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  America Used Islamists to Arm the Bosnian Muslims: The Srebrenica Report Reveals the Pentagon's Role in a Dirty War - ...
One of its many volumes is devoted to clandestine activities during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s.
By 1993 these groups, many supported by Iran and Saudi Arabia, were anxious to help Bosnian Muslims fighting in the former Yugoslavia and called in their debts with the Americans.
Mossad was especially active and concluded a deal with the Bosnian Serbs at Pale involving a substantial supply of artillery shells and mortar bombs.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/yugoslav/0422us.htm   (1220 words)

  
  Bosnian Muslims
The Bosnian Muslims of the former Yugoslavia, living in the independent state of Bosnia-Hercegovina, number about 1.8 million, or roughly 8 percent of the total previous Yugoslavian population.
Since all three groups share in the same Serbian or Croatian linguistic tradition, the distinctiveness of the Bosnian Muslims is primarily based on religious affiliation (the Serbs are Eastern Orthodox Christians and the Croats are Catholic).
Bosnia-Hercegovina is predominantly rural and agricultural, and the Bosnian Muslim population is largely involved in agrarian pursuits.
www.everyculture.com /Europe/Bosnian-Muslims.html   (616 words)

  
 EveryZing - Inside Europe: The European Radio Weekly - Inside Europe: Bosnian Muslims Outraged Over UN Court ...
Bosnian Muslims took to the streets this week in protest after the International Court of Justice (IJC) cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide during the Bosnian war.
It does provide bosnians and Serbs a common history based on fact tasting because he's Dixie assisting at least a few days of the main point is that the court clearly ruled Serbia was partly responsible he says.
The Bosnian Serb government expressed its deepest regret for the crimes committed against the non Serb population during the war on.
www.podzinger.com /viewMedia.jsp?s=PZSID_pods_pod2_9_8_0005;Inside+Europe%3A+The+European+Radio+Weekly&start=0&num=10&col=en-all-pod-ep&filter=0&e=2390695&il=&il=en&src=SF&format=xml&index=3   (6481 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
The Bosnian, the Serb, and the Croat are similar in language and culture, yet all three have different religious affiliations; the Bosnian are primarily Muslim.
Bosnian Muslims in the rural areas are patrilocal, which means that they live near the husband's family.
Almost all Bosnian (99.9%) are Muslims and follow the teachings of the Islamic prophet, Mohammed.
kcm.co.kr /bethany_eng/p_code2/478.html   (735 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Brutal crimes' of Bosnia Muslims
Bosnian Muslims committed war crimes including a ritual beheading, the Hague tribunal was told at the start of a landmark trial.
The most senior Bosnian Muslim investigated by the tribunal was the country's war-time leader Alija Izetbegovic, who died last month.
Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have been indicted by the tribunal for war crimes but remain at large.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3254890.stm   (526 words)

  
  Islam, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy: The Civil War in Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1992-1995 | Carl Savich | Columns | ...
The Bosnian Muslims claim to be the successors and the heirs to the pre-Ottoman Bosnian population.
The federal Yugoslav Communist regime, moreover, was engaged in the manipulation and exploitation of the Bosnian Muslim and Croat genocide of the Serbian population of Bosnia and Hercegovina to maintain its power and the federation.
Not surprisingly, the radical all-Muslim SDA regime was rejected by the Serbian population, the Croatian population, and a segment of the Muslim population as well.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/024.shtml   (6399 words)

  
 History of the War in Bosnia
Throughout Bosnia, Bosnian Serb nationalists and the JNA began a systematic policy of "ethnic cleansing" (a polite term for genocide) to establish a "pure" Serb republic.
Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims formally allied in 1994 in an uneasy federation that was brokered by the United States.
The Bosnians were granted the remaining 51% of the country, called the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an uneasy alliance of Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
www.friendsofbosnia.org /edu_bos.html   (2438 words)

  
 Bosnian Muslims Were Killed By the Truckload
Bosnian Serb officials have repeatedly denied that any atrocities were committed by their forces following the fall of Srebrenica, but mounting evidence of widespread executions is again turning Srebrenica into a test of President Clinton's resolve.
More than 50 Muslims, most of whom were prominent political or business figures before the war, were singled out for torture and execution by Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians on the night of July 13 when thousands of prisoners were held in the towns of Bratunac and Kravica, according to four survivors.
Bosnian Serb commander Mladic and self-styled Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic were indicted by The Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal in July for atrocities committed earlier in the war.
www.columbia.edu /itc/journalism/nelson/rohde/p-1026.html   (1600 words)

  
 Bosnian
Bosnian is the language of the Bosniaks, or the Bosnian Muslims.
Bosnian is more like Croatian, except for the fact that it has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi due to the Bosniaks' affiliation with the Islamic world.
Bosnian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/bosnian.html   (1249 words)

  
 Bosnian Muslim War Crimes | Carl Savich | Columns | Serbianna.com
The case proves conclusively that Bosnian Muslim forces were not “victims”, but well-armed and well-supplied military forces that committed horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity in premeditated and ritual murders of Bosnian Serb civilians.
The glaring omission was the ritual beheading of Bosnian Serb Dragan Popovic and the murders and tortures of Bosnian Serb and Croat civilians and POWs.
The “local” Bosnian Muslims at the camp were former members of the Muslim Forces of Travnik and troops who were by law members of units of the 3rd Corps, the 7th Muslim Brigade and the 306th Brigade.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/076.shtml   (3290 words)

  
 Multicultural Health Resources - THE BOSNIAN MUSLIMS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bosnian Muslims have identified the stigma of being a refugee as a concern for them.
Bosnian Muslims may be reluctant to seek dental care in Australia because dental care in some regions of Bosnia may have been painful.
Many Bosnian women, partiularly those from rural areas, did not go out to work previously but were occupied on farms, in family business or with their families.
www.health.qld.gov.au /multicultural/cultdiv/bosnian_muslims.asp   (1762 words)

  
 Alija Izetbegovic
In 1995, when Islamic brigades of the Bosnian army launched a massive assault on Serb forces and seized thirty percent of Serb-controlled territory in a few days, it dawned on the West that Muslims might actually be victorious.
The failure to stop the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims, along with the behavior of the West in post-war Bosnia, suggests that genocide will be tolerated for the sake of a political goal; in this case, the prevention of a European Muslim state.
The lesson for Muslims deluded by our era's lofty talk of "democracy" is that for America and Europe, the stated goal of "promoting democracy" will be overridden by their pathological fear of Islam.
www.youngmuslims.ca /biographies/display.asp?ID=2   (1545 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Bosnian Muslims, Omer Hadziselimovic
Bosnian Muslims are a South Slavic people who go back to the Middle Ages for their national, religious and cultural roots.
And although Bosnian Muslims have always spoken Bosnian (or Serbo-Croatian, as it used to be called in much of the former Yugoslavia) and very rarely Turkish, the language of the centuries-long rulers of Bosnia left a strong imprint on the Bosnian vocabulary.
Muslim nationalism, which lived its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was a relatively mild affair compared to its western and eastern counterparts, those of Serbia and Croatia.
www.iranian.com /History/2003/November/Bosnia/index.html   (3154 words)

  
 Bosnian Muslims bury victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre - The Boston Globe
Bosnian Muslims bury victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre - The Boston Globe
Bosnian Muslims bury victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre
To the sound of Muslim prayers echoing across a sprawling green valley, family members wandered among 610 caskets of the most recently identified victims of the July 11, 1995, massacre, in which some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/12/bosnian_muslims_bury_victims_of_1995_srebrenica_massacre   (701 words)

  
 Bosnia
The Bosnian Pyramid, Visocica Hill, is the first European pyramid to be discovered and is located in the heart of Bosnia, in the town of Visoko.
There are also a four more ancient structures on the site, the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon ('Bosanska Piramida Mjeseca'), Bosnian Pyramid of the Dragon ('Bosanska Piramida Zmaja'), Bosnian Pyramid of the Love ('Bosanska Piramida Ljubavi') and Temple of the Earth, ('Hram Zemlje').
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lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/bosnia--bosnian-muslims.html   (808 words)

  
 Green Left - Bosnian Muslims unprepared for Serbian war
Taken together, the Muslim dead and wounded add up to half a million, and one million are refugees or displaced.
Bosnian Muslims were not only militarily unprepared; they were also psychologically unprepared for the Serbian assault, according to Dr Matko Marusic, a Croatian medical academic here recently to give his account of the situation in the warring republics.
Muslims never wanted it; they will not establish the fundamentalist Muslim state the Serbs accuse them of wanting because their territory is too small and they are most numerous in the towns.”
www.greenleft.org.au /1992/79/2086   (905 words)

  
 Bosnian Muslims See U.S. as an Ally - TIME
A Bosnian Muslim, he was in office when hundreds of mujahedin volunteers arrived in the country to fight alongside their Muslim brothers against the Serbs in a war that Osama bin Laden later claimed was proof of the West's disregard for Islam.
Some have been linked to terrorist attacks, most recently this month when a handful of Algerian-born men with ties to the Armed Islamic Group and other organizations were arrested in connection with foiled plots on the U.S. and U.K. embassies in the capital, Sarajevo, as well as on the U.S. military base in Tuzla.
The Americans stopped the war in Bosnian and they gave a big contribution to reconstruction of the country.
www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,182213,00.html   (1049 words)

  
 news-serbia
In this case, the Court stated that the group in question was the Bosnian Muslims.
Examining the war in Bosnia as a whole, the Court found “overwhelming evidence that massive killings in specific areas and detention camps throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina were perpetrated during the conflict,” and that the majority of the victims were Bosnian Muslims.
However the Court did determine that the Srebrenica massacre of June 2005, when over 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb forces and paramilitary groups after the fall of the United Nations-designated “safe area” of Srebrenica, qualified as an act of genocide.
www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-serbia.html   (658 words)

  
 Conversation with Dr Mustafa Ceric, spiritual leader of Bosnian Muslims
This is one of the most striking paradoxes confronting the Ummah: for while Muslims remain the most united religious community in the world because of the teachings of their faith, they are also the least organised in terms of their potential.
As we've seen with the stories on the trial of the two Saudi nurses, Muslims are invariably portrayed in a negative light; the reporting is heavily biased.
Muslims who want to meet with people of other faiths have every right to do so but it is wrong to accept much from such forums.
www.angelfire.com /hi/nazam/Aceric.html   (2095 words)

  
 Serb Genocide of Bosnian Muslims Concerns All Human Beings
While the conflict is cloaked in the guise of a "humanitarian tragedy" (the inference being that all people in the region are affected equally), in truth the Bosnian Muslims are being targeted by the Serbs because of their religious identity.
Bosnian Serbs have shown themselves adept at executing prisoners, raping women, shelling children and old people, harassing U.N. peacekeepers under strict orders not to fire, and that's all.
The Bosnian Serbs are not troops to be feared by a comparably equipped army, much less the overwhelming military force NATO could assemble.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0995/9509028d.html   (1473 words)

  
 newcommunity 19(3): 507-512 April 1993
As in the Gulf War, the Bosnian crisis is couched in religious rhetoric and described as a new encounter between the cross and the crescent.
The largest group are the Muslims who comprise an estimated 40 per cent of the population, the Serbs total 32 per cent and the smallest group are the Croats with 19 per cent (the figures refer to the pre-war situation and do not take into consideration the outflow of refugees).
The issue of Muslim political self-expression is the critical point which changed the constellation of forces around the Muslims in the current conflict, raising much broader questions concerning the future of Muslim-Christian relations in South Eastern Europe.
faculty-staff.ou.edu /N/Petya.I.Nitzova-1/bosniancrisis.html   (2861 words)

  
 Bosnia
The Bosnian Serbs counted on the might of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav Army, and undertook to grab all of Bosnia for a Greater Serbia, forcing out all the Muslims and Croats in the process.
To make matters worse for the Bosnian Muslims, elements of the Croat Army and Bosnian Croats attacked in Central Bosnia in an attempt to win territory for Croatia, who had just lost 1/3 of its country during the 1991 war with Serbia.
The areas were Muslim towns already under seige and the idea was that the UN would protect these areas from the Bosnian Serb military.
www.boyntonweb.net /Policy/Balkan/Bosnian.htm   (877 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Surviving Muslims remember 8,000 victims   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Amid tight security, thousands of Bosnian Muslims who survived one of the worst massacres in modern history tearfully returned to the scene Wednesday to remember the slaughter of up to 8,000 of their loved ones.
Security was tight in the wake of recent Bosnian Serb attacks on Muslims at groundbreaking ceremonies for the reconstruction of mosques destroyed during the war.
Bosnian Serb police called on Serb citizens to refrain from violence and behave with dignity during the ceremony.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/07/11/bosnian-muslims.htm   (604 words)

  
 CNN - Bosnian Muslims return to vote amid painful memories - Sept. 14, 1996
Muslims couldn't cross into the Serb section individually or in groups smaller than eight.
Many of the returning voters were expelled by Bosnian Serbs during the war and, at least for a brief glimpse, saw their old homes for the first time in years.
Fearing the worst if Muslims who survived the conquest of Srebrenica went home to vote, international election officials decided they might be able to cast ballots in the Serb village of Podravno, 12 miles (19 kilometers) to the south.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/14/bosnia.return.home   (468 words)

  
 Bosnian Muslims move against radicalization of Islam - Culture - Middle East Times
Muslim priests in all of Bosnia's mosques read out a resolution that "condemns and finds undesirable in Bosnia those who bring unrest into mosques under the excuse of implementing the 'real' faith" during Friday prayers, the Nezavisne Novine daily reported Saturday.
Bosnian Muslims are mostly followers of moderate Islam.
Bosnian followers of Wahhabism are linked to fighters from Islamic countries who arrived during the 1992-95 war to fight alongside the government Muslim-led army.
www.metimes.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20061113-085024-8303r   (585 words)

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