tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post116791215977814422..comments2023-10-25T12:49:50.074+01:00Comments on The Old Socialist Unity Blog - we have moved: The truth about KosovoANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1167950457772535932007-01-04T22:40:00.000+00:002007-01-04T22:40:00.000+00:00No DaveI think you must have been hallucinating :...No Dave<BR/><BR/>I think you must have been hallucinating :o)ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1167936143920507872007-01-04T18:42:00.000+00:002007-01-04T18:42:00.000+00:00Indeed Sentinel, the US approval of Iranian arms s...Indeed Sentinel, the US approval of Iranian arms shipments to Mujhadeen in Bosnia, and direct US backing for Al Qaeda operations in Bosnia (including as you say foreign terrorists) were discussed in US congress, and the Republican party apparently issued a press release on the subject in 1997:<BR/>http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html<BR/><BR/>In my opinion this also explains one of the mysteries of the conflict, which is how accelerated the descent to barbarism was - but if some of the fihters had already been conditioned to exteme brutality ion Afghanistan they broughty that with them.<BR/><BR/>It is also true that the KLA/UCK in Albania and Kosovo were steeped in gangsterism, often of the worst sort - human trafficking, sex slavery, etc.<BR/><BR/>These were our allies!<BR/><BR/>I am also interetsed in what you say about the lack of remit for the troops, I think this happens when politicians who have no experience of service life or culture, feel the pressure to be seen to be doing something, anything.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1167933920263295922007-01-04T18:05:00.000+00:002007-01-04T18:05:00.000+00:00I served in Bosnia at the height of its implosion ...I served in Bosnia at the height of its implosion and I can tell you that the one sided story that was presented on the news services in the UK and the US was completely false.<BR/><BR/>The Bosnian's committed an equal, if not greater amount of atrocities than the Serbs and were well known to us for the extremity of their atrocities: babies nailed to doors, priests crucified, whole families tracked down, raped and slaughtered. These were the terrible sights they didn't show people on TV and few cared or dared to report. <BR/><BR/>The Bosnian militia were full of 'muhjadeen' from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan etc. and they were suported by well established, politcally savvy gansgters in Alabania.<BR/><BR/>We were sent there without any real remit or mission, initially, and it served only to traumatise a generation of young soldiers. The highest suicide rate of veterans of any operational theatre in the history of the British army is amongst those who served in Bosnia. There have been times I understand why.<BR/><BR/>Not many of us could understand why we were there at all, but particularly why we were ordered to back one side, and the side that was the most extreme in its violence. <BR/><BR/>I later found out that the Armija BiH (aka KLA) and its gangster backers donated huge sums to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407669804421969164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1167924751916594632007-01-04T15:32:00.000+00:002007-01-04T15:32:00.000+00:00well my name isn't Jim, but thanks for the clarifi...well my name isn't Jim, but thanks for the clarification Dave.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.com