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Someone Gets It — The Most Important Someone

WASHINGTON, U.S.A, March 20, 2007 — In a memorandum to the Secretary of State, President Bush has authorized arming of Serbia.

According to the White House Press Release, President Bush has authorized “furnishing defense articles and defense services” to Serbia and Montenegro, with an aim to “strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.”

Glad to see someone finally got it: weak Serbia with hands tied behind its back equals strong white al-Qaeda in the Balkans, marching onward and upward into the Western Europe and States.

“Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 503(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and section 3(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, I hereby find that the furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Republic of Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace,” says the George Bush memo to the Secretary of State.

Addressing the Secretary of State, President George Bush further orders that “You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to the Congress and to arrange for the publication of this determination in the Federal Register.”

Special Units of Serbian Police Still At Work

This authorization to arm Serbia and Montenegro comes in the wake of the most alarming report by the foreign intelligence service about preparations for an all-out jihad in former Yugoslavia, focused primarily on Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, Serbia proper, Montenegro and Serbian part of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Between March 17 and 18, special anti-terrorist units of Serbian police have busted an al-Qaeda cell operating a training camp in Serbian region of Raska (Sandzak), arresting five members and seizing a cache of weapons and explosives transferred from Kosovo province for coordinated breakout of violence in Kosovo-Metohija and Serbia proper. The short-term goal of al-Qaeda cells infiltrated into Serbia proper during the last two months, according to the KFOR intelligence report, was to start unrest in Serbia proper at the same time jihad breaks in Kosovo-Metohija, thus keeping Serbian army away from Kosovo province where it could help the international troops against the planned Albanian Muslim attack. The KFOR intelligence report even claims that Albanian Kosovo jihadists decided to use chemical weapons against American troops stationed in Bondsteel base in Kosovo province and were expecting a shipment of nerve and paralytic gas for that purpose from the al-Qaeda cells entrenched in Serbia proper, near the administrative border with Kosovo province.

Serbian anti-terrorist units are still combing through the rough terrain of Ninija mountain, searching for other stashes of weapons and explosives and al-Qaeda members in hiding. According to Serbian reports, Ninija mountain is full of caves, away from populated area and can be crossed only on foot. The whole Raska/Sandzak region, mostly populated by Muslims, since Montenegro declared independence, is split between Serbia and Montenegro, so al-Qaeda cells operating in the region are moving between two states now. Serbian police suspects some jihadi members have moved to Montenegro and are hiding there, but combing Serbian part of Raska continues until every stone is turned, as testified by the Serbian Glas Javnosti reporter who went there two days ago.

Those “Nasty Serbs”

Eager to see the camp and take some pictures, Zoran Saponjic went to Ninija mountain from Belgrade and took one of the locals as a guide. He described the whole area as thick with trees and bushes. They went into the mountain on foot, chatting merrily along the way, until a voice that he says made his hair stand up ordered them to stop. He says they stood there nailed to the ground for few minutes that seemed like eternity, without being able to see or hear anyone, until he noticed some “shadows that appeared to be moving from tree to tree” to the right from where they stood. He says he believes he might have lifted his arms up in the air at that point, but can’t be sure. Then another order came out: “Don’t move!” At some point the journalist managed to say, “with what little voice I had in me: We are reporters...” When they were identified, padded and examined inch-by-inch, they were briefly informed that they are in the closed zone they should have never wondered in without informing police about their coming and that they acted irresponsibly. They were ordered to leave immediately. Police has also informed the public through the media that anyone showing up in the Ninija mountain zone right now is considered “far less than friendly.”

So, I’d say: yes, let the Serbs deal with the mess now, since you wouldn’t let them nip the monster in the bud fifteen years ago — starting with Bosnian jihad that brought all the al-Qaeda scum to the Balkans in the first place, giving them a foothold in Bosnia and Kosovo-Metohija province, therefore giving them a foothold in Europe. That’s all Serbs ever asked for: to be allowed to deal with their own problems.

Perhaps now would be the right time for Holbrooke, Albright, Walker, Soros, Ahtisaari, Wisner, et al to get their jihadi buddies out of there if they can. Tomorrow might be too late.