War crimes suspects released. (Insider Reported).(Sefer Halilovic, Yugoslavia)(Brief Article)

Last December, the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague "provisionally" released four senior Bosnian Muslim military officers accused of war crimes, including one who threatened a "war on tenor" against the West. The suspects, who were indicted for alleged crimes against Croats in 1993, were among the foreign "Mujahideen" fighters who were trained and equipped with the help of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. The most prominent detainee was Sefer Halilovic, the former commander of the Bosnian Muslim Army.

According to the March 18, 1993 issue of Newsweek, Halilovic "threatened to conduct a campaign of 'terror in democratic Europe' to punish the West if it fails to help Bosnia." Halilovic issued this threat shortly before the first World Trade Center bombing in January 1993 -- a terrorist act now known to have been carried out by elements of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. Between 1992 and 1995, bin Laden -- along with Iranian intelligence -- supplied Halilovic's Bosnian army with tens of thousands of Mujahideen fighters. As we pointed out previously (see "Behind the Terror Network" in our November 5, 2001 issue), a House Select Subcommittee concluded that the purpose of the Mujahideen invasion of the Balkans was to give "Iran an unprecedented foothold in ...