War crimes suspects released. (Insider Reported).Last December, the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague "provisionally" released four senior Bosnian Muslim military officers accused of war crimes, including one who threatened a "war on tenor" against the West. The suspects, who were indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for alleged crimes against Croats in 1993, were among the foreign "Mujahideen mujahideen Arabic mujahidun (“those engaged in jihad”) In its broadest sense, those Muslims who proclaim themselves warriors for the faith. Its Arabic singular, mujahid, was not an uncommon personal name from the early Islamic period onward. " fighters who were trained and equipped with the help of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. The most prominent detainee de·tain·ee n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee was Sefer Halilovic, the former commander of the Bosnian Muslim Army. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the March 18, 1993 issue of Newsweek, Halilovic "threatened to conduct a campaign of 'terror in democratic Europe' to punish the West if it fails to help Bosnia." Halilovic issued this threat shortly before the first World Trade Center bombing in January 1993 -- a terrorist act now known to have been carried out by elements of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. Between 1992 and 1995, bin Laden -- along with Iranian intelligence -- supplied Halilovic's Bosnian army with tens of thousands of Mujahideen fighters. As we pointed out previously (see "Behind the Terror Network" in our November 5, 2001 issue), a House Select Subcommittee concluded that the purpose of the Mujahideen invasion of the Balkans was to give "Iran an unprecedented foothold in Europe" by turning Bosnia -- a UN protectorate protectorate, in international law protectorate, in international law, a relationship in which one state surrenders part of its sovereignty to another. The subordinate state is called a protectorate. -- into a staging area for Iranian-sponsored terrorism. Halilovic is accused of presiding over the massacre of scores of civilian noncombatants -- including small children and invalids up to 86 years old -- in two Bosnian Croat villages. Despite his indictment for war crimes and his earlier terrorist threats against the West, Halilovic was a star witness in the UN trial of a Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide. Halilovic admits that the massacres cited in his indictment took place but claims that he is merely a scapegoat for his superiors, who ordered the crime. His attorney claims that Bosnian officials "prepared fake witnesses, who were bribed with expensive cars, office space, apartments and financial contributions, so that the witnesses would testify in front of the Hague Tribunal Hague Tribunal, popular name for the Permanent Court of Arbitration established in 1899 by a convention of the First Hague Conference. Its headquarters are at The Hague, the Netherlands. In 1998 there were 88 countries adhering to the tribunal's conventions. about [the] personal responsibility of Sefer Halilovic for this crime." According to UN tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann, the prosecution supported the release of Halilovic, who gave assurances that he would cooperate with the tribunal. After all, who is more trustworthy than a comrade of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. who also once threatened to conduct a war of terror War of Terror is a pun used in protest or criticism of the United States policy called the War on Terrorism, also known as the War on Terror.[1] References 1. against the West? |
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