Secrets of Srebrenica Revealed

[Andrej Tisma]

>From Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin
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Secrets of Srebrenica Revealed

"Blowback:" How U.S. Armed and Aided Radical Islamic Groups in Bosnia

Dutch Government Falls over Srebrenica Report; What's Washington Waiting
For?

PHOENIX, Apr. 22 - The London Guardian published in its Monday (Apr. 22)
edition a stunning confirmation of many of our Bosnia reports from the
1990s.  Based on the evidence we gathered both in Bosnia and elsewhere, we
alleged that a close, covert collaboration and collusion had existed
between Washington and radical Islamic movements around the world (see
"Ayatollah Klintonmeini," April 1996, for example).

Both Washington and Islamic fundamentalists found a common interest in the
early 1990s in helping the Bosnian Muslims fight and demonize the
Serbs.  And now, just as in Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's cases -
a "blowback!" The U.S. government is having to harvest what it had sowed -
terrorism!

A Dutch inquiry into what happened in Srebrenica, released last week, is
"the most sensational reports on western intelligence ever published," says
the Guardian columnist, Richard J Aldrich, professor of politics at the
University of Nottingham.

We'll let you be the judge.  Here's an excerpt from today's Guardian OpEd
piece:

America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims

The Srebrenica report reveals the Pentagon's role in a dirty war

By Richard J Aldrich

The official Dutch inquiry into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, released last
week, contains one of the most sensational reports on western intelligence
ever published. Officials have been staggered by its findings and the Dutch
government has resigned. One of its many volumes is devoted to clandestine
activities during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s.

For five years, Professor Cees Wiebes of Amsterdam University has had
unrestricted access to Dutch intelligence files and has stalked the
corridors of secret service headquarters in western capitals, as well as in
Bosnia, asking questions.
His findings are set out in "Intelligence and the war in Bosnia,
1992-1995". It includes remarkable material on covert operations, signals
interception, human agents and double-crossing by dozens of agencies in one
of dirtiest wars of the new world disorder.

Now we have the full story of the secret alliance between the Pentagon and
radical Islamist groups from the Middle East designed to assist the Bosnian
Muslims - some of the same groups that the Pentagon is now fighting in "the
war against terrorism". Pentagon operations in Bosnia have delivered their
own "blowback".

In the 1980s, Washington's secret services had assisted Saddam Hussein in
his war against Iran. Then, in 1990, the US fought him in the Gulf. In both
Afghanistan and the Gulf, the Pentagon had incurred debts to Islamist
groups and their Middle Eastern sponsors.

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. Bill Clinton and the Pentagon
were keen to be seen as credit worthy and repaid in the form of an
Iran-Contra style operation - in flagrant violation of the UN security
council arms embargo against all combatants in the former Yugoslavia.

The result was a vast secret conduit of weapons smuggling though Croatia.
This was arranged by the clandestine agencies of the US, Turkey and Iran,
together with a range of radical Islamist groups, including Afghan
mojahedin and the pro-Iranian Hizbullah. Wiebes reveals that the British
intelligence services obtained documents early on in the Bosnian war
proving that Iran was making direct deliveries.

Arms purchased by Iran and Turkey with the financial backing of Saudi
Arabia made their way by night from the Middle East. Initially aircraft
from Iran Air were used, but as the volume increased they were joined by a
mysterious fleet of black C-130 Hercules aircraft. The report stresses that
the US was "very closely involved" in the airlift. Mojahedin fighters were
also flown in, but they were reserved as shock troops for especially
hazardous operations. [.]

Rather than the CIA, the Pentagon's own secret service was the hidden force
behind these operations. The UN protection force, UNPROFOR, was dependent
on its troop-contributing nations for intelligence, and above all on the
sophisticated monitoring capabilities of the US to police the arms embargo.
This gave the Pentagon the ability to manipulate the embargo at will:
ensuring that American Awacs aircraft covered crucial areas and were able
to turn a blind eye to the frequent nighttime comings and goings at Tuzla.

Weapons flown in during the spring of 1995 were to turn up only a fortnight
later in the besieged and demilitarised enclave at Srebrenica. When these
shipments were noticed, Americans pressured UNPROFOR to rewrite reports,
and when Norwegian officials protested about the flights, they were
reportedly threatened into silence. [.]

TiM Ed.: All of which, plus secret flights and arms deliveries from Albania
to Tuzla, we had extensively documented in our CONTEMPORANEOUS reports (TiM
Bulletins), not 7-8 years later, such as in the Dutch report.  And now, the
Dutch government has fallen because the truth got out.

O tempora, o mores. What a world we live in.  You'd think governments would
be celebrating the truth, not resigning because of it.

Speaking of which, why isn't anyone in Washington resigning?

To read the full Guardian report, click here at our web site.
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For the earlier TiM reports about Srebrenica, run a Search at our web site
using it as keyword.  Here is a selection of some of our reports
referencing Srebrenica.

"Special TiM GW Bulletins" (Mar. 31, 1999)
...  5. Kosovo: Srebrenica II? (From TiM's Bosnia Travel Diary, 1995).
PHOENIX,
Mar. 31 - If true, this report makes Hitler's propaganda minister look ...
www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/War/day8up1.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

"All in a Day's Work (Karadzic)" - A Travel Vignette
... The Bosnian Serbs had just raised the stakes of this civil war by
taking Srebrenica
two days earlier. And they were mounting an attack on Zepa, the adjacent UN
...
www.truthinmedia.org/Vignettes/All-in-a-day's-work.html - 8k - Cached -
Similar pages

S99-126, "Peace" 20 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (July 23, 1999)
... in July 1995, this writer arrived in Pale just as the Serb troops took
Srebrenica.
As a matter of fact, I saw enroute groups of Muslim soldiers darting across
...
www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/Peace/ps20.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

"Bosnia: What's the Full Truth?" (WSJ letter, 2/09/96)
... How do I know that? You see, I was in Bosnia when the alleged
Srebrenica massacres
were supposed to have been committed. I spent most of the three critical ...
www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/wsj2-09-96.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

"Perfidious Albion" Strikes Again, Aided by "Uncle Sam" - TiM GW ...
... Visit to Srebrenica. "We want to show the world how quickly we can
establish civilian
authority there," Koljevic explained. "And as a member of the RS government
...
www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim97-1-7.html - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

"Lift the Sanctions, Now!"- TiM GW Bulletin 93-10 (Oct/93)
... did the Pentagon collect for the cost of the airdrops of food, medicine
(and yes,
weapons, too!) to the Muslims in Gorazde, Srebrenica or Tuzla last spring?
...
www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim93-10.html - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

S99-154, KFOR "Peacefarce" 48 - Special TiM GW Bulletins (Oct. 26 ...
... had as much luck proving Washington's and the western media's claims of
the Srebrenica
and other alleged Serb massacres in Bosnia. Even after four years of ...
www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/Peace/ps48.html - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

"A Balkan Affairs Potpourri" - TiM GW Bulletin (10/24/98)
... Furthermore, I happened to be in Bosnia in July 1995, near Srebrenica,
and with
Dr. Radovan Karadzic and other Serb leaders. And I saw no massacres for
which ...
www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim98-10-8.html - 37k - Cached - Similar
pages