Klinton-Bin Laden connection
July 30, 2004
Can't find Osama bin Laden? Perhaps we're not looking in the right
place.
A Jihad Watch exclusive commentary by Stella L. Jatras.
In his book, My Life, President Clinton devotes many pages to his
peccadilloes with Monica Lewinsky, a woman young enough to be his
daughter,
and proudly writes he did it "Because I could." However, he gives scant
attention to the destruction of the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia. Let
us
take a look at the results of what President Bill Clinton is so "proud"
of
regarding U.S. intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo.
A Telegraph (UK) of 26 July report titled, "US hunts Islamic
militants in
Bosnia," writes: "American military intelligence and the CIA have
deployed
hundreds of officers in Bosnia to track suspected Islamic militants
amid
concerns that the country has become a refuge, recruiting ground and
cash
conduit for international terrorism. Almost a decade after the end of
the
war in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia has become a 'one-stop shop' for
Islamic militants heading from terrorist battlegrounds in Chechnya and
Afghanistan to Iraq, according to European intelligence officials."
A Wall Street Journal (Europe edition) article of Nov 1, 2001 titled,
"Al
Qaeda's Balkan Links," reported, "The Balkan's uncharacteristically
silent
exit from the world stage as the most prominent international hot spot
of
the last decade belies its status as a major recruiting and training
center
of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. By feeding off the region's
impoverished republics and taking root in the unsettled diplomatic
aftermath
of the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, al Qaeda, along with Iranian
Revolutionary Guard-sponsored terrorists, have burrowed their way into
Europe's backyard.
"For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have
visited
the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between
1994 and
1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri
has
operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction
factories and
money-laundering and drug-training networks throughout Albanian,
Kosovo,
Macedonia (FYROM), Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a
decade. Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from Chechnya,
a
jihad in which Al Qaeda has also played a part."
At the same time the Clinton administration was supporting the
Bosnian
[Muslim] government of Alija Izetbegovic, that government issued a
passport
to Osama bin Laden at their Vienna embassy in 1992.
In a very revealing commentary titled, "We bombed the wrong side?" of
April 6, 2004 (Canadian National Post), Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, first
UNPROFOR
commander in Bosnia, wrote, "The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a
Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent
campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never
blamed
them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and
we
continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of
evidence
to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our
tax
dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider
the
message of encouragement this sends to others." Christopher Layne and
Benjamin Schwarz wrote on the Opinion Page in The Washington Post on
March
26, 2000, "Was it a Mistake? We Were Suckers for the KLA." The Kosovo
Liberation Army is engaged in sex slavery, prostitution, murder,
kidnapping
and drugs. Furthermore, it is an army that was trained by Osama bin
Laden
dealing mainly in drugs, as confirmed in the May 4, 1999 article by
Washington Times reporter Jerry Seper, in which he wrote, "Some members
of
the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through
the
sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international
fugitive Osama bin Laden -- who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two
U.S.
embassies in Africa and killed 224 persons, including 12 Americans,"
yet we
are told by the previous administration that at the time, Osama bin
Laden
was not the known threat that he is today.
In The Spectator [UK] article of Sep 6, 2003 titled, "How we trained
al-Qa'eda," author Brendan O'Neill wrote, "For all the millions of
words
written about al-Qa'eda since the 9/11 attacks two years ago, one
phenomenon
is consistently overlooked - the role of the Bosnian war in
transforming the
mujahedin [Islamic warriors] of the 1980s into the roving Islamic
terrorists
of today."
Ironically, the U.S. is accusing Iran of intervening in the affairs
of
Iraq, yet in a House Republican Research Committee Report on Terrorism
&
Unconventional Warfare, titled "Iran's European Springboard?" analysts
Yossef Bodansky & Vaughn S. Forrest wrote as far back as 1992, "Thus
Tehran
and its allies are using the violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a
springboard
for the launching of a jihad in Europe." Yossef Bodansky is the author
of
"Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War On America."
Through Clinton's misguided foreign policy, Bosnia has become
al-Qaeda's
corridor into Europe. As an example, Spanish media reported that one of
the
suspected terrorists involved in the Madrid bombing was born in Bosnia
and
linked to al Qaeda. (Financial Times, April 8, 2004/BBC monitoring).
Reuters
of 30 Dec 2003, writes, "UN adds Bosnia charity director to al Qaeda
list."
Furthermore, The Associated Press of 28 June reported, "In mosques and
storefront Muslim charities, U.S. and European intelligence agencies
are
engaged in covert conflict in Bosnia, tracking up to 300 suspected
Islamic
militants and shutting down those financing them."
As for President Clinton's "successful" mission in Kosovo, National
Review
Online of March 19, 2004, wrote, "A pogrom started in Europe this week,
with
one U.S. official being quoted as saying, 'Kristallnacht is underway in
Kosovo.' Serbs are being murdered and their 800-year-old churches are
aflame. Much of the Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija is on
fire and
could be destroyed forever. By these deeds too many of Kosovo's
Albanians
have shown that their rhetoric about 'democracy' and
'multiethnicity,'is
false, and demonstrates also that the international community's
acceptance
of them have been naive."
Americans are rightly outraged by the beheadings of our citizens.
However,
photos of Saudi Arabian mujahedin holding the severed heads of Serbs in
Bosnia as early as 1992 or the most recent photo of KLA terrorists
holding
the severed of Serbs in Kosovo as late as 1999 went virtually
unreported.
During a CATO discussion group the question was raised: "How could we
bomb
a sovereign nation in violation of the UN Charter, International law
and the
tenants of NATO." The answer from one of the pro-NATO bombing panelist
said,
"Because we could." Sound familiar?
Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister of Iraq, is quoted as saying (The New
York
Times, June 21) "We will do all we can to strike against the enemy
forces
aiming at harming our country, and we will not stand by with our hands
tied." President George W. Bush said precisely the same thing when he
said
that we will do whatever it takes to defeat (Muslim) terrorists," yet
we
denied the Serbs the right to defend themselves against the same enemy
that
we are fighting today. As Gen. Charles Boyd, USAF (Ret), former Deputy
Commander in Chief, European Command said, "The Serbs are not fighting
to
conquer new territory, but to hold on to what was already theirs."
I would like to suggest that if we are serious about finding Osama
bin
Laden, we look in Bosnia and Kosovo.
--
"The U.S. military has had considerably more success in turning Iraq
around
than liberals have had in turning the ghettos around with their 40-year
'War
on Poverty.' So far, fewer troops have been killed by hostile fire
since the
end of major combat in Iraq than civilians were murdered in Washington,
DC,
last year (239 deaths in Iraq compared to 262 murders in DC). How many
years
has it been since we declared the end of major U.S. combat operations
against Marion Barry's regime? How long before we just give up and pull
out
of that hellish quagmire known as Washington, DC?" --Ann Coulter
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