Cultural Suicide?
Building the Wrong Nation
December 11, 2003
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2003 International News Analysis Today
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Despite the "war on terror," Europe and the United States are committing virtual suicide by allowing fundamentalist Islamic terrorists to organize and finance their operations close to cities, travel arteries, power stations, and other tempting, vulnerable targets.
While the U.S. media - liberal and conservative - are caught up in the latest news of the pale riders of the Democratic Party, shocking reports documenting terrorist threats to the West have gone virtually unnoticed.
Reports of terror operations in North and South America consistently indicate that Islamic fundamentalist terror gangs are able to slip with near impunity across both the southern and northern borders of the U.S.
As the U.S. must come to terms with protecting a long border traditionally left virtually unguarded, both the U.S. and Europe are engaged in a nation building scheme which is assisting groups and individuals who have the same aims as the terror cells in North and South America.
Birth of a Nation - Sort of
In Kosovo, a small but strategically important area in the always-turbulent Balkan Peninsula, the U.S. and Europe are assisting in the birth of a nation dominated by Muslim radicals trained by Osama bin Laden.
Kosovo is a terror transit center for various destinations, including the U.S., and is located close to the heart of Europe.
Although still technically part of Serbia, Kosovo is a U.N./NATO protectorate since the end of the 1999 NATO air war against the now-defunct Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The 1999 NATO air war was waged on behalf of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The Western powers had accused Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of perpetrating mass atrocities against the Kosovo Albanians.
To date, no evidence for atrocities against the Albanians in Kosovo has come to light, although the Serbs now charge the Albanians -- who now run the Kosovo government - with expelling all non-Muslims, and burning Christian churches, some over 500 years old.
A Haven for Terrorists
Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic of Serbia has recently condemned Kosovo as a "haven for terrorists," and Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic referred to Kosovo as "the best example of the connection between crime and politics," according to a recent report by Radio Serbia-Montenegro, the official broadcasting service of the Serbia-Montenegro.
Covic lashed out at the U.N./NATO effort at nation building, declaring that Kosovo represents the connection between "the financing of so-called national projects with dirty money," Radio Serbia-Montenegro recently reported.
Little Coverage in the U.S.
A daring undercover investigation, which has received little coverage in the U.S. press, confirmed the suspicions of many that Kosovo is an arms dealer's paradise, and that the arms dealers are closely connected with international terror.
Two undercover reporters and a black market arms dealer met in a house opposite the home of the British representative to Kosovo. The transaction took place "under the nose" of British troops patrolling the area, according to a recent report in the Sunday Mirror.
The arms seller was deputy commander of the purportedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, a group trained by Osama bin Laden's terror group, and is reputed to have close links with the Kosovo Protection Corps, a group sanctioned and organized by U.N./NATO authorities.
The undercover reporters passed themselves off as members of the terrorist group Real IRA, and purchased enough of the explosive Semtex to "arm 30 suicide bombers," or blow up the British Parliament. The seller of the explosives stated that he could supply enough "for a small war," according to the Sunday Mirror.
Shoulder-launched rockets, anti-aircraft guns, and a host of small arms were also offered for sale.
U.N./NATO Plans?
While Kosovo is technically a Serb province according to U.N. Resolution 1244, the U.N./NATO administrators have made the Kosovo government nearly independent of Serbia, although U.N./NATO authorities deny they favor complete independence.
Many observers, however, openly wonder what kind of state the U.N./NATO administration is bringing into being.
Along with the sale of arms, trafficking in people and illegal drugs flourishes in Kosovo, and is an open scandal in the Balkans, a region itself notorious for illegal transactions of every conceivable type.
Many Kosovo Albanians are either sympathetic or actively supportive of Muslim terror groups, and seek the establishment of a "Greater Albania," a Muslim state comprising Kosovo, Albania itself, and parts of Macedonia, Greece, and Montenegro.
The U.S. remains militarily involved in Kosovo, with 5,000 troops at Camp Bondsteel and another 2,000 at Camp Monteith, with additional U.S. forces stationed in the region.
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