On behalf of Darko Trifunovic, I am posting his latest paper, "Terrorism and Organized Crime in South-eastern Europe: The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina – Sandzak, Kosovo and Metohija." An excerpt:
While terrorists and criminal syndicates have different motivations, they both seek financial gain – only terrorists see it as a source of funding their ideological pursuits. As a result, terrorist networks in cooperation with organized crime syndicates generate significant sums of money. Both parties profit from cooperation. Terrorists provide drug supplies, weapons and contacts to drug-makers and smugglers worldwide. They also provide safe havens for organized crime syndicates, because they often control large territories where there is no rule of law. On the other hand, the terrorists can use smuggling routes and illicit trade goods. Both groups gather and exchange intelligence on corrupt state officials in all branches of government.
Islamic fundamentalists, including Al-Qaeda members, realize profits from drug trade in two ways. One is by taking a percentage from the local criminal syndicates, and the other is taking a portion of illicit substances transported towards Western Europe. Profits from those drug sales are used by the terrorists to purchase arms and offer bribes, but increasingly often as well for hiring professional PR and lobbying firms to come up with political justifications of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
Recent discoveries in BH indicate that the trend of terrorist organizations funding themselves from drug sales is on the rise, due to a series of factors:
Financial scrutiny and closing of so-called “humanitarian” organizations that were terror fronts;
Greater pressure on state sponsors of terrorism, resulting in their inability to funnel money to terrorists openly;
Increase in supply of heroin coming from Afghanistan;
Connections between Islamic fundamentalists and organized crime syndicates
Download Terrorism_and_Organized_crime_in_Southeastern_Europe-The_case_of_Bosnia.doc
So another piece of work of the Serbian lobby is here.
We may expect, according to this author, who once upon a time falsified the Bosnian citizenship certificate trying to become a diplomat, that even cows in Bosnia are part of the wider terrorist network.
What about these real terrorists, Karadjic and Mladic, where are they? Does "the expert" knows anything about them?
Bosnian grave yields over a 120 victims
AFP Published:Oct 04, 2007
SARAJEVO - The remains of what are believed to be more than 120 Muslim victims of the Srebrenica massacre have been exhumed from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia, a forensic expert said today.
"So far we have exhumed 19 complete and 105 incomplete skeletons," Murat Hurtic of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Commission told AFP.
The grave, located outside the village of Zeleni Jadar, about 15 kilometres (10 miles) south of Srebrenica, is thought to contain the remains of at least another 50 people, he said.
Some personal documents had also been uncovered from the burial site, which was discovered in September. The remains were crushed and compressed, proving they had been re-buried with bulldozers.
In the final months of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, Bosnian Serb forces killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica massacre - the single worst atrocity on Europe since World War II.
Most of their remains were buried in a large mass grave before being moved by Serbs in an attempt to cover up the crime. Thousands have been uncovered from about 60 mass graves around the eastern town.
The main culprits for the crime - wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic - remain at large.
The Srebrenica massacre has been deemed by the UN war crimes tribunal and the International Court of Justice to have constituted genocide.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=579204
Posted by: Prenj | October 08, 2007 at 14:26
Mr.Prenj, you are mixing War Crimes and Terrorism. I feal that you are trynig to justify Bosnian Muslim connection with worse Terrorist and Global Terrorism with War Crimes committed over the Bosnians during the 90`.
Mirsad Bektašević (born July 30, 1987), alias Maximus, is a Swedish citizen of Bosnian descent who in 2005 was arrested in Sarajevo charged with planning a terrorist attack against an unnamed target. Bektašević was convicted in 2007 alongside three other men and sentenced to 15 years and 4 months of imprisonment.
Mirsad Bektašević was born to Bosniak parents in the Butmir neighbourhood of Ilidža, which is a suburb of the capital Sarajevo. His father Adem Bektašević was killed in a traffic accident while Mirsad Bektašević was a young boy. In 1994, Bektašević moved to Sweden together with his mother Nafija, whose maiden name is Hamidović, and younger brother because of the Siege of Sarajevo. He grew up in Kungälv north of Gothenburg. Bektašević frequently attended the Bellevue Mosque in central Gothenburg[1].
On October 19, 2005, Bektašević was arrested as police raided his aunt's apartment in Butmir, Sarajevo. Abdulkadir Cesur, a 20-year-old Turkish citizen, born and raised in Denmark, was also arrested at the time. In the raid, police found a home-made suicide belt, a quantity of factory-made explosives and a Hi-8 videotape with footage demonstrating how to make a home-made bomb. The both were suspected of planning a suicide attack against a Western embassy in Sarajevo. The two had been under surveillance after arriving in Sarajevo on September 27[2].
The arrests triggered police raids in London and Denmark, where nine others, including Younis Tsouli (alias Irhabi 007), a 22-year-old Moroccan living in London who became an infamous cyber terrorist and key conduit for al-Qaeda in Iraq, were arrested. The arrest of Tsouli was possible due to information found on Bektašević's computer and mobile phone[3].
After his arrest in Sarajevo, Bektašević was also interrogated by the British intelligence service MI5, who named him as the organizer of a suspected plot by Islamic terrorists to carry out multiple suicide bombings of the White House and the Capitol in Washington DC[4].
Bektašević allegedly was an Internet recruiter, under the alias Maximus, for young Muslims to join the insurgency in Iraq. According to the British newspaper The Times, citing police and intelligence sources, Bektašević had visited the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and run one of his web sites[5]. Bektašević also went by the alias Abu Imaad As-Sandzaki on various internet forums.
The trial against Bektašević and three other men, the Danish Turk Cesur Abdulkadir and two Bosnian nationals named Bajro Ikanović and Senad Hasanović, started on June 26, 2006, in Sarajevo[6].
On January 10, 2007, Mirsad Bektašević was sentenced to 15 years and 4 months in prison. Apart from terrorism crimes, Bektašević was convicted of illicit arms possession and violent resistance. Out of the other charged in the trial, Cesur Abdulkadir received 13 years, while Bajro Ikanović was sentenced to 8 years and Senad Hasanović to 2 years and 6 months in prison[7].
On January 16, a Danish citizen of Bosnian descent who is on trial in Denmark on terror-related charges, revealed in the court that he had planned a robbery together with Bektašević[8].
Same with another Bosnian Muslim (all together terrorist)
Sulejman Talović (October 6, 1988[1] – February 12, 2007) was a Bosniak[2] refugee[3] whose family[2] moved to the United States from the small town of Cerska in the Vlasenica municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina[4] and who were living in Salt Lake City, Utah. On February 12, 2007, wearing a tan trench coat,[5] Talović went on a shooting rampage killing five people and wounding several others at Trolley Square, a Salt Lake City shopping mall, before being fatally shot by police. An amateur video of the incident was captured, but little except gunfire can be heard clearly.[6]
Posted by: Zoltan | October 11, 2007 at 16:18
Sulejman Talovic terrorist??? Serbian lobby sites are again distorting the truth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6364677.stm
"Utah killer 'survived Bosnia war'
A Bosnian immigrant who went on a shooting spree in Salt Lake City may have been affected by childhood war experiences, friends and family say.
Sulejman Talovic, 18, was shot dead by police after he had killed five people and wounded four on Monday.
As a small boy, he fled his besieged village and briefly took refuge in Srebrenica, two years before 8,000 Muslims were massacred there.
He lived as a refugee for five years before moving to the US, friends say.
Family friend Murat Avdic said the war must have affected Talovic's state of mind.
"I'm convinced the war did this in Utah," he said.
"There cannot be any other reason."
Mr Avdic described the family as "very decent and quiet".
Friends and relatives say Talovic was aged about four when he fled the village of Talovici on foot after Serb forces overran it.
He and his mother reached Srebrenica - a UN-protected enclave - before being evacuated in a UN convoy.
Standing in front of the burnt-out shell of the family home in eastern Bosnia, Talovic's cousin Redzo described the family as "quiet".
He remembered his cousin as "a nice kid when he was four or five, maybe a little bit playful".
"No-one could have supposed that he was going to do such a thing," he added.
He said the family had never visited Bosnia or kept in touch after moving to the US.
Up to 200,000 people were killed and 1.8 million others lost their homes in the war in Bosnia. "
or ...
http://www.sltrib.com//ci_5238964
or ...
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5431036
Posted by: Prenj | October 13, 2007 at 01:04
And regarding Bektasevic and others, quite contrary to the claims of Mr. Trifunovic, "the expert", authorities in Bosnia apprehended suspects and severely punished them. At the same time war criminals like Karadjic and Mladic are still at large in Serbia guarded by the Serbian army.
Posted by: Prenj | October 13, 2007 at 01:15
"The expert" Trifunovic claims that "Of special consideration is the fact that Islamic terrorists have a widespread network of members and supporters in BH, which is used for trafficking in people, weapons and increasingly drugs."
Three days ago Serbian News Agency (SRNA) reported that Serb from Nevesinje was arrested while trying to smuggle half a kilo of heroine into west Bosnia.
Part of the network supporting Islamic terrorists too?
Part of the network supporting Serbian terrorists?
Or ... he is just a criminal?
http://www.rtrs.tv:8082/vijesti/vijest.php?id=43482
MOSTAR, 10. OKTOBRA (SRNA) - Đorđe Tamindžija (42) iz Nevesinja koji je juče poslijepodne uhapšen u Grudama zbog posjedovanja pola kilograma heroina danas će biti priveden kantonalnom tužiocu na salušanje - saopšteno je iz MUP-a Zapadnohercegovačkog kantona.
MUP je došao do saznanja da jedna osoba planira da u Hercegovačko-neretvanski kanton donese veću količinu heroina, nakon čega su službenici Policijske uprave LJubuški i Policijske uprave Grude, juče u mjestu Ružići, opština Grude, postavili zasjedu.
U saopštenju se navodi da je policija u 13.30 časova u mjestu Ružići, zaseoku Seline, zaustavila auto marke `audi A8", registarskih oznaka BiH, kojim je upravljao Đ.T. (42) iz Nevesinja.
"Budući da smo raspolagali operativnim saznanjima da je Đ. T. sklon vršenju krivičnih djela, on je priveden u službene prostorije, a uz njegov pristanak izvršen je pretres vozila kada je ispod poklopca motora pronađen skriven paket omotan samoljepljivom trakom'', navodi se u saoštenju.
Posted by: Prenj | October 13, 2007 at 07:04