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October 1,
2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
01-10-03
RIVER MASSACRE
ALL CLUES LEAD TO
"MUSA" AND HIS "ABU BAKR SADIQ" GANG OF MUJAHEDDIN
UNOFFICIAL
UNMIK AND SERB INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY THAT THE SERB CHILDREN IN
GORAZDEVAC WERE MASSACRED BY GROUP A OF KOSOVO ALBANIAN ISLAMIC
EXTREMISTS, REPORTS BELGRADE DAILIES.
Albanian terrorists opened automatic gun fire on August 13 on a group of
children bathing in the Bistrica River near Gorazdevac. Ivan Jovovic (20)
and Pantelija Dakic (10) were killed in the attack. Six other children
were seriously wounded. Bogdan Bukumiric (15) spent six days in a coma and
his life was barely saved by the physicians of the Medical Military
Academy in Belgrade.
CONTENTS:
 CHILD
MURDERERS FOUND
Nexhmedin Laushi, also known as
Musa, is the organizer and direct perpetrator of the Serb children in
Gorazdevac on August 13 this year....Intelligence data suggests that
Nexhmedin Laushi headed the extremist organization "Abu Bakr Sadiq" in the
southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, which strong evidence suggests has
strong ties with the infamous al-Qaida. Musa's chief associate in this
organization is a certain Ekrem Avdija, whom evidence also links to
participation in the crime in Gorazdevac.
LAUSHA
ONE OF MANY
Several hundred
Mujaheddin financed by bin Laden in Kosovo and Metohija - Who committed
the crime in Gorazdevac. The headquarters of this unit of 110 Mujaheddin
was formerly in Donji Prekaz. With funding from Saudi Arabia, a
well-equipped terrorist training center for Albanians was founded, who
were then promoted into Mujaheddin.
AFP:
HISTORIC SERBIA-KOSOVO TALKS IN VIENNA SET FOR OCTOBER 14
As the current head of
the United Nations mission which has governed the province since the war,
Harri Holkeri will lead the delegation from Kosovo's separatist ethnic
Albanian administration.
DRAMATIC
DETERIORATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
Dragoljub Micunovic, the head of a
Serbia-Montenegrin parliamentary delegation at the Council of Europe's
Parliamentary Assembly session in Strasbourg, said that Kosovo-Metohija is
witnessing a dramatic deterioration in human rights and called on the
international community to take energetic steps to ensure full
implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, refugee return,
safety and freedom of movement for all ethnic communities.
ANA
PREPARES TERRORIST ATTACKS IN SOUTHERN SERBIA AND KOSOVO
The Serbian
Ministry of Interior said that its operational data confirm that the
Albanian terrorist organisation ANA plans to carry out terrorist attacks
in southern Serbia just before the beginning of a dialogue between
Belgrade and Pristina.
ARACHINOVO:
MACEDONIAN HOUSES BURN - POLICE REMAINS CLUELESS ABOUT ARSONISTS
Two more houses of displaced
Macedonian families from Arachinovo were burning the day before yesterday
in this village located in Skopje area. The houses of Pero Gelevski and
Cvetan Anchevski were set on fire. The owners and their families live in
shelters in Skopje for more than two years.
The displaced Macedonians say that this is a message not to return to
their homes.
WASHINGTON
TIMES - REDRAWING BOSNIAN BORDERS
More ominously, the
greatest threat to peace and stability stems from the resurgence of
Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia, which seeks to either wipe out or
convert all Christians in the region. The country now serves as a base for
al Qaeda operatives, where numerous terrorist cells are active and
plotting attacks on targets throughout Europe. In the past, Saudi Arabia
has sent millions of dollars in aid to "humanitarian" agencies that
encourage Bosnian Muslims to promote the doctrines of Wahhabism, a
particularly intolerant and puritanical version of Islam. Mosques have
been established throughout the Muslim-Croat federation, many of whom
preach the need for "jihad" against the country's Catholic Croats and
Orthodox Christian Serbs.
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CHILD MURDERERS FOUND
Nexhmedin Laushi, also known as Musa, is
the organizer and direct perpetrator of the Serb children in Gorazdevac on
August 13 this year....Intelligence data suggests that Nexhmedin Laushi
headed the extremist organization "Abu Bakr Sadiq" in the southern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica, which strong evidence suggests has strong ties with
the infamous al-Qaida. Musa's chief associate in this organization is a
certain Ekrem Avdija, whom evidence also links to participation in the
crime in Gorazdevac.
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Kurir
daily, Belgrade
October 1, 2003
Serbian original at
http://www.kurir-info.co.yu/Dnevne-vesti/V-01-29092003.shtml
BELGRADE - Nexhmedin Laushi, also known as Musa, is the organizer and
direct perpetrator of the Serb children in Gorazdevac on August 13 this
year, "Kurir" has learned from very well informed intelligence sources
close to the Kosovo provisional administration. According to those
sources, UNMIK police has strong evidence that Nexhmedin Laushi is the
murderer of the Serb children.
"Immediately after the operation Laushi and six terrorists who took part
in the crime fled to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he hid in the area of
Zenica, in a village that has been inhabited by Mujaheddin since the war,"
stated our source. He said that UNMIK currently does not know exactly
where Musa is located but there is justifiable suspicion that he has in
the meanwhile left his sanctuary in Bosnia. Currently there is an
operation to locate him underway that is expected to result in his arrest.
Intelligence data suggests that Nexhmedin Laushi headed the extremist
organization "Abu Bakr Sadiq" in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica,
which strong evidence suggests has strong ties with the infamous al-Qaida.
Musa's chief associate in this organization is a certain Ekrem Avdija,
whom evidence also links to participation in the crime in Gorazdevac.
"'Abu Bakr Sadiq' is known as one of the most extreme Islamist terrorist
organizations and its branches are also active in Bosnia and on the
territory of Macedonia," explained our source.
We have learned that UNMIK has shared its discoveries with the appropriate
organs of the Serbian government, who have been promised that the
criminals from Gorazdevac "will certainly be arrested and brought to
justice."
Albanian terrorists opened automatic gun fire on August 13 on a group of
children bathing in the Bistrica River near Gorazdevac. Ivan Jovovic (20)
and Pantelija Dakic (10) were killed in the attack. Six other children
were seriously wounded. Bogdan Bukumiric (15) spent six days in a coma and
his life was barely saved by the physicians of the Medical Military
Academy in Belgrade.
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LAUSHA ONE OF MANY
Several
hundred Mujaheddin financed by bin Laden in Kosovo and Metohija - Who
committed the crime in Gorazdevac. The headquarters of this unit of 110
Mujaheddin was formerly in Donji Prekaz. With funding from Saudi Arabia, a
well-equipped terrorist training center for ethnic Albanians was founded,
who were then promoted into Mujaheddin.
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Ekspres
politika daily, Belgrade
October 1, 2003
PRISTINA - Whether the organizer and direct perpetrator of the crime
against Serb children in Gorazdevac is really Nexhmedin Lausha, a member
of the mujeheddin group "Abu Bakr Sadiq," as reported by some media, or
not will be determined by an investigation but it is a fact that in Kosovo
and Metohija there are presently at least a few hundred fanatical members
of mujeheddin groups formed during 1998 and 1999 on the order and with the
money of U.S. enemy number one - Osama bin Laden.
One of the Kosovo and Metohija mujeheddin units comprised of local ethnic
Albanians, whose members at this time live primarily in the southern part
of Kosovska Mitrovica, is in fact "Abu Bakr Sadiq" and Nexhmedin Lausha is
one of its members. The headquarters of this unit of 110 Mujaheddin was
formerly in Donji Prekaz. With funding from Saudi Arabia, a well-equipped
terrorist training center for Shiptars was founded, who were then promoted
into Mujaheddin.
This mujeheddin unit was formed and commanded by Ekrem Avdiu of Kosovska
Mitrovica, who was arrested in 1998 and sentenced to nine years in prison.
However, thanks to the general amnesty after political changes in Serbia,
Avdiu was released at the same time as the other eight members of the "Abu
Bakr Sadiq" command: Nexhmedin Lausha, Shpend Kopriva, Imeri Lulazim,
Biklichi Ertan, Ilir Haxha, Telchiu Krenar, Glogovci Bashkim and Misimi
Sezaim.
Ekrem Avdiu had learned the terrorist "trade" during the war in Bosnia as
a member of the most notorious mujeheddin unit "El Mujeheddin." After the
war in BH, Avdiu studied Islam at the Islamic university in Riyadh in
Saudi Arabia. In what was obviously not a coincidence, in Riyadh Avdiu met
Duhaiman Abdullah, the director of the World Bureau for Islamic Calling -
an organization that preaches jihad.
For the formation of a branch of this bureau for the region of Kosovo and
Metohija, Duhaiman first gave Ekrem Avdiu 20 thousand dollars, and soon
thereafter another 215 thousand German marks for the purchase of weapons,
jeeps and other equipment for the Drenica mujaheddin group of 110 ethnic
Albanians. Command was assumed and retained by Ekram Avdiu, who took the
pseudonym of Abu Suheid and formed a second group, the Smonica mujaheddin
group of 20 local bandits, in the region of Djakovica. The majority of
them today live quite comfortably in Kosovo and Metohija, with neither
KFOR nor UNMIK commenting on their operations. (A.H.)
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HISTORIC
SERBIA-KOSOVO TALKS IN VIENNA SET FOR OCTOBER 14
As the
current head of the United Nations mission which has governed the province
since the war, Harri Holkeri will lead the delegation from Kosovo's
separatist ethnic Albanian administration.
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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cg/Qkosovo-un-serbia-talks.R6eR_DSU.html
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
UN Tuesday, 30-Sep-2003 9:01AM
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Sep 30 (AFP) - The top UN official in Kosovo
said Tuesday that he will lead the province's delegation into historic
talks with Serbian officials scheduled for October 14.
As the current head of the United Nations mission which has governed the
province since the war, Harri Holkeri will lead the delegation from
Kosovo's separatist ethnic Albanian administration.
Serbian and Kosovo Albanian officials will meet in the Austrian capital
Vienna for the first time since the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, which is the
southern province of Serbia.
Speaking at a press conference Holkeri said the initial talks in Austria
would be of a symbolic nature and more detailed discussions, on issues
such as transport, energy, missing people and the return of displaced
people, would be tackled in later meetings.
"The launching (of the dialogue in Vienna) will be a relatively short
event with some high-profile international representatives and delegations
from Belgrade and Pristina," he said.
"The Pristina delegation will be led by me."
The talks will deal with technical issues and will not touch on the most
sensitive question for the province -- its final political status and its
ethnic Albanian majority's demands for independence.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and NATO Secretary
General Georges Robertson are expected to take part in the Vienna talks.
Subsequent "working group" meetings will be held in Belgrade and Pristina
at unspecified dates, Holkeri said.
"The real work will start when the working groups begin their meetings,"
he said.
Kosovo officials have seemed hesitant about engaging in the dialogue and
Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi has sought approval from the province's
Albanian-dominated assembly, which will convene Thursday.
The process has been soured by a recent spate of bloody attacks against
Serb civilians in the province, leading Serbian leaders to protest what
they see as the UN's failure to build a peaceful, multi-ethnic democracy
after the war.
The so-called Albanian National Army extremist militia has also claimed a
series of attacks against Serbian security forces near the administrative
border with Serbia proper in recent weeks.
Despite the simmering tensions, Holkeri said he expected both sides to use
the negotiations "to help the condition of the people" rather than play
"tricks" on each other.
"Serious politicians don't play tricks. Tricks belong to the circus," he
said.
Kosovo has a president, prime minister and a multi-ethnic assembly but
most decision-making remains in the hands of the UN mission.
Kosovo has been a UN protectorate since NATO bombed the former Yugoslavia
to force then president Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from the
province and end a brutal crackdown on Albanian separatist guerrillas.
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DRAMATIC DETERIORATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
Dragoljub Micunovic,
the head of a Serbia-Montenegrin parliamentary delegation at the Council
of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly session in Strasbourg, said that
Kosovo-Metohija is witnessing a dramatic deterioration in human rights and
called on the international community to take energetic steps to ensure
full implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, refugee
return, safety and freedom of movement for all ethnic communities.
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http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-09/30/331202.html
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Strasbourg, Sept 30, 2003 - Dragoljub Micunovic, the head of a
Serbia-Montenegrin parliamentary delegation at the Council of Europe's
Parliamentary Assembly session in Strasbourg, said that Kosovo-Metohija is
witnessing a dramatic deterioration in human rights and called on the
international community to take energetic steps to ensure full
implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, refugee return,
safety and freedom of movement for all ethnic communities.
Micunovic said that a debate on human rights in Kosovo-Metohija was
initiated by a recent crime in the village of Gorazdevac near Pec, where
two Serbian children were killed and another four wounded on Aug 13.
The crime, which Micunovic described as a terrorist act, was aimed at
sending a clear message to all Kosovo Serbs that they have to leave the
province and that reconciliation and a multiethnic society cannot be
established in Kosovo.
The Serbia-Montenegrin parliament Speaker also pointed to the necessity of
facing up with the fact that the ANA terrorist organisation exists and
operates in Kosovo, western Macedonia and southern Serbia.
Micunovic also noted that Belgrade and Pristina will soon open a dialogue
on Kosovo-Metohija to meet a series of standards including democracy,
human rights observance, the rule of law, religious pluralism and a market
economy.
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ANA
PREPARES TERRORIST ATTACKS IN SOUTHERN SERBIA AND KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
The Serbian Ministry of Interior said that its operational data confirm
that the Albanian terrorist organisation ANA plans to carry out terrorist
attacks in southern Serbia just before the beginning of a dialogue between
Belgrade and Pristina.
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http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-09/30/331210.html
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Belgrade, Sept 30, 2003 - The Serbian Ministry of Interior said that its
operational data confirm that the Albanian terrorist organisation ANA
plans to carry out terrorist attacks in southern Serbia just before the
beginning of a dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
This terrorist organisation plans to make a massacre by planting and
activating explosive devices in the facilities where members of the
Albanian ethnic community gather, including schools, read a statement by
the Ministry.
The terrorist attack will be performed by ANA's tried members, however, it
is possible that the organisation will also contract criminals of Serbian
nationality, for which ANA has already set aside considerable amounts of
money.
According to intelligence, ANA plans to carry out the attacks in
Bujanovac, Presevo and Kosovo-Metohija, the Ministry said.
The Serbian police have stepped up security measures in order to prevent
any possible terrorist attacks on the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
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ARACHINOVO: MACEDONIAN HOUSES BURN, POLICE RAMAINS CLUELESS ABOUT
ARSONISTS
Two more houses of
displaced Macedonian families from Arachinovo were burning the day before
yesterday in this village located in Skopje area. The houses of Pero
Gelevski and Cvetan Anchevski were set on fire. The owners and their
families live in shelters in Skopje for more than two years.
The displaced Macedonians say that this is a message not to return to
their homes.
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http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2758
REALITY MACEDONIA
Web posted September 29, 2003
Source: Dnevnik, #2259, 23/09/2003
By Emil Zafirovski
Two more houses of displaced Macedonian families from Arachinovo were
burning the day before yesterday in this village located in Skopje area.
The houses of Pero Gelevski and Cvetan Anchevski were set on fire. The
owners and their families live in shelters in Skopje for more than two
years.
The houses ignited [sic] about 5 pm, and the firemen managed to localize
the fire. The internally displaced persons [IDP - euphemism for refugees]
from Arachinovo accuse the Albanians living in the same village for the
arson, interpreting it as a clear message not to return to their homes
anymore. They also claim that the local [ethnic Albanian] villagers tried
to hinder the action of the fire department. But the [ethnic Albanian]
mayor of Arachinovo, Reshat Ferati, responds:
"That is not true. Most probably the fire was set by the organization of
the IDPs of Arachinovo 'Zora,' which is trying to prove that the
Macedonians don't have conditions to return home," accuses Ferati.
In the Ministry of internal affairs say that they still don't have any
notions, but they were working on resolving this case.
The displaced Macedonians say that this is a message not to go back.
"The latest happenings in Arachinovo clearly speak about the condition in
the village. The statements of Ferati that we are burning our own houses
are ridicilous. So far 12 houses were burned but not a single case is
resolved, even that we know who is doing it. The persons guilty are
pointed out to the police. When my house was burning, I was accused of
arson also. We have notions that the local villagers were preventing the
firemen to get to the houses, with policemen watching and keeping their
mouths shut," says Robert Stojanovski, a member of "Zora".
Pero and Cveta Gelevski, owners of one of the burned houses, say that
after this going back is the last thing that they have in mind:
"The police notified us about the fire in the evening, round 10:30 pm.
This is the first time that our house is set on fire. We haven't visited
the village for entire six months because we know what is happening. The
conditions for return do not exist. More than 60% of the temporally
displaced people from Arachinovo bought land elsewhere and started to
build new houses. There's no future for the Macedonians in Arachinovo.
Only some elderly people returned, but younger families keep away."
Cvetan Anchevski, owner of the second burned house, says that the fire was
direct threat towards him and his family.
"The fire was set on five places. They wanted to burn the house to the
ground so that I won't be able to return, ever. I want to go back, but
how? This is not the first time something like this to occur. They were
breaking into and robbing my house. They even set a bomb in the middle of
the yard. My entire family could have been killed," says Anchevski.
According to the mayor Ferati, Macedonians are burning their own houses by
themselves:
"It is being done by the organization "Zora." This is not the first time
something like this to occur. On other occasions before, houses of
Macedonians were set on fire and all the notions say that they burn their
houses themselves in order to prove that they don't have conditions for
return. Cvetan Anchevski is an active member of "Zora." That goes in favor
of our doubts that "Zora" is involved in the newest burning of houses in
the village."
"If several people don't want to go back,they shouldn't manipulate others
and should not drag others in dirty games," says Ferati.
After the conflict in 2001 so far were burned houses of 12 temporally
dislocated Macedonian families, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has
not solved a single arson case.
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WT:
REDRAWING BOSNIAN BORDERS
More ominously, the greatest threat to peace and stability stems from the
resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia, which seeks to either wipe
out or convert all Christians in the region. The country now serves as a
base for al Qaeda operatives, where numerous terrorist cells are active
and plotting attacks on targets throughout Europe. In the past, Saudi
Arabia has sent millions of dollars in aid to "humanitarian" agencies that
encourage Bosnian Muslims to promote the doctrines of Wahhabism, a
particularly intolerant and puritanical version of Islam. Mosques have
been established throughout the Muslim-Croat federation, many of whom
preach the need for "jihad" against the country's Catholic Croats and
Orthodox Christian Serbs.
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http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20030930-084113-1005r.htm
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
COMMENTARY
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published October 1, 2003
From 1992-1995, Bosnia was the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in
Europe since the Second World War. Yet since the signing of the Dayton
peace accords, the country remains divided along ethnic lines. Despite
massive Western foreign aid and the presence of American peacekeeping
forces, Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims are no closer to genuine
reconciliation and peaceful co-existence. The country's Serbs who live in
the Bosnian Serb Republic seek to eventually become part of Serbia. The
Bosnian Croats, most of whom live in the country's second political
entity, the Muslim-Croat federation, also would like nothing more than to
join Croatia.
The country's Muslims, however, remain wedded to the notion of a united,
multinational Bosnia based on a strong centralized government in Sarajevo.
The international community also is committed to keeping the country's
borders intact. Yet the problem with that approach is that it overlooks
the reality of what is occurring on the ground.
Bosnia remains an economic basket case, where the unemployment rate is 40
percent. Foreign investment is practically nonexistent. Corruption and
crime remain rampant. Despite nearly a decade of nation-building, Western
governments have failed to forge viable economic and political
institutions.
More ominously, the greatest threat to peace and stability stems from the
resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia, which seeks to either wipe
out or convert all Christians in the region. The country now serves as a
base for al Qaeda operatives, where numerous terrorist cells are active
and plotting attacks on targets throughout Europe. In the past, Saudi
Arabia has sent millions of dollars in aid to "humanitarian" agencies that
encourage Bosnian Muslims to promote the doctrines of Wahhabism, a
particularly intolerant and puritanical version of Islam. Mosques have
been established throughout the Muslim-Croat federation, many of whom
preach the need for "jihad" against the country's Catholic Croats and
Orthodox Christian Serbs.
The result has been numerous acts of terror perpetrated upon civilians -
especially the Croats. During the past several years, Catholic churches in
and around Sarajevo have been vandalized by Islamic extremists. Cemeteries
where Croats were buried have been desecrated. Many ordinary Catholics are
afraid of walking on the streets of Sarajevo with a cross around their
neck for fear of being attacked.
The most notorious incident occurred on Christmas Eve, when three Croats -
a father and his two daughters - were gunned down in their home by an
Islamic militant near the town of Konjic. Their crime: celebrating
Christmas.
The rise of radical Islam threatens to destabilize the Balkans, plunging
the region once again into bloodshed and religious conflict. Rather than
forcing the three constituent peoples of Bosnia to live together against
their wishes, the Bush administration would be wise to develop a realistic
and coherent strategy toward the region.
Washington needs to realize that synthetic states such as
Bosnia-Herzegovina are destined to fail. Recent European history is
littered with examples of multinational countries such as Czechoslovakia,
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union that disintegrated because they denied the
fundamental human aspirations for democracy and national
self-determination. Bosnia is another case in point. The Bosnian Serbs
should be allowed to form a state with Serbia; the Croat territories -
especially those centered around their stronghold of Mostar in Western
Herzegovina - should be incorporated into Croatia. The Bosnian Muslims
would have their own state, with Sarajevo as the capital.
More importantly, the Bush administration needs to foster closer ties with
the Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina for one simple reason: They are on the
front-lines in the war against Islamic terrorism in the Balkans. The
Bosnian Serbs, meanwhile, are unreliable allies. Many of them are still
seething with resentment against the United States for its decision to use
military force to end the Serbs' campaign of ethnic cleansing and mass
murder during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The Croats, on the other hand, view Washington as their strategic partner.
As one high-ranking Bosnian Croat government official told me: "We can act
as the eyes and ears for the West in the Balkans and monitor the
activities of al Qaeda in Bosnia."
The United States should not only support the Bosnian Croats' right to
self-determination, but also provide them with intelligence and military
assistance to contain the growth of radical Islam in the region.
It is ironic that the West should now have to depend upon the Croats in
Herzegovina as a pivotal ally in the war on terrorism. Throughout the
1990s, the Herzegovinian Croats were demonized in the Western liberal
press for their "nationalism" and passionate attachment to the Croatian
cause. They have always been the most patriotic and courageous of all the
Croats, producing some of Europe's finest fighters. Herzegovina was
primarily the site where the Croats for centuries fought off the invading
Ottoman armies. For their ceaseless resistance to the Turks, Pope Leo X
referred to the Croats as "the ramparts of Christendom."
The Croats in Bosnia can again take up their historic role as a strategic
bulwark against Islamic expansionism on the Continent. However, this can
only happen after Washington realizes Bosnia is not a Balkan Switzerland,
but a smoldering cauldron of ethnic strife where the followers of Osama
bin Laden have found a home to preach their message of hate and religious
fanaticism. As an experiment in nation-building, Bosnia has been a noble
failure. The Bush administration should take heed.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is an assistant national editor at The Washington Times.
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KOSOVO AND METOHIJA NEWS
Tuesday 30 September 2003
22:40 Commenting on the upcoming dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina,
Return Coalition (Povratak) MP in the Kosovo parliament Oliver Ivanovic
says that the Serb representative in the Kosovo delegation will be
appointed only after the Belgrade and Pristina delegations are formed.
21:00 Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic said today that the
talks in Vienna on October 14 should be talks between a state and its
province, not talks between two states.
20:20 The rapporteur of the Council of Europe on the status of human
rights in Kosovo will be appointed at tomorrow's session of the Committee
for Legal Issues and not today as had been previously announced.
18:40 Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic stated that nothing
spectacular should be expected of the beginning of dialogue between
Belgrade and Pristina.
18:00 Serbia-Montenegro parliament speaker Dragoljub Micunovic assessed
that the support received today in the Council of Europe in defense of
human rights in Kosovo will be a very significant foundation for the
delegation from Belgrade in upcoming dialogue with Pristina.
17:20 UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri met with Serbian premier Zoran Zivkovic,
and deputy premier and Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija head
Nebojsa Covic regarding the beginning of dialogue between Belgrade and
Pristina.
16:00 Serbian deputy prime minister and Coordinating Center for Kosovo and
Metohija head Nebojsa Covic said he did not expect the opening of talks
regarding the final status of Kosovo and Metohija before 2005.
15:00 Serbian premier Zoran Zivkovic stated that the most important topic
for dialogue for the Serbian side is the implementation of UN Security
Council Resolution 1244, first and foremost, the realization of its
provision relating to refugee returns. "We are prepared to give our
adequate contribution but it is also important to ensure the willingness
of Albanian leaders in Kosovo and Metohija to contribute their assistance,
primarily with respect to ensuring the security of Serbs and other
non-Albanians who are still in the Province today, and consequently, the
security and freedom of movement of everyone preparing to return to Kosovo
and Metohija," said Zivkovic.
14:00 According to the Belgrade daily "Kurir", UNMIK police has strong
evidence that Nexhmedin Lausi is the organizer and primary perpetrator of
the murder of Serbian children in Gorazdevac on August 13 of this year.
13:00 The US office in Pristina is pleased to report to completion of the
restoration of the primary school building in Zubin Potok. US citizens
through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have invested
329,844 euros for the reconstruction of the primary school. This project
is part of the engagement of the US government in assisting democratic and
economic development in Kosovo. The opening ceremony will be held
tomorrow, October 1, at 11,00 hours in Zubin Potok.
10:20 The EU high representative for foreign policy and security Javier
Solana expressed the hope yesterday that both sides in the announced
dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will send their highest officials
to Vienna.
10:00 The defense ministers of Serbia-Montenegro and Albania, Boris Tadic
and Pandeli Majko, respectively, reached agreement on September 27 at a
meeting in Ohrid on the method of exchanging information in crisis
situations. Tadic said that during the meeting he and Majko also tried to
find solutions for operational problems. "My position is that Albania and
Serbia-Montenegro share responsibility for the situation in Kosovo and
Metohija and for the security situation for all citizens of Kosovo and
Metohija, regardless of their nationality," said Tadic. "The purpose of
the meeting was to reach a better understanding," he added, saying that
they had agreed that war as a solution was not acceptable for Southeastern
Europe, the Balkans or Kosovo and Metohija, and that it is critically
important to find a solution at the negotiating table between
representatives of Belgrade and Pristina with full responsibility of all
regional states. Tadic concluded that communication between the two sides
is now better than before.
09:40 The chief topics of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will
be the establishment of cooperation in the areas of energy, transportation
and communications, the return of displaced persons and the issue of
missing persons, stated UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri in Belgrade last night
prior to meeting with Serbian officials.
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