Monday, July 21, 2008

The Bin Ladens Of The Balkans, Part I

Thousands of Kosovo Albanians demonstrated in Pristina Monday, demanding
immediate independence from Serbia. December 11, 2007.

From the Middle East Journal:

Around a thousand mujahideen, veteran Arabic fighters from the anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan, showed up in Bosnia in the mid-1990s to fight a jihad against Serbian Orthodox Christians. They thought they would be welcomed, and they were right. The European community imposed an arms embargo on all of Yugoslavia during the Bosnian civil war which preserved the imbalance of power and arms in favor of Slobodan Milosevic and his nationalist Bosnian Serb comrades in arms. The Bosnian army was multi-ethnic and multi-confessional – it included Serb and Croat Christians as well as Bosniak Muslims – but its leaders chose to accept help from the so-called “Afghan Arabs” because they were desperate.

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My Comment: I hope that this is what Iraq will look like 100 years from now.

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