IN THIS SECTION
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9/11-1 General
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9/11-2a Saudi Arabia as Player
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9/11 2b Saudi Arabia links
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9/11-3 No Planes
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9/11-4 Mossad Did It
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9/11-5 Bosnia Connection (here)
Background Bosnian War Greece American Center for Democracy article
American Conservative article
Political Mavens Article Bosnian Mujahideen article
Background and Info on Bosnia and vicinity in general
The National: We have a different kind of Muslim say Bosnia’s Muslims (2013)
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/we-have-a-different-kind-of-islam-say-bosnia-s-muslims-1.649857
State dot gov: US Relations with Kosovo - US Department of State (2017)
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/100931.htm
Tandf online:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2014.998186
Cultural Survival: Producing annihilating the ethnos of Bosnian Islam. By Buturovic Amila (06/1995)
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/producing-and-annihilating-ethnos-
bosnian-islam
9/11
Bosnian Mujahideen article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_mujahideen
American Conservative article
The American Conservative: The Bosnian Connection. By Brendan O’Neill (07/16/2007)
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-bosnian-connection/ Excerpt: The Bosnia experience had a
transformative effect on both. It made some on the Left pro-interventionist, and it turned some Mujahideen from
religious nationalists, as they had been in Afghanistan, into self-described cross-border warriors against evil. It is
striking how many al-Qaeda attacks were facilitated or carried out by veterans of the Bosnian jihad. Khalid Sheikh
Mohammad, architect of the 9/11 attacks, fought in Bosnia, as did two of the hijackers. One of the main suspects in
the Madrid train bombings trained in Bosnia. (He, too, was inspired to go there by Western media coverage.) The
foiled “millennium plot” to blow up the Los Angeles airport in 2000 was overseen by individuals with connections
to Bosnia, as were the 1998 African embassy bombings. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-
bosnian-connection/
But no matter who was ultimately responsible, the fact is we had enough information to stop 9/11, but since we did
not, something was off. Part of the reason is likely the overall mindset of the country itself in dealing with
perceived abnormalities.
BOSNIAN WAR GREECE
Unholy Alliance Greece and Milosevic’s Serbia
http://www.bosniafacts.info/modern-history/serbian-aggression/56-unholy-alliance-greece-and-milosevic-s-serbia
Greek Complicity in Bosnian War Crimes (2002)
http //www geocities.ws/famous_bosniaks/english/unholy_alliance.htm
Courts Corruption
http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/greece
World War II - Crete and Greek Main Land Fronts - Nazis/Axis Occuption - Greek REsistance
Greek Resistance - Jewish Connection. By Steven Bowman
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/greek-resistance-during-world-war-ii
American Center for Democracy
http://acdemocracy.org/al-qaedas-balkan-ties-the-bosnian-connections-to-the-world-trade-center-attacks-an-acd-
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Names in article:
Kosovo jihadi Lavdrim Muhaxheri Bosnian jihad veteran Omar Saeed Sheik Kosovo jihadi Blerim Heta, “the
Balkans first suicide bomber,” killed over twenty people in Baghdad in March 2014 endorsing suicide
terrorism—Bosnian Wahhabi leader Sheik Nusret Imamović Alija Izetbegović/Bosnia under the Izetbegović,
regime
Excerpt: …With respect to the Balkans, for instance, by one estimate the Saudis alone spent $1 billion (US) on
“Islamic activities” in Bosnia between 1992-98.[1]…As we have seen in the case of the Balkans, when these elements
converge, the outcome is an intelligence and security debacle, as is clear from reviewing the numerous Bosnian
connections to the World Trade Center attacks in 1993 and 2001.
In April 2008, Richard Holbrooke claimed that “If it had not been for the Dayton Peace Accords, 9/11 would probably
have been planned in Bosnia, not in Afghanistan.”[2] The numerous Bosnian connections to both World Trade
Center attacks suggest that the situation was probably even more serious than Holbrooke realized. Although no
evidence has yet emerged that Izetbegov ić, or his associates had prior knowledge of or approved of the two World
Trade Center attacks, what is clear is that they directly associated and collaborated with the individuals and groups
that did. As former Al Qaeda operative Ali Hamad testified, during the Izetbegović, period Al Qaeda operatives
came to Bosnia with “state protection,” [3] and both the U.S. and Saudi governments accused the Izetbegović,
regime of providing travel documents to known terrorists.[4] In just one telling example of the extent to which
international terrorists could obtain new identities in Bosnia, in September 1997 Italian police uncovered a plot to
assassinate the late Pope John Paul II during a pastoral visit to Bologna—and all of the fourteen men arrested were
travelling on Bosnian passports. [5] Indeed, Izetbegović, could probably boast hosting more international terrorists
per square kilometer of territory he controlled than could Mullah Omar and the Taliban in Afghanistan.[6] As
Richard Clarke, former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and National Security noted,
“Many of the names we first encountered in Bosnia showed up later in other roles, working for Al Qaeda . . ..
Although Western intelligence agencies never labeled [the mujahedin activities] in Bosnia an al Qaeda jihad, it is
now clear that is exactly what it was.”[7]
How and why Bosnia became what is probably Al Qaeda’s main safe haven and operational base in Europe is a
complicated story, of which the war in Bosnia in the 1990s certainly plays a large part. Outmanned and outgunned,
it was predictable that the Izetbegović, regime would accept help from where it could get it.
Yet to reduce Al Qaeda’s presence in the region to the exigencies of war ignores the many other factors involved in
this phenomenon. Here a comparison of the different trajectories Bosnia and Kosovo have taken with respect to
Islamist militancy is instructive, for it reveals the vital importance local leadership choices play in determining
whether or not Al Qaeda establishes a prominent presence in a specific country. Both Bosnia and Kosovo (together
with Albania) can be said to have the most secular and pro-Western Muslim populations in the world. Yet although
Kosovo is fighting its own battle against Islamist extremism, Kosovo’s dominant elites never showed any express
interest in militant political Islamism.
Bosnia provides a substantially different example. Support and enthusiasm for extreme Islamist movements is a
demonstrable constant in Alija Izetbegović,’s political career. From the 1940s, when Izetbegović’s “Young Muslim”
movement swore an oath asking Allah to grant them perseverance on their “path of jihad,” their “uncompromising
struggle against everything non-Islamic” and their self-confessed goal of creating a “great Islamic state,” to the
1970s when Izetbegović, would claim that “There is no peace or coexistence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic
social and political institutions,” to the early 1980s when Izetbegović, and his colleagues were building relationships
with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic,[8] what remained consistent in Izetbegović’s political outlook was a
preference for more extreme Islamic states such as Pakistan and Iran and a pronounced distaste for moderate,
secularly-oriented Muslim states such as Kemalist Turkey.[9] As Robert Baer, a CIA agent stationed in Bosnia during
the war noted, “In Sarajevo, the Bosnian Muslim government is a client of the Iranians . . . If it’s a choice between
the CIA and the Iranians, they’ll take the Iranians any day.”[10] Dangerous evidence of this was seen when
Izetbegović’s intelligence service betrayed the incoming CIA station chief to the Iranians in Bosnia, who quickly
beginning planning his assassination.[11]
Apart from leadership choices, another factor playing a large role in how Bosnia became such an important
element in Al Qaeda’s global strategy was financial. The hundreds of millions of dollars states such as Saudi Arabia,
Iran and other hardline Islamic countries put into Bosnia bought considerable loyalty, or at the very least a
willingness on the part of Izetbegov ić’s officials to ignore the activities of the numerous “charities” and
“humanitarian organizations” operating as Al Qaeda front operations in Bosnia. In 1996, the CIA determined that
Izetbegović, himself was “literally on the [Iranian] payroll,” receiving on just one occasion $500,000 (US) in cash
from Iranian agents.[12]
http://acdemocracy.org/al-qaedas-balkan-ties-the-bosnian-connections-to-the-world-trade-center-attacks-an-acd-
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Other
Political Mavens: Bosna helped fund the 9/11 attacks on America By Julia Gorin
http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/06/24/bosnia-helped-fund-the-911-attacks-on-america/?print=1
Excerpt: Bosnia Helped Fund the 9/11 Attacks on America
By Julia Gorin (bio)
Comment by Julia: On the website of Andy Wilcoxson, the only American to cover the Milosevic trial (which was
billed as the Second Nuremberg and prosecuting supposedly the biggest atrocity since World War II), we have a
report from a predominantly Muslim Sarajevo TV station.
Bosnian TV alleges Muslim official linked to 9/11 attacks
BBC Monitoring European. London: May 9, 2008.
Excerpt from report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 5 May
[Host Bakir Hadziomerovic] On last nights [Bosnian] Federation Television prime-time news, it was reported that
the OHR [Office of the High Representative] anti-corruption team was completing an extensive investigation
against several individuals involved in economic crime, aiding war criminals and terrorist activities worldwide as
well as individuals involved in the wide network of construction mafia. Based on reliable information, tonight we
are revealing the names of the people whose illegal, criminal and terrorist activities have already been proven by
the anti-corruption team.
According to exclusive confirmations [that we have received], the investigation conducted by OHR experts
concerns Hasan Cengic, member of the SDA [Party of Democratic Action] Main Board and a person who during the
aggression against our country was the master of the TWRA [Vienna-based Muslim charity suspected of helping
smuggle arms into Bosnia and channelling funds to radical Islamists] donor chest. In addition to Cengics criminal
undertakings involving donated funds worth several million, which 60 Minutes has repeatedly reported on in detail,
the anti-corruption team has allegedly come into possession of a document in which Hasan Cengic personally
signed a money transfer intended for the Al-Qaidah 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. […]
According to reliable and confirmed information from diplomatic quarters, the anti-corruption team will soon
submit all the gathered documentation proving brutal criminality as well as involvement in terrorist activities and
in the hiding of war criminals to the B-H [Bosnia-Hercegovina] prosecutors office special department for organized
crime, after which arrests and trials of those responsible will ensue.
So lets understand what is happening here: While Western powers continue to deny that Bosnia and Kosovo have
become terror havens, transit points, and bases of operations, some Bosnian Muslims themselves (and this isnt the
first time) are calling their government out (though most are still in a Western-encouraged denial). Similarly, while
Western governments continue to inflate the true number of people killed during the Bosnian war and want us to
keep thinking the deaths were almost exclusively Muslim something called The Bosnia Association (again, made
up mostly of Muslims) is trying to get the real numbers and victims, even if theyre Serb and Christian. As to the
Muslim report above calling the secessionist war THEY started an aggression against [their] country, we must be
content with baby steps when it comes to dealing with the Middle East, even if its in Europe.
Moral of the story: It was OK with our government that the Bosnian embassy in Austria, which issued a passport to
Osama bin Laden in 1992, was issuing passports to mujahedin streaming into Bosnia, but as to the no-brainer that
while the Bosnian officials were doing this they were also funding and facilitating future attacks against the West,
well dont expect to hear any word from our government anytime soon. Last summer a U.S. official tried to broach
the subject of Bosnia as a fundamentalist/terrorist breeding ground:
Al-Qaidah has helpers in Bosnia, deputy peace envoy says (Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency
SRNA)
Sarajevo, 18 August: Bosnia-Hercegovina [B-H] Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian has underlined
that Al-Qaidah has its helpers in B-H who are ready to assist in hiding agents, giving financial assistance or false
documents.
Gregorian said that over the past few years the international community has continuously pointed out the problem
of the mujahidin presence in B-H, assessing that it was time for this issue to be resolved.
He emphasized that foreign fighters should have left B-H long ago, while some of them have been declared as a
threat to the national security of B-H.
Asked whether a few dozen dangerous [persons] had links with Al-Qaidah, Gregorian said that some of them did
and that there were people who fought in B-H who in some way were directly linked to Al-Qaidah.
There are definite indications that some of those who were detected had links with Al-Qaidah, he said, adding that
some intelligence agencies consider B-H as one of Al-Qaidahs transit points.
He confirmed that hundreds of people were granted B-H citizenship under suspicious circumstances or in an
unlawful way
http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/06/24/bosnia-helped-fund-the-911-attacks-on-america/?print=1
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Terrorism: 9/11-5
Bosnia Connection
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