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(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 24 LUG - Zvonko Busic, esule anticomunista croato
condannato nel 1977 all'ergastolo negli Stati uniti per terrorismo e
per avere dirottato un aereo di linea, e' ritornato stasera in
Croazia, accolto da un folla di circa 500 persone, perlopiu' legate
all'estrema destra politica. Lo riferiscono i media croati. Busic,
che ha trascorso 32 anni nelle carceri americane, e' stato graziato
alcune settimane fa a condizione che non rientrasse negli Usa. Il 10
settembre 1976 Busic fu a capo di un gruppo di esuli croati che
sequestrarono un Boeing 727 TWA in volo tra New York e Chicago con a
bordo 76 passeggeri. I quattro uomini e la moglie di Busic, tutti
legati ad ambienti nazionalistici croati in opposizione al regime
comunista del maresciallo Tito e all'idea della Jugoslavia federale,
dirottarono l'aereo per lanciare su Londra e Parigi volantini in cui
si chiedeva l'indipendenza della Croazia. Dopo l'operazione fecero
decollare il Boeing a Parigi dove si consegnarono alla polizia. Prima
di salire sull'aereo il gruppo mise una bomba nella metropolitana di
New York e ne avverti' le autorita', ma durante il disinnesco
l'ordigno esplose uccidendo un agente, Brian J. Murray. Alla notizia
del suo rilascio la vedova dell'agente, Kathleen Murray, si e' detta
''scioccata''. Questa sera, all'aeroporto di Zagabria ad aspettare
Busic, accanto alla moglie Julienne e i tre compagni terroristi,
anche loro graziati prima della fine della pena di 30 anni, c'erano
circa 500 persone, tra cui vari personaggi politici legati alla
destra nazionalista, che lo hanno accolto quasi fosse un eroe, con
bandiere nazionali e canzoni patriottiche. (ANSA). COR-TF
24/07/2008 22:50
On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia wrote:
>
> CEREMONIAL RETURN
>
> Friends Await Zvonko Busic
> Around 500 citizens carried Croatian flags, sang patriotic songs,
> and chanted Busic’s name.
>
> Javno.com (Croatia) - July 29, 2008
>
> Around 500 friends, acquaintances and supporters greeted Zvonko
> Busic at Zagreb’s airport. Unfortunately, a few people managed to
> start chanting “Za dom spremni” ("ready for the homeland" (*)), but
> were soon hushed quiet, and Busic himself, upon arriving, asked
> those present to not shout Ustasha greetings.
> "Do not let me be ashamed of you, but make me proud of you," said
> Busic clearly.
> Amongst the many visitors were Frane Pesut, Slobodan Vlasic and
> Petar Matanic, participants of the hijacking of the American
> aircrafton a flight from New York to Chicago.
> "What should I say to you, I am overjoyed, I hardly awaited this
> moment," said Frane Pesut with tears of joy in his eyes.
> During a conversation, he stated that he knows nothing about the
> organization of the hijacking, because he believed Zvonko Busic and
> his associates that he was bringing a real bomb into the plane.
> Marijan Bosnjak, somebody that knows and respects what he calls a
> selfless sacrifice by a Croatian hero, said that Busic decided to
> sacrifice himself for what he believes in.
> "Zvonko wanted to attract the attention of the world to the
> suffering of one small people. Actions like those of Busic, raised
> the spirits of Croatians in the Diaspora. That event gained the
> attention of the whole world, and the punishment was absolutely too
> strict. They did not want anyone to get hurt, that action was the
> answer to the repression in Yugoslavia," considers Bosnjak.
> "I am beside myself from happiness. The big thing is that he
> (Busic) can return to a independent country, and if it will remain
> independent is its own choice," said Benjamin Tolic.
> The event was also attended by Father Vjekoslav Lasic, who before
> coming to the airport, paid respects to the remains of Dinko Sakic
> (**) at the crematorium.
> "I came to greet the Croatian legend Zvonko Busic, who I visited a
> number of times in prison. The sentence was too strong, and he lay
> innocent in the USA," said Vjekoslav Lasic.
> Marijan Buconjic, Busic’s roommate in New York, considers that
> Zvonko’s act was justified, and that he managed to show that
> Yugoslavia was repressive towards Croatians.
> Drazen Budisa, the representative of the Busic family, held a
> welcoming speech in which he said that Zvonko and his associated
> deeply regretted the innocent victim, the police officer Brian
> Murray, but that they did not want anyone to get hurt. An
> unfortunate turn of events was in question. He wished Busic and his
> wife peace and freedom in their life in Croatia.
> "I also fought for the independence of Croatia. I came as a
> Croatian convict, to greet a Croatian convict," said Anto Kovacevic
> who was also there.
> Busic was protected by strong police security and bodyguards that
> were hired by the veterans’ associations. That security managed to,
> with great difficulty, restrain the many people gathered there to
> greet Busic.
>
> (* Hystorical slogan of the fascist ustascia movement. "Pronti per
> la Patria", Slogan del movimento nazifascista degli ustascia. NdCNJ)
> (** A notorious, high-rank ustasha criminal in the 40ies.
> Tristemente noto criminale ustascia di alto livello negli anni '40.
> NdCNJ)
>
>
> ---
> ALTRA DOCUMENTAZIONE SUL TERRORISMO USTASCIA NEL CORSO DELLA GUERRA
> FREDDA / MORE DOCUMENTS ON USTASHI TERRORISM DURING THE COLD WAR
> PERIOD:
> https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/ustascia.htm
> ---
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia wrote:
>
>>
>> RITORNA VINCITOR
>>
>>
>> Dopo 30 anni di detenzione negli USA, il terrorista ustascia
>> Zvonko Busic è rientrato nella sua Croazia.
>> Nel 1976 si era reso responsabile di un tentativo di dirottamento
>> aereo, causando la morte di un agente di polizia e l'accecamento
>> di un altro all'aereoporto di New York.
>> L'azione - come tantissime altre commesse dagli ustascia esuli
>> all'estero in quegli anni - aveva come obiettivo quello di
>> attirare l'attenzione pubblica sulla causa croata.
>> Oggi Busic torna in Croazia da trionfatore, essendo stato
>> conseguito l'obiettivo per cui lui ed i suoi camerati all'estero
>> avevano commesso crimini nel corso della guerra fredda: la
>> distruzione della Jugoslavia e la instaurazione di uno Stato
>> etnico croato.
>> Come nel caso del Kosovo, anche nel caso della Croazia l'Occidente
>> ha premiato il terrorismo fascista.
>> (a cura di Italo Slavo per JUGOINFO)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/ustascia.htm
>>
>> Croat terrorist back to Croatia after serving 30 years in US
>>
>> Associated Press - July 24, 2008
>>
>> ZAGREB, Croatia - A Croatian news agency says a
>> convicted plane hijacker is returning to Croatia after
>> serving 30 years in jail in the United States.
>>
>> The state-run agency HINA quoted the wife of Zvonko
>> Busic as saying he would return Thursday after being
>> granted parole for hijacking a TWA flight in 1976.
>>
>> Busic led the group of hijackers to draw attention to
>> Croatia's struggle for independence from communist
>> Yugoslavia and later surrendered.
>>
>> But a bomb they stashed in a locker at New York's
>> Grand Central Terminal exploded when police tried to
>> defuse it, killing one officer and blinding a second.
>>
>> Busic, revered by some in Croatia as a hero, was
>> convicted in 1977 of air piracy and granted parole
>> earlier this month.
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 24 LUG - Zvonko Busic, esule anticomunista croato
condannato nel 1977 all'ergastolo negli Stati uniti per terrorismo e
per avere dirottato un aereo di linea, e' ritornato stasera in
Croazia, accolto da un folla di circa 500 persone, perlopiu' legate
all'estrema destra politica. Lo riferiscono i media croati. Busic,
che ha trascorso 32 anni nelle carceri americane, e' stato graziato
alcune settimane fa a condizione che non rientrasse negli Usa. Il 10
settembre 1976 Busic fu a capo di un gruppo di esuli croati che
sequestrarono un Boeing 727 TWA in volo tra New York e Chicago con a
bordo 76 passeggeri. I quattro uomini e la moglie di Busic, tutti
legati ad ambienti nazionalistici croati in opposizione al regime
comunista del maresciallo Tito e all'idea della Jugoslavia federale,
dirottarono l'aereo per lanciare su Londra e Parigi volantini in cui
si chiedeva l'indipendenza della Croazia. Dopo l'operazione fecero
decollare il Boeing a Parigi dove si consegnarono alla polizia. Prima
di salire sull'aereo il gruppo mise una bomba nella metropolitana di
New York e ne avverti' le autorita', ma durante il disinnesco
l'ordigno esplose uccidendo un agente, Brian J. Murray. Alla notizia
del suo rilascio la vedova dell'agente, Kathleen Murray, si e' detta
''scioccata''. Questa sera, all'aeroporto di Zagabria ad aspettare
Busic, accanto alla moglie Julienne e i tre compagni terroristi,
anche loro graziati prima della fine della pena di 30 anni, c'erano
circa 500 persone, tra cui vari personaggi politici legati alla
destra nazionalista, che lo hanno accolto quasi fosse un eroe, con
bandiere nazionali e canzoni patriottiche. (ANSA). COR-TF
24/07/2008 22:50
On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia wrote:
>
> CEREMONIAL RETURN
>
> Friends Await Zvonko Busic
> Around 500 citizens carried Croatian flags, sang patriotic songs,
> and chanted Busic’s name.
>
> Javno.com (Croatia) - July 29, 2008
>
> Around 500 friends, acquaintances and supporters greeted Zvonko
> Busic at Zagreb’s airport. Unfortunately, a few people managed to
> start chanting “Za dom spremni” ("ready for the homeland" (*)), but
> were soon hushed quiet, and Busic himself, upon arriving, asked
> those present to not shout Ustasha greetings.
> "Do not let me be ashamed of you, but make me proud of you," said
> Busic clearly.
> Amongst the many visitors were Frane Pesut, Slobodan Vlasic and
> Petar Matanic, participants of the hijacking of the American
> aircrafton a flight from New York to Chicago.
> "What should I say to you, I am overjoyed, I hardly awaited this
> moment," said Frane Pesut with tears of joy in his eyes.
> During a conversation, he stated that he knows nothing about the
> organization of the hijacking, because he believed Zvonko Busic and
> his associates that he was bringing a real bomb into the plane.
> Marijan Bosnjak, somebody that knows and respects what he calls a
> selfless sacrifice by a Croatian hero, said that Busic decided to
> sacrifice himself for what he believes in.
> "Zvonko wanted to attract the attention of the world to the
> suffering of one small people. Actions like those of Busic, raised
> the spirits of Croatians in the Diaspora. That event gained the
> attention of the whole world, and the punishment was absolutely too
> strict. They did not want anyone to get hurt, that action was the
> answer to the repression in Yugoslavia," considers Bosnjak.
> "I am beside myself from happiness. The big thing is that he
> (Busic) can return to a independent country, and if it will remain
> independent is its own choice," said Benjamin Tolic.
> The event was also attended by Father Vjekoslav Lasic, who before
> coming to the airport, paid respects to the remains of Dinko Sakic
> (**) at the crematorium.
> "I came to greet the Croatian legend Zvonko Busic, who I visited a
> number of times in prison. The sentence was too strong, and he lay
> innocent in the USA," said Vjekoslav Lasic.
> Marijan Buconjic, Busic’s roommate in New York, considers that
> Zvonko’s act was justified, and that he managed to show that
> Yugoslavia was repressive towards Croatians.
> Drazen Budisa, the representative of the Busic family, held a
> welcoming speech in which he said that Zvonko and his associated
> deeply regretted the innocent victim, the police officer Brian
> Murray, but that they did not want anyone to get hurt. An
> unfortunate turn of events was in question. He wished Busic and his
> wife peace and freedom in their life in Croatia.
> "I also fought for the independence of Croatia. I came as a
> Croatian convict, to greet a Croatian convict," said Anto Kovacevic
> who was also there.
> Busic was protected by strong police security and bodyguards that
> were hired by the veterans’ associations. That security managed to,
> with great difficulty, restrain the many people gathered there to
> greet Busic.
>
> (* Hystorical slogan of the fascist ustascia movement. "Pronti per
> la Patria", Slogan del movimento nazifascista degli ustascia. NdCNJ)
> (** A notorious, high-rank ustasha criminal in the 40ies.
> Tristemente noto criminale ustascia di alto livello negli anni '40.
> NdCNJ)
>
>
> ---
> ALTRA DOCUMENTAZIONE SUL TERRORISMO USTASCIA NEL CORSO DELLA GUERRA
> FREDDA / MORE DOCUMENTS ON USTASHI TERRORISM DURING THE COLD WAR
> PERIOD:
> https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/ustascia.htm
> ---
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia wrote:
>
>>
>> RITORNA VINCITOR
>>
>>
>> Dopo 30 anni di detenzione negli USA, il terrorista ustascia
>> Zvonko Busic è rientrato nella sua Croazia.
>> Nel 1976 si era reso responsabile di un tentativo di dirottamento
>> aereo, causando la morte di un agente di polizia e l'accecamento
>> di un altro all'aereoporto di New York.
>> L'azione - come tantissime altre commesse dagli ustascia esuli
>> all'estero in quegli anni - aveva come obiettivo quello di
>> attirare l'attenzione pubblica sulla causa croata.
>> Oggi Busic torna in Croazia da trionfatore, essendo stato
>> conseguito l'obiettivo per cui lui ed i suoi camerati all'estero
>> avevano commesso crimini nel corso della guerra fredda: la
>> distruzione della Jugoslavia e la instaurazione di uno Stato
>> etnico croato.
>> Come nel caso del Kosovo, anche nel caso della Croazia l'Occidente
>> ha premiato il terrorismo fascista.
>> (a cura di Italo Slavo per JUGOINFO)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/ustascia.htm
>>
>> Croat terrorist back to Croatia after serving 30 years in US
>>
>> Associated Press - July 24, 2008
>>
>> ZAGREB, Croatia - A Croatian news agency says a
>> convicted plane hijacker is returning to Croatia after
>> serving 30 years in jail in the United States.
>>
>> The state-run agency HINA quoted the wife of Zvonko
>> Busic as saying he would return Thursday after being
>> granted parole for hijacking a TWA flight in 1976.
>>
>> Busic led the group of hijackers to draw attention to
>> Croatia's struggle for independence from communist
>> Yugoslavia and later surrendered.
>>
>> But a bomb they stashed in a locker at New York's
>> Grand Central Terminal exploded when police tried to
>> defuse it, killing one officer and blinding a second.
>>
>> Busic, revered by some in Croatia as a hero, was
>> convicted in 1977 of air piracy and granted parole
>> earlier this month.