Il terrorismo "buono"
7: Bin Laden focuses on the Balkans
[NOTE: the following articles cannot be only understood keeping in mind
that the activities which are allegedly directed by Osama Bin Laden
have always been supported by CIA, especially in the Balkans, where
Osama is reported to have collaborates with Izetbegovic's and UCK
pro-western separatists. I. Slavo]
1. OSAMA BIN LADEN FOCUSES ON THE BALKANS
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, August 2003
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor
2. BOSNIAN SERB ADVISER WARNS BOCINJA VILLAGE TURNING INTO REFUGE FOR
TERRORISTS
ONASA - September 25, 2003
Tanjug - September 25, 2003
See also:
Al-Qaeda's Balkan Presence
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/11-04-2002/insider/
vo18no22_kosovo.htm
Link to Bodansky's "Iran's European Springboard?"
http://www.suc.org/politics/papers/civil_war/iran_springboard.html
Link to "Al Qaeda's Balkan links." (Wall Street Journal)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/guestcolumnists/kurop11-02-01p.htm
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/bodansky.htm
OSAMA BIN LADEN FOCUSES ON THE BALKANS
Current Estimate - An estimate of an area of key current significance
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, August 2003
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor
STARTING IN MID-AUGUST 2003, radical Islamist leaders elevated the
role of the terrorism infrastructure in the Balkans as a key
facilitator of a proposed escalation of conflict into the heart of
Europe, Israel and the United States. The terrorism campaign aims to
define the US occupation of Baghdad as the turning point in the
fateful jihad for the future of Islam. The importance of the
concurrent expansion of Islamist operations in the Balkans should be
examined in this overall context.
The most telling development was the nomination of Shahid Emir Mussa
Ayzi to coordinate and run special recruitment operations. Ayzi is a
veteran of Afghanistan who is close not only to the al-Qaida elite but
also the Taliban leadership. Recently, al-Qaida leader Osama bin
Laden's senior commanders decided to expand the recruitment and
activation of Slav cadres, because they look European and non-Arab, in
order to enhance their ability to operate at the heart of the West.
In August 2003, Ayzi took over this sensitive recruitment drive. The
main recruitment pool consists of Bosnian Muslims with a smaller
effort relying on Russian converts recruited in Chechnya and the
Caucasus as a whole. Although the Islamists had run a recruitment and
training drive of Bosnian Muslim expert terrorists and would-be
martyr-bombers since the early 1990s, these cadres had not until now
been used.
Now, circumstances seem to be changing. In late August 2003, Ayzi sent
a report to Mullah Qudratullah, a senior Taliban official, about his
success in enlisting "persons of Slav ethnicity" to the Islamist
jihad. He added that some of these "white devils" had already been
indoctrinated and trained to the point of sending them to carry out
"Allah's Work" - that is, terrorist martyrdom-strikes - "in a number
of European cities and on Israeli territory." The preparation of
additional Slav cadres for US operations is in progress, Ayzi reported.
The training and preparation of Ayzi's recruits is taking place in the
Balkans and the Caucasus, mainly Georgia.
The Balkans undertaking is part of an overall increase in the Islamist
buildup under the overall supervision of Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the
brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two leader in al-Qaida. The
senior Islamist commanders now consider what they call "the Albanian
land" - Albania, Serbia's Kosovo province and parts of Macedonia - to
be safe for use as a springboard for the insertion of a new wave of
expert terrorists, including the Slavs, into Western Europe and onward
throughout the West.
Indeed, starting in mid-August 2003, there was a discernible increase
in the number of foreigners in the Islamist mosques throughout
Albania. "They [originally] come from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and Iran. They come from many countries," noted an eyewitness in
Tirana. They arrive [in Tirana] from Afghanistan," he added. These
expert terrorists are being prepared in Albania for their specific
missions in the West.
This training program is conducted under the cover of the Albanian
National Army (ANA or AKSh in Albanian) with most senior trainers and
commanders being "mujahedin who retreated from Bosnia" and are
affiliated with al-Qaida.
In return for the Albanian support of this endeavor, the Islamists
assist the local terrorists in preparing for launching spectacular
terrorism into the major cities of Serbia and Montenegro, with
Belgrade and Nis believed to be the top targets. As well, Islamist
cadres, mainly veterans of Bosnia, are providing advance training to
thousands of Albanian terrorists in camps in Kosovo-Metohija, near
Prizren, on the slopes of Mt. Sara, in the Kosovo Morava River valley,
in the Albanian towns of Kukes and Tropoje, and around Tetovo in
western Macedonia.
These operations are also run under the banner of the ANA/AKSh.
Significantly, the growing importance of the Balkans cause was also
reflected in the Islamist communiques claiming and explaining the
bombing of the UN building in Baghdad. This was the most important and
authoritative doctrinal statement of the Islamist leadership in August
2003.
The statements stressed the situation in Bosnia as a major grievance
of the Islamists against the UN and the West. The first statement was
issued on August 19, 2003, by the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades, itself a
front group of al-Qaida. The Islamists claimed that UN officials
"oversaw the massacre of Bosnian women and children in 1992 and 1995,"
and that "the United Nations was responsible for the massacre of 7,000
Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 because it sponsored the idea of 'not
establishing an Islamic state in Europe.'"
On August 24,2003, the London-based Al-Muhajiroun, bin Laden's primary
mouthpiece in Europe, elaborated on this theme in order to explain why
the UN building in Baghdad was a legitimate target: "Verily it was the
UN soldiers in Bosnia who were recorded to have stood by when the
barbaric Serbs massacred Muslims. The UN first decided to take away
the weapons of the Muslims (fearing that they might actually defend
themselves and establish Islamic rule) and thereby facilitated their
massacre, and were then even photographed helping in the mass murder
and gang rape of Muslim women and children. The wounds are still
fresh."
The statements were clearly intended to compound the disinformation
that 7,000 Muslims were killed in Srebrenica, when all independent
forensic evidence points to Muslim casualties in the hundreds,
possibly the low hundreds. Continued emphasis on such allegedly high
numbers of Muslim deaths at Srebrenica also obfuscates the Muslim
murders in that city, earlier, of Serb civilians.
Indeed, the August 2003 statements and intelligence, leading up to the
proposed September 2003 opening of the new Islamist shrine - built at
Srebrenica with US funds - all support analysis that a significant new
wave of terrorism, this time by many European Islamists, is to begin
soon.
Yossef Bodansky is the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, as well as the World
Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
(Houston, Texas). He is a contributing editor of Defense and Foreign
Affairs; Strategic Policy. He is a contributing expert at the
Israel-based Ariel Center for Policy Research. He is the author of
several books (Target America, Terror, Crisis in Korea, Offensive in
the Balkans, Some Call it Peace, and Islamic Anti-Semitism as a
Political Pursuit), as well as several book chapters, entries for the
International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, and numerous articles
in several periodicals, including Global Affairs, Jane's Defense
Weekly, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy, Nativ and
Business Week. In the 1980s, he acted as a senior consultant for the
Department of Defense and the Department of State.
Copyright 2003 Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy
Posted for Fair Use only.
=== 2 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/onasa092503.htm
BOSNIAN SERB ADVISER WARNS BOCINJA VILLAGE TURNING INTO REFUGE FOR
TERRORISTS
ONASA - September 25, 2003
Banja Luka - The adviser of the Serb member of the BiH
(Bosnia-Hercegovina) Presidency for legal issues and implementation of
the Dayton Agreement, Slobodan Radulj, said in a statement Thursday
(25 September) that "the invitation the Serb returnees received from
the mujahedin to convert to Islam if they want to live safely in
Bocinja", indicates more clearly than anything else that this village
on the slopes of Ozren mountain was turned into a camp for ideological
training of terrorists.
"The ideological training is intended for those who have agreed to
subject their lives to, and to sacrifice their lives for Islam, and it
is mostly conducted in the religious centres," Radulj told daily Glas
Srpske in a statement. Radulj claims that the mujahedin are aided by a
number of Islamic, allegedly humanitarian, organizations which operate
in BiH.
"One of these organizations is a branch of the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood, which operates in BiH under the name of the Young
Muslims. This organization is notorious for producing so called
sleepers, who, after they undergo ideological training, await their
tasks," Radulj explained.
He said the it was "no secret" that Al-Qa'idah in its cells in BiH,
Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, trained local Muslim population for
terrorist operations across the world.
"Since the terrorist operations have been conducted by the Arabs so
far, Al-Qa'idah wants to recruit and train new kind of terrorists,
according to them, blond and with blue eyes," Radulj said.
The similar claims have been uttered by former Maglaj Municipal
Assembly speaker Dzevad Galijasevic, who dubs Bocinja a gun-powder
barrel, since "terrorists from across the world, the persons who
commit murders and sabotages across the West Europe" come to this
village.
Source: Onasa news agency web site, Sarajevo, in English 25 Sep 03
Copyright 2003 Financial Times Information
All rights reserved
Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire
Copyright 2003 BBC Monitoring/BBC
BBC Monitoring International Reports
Posted for Fair Use only
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug092503.htm
Bocinja - camp for training Islamic terrorists, Radulj
Tanjug - September 25, 2003
13:58 SARAJEVO - Advisor to the Serb member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Presidency Slobodan Radulj said on Friday that the Mujaheddin's offer
to the local Serbs in Bocinj near Maglaj, in the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Federation, that they had to accept Islam as their religion if they
wanted to live there in peace and safety - represented an evident
proof that this Ozren village had been turned into a camp for an
ideological training of Islamic terrorists.
"The ideological training is aimed for those who have accepted to
sacrifice their lives for Islam," Radulj told the Republika Srpska
media, and added that a number of Islamic, so-called humanitarian
organizations who operated in Bosnia-Herzegovina, offered assistance
to the training which was mostly carried out at corresponding
religious centres.
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted for Fair Use Only
7: Bin Laden focuses on the Balkans
[NOTE: the following articles cannot be only understood keeping in mind
that the activities which are allegedly directed by Osama Bin Laden
have always been supported by CIA, especially in the Balkans, where
Osama is reported to have collaborates with Izetbegovic's and UCK
pro-western separatists. I. Slavo]
1. OSAMA BIN LADEN FOCUSES ON THE BALKANS
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, August 2003
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor
2. BOSNIAN SERB ADVISER WARNS BOCINJA VILLAGE TURNING INTO REFUGE FOR
TERRORISTS
ONASA - September 25, 2003
Tanjug - September 25, 2003
See also:
Al-Qaeda's Balkan Presence
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/11-04-2002/insider/
vo18no22_kosovo.htm
Link to Bodansky's "Iran's European Springboard?"
http://www.suc.org/politics/papers/civil_war/iran_springboard.html
Link to "Al Qaeda's Balkan links." (Wall Street Journal)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/guestcolumnists/kurop11-02-01p.htm
=== 1 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/bodansky.htm
OSAMA BIN LADEN FOCUSES ON THE BALKANS
Current Estimate - An estimate of an area of key current significance
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, August 2003
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor
STARTING IN MID-AUGUST 2003, radical Islamist leaders elevated the
role of the terrorism infrastructure in the Balkans as a key
facilitator of a proposed escalation of conflict into the heart of
Europe, Israel and the United States. The terrorism campaign aims to
define the US occupation of Baghdad as the turning point in the
fateful jihad for the future of Islam. The importance of the
concurrent expansion of Islamist operations in the Balkans should be
examined in this overall context.
The most telling development was the nomination of Shahid Emir Mussa
Ayzi to coordinate and run special recruitment operations. Ayzi is a
veteran of Afghanistan who is close not only to the al-Qaida elite but
also the Taliban leadership. Recently, al-Qaida leader Osama bin
Laden's senior commanders decided to expand the recruitment and
activation of Slav cadres, because they look European and non-Arab, in
order to enhance their ability to operate at the heart of the West.
In August 2003, Ayzi took over this sensitive recruitment drive. The
main recruitment pool consists of Bosnian Muslims with a smaller
effort relying on Russian converts recruited in Chechnya and the
Caucasus as a whole. Although the Islamists had run a recruitment and
training drive of Bosnian Muslim expert terrorists and would-be
martyr-bombers since the early 1990s, these cadres had not until now
been used.
Now, circumstances seem to be changing. In late August 2003, Ayzi sent
a report to Mullah Qudratullah, a senior Taliban official, about his
success in enlisting "persons of Slav ethnicity" to the Islamist
jihad. He added that some of these "white devils" had already been
indoctrinated and trained to the point of sending them to carry out
"Allah's Work" - that is, terrorist martyrdom-strikes - "in a number
of European cities and on Israeli territory." The preparation of
additional Slav cadres for US operations is in progress, Ayzi reported.
The training and preparation of Ayzi's recruits is taking place in the
Balkans and the Caucasus, mainly Georgia.
The Balkans undertaking is part of an overall increase in the Islamist
buildup under the overall supervision of Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the
brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two leader in al-Qaida. The
senior Islamist commanders now consider what they call "the Albanian
land" - Albania, Serbia's Kosovo province and parts of Macedonia - to
be safe for use as a springboard for the insertion of a new wave of
expert terrorists, including the Slavs, into Western Europe and onward
throughout the West.
Indeed, starting in mid-August 2003, there was a discernible increase
in the number of foreigners in the Islamist mosques throughout
Albania. "They [originally] come from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and Iran. They come from many countries," noted an eyewitness in
Tirana. They arrive [in Tirana] from Afghanistan," he added. These
expert terrorists are being prepared in Albania for their specific
missions in the West.
This training program is conducted under the cover of the Albanian
National Army (ANA or AKSh in Albanian) with most senior trainers and
commanders being "mujahedin who retreated from Bosnia" and are
affiliated with al-Qaida.
In return for the Albanian support of this endeavor, the Islamists
assist the local terrorists in preparing for launching spectacular
terrorism into the major cities of Serbia and Montenegro, with
Belgrade and Nis believed to be the top targets. As well, Islamist
cadres, mainly veterans of Bosnia, are providing advance training to
thousands of Albanian terrorists in camps in Kosovo-Metohija, near
Prizren, on the slopes of Mt. Sara, in the Kosovo Morava River valley,
in the Albanian towns of Kukes and Tropoje, and around Tetovo in
western Macedonia.
These operations are also run under the banner of the ANA/AKSh.
Significantly, the growing importance of the Balkans cause was also
reflected in the Islamist communiques claiming and explaining the
bombing of the UN building in Baghdad. This was the most important and
authoritative doctrinal statement of the Islamist leadership in August
2003.
The statements stressed the situation in Bosnia as a major grievance
of the Islamists against the UN and the West. The first statement was
issued on August 19, 2003, by the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades, itself a
front group of al-Qaida. The Islamists claimed that UN officials
"oversaw the massacre of Bosnian women and children in 1992 and 1995,"
and that "the United Nations was responsible for the massacre of 7,000
Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 because it sponsored the idea of 'not
establishing an Islamic state in Europe.'"
On August 24,2003, the London-based Al-Muhajiroun, bin Laden's primary
mouthpiece in Europe, elaborated on this theme in order to explain why
the UN building in Baghdad was a legitimate target: "Verily it was the
UN soldiers in Bosnia who were recorded to have stood by when the
barbaric Serbs massacred Muslims. The UN first decided to take away
the weapons of the Muslims (fearing that they might actually defend
themselves and establish Islamic rule) and thereby facilitated their
massacre, and were then even photographed helping in the mass murder
and gang rape of Muslim women and children. The wounds are still
fresh."
The statements were clearly intended to compound the disinformation
that 7,000 Muslims were killed in Srebrenica, when all independent
forensic evidence points to Muslim casualties in the hundreds,
possibly the low hundreds. Continued emphasis on such allegedly high
numbers of Muslim deaths at Srebrenica also obfuscates the Muslim
murders in that city, earlier, of Serb civilians.
Indeed, the August 2003 statements and intelligence, leading up to the
proposed September 2003 opening of the new Islamist shrine - built at
Srebrenica with US funds - all support analysis that a significant new
wave of terrorism, this time by many European Islamists, is to begin
soon.
Yossef Bodansky is the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, as well as the World
Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
(Houston, Texas). He is a contributing editor of Defense and Foreign
Affairs; Strategic Policy. He is a contributing expert at the
Israel-based Ariel Center for Policy Research. He is the author of
several books (Target America, Terror, Crisis in Korea, Offensive in
the Balkans, Some Call it Peace, and Islamic Anti-Semitism as a
Political Pursuit), as well as several book chapters, entries for the
International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, and numerous articles
in several periodicals, including Global Affairs, Jane's Defense
Weekly, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy, Nativ and
Business Week. In the 1980s, he acted as a senior consultant for the
Department of Defense and the Department of State.
Copyright 2003 Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy
Posted for Fair Use only.
=== 2 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/onasa092503.htm
BOSNIAN SERB ADVISER WARNS BOCINJA VILLAGE TURNING INTO REFUGE FOR
TERRORISTS
ONASA - September 25, 2003
Banja Luka - The adviser of the Serb member of the BiH
(Bosnia-Hercegovina) Presidency for legal issues and implementation of
the Dayton Agreement, Slobodan Radulj, said in a statement Thursday
(25 September) that "the invitation the Serb returnees received from
the mujahedin to convert to Islam if they want to live safely in
Bocinja", indicates more clearly than anything else that this village
on the slopes of Ozren mountain was turned into a camp for ideological
training of terrorists.
"The ideological training is intended for those who have agreed to
subject their lives to, and to sacrifice their lives for Islam, and it
is mostly conducted in the religious centres," Radulj told daily Glas
Srpske in a statement. Radulj claims that the mujahedin are aided by a
number of Islamic, allegedly humanitarian, organizations which operate
in BiH.
"One of these organizations is a branch of the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood, which operates in BiH under the name of the Young
Muslims. This organization is notorious for producing so called
sleepers, who, after they undergo ideological training, await their
tasks," Radulj explained.
He said the it was "no secret" that Al-Qa'idah in its cells in BiH,
Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, trained local Muslim population for
terrorist operations across the world.
"Since the terrorist operations have been conducted by the Arabs so
far, Al-Qa'idah wants to recruit and train new kind of terrorists,
according to them, blond and with blue eyes," Radulj said.
The similar claims have been uttered by former Maglaj Municipal
Assembly speaker Dzevad Galijasevic, who dubs Bocinja a gun-powder
barrel, since "terrorists from across the world, the persons who
commit murders and sabotages across the West Europe" come to this
village.
Source: Onasa news agency web site, Sarajevo, in English 25 Sep 03
Copyright 2003 Financial Times Information
All rights reserved
Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire
Copyright 2003 BBC Monitoring/BBC
BBC Monitoring International Reports
Posted for Fair Use only
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug092503.htm
Bocinja - camp for training Islamic terrorists, Radulj
Tanjug - September 25, 2003
13:58 SARAJEVO - Advisor to the Serb member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Presidency Slobodan Radulj said on Friday that the Mujaheddin's offer
to the local Serbs in Bocinj near Maglaj, in the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Federation, that they had to accept Islam as their religion if they
wanted to live there in peace and safety - represented an evident
proof that this Ozren village had been turned into a camp for an
ideological training of Islamic terrorists.
"The ideological training is aimed for those who have accepted to
sacrifice their lives for Islam," Radulj told the Republika Srpska
media, and added that a number of Islamic, so-called humanitarian
organizations who operated in Bosnia-Herzegovina, offered assistance
to the training which was mostly carried out at corresponding
religious centres.
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted for Fair Use Only