How we trained al-Qa’eda
Brendan O’Neill says the Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to
operate abroad 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
of the 1980s into the roving Islamic terrorists of today.
Many writers and reporters have traced al-Qa’eda and other terror
groups’ origins back to the Afghan war of 1979–1992, that last gasp of
the Cold War when US-backed mujahedin forces fought against the
invading Soviet army. It is well documented that America played a
major role in creating and sustaining the mujahedin, which included
Osama bin Laden’s Office of Services set up to recruit volunteers from
overseas. Between 1985 and 1992, US officials estimate that 12,500
foreign fighters were trained in bomb-making, sabotage and guerrilla
warfare tactics in Afghan camps that the CIA helped to set up.
Yet America’s role in backing the mujahedin a second time in the early
and mid-1990s is seldom mentioned — largely because very few people
know about it, and those who do find it prudent to pretend that it
never happened. Following the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan in
1989 and the collapse of their puppet regime in 1992, the Afghan
mujahedin became less important to the United States; many Arabs, in
the words of the journalist James Buchan, were left stranded in
Afghanistan ‘with a taste for fighting but no cause’. It was not long
before some were provided with a new cause. From 1992 to 1995, the
Pentagon assisted with the movement of thousands of mujahedin and
other Islamic elements from Central Asia into Europe, to fight
alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs.
The Bosnia venture appears to have been very important to the rise of
mujahedin forces, to the emergence of today’s cross-border Islamic
terrorists who think nothing of moving from state to state in the
search of outlets for their jihadist mission. In moving to Bosnia,
Islamic fighters were transported from the ghettos of Afghanistan and
the Middle East into Europe; from an outdated battleground of the Cold
War to the major world conflict of the day; from being yesterday’s men
to fighting alongside the West’s favoured side in the clash of the
Balkans. If Western intervention in Afghanistan created the mujahedin,
Western intervention in Bosnia appears to have globalised it.
As part of the Dutch government’s inquiry into the Srebrenica massacre
of July 1995, Professor Cees Wiebes of Amsterdam University compiled a
report entitled ‘Intelligence and the War in Bosnia’, published in
April 2002. In it he details the secret alliance between the Pentagon
and radical Islamic groups from the Middle East, and their efforts to
assist Bosnia’s Muslims. By 1993, there was a vast amount of weapons-
smuggling through Croatia to the Muslims, organised by ‘clandestine
agencies’ of the USA, Turkey and Iran, in association with a range of
Islamic groups that included Afghan mujahedin and the pro-Iranian
Hezbollah. Arms bought by Iran and Turkey with the financial backing
of Saudi Arabia were airlifted from the Middle East to Bosnia —
airlifts with which, Wiebes points out, the USA was ‘very closely
involved’.
The Pentagon’s secret alliance with Islamic elements allowed mujahedin
fighters to be ‘flown in’, though they were initially reserved as
shock troops for particularly hazardous operations against Serb
forces. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times in October
2001, from 1992 as many as 4,000 volunteers from the Middle East,
North Africa and Europe, ‘known as the mujahedin’, arrived in Bosnia
to fight with the Muslims. Richard Holbrooke, America’s former chief
Balkans peace negotiator, has said that the Bosnian Muslims ‘wouldn’t
have survived’ without the help of the mujahedin, though he later
admitted that the arrival of the mujahedin was a ‘pact with the devil’
from which Bosnia is still recovering.
By the end of the 1990s State Department officials were increasingly
worried about the consequences of this pact. Under the terms of the
1995 Dayton peace accord, the foreign mujahedin units were required to
disband and leave the Balkans. Yet in 2000, the State Department
raised concerns about the ‘hundreds of foreign Islamic extremists’ who
became Bosnian citizens after fighting against the Serbs, and who pose
a potential terror threat to Europe and the United States. US
officials claimed that one of bin Laden’s top lieutenants had sent
operatives to Bosnia, and that during the 1990s Bosnia had served as a
‘staging area and safe haven’ for al-Qa’eda and others. The Clinton
administration had discovered that it is one thing to permit the
movement of Islamic groups across territories; it is quite another to
rein them back in again.
Indeed, for all the Clinton officials’ concern about Islamic
extremists in the Balkans, they continued to allow the growth and
movement of mujahedin forces in Europe through the 1990s. In the late
1990s, in the run-up to Clinton’s and Blair’s Kosovo war of 1999, the
USA backed the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbia. According to a
report in the Jerusalem Post in 1998, KLA members, like the Bosnian
Muslims before them, had been ‘provided with financial and military
support from Islamic countries’, and had been ‘bolstered by hundreds
of Iranian fighters or mujahedin ...[some of whom] were trained in
Osama bin Laden’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan’. It seems that, for
all its handwringing, the USA just couldn’t break the pact with the
devil.
Why is this aspect of the mujahedin’s development so often overlooked?
Some sensible stuff has been written about al-Qa’eda and its
connections in recent months, but the Bosnia connection has been left
largely unexplored. In Jason Burke’s excellent Al-Qa’eda: Casting a
Shadow of Terror, Bosnia is mentioned only in passing. Kimberley
McCloud and Adam Dolnik of the Monterey Institute of International
Studies have written some incisive commentary calling for rational
thinking when assessing al-Qa’eda’s origins and threat — but again,
investigation of the Bosnia link is notable by its absence.
It would appear that when it comes to Bosnia, many in the West have a
moral blind spot. For some commentators, particularly liberal ones,
Western intervention in Bosnia was a Good Thing — except that,
apparently, there was too little of it, offered too late in the
conflict. Many journalists and writers demanded intervention in Bosnia
and Western support for the Muslims. In many ways, this was their war,
where they played an active role in encouraging further intervention
to enforce ‘peace’ among the former Yugoslavia’s warring factions.
Consequently, they often overlook the downside to this intervention
and its divisive impact on the Balkans. Western intervention in
Bosnia, it would appear, has become an unquestionably positive thing,
something that is beyond interrogation and debate.
Yet a cool analysis of today’s disparate Islamic terror groups,
created in Afghanistan and emboldened by the Bosnian experience, would
do much to shed some light on precisely the dangers of such
intervention.
Brendan O’Neill is assistant editor of spiked-online.
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14 Sep 2003 08:54:11 AM |
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a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip of apn from the headers of your pure lies.
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14 Sep 2003 09:48:49 AM |
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:54:11 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip of apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Quit double posting FROG you lamebrain idiot.
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15 Sep 2003 09:18:32 AM |
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a écrit :
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:54:11 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip of apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Quit double posting FROG you lamebrain idiot.
Just snip apn from your braindead posts then, retard.
J.
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14 Sep 2003 08:53:53 AM |
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a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip off apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
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14 Sep 2003 09:48:16 AM |
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:53:53 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip off apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Who do you think trained Bin Laden *****. THe CIA. The Bin Laden
families are bed buddies with the Butcher Bush clan. Get an education
you stupid *****.
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15 Sep 2003 09:16:06 AM |
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a écrit :
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:53:53 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip off apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Who do you think trained Bin Laden *****. THe CIA. The Bin Laden
families are bed buddies with the Butcher Bush clan. Get an education
you stupid *****.
We didn't train alqaeda, stupid retard, we help the Afghans free their
countrioes, and this stuypid ***** trained AlQaeda to fight us in
gratitude. You are such an idiot.
J.
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16 Sep 2003 07:29:49 AM |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:53:53 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip off apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Who do you think trained Bin Laden *****. THe CIA. The Bin Laden
families are bed buddies with the Butcher Bush clan. Get an education
you stupid *****.
We didn't train alqaeda, stupid retard, we help the Afghans free their
countrioes, and this stuypid ***** trained AlQaeda to fight us in
gratitude. You are such an idiot.
J.
The world knows Bin Laden was trained by CIA FROG. Get off the crack
pipe, the resin is affecting your pea brain.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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26 Sep 2003 07:55:32 AM |
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In your dreams only.
J.
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:53:53 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
How we trained al-Qa’eda
Please snip off apn from the headers of your pure lies.
J.
Who do you think trained Bin Laden *****. THe CIA. The Bin Laden
families are bed buddies with the Butcher Bush clan. Get an education
you stupid *****.
We didn't train alqaeda, stupid retard, we help the Afghans free their
countrioes, and this stuypid ***** trained AlQaeda to fight us in
gratitude. You are such an idiot.
J.
The world knows Bin Laden was trained by CIA FROG. Get off the crack
pipe, the resin is affecting your pea brain.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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28 Sep 2003 10:32:21 AM |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:55:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> burped:
In your dreams only.
J.
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Listen FROG are you really that stupid? The whole world knows the CIA
trained Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Do you actually believe your own
stupidity?
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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05 Oct 2003 04:16:02 AM |
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Are U sure about *.* people, you'd be surprised as to how many "Down to
Earth" there are..OK, then why isn't the "Nazi Gov't" impeached, like, right
now, pronto, didi mau, schnell, immediatement,.... yeah right, because kids are
corrupted by power, and absolute power corrupts kids absolutely!
Incidently, the "abbreviated" French Religious insult is spelled
F.R.O.G.G., not FROG not as in grouille grenouille, don't remember all of them
sayings anymore, but WOP is still "WithOut Papers" caused by Mussolini and Islo
Franco nazis!
What's another name for his Holiness Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso? His Tutor,
Harrer, chief of the SS paratroopers! Many Lobsang Rampa types would be
horrified at this knowledge, ben there, done that!
Rant
Bob
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|>Listen FROG are you really that stupid? The whole world knows the CIA
|>trained Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Do you actually believe your own
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28 Sep 2003 01:54:28 PM |
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a écrit :
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:55:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> burped:
In your dreams only.
J.
a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Listen FROG are you really that stupid? The whole world knows the CIA
trained Al-Qaeda
In your dreams.
J.
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30 Sep 2003 02:30:20 AM |
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DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:55:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> burped:
In your dreams only.
J.
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Listen FROG are you really that stupid? The whole world knows the CIA
trained Al-Qaeda
In your dreams.
J.
J, interesting that you have found this newsgroup. I see that you are
still making an ***** of yourself. Let go that crack pipe, man.
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04 Oct 2003 11:43:22 AM |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:30:20 -0500, Richard Gallo <rgallo@uic.edu>
J, interesting that you have found this newsgroup. I see that you are
still making an ***** of yourself. Let go that crack pipe, man.
His goal is to make an ***** of himself wherever he goes, off to a
roaring good start. Won't be long before the whole world knows about
that stupid FROG crack addict.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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07 Oct 2003 12:19:36 AM |
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a écrit :
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:30:20 -0500, Richard Gallo <rgallo@uic.edu>
J, interesting that you have found this newsgroup. I see that you are
still making an ***** of yourself. Let go that crack pipe, man.
His goal is to make an ***** of himself wherever he goes, off to a
roaring good start. Won't be long before the whole world knows about
that stupid FROG crack addict.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
They know that you assholes are liars, that is all they will know. There is
nothing else.
No wonder you don't use your real names.
Parasites your whole life, just here to spread lies and racism.
There should be a law against assholes like you.
J.
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11 Oct 2003 10:01:54 AM |
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 05:19:36 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> burped:
They know that you assholes are liars, that is all they will know. There is
nothing else.
No wonder you don't use your real names.
Parasites your whole life, just here to spread lies and racism.
There should be a law against assholes like you.
J.
You are one fucking idiot FROG. I think you better lay off the crack
for awhile, go back to pot I'm sure your doctor will give it to you
since you are obviously very sick.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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30 Sep 2003 11:42:32 AM |
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Richard Gallo a écrit :
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:55:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> burped:
In your dreams only.
J.
DaarkSyde@home.com a écrit :
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:16:06 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Listen FROG are you really that stupid? The whole world knows the CIA
trained Al-Qaeda
In your dreams.
J.
J, interesting that you have found this newsgroup.
What newsgroup? Anyway, snip apn from your loser newsgroup then, whichever it
is.
J.
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04 Oct 2003 11:44:02 AM |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:42:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
What newsgroup? Anyway, snip apn from your loser newsgroup then, whichever it
is.
J.
Idiot!!!
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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07 Oct 2003 12:14:49 AM |
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a écrit :
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:42:32 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
What newsgroup? Anyway, snip apn from your loser newsgroup then, whichever it
is.
J.
Idiot!!!
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
Mushroom.
J.
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