A report with photographs on the website of a Bosnian company, Bosmal D.O.O suggests that the company has the support of Hilary Clinton( http://www.bosmal.com/en/?lg=en&nav_ID=5&ID=207) and Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton administration assistant secretary of state who is said to be the architect of the Dayton Peace Agreement of 1995.( http://www.bosmal.com/en/?lg=en&nav_ID=5&ID=139).
In addition, the website also reports a business association with Retd General Wesley Clark, "former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and a key architect of the Dayton Peace Accords." ( http://www.bosmal.com/en/?lg=en&nav_ID=5&ID=172 )
The website is registered in the name of one Mevludin Sinanagic, who is, according to an Internet registery's document, owner of the website, and from the company Bosmal D.O.O.
The same person appears to be the person in charge or at least the contact person for the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) , in Visoko, Bosnia Herzegovina.(www.bbs.bund.de/visoko/kontaktadressen.htm)
According to a Washington Post story published in 1996 (archived at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/bosvote/front.htm):
….…… The story of the Third World Relief Agency, reconstructed from documents and interviews with police, banking officials and intelligence sources, makes clear how much the Bosnian government depended on outside aid to obtain and pay for desperately needed weapons. It also shows how the embargo drove the Muslim government into alliances with some of the world's most radical states, as well as terrorist movements ……..militants in the terrorist underworld are also believed to have used the relief agency to get money to the Bosnian government, including the wealthy Saudi Arabian emigre Osama Binladen, a suspected sponsor of militant Islamic groups around the Middle East….. Investigators say the agency also had ties to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a radical Egyptian cleric who was convicted of planning several terrorist bombings in New York and is linked to the group that carried out the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. …….. A senior Western diplomat in the region said the Clinton administration knew about the Third World Relief Agency and its activities beginning in 1993. Still, the United States took no action to stop its fund-raising or arms purchases, in large part because of the administration's sympathy for the Muslim government and ambivalence about maintaining the arms embargo.
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