It might seem that after the Islamists’ terrorist acts in Spain and Great Britain, Europe should have got worried about its future and started thinking over the consequences of the aggression against Yugoslavia for the Old World and over the potential results of the independence of Kosovo, a Serbian province with the predominantly Albanian population. European leaders could learn at least some lessons from the 1991-1995 war, in which, at Washington’s instigation, they took a harshly anti-Serb position and gave Muslim extremists in the leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina full freedom of maneuver.
The possibility of “The Terrorist Republic of Kosovo” being legalized in Europe makes one recall how the “international community” sided with President Alija Izetbegovic in the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The West was fully aware of who its partner really was – during WWII Izetbegovic has been an ally of the Nazi and of Jerusalem Mufti Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, an Arab collaborationist. He helped to form the Muslim 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar, notorious for its atrocities against Serbs. After WWII, Izetbegovic was imprisoned for several years as a war criminal. He received another sentence in the 1980ies for his anti-government activities – this time the reason was his book with an advocacy of establishing a Muslim fundamentalist state in Bosnia.
The Dayton deal ended the war in Bosnia in the fall of 1995. Gradually, facts concerning those who fought on Izetbegovic’s side began to surface in the Western media. A particularly large number of facts of the kind were disclosed following September 11, 2001. It was confirmed that al-Qaeda formations created in the early 1990ies by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s deputy leader and Bin Laden’s top aide, had long been active in Bosnia. It also transpired that the “chief terrorist” personally visited Bosnia and met Izetbegovic. According to various sources, some 4,000-6,000 Muslim foreign nationals took part in the war against Serbs.
In 1998, the CIA foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of explosives which were to be used in terrorist acts against the US military bases in Germany. The individual who organized the plot was a citizen of Bosnia of Algerian origin. One of the terrorists who were linked to the "millennium bomb plot" in the LA international airport was Karim Said Atmani, a Moroccan with a Bosnian passport issued to Said Hodjic. In April, 2001 Atmani was arrested and deported to France, but some two years ago he was released early from jail for good behavior and returned to Bosnia. Abu Zubaydah, a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda and the author of the failed terrorist plots in Canada and Jordan, who also planned a terrorist act against the US Embassy in Paris, also has a Bosnian citizenship.
In the summer of 2005 Cybercast News Service featured footage of a jihadist camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina showing guerilla’s explosives training, exercises in what appeared to be a gym, and studies of hostage-taking. Specialists commenting the footage noted that though the main training camps which functioned during the 1991-1995 war had been closed, new ones were set up instead. Now these were the youth camps where instructors had an extensive combat experience. The purpose of the new camps was to create a network delivering manpower to the “new front line”, that is, to other countries.
Nezavisne Novine a newspaper published in the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina wrote that terrorists trained in Bosnian camps later went to fight in Chechnya and Iraq. This information was obtained by the newspaper from Greg Copley, President of the International Strategic Studies Association (Washington). Copley said that teenagers and children whose parents were killed during the war were trained in the camps. He also told that some of the instructors were officers of the Iranian intelligence and that their operations were sponsored by Saudi Arabia. When asked why, if the camps existed, NATO did not locate them, Copley replied that European countries and NATO could not step up any activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina as long as the situation there remained peaceful. Copley said that the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities were well aware of the problem but their way of dealing with it was to deny the very definite fact of its existence. In his view, whenever a terrorist act like the ones in London and Madrid took place, evidence related to any of its aspects – communications, explosives, funding or intelligence - led to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which could not be a mere coincidence.
Copley’s point of view is shared by Claude Moniquet, Director-General of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, who says that Muslim terrorists from Algeria, Morocco, France, Belgium, and Germany are in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia preparing terrorist acts planned to evolve into jihad. Claude Moniquet warns that the terrorists trained in special camps in Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo present a threat not just to the Balkan region, but to the entire Europe. He says that terrorist camps exist near Zeneca in Bosnia, but the Bosnian government shows no signs of concern over the matter. Balkan Muslims provide shelter, weapons, and material support to terrorists coming from Turkey, Morocco, and Sweden. The authorities will stop helping terrorists only when they understand that their own families find themselves in danger because some jihadist can blow them up in a bus, a trade center, or a school, says Moniquet. In his opinion, Kosovo is a mafia stronghold, and an outbreak of activities of fanatics who will name it a holy war is only a matter of time. In reality they will simply defend the sources of their criminal incomes in Europe.
In December, 2006 the Bosnia and Herzegovina persecutors launched an investigation into the operations of several “charities” suspected of money laundering. Among them are United Arab Emirates-based Dar el Bir, the International Islamic Relief Organization Igasa, the Kuwait Joint Relief Committee, and the Kuwaiti-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society. Three more organizations are also under investigation. Records of how extremely large funds were used are unavailable. Investigators believe that the above organizations are linked by the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society considered a major al-Qaeda sponsor by the UN. The four organizations were run by Othman Ahmad Al Haidar, a citizen of Kuwait, who was authorized to transfer their funds.
Zvonimir Trajkovic, a well-know Serbian political analyst, remarks that the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the emergence on its ruins of new “banana republics”, unable to control their territories, resulted in extremely favorable conditions for criminal and terrorist groups. Deliberately or not, the West has opened the doors of Europe wide for terrorism. The US and Europe are yet to suffer strikes from the terrorists they have bred.
Trajkovic points to a serious peril: a White al-Qaeda is being created in Kosovo and Bosnia to be used as the main base for terrorist attacks in the future. He emphasizes the importance of the so-called green path to Europe known in the Balkans as the Green Transversal (Zetra). This is a territory of great significance, which Muslims have been trying to populate for decades to use it as the start for a move to Europe. Kosovo and Metohija are especially important for the break-through of the radical Islam to Europe as these areas, combined with Sanjak, link Zetra to the other route to Europe used by the fundamentalists – the one which goes through Albania.
Trajkovic says that terrorist training centers and bases are set up freely on the ethnically cleaned territories. The centers are supervised by various terrorist groups having ties with militant Islamist organizations. These centers are used for the recruitment of people, for the creation and structuring of the White al-Qaeda, whose members are to avoid police profiling thanks to their European appearances and to launch terrorist attacks. According to Trajkovic’s data, some 500 Wahhabits provided ideological guidance in these centers in 2005. The Serb analyst notes that 1/3 of the jail inmates in Switzerland are Albanians, mostly convicted for drug trafficking. Quite obviously, the White al-Qaeda will use the long-available routes and the established network of drug dealers in Europe.
The US and Wahhabits, the alleged foes of the US, build the Islamist future of Europe on outrageous lies and major falsifications. So, in 2005 former US President B. Clinton participated in loud commemorations dedicated to the decade of the Srebrenica “massacre”. In this context, a number of former US State Department and Pentagon officials reminded that the number of Muslim victims has been overstated, to say it gently, in order to validate the creation of “the first Muslim shrine in Europe”. They called the “monument to the victims of genocide” a Trojan horse for the Old World. Yossef Bodansky, who formerly headed the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for the U.S. House of Representatives, reiterated that Paddy Ashdown, then the UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, was personally involved in the falsifications of the report on the 1995 Srebrenica events.
Filipp Korovin, a former UN coordinator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says that Ashdown and “the remnants of the Clinton administration” are trying to conceal the genocide whose real victims were the Serbs of Srebrenica. G. Copley opines that Ashley’s account of the Srebrenica events follows the version of the Muslim Party of Democratic Action led by fascist Izetbegovic, and of the terrorist groups which subsequently joined al Qaeda.
It was the US and NATO diplomacy in Bosnia that made it possible for al-Qaeda to get rooted in the Balkans. The US politicians contributed to the Balkan instability, particularly by overstating the Muslim casualties and by stimulating the national intolerance as they blamed the Serb side exclusively for the civil war. Bodansky and Copley claim that Izetbegovic acted under the control of the Iranian intelligence and of the terrorist groups which eventually merged with al Qaeda, but this never prevented Clinton from cooperating with him.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia established on the US initiative has demonstrated the ability to ignore indisputable facts and to exonerate bloody butchers when they are used to promote the US interests in Europe. For the European consumption, the Tribunal has turned the US version of the 1990ies Balkan events into the canonical one.
Largely concurring with the views of Trajkovic, we do find his conclusion imprecise. His writes: “Many … fed the monster that now got out of control. Spain is the first European country which paid a high price. Another outburst of terror shook Kosovo on March 17, 2004. How many more people have to fall victims, how many more European cities must pay the price for EU and the US to finally realize what they have done to Kosovo and Bosnia?”
However, the problem is that Europe still cannot understand the simple truth that it is the US and Great Britain who laid a delayed-action mine under its future. European countries became hostages of the interests of the Anglo-Saxons encouraging extremists in Bosnia and Kosovo. Al-Qaeda cells proliferated under the auspices of Paddy Ashdown, the British intelligence officer in the post-war Bosnia. It was Paddy Ashdown who, despite the Dayton accords, did everything possible to eliminate the Serbian Republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He brought back to life Izetbegovic’s fascist plans to establish an Islamist state at the Balkans. He did everything to falsify the accounts of the 1995 Srebrenica events seeking a pretext for getting rid of the Serbian Republic which stood in the way of Hitler’s and Izetbegovic’s plans.
Paddy Ashdown, the UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, was identified as an agent for the MI6 British secret service by mass media for the first time in the summer of 2005. His name was listed among those of over 120 British spies. Ashdown, whose full name is Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, has worked for the British intelligence since 1974, when he served in the UN British mission in Geneva.
The list also includes the former head of Ashdown's public relations office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Julian Braithwaite, stating that he has served as an MI6 agent in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Washington. Great Britain’s ambassador to Belgrade Charles Graham Crawford is also in the list (he worked for the British spy agency in Belgrade, Moscow, Capetown, Saraevo, and Warsaw). Another name listed is that of Anthony Leopold Colyer Monckton, who was a secret agent in Zagreb in 1996, in Banja Luka in 1998, and in Belgrade in 2001. Richard William Potter – he worked in Sarajevo in 1996-1999, and Janet Elizabeth Rogan – she has been in Sarajevo since 1998 - are also mentioned.
On September 29, 2005 S. Milosevic demonstrated footage to the Hague Court featuring Ashdown inspecting weapons shown to him by fighters from the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army during his tour of the province. In one of the episodes Ashdown promised to tell everything to T. Blair who, as he said, sent him to Kosovo. Ashdown assured the Albanian terrorists that he would do “everything he can”.
In fact there is nothing sensational in all of the above. Defending its interests, Great Britain has always used Muslims skillfully. All sorts of Islamists organizations found heaven on its territory. London’s patronage of Chechen separatists and their advocates is nearly demonstrative.
When leaders of a state neglect their country’s interests, its fate is deplorable. Fatally, the leaders of European countries refuse to understand that the US interests have long diverged from the European ones. Having laid the Islamist mine in the Balkans, the US and Great Britain created extremely serious problems for the continental Europe for a long time to come and got rid of an increasingly powerful competitor. Besides, the US has thus prolonged its presence in Europe and set up new bases in Kosovo. For Washington, supporting Islamists in Europe is a kind of a compensation provided to the Muslims for the US politics in the Middle East.
The possible independence of Kosovo will lead to a new stage of instability all over the Balkans and, shortly, in the rest of Europe. The domino effect will be triggered. Inevitably, there will be Albanian claims concerning Greece. Active Albanization is already going on in Montenegro, which gained independence due to the votes of Albanians and Muslims at the referendum. Last year, a group of Albanians was arrested in the country for preparing terrorist attacks. Some of them were US citizens!
In case the US – Wahhabit project of creating a continuous Muslim belt spanning from Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey to Bosnia materializes in Europe, the EU positions in the competition with the US will be undermined, and the fundamentals of the European civilization will be destroyed. It will also be a blow to Russia, as the “green belt” will inevitably include Crimea, Caucasus, and the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia.
