How the US and EU succeeded in paving the way for Islamic terrorism’s surge into Europe by destroying Yugoslavia and conducting an anti-Serb policy

Belgrade, 28.04.2004.

By destroying Yugoslavia and creating a chain of client “Banana Republics” unable to service their own needs and control their own territory, conditions were created for the sudden appearance and malignant growth of various criminal groups, for all kinds of smuggling, and, ultimately, for the nurture and upsurge of Islamic terrorism. By the creation of an Islamic Bosnia and by the forcible extraction of Kosovo from Serbia, ground was cleared for an incursion of Islamic terrorism into Europe. Today, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have become the centers for the gathering, training and residence of sundry Islamic terrorists on their way to designated targets in various European cities. By conscious design or by accident, the West has thrown the gates of Europe wide open to terrorism, so that the Madrid massacre was the only possible outcome of such policy. Both Europe and America are yet to feel the full impact of terrorist activities which they themselves have sown and fostered. Both in Kosovo and Bosnia a “White Al Qaida” is being created and intensively trained, to provide basic logistics support for future terrorist activities.

Yet, several centuries ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire protected itself from the Islamic threat by populating its southern borders with Serb yeomen, whose sole duty was to guard the frontiers in exchange for a free military status (as opposed to the feudal bondage of  the surrounding Croat population). Today, Serbs have been ethnically cleansed from that territory, as the present-day ethnic map of the former Yugoslavia reveals. A Muslim state has been created in Bosnia, and Kosovo has been taken away from Serbia. This has given rise to the creation of major, interconnected drug and weapons smuggling chains and routes. They also may best be seen by looking at the ethnic map, where blue indicates the areas once populated by the ethnically-cleansed Serbs in Kosovo, central Bosnia and Croatia.

·          Route “A” (the Albanian Connection) comprises the main “Highway” going from Albania, through Macedonia, across the practically non-existent frontier to Kosovo, and then to central Bosnia, from where it branches off towards Europe. A part of that route goes across Lake Scutari into northern Montenegro, where it weaves through the Albanian and Muslim-populated regions of Plav and Gusinje, the Slav Muslim town of Rozaje, through the Serbian region of Raska (called by its Muslim population the “Sanjak”, meaning the Ottoman Turk military frontier towards Europe), ending up, once again, in Bosnia.

·          Route “Z” (the “Green Route”) starts from the mostly Muslim-populated southern Bulgaria. Muslims there generally have pure Slavic names, since the former People’s Socialist State of Bulgaria forced them to change their Islamic names and turn atheist. Most of them formally complied, but remained fiercely loyal to their Muslim heritage. The Green Route then goes through the Macedonian Kumanovo region to a Regrouping Center (RC) in Presevo, Serbia. The Green Route is actually a major communications “Highway” from Turkey to central Bosnia. (In Bosnia it is known as “Zetra” (an acronym from Serbo-Croat “Zelena transverzala”, the Green Route). It is a major land link that the Balkan Muslims have tried for decades to make ethnically exclusively their own, to ensure a pan-Islamic salient into Europe. That is why ethnic Albanians in Serbia tried so hard to make the “Presevo Valley,” as well as the Macedonian Kumanovo region, ethnically purely Albanian, and to join them to the Serbian Raska region (the “Sanjak”), which would, via the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in Bosnia, ensure a continual land connection with the Middle East. A critical point in their plans is the Serb-populated Northern Kosovska Mitrovica, which explains their persistent attempts to gain that city and the surrounding area, and to ethnically cleanse its Serbs. In this strategy of introducing Islamic fundamentalism into Europe, the Serb regions of Kosovo and Metohija (known merely as “Kosovo” to the West) play a crucial role. Without that region and a Muslim-dominated “Sanjak,” there can be no Albanian Connection, or the Green Route.

·          Route “D” (the “Dubrovnik Route”) is used less often. It goes from the coastal city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, across the frontier crossing Debeli Brijeg into Montenegro, and is conveniently masked as a commercial smuggling route between Croatia and the Republic of Srpska. The “R” Route (the “Rijeka Connection”) is used only in cases of well-organized logistics support in Croatia, for the direct transport of terrorists into Europe.

Which of these routes will be used depends on the time of the year and the weather, since many routes are either unusable or very difficult to negotiate in winter. For terrorist activities, the availability of a territory continuously populated with Muslims, which can be transversed on foot without any documents or surveillance is crucial. This is of special importance for suicide bombers or professional assassins. Also, these ethnically-cleansed, Muslim territories are used for setting up supply dumps and training camps, where terrorist can be trained in the use of explosives, advanced weapons systems, and other special forces skills and crafts. These territories also serve as “Waiting Centers” for the opening of other routes into central Europe, or merely as safe havens, where further activities may be organized at the terrorists’ discretion. These Centers are controlled by various terrorist organizations closely linked with the local ruling political structures and militant religious Islamic networks. All these systems and initiatives are additionally fortified by the ideology of “higher national and religious goals.”

In the Regrouping Centers (RCs), the White Al Qaida recruits its fighters and operatives, counting on their European (Caucasian) features to facilitate their role as logistics support for its war against the West. The White Al Qaida plans to use the already well-established drug and weapons smuggling routes to confuse Western intelligence services concerning the true nature of its activities. That is, these services have to determine whether they are facing petty commercial smuggling, drugs or human trafficking, or a major logistics operation for a terrorist strike against Western targets. At the moment, some 500 Wahabis (Islamic fundamentalists practicing the official Saudi Arabian version of Islam) are using these centers to provide ideological instruction to the local Muslims. The efficacy of their efforts may be attested by the fact that, among others, Osama Bin Laden is a Wahabi. A further insight into the problem may be gained by knowing that 1/3 of all criminal inmates in Swiss jails are ethnic Albanians, sentenced mostly for drug trafficking, so it is fair to expect the White Al Qaida to use their infrastructure and their intricate network of drugs, human, and weapons smuggling throughout the EU. The situation is further aggravated by its marriage of religious and nationalistic agendas to billions of dollars of dirty money.

For decades, these well-developed routes of drug trafficking into the EU have been going mostly through Croatia and Slovenia, so that these states can offer the terrorists a well-developed logistics structure. In view of the extremely close relationship between the Albanians and Bosnian Muslims with the Croats and Slovenes in their struggle against Serbia, as well as their recent cooperation in dismembering the former Yugoslavia, it is easy to imagine the quantity of interpersonal smuggling connections and interests still mutually profitable. In short, once in Bosnia, the Islamic fundamentalists and militants are just a step from central Europe.

Unfortunately, terrorists have been provided almost unlimited comfort and support by the very countries and administrations having the most trouble with them today. It is common knowledge that certain German intelligence networks and services gave special forces training to bogus Albanian political asylum seekers as early as 1990, and still maintain their instruction teams in Albania proper. American services began training the Croats, then the Bosnian Muslims, without ever having stopped training the Albanians in Albania. Also active in this line of work were the British, Turks, Austrians, Hungarians... Added to this were the activities of several hundred “retired” Western generals, military officers, special forces and intelligence instructors, to make it even harder to determine who trained whom, and for what purposes.

Recently, a statement made by the Director of the International Strategic Studies Institute, Gregory Copley, made a splash in Washington, but was quickly “sanitized”. Copley said that one of the sixteen American intelligence services still trained terrorists in Albania and spirited them over the border into Kosovo and the Serbian Raska region. Copley stated then that he had proof of connections between Albanian terrorists and the Al Qaida. General P. M. Gallois, the French expert, in his analyses of the Balkan situation, said that the US, Germany and Turkey had armed the ethnic Albanian terrorists, promising them independence. Many international experts and analysts have written of this. It is well known that Bin Laden is a native of Saudi Arabia, and that he still has substantial assets in that country, whereas Saudi Arabia itself is a major financier of numerous Islamic fundamentalist militants and terrorists throughout the world. That country is financially aiding the Palestinian Hamas, the Egyptian Gama, the Algerian Fis, the Bosnian SDA, the ethnic Albanian UCK and ANA... The money is channeled through the Organization for Islamic Charity, Beit el-Zakat, the Alliance for Islamic Reform and numerous humanitarian organizations. In Germany, ethnic Albanian political activist, Bujar Bukoshi, has been active for years, and his rich compatriot, Bedxet Pacolli, has been organizing ethnic Albanian sedition in various Balkan states from his homes in Switzerland and Italy... They and many others have been extremely effective in gathering financial aid for their brethren Albanians in Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, and even Greece, without their host countries showing any disturbance at their endeavor.

All these facts are well and widely known, yet official US and EU policy has not changed significantly. Everything is still being officially denied or kept under wraps. International terrorism is still being viewed through a variety of political angles, so that some of its manifestations are regarded as desirable, whereas others are decried. Unfortunately, through their nefarious and mistaken calculations, many have been instrumental in creating this monster that has gotten out of control. Spain has been the first European country to pay a high price for supporting such policies. In Kosovo itself, March 17^th of this year saw an explosion of terrorism, downplayed by the Western media as “ethnic violence”. Unfortunately, “ethnic violence” involves two sides, whereas the Kosovo outburst involved only one: ethnic Albanians murdering and burning Serbs in their homes and churches. How many more victims are to share the Kosovo Serbs’ fate, and how many more European cities have to be savaged like Madrid, before US and EU realize what they have unleashed with their actions in Bosnia and Kosovo?

Zvonimir Trajkovic

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