Bosnia: Muslims Wanted To Draw NATO Into War

From Jihad Watch:

Bosnia: Muslims "wanted to draw NATO into war"


Of course, when people point out the activities of jihadists in the Balkans, the Commentary crowd accuses them of supporting the enormities and crimes, real and/or trumped-up, of the local opposition to that jihad. Of course, that accusation neither logically follows nor accords with fact. "Bosnia: Muslims 'wanted to draw NATO into war,'" from AKI, October 7 (thanks to C. Cantoni):



The Hague, 7 Oct. (AKI) - Bosnian Muslims wanted to draw NATO into their country's 1992-1995 war to help them against the Serbs, British general Michael Rose told the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday.

Serbs deliberately targeted civilians with sniper fire in the capital Sarajevo in order to intimidate them, said Rose, who served as chief of the UN peacekeepers in Bosnia in 1994.



He was testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is conducting his own defence.



But cross-examined by Karadzic, Rose conceded that there had been some cases in which Muslims fired at their own people to blame the Serbs and trigger foreign intervention.



He also said that reports in western media on Serb attacks on eastern town of Gorazde were often exaggerated.



Karadzic is being tried on eleven counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The indictment is focusing on the shelling of Sarajevo and a massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern town of Srebrenica in July 1995....



Posted by Robert on October 11, 2010 5:53 AM