AS GOES SERBIA, SO GOES ISRAEL?

Victor Sharpe
(Author)

Copyright: Victor Sharpe 2008

Note: Edited by IHC staff, www.infoisrael.net

Oil has a peculiar smell. It has been described as a stench, which assails the nostrils. But it does much more than irritate the membranes in the human nose. It greases the machinery of geo-politics and lubricates the revenge and envy that nation states harbor towards each other. It makes and destroys states and peoples and befouls humanity. It is still a necessary evil, but much of this black gold happens by fate to lie under the sands of the Arab Middle East and thus morphs into a terrible weapon wielded by Arab despots and Islamo-fascist fanatics.

The insane rush to create Kosovo, yet another Muslim state in the heart of the Balkans, is testament to the curse of oil. Ever ready to enrich their economies, the Europeans and the United States combine to appease and placate the Arab kings, Emirs, and assorted dictators. The price demanded by the Saudis and the Gulf States is a steep one; namely to pave the way for more and more Muslim influence throughout the world and hostility to Israel.

The Saudis pour billions of their petrodollars into Europe and North and South America in order to build lavish mosques where Wahhabi imams propagate extremist forms of Islam. European and American universities hold out their begging bowls to receive Arab money and in return help facilitate the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Western falsehoods masquerading as Middle East studies.

The recent phenomena of the so-called sovereign funds are instruments through which European and American financial institutions receive desperately needed infusions of Arab money to bail themselves out of their own greed and monetary shortcomings. And the financial help bestowed upon them comes with strings thus adding yet another layer of Arab and Muslim pressure.

Islamist influence grows with every passing day. Facts are being created on the ground, which are changing the demographics and national characteristics of one European state after another. And it is in Europe that Arab oil is driving the creation of a Muslim state that will become a radical Islamist beachhead and threaten what is left of Christian Europe. In time it will inevitably become a springboard for terror into the United States itself.

The U.S. State Department’s Nicholas Burns has now congratulated the Kosovars in obtaining their independence from Serbia. This is a betrayal of the Serbian people and will leave a disfiguring scar upon the United States for years to come. For the Serbian people, the province of Kosovo is their very ancestral heartland. The long suffering Serbs are now forced to witness the witless and perfidious Western powers ripping away Serbia’s heart while their hated ethnic Albanian and Muslim historical enemies take possession of it. The Serbs, in fact, call Kosovo their “Jerusalem.” That is how holy they consider their lost homeland.

And we must realize that Israel, too, is threatened by the same evil created by Arab oil. The Palestinian negotiators all confirm that Jerusalem is up for grabs and that Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Prime Minister and Tzippi Livni, the Foreign Minister are in advanced negotiations to give away parts of Judaism’s eternal holy city, Jerusalem.

Under U.S State Department pressure, the Israeli government is negotiating the dismemberment of the Jewish ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria and we must witness with growing fear that what has happened to the brave and ill served Serbian people will also happen to Israel.

President Bush has said that before his term of office expires this year, he will preside over the re-division of Judaism’s holy city of Jerusalem and the creation of a Muslim state called Palestine within the Jewish biblical heartland. Although Serbs living in enclaves within Kosovo are not yet being forced to leave, the price of creating a Muslim Palestinian state is the expulsion – the ethnic cleansing – of all Jews from its proposed territory. In other words, it is even worse for the Jews as a new Arab state called Palestine will be judenrein. And this unthinkable outrage will be sanctioned by President Bush and the United Nations.

There are striking similarities between the Serbs and the Jews. Serbia lost its province of Kosovo after being defeated in battle by the Muslim Turks at the Field of Blackbirds on June 13th 1389. Like the Jews, who in their 2,000 years of exile dreamed of restoring their ancient land and their holy city of Jerusalem after losing it to the Romans, so too the Serbs dreamed of Kosovo and wove their folk music and national identity around the lost Serbian heartland.

During the late 1990s when President Clinton and his Secretary of State Madeline Albright, launched a disgraceful war against the Serbs, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Draskovitch said of Kosovo: “Our faith was born there, as was our language, our nationhood, our pride. It is incumbent upon us to defend Kosovo, even if we all die.”

His words were uttered as American bombers, repainted in NATO colors, bombed Serbia for several months inflicting some 3,000 civilian deaths and destroying all the bridges over the Danube River in Belgrade. This was not America’s finest hour but is now largely dead and buried by the mainstream media.

The same mainstream media rarely, if ever, tells us about Serbia’s passion during the many centuries leading up to the present and latest shameful act of the West. When Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, it was the Serbs who fought alone and unaided against the German divisions; fighting them to a standstill. No other people in occupied Europe achieved that remarkable and heroic feat.

Croatia allied itself with Hitler and established a Nazi state. The Croatians exterminated hundreds of thousands of Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews. If you visit the Yasenovatz death camp in Croatia, you will find Jews and Serbs buried there together in mass graves.

The anti-Jewish Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, who spent many days with Hitler in his Berlin bunker plotting the destruction of Mandatory Palestine’s Jewish population, encouraged the Bosnian Muslims to form several SS divisions who carried out mass murders and deportations of Jews to the German death camps.

Serbia emerged from the Second World War with the distinction of defeating the German invasion and inflicting severe losses on the German army. But the Serbs paid a terrible price, losing nearly 2,000,000 dead or some 12% of their population. The Serbian partisans, who included many Jewish fighters, were able to save thousands of Jews from death at the hands of the Croatian, German and Bosnian murderers.

During the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the Croatians expelled some 250,000 Serbs from their homes in the Krajna district. As soon as the Muslims in Kosovo received autonomy in 1974, they drove out 400,000 Serbs. At the same time a vast influx of ethnic Albanians flooded over the border to take the place of the disinherited Serbs.

The Serbian people have been reduced to only 10% of their original population in Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing against the Serbs began long before the Western press ran their lurid stories of Serbian ethnic cleansing against the Bosnian Muslims. Predictably, the mainstream press ignored the earlier attacks by the Muslims against the Serbs, which first led to the war.

The lesson for Israel is that foreign powers have conspired to strip the expendable Serbs of their ancestral homeland and give it to the Muslims. In doing so, these same western powers believe that by placating and ingratiating themselves with the oil rich Arab and Muslim world they enrich their own economies. After all, Serbia does not possess any known oil reserves.

Israel, too, is bereft of meaningful reserves of oil. It too is thus expendable. The pressure upon Israel to give away its own ancestral, historic, spiritual and biblical heartland in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) grows relentlessly and insidiously.

Sadly and tragically, there exists no Israeli government or leader at this critical time with the intestinal fortitude and spiritual certitude to adamantly and resolutely resist the cynical and perfidious machinations of western leaders. Israel desperately needs a leader who can talk to the world as Draskovitch once spoke for the Serbian people. Instead Olmert, Livni and Barak call for NATO to patrol the border with Gaza, monitor Judea and Samaria and, heaven forbid, oversee a divided Jerusalem.

Carloline Glick, writing in the Feb 23, 2008 edition of the Jerusalem Post sums up the Israeli government’s terminal confusion thus: “What the Serbs made NATO fight its way in to achieve, Israel is offering NATO on a silver platter.” She adds, “... the lessons of Kosovo are clear. Not only should Israel join Russia, Canada, China, Spain, Romania and many others in refusing to recognize Kosovo. It should also state that as a consequence of Kosovo's independence, Israel rejects the deployment of any international forces to Gaza or Judea and Samaria, and refuses to cede its legal right to sovereignty in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem to international arbitration.”

Serbia must be supported by all who still cherish morality over expediency. Historical correctness must in all such cases trump so-called political correctness. As goes Serbia, so goes Israel.

Neither nation deserves to become victim to the international greed for black gold and the attendant grovelling acceptance by oil-importing states to the demands of the oil producing dictatorships and Islamic theocracies. Indeed, the stench from corrupting oil that permeates the international corridors of power makes the very angels in heaven gag.

As Serbia tries to prove that Kosovo Albanians and Serbs cannot live together, the Kosovo Serbs embark on a peaceful boycott, but an incident in Mitrovica leaves one UN policeman dead and hundreds injured, Anes Alic and Igor Jovanovic report for ISN Security Watch.

Anes Alic
(Based in Sarajevo, is ISN Security Watch's senior correspondent in Southeastern Europe and the Executive Director of ISA Consulting)

Igor Jovanovic
(ISN Security Watch's senior correspondent in Serbia and Kosovo. He is based in Belgrade)

Copyright: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/  (ISN Security Watch- 18/03/2008)

Rioting in the divided town of Kosovo Mitrovica has left one Ukrainian UN policeman dead after suffering fatal injuries in clashes with Serb protesters following a Kosovo Serb attempt to take over a court house in the city.
In Kosovo, it is not at all difficult to foment unrest and create atmospheric incidents to prove that the two groups cannot live in harmony. It is in the interest of Serbian authorities to show to the world that Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs cannot coexist peacefully; while it is now in the interest of Kosovo Albanian authorities to prove the opposite.

The most recent incident in the northern city of Kosovska Mitrovica, divided by Serbs and Albanians, illustrates these points well. More than 100 Serb employees of the local court, including judges, entered the court building last Friday after three weeks of peaceful protests, demanding to be returned to their offices.

They had been driven out of their offices in August 1999 and replaced by international staff and ethnic Albanians who had quit their jobs during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serbs have continued to work within the Serbian Justice Ministry system, but from their private homes and premises. The international community in Kosovo had earlier announced that this parallel judicial system was soon to be suspended.

The government of Kosovo demanded that the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) evict the "hooligans" from the court. UNMIK turned to the Serbian government to restore order, calling on Belgrade not to "interfere in Serb areas of the new state." Serbian authorities in Belgrade have denied any involvement in the incident. The siege of the court reached its climax on Monday when some 100 UN police troops stormed the court and retook control from the Kosovo Serbs.

The action triggered mass protests by the Serbs, during which at least two UN vehicles were set on fire and police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. According to media in Belgrade, at least 70 Kosovo Serbs were injured in the process. International sources say at least 30 UN and NATO troops sustained injuries.

The UN police backed by NATO troops were forced to withdraw from Serb areas of Mitrovica after being attacked by demonstrators while a UN convoy was transporting some 50 detained protesters from the court.
International troops were also injured in an explosion, thought to have been caused by a hand grenade. Machine gun fire was later heard.

Action plan

In December 2007, two months prior to Kosovo's declaration of independence, the Serbian government adopted an action plan that was to be put in place after Kosovo authorities announced the province's secession. One of key notes from the plan was the strengthening of links with Serbs living in the northern Kosovo enclaves by taking back the authority they lost there in 1999.

The action plan was labeled a state secret, hence its details were never revealed in public. Now, however, it is certain that a portion of the plan referred to the strengthening of Serbia's institutions in Kosovo, especially in the north where the most compact Serb enclaves are located. This area is physically close to Serbia and is home to some 40,000 of the remaining 120,000 Serbs in Kosovo. But Serbia is seeking only the de facto partitioning of Kosovo: After all, should it win an official partition of northern Kosovo, it would lose approximately 80,000 Serbs who live south of the Ibar River, practically surrounded by Albanians.

If Serbia agreed to the partitioning of Kosovo, it would mean abandoning those people, along with numerous important churches and monasteries south of the Ibar. As such, Belgrade will fortify its position in northern Kosovo and as much as possible in the enclaves south of the Ibar.

In the meantime, and perhaps with this in mind, reports say that hundreds of Kosovo Serb families from those south Ibar enclaves have begun selling their homes and settling in northern Kosovo and in Serbia proper. Unconfirmed reports from ethnic Albanian sources claim that Kosovo Serb paramilitary groups have been using scare tactics to force Kosovo Serbs in the south to relocate to the north to make partitioning feasible.

Tricky transfer

Since Kosovo declared unilateral independence on 18 February, Serbia has advocated taking control of the Serb enclaves in the province, which have been under UNMIK protection since 1999 and are not set to be transferred to the new independent Kosovo institutions.

Serbia is calling for the implementation of UN Resolution 1244, which it believes guarantees the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Kosovo Serbs still hold authority in health care, local self-government and energy in these enclaves.

Milan Ivanovic, head of the Serb National Council of northern Kosovo, the most powerful Kosovo Serb organization, told ISN Security Watch that the Serbian government should have started taking over authority in the north much sooner. "That is the only option, because the Serbs from northern Kosovo and south of the Ibar River do not want to accept the institutions run by the Albanians on behalf of the phantom and false state of Kosovo," Ivanovic said.

Commenting on the potentially negative reaction from the Kosovo Albanians to the Serbs' initiative, Ivanovic said that at the moment one should not worry too much about potentially causing violence, but should insist on firmly advocating the necessity of the Serbian state's presence in Kosovo.

"The Albanians have been very convincing before the international community with the policy of threats and violence, unlike the servile official Serbian policy, which had even before the unilateral declaration of independence made it clear that our response would be peaceful, and that we would defend our integrity and sovereignty only with diplomatic means," Ivanovic said.

However, Momcilo Trajkovic, leader of the Serb Resistance Movement, which comprises the Serbs living south of the Ibar River and in the enclaves, is dissatisfied with the Serbian government's moves regarding the takeover of institutions. "It is difficult to assess the government's tactics, as few people are familiar with the details of the action plan. Such activities might lead to the partitioning of Kosovo, but they might also be linked to positioning in the north, aimed at better control of the situation in the territory south of the Ibar," Trajkovic says.

He also said that a policy favoring the division of the province would be ill-advised because 65 percent of the remaining Serbs are located south of the Ibar River and partitioning would expose them to Albanian attacks.

"Partitioning would be disastrous for Serbs living in enclaves. The essence of our battle is not in northern Kosovo, but south of the Ibar. That is where our historical monuments are, the symbols of our statehood and culture, but I fear that the government wants Serbia to stretch from Subotica [in the north] to Kosovska Mitrovica [also in the north] in the future," he said. Trajkovic also criticized Belgrade's decision to give 80 percent of the financial aid meant for all of Kosovo's Serbs to representatives in the north, without consulting enclave leaders.

The internal boycott

So far, Kosovo Serbs have taken several major steps that indicate what their future tactics will be. It seems they are nearly unanimous in boycotting Kosovo institutions, saying that life under ethnic Albanian rule is impossible.

Some 300 Serb policemen in the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) refused to take orders from their superiors and are demanding that they remain part of the UNMIK police chain of command, as they did before Kosovo's declaration of independence. They were then suspended and handed in their weapons and uniforms peacefully.

There are about 800 Serbs in the KPS, some 10 percent of the overall service, which is in proportion with the population of Kosovo; around 400 Serb policemen in the north have remained under UNMIK command, and therefore are not rebelling; some 50 people have taken sick leave or vacations, hence they are still officially members of the KPS; and some 100 workers at the Lipljan prison are demanding that Serbia resolve their status because or they will quit their jobs.

In another case, the Serbian railway company, Zeleznice Srbije, tried to take over the railroad in northern Kosovo in early March. That part of the railroad, on the Lesak-Zvecan route, is very important because it links northern Kosovo with the Serb enclaves in the central part of the province.

Despite attacks on trains in the past, this is believed to be the safest means of transport for the Kosovo Serbs inside Kosovo and to Serbia proper. Since UNMIK has dismissed Belgrade's attempt, the railroad has been inoperative. "If no agreement is reached with UNMIK, an impasse will occur, which will neither allow UNMIK to start organizing traffic by force, because it lacks the manpower, nor the Serbian railway company to operate," Zeleznice Srbije General Manager Milanko Sarancic recently told Belgrade media.

Even Serb members of Kosovo parliament and government are boycotting those institutions. Prior to the declaration of independence, there were 10 Serb members of parliament and two in the government, the constitutionally guaranteed seats for them, even though Kosovo Serbs boycotted the elections. All of them froze their mandates after the 18 February declaration of independence.

However, all Kosovo Serbs employed in Kosovo's public services, such as municipalities, schools and the health-care system, are being delegated and paid by Serbian government, and their salaries are double those of their colleagues in Serbia proper.

Rough ride for EU

Belgrade is fighting its battle on another front by refusing to acknowledge the European mission (EULEX), and pledging its cooperation only to UNMIK, which arrived in Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244. Following the official example, Kosovo Serb civilians are also cooperating only with UNMIK and KFOR, and not with the EU mission (which has not been positioned in northern Kosovo) or the Pristina institutions.

The EU is putting tremendous pressure on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to mark the end of UNMIK's mission and invite EULEX to take over. However, the secretary-general is also facing an intense drive from Russia and other countries that have sided with Belgrade, which leaves UNMIK on the field.

Last week, the EU admitted that the takeover of authority would require more than the initially planned 120 days. Some members of the EU even think it would be wise for UNMIK to remain in the Serb enclaves.
"The situation is still volatile, particularly north of the river Ibar, in northern Kosovo," the chairman of the EU Council of Ministers Dimitrij Rupel told a press conference at the end of the meetings of the Council of Ministers in Brussels last week.

Rupel said UNMIK should take control of a border between Serbia and Kosovo. The Slovenian foreign minister admitted that the planned transition between UNMIK and EULEX would take longer and will require more effort.

Peter Feith, the international civilian representative in Kosovo, says that his mission is not coming to Kosovo to establish a NATO state, adding that it is politically impossible to admit a mistake and go back to the previous state of affairs.

In a 12 March interview for the Serbian Vecernje Novosti daily, Feith said his first impression after coming to Kosovo was "it could have been worse," adding that the worst was perhaps still to come.

The EU envoy went on to say that the EU mission would attempt to be as "invisible" as possible, adding that it was necessary for the Kosovo cabinet to assume power. In addition, he stressed that if Pristina tried to endanger the Serb community in Kosovo, he would not hesitate to use his powers, even if that meant dismissing and banning the violators of the rules.

Serbian expert engaged in the Olympic Games Security 2008 in Bejing

Report:

- "Golden Medal but this time not for our (Serbian) sportsman but for our Security Expert instead"-

From Peoples's Republic of China dr Darko Trifunovic from the Faculty of Security Studies received an invitation as first international expert engaged by PRC regarding fortcoming Olympic Games Secyrity.

Full text in Serbian:

Iz NR Kine stigao je poziv za dr Darka Trifunovica sa Fakulteta bezbednosti da poseti NR Kinu kao prvi internacionalni ekspert koji je angažovan po pitanju bezbednosti Olimpijskih igara. Ovo nije samo priznanje upuceno Fakultetu bezbednosti, vec priznanje i Republici Srbiji i svima onima koji se zalažu da ova visoko-školska ustanova zauzme važno mesto u školovanju buducih srpskih bezbednjaka.

Koliko je važno ovo priznanje govori i cinjenica da je drugopozvani strucnjak dr Boaz Ganor, direktor Instituta za protiv-terorizam, iz Izraela, koji važi za jednog od vodecih strucnjaka u svetu, a Institut za najpriznatiju instituciju iz polja bezbednosti i protiv-terorizma.

Press Conference
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• prof. dr Vladimir Cvetkovic, Dean of the Faculty of Security Studies
  
• prof. dr Sladan Ðuric, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Security Studies
• dr Darko Trifunovic, professo of the Faculty of Security Studies

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14-11. STATEMENT

(Given and Family Name) Abdulkarim Meslat

I hereby state that I feel as a citizen of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, that I am prepared to obey the Constitution, laws and other regulations of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, practice all the rights and obligations of a citizen of Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and protect the sovereignty and integrity of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and its reputation in the international community.

This statement is a freely given expression of my loyalty to the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and desire to become a citizen of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In Vienna, 31 August 1994,
[signed] Meslat Abdulkarim
Official Present [ blank]
Signed by official: [signature illegible]
[stamped with official seal]

14-12Appendix (iv)

Overview of members of the Seventh Muslim Brigade “El-Mujahid” of the Army of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [ABiH], who received B&H citizenship[27][1]

1. Abu El Jud Adnan, born 1960 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj municipality
2. Ali Awad Muhamed, born 1962 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
3. Amrou Osmanchevic, born 1968 in Jordan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
4. Al-Saidi Muhamed, born 1961 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
5. Ahmed Alkotry, born 1965 in Sudan, regulated citizenship based on fictitious residence in Novo Sarajevo municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
6. Albany Teher, born in Kuwait, regulated citizenship based on fictitious residence in Novo Sarajevo municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
7. Azedine Omerovic, born 1967 in Algeria, regulated citizenship based on fictitious residence in Zenica municipality, then settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
8. Aiman Awad, born 1964 in Syria, received BH citizenship on 23 March 1992 based on participation in ABiH [Translator’s note: it did not exist at the time!], settled in Bocinja, Maglaj
9. Alnaqli Khaled, born in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Zenica municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
10. Abdul-D’ail-ii Harj, born 1965 in Lebanon, regulated citizenship based on fictitious residence in Zenica municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
11. Amagad Joussef, unknown foreign citizenship, received BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
12. Ayad Osama, unknown foreign citizenship, received BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
13. Abdula Khaled, originally from Yemen, received BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
14. Aref Mestrovac, originally from Lebanon, received BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
15. Ali Saidi Muhamed, BH citizen, resident of Bocinja, Maglaj; purchased house from Serb resident
16. Ben Hamza Mourad, born 1972 in Sudan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
17. Ben Radhia Nejmedine, born 1968 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
18. Ben Ina Khalifa Ben, born in Tunisia, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
19. Cshoumani Ousama, born 1968 in Jordan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
20. Cakir Fahri, born in Turkey, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
21. Dar Khalifeh Jafar, born 1973 in Jordan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj; now reported as resident in Brcko
22. Eslam Durmo, born 1964 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
23. El Wakil Ahmed, born 1971 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
24. El Hassiny Gamal, born 1962 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj

25. El Monsoury Mohamed, born 1966 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
26. Essindar Abdulah, born 1964 in Yemen, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
27. El Karim Mohamed Ahmed, born 1971 in Sudan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
28. El Guerhani Fatima, [woman] born in Yemen, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Novo Sarajevo municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
29. El Hachini Muhamed, born in Qatar, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-New Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
30. Ejman Abu Abdulrrahman, Syrian, age approx. 40, former medical student in FR Yugoslavia. According to Federation[-based] weekly “Dani,” of 16 December 1988 [sic – means 1998], Abdulrrahman had been an active member of “El-mujahid” from its inception, fighting in theaters around Kacun, Vitez, Zabrdje and Travnik [central Bosnia]. He had terrorist training in the Mehurici camp. Married to a Bosniak woman, he claims to have BH citizenship.

31. Fridhi Sami, born 1969 in Jordan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
32. Fawzi Lordijane, originally from Lebanon, has BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
33. Fayez Souidane, originally from Lebanon, has BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
34. Gamal El Hassiny, citizen of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, resident in Bocinja, Maglaj, bought the house from a Serb
35. Hmaity Moh’d, born 1961 in UA Emirates, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
36. Hans Kreis, born 1959 in Luxembourg, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
37. Hamza Hasamudin, a.k.a. Abu Hamza, Palestinian, married to a Bosniak from Kozarac, Prijedor; father of two. In a statement for Federation[-based] weekly “Dani,” dated 16 February [sic] 1998, confirmed he was an active member of “El-Mujahid,” and that his BH citizenship was regulated on those grounds.
38. Hassan Ashraf, originally from Egypt, has BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
39. Hanchi Ammar, born 1965 in Djibouti, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
40. Imad Muhamad Al-Husein, born 1963 in Syria, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
41. Ibrahim Hosni, born 1961 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
42. Ismad Al Husein, a.k.a. Abu Hamza, Islamic mercenary; formerly resident of Bocinja, he received a large sum of money from the Federal [BH] Ministry for refugees and displaced persons in order to obtain housing in Sarajevo.
43. Inal Salih, originally from Turkey,  has BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
44. Khaled Barakat, has BH citizenship, resident of Bocinja, Maglaj; bought the house from a Serb;
45. Khalil Hodzic, born 1972 in Sudan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
46. Jedari Salih, born 1965 in South Yemen,received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
47. Kamel Rahala, born in Algeria, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
48. Kreis Magdalina, [woman] born 1958 in Switzerland, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
49. Kaled Al Safani, a.k.a. Sulejman,originally from Yemen, has BH citizenship;Expelled from Kuwait for links with notorious Islamic terrorist Osama Bin Laden; Resided in Bocinja; Indicated as one of the leaders in a Zenica-Doboj Canton car-theft ring, along with Ali Said Baawr, a.k.a. Hudeifa.
50. Maati Gamal, has BH citizenship, resident of Bocinja, Maglaj; bought the house from a Serb
51. Metwali Mamdouh, born 1967 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Old Town municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
52. Morsy Rokaya, born in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
53. Mohamed Begovic, originally from Tunisia, has BH citizenship, and resided in Bocinja, Maglaj; however, filed a change of residence with the Maglaj police;
54. Nabil Kal Bi, originally from Tunis, has BH citizenship; and resided in Bocinja, Maglaj; however, filed a change of residence with the Maglaj police;
55. Omar Badjaouvi, born in Sudan, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Novo Sarajevo municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
56. Pranvera Bardhosi, originally from Albania, has BH citizenship, was resident of Bocinja, Maglaj
57. Ridha Labidi, originally from Tunisia, resided in Bocinja, Maglaj; however, he filed a change of residence with the Maglaj police;
58. Raja Bargaoui, originally from Tunisia, resided in Bocinja, Maglaj; however, he filed a change of residence with the Maglaj police;
59. Skuorac El Aret, born 1971 in Egypt, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
60. Shela Marvana, [woman] originally from Albania, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
61. Zrigwe Homouda, born 1955 in Tunisia, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
62. Zubeir Behchic, born in the UA Emirates, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj
63. Querghi Mustapha, born 1961 in Tunisia, received citizenship based on fictitious residence in Sarajevo-Center municipality, then moved to Bocinja, Maglaj

NOTE: It has been continually noted in the media that Mirsada Zutic-Beganovic, executive at the Sarajevo Canton MIA, on 28 December 1995 approved BH citizenship for 103 persons of African or Asian origin. Facsimiles of the list and approval decisions have been published. At the time, the superintendent of the Sarajevo SSC was Enes Bezdrop, and the Federal Minister of Internal Affairs was Bakir Alispahic.

[Translator’s Note: Names of the Mujaheddin seem to reflect entries in forms, as they do not seem to follow any spelling convention. Most likely, the names were entered by Bosnian officials with dubious literacy in English or French, the languages likely found in the applicants’ passports. Following the former Yugoslav bureaucratic convention, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA officials in several cases entered the family name before the given name, eg: numbers 29, 43, 50, 63, etc.]

[1] Most Islamic extremists received the BH citizenship at the time when the Federation BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Ministry of Internal Affairs was led by Bakir Alispahic, and the Canton MIA by Ismet Dahic. Superintendent of the SSC Sarajevo was Reuf Jahic, with the involvement of Samir Rizvo, currently head of the Felonies department of the Sarajevo Canton MIA. Also involved in issuing identity documents to the Mujaheddin were Mugdim Vranac, Visoko police superintendent, and Asmir Hodzic, manager of the city cemetery in Visoko.

15. Osama bin Laden’s Technological Bosnian Balkan Bridge Linking it to America and Abroad from Bosnia and Herzegovina

In 1995, bin Laden and other members of Al-Qaeda began acquiring a network of satellite telephones to avoid detection. They also underwent and received sophisticated computer training. Since 1996 it is known that they have been capable of forwarding terrorist information about their ongoing Jihad (or holy war) to Al-Qaeda members worldwide. And then by 1997 Al-Qaeda became so sophisticated that they were frequently communicating with encryption devices able to evade many of the most advanced intercepts. The group even had certain (Muslim) members who specialized in making false passports and in also allowing Al-Qaeda members to travel freely around the world-thus enabling Al Qaeda member to travel freely around the world under a variety of different false identifies according to trial evidence[28].

The Al-Qaeda network is also horizontally widespread globally. According to some indicators, its tentacles stretch even as far as South America and perhaps even into Australia. In addition of using the Internet for exchanging information, orders and instructions, it is further suspected that Al-Qaeda had tried operating computer systems against the United States NSA global surveillance system Echelon[29].

Documents found recently have casted a new light on the financial infrastructure of Al-Qaeda as well as on its terrorist training cells including its usage of weaponry of mass destruction. There is also recent reasonable suspicion that Osama bin Laden could reach, more easily then  previously  thought, nuclear "dirty" bombs and similar styed nuclear weapons of mass destruction, particularly those,probably sold to him from Iran.  Mamdouh Salim, a key Bin Laden associate who authorized, Fatwahs[30] or (Islamic legal rulings justifying attacks) by al Qaida against civilians, even admitted participating in such efforts that would clearly ensure purchase of certain nuclear and chemical weapons for Al-Qaeda. This person  even tried to murder a corrections officer in a Federal Jail located in New York State while awaiting trial for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to kill American nationals. Several months prior to his arrest in Germany, Salim used  to travel to Bosnia in 1998 where both his VISA and needed housing were sponsored by the "Benevolence International Foundation "—A so-called charitable organization based in Palos Hills, Ill and recently closed by the FBI under accusations that this charity occupied in providing support to various key terrorist persons and Al-Qaeda groups  involved in military and terrorist activities .[31].

The Al-Qaeda network has been carefully constructed for many years, especially in the United States. Everything that could not be done by the variant intelligence services of Islamic countries, who regard the United States as their worst enemy (Iran in particular) was done in a roundabout way by destroying the basic tenets of  an American democracy, by using human naiveté, strong emotions in addition to usage of propaganda to instigate great American compassion for Islamic sufferings abroad, especially within and regarding Palestine. Humanitarian NGOs were also carefully (wisely) established by leaders of Al-Qaeda in all the major United States cities. A group of Iranians[32] arrested in 2001 at the Los Angeles International Airport  collected between five and ten thousand U.S. dollars daily for so-called aid to the suffering Iranian children.

According to the FBI, this money wasn’t collected  for mere charitable intentions, but rather for purely terrorist purposes. Furthermore, the United Nations has allowed many Al-Qaeda terrorists to masquerade under a cloak of decency by actually providing the terrorist agency with actually cold-hard cash, which could then thereafter be used to fund variant terrorist crimes. The United Nations donated money to Muwafaq for so-called "Promoting educational and social development programmers…" in Sudan. The U.N. also donated more than $1.4 million of U.S. Dollars to a consortium of Islamic Charities working in the Sudan in 1997. One of the members  was the Muwafaq meaning in the true Arabic, "Blessed relief foundation." According to U.N. Treasury officials, this very charity was used by Al-Qaeda cells in order to/for transfer of literally millions of dollars to Bin Laden. The United States Treasury itself strongly believes that wealthy Islamic businessman Yasin al-Qadi set up the initial charity. Subsequently it was closed during an initial post Spetember 11th crackdown after the terrorist attacks upon tht two World Trade Center buildings. During the September 11th plane attacks on the World Trade Center buildings, it was elucidated that Al-Qaida's assets were among those frozen by the Treasury for possessing alleged links to terrorism[33].

Practical example You can find in:

16. REPORT ON ILLEGAL FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES AND TERRORISM FINANCING ON THE TERRITORY OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA I HERZEGOVINA PART I/I/ABIHBQ – 08/2003 by JEAN-CHARLES BRISARD, LEAD INVESTIGATOR, 911 LAWSUIT :

“Bosnian banks Vakufska Banka D.D. and Depozitna Banka D.D. have supported, facilitated and participated in terrorism financing on the territory of Bosnia Herzegovina. These banks were funded by two SDGT, Yasin Al Kadi and Chafiq Ayadi, along with a Saudi-controlled offshore company based in the Isle of Man, whose main shareholder is a member of the Saudi royal family, nephew of King Fahd and son of the Saudi Deputy Minister of Interior. Other shareholders of the banks have also supported terrorism in the past. The bank has provided financial support to several organizations acting as fronts for Al-Qaida, including Muwafaq Foundation, Al Haramain Islamic Foundation and the Saudi High Commission for Relief in Bosnia Herzegovina, some of which have already been designated as SDGT by the US Government.”[34]

In further text, we are going to let you know some details from this REPORT / Following lines bellow will enlight some interesting details from REPORT above.

“Vakufska Banka D.D. (aka Vakufska Bank) is registered in Sarajevo,          Bosnia & Herzegovina, with an address at Ferhadija 2, 71000, Sarajevo, Tel: +387 71 470903, Fax: +387 71 2005971. The bank was founded in 1992 in Sarajevo, and is currently chaired by Amir Rizvanovic, serving as General Director. Vakufka Banka has 70 employees and maintains several branches in Bosnia & Herzegovina (Zenica, Mostar, Bihac…) and banking correspondents in several European countries (Italy, Germany, Belgium…).[35]

In 2002, Vakufska Banka reported a capital of 16.4 million KM ($9,300,000 US), while its total assets raise 55,920,000 KM ($28,670,000 US) for the same year.

In August 2002 the Bosnian Federal Banking Agency authorized the merge of Vakufska Banka and Depozitna Banka.

Depozitna Banka D.D. was a private bank owned by Yasin al Kadi (44.3%) and Mahmal Investments Company based in the Isle of Man (44.2%). The entity was under Bosnian and foreign investigation for years. The official documentation dated 2000 from Depozitna Banka D.D.[36], based in Vrazova 9, Sarajevo, and shows that Yasin al Kadi was the first shareholder of the bankalso the mayor one in the same time.

The shareholding structure of Depositna Banka D.D.,  in December 31, 2000 (Before merging with Vakufska Banka D.D.), was as follows:[37]

Name of shares held                                       Percentage

Yasin Kadi                                                          44.3%

Mahmal Invest Co Limited                             44.2%

BH Banka Sarajevo                                        2.4%                                                                                       

BH Osiguranje                                                2.1%

Centralexport Sarajevo                                   1.3%

Since October 2001, Yasin al Kadi (aka Yassin Qadi, Yasin al-Qadi), 47, is labeled by the U.S. Treasury, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and his assets are frozen in the U.S. and Europe. Yasin al Kadi is at the center of various financings through his company “Qadi International” and financial activities in the Balkans.

Even if he is still unconfined in Saudi Arabia, where he resides, Yasin al Kadi is one of the six directors of Muwafaq Humanitarian Organization, an organization that provided assistance to the Al-Qaida network. In June 1998, Yasin al Kadi is named/mentioned, referred to in  FBI report on money laundering charges at the profit/to the benefiting of Hamas, a terrorist organization.

Muhammad, Chafiq Ayadi (Aka. Ayadi Shafiq, Ben Muhammad; Aka. Ayadi Chafik, Ben Muhammad; Aka. Aiadi, Ben Muhammad; Aka. Aiady, Ben Muhammad), (01/21/63 Safais, Tunisia)[38], took part in activities of Depozitna Banka and became in 1996 co-owner of Depozitna Banka in Sarajevo[39]. Chafiq Ayadi is a Tunisian national but as well a holder of a Bosnian citizenship. Chafiq Ayadi was a business associate of Yasin al Kadi.

Chairman of Muwafak Foundation in Zagreb, Croatia, Chafiq Ayadi is on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, pursuant to Executive Order 13224.  In April 1996, a sum of USD 500,000 was transferred to the SKB account of Bin Muhamad Chafiq Ayadi by a Saudi national, Salem Bin Mahfouz (believed to be Khalid Bin Salem Bin Mahfouz). Chafiq Ayadi became the majority owner of Depozitna Banka on July 27, 1995. Recently, Chafiq Ayadi accounts have been investigated by Croatian financial police on terrorism charges. While Chafiq Ayadi was the co-owner of Depozitna Banka, he transferred through the bank DM 2.5 millions to the account of the Muwafaq Foundation. Furthermore, Chafiq Ayadi became also co-owner of Euroinvest D.O.O. in Sarajevo, which shared the same address as Depozitna Banka. The second co-owner of Euroinvest D.O.O. used to be Yasin al-Kadi, who was also co-owner of Depozitna Banka and became co-owner of Vakufska Banka[40]. Chafiq Ayadi left Depozitna Banka in September 2000. He sold his shares to Yasin al Kadi. On March 30, 2001, the Banking Agency rescinded the Depozitna Banka’s permit, and the bank merged with Vakufska Banka.

Euroinvest D.O.O., based in Bosnia with an address at Ulica Armije BH bb,  75264 Lukavac, was one of the most regular provider of Al Haramain Al Masjed Al Aqsa charitable foundation during the 2000-2001 period[41].

Based on al-Kadi's previous shares in "Depozitna Banka", he should have earned 20% of the shares of Vakufska Banka, nominally worth 3.2 million KM ($1,815,000 US). According to intelligence sources, Yasin al Kadi is still co-owner of Vakufska Banka through another Sarajevo front company. Certainly he was already the main shareholder into Depozitna Banka when the entity merged with Vakufska Banka.

During the years, Depozitna Banka and then, Vakufska Banka, were owned by Saudi businessman Yasin Al Kadi, who is under US investigation for terrorism charges and by a Saudi shadow company called Mahmal Investment Company, currently under Bosnian investigation by the FOSS, Financial Police and Federal Banking Agency.

Moreover, according to the official registry of Vakufska Banka shareholders, El Tarik Oil D.O.O., an oil company based in Sarajevo, was also shareholder with 8% of Vakufska Banka capital in year 2000.  Another documented report from the Bosnian Financial Police indicates in 2002 that El Tarik Oil D.O.O. is a regular provider for the Saudi High Commission and al Haramain al Aqsa foundation in Sarajevo[42], both involved in logistical support to al-Qaida.

Finally, among the Vakufska Banka shareholders also stands a foundation called “Fondacija Bosnjaci Mostar” and “Rijaset Islamke Zajednice”, their shares are respectively 18% and 11% in year 2000[43]. Both foundations receive donations from abroad, and particularly from Saudi Arabia.

Nezim Halilovic Muderis, director of Wakf Directorate of the BiH Islamic Community, responsible for these foundations, is a preacher at the Sarajevo King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Mosque.

Rijaset Islamke Zajednice, or Islamic Community of Bosnia Herzegovina publishes the monthly “Preporod” (Renaissance). In one of its issues in May 1992, the newspaper stressed the “virtues of the Islamic warefare” to the fighters for the independent and multinational Bosnia and Herzegovina, advising them “to purify themselves so that they could feed on the Divine spring”. In the text entitled “We feel no fear”, Preporod gave these pieces of advice in a text which looks remarkably similar to Mohamed Atta’s last instructions to the September 11 hijackers:

“Set out to the battle with pure intentions and full confidence in Allah - if you survive, you will become heroes; if you are killed, you will be martyrs, otherwise - you will lose both and be humiliated; if possible, start off with ablutions, but always with God's name in your heart and on your lips; you must never leave unwashed (after nocturnal emission or marital intercourse) for such person could cause adversity both to himself and others; during your assault at or confrontations with the enemy, utter the cries "Allah ekber!"; if possible, carry the Koran with you”.

The shareholding structure of Vakufska Banka for years 2000 (before merger) and 2001 (post merger) was the following (note that total percentage does not equal 100%)[44]:

Name   % of shares in 2000     % of shares in 2001

Individual

investors                      29%                             36.6%

Mahmal

Investment

Co Limited                  -                                   21.1%

Fondacija Bosnjaci

Mostar                         18%                             8.8%

Finance Ministry         74%                             6.9%

Rijaset Islamske

Zajednice BiH             11%                             5.1%

Tarik El Oil d.o.o.

Sarajevo                      8%                                               - [45]

“According to a sworn statement filed by FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, BMI “had receive financing from [Yassin Kadi] and United States designated HAMAS terrorist [Musa abu Marzook].”[46] In October 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Yassin Kadi and listed him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, citing his financial support for Al-Qaeda through a “relief” organization called Muwafaq, or Blessed Relief. Agent Wright had initially investigated BMI as part of an ongoing Hamas fundraising investigation in the United States. According to an Affidavit filed by Wright, Yassin Kadi put up $820,000 for a real estate deal structured to funnel proceeds to Hamas operative Mohammed Salah.[47]”[48]

And :

“But by then, it was hardly a secret that BIF was involved in more than just charitable activities. The entity openly advertised itself in its Arabic-language fundraising appeals as a “trustworthy hand for the support of [both] the mujahideen and refugees” in Bosnia.[49] Similarly, documents taken from BIF’s U.S.-based offices in December 2001 included handwritten Arabic notations explaining that its headquarters in Croatia was established “for relief operations and support of jihad in Bosnia-Herzegovina… Contribute with your mujahideen brothers to repel the Crusader-Zionist attack on Muslim lands.”[50] Another handwritten note found in Illinois by investigators revealed BIF’s supreme “unwritten law”: “no matter how poor/sick – first priority is for mujahideen.”[51] The raid of BIF’s Illinois office also turned up a number of other documents directly related to the war in Bosnia: a receipt dated July 21. 1994. from the “Black Swans” Bosnian Muslim commando brigade for 300 blankets and 200 pairs of boots obtained from BIF; a receipt from the BiH army dated      June 3. 1994. for 2.000 uniforms, 2.000 pairs of shoes, and ten “mass communication stations” donated by BIF to “this military unit”; a request dated December 31.1994. from the Bosnian military for a combat ambulance (later delivered as promised in January 1995);and, a memorandum to BIF director Enaam Arnaout dated November 17.1995. describing the recent contribution of 200 tents to the Muslim army.[52] In an interview conducted in 1992, BIF founder Adel Batterjee denied that his brainchild was actively encouraging its employees to aid or join the militant mujahideen operating in the Balkans; however, he also nonetheless added, “if a relief worker decides that he wants to join the fighting forces, we would not stop him.”[53]”[54]

17. Why the United States have Reasons to Worry?

Associated Press reported on

"...NATO authorities who raided a Saudi aid agency last fall found computer files containing photographs of terrorist targets and street maps of Washington with government buildings marked, a senior U.S. official disclosed Thursday…The newspaper continued that…

"…The October raid of the Sarajevo office of the Saudi High Commissioner for Aid to Bosnia also netted a computer program explaining how to use crop duster aircraft to spread pesticide, and materials used to make fake U.S. State Department identification badges and credit cards, the official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity."[55]

In mentioning/references from the Saudi High Commissioner for Aid to Bosnia, it must be taken into account that the Saudi rulers have been well known for transferring huge sums of money to this particular "charitable" agency. Over the past nine years, the agency alone has spent approximately $600million U.S. dollars for its "activities" within Bosnia. The money came from various donations made by certain prominent Saudi businessmen and also from certain Saudi governmental grants.

Equally sad and ironic is a fact that King Fahd personally contributed the sum of $34 million U.S. dollars to the agency now known for being affiliated with Al-Qaeda’s activities of terrorism. It is also crystals clear that not all the money was yet used for whichever humanitarian purposes at all, but rather for something much more sinister[56] which evidently is Osama bin Laden’s Bosnian Al-Qaeda network of "charities."

Daniel Benjamin, director of Transnational Threats located at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration, said Al-Qaeda was also using "charities" including several named: Maktab Khidmat or "Services Bureau", as well as another called Mercy International Relief Organization. These charities were also used by the terrorists for relaying messages and funding for its operations.

Now, Bosnian authorities  too, are conducting intense investigations of connections between Benevolence International Foundation of Palos Hills, Ill. and Mr. Hadz Boudella, "a charity worker" recently arrested (October 2001) in Sarajevo. Afterward he was turned over to the U.S. authorities who transported him to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Apparently Boudella worked for Benevolence International in Zenica between 1992 through 1994 and is believed to be connected to Abu Al-Me'Ali, the leader of a unit of Islamic fighters in Zenica. Boudella was also working closely with another "Islamic charity" called "Human Appeal International" in the period of his arrest, according to his wife Nadja Dizdarevic[57]. Apparently, when Boudella and many others were handed over to the U.S. anti-terrorist forces this past January, the American authorities said they also suspected Boudella’s involvement with two Islamic militant groups--Algeria's Armed Islamic Group and Egypt's al-Gama'a al Islamiyya. Boudella came to Bosnia in 1992 and he claimed that he wanted to perform humanitarian work with an organization called Al Bir, Dizdarevic as stated by Mr. Al Bir Al. "Dawalia" is the Arabic translation meaning "Benevolence International Foundation" according to an FBI affidavit from Chicago[58].

The Global Relief Foundation was located in Bridgeview and the Benevolence International Foundation in Palos Hills ,the two were scrutinized over by a fine tooth comb by the American FBI[59] whose spokeswoman Ebony Harrel said:

"The head of one of the nation's largest Muslim charities was charged with allegedly lying about his involvement with Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network of terror. In a 35-page criminal complaint, the government contends that Enaam M. Arnaout^[60] and the Benevolence International Foundation supported bin Laden operatives who were searching for nuclear and chemical materials and plotting terrorist strikes around the world."

Mr. Ennam Arnaout launched Benevolence's operations from Bosnia / Herzegovina during 1992 and ostensibly, to distribute relief supplies to both civilians and soldiers. He was eventually granted Bosnian citizenship (February 8th 1996). His passport is among 300 issued between 1995 and 1996 that Bosnian authorities are now investigating as to determine whether they were handled properly. The complaint alleges that Arnaout had very close ties with Osama bin Laden and his top aides dating back to the 1980s when the Syrian-born naturalized American was living in Pakistan. In other words, during 1989, bin Laden asked Arnaout to take care of one of his wives at his home in Pakistan until he could pick her up according to certain governmental officials. Arnaout also was an administrator for bin Laden, distributing funds[61] on his behalf according to a confidential witness now cooperating with the Bosnian government. The complaint also alleges that the foundation sponsored the man’s false VISA and also paid for his housing in Bosnia and also for the other man, Mamdouh Salim, another vital key bin Laden associate. Salim allegedly approved the purchase of uranium required for production of nuclear weapons. The initial Al-Qaeda operative ordered to carry out the purchase of this uranium, Mohamed Bayazid, used the foundation's address in Illinois to obtain a driver's license according to the complaint. Salim was later arrested in Germany (1998) and is currently awaiting trial in New York City on charges of conspiring with bin Laden and al-Qaida to kill U.S. citizens.

“In the New York area, BIF was represented by a senior Bosnian diplomat and “Minister Counsellor” at the Bosnian Mission to United Nations in Manhattan: Saffet Abid Catovic. Since 1993, Catovic has been a prominent charitable fundraiser for the Balkans and an outspoken voice at the UN mission on Islamic religious and political issues.[62] He has had a close relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, in interviews in 1994, he publicly thanked the Saudis for their generous financial assistance to Bosnian religious projects.[63] However, he has since noted: “there was no way to do wire transfers into Bosnia; it had to be physically carried—the funds had to be physically carried in to give the people, uh, financial help… it’s not unusual.”[64] Given his fundamentalist activism in the northeastern United States, it is clear that Catovic was also using his position to advocate “holy struggle” against the opponents of radical Islam, including inside the United States. Testifying in Immigration court, Catovic denied supporting the blind Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman (head of the Egyptian Al-Gama`at Al-Islamiyya terror organization) but nonetheless added, “I admire his recitation of the Koran… [h]e’s a blind man who recites Koran very beautifully.”[65] During his testimony, Catovic also admitted that he indeed has met Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, the current General Secretary of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), “once or twice” at terrorist fundraising conferences held in the United States by the Tampa-based Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP).[66]New York police who arrested El Sayyid Nosair, the assassin of militant Jewish leader Meir Kahane and co-conspirator in the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing, found Saffet Catovic’s business card from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation amongst Nosair’s personal effects. In a videotaped theological lecture published by an Islamic media outlet in New Jersey, Catovic introduced Siddig Ali (also later convicted of a central role in a fundamentalist conspiracy to bomb New York landmarks in 1993) to speak on the subject of “Jihad: The Forgotten Duty.” Catovic offered heartfelt praise of Siddig, and told his camera audience that they should feel “honored to have our dear brother from Sudan, a land which is participating in the Jihad in the struggle itself, and by the mercy of Allah, has almost succeeded in gaining that victory totally and completely.” Siddig Ali ordered to his followers amongst viewers:

“If the Da`wa [Islamic Call] is confronted, anybody, anywhere, by any power, then the sword is to be absolutely used and implemented… But let’s come back to our Muslims that are with us today and Brother Saffet just showed us today a video of what is going on today in Muslim Bosnia. What happened to our involvement as Muslims, to attack the core of this disease? …Allah (SWT) warned us in the Qur`an when he said, ‘O you who believe, what is the matter with you, that when it is time that you are asked to go forth to fight in the cause of Allah, you cling heavily to the earth? …As if we came back from our respective countries with the same defeatist mentality, that we cannot announce and pronounce these ayat [verses] of Jihad… because we are still afraid that the CIA or the FBI or the authorities or countries are going to be behind us… [and we do not] confront the kuffar [infidels] who has taken our own sisters, our brothers, as slaves in Bosnia.”[67] It is, of course, fundamentally significant that Catovic, a senior official at BIF (an organization now officially recognized by the U.S. government as an Al-Qaida terrorist front group), had such a close relationship with Siddig Ali, one of the lead conspirators in the 1993 New York terror plots.

On November 24.2000,the Dorral Forrestal Conference Center in Princeton, New Jersey hosted a three-day local Muslim “spiritual retreat.” One of the speakers at the event was Saffet Catovic, whose lecture was titled “Political and Social Jihad.”In an article about the retreat,the author explained, “Brother Saffet Catovic has been active in the Bosnian Jihad for many years.”[68] Between August 20-26, 2001, Catovic was a featured invitee and speaker at a “Jihad Camp” organized for Muslim men between the ages of 14 and 25, sponsored by the northeast regional branch of the “Young Muslims of North America.” Though there was no explicit mention of any martial purpose, the flyer was printed in camouflage colors and the text was in military-style block print.[69] The conference registration form began with a quote from the Qur`an: “Jihad is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike something which is good for you and that you like something which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.”[70] One of the other lecturers at the Jihad Camp (who has teamed up with Catovic at many other speaking events) was Imam Siraj Wahaj, a radical African-American Muslim cleric, listed by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White in 1995 as an “unindicted person who may be alleged as [a] conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[71]”[72]

Another search conducted on (December 16th 2001) at a Benevolence International Foundation office in Newark, N.J., according to Dean Boyd, spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service said that the group claiming to be an "Islamic Charity", is cooperating with FBI officials and said:

"It's part of a higher level of scrutiny of all Muslim relief organizations.''

It is important to underline that Safet Catovic are also more members of AID (The Secret Service of Bosnian Muslims). During this same time no report was uncovered by FBI Officials stating that any proof was his possession regarding his true identity accept for a U.N. badge which manifested outwardly that he was apparently a Minister Counsellor at the Bosnia Mission to the United Nations.

His ID had apparently expired (October 31st 2003). Until today there is no explanation as to whereby Catovic had simultaneously been both a charity worker and also a Bosnian UN Mission Diplomat. That question still lingers! Furthermore, Catovic organized an active Jihad Camp in Pennsylvania very close by to a place where one of planes crashed on September 11th 2001. This Jihad Camp was held only one month prior to the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack on America between (August 20 to 26th 2001).

At the same time as the Illinois searches, two Global Relief Foundation offices that were located in the Former Yugoslavia parts of Bosnia and Kosovo were also investigated/searched over by NATO-led peacekeepers and also their associated U.N. police. A NATO spokesman said three people were detained there but gave no additional details. The monetary / financial asset holdings of both these groups are now frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department said State Department spokesman Tony Fratto. He also stated that since "Early Saturday there was coordinated actions to block the assets because the groups are both suspected of funding terrorist activities.''

Officials said the Chicago searches were conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department, the FBI and the U.S. Customs Department and the actual Search Warrants themselves were sealed. Fratto cited the Patriot Act signed on (October 26th 2001) by U.S. President George Bush which gives federal agents much broader powers to detain immigrants, eavesdrop on telephone calls and look at emails. The Act also gives Officials new powers to actively share anti-terrorist sensitive informational details of all and any ongoing criminal investigations with the CIA. Moreover, U.S. President George Bush Jr. on (11/7/01) stated:

 "We put the world's financial institutions on notice: if you do business with terrorists, if you support them or sponsor them, you will not do business with the United States of America."

Additionally, September 28th 2001, the U.N. adopted a new Security Council Resolution 1363 (2001). This instructs UN member States to take all and every of the necessary steps to freeze the financial funds of entities and/or persons suspected of committing, and/or posing significant risks of committing, or providing material support for any future acts of terrorism.

The NATO statements regarding the recent raids on the Islamic Global Relief offices in Yugoslavia, said UN Peacekeepers and U.N. police had received credible information that Global Relief may have been directly involved in supporting terrorism. On Sunday December 16th 2001, Federal agents raided the Bridgeview offices of another Islamic charity called, "The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development." Authorities said this new Texas based charity is believed to be a front for raising money for Islamic Al-Qaeda terrorist groups such as  Hammas.

17-1. Sead Jakup, Bosnian Muslim wanted to set the temple ablaze in New York-2003[73]

The Pakistani immigrant said he watched in disbelief as Sead Jakup, 22, took the canister across the street and began dousing the Young Israel of Kings Bay synagogue.  Ali quickly called 911, and cops arrived before Jakup, a Bosnian Muslim, could set the temple ablaze.

"Mr. Ali saved the shul [synagogue]," said Allen Popper, president of the synagogue. "He's a hero."  Ali said that Jakup first asked to pump gas into a plastic bucket. Assuming the man's car had run out of fuel, Ali gave him a gas can to fill up.  He said he couldn't believe his eyes when Jakup marched straight to the synagogue.

"I saw him spilling gas on the sign in front of the synagogue," Ali said. "Then, he started spilling it onto the door - that is when I called 911."

18. Back to Bosnia’s Linkages to Al-Qaeda

All Mujahahedin’s allegedly claiming to be born within Bosnia has declared themselves as "humanitarian workers" or holders of some form of a diplomatic passport. Most of them however were found out later to be merely plain members members of extremist Islamic groups such as: Al-Gama’a al Islamiyya, Hamas, GIA....Hezbolah....etc.. All of their basic operational needs have been apparently covered by a network of many of these so similar-like so-called "Islamic charities" such as the Benevolence Intonations Foundation and the Global Relief Found...all of these terrorist charitable organizations primarily had at least some form of their headquarters in both the United States and also some had their headquarters also in another Islamic Country.

The names of following persons[74] are of those who received money from the aforementioned "charities" in the form of so-called "humanitarian aid" which they later "donated" to the high military command of the militant Mujaheddin groups located outside of America which used the money for waging Jihad:

Or for example:

“The involvement of Yasin Al Kadi and Chafiq Ayadi in both Depositna Banka and Vakufska Banka with the financial backing of Mahmal Investment Co. Limited, has provided for years a financial arm/aid to Islamic charities and terrorist organizations operating in Bosnia Herzegovina. In 2002, an intelligence report from the Bosnian Intelligence Services (AID- Agency for investigation and Documentation) revealed the active role of Vakufska Banka D.D. in terrorism funding. Indeed, AID described Vakufska Banka D.D. and the merged Depozitna Banka D.D., as a financial platform assisting al Haramain Islamic Foundation and al-Qaeda activities:

"The HO (al Haramain) spent around 13,000,000 KM ($7,647,000) between its foundation in 1997 and the end of last year2000. Financial transactions were through accounts at the Depozit[na] Bank, now the Vakufska Bank, whose major shareholders have been linked with PIS operating  illegal money laundering".[75]

The Bosnian Intelligence memo regarding the activities of Al Haramain states the following:

"Given all the above security factors, we believe that the clear lack of any concrete humanitarian projects indicates that the existence of this HO [Humanitarian Organization] was a fictitious cover (...)"

The report establishes Al Haramain role in financing and assisting Osama Bin Laden operations:

"Saudi HO [Humanitarian Organization] Al Haramain, (...) has acted as a channel for financing the activities of terrorist organizations. (...) According to available intelligence, the Sarajevo office assisted the terrorist organization Gama Al Islamija, while members of Bin Laden's El Itihad al Islamija (AIAI) terrorist groups were employed at the Somalia offices, which also financed their operations."

In March 2002, during the Anti-terrorism operations in Bosnia, the new Vakufska Banka's director, Amir Rizvanovic recognized that Al Haramain was an active client of Vakufska Banka[76], while Nurudin Kusturica (bank's director for nine years) left the bank since the discovery that a former co-owner of Depozitna Banka and current co-owner of Vakufska Banka was on the list of SDGT for supporting terrorism.

Sulejman Vranj is a Bosnian Army Brigadier General and the former chief of the Personnel Office of the BH Federation Army's Joint Command. On February 2,2002, US General John Sylvester, as SFOR Commander, banned General Vranj to work in any military service "because of his participation in protests during the extradition of the Algerian Group to the US". The Algerian group was part of Al-Qaeda, and since then, General Vranj has been engaged in the Board of directors of Vakufska Banka. Additionally, according to Bosnian Financial Police documentation, Vakufska Banka is involved in terrorism financing through financial transactions between the Saudi High Commission for Relief and a company named Engra, managed by Balta Edin.

Balta Edin (son of Muharem), born on 12/30/1964 in Sarajevo, and residing in Sarajevo, director of the firm "Engra," D.O.O., Zenica, submitted false information about legally earned income of the firm in 1998, 1999, and 2000, of the income that he, as the firm's representative, personally received in cash from a customer at the foreign humanitarian organization Saudi High Commission for Relief.

These money laundering transactions were operated between Engra D.O.O. headed by Balta Edin and the Saudi High Commission for Relief, convicted to funnel money to al-Qaeda operatives in Bosnia, and Vakufska Banka.

From 1998 to 2000, Engra D.O.O. conducted financial transactions on behalf of an organization linked to UBL through the following bank accounts: account 1604205500000502, opened with DD "Vakufska Banka," Sarajevo, Zenica Branch and account 1602000000869046 (from 04/08/2002), opened with DD "Depozitna Banka" Sarajevo.

For years, either Depozitna Banka or Vakufska Banka have been associated with the funding of Islamic projects in BiH.

According to the report by the Bosnian Ambassador to the UN, Mirza Kusljugic provided to the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), a special investigation has been conducted in Bosnia to check the funds and assets of suspected individuals and agencies, which led to the freezing of two accounts in Vakufska Banka, the account of a citizen of Saudi Arabia [Yasin al Kadi]which amounted to 3.5 million DM as well as the account of an Investment Company from the Middle East [Mahmal Investment Co. Limited] which also amounted to 3.5 million DM.[77]

Vakufska Banka has several partners in Europe and especially in Turkey, where the Bosnian bank is above all the main correspondent of Al Baraka Turkish Finance House, known to be connected to the Spanish cell of al-Qaida. Mohamed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, financial head of al-Qaida in Spain, and financier of the Hamburg cell, transferred to UBL Courier for Europe, Mohamed Baiahah (aka Abu Khaled), $97,000 US on July 2000, through al Baraka Turkish Finance House in Turkey[78]. According to the Spanish police documentation,Muhamed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi used several times Al Baraka Turkish Finance House to transfer money to al-Qaida operatives.

Regarding the activities of Al Baraka Turkish Finance House in Bosnia, the long-term inquiry conducted by Bosnian intelligence revealed that Al Baraka Bank provided support to Al Haramain operations and helped transfer funds for Osama Bin Laden operations. The Agency for investigation and Documentation - AID - [79]gives further details in a memorandum titled "Some illegal activities of humanitarian organizations investigated by the relevant investigative bodies of the Federation of Bosnia Herzegovina (FBiH)" :

"Records available for 1998 show a flow of money into the so-called "operating" account of the HO [Humanitarian Organization] at the Deposit Bank, Sarajevo, from the "main" account, sent from Saudi Arabia via the Deutsche Bank and the Albaraka Bank in Turkey. The amount is 1,059,687 DEM [$2.13 million US]".

Al Baraka Turkish Finance House, Al Baraka branch in Turkey is a subsidiary of the Dallah Al Baraka group[80].”[81]

These and many other similar type Jihad warriors were supported via like "charities" which were mostly located within North America and all involved in some terrorist activities. The United States have great reason to worry. Experts on terrorism claim that the largest act of terrorism ever ,which happened on September 11^th. 2001 could not have been accomplished without at least 100 people involved in its planning. This undoubtedly indicates that the Al-Qaeda network is evidently located comfortably within the United States and has been for many years. Finally, the United States is using its strong allies and associated connections to undertake a war against Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups like it. This will not be an easy uncomplicated task however.

19. The Structural Characteristics of Al-Qaeda’s Terrorist Network Within the United States Based on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Osama bin Laden Terrorist Experiences and Lessons Learned the United States can Benefit From.

1. Structurally, the network is consisted of humanitarian organizations, associations and community centers for Muslims living in the US.

2. Non-Muslims were often involved in the aforementioned organizations' operations, providing the cover of multi-ethnicity and concealing the Muslim and Islamic nature of the organizations.

3. In addition to the aforementioned organizations in the US, the network also includes diplomatic channels of some Islamic countries, their secret services and UN missions, whenever diplomatic cover was/is needed. It is important to keep in mind that almost one third of the countries in the world are Islamic states, and their manipulation of the world organization/s represent a genuine threat.

a) The Al-Qaeda network consists of the following committees[82]:

The Western Balkans has been a region of interest to Islamic extremists for decades. Numerous Muslims living in the so-called “Green Traverse” represent both a recruitment pool and a springboard for attacks in Western Europe. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Raska region (a.k.a. Sanjak) are frequently used as Jihad’s gateway into the European heartland. The notion is not new, only more visible today than ever before.

One tactic the Islamic fanatics implemented in the Western Balkans was population warfare. When Muslims are a minority, they seek to increase their numbers through high birthrates – sometimes ten times those of the non-Muslim populace. Once they attain a majority in a desired territory, they invoke the popular claim of Islamic fanatics: “Allah’s law on Allah’s land[83]”. Thus in mid-1994, the top Bosnian Muslim cleric (Reis-ul-ulema) Mustafa Ceric issued a decree ordering Bosnian Muslim women to bear at least five children[84].

Studies of Islamic extremists’ activities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Balkans in general, their international connections, and the consequences of their political, propaganda and terrorist activities (including war crimes) have provided valuable insights into the global Islamic terror network. According to the available information, the Al-Qaeda network seems to consist of several committees. Every committee is an important link in the chain, engaged at the local, national and international level. International activity includes the recruitment of individuals with substantial political power, which can be used to further Islamic fundamentalist objectives.

The Financial Committee has the task to provide the Network’s funding. Fundraising methods differ from place to place, but rely mainly on accounts directly or indirectly available to Osama Bin Laden and the funds provided through the wide network of “humanitarian organizations” which use their charity as a cover for fundraising and recruitment of future terrorists. This committee is also in charge of money transfers[85]. One of its methods is the “hawala” system, where money and other commodities are transferred directly, without the involvement of banks. Such transactions are virtually impossible to trace. Basic funding derives primarily from the production and distribution of narcotics – specifically heroin, which is produced in Afghanistan, then distributed to Western European and US markets through a sophisticated network. One Kosovo Albanian was recently arrested at the Bajakovo border crossing between Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro, in possession of 48 kg of heroin. By and large, Kosovo Albanians are not Islamic fanatics, but as heroin smugglers, they are an important link in Al-Qaeda’s chain. Profits from the heroin trade are also very difficult to trace.

Funds thus obtained are put to use in pursuit of Islamic fanatics’ darkest aims. Al-Qaeda and other organizations act locally, but think globally. For example, the newly established Islamic terrorist organization, LIVO, whose striking fist is the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, is pursuing the plan for establishing Islamic states – and eventually, the Caliphate – in Central Asia, funded and aided by the Financial and the Military committees of Al-Qaeda.

The Law and Religion committee focuses on justifying terrorist activities. In conjunction with the Media committee, it promotes the view that everywhere in the world, Muslims are constant victims, and even when they do commit atrocities, those are fully justified as self-defense and righteous Jihad. The ultimate aim is to foment conflict between all Muslims and the rest of the civilized world.

The Media Committee coordinates with the owners of pro-fundamentalist media and activists inside major media outlets to spread Islamic fundamentalist propaganda. The basic function of this Committee is to justify the activities of Islamic fundamentalists. The main weapon is to claim that Muslims are always and everywhere the exclusive victims of violence. Of course, truth is completely different, because the Islamic fundamentalists initiate violence for the purpose of establishment of the pan-Islamic Ummah, a theocracy that excludes the existence of other religions. For example, in Kosovo-Metohia Islamic extremists among the Kosovo Albanians, with Al-Qaeda’s help, have managed to create a perception that the Albanian majority was endangered by the Serb minority. Thanks to the work of the Media Committee, the secession and terrorism of Islamic fundamentalists among the Kosovo Albanians were presented as a “struggle for freedom.” One of the main objectives of the Islamic fundamentalists’ global network is to create a perception in the world public opinion that Muslims are always the victims, in order to justify conflict and conquest. Victim status is thus claimed for Kosovo Albanians, their co-religionists in Kashmir, Palestine, Russia (Chechnya), Sudan, Tanzania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Malaysia, East Timor, etc.

In addition to recruiting and training the Jihadi suicide bombers, the Military Committee also coordinates, plans, and commands terrorist activities throughout the world. It organizes logistical support for the attacks, sets the objectives and maintains communication with terrorist cells, all for the purpose of accomplishing the ultimate objective – a global Islamic state, Ummah, built by jihad and atrocities in the name of Allah. One of the first camps training the members of the global Islamic terror network was in Iran, established by Imam Khomeini personally. The first commander of the camp was Sheik Abbas Golru, a prominent member of the Syrian-run Palestinian terrorist organization al-Saiqa[86].

The NGO Committee coordinates an entire network of NGOs connected by the shared ideals of Islamic fundamentalism and common funding. These organizations often have names that lack any Islamic identification. The goal of these organizations is to infiltrate the civil society of countries such as the US, UK, France and Italy, but also countries such as Tanzania and Nigeria. These NGOs have many purposes, but the main one is to raise funds for Islamic fundamentalists and influence the public opinion of the host countries. Many of these NGOs are cover for Islamic countries’ intelligence operations. Islamic countries used to have rudimentary intelligence operations, but that situation has changed. They have a defined goal – the creation of the Ummah. They have a defined enemy – all those who do not follow the Koran, non-Muslims, “the infidels.” They have a defined method of struggle – terrorism. This is truly a frightening danger to modern civilization, the one the entire world should be concerned about.

The Government Committee recruits government officials of target nations, contributes financially and otherwise to the campaigns of recruited elected officials, and coordinates with intelligence services of terrorism-sponsoring nations[87]. This Committee pursues the goal of establishing the Ummah by working through government institutions both nationally and internationally. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is a typical example of how the Islamic fundamentalist network is protected internationally. The organization has over 60 members, and is currently the strongest international voting bloc in the United Nations.

It is extremely important to note that every committee can function autonomously. The model depicted above is a basic scheme of Al-Qaeda, which is defined as all organizations serving the cause of Islamic extremists. Al-Qaeda does not have a supreme command, but a supreme objective. Its instructions are what the Islamic extremists believe is contained in the Koran. All this makes Al-Qaeda unpredictable. Only observation and analysis of the committees’ actions at all levels can explain the consequences of their activities. After several decades of activity worldwide, it is becoming increasingly clear who finances the terrorists, what sort of global propaganda they employ and with whose assistance, and how entire nations are being demonized at Al-Qaeda’s behest. [Wartime Bosnian Muslim officials] Haris Silajdzic and Muhamed Sacirbey used to pay large sums of money to public relations firms, such as Ruder Finn LLC, to demonize Serbs. It is entirely clear today where this money came from.

20. Funding Al-Qaeda via the Bosnia and Herzegovina Model

Al-Qaeda’s activities throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina have been primarily supported by the following activities:

1) Through Islamic fundamentalist lobbying groups worldwide and especially within the US;

2) Through various so-called "charities" run by actual terrorist Islamic fundamentalist;

Through Islamic countries directly and in particular the states: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the former Muslim Bosnian Government of which many high ranking officials thereof still are holding their political positions today;

A typical example case which we underline one again is that pertaining to Jusuf Halilagic who was Deputy Minister of Civilian Affaires and Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Jusuf Halilagic, was also formerly the Deputy Commander of the "Bosnian Army" 3rd Corps in charge and command of the Mujaheddin. Thereafter he was transferred to work in the Federal Ministry of Justice after the Dayton peace Accords were signed. According to Muslim news magazine "Slobodna Bosna" Jusuf Halilagic himself in 1992 brought into the country [Bosnia], one particular convoy carrying "humanitarian aid" from Croatia but in actuality was carrying a Mr.Abu Hamza[88] one of the worst and most wanted Islamic fundamentalists alive to date.

21. Al-Qeada’s Network of Islamic "Charities".

The primary importance of Al-Qeada’s network of so-called "charitable organizations and humanitarian NGO’s" is clearly apparent from the fact that most members composing them are agents of AID[89] (Bosnian Muslim/Islamic fundamentalist intelligence service).

Moreover, in this same identical manner, the Muslim component of the Bosnia and Herzegovina state has been continually, actively engaged in participating in Al-Qeada’s global terrorist network. It must be underlined that a great number of non-Muslims also participate in the network’s operations owing to their being both blackmailed and/or corrupted due to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s bleak economic condition post its civil war [1990s].

These aforementioned factors, still existing within Bosnia and Herzegovina, today continue agitating its already renowned ethnic contentions originally leading the country into civil war in the early 1990s. These,very same agents not only attempt  to construct an ethnically pure Islamic state composed of only Islamic elements in present time,but they also disturb the current fragile peace created by Dayton which, once again, could lead the three Bosnian Republics into another civil war in the near future through the many terrorist crimes continually being committed "on the path of Allah."

There have been longstanding concerns in the European and U.S. intelligence services that several charities that operated in Bosnia during and after that country's civil war were being used as a cover for Al-Qaeda activities.

In the spring[90] of 2002, under the US supervision, Bosnian authorities raided several Islamic charities/foundations operating in Bosnia and were forced to closed three of them: the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (which was banned in Kenya after the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi), the Global Relief Foundation and Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) - a branch of the Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation.

As a reminder, Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, has been in US custody. The indictment said a criminal enterprise that existed for at least a decade used charitable contributions from innocent Muslims, non-Muslims and corporations to support bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, Chechen rebels fighting the Russian army and armed violence in Bosnia. The Syrian-born Arnaout, who became a U.S. citizen nearly a decade ago, received his Bosnian passport in the mid-1990s.

The Bosnian raid uncovered a handwritten list of twenty wealthy donors sympathetic to Al-Qaeda. The list, referred to as "The Golden Chain," reveals both the names of the donors, and the names of the recipients. Seven of the payments were made to Osama bin Laden and "Hezb e Islami" (a militant group run by an Afghan warlord), while at least one donation to him was made by the "bin Laden brothers."

Intelligence investigators also want to know why some of the charity's money was transferred to a Bosnian company called "Ljiljan Commerce Group".

US Attorney General John Ashcroft said documents found in the Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) office in Bosnia have provided "chilling" evidence tying Enaam Arnaout directly to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He said the papers summarize the 1988 meeting at which the terror network was founded, and include a text of the network's oath of allegiance.

BIF had links to people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, a plot to bomb US airlines, and a plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in 1995.

Also found in BIF's Bosnia offices were military manuals providing instruction on small arms and explosives, photographs of bin Laden and Arnaout and photos of Arnaout handling several weapons, including a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.

Also, joint US-Bosnian government probe connected the Saudi charity Talibah International Aid Association to terrorist funding and an Al-Qaeda front group. Taliban has been under investigation since shortly after 9/11 due to a foiled terror attack in Bosnia that has been connected to Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

This "charity group" was embedded with World Assembly of Muslim Youth [WAMY] - a suspected terrorist organization, led by Osama bin Laden relatives, brothers Abdullah and Omar bin Laden. The Bosnian Government later said that a charity with Abdullah bin Laden on its board had channeled money to Chechen guerrillas. The investigation into WAMY restarted two days after 9/11, and after the bin Laden brothers have left the US.

Philippines authorities believed that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), whose Philippines branch was run by bin Laden's brother-in-law, was funneling funds to the Abu Sayyaf organization. The brother of bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was employed by IIRO in Albania, where he assisted Al-Qaeda's efforts in the Balkans. Reportedly, detailed minutes of a meeting between bin Laden associates on the stationery of these Saudi welfare agencies, captured in Bosnia, clarifies how organizations like IIRO were to be used by Al-Qaeda.

Israel found an IIRO payment schedule detailing how $280,000 USD was to be distributed to 14 different Hamas charities, thereby documenting, for the first time, the pattern of Saudi backing of terrorism. The head of the Canadian branch of IIRO admitted in court that "The Muslim World League, which is the mother of IIRO, is a fully government funded organization. In other words, I work for the government of Saudi Arabia."

22. Islamic Fundamentalist Strategy Based on Bosnian Case Study [Two-fold]

In countries where they comprise the majority, Muslims attempt stifling the existence of other ethnic groups, cultures and their own traditional cultural ethnic practices by imposing the Islamic way of life and the Sharia law on them as manifested in Afghanistan and Iran. The radical extent of such efforts have been made clear in the instances of the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan, the destruction of Leptis Magna in Libya as well as the historically fabricating an Islamic history of Bosnia & Herzegovina. Another historical axiom manifesting this fact is that non-Muslims are forbidden into Mecca and Medina, and where even mere visiting the countries of both Saudi Arabia and Iran places their lives at risk. Ironically, Muslims, on the other hand are free to visit the holy shrines and sacred sites of all other religions. Of course, not all Muslims support such policies and their leaders deliberately create conflicts between Muslims and the rest of the world to enforce such measures.

Where they comprise a minority population, Islamic fundamentalists use the strategy of advocating families with extraordinarily high birth rates coupled with forbidding the usage of birth control policy based upon Islamic fundamentalist religious ideology. As previously mentioned, the variant Islamic Terrorist Committees work exceedingly hard towards increasing the number of Muslims within certain geopolitical territories and states to work towards the goal of constructing an eventual scenario where the Muslims eventually become the majority population through using this high birth rate methodology. Of all the many countries currently at the largest security risk where this high birth rate strategy is presently being used by Al-Qaeda and associated Islamist groups, the United States is at present. According to unofficial information, Islamic fundamentalists have planned to triple the number of Muslims born and living within the United States by 2010.

This population boom is extraordinarily important because contemporary western international relations scholars have espoused a completely misguided and different principle presently. One that claims that:

 "Whomsoever resides in a specific territory of a country should control it.."

Based upon this political principle of Self-Determination derived by former United States president Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points for Peace produced post-WWII, deliberate targets of this Islamist strategy have been African-Americans. Web sites written by many Islamic fundamentalists constantly manifest such birth control information constantly elucidating their plans to increase Muslim families and their birth rates in certain areas along with the new number of inflowing American Muslim converts.

Another problem existing currently between traditionally historically rooted Western Judaic-Christian states today and those of Islamic descent is their conceptions of that "state", in and of itself. Islamic fundamentalists do not recognize the normal definition of a geopolitical state except if it is governmentally controlled by Islamic religious law. In such a case the state becomes a part of what Islamists consider to be an Umma[91]. A recent example of this definition of the Islamist styled state was clearly manifested by the recent convert to Islamic religion whom tried blowing up the airline with explosives based within his shoes. Such Islamic suicide bombers are called specifically by an Islamic coined term "shaheed."[92]) The existing shaheed’s today are comprised not only of ethnic Arabs, but also from other ethnic groups as well and they soon after joining become specifically brainwashed by these groups and/or coded into learning and remembering certain behavior basic to their terrorist group and/or cell.

A book if composed of world maps marking previous, current and possible future zones of ethnic/religious civil war and contentions worldwide since man’s origin would certainly manifest that almost all wars within states and societies globally have been, and are now presently being fought upon the rim of the Islamic world. Islam, as a world religion immediately should renounce such Fundamentalist teaching terrorist causing ideology. Not doing so could one day ignite an inextinguishable large theological clash of civilizations between both the Islamic world, and the Western Judaic-Christian components that it could commence World War III.

23. Question From the Ko’ran

Yet, today the question remains as to whereby radical terrorist guided Islamic fundamentalists will be capable of either comprehending or interpreting following quotations from Koran:

Whereof the Koran states specifically in the following citations:

1) "As for the unbelievers, for them garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skins shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods."

2) "When you meet the unbelievers, strike off their heads; then when you have made wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives..." [9.29:30]… "Declare war upon those to whom the Scriptures were revealed but believe neither in God nor the Last Day, and those whom do not forbid that which God and His Apostles have forbidden, and who refuse to acknowledge the true religion until they pay the poll-tax without reservation and are totally subjugated. The Jews claim that Ezra is a son of God, and the Christians say, 'the Messiah is a son of God.' Those are their claims which do indeed resemble the sayings of the Infidels of Old. May God do battle with them! How they are deluded!" [47.4]

The Islamic Fundamentalists’ currently have an entire global network which:

1) Presently exists within all continents and presently there are about sixty Islamic States comprising approximately an entire 1/3rd of all the United Nations member states.

2) Both work towards attracting and recruiting more Islamic fanatical converts from wherever they reside regardless of their ethnic native origin.

3) Aggressively works towards achieving their overarching goal to both spread misguided misinterpreted religious ideology associated with the Islamic faith including imposing and also spreading Islam and its laws and religious beliefs on all other non-Muslims existing in the world today where their goal is to eventually make Islam the world’s only supra-religious belief existing worldwide.

4) To create various worldwide Islamic self-sustaining geopolitical territories of which each will produce another type of financial resource.

5) Insofar as ideology is concerned, their overall aim is to unify the world into one great metaphysical Islamic State of which meaning is derived from the aforementioned word, Umma [governed under Islamic law and/or Sharia] which of course is based on the teachings contained in the Islamic Holy Book the Koran [The Qur’an, says the only ultimate sovereign is the Islamic God, Allah.

6) Insofar as both having a military and paramilitary, Islamists believe in using all forms of conventional and unconventional weaponry and warfare including the use of terrorism and biological weaponry [particularly suicide attacks].

Sheikh Omer SAYF from Yamen was one of the religius spiritual leaders of Mujaheddin units “El Mujaheddin” in Bosnia together with Abd-al Rahman, Sheikh Anwar Shaban and Abu Hamza;

(See photo, picture captured from video taped interwiev with Sheikh Omar Sayf of Yemen. “…Whereever You are, deth will catch You…Christians and Jewish…” “They accuse us we are terrorists! We are terrorists! And we will terrorise all infidels till our feith in Allah is not upper…” he said.)

24.  Al-Qaeda’s Specific Intelligence Strategies

Current intelligence services of the specific countries already identified as active sponsors of terrorism often assist their associated states to hide the terrorist activities of the Al-Qaeda network by aiding the state and its officials in hiding their clandestine terrorist operations. Al-Qaeda moreover assists these terrorist sponsoring states in later denying they actively assisted Al-Quada in undertaking acts of exposed terrorism later and under the guise of the modish term today "fighting terrorism," such terrorist sponsoring states are always capable of merely arresting a few Al-Qaeda cell members when the state itself comes under the political aim and fire of as an example, the United States and/or one of itse political NATO allies as England. By making an easy arrest of a few Al-Qaeda members, terrorist sponsoring states attempt to merely pass such an arrest off as their making a larger contribution to fighting terrorism and such an easy arrest usually achieves another component to its overall goal which is to keep the political pressure off the state itself and its terrorist sponsoring activities bascked by Al-Qaeda for as long as possible before making another arrest under the pressure deriving from the western states.

Al-Qaeda has also managed to develop another terrorist methodology of sorts to attempt protecting itself and its activities. This method, premised upon many terrorist activities’ basic strategic pattern is as many times mentioned the opening of a series of humanitarian organizations, charities, financial and educational institutions including those based upon many media enterprises throughout the world. These organizations serve as mere channels for organizational fundraising, religious indoctrination, infiltration of the local Muslim population, training cadres, recruiting additional terrorists as well as the smuggling of both terrorists and weaponry. The character of activities ranges from country to country, depending on the assessment of "danger" to which the states native Muslim population is at risk to.

In countries where there no armed conflict exists between Islamic and other religions, the network’s organizations are primarily used for fundraising where the funds raised will be distributed and used elsewhere that Al-Qaeda’s leadership considers Islam needs it most. Al-Qaeda-controlled media in terrorist sponsoring states have been known to employ a program of psychological and propaganda warfare where the aim is winning over the overall public opinion in the support of Islamic causes either locally or worldwide. Similar programs are conducted by certain other Islamic cadres within educational institutions.

In areas where Al-Qaeda’s leaders deem local Muslim believers as they themselves being in some form of life threatening risk, the aforementioned organizations often act as ideal channels for the network to undertake intelligence infiltrationd into certain targeted states. They also serve as an excellent cover for terrorist activities as well as channels for infiltrating the network’s individual terrorists into target states, channeling both needed weaponry as well as money and other forms of valuable intelligence assets into geopolitical locales.

Educational institutions also serve in other valuable ways enabling Al-Qaeda to both indoctrinate and also educates new religious cadres and also others comprising the overall terrorist network serving its basic needs for existence. They also serve as additional ways of introducing the ideology of militant Islam to new possible young Muslim religious candidates as well as being use as channels for terrorist infiltration /supply.

All these organizations act as covers for the network’s unconventional warfare activities and additionally serve as individual nerve centers for Al-Qaeda’s coordinated activities to be undertaken at some unknown future time om one of the global western: political, economic, psychological and/or militant/ intelligence arenas. Through these covers, these terrorist NGO organizations attain increasingly greater social involvement coupled with being capable of better raising money/fundraising for their so-called ‘humanitarian aid activities’ in addition to undertaking their other many social, educational and economic programs. And this makes such organizations themselves out as both seemingly valuable as well as attractive institutional elements to have in existence in and of themselves for the local Islamic population. It also makes them extremely difficult targets for anti-terrorist organizations to legally shutdown. And when and if they are discovered as terrorist sponsoring organizations and when they are eventually if ever shutdown, it is wise for them to be legitimately replaced by genuine humanitarian organizations because where they are not replaced, there exist great voids and power vacuums in which new terrorist organizations can grow out thereof human economic necessity. In more times then none they eventually act merely as mere voids soon refilled by the same terrorist elements. From this large array of choices Al-Qaida recruits and trains future terrorists. To this single purpose the network exists, while incessantly seeking greater legitimacy where it can/ through its humanitarian activities offering economic assistance to the local population so that it can obtain wider acceptance amidst the local population while manipulating Islam as one of the world’s major religions.

Worldwide, most Muslims are sincere believers. However, they are still capable of becoming mere victims of Al-Qaeda’s global propaganda campaign on which it incessantly serves the cause of militant Islamist ideals which attempt justifying terrorism while simultaneously promoting notions that worldwide, Muslims are endangered by all other people and confessions/faiths. Such types of Islamist propaganda usually tends to fuse with already existing ethnic and social tensions. Islamic terrorists  can use and abuse their non-governmental organizations by infiltrating them into these target areas in order to create an operationally existing forceful intelligence-gathering network that will work toward   training local recruits, conducting religious indoctrination and even participating in local conflicts.

Ultimately, by creating such an intelligence terrorist infrastructure, it would eventually act as well as operate as part of the global terrorist network.

The main goal of these cells would then be to ignite a global Jihad against all non-Muslims, globally. Hence,Al-Qaeda cells already created from the local Muslim population would actively engage in Al-Qaeda’s work according to the strategic methodology of Al-Qaeda’s instructors. Exemplary of this Al-Qaeda strategic pattern can be seen within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo-Metohia. The Bosnian War served as an ideal opportunity for Al-Qaeda to branch out the local toward the global network structure of Islamic terrorism [in the "Bosnian model"].

Following the already described pattern of Al-Qaeda’s  usage of humanitarian, educational, religious and other organizations having as a primar purpose the  expansion of  their universal terrorist network and its associated sponsors have been over forty existing charitable organizations already registered within the geopolitical territory of Bosnia and Croatia alone [of those known today]. Key players in importing this existing terrorism into Bosnia were the: TWRA, Fund for Islamic Rebirth, Global Relief Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, Al-Khufan, Global Medical Relief Found[93], IGASA, Nahla, Al-Muwafaq, Bureau of Islamic Calling, Al-Haramain and the Saudi Refugee Committee Humanitarian Relief Agency amongst others still to be reveiled.

In 1993, Algerian Abdel Alis Zaher became head of the regional office of IGASA charity based, in Vienna. This organization also had branches in Skopje (headed by Algerian Abu Mohammed) and Zagreb (headed by Algerian Lamrani Jamel, with a nom-de-guerre Abu Musab. He will resurface in Kosovo as one of the instructors for the mojahedeen unit "Abu Bakr as-Sadiq"). All three had once been students in Belgrade, where in the early 1990s they were arrested as members of the religious terrorist organization Islamic Salvation Front, thus the ISF. The ISF, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Sudanese wing of the Islamic Brotherhood collected and gathered students from Sudan, Algeria, Egypt and Palestine into a religious terrorist organization known both as "Association of Islamic Students of Palestine" and "IGASA." After their arrest, all their members were from Yugoslavia. IGASA mostly dealt with logistics and import of weapons and ammunition for Islamic terrorists to the area.

The Bureau for Islamic Calling is headquartered in Riyadh and is sponsored by the Saudi government under the present cover of allegeded efforts in spreading the words of genuine Islam through publishing, lecturing in mosques and by contacting individuals by organizing religious gatherings. Its leader was a man whose name is Abdullah Duhayman, today serving a prison sentence in another Algerian prison.

In addition, according to Western intelligence services the same man used to be Osama Bin Laden’s top lieutenant. Al-Khufan [sp] was registered at the end of 1992, in Zagreb. In the charge of this very organization was yet another Algerian whose name is Ad Din Qirban, presently wanted by the FBI in the U.S. on terrorism charges of attempting to bomb the US Embassy in Rome. According to Mr. Kopriva Spend, the Political/Religious Commissar of the Jihad Unit named, "Abu Bekir Sidik" the Bureau for Islamic Calling located in the Balkans could be defined as:

"Is merely a religious organization whose goal is to spread Islam. Besides, every religion has its organizations which are counterparts of the Bureau for Islamic Calling and many religions, when it is necessary, formed military units for the protection of the people and the religion. Through the Bureau, we educated our faithful Islamic people about Islam and its secrets and assisted people in realizing the beauty and beneficial nature of the Islamic faith. We tried to help them grasp their true Islamic identity."

Al-Muwafaq was registered in Zagreb as a branch of another associated organization headquartered in London. It dealt with charity work between 1992 and 1996. In charge of it was a Tunisian woman, Safik Iyadi, known to Interpol for "laundering" Kuwaiti dinars[94] , later detained by Iraq during its 1990 invasion. Her main duties were to provide support to the TWRA and infiltrate terrorists from Croatia  into Bosnia. There are also direct indications pointing  to certain circles in the U.S.  as to her associates  participating  in this terrorist act.

The Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation is a private, charitable educational organization dedicated to promotion of Islamic teachings worldwide. However, an increasingly large number of its funding derives itself from grants originating from Islamic terrorist sponsoring countries, from variant individual Muslim benefactors and from certain specific campaigns, which selectively target Muslim owned business entities worldwide selectively asking them to donate funds.

The Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation is a private, charitable educational organization dedicated to promotion of Islamic teachings worldwide. What is interesting is a fact that large sums of money for funding their activities are derivates of an assortment of  grants  originating from countries sponsoring Islam terrorism . Thus/likewise the money is donated by individual Muslim benefactors  as well as it is collected from specialy designed campaigns which select and address Muslims with their own private businesses requesting them to donate fund for an ultimate cause..

The specific branch offices of Al Haramain located  in Somalia and Bosnia, are without a doubt linked to provision of finances to terrorism. The Somalia office of Al-Haramain is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and also to the Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), a Somali terrorist group. Al-Haramain Somalia employed AIAI members and provided them salaries through the Al-Barakaat Bank, which was designated on November 7, 2001 under [E.O. 13224] because of its activities as a principal source of funding intelligence and monetary transfers in order to supply assistance to Osama bin Laden. The Bosnian office of Al-Haramain is also linked to Al-Gama'at Al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian terrorist group.

Al-Gama'at Al-Islamiyya was designated on November 2nd 2001 and is signatory to Osama bin Laden's Fatwah dated February 23rd 1998, targeting Americans and their allies[95]. Al-Haramain was registered in Zagreb [1992]. Later its headquarters were relocated to Zenica in Bosnia [2 Lukovo Polje Street]. Its activities in Bosnia first and foremost focused on providing the : logistical support, enabling terrorist’s infiltrations  from Croatia into Bosnia, supporting infiltratated terrorists providing necessary means for their training and financing. Associated to which support these illegal activities were the specific governments and intelligence services of the following countries:

- Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey (Provided Instructors);

- Iran, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Kuwait (Provided Money);

- Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan (Provided Al-Qaeda with Manpower);

-Organization of Islamic Conference (Provided Political Support from the localation at the United Nations and also from out of many other International Institutions);

- The governments of  Slovenia and Croatia equally gave a green-light for Al-Qaeda’s  terrorists transport and for the transport of their equipment across their state territories for a mere monetary percentage approximately between 15-30% of the total value transported interstate.

The main Islamist agency located in Europe is in Vienna, and is providing Islamists located in and around Bosnia with logistic and ideological support derived itself from Islamic fundamentalist circles before, during and after the Civil War named, TWRA[96].

"Bosnia must become a Muslim state eventually, for if that did not happen, then the whole war would be senseless and would have been fought for nothing"

This statement was completed in 1994 by, Elfatih Ali Hasanein,the  former Head of the Islamic Organization bearing the name of Third World Relief Agency (TWRA). This Muslim charity, founded in Vienna [1987] possessed/declared the official goal of encouraging an entire rebirth of Islam throughout Eastern Europe and then throughout the entire former Soviet Union and CIS. According to the CIA, one of TWRA’s activities was fundraising for the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan. The agency was founded by a El-fatih Hassanein, a member of the ruling Saudi National Islamic Front and his brother Sukarno Hassanein. Currently the U.S. and other Western countries have classified the National Islamic Front as a radical Islamist fundamentalist political organization previously founded by Hasan Abdullah Turabi, Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood [Another extreme Islamist Organization]. This organization played a key role in establishment of a  network of other Islamic terrorist and/or extremist organizations.

Mr. Turabi was a professor at Khartoum Law School, dedicating his entire career to inquiring into new methods of introducing the Sharia Islamic Law into Sudan and other Islamic countries. He was also well known for his hot-tempered rhetoric speaches against secular ideologies. Today Turabi is known to the world today for his widely public refuge offerings to terrorists. Osama Bin Laden after he was exiled from Saudi Arabia. Sudan itself was declared by the United States a terrorist sponsoring state. [97]

According to the Bosnian Muslim weekly magazine, Dani,[98] El-fatih Hassanein, member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was once a student of University of Belgrade  (he studied  medicine) and was a friend with Islamic President of Muslim Republic within Bosnia, Alija Izetbegovic since 1970. Izetbegovic himself was an Islamist scholar then, often visiting many such close Islamic/Muslim intellectuals back then, when he used to travel to and from Serbia,Belgrade. In fact, during his 1983 trial held in Sarajevo, Izetbegovic confirmed he was a good friend with Mr. El-fatih Hassanein.

Besides, an official cooperation existed once between the TWRA and former Islamic Bosnian President Izetbegovic and his associated government. This collaboration begun in late 1992. At this time, TWRA had just opened branche offices in: Sarajevo, Budapest, Moscow and Istanbul [All key centers for its later weapons-smuggling activities].

The Bosnian Muslim political wing and the man responsible for bringing mujahadeens to Bosnia and Herzegovina; Alija Izetbegovic, SDA and Bosnian Muslim president guaranteed El-fatih Hassanein’s credentials to the Die Erste Osterreich Bank (Austria), hence enabling him to open an account there.  The Bosnian Muslims used the bank account to solicit and transit funds designed for arms purchases.

Just about earlier in March 1992, El-fatih Hassanein was issued a diplomatic passport and became the new [Cultural Attaché appointed to the Saudi Embassy in Vienna]. This position made possible for him to begin transfer of large sums of money through Croatia and Slovenia [he was also able to avoid any legal scrutiny by police via his diplomatic imunity]. Consequently, in October 1992 the former [Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic] visited the, Die Erste Osterreich Bank in Vienna, later confirming the aforementioned activity. Hassanein had at that time, all necessary diplomatic credentials to financially represent the besieged Bosnia and Herzegovina and then, in 1993, Alija Izetbegovic wrote to that same Austrian bank yet again confirming that this Sudanese citizen had attained the entire trust of the Islamist component of  Bosnian government at a time.

The diplomatic operations supporting terrorist  begun innocently, undertaking them only then through using civilian projects serving as mere cover such as both the opening a poultry farm, a news agency and/or a simple textile factory – in one word he used the production of anything through which he later could facilitate waging civil war in Bosnia later. Moreover, both the creation of the Bosnian Muslim news agency TWRA was another important step he used for dissimilating Islamic disinformation and Islamic fundamentalist extremist ideology.

At the same time money was also flowing from  the states of Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Brunei and Malaysia. One of the donors was Osama bin Laden himself. Die Erste Osterreich Bank representatives later claimed that between 1992 and 1995, some $350 million dollars passed through the hands of the TWRA: $80 million in 1992, $231 in 1993, $39 million in 1994-95 and the whopping sum of $500,000 by August 1996. Most of this money, according to bank officials was spent on weaponry purchases during the Islamic ccomcponent of the Bosnian Civil War [1990s]. Additionally, it was also primarily used to bribe many Croatian and Slovenian official and civilian authorities as well as many Bosnian Croat citizenry to "look the other way" so to speak when dealing with those smuggling weaponry into the "Islamic Portion of the Bosnian Army."

The first remarkably large operation carried out successfully by the TWRA was in September 1992 when a hired Russian cargo plane flying from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum flew into the Maribor airport carrying what was at a time referred to as "humanitarian aid."

Nevertheless, it was later discovered that the actual contents of this plane was over 120 tons of guns, mortars, mines and ammunition. These weapons were Soviet made and came from an old Soviet military base. Soon after the discovery of weapons purchase through a Bosnian-Turkish connection [Which German law enforcement agents later identified as being affiliated with at least thirty persons]; all ethnic Bosnian Muslim and Turkish nationals, all participating in this weapons purchase. The weapons were placed inside warehous in the former portion of East Germany. Hired Russian helicopters transported part of this weapons shipment to Tuzla and Zenica while the carrying plane refueled in Split. It is also believed these helicopter carriers were procured by representatives of the joint Russo-American company named, Eco-Trends.

The remaining 10,000 rifles, 750,000 rounds, rockets and other explosives remained for a year at another warehouse located in Maribor. The value of these weapons is estimated to be at least $10 million dollars. When the weapons were discovered, it became crustally clear that the TWRA paid for their warehousing. Since then, the agency has been targeted by anti-terrorist intelligence observations originating from Western states intelligence agencies. However, these western anti-terrorist states took no prior steps to halt any of the aforementioned transport of weapons; the question which remains is: Why?

TWRA also played a key role in the import of Iranian weapons, which began in May 1994 through Croatia, with the CIA’s consent.

Then during September 1995, counter-terrorist units from the Austrian police raided the TWRA offices located in Vienna, seizing several vanloads of documents. Those documents contained the above-cited facts, and stated that TWRA had other numerous connections with additional radical Islamic organizations and individuals with whom  many radical Islamists residing within Bosnia are still connected . According to the apprehended documents, some members of this network inlcude: on account of

Sheik Omar Abd-el-Rahman[99] [radical Imam from Egypt convicted of organizing the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. U.S. judicial authorities found information linking him with the TWRA. In addition, Austrian counter-terrorist police now possess audio tapes of conversations taking place one time between Sheik Rahman and TWRA officials in Vienna.

The dominant topic of these conversations was how to sell video tapes of the Sheik’s messages and sermons in European mosques. U.S. intelligence agents and operatives today directly link Sheik Omar Abd-el-Rahman (spiritual leader of “El Muhajedin” unit in Bosnia), Dr. Ayman al-Zawahari[100] and Osama Bin Laden. Then in mid-January 1996, Islamist leaders broadcasted many of his Islamist sermons, all of those composed on the eve of his conviction for terrorism in relation to the World Trade Center in New York City. The sermon emphasized the crucial role of extremist Islamists residing within Bosnia and their part of the global struggle "for the cause of Islam."

Osama bin Laden[101] was one of many other TWRA donors, and all worked together through Hassan Al-Turaby whom had strong ties with Hassanein. Since 1998, he was Head of the part of Al-Qaeda located within the state of Afghanistan. He was later suspected of organizing the terrorist attacks against both New York and Washington on September 11th 2001 in its aftermath during which both the U.S. and its political ally the U.K. invaded Afghanistan for the explicit purpose of destroying the "nest" of Al-Qaeda along with Osama bin Laden himself;

25. Key Bosnian Islamist Al-Qaeda Players

1) Irfan Ljevakovic [A founder of SDA party also involved in importi of Islamic terrorists into Bosnia and Herzegovina under auspices of the humanitarian work of the TWRA];

2) Alija Izetbegovic [Connected to above-mentioned El-fatih Hassanein for many years. He composed a letter to Die Erste Osterreich Bank in 1993 guaranteeing his honesty. Then, during the Bosnian civil war he allowed a large influx of Mujahedeen Islamist fighters to join the Bosnian Muslim Army. After the civil war, many of these  men were illegally granted Bosnian citizenship and were allowed to settle in Bosnia; most reside today in the village, Bocinja];

3) Hasan Cengic [A theologian connected to terrorism in Iran since 1983. His father  is Halid Cengic a veteran of the 13th Waffen SS division of World War Two. Hasan Cengic moreover organized the influx of Mojahedeen fighters into Bosnia and managed the Visoko supply base. He was later identified as the person through whom the TWRA sent weapons into Bosnia, starting in 1992, as well as a member of the TWRA’s governing board];

4) Dzemal Merdan [Dedicated his life to the teachings of the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini; he was also a key liaison to many foreign mojahedeen];

5) Husein Zivalj [A former Bosnian Ambassador appointed to the U.N., who after serving as Deputy Foreign Minister and former Bosnian Ambassador to Austria, was given a position on the TWRA governing board. He was present in New York during the terrorist attack on September 11th 2001 and then,  two months later, resigned from his diplomatic posts at the New York United Nations Mission of Bosnia. It is important to emphasise that his resignation came only after several months of service on diplomatic duty];

6) Faris Nanic [Once a prominent member of the SDA political party in Zagreb and one time advisor to former Islamic President of Islamic component of Bosnia, Alija Izetbegovic];

7) Salim Sabic [Once prominent member of the SDA and once Head of the Vienna branch of International Associations for Aid to Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina once based in Zagreb];

 8) Dervis Djurdjevic [Once a prominent member of the SDA, he was convicted of terrorist activities in 1983 and later sentenced to five years imprisonment; also he was an associate of El-fatih Hassanein and also was a one time member of the TWRA governing board];

Despite much evidence gathered by the Austrian counter-terrorist police who was more than sufficient to detain its employees and to bar its further operations, TWRA continued to operate until 1996. Between 1995 and 1996, some $350,000 was transferr through it. El-fatih Hassanein left Austria for Istanbul in 1994 after he was notify that an investigation into his former gunrunning and money laundering operations was open. He remained in close contact with Alija Izetbegovic thereafter decorating him in August 1996 for his so-called humanitarian efforts undertaken by him within Bosnia. Both men met privately in Istanbul and then in Sarajevo at which time Hassanein took visi upon Izetbegovic’s invitation.

According to intelligence information, Hassanein also visited Macedonia being actively engag with aiding the efforts of Albanian terrorists active in Kosovo. IT has also been discover that later he traveled through Macedonia traveling inide a NATO vehicle with French markings while carrying a false passport. Hassanein was one of the key organizers of the Albanian terrorist organization named [UCK] whose training camps were located in: Bajram Curri, Tropoja and Kukes.

The Macedonian security service classified him as Al-Qaeda’s leader for the entirety of southeastern Europe. According to the same source, Saudi citizen Umar Alvadi [sp] is his point man insofar as Macedonia.

Furthermore, the identical intelligence source also confirmed the most important player in this entire gun-running chain was an Austrian arms dealer named Dieter Hoffman not long prior employed by, El-fatih Hassanein. Insofar as international arms dealers’ arenas, Hoffman has a wide reputation for being a specialist able to easily procure both airplanes and helicopters capable of transporting weapons to destinations determined by his customers. Several times Hoffman was even contacted by many high ranking KGB [now FSB Officials] for purchases of airplanes and helicopters. He was particularly interested in engaging transportation of helicopters and anti-aircraft systems known as, "pins[102]". Within only two years he had his own contracting company known as the, "Flying Tigers," who transported several hundred tons of war materials into Bosnia. One of their renown Routes for their airlifts was: Khartoum (for loading), Maribor (for landing and unloading), and then to Jablanica via Split and the Neretva valley either by helicopter or truck.

The Iranian intelligence also played a key role in the military training of both the Al-Qaeda’s global terrorists as well as training for the Islamic component of the "Bosnian Army." Iran has recently also been classified by the U.S. government as a state sponsoring terrorism [Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and also both the Refah party in Turkey and radical fundamentalists in both Algeria and Egypt]. The Clinton Administration remained unwavering on the path it had chosen in claiming to be committed to finding a peaceful solution to the Civil Wars that once raged within Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, in reality the Clinton Administration was genuinely unwavering in its being totally committed in forcing only a Muslim victory insofar as the entire Bosnia and Herzegovinan civil wars.

The very essence of this victory lied in the Clinton’s strategy of only empowering the Islamic Sarajevo leadership which, at the very best enjoyed only about twenty percent support and recognition in a country [Bosnia and Herzegovina] where more than two-third of the population is Christian and adamantly opposed to living under any resemblance of an Islamic run state. With full knowledge of these facts regarding Iranian rule and its role as well in the "Islamization and radicalization" of Bosnia’s Muslim fundamentalist, Bill Clinton’s full administration always managed to look the other way while showing their baised support for the Islamists only during the war itself.

Then just between 1992 and the end of 1995, aid flowed into to help "fellow Muslim brothers" in Bosnia which originated from Iran which sent the 7th Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran Brigade) some 2000 men, incorporating into the Bosnian Muslim Army.

Based in Zenica, the Iranian brigade trained local cadres, as well as participated in fierce fighting on all fronts. In addition to this force, Iran also sent some 400 officers of the Pasdaran intelligence and the VEVAK secret service work with the nascent Bosnian Muslim intelligence and other terrorist groups. Some spies worked through the Iranian charities, mostly registered in Zagreb. Mohammed Dzevad Azayes, a high-ranking diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Zagreb, was in charge of coordinating the intelligence and terrorist operations under the guise of "charity" work.