FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE INVOLVEMENT IN THE BALKANS
Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from Ioannis Michaletos
Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands in establishing their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans. Their intelligence agencies have also collaborated. According to intelligence sources, covert support to the KOSOVO rebel army was established as a joint endeavor between the CIA and GERMANY’S Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND) (which previously played a key role in installing a right wing nationalist government under Franjo Tudjman in CROATIA). The task to create and finance the KLA was initially given to GERMANY. Allegedly they used GERMAN uniforms, East GERMAN weapons and were financed, in part, with drug money. The CIA on the other hand was, subsequently instrumental in training and equipping the KLA in ALBANIA.
ALLEGEDLY, GERMANY AND THE USA FAVORED THE FORMATION OF A “GREATER ALBANIA”
The covert activities of GERMANY’S BND were consistent with Bonn’s intent to expand its “Lebensraum” into the BALKANS.
Prior to the onset of the civil war in BOSNIA, GERMANY and its Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher had actively supported secession; it had “forced the pace of international diplomacy” and pressured its Western allies to recognize SLOVENIA and CROATIA. According to Geopolitical Drug Watch, both GERMANY and the US favored (although not officially) the formation of a “GREATER ALBANIA” encompassing ALBANIA, KOSOVO and parts of FYROM. According to Sean Gervasi, US economist, GERMANY was seeking a free hand among its allies “to pursue economic dominance in the whole of “MITTELEUROPA“.
See: “GREATER ALBANIA” http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/greater-albania-united-states-project.html
THE EMERGENCE OF “BALKAN JIHAD” AND ITS PROGRESS IN THE REGION
After the 9/11, a worldwide “War on terror” begun in order to disband and neutralize Islamic terrorist networks across the globe. The main focus of the largest anti-terrorist campaign in history is focused in the MIDDLE EAST area, as well as in AFGHANISTAN.
The BALKAN Peninsula is EUROPE’S “turf “where this campaign also took place, with numerous arrests and a continuous effort into riding fundamentalist cells out of the area. The question arising though, is how did the extremists gain a foothold in South Eastern EUROPE in the first place, and what was the reaction of the IC (International Community) over the previous years?
THE PRESENCE OF ISLAM IN THE BALKANS DATES BACK TO THE 13TH CENTURY.
In order to create the much needed mercenary armies, against the then archenemy, the FRANCS, BYZANTINE Emperors allowed Muslim TURKS into modern day BULGARIA. They were used mainly as cavalry forces due to their excellent techniques in that kind of war. Over the coming decades the antagonism between the FRANCS and the VATICAN from one side and the BYZANTIUM from the other, led to the final conquest of Constantinople by the OTTOMAN TURKS in 1453. Gradually virtually the whole of the BALKANS came under Muslim dominance and were included in the Dar al Islam territory stretching from the Hindu river and up to Gibraltar.
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In BOSNIA in particular the sect of Bogomils –Eastern Orthodox sect-, converted to Islam for a variety of societal and spiritual reasons. Since the Bogomils were the affluent class of the central BALKANS they soon became the ruling class over millions of Christians of mostly Slavic descent.
In ALBANIA the Islamic takeover had a dramatic effect and in a matter of 150 years 2/3rds of the population converted from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism to Islam. The main reason for such a large proselytism in ALBANIA had been the traditional adherence towards stronger rulers that the mountainous ALBANIANS had since their early history. During the time of the Roman Empire, the ALBANIANS served as elite corps in the Armies of the Emperors Empires –i.e. Diocletian was of ALBANIAN descent- and tended to absorb the cultural and religious norms of their regional superintendents.
The same was the case in the more or less GREEK dominated Byzantium. As soon as the “Eastern Roman Empire” waned in favor of the Western one; there was a mass conversion to Catholicism in the early 13th century.
The historical collective path of the ALBANIAN people can be compared with that of the mountainous SWITZERLAND, that absorbed influences and norms from the much larger and influential neighbors (GERMANY, FRANCE, and ITALY ).
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA IN 1992 - TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE FIRST ISLAMIC STATE IN EUROPE?
It is against this historical background that the Islamic fundamentalist drama in the BALKANS evolved in the 1990s. Evan F. Kohlmann, author of Al-Qaeda’s Jihad in EUROPE: The AFGHAN-BOSNIAN Network argues that “key to understanding Al Qaida’s EUROPEAN cells lies in the BOSNIAN war of the 1990s”. Using the BOSNIAN war as their cover, AFGHAN-TRAINED Islamic militants loyal to Osama bin Laden convened in the BALKANS in 1992 to establish a EUROPEAN domestic terrorist infrastructure in order to plot their violent strikes against the UNITED STATES.
So, the outbreak of the civil war in BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA in 1992 presented an unparalleled opportunity for the international Mujaheedin to storm EUROPE, establish safe havens in the area and thus initiate re-conquest of regions they previously ruled. The leader of BOSNIA, Alia Izebegovic was eager to obtain as much assistance as possible and didn’t hesitate in providing the necessary framework by which Islamic ties were forged.
In the same year, a variety of Islamic mercenaries flocked into the Balkans in order to support the “Holy cause”, meaning the establishment of the first Islamic state in Europe. See: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islamic_terrorism.htmThe end of the war in 1995 saw quite a few of those mujahedin, acquiring BOSNIAN citizenship and establishing the first Islamic community in the village of Bocinja Donja. See: http://www.balkanpeace.org/index.php?index=/content/wtb/wtb12.incl
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During 2006 and 2007, hundreds of citizenships were revoked by Islamists residing in BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. Nevertheless the whereabouts of most of them remain unknown, raising fears for potential terrorist acts in the future and on European soil. Furthermore, Novi Pazar a town in SANDŽAK, an area in SOUTHERN SERBIA; which has become a core for Islamic fundamentalism, linked with Al-Qaeda cells. Novi Pazar is the focus of the Islamist attempt to build a ‘land bridge “from ALBANIA and KOSOVO to BOSNIA.
Background Information:
SANDŽAK REGION, NOT ONLY THE GATEWAY FOR BALKANS ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATES, BUT ALSO FOR SPREADING WAHHBISM TO EUROPE?
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ORGANIZED CRIME AND “GREY” ECONOMY OF BIH AND SANDŽAK
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EXTREMISTS ESTABLISH FOOTHOLD IN THE BALKANS
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Further to the East, in southern SERBIA’S Raška Oblast, are three other concentrations of Muslims: Sjenica and Pester area (lightly populated but mostly Muslim), Prijepolje (some 50 percent Muslim) and — very close to the BOSNIA border where REPUBLICA SRPSKA controls the slender Gorazde corridor — Priboj (also some 50 percent Muslim). The land between is SERBIAN farmland, but the Islamist goal is to link the cities as “evidence” that the entire region is, or should be, Muslim territory. The same strategy worked successfully in BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, where SERBIAN farmers were driven off their lands during the civil war.
Just south of the SERBIAN area of Raška Oblast is the MONTENEGRIN part of Raška region, where, 60 to 80 percent of Bijeljo Polje inhabitants are Muslims. Pijevlja, close to the BOSNIAN border, is 40 percent Muslim. These MONTENEGRIN towns, like those of the WESTERN SERBIAN Raška region, are the key to the illicit arms and narco-trafficking across the Gorazde Corridor to BOSNIA.
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