from SLATE's on-line news summary:>According to the LA [TIMES] lead, the U.S. laid claim to six terrorist suspects [in Bosnia] and flew them out of Bosnia, after that country's supreme court had ordered them released, citing a lack of evidence. The six (five Algerians and a Yemeni) were arrested in Bosnia in October on U.S. intelligence reports, but were not charged. After the dismissal by the court, the Bosnian government willingly turned the men over to the U.S. "Bosnia-Herzegovina is still a developing democracy, to put it mildly, and their rule of law is not quite mature enough to handle this issue," says an anonymous U.S. military source. 300 Muslims in Sarajevo tried to block the U.S. military transport. "This is nothing short of a kidnapping," a DePaul University Law School prof says in the LAT. "This is a return to the Wild West and is surely likely to affect the credibility of the U.S. as a country that adheres to the rule of law." But a Yale law professor calls it a "sheer wartime necessity." According to the LAT, about 200 Islamic mujahideen remain in Bosnia, many with links to al-Qaida. <
if al Qaida is involved in Bosnia, might it not be in Kosova, too? after all, the KLA (UCK) was pushing a violent Moslem-Albanian nationalism, which doesn't conflict with al Qaida's perspective, does it? well, who was the main supporter of the KLA in the war against Slobo and the Serbians? the United States, of course. So perhaps the US link to al Qaida and Osama bin Laden isn't just in Afghanistan, where the US helped create ObL (with major assists from allies Pakistan and Saudia Arabia) but also in Kosovo (and Bosnia?) Jim Devine
