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Al-Qaeda's Balkan presence. (Insider Report).
While the Bush administration redirected its focus in the "war on terror" to Iraq, U.S. troops under UN/NATO command are scouring the Balkans for al-Qaeda agents. StrategyPage.com reported in late September that "NATO troops continue to comb [Bosnia] looking for al-Qaeda members and sympathizers. Names of these men are being picked up in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and dozens have been found hiding out in Bosnia."
Significantly, Bosnia is a UN protectorate carved out of the former Yugoslavia with the help of U.S. military intervention. The Muslim component of the multi-ethnic Bosnian government has long been aligned with both Iran and Osama bin Laden.
The 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia resulted in the UN setting up another protectorate in the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo, now under the rule of the so-called Kosovo Liberation ...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Loza, Tihomir May 17, 1999 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Seper, Jerry May 8, 1999 700+ words
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- NATO shies away from KLA tactics, ideology.(A)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Smucker, Philip May 5, 1999 700+ words
...greater barrier to arming the KLA is that Europe does not want...Washington Times show that some KLA members have been trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere funded...heroin have gone to finance the KLA war effort. The rebel army has...
- KLA buys arms with illicit funds.(A)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Seper, Jerry June 4, 1999 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Seper, Jerry May 4, 1999 700+ words
...including 12 Americans. The KLA members, embraced by...camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere...reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists...financially supported the KLA. Many border crossings...group Islamic Jihad from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan...
- KLA faces disarming, accusations.
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...Kosovars, apparently KLA members, who tried to...Serbs were kidnapped by KLA members in Pec on Friday...expelled 250 Serb exiles from Bosnia and Croatia from the Vucitrn municipality, said Bosnia's Srna news agency...police earlier this week, KLA fighters broke into the...
- More KLA incidents; talks continue.
- News wire article from: United Press International June 21, 1999 700+ words
...harassment of Serb civilians by the KLA have come to light. In Pristina...group of persons, apparently KLA members, who tried to force...another 10 Serbs were kidnapped by KLA members in Pec on Friday night...expelled 250 Serb exiles from Bosnia and Croatia from a location in...
- Mercenaries IN KOSOVO: The U.S. connection to the KLA.(includes related article...
- Magazine article from: The Progressive MADSEN, WAYNE August 1, 1999 700+ words
The U.S. connection to the KLA Meeting in the fourth floor conference room...Its client: the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). MPRI is one of a handful of Pentagon...military companies providing support to the KLA, according to retired Army Colonel David...
