COMMENTARY SAYS BOSNIA PLAYS KEY ROLE IN AL-QA'IDAH PLANS AGAINST WEST
BBC Monitoring International Reports - September 6, 2007 Thursday

Text of report by Bosnian Serb newspaper Nezavisne novine on 25 August

[Commentary by Slavko Mitrovic: "Al-Qa'idah and B-H"]

Esad Hecimovic, the author of the book "Garib - Mujahidin in B-H, 1992-1999," in presenting his book, spoke about the activities of the Islamic military volunteers: the mujahidin, the Islamic missionaries, and the humanitarians, and said: "I have tried to prove that their arrival was not haphazard, but [part of] a concept aimed at changing this society and the relations among the ethnic groups." Hecimovic was initially an ardent member of the Party of Democratic Action [SDA], who saw the arrival of the mujahidin in B-H [Bosnia-Hercegovina] as natural and welcome, but, having realized the danger that threatened the Muslims in B-H as well, he became a strong opponent of imported Islam. If Esad realized this, it is hard to believe that many Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] political and religious representatives cannot understand it. They probably did, but they regard something that began with the arrival of the mujahidin and continued with the Wahhabis as a natural ally in creating a Bosniak state. As Reis ul Ulema Mustafa effendi Ceric [B-H Islamic Community leader] said, only the Bosniaks had not yet created their state.

That state, in their view, should be a civic state only in outline, but in essence a Bosniak Muslim state. This was also the goal of Alija Izetbegovic [late Bosnian president], who could not wait for the Muslims to become a simple majority in B-H. When he saw a chance to create a Muslim state, he rushed to say that he would sacrifice peace to create a state. Hecimovic's book shows what kind of state.

Perhaps some people did not realize what kind of trouble B-H was going to face long after the war, but it is obvious that the Islamic warriors seized the opportunity. As early as April 1992, Sejh Abu Abdul Aziz (Red Beard) went to B-H with four experienced Arab-Afghan commanders to reconnoitre the terrain. As he himself admitted at the time: "We could not understand where Bosnia was; was it in America, or in the southern hemisphere, or in Asia. We did not have a clue where it was. When we learned that it was part of Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe, we still did not have any idea how many Muslims lived there or how and when Islam had arrived there." But they understood one thing, that Bosnia was ideal for their purpose. In autumn 1992, Usamah Bin-Ladin ordered his senior people to go to Bosnia to check the possibility of buying Bosnian companies and [establishing] connections with banks, to create a network for financing jihad [holy war]. The plan that Bin Laden had for B-H was to create a foothold for actions in Europe against Al-Qa'idah's true enemy: the United States. That was part of a broader plan to renew the omnipotent theocratic empire; from Morocco to the Philippines. B-H has become the key link on Al-Qa'idah's path. One of the heroes who gained even Bin-Ladin's admiration, Sejh Salaman al-Awdah, said about the war in B-H: "What happened in B-H was not only a war between Muslims and Serbs, but a war between Islam and Christianity." The training and preparations for 11 September, the London underground [subway suicide bombings], the Spanish train [ 2004 Madrid train bombings] were taking place before the eyes of the US and British (but also of many other) intelligence services.

Therefore, it is strange that "the Americans and the Europeans often ask how Al-Qa'idah managed so successfully to penetrate Europe and the West, by creating terrorist cells throughout Italy, France, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Great Britain, Canada, and even the United States. Some of the most important answers can be found in Bosnia, where the senior Arab-Afghans practiced their warrior skills and recruited a new generation of hardened guerrilla supporters by following only two unchangeable pointers: an armed conflict and Islamic fundamentalism;" this is the testimony of Evan Kolman [name as transliterated], an adviser in the US Department of Defence and the FBI.

It is obvious that Islamic radicalism is ingrained in B-H. What the Wahhabi Jusuf Barcic did was only a show, whereas behind the scenes, Bosniaks are being converted to an Islam that has nothing to do with their Islamic tradition. Even though we can occasionally hear the cries of Muslim intellectuals, the Islamic Community persistently minimizes the danger. Perhaps Ceric and his political clone Haris Silajdzic [B-H Presidency member] think that everyone is a welcome ally in the ethnic cleansing of B-H, aimed at creating a Bosniak state. They are thinking: the number of Croats has been sufficiently reduced, so now it is the turn of the Serbs, and then the door will be open for creating a Bosniak state. And we know very well on which law that state will be based. Therefore, they need to persuade the West that B-H must be based on the principle one man, one vote, because that is, in their view, the greatest democratic principle. They forget that Slobodan Milosevic asked for the same principle to be applied in the former Yugoslavia, counting on the fact that the Serbs were the most numerous. This is why that was, and remained, a principle for war. Furthermore, Silajdzic said that the Bosniaks would turn their backs to the West and become a nest of extremism. The wrong word was used; he meant "remain a nest of extremism."

Some of the texts and statements by the Islamic thinkers and professors testify to the fact that the pact with the devil has been made: The avalanche that are the Wahhabis has started rolling down the Bosnian mountainside; the traditional, moderate Muslims will be under the severest form of attack; Wahhabism in B-H will become stronger and more aggressive; soon, any action will be hopeless; they are coming for our children; they have eaten far into our traditional social tissue. These are the words by Resad Hafizovic, Adnan Silajdzic, Esad Durakovic and Mustafa Susic. On the other hand, the West is preparing Kosovo's independence as compensation for its policy towards Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. At the same time, it is boasting that this is, in fact, the true approach to Islam, because this way an Islamic state is being created in the heart of Europe, adding that what they are doing for the Muslims in the Balkans is their true policy. How short-sighted and politically naive. While the world's powers are conducting their policy, the Serbs and Croats are likely to be the collateral damage, together with the Bosniaks, for whom Al-Qa'idah has long intended a special role. Is it possible that nobody understands that Al-Qa'idah is not an Islamic movement or an Islamic army? On a global scale, Al-Qa'idah is a way of thinking and controlling enslaved minds, from the Philippines, through Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the Arab countries, Turkey, Kosovo, to B-H, as well as in the increasingly more numerous Islamic communities in Western Europe and America. This is why CIA head Porter Goss, during his stay in B-H, presented evidence: when they kill or catch Al-Qa'idah activists in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, or Chechnya, many of them have B-H passports. The CIA assessment is that many Al-Qa'idah members obtained B-H passports and are now scattered all over the world. At the same time, Haris Silajdzic is deceiving the world with the story of a Greater Serbia conspiracy; frightening the West with Russia; abolishing the Dayton agreement; lying about the Hague ruling; abolishing the Serb Republic police by referring to the "public international law" Let him live in his war, which ended in the previous millennium.

Haris' "civic B-H" is impossible, just as was Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia project. It is hard to understand why the Bosniak politicians do not stop spreading delusions. Instead, they are trying to play their last card: the Hague ruling, which was supposed to be the trial of Serbia and the Serb Republic, but was not; playing the card of the Sarajevo international-street-politics community; applying pressure on the United States and the EU. This is why they do not need an agreement, but threats and imposition instead. They do not realize that there will be no more imposition and punishment, because that would mean the definitive failure of the international community in B-H. The constitutional changes and all the reforms will be done in accordance with the constitutional procedure, if the entities agree. Anyone who sought to do things differently would abolish the Dayton peace agreement. This is why there is no other way out in B-H but an agreement. However, there will be no agreement as long as the Bosniak politicians expect someone to produce or make a "Dayton 2" for them so as to abolish the Serb Republic and its institutions. And while this fallacy still lives, we are all running out of time.

Source: Nezavisne novine, Banja Luka, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 25 Aug 07

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