went down more than 20+% after the Operation 123 criminal groups were broken with 844 members awaiting trial; 3,949 people were issued criminal complaints, 28 kilos of heroin, 463 grams of Cocaine, 44 837 kilos of Marijuana, 4 960 synthetic drugs and 688 stolen cars were found by the day. Milan Sarajlić, the Deputy State Prosecutor of Serbia was arrested and confessed the involvement (being on payroll) with the Zemun clan. 140 kilos of marijuana is seized in Belgrade and 4 people are arrested in November, 2003.Servia.sr.gov.yu The Red Berets are dissolved on 23 March 2003.

In 2003 a White Book is published titled “Albanian terrorism and Organized Crime in Kosovo and Metohija”. A total of 126 groups were registered by 2003.Organised crime in Europe “The threat of cybercrime” situation report 2004, Vol 2

In 2005 it was confirmed that Serbia loses 7.5 million RSD because of economic crime, the estimated total loss to criminal activity is at 200 million € yearly.Polis OSCE Report 2000-2005

In 2006 It was revealed that Dušan Spasojević, the gang leader of the Zemun clan, was a connection to Serbian Radicals leader Vojislav Šešelj, whom he had given information about high-profile murders carried out in Serbia, written about in Šešelj’s two books (Spasojević under pseudonym Laufer) More than 360 kilograms of heroin was seized in the first half of the year.

In January, 2009, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic estimated some 30 to 40 serious organized crime groups operating in Serbia. The figures does not include smaller size criminal groups but more organized, involved in drug trafficking and arms trafficking, human trafficking, murder and larger robberies.

In September, 2009, 22 of the Elez group is arrested by the Serbian police, dubbed the most dangerous gang in Western Balkans.10 najvećih hapšenja u 2009 The leader, Darko Elez, is captured with 5 other members in Serbia, 13 members are captured in Bosnia & Herzegovina, of which 3 were police officers

Police seized 2.8 tons (2,800 kg, worth 120 million €) of cocaine shipment from Uruguay in October 17, 2009, the BIA and American DEA made the joint operation. In October 31, 2009, Serbian police arrested over 500 people in the biggest anti-drug bust ever in Serbia. The Interior Ministry organized the Morava-operation that would focus on drug trafficking to young people in the primary and secondary schools, clubs and cafes and would encompass 2,000 police officers searching the whole country.

In November, 2009, Argentine Police arrested 5 Serbian drug couriers and seized their 492 kilograms of cocaine in Buenos Aires, One of the largest drug busts in 2009. The routs of the drugs were from Uruguay and Argentina via Central alt. South Africa to Northern Italy alt. Turkey to Montenegro. Also, Serbian organized crime experts estimated 10,000 foot soldiers part of 5 major organized crime groups operating in Serbia.Serbia: Cheap drugs and corruption fuels mafia expansion A courier package of 5 kilos cocaine was intercepted from Paraguay, 4 Belgraders were arrested.

The busts were part of the Operation Balkan Warrior; an international drug smuggling case that involves mainly the Zemun clan, a name concluded as leader of the drug ring is Željko Vujanović.

In December, 2009, Ivica Dačić said “half of the Serbian sport clubs are led by people with links to organized crime”. 21 kilos of heroin ($1,5-million) was found in a Belgrade flat rented by a Montenegrin national, the drugs were brought from Turkey.

In January, 2010, a 20 acre lot illegally owned by the Zemun clan was seized at Šilerova Street in Zemun, Belgrade, the clans headquarters. By January 21, The Balkan Warrior Operation included 19 suspects, 9 of whom are in custody, new arrests are Darko Šarić and Goran Soković who are colleagues of Željko Vujanović. Also, the same day, a 8-man crime group involved in stealing of Oil over a two-year period from the NIS pipelines, the crude oil was sold through a company, worth several hundred thousands of euros, among the arrested is a member of the MUP.

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Bin Laden and The murky past of Bill Clinton should be investigated

5.5.2011 by HoisseBig.

Bill Clinton and Osama bin Laden ratlines in Bosnia: Clinton is a hypocrite!  

Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

 

Islamists in Bosnia were supported by Bill Clinton

 

Ex-president of America, Bill Clinton, welcomed the news that Osama　bin Laden was killed and he gave quotes to the “blinkered media.”  This is the same Bill Clinton who welcomed the forces of radical Islam in the Balkans by giving Islamists the green light.

It could be stated that Bill Clinton would prefer a dead Osama bin Laden because dead men do not speak.  However, the Bosnian Muslim leadership, alongside radical Islamic organizations and several nations, had a shared policy which met the objectives of Clinton’s administration.  Therefore, thousands of passports were given to international terrorists by the Bosnian Muslim leadership and given the connections of the Afghan civil war against communism; then natural networks were already in place and Clinton’s administration utilized all means possible.

It did not matter at all to the Clinton administration if Islamists were slitting the throats of Orthodox Christian civilians.  Nor did Clinton think about the long term policies and how he was enabling international jihadists to get a major foothold into Europe.

Even after September 11 the Bosnian connection did not get the press that it warranted because several Islamists had used Bosnia in order to further their jihadist ideology. 

It is factual that in all conflicts that you will have many distortions and massacres are committed on all sides during intensive civil wars.  Bosnia was no different and innocents were killed by all sides irrespective of religious or ethnic identity.

However, the distortion of the Bosnian civil war was beyond the pale because how would America like it if thousands of international Islamists were given a free-reign in order to kill innocent people in America?

Yet this is what happened in Bosnia and the Bosnian Serbs were abandoned to the most psychopathic Islamic jihadists in the world.  Therefore, not surprisingly the Bosnian Serbs adopted a siege mentality but to the international media this was ignored.

In fact, you had shameless British politicians like Paddy Ashdown (Mi6 Agent)  claiming that the Muslims had no military arms to defend themselves.  However, the USA, under Clinton, enabled Islamists to break the no-military-arms embargo.  Therefore, by the end of the Bosnian civil war it was clear that Bosnian Muslim forces had gained in power and the same applies to Croatia which blew away the Serbs of Krajina.

The ethnic cleansing, like the media liked to mention, appeared to be negative when the Bosnian Serbs got the upper hand.  Yet true to events on the ground, then when the Serbians were being ethnically cleansed it was fine and language manipulation backed by a potent media campaign could easily manipulate events.

Clinton would talk about the moderate Muslim leadership and others would mention the pluralism of Bosnia in history. Therefore, not only were modern events being distorted but the reality of Islamic rule in Bosnian history was being brushed under the carpet.

Suddenly, the reality of dhimmitude; taking the eldest Orthodox Christian son from his parents and converting him to Islam; pogroms against Christians; slavery; discrimination in law; and control of all power mechanisms into the hands of Muslims in the Balkans was being “whitewashed.”

This now all meant pluralism, because the media would create a new Bosnia in its own image but very far from the historical reality of the region.

Of course you will have found moderates on all sides, irrespective of religion.  However, while the “darkness” of what the Serbs did was shown the “Islamic darkness” of beheading innocent Orthodox Christians and countless massacres was hidden in order to maintain the myth that one side was pluralistic and modern.

Therefore, you had a major collusion between democrats, radical Islamists, national self interests, secret agencies, the mass media, and others, in order to distort the “real picture.”

In an earlier article that I wrote I stated that “Sky News has obtained clear and proper evidence of a major cover-up and footages of massacres against Serbian Christians have been seen. According to the investigation and footages which were shown, it is abundantly clear that thousands of radical Islamists from all over the world were given a free-reign in Bosnia.”

“This free-reign meant that innocent Serbian Christians were to meet terrible and disturbing deaths at the hands of radical Islamists who celebrate openly while cutting the heads off innocent civilians. The same Islamic forces which unleashed September 11th and which stone people to death in order to create “year zero,” were welcomed openly by ex-President Clinton and by people within his administration.”

If you check http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/iran.htm then this link highlights the Republican Policy Committee and the findings are damning, to say the least.

On Page 2 of the House Subcommittee it states that “The Administration’s Iranian green light policy gave Iran an unprecedented foothold in Europe and has recklessly endangered American lives and US strategic interests.”

” . . . 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)

The findings of this report, alongside other information from other sources, certainly highlights how Islamists like Osama bin Laden were given a free-reign to spread radical Islam and to create Islamic terrorist cells in Bosnia.

Bill Clinton fully understood that Islamists were entering Bosnia from so many countries and he not only understood this but he would manipulate this in order to further his objectives in Bosnia.

The former president of America can state openly that he is happy about the death of Osama bin Laden because the media is either not allowed to ask important questions or media screening is already in place.

Osama bin Laden took much to his grave and for Bill Clinton this will be music to his ears.  After all, dead men can not testify and this will help to maintain the silence of the ratlines which existed between Clinton’s administration, international terrorists, and the elites within the Bosnian Muslim leadership.

In the book called The Revenge of the Prophet by the acclaimed Vojin Joksimovich, he comments that“Osama Bin Laden saw a great opportunity in Bosnia and established a base of operations in Europe against Al Qaeda’s true enemy, the U.S. The Afghan Jihad and the Gulf War combined to produce fertile ground for 9/11.  However, Bosnia became the direct springboard for 9/11, the Madrid train bombings and probably London.”  Page 298 – The Revenge of the Prophet

John R. Schindler who is the author of Unholy Terror, comments that “Although Sarajevo’s supporters went to great lengths to deny it, there was no avoiding the reality that after 9/11, as al-Qa’ida attacks multiplied across the world, a disturbing number of the terrorists involved had close ties to Bosnia and the holy war waged there.  The dedicated cadres bin Laden had first nurtured in Afghanistan and brought to fruition in Bosnia were ready for the all-out confrontation with the “apostates” and “infidels” that al-Qa’ida had promised.” Page 296 – Unholy Terror

John R. Schindler continues by stating that “The role of the West in the fate of Bosnia cannot be underestimated.  The willful blindness of Western elites, the dishonest and mendacious representations of Bosnia and its war presented by intellectuals, academics, entertainers and journalists, decisively influenced the course of the conflict, to the benefit of radical Islam.”  Page 324 – Unholy Terror

It is therefore abundantly clear that while Bill Clinton and Osama bin Laden had different objectives; it is also apparent that Bill Clinton and Osama bin Laden“shared the same pie.”

After all, obstacles which should have been nigh impossible, for example thousands of Islamists being allowed into Europe and then obtaining military weapons; became not only feasible but was part and parcel of the American administration under Bill Clinton.

Vojin Joksimovich highlights the international nature of Islam in Bosnia because he comments that“The jihadists, from their bases and support facilities in Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere, did not come to Bosnia only to fight against the ‘Serbian aggressor,’ but for the first European religious state at large, for the establishment of the only faith among the European Muslims.”  (Page 145)

This comment highlights the reality of Izetbegovic and the pan-Islamic card. Vojin Joksimovich continues by stating that the “Creation of Islamic states, so-called Jamahirya states, was the ultimate objective of all these movements.  With the Koran in their hands the jihadists did not distinguish between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, only between believers and unbelievers.”  (Page 145)

The murky past of Bill Clinton should be investigated and this applies to his administration.  After all, if America really wants to know how September 11 happened then part of the answer lies in Bosnia and the Republican Policy Committee testifies to this.

Therefore, the Bosnian Muslim leadership and Bill Clinton will sleep well knowing that Osama bin Laden is dead.  After all, if Osama bin Laden had the chance to speak then the “Bosnian Islamic terrorist chain with Clinton’s blessing” could have come back to haunt them.

Yet true to Bill Clinton, he made comments about how pleased he is about the death of Osama bin Laden but in history he once was pleased that he was alive because it enabled the Clinton-Bosnian Muslim jigsaw to be completed.

http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/iran.htm

Vojin Joksimovich – The Revenge of the Prophet

John R. Schindler  -  Unholy Terror

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Fotos reuter, rund um die Navy Seal Operation

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Offensichtlich wurde ein Tarnkappen Hubschrauber benutzt

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Gerichtssachen rund um Bin Laden Leute in 2001

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BIN LADEN’S DEATH: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS (CRS)

The broad implications of the death of Osama bin Laden were discussed in a new report from the Congressional Research Service.  The report does not contain any new factual information or much in the way of new analysis.  Rather, it presents an account of the policy questions arising from bin Laden’s death that may warrant congressional attention.  See “Osama bin Laden’s Death: Implications and Considerations” (pdf), May 5, 2011.

The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
Bosnia, 1 degree of separation from Al-Qaeda

Analysis, July 2003

Acta est fabula

Al-Qaeda (”The Foundation”) is a conglomerate of groups spread throughout the world operating as a network. It has a global reach, with a presence both on its own and through some of the terrorist organizations that operated under its umbrella, including: Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which was led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, and at times, the Islamic Group (also known as “el Gamaa Islamia” or simply “Gamaa’t”), and a number of Jihad (a Jihad- “Muslim Holy War”) groups in other countries, including Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Kosovo region of Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kashmiri region of India and the Chechnyan region of Russia.

Al Qaeda also maintained cells and personnel in a number of countries to facilitate its activities, including in Kenya, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Malaysia, and the United States.

Since September 11, U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have been watching radical Islamic Mujahadeens (Mujahadeen - holy warrior) who came to fight the Balkan wars - and then stayed on. Several people in Bosnia have been questioned for links to international terrorism. Six of them “all Algerians” were arrested and handed over to the U.S. Government. They still are reported to be in Guantanamo Bay.

The United States has long been alarmed by the presence in Bosnia of hundreds of Arab-born Muslim fundamentalists who first traveled there in the 1990´s to fight for the nation’s predominantly Muslim population during the civil war. Many went there at the direction of Osama bin Laden, who apparently saw the opportunity for a Jihad defending Muslims against Serb and Croat Christians.

Osama Bin Laden directly aided the Bosnian Muslims, both financially (weapons procurement) and with training. In addition, that same “aid” was extended to the separatist Albanians of Kosovo and Macedonia. Ironically, the US found Bin Laden and his supporters “convenient” allies when dealing with Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians, again in another so-called struggle for “freedom”.

The following text will be a brief outline of the major Al-Qaeda terrorist activities that one way or another link Bosnia to the Global terrorism.

Osama bin Laden links

On June 06 2003, French authorities arrested Christian Ganczarski, a Muslim convert born in Germany, at a Paris airport. Ganczarski made several visits to Qaeda training camps, and he was phoned by Al Qaeda suicide bomber moments before the suspect blew himself up at a Tunisian synagogue in April 2002.

“(Intelligence) services know that he is a top leader of Al Qaeda, in contact with Osama bin Laden himself, and has been in Afghanistan and Bosnia,- French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told France’s Parliament.

Also, a Moroccan detained in France on suspicion of having links to the group that carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States was planning a new attack on a tourist complex in the French Indian Ocean territory of Reunion.

Karim Mehdi (34) was arrested by the DST intelligence services at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport while in transit on a flight from Germany to Reunion. The sources said he had had training in Afghanistan and Bosnia and was said to be close to Ziad Jarrah, a member of the Hamburg cell who died on board the aircraft that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Bosnian Muslim weekly “Dani” reported on September 24, 1999, that Osama Bin Laden, the most wanted terrorist in the world, was issued a Bosnia-Herzegovina passport. Bin Laden was issued the Bosnian passport by the Bosnian embassy in Vienna in 1993. However, Bin Laden was not the only one. A number of suspected terrorists have traveled the globe utilizing “legally issued” Bosnia-Herzegovina documents.

According to ‘Dani’, the Bosnian Foreign Ministry was seized by panic when Mehrez Aodouni, another Bosnian passport bearer, was arrested in Istanbul on September 09, 1999. Aodouni was believed to have close ties with Bin Laden. The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) [Bosnia´s main Muslim party led by Bosnian President, Alija Izetbegovic] issued a statement that on September 23, 1999, Audouni obtained the Bosnia-Herzegovina citizenship and a passport because he was a member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army.

One of the first links to Osama bin Laden appeared in 1992 arms smuggling debacle. That September, four aircraft from Khartoum, Sudan, landed at Maribor (Slovenia) airport. Security checks revealed the planes’ cargo was not, as claimed, humanitarian aid, but 130 tons of weapons destined for Bosnia, then under an arms embargo.

Investigations revealed that the arms were ordered by Elfatih Hassanein, a Sudanese citizen and head of the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Vienna-based humanitarian organization. Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia, provided a guarantee for Elfatih Hassanein (a personal friend of Izetbegovic) to open an account for the TWRA in Die Erste Osterreich Bank in Vienna, Austria in 1993.

In a 1994 interview with Gazi Husrev Beg, a magazine focusing on Islamic affairs, Hassanein called for the creation of an Islamic state in Bosnia. ‘Bosnia, at the end, must be Muslim Bosnia, otherwise, everything has lost its sense and this was for nothing.’

The Washington Post wrote on 22 September 1996: “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 bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi émigré believed to bankroll numerous militant groups”.

Bosnia Charities and Al-Qaeda

There have been longstanding concerns in the European and U.S. intelligence services that several charities that operated in Bosnia during and after that country’s civil war were being used as a cover for Al-Qaeda activities.

In the spring of 2002, under the US supervision, Bosnian authorities raided several Islamic operating in Bosnia and were forced to closed three of them: the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (which was banned in Kenya after the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi), the Global Relief Foundation and Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) - a branch of the Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation.

As a reminder, Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, has been in US custody. The indictment said a criminal enterprise that existed for at least a decade used charitable contributions from innocent Muslims, non-Muslims and corporations to support bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network, Chechen rebels fighting the Russian army and armed violence in Bosnia. The Syrian-born Arnaout, who became a U.S. citizen nearly a decade ago, received his Bosnian passport in the mid-1990s.

The Bosnian raid uncovered a handwritten list of twenty wealthy donors sympathetic to Al-Qaeda. The list, referred to as “The Golden Chain,” reveals both the names of the donors, and the names of the recipients. Seven of the payments were made to Osama bin Laden and “Hezb e Islami” (a militant group run by an Afghan warlord), while at least one donation to him was made by the “bin Laden brothers.”

Intelligence investigators also want to know why some of the charity’s money was transferred to a Bosnian company called “Ljiljan Commerce Group”.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft said documents found in the Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) office in Bosnia have provided “chilling” evidence tying Enaam Arnaout directly to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He said the papers summarize the 1988 meeting at which the terror network was founded, and include a text of the network’s oath of allegiance.

BIF had links to people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, a plot to bomb US airlines, and a plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in 1995.

Also found in BIF’s Bosnia offices were military manuals providing instruction on small arms and explosives, photographs of bin Laden and Arnaout and photos of Arnaout handling several weapons, including a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.

Also, joint US-Bosnian government probe connected the Saudi charity Talibah International Aid Association to terrorist funding and an Al-Qaeda front group. Taliban has been under investigation since shortly after 9/11 due to a foiled terror attack in Bosnia that has been connected to Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

This “charity group” was embedded with World Assembly of Muslim Youth [WAMY] - a suspected terrorist organization, led by Osama bin Laden relatives, brothers Abdullah and Omar bin Laden. The Bosnian Government later said that a charity with Abdullah bin Laden on its board had channeled money to Chechen guerrillas. The investigation into WAMY restarted two days after 9/11, and after the bin Laden brothers have left the US.

Philippines authorities believed that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), whose Philippines branch was run by bin Laden’s brother-in-law, was funneling funds to the Abu Sayyaf organization. The brother of bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was employed by IIRO in Albania, where he assisted Al-Qaeda’s efforts in the Balkans. Reportedly, detailed minutes of a meeting between bin Laden associates on the stationery of these Saudi welfare agencies, captured in Bosnia, clarifies how organizations like IIRO were to be used by Al-Qaeda.

Israel found an IIRO payment schedule detailing how $280,000 USD was to be distributed to 14 different Hamas charities, thereby documenting, for the first time, the pattern of Saudi backing of terrorism. The head of the Canadian branch of IIRO admitted in court that “The Muslim World League, which is the mother of IIRO, is a fully government funded organization. In other words, I work for the government of Saudi Arabia.”

Attack on USS Cole and French Supertanker Limburg

American investigators intercepted telephone calls and other evidence showed that Bensayah Belkacem, who was believed to be a native of Algeria or Yemen with Bosnian citizenship, had numerous conversations on cellular telephones last fall with leaders of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He has been identified as a European lieutenant in Al-Qaeda who was ordered to carry out attacks on American targets in the Balkans after Sept. 11.

The officials said FBI and military investigators were particularly eager to question Mr. Belkacem about the personal background and possible hiding places of Mr. Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian in his early 30´s who is believed to have coordinated the terrorist attacks ordered by bin Laden.

Mr. Zubaydah has been linked to the bombing of the destroyer Cole in October 2000 in Yemen, in which 17 Americans were killed. Nicknamed “the Mailman” by terrorist colleagues because of his role in relaying orders from bin Laden and making sure they were carried out, Mr. Zubaydah was singled out by President Bush, when the president listed leaders of Al-Qaeda being hunted by the United States.

Abu Asim Al-Makki (a.k.a. Muhammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal, Muhammad al-Hamati), is figuring prominently in the investigations of multiple terrorist attacks attributed to Al-Qaeda, including both the suicide-bombing of the USS Cole and the copycat terror attack on the French supertanker Limburg.

Abu Asim aided in the formation of a Al-Qaeda battalion in central Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the fall of 1992, he helped lead a group of 43 primarily Saudi mujahadeen in initial combat operations against Bosnian Serb troops.

Embassy Bombings

Intelligence authorities believe that Enaam Arnaout and the Benevolence International Foundation may have arranged visas and organized other logistics for foreign Muslim fighters to enter Bosnia for terrorism training.

An FBI affidavit, filed the day Arnaout was arrested, said his Benevolence International Foundation financed a trip to Bosnia for Mamdouh Salim.

Salim is charged with conspiracy to kill Americans in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people and wounded more than 4,000.

Salim, Bin Laden’s alleged finance chief, went to Bosnia with papers describing him as a Benevolence director. Arnaout helped with his visa and provided housing in Sarajevo.

Salim, the affidavit says, had at one time attempted to get nuclear and chemical weapons for the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Millennium Plot

The December 14, 1999, arrest of Algerian national Ahmet Ressemi at a U.S.-Canada border crossing in British Columbia – he was in a car full of nitroglycerin and bomb-making materials –-was headline news in North America. Many theorized that Ressemi planned to blow up a major structure in the U.S. to start the new millennium.

The theorists could have saved themselves some time by taking a closer look at Ressemi’s past ties, especially those with terrorists trained in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Ressemi fought as a Mujahadeen.

It has been confirmed that Ahmet Ressemi had ties with Said Atmani, another terrorist who fought in the “El Mujahadeen” unit in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Canadian authorities believe Atmani and Ressam were roommates in Montreal and that Ressam sold stolen laptop computers and cellular phones to raise money for terrorist attacks. “The group in Montreal was in contact with individuals involved in terrorist support activity in France, and with several Mujahadeen groups who are active in Bosnia,” Ralf Mutschke, a criminal intelligence chief with Interpol was quoted.

The Canadian authorities deported Atmani back to Bosnia-Herzegovina on October 18, 1998, supposedly without knowing of his alleged participation in terrorist activities through Europe.

Under interrogation by U.S. authorities, failed millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam stated that, in Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, he had met several members of a North African terror cell (consisting mainly of Bosnian war veterans) based in Europe, headed by, among others, “Abu Zubair” and a mysterious unnamed militant living in Yemen.

September 11

Another senior commander of Mujahedeen battalion in central Bosnia-Herzegovina was Abu Zubair al-Haili (a.k.a. Mohammed Haydar Zammar, “the Bear”), German citizen of Syrian descent. He was the chief handler of the Hamburg Al-Qaeda cell responsible for September 11 suicide hijackings. He received military training in Pakistan in 1991 plied his deadly skills in what militant Islamic fundamentalists refer to as the ” Jihad - holy war” which raged in ethnically strife-torn Bosnia in the 1990s.

Zammar was travelling under the cover of “Tabligh”, a missionary sect of Muslims, that he conveniently used for fundamentalist recruiting purposes.

German investigators have learned that one of the individuals whom Zammar tied into the Al-Qaida network was Mohammed Atta, the pilot of one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. Zammar also brought two of Atta’s lieutenants into the al-Qaida network, Ramzi Bin al-Shaibah and Said Bahaji. Indonesian citizen Agus Budiman, who spend more than nine months in a US prison as a terrorist suspect, met Bin al-Shaibah, a Muslim cleric from Hamburg.

Ramzi Bin al-Shaibah told Budiman that he wanted to take part in the Jihad, or holy war, in Bosnia. Bin al-Shaibah is the 20th hijacker who was supposed to be aboard the plane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar (American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon) were not like the other hijackers. The two Saudis militant backgrounds is more comprehensive than the others, despite their young ages. In the mid-1990s both apparently were in the Bosnia conflict, and then fought in Chechnya at various times between 1996 and 1998. This was confirmed by the Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearings.

American investigators intercepted telephone calls and other evidence showed that Bensayah Belkacem, who was believed to be a native of Algeria or Yemen with Bosnian citizenship, had numerous conversations on cellular telephones last fall with leaders of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He has been identified as a European lieutenant in Al-Qaeda who was ordered to carry out attacks on American targets in the Balkans after Sept. 11.

The officials said FBI and military investigators were particularly eager to question Mr. Belkacem about the personal background and possible hiding places of Mr. Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian in his early 30´s who is believed to have coordinated the terrorist attacks ordered by bin Laden.

Jamaah Islamiah links and Bali bombing

Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, the leader of Indonesia’s most prominent radical Islamic group, Jamaah Islamiah. Admited in his interview for Australian ABC news that while in exile, he taught many of “Muslim extremists” in Islamic studies including the concepts of Jihad - or Holy War.

Abu Bakar encouraged Muslims to fight Christians on the battlefield in places where Muslims were under attack, adding it was possible some of those, whom he called his “listeners”, had done so in places such as Bosnia.

Indonesia television reported the man, known as Amrozios, had allegedly confessed to being part of the bombing conspiracy and to owning the minivan that exploded outside the Sari Club (Bali bombing) on October 12 killing almost 200 people.

Amrozios, 30, allegedly admitted to knowing JI spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir and the group’s chief of operations Riduan Isamudidin, alias Hambali, the most wanted terrorist in South East Asia.

Police sources said a raid of Amrozios’ house had turned up two books about Jihad in Bosnia and the Philippines.

A former lieutenant colonel in the Malaysian Army, Abdul Manaf Kamsuri, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to JI. Abdul Manaf, a high-flying officer who won three merit awards when he graduated from Britain’s Sandhurst Military Academy, served nine months in Bosnia as part of Malaysia’s U.N. peacekeeping force from 1993 to 1994. Malaysian officials say that while there he befriended Al-Qaeda members fighting in support of the Bosnians.

The alleged chief of the Bali bombers who trained for jihad under Osama bin Laden Muklas, or Ali Ghufron, one of the most senior members of the secretive South-East Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

Muklas learned his fighting skills in Afghanistan, and apparently used conflicts within his native Indonesia as well as in Bosnia to recruit fellow countrymen to his cause.

The “shoe-bomber”, Richard C. Reid and Jamaat ul-Fuqra

U.S. officials believed Reid to be a follower of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilalni, a leader of an obscure Muslim militant group named Jamaat ul-Fuqra (”The Impoverished”). Described by the State Department’s 1995 report on terrorism as dedicated “to purifying Islam through violence,” ul-Fuqra recruited devotees from as far away as the Netherlands and had sent Jihadis into battle in Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia, and Israel.

Sheikh, himself, visited Bosnia at least once, when he joined a “Caravan of Mercy,” taking “relief supplies” to Bosnia.

Next?

Although well known, these facts about Al-Qaeda links to Bosnia were not given due attention in the media and as a result public perception diverged from reality. Terrorist network took advantage of it and devastating consequences followed.

The war against terror can not be won if parts of terrorist network are allowed to slip by.

Paying due attention where attention is long due is the first step to prevent it.

Links

Balkan wars and terrorist ties
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Director of the U.S. Congress’ Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional warfare: “Some Call It Peace”
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NATO Probes Claims that Bin Laden is in Kosovo
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Persecution Watch : Kosovo
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Defang the KLA
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Destabilizing the Balkans: US & Albanian Defense Cooperation in the 1990s
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Bin Laden in Kosovo
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Bosnia Arrests Three Suspected Bin Laden´s Associates
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A Bosnian Village’s Terrorist Ties; Links to U.S. Bomb Plot Arouse Concern About Enclave of Islamic Guerrillas
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Bin Laden opens European terror base in Albania
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US tackles Islamic militancy in Kosovo
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US alarmed as Mujahidin join Kosovo rebels
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The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
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