Bosnian-Islamic radio rejects US diplomat's terror allegations
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - April 28, 2008 Monday

Excerpt from report by Bosnian private Islamic station Radio Naba website, on 25 April

[IRIB radio commentator from Sarajevo] Richard Holbrooke, US diplomat and maker of the Dayton Accord for Bosnia-Hercegovina, as he is frequently presented, recently visited our country. He stayed several days and returned to the United States in order to assess the Dayton Accord by saying stupid things, thus confirming the model of crazy Americans, the nation exaggerating everything.

Frankly speaking, some assessments are fine, but to say that a group of Islamic extremists had operated in Bosnia-Hercegovina, only to later become known as the infamous Al-Qa'idah, is a notoriously stupid thing to say. This is as stupid as his assessment that Al-Qa'idah would have planned the 9/11 attacks on the United States from Bosnia-Hercegovina, not from Afghanistan, if it had not been for the Dayton Accord. Surely there had been people in Bosnia-Hercegovina who came from various Islamic countries during the war, but they were far from being extremists and terrorists. They came to help and prevent killing of their brothers, raping of their sisters, and killing of children, they were people who came to help and prevent everything that Americans and European democrats and alleged promoters of human rights did not want to prevent.

[Passage omitted]

Holbrooke has proposed the Dayton Accord, as a conflict resolution model, to many other areas with ethnic and religious divisions, but exclusively for areas inhabited by Muslims. He forgot to say that his country is generally pursuing the policy of inciting of conflicts, in order to establish control easier later, through alleged peace solutions. Iraq is the best example for this. But, Holbrooke wanted to show off his intelligence. He, however, once again revealed America's true face and its phobia against Islam and Muslims instead.

Source: Radio Naba website, Visoko, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1830 gmt 25 Apr 08
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