The
Sky News has obtained evidence of hundreds of radical Islamic Holy
warriors hiding in Bosnia a decade after the end of the war. It reported
a growing radicalization, and a new base for Al Qaeda. The Los Angeles
Times article "Terrorists Use Bosnia as Base and Sanctuary" cites the
classified U.S. State Department report and interviews with
international military and intelligence sources by saying that, "
Hundreds of foreign Islamic extremists who became Bosnian citizens after
battling Serbian and Croatian forces present a potential terrorist
threat to Europe and the United States.". The war in the former
Yugoslavia ended eight years ago but illegal arms trade and training of
Islamic terrorists continues across the Balkans, particularly in Bosnia
and Kosovo currently administered by EU / UN Missions. Reports of such
developments came also from Gregory Copley. In his article "Strong
warning indicators for new surge in European Islamic terrorism" he says
that, "Intelligence sources in the Balkans and Middle East indicate that
the Iranian and Osama bin Laden terrorist networks, assets and
alliances built up in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia,
Southern Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans are preparing for
significant new slate of operations." Shaul Shay, an officer in the
military intelligence of the Israeli Defense Forces and expert on
international and fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, has published the
new book "Islamic Terror and the Balkans". In that book he analyzes the
growth of radical Islam in the Balkans. He shows how the war in Bosnia
and the war in Kosovo provided the historical opportunity for radical
Islam to penetrate the Balkans. "It was an ongoing process. During
the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina Islamic mujahideens from different
parts of the world came to support the local Muslims. Later on when the
war was over they formed an [Islamic terrorist] infrastructure that
exists even today," said Shaul Shay in his interview to Monday's
Encounter on January 6. In it, I show the process and the development
of this phenomenon during two wars, first in Bosnia and Herzegovina and
later on in Kosovo," continued Shay. Intelligence sources reveal that
there have been for more than a decade, three main radical Islamist
mujahideen operating in Bosnia: The Iranian mujahideein, consisting
entirely of Iranian nationals, the Arab mujahideen, consisting mainly of
volunteers from Saudi Arabia, from Palestine, Jordan and Yemen and the
North African mujahideen, mainly involving Egyptians, Algerians and
Moroccans. Some of them have been engaged in some of the more serious
terrorist actions (including the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US).
"After 9/11, when the US started examining the financing of terror
organizations, it discovered that many of the Islamic charities that
operated during and after the war in the Balkans were channeling
"terror" money . A big chunk of that money that was supposed to be used
for humanitarian purposes went to finance those [Islamic terror]
infrastructures, " Shay stated. "In the eyes of the radical Islamic
circles, the establishment of an independent Islamic territory including
Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania along the Adriatic Coast, is one of the most
prominent achievements of Islam since the siege of Vienna in 1683.
Islamic penetration into Europe through the Balkans is one of the main
achievements of Islam in the twentieth century", said Shay. An
investigation by the Los Angeles Times newspaper wrote in 2004 that
dangerous Islamic extremists travel in and out of Bosnia at will. There
the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija
Izetbegovic had been aided and abetted since it's inception by Osama Bin
Laden and Al Qaeda . "During the war in Kosovo, the KLA enjoyed the
support of former Albanian President Berisha, who regarded the war in
Kosovo as a Jihad and issued a call to all Muslims to fight for the
protection of their homeland. In one way or the other we had similar
developments in Albania including the Islamic charities, which financed
the KLA in Kosovo . Some of the key figures that participated in the war
in Bosnia and Herzegovina were involved in the war in Kosovo as well,"
Shay said. The Clinton administration had provided a strong support
to the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), even though it was known
that the KLA supported the Muslim mujahideen. Despite that knowledge,
then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had the KLA removed from the
State Department list of terrorists. This action paved the way for the
United States to provide the KLA with needed logistical support. At the
same time, the KLA also received support from Iran and Osama bin Laden,
along with 'Islamic holy warriors' who were jihad veterans from Bosnia,
Chechnya and Afghanistan. Jihad Fanatics From All Over The World In
The Balkans part 2 of 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=brIZDrYbeoY
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