"a simple tale of good versus evil."


"Today's humanitarian militarists and Islamic radicals are cut from the same cloth. In Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, they were close allies – propagandistic, moralistic and militaristic allies. During the Bosnian war, anywhere between 1,200 and 3,000 Arab Mujahideen, many of them veterans of the Afghan-Soviet war of the 1980s, descended on Bosnia to fight alongside the Bosnian Muslims. And their movement into Bosnia was facilitated by the new "humanitarians" in Washington."

"Bosnia had a key transformative effect on both the Western liberal establishment and the Arab Mujahideen. It was the conflict that made many in the West pro-interventionist, convincing them that the "international community" must ignore sovereign norms and intervene around the world to save people from tyranny. And it transformed the Mujahideen from religious nationalists – who during the Afghan-Soviet war possessed "no global blueprint transcending their individual countries" – into global warriors against "evil," who also, like their humanitarian paymasters, began to care little for old-fashioned ideas about sovereignty. It is after Bosnia that we see the emergence of international networks of Islamic militants."

Full Article by Brendan O'Neill Here

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And as an aside, Truthout prints old discredited lies , then purges commenters who disagree. How "liberal" can you get? No response from Truthout, and the end of my contributions to their "free press" operation.

Here are the spiked comments:

Why are you pulling up this
Why are you pulling up this discredited crap , a lying photo and pure propaganda, out of the scrap heap of the manipulated history of Yugoslavia's demise. The barbed wire was not holding anyone in, it was a staged photo, and Fikret was the only skinny captive amongst all his muscular friends. right!. He was pushed to the foreground, any highschool group could produce an equivalent photo with at least one super skinny kid. Srebrenica has another story also, if you'd care to hear it, about the way that town's paramilitary, pro western forces had for months used the U.N. as their shield to emerge into the surrounding countryside as raping , torturing, murdering gangs, who then slunk back to their lair. They aroused enough hatred that an awful revenge was carried out, against the innocent as well as the guilty. It is as well to understand both sides of the conflict there , but even better to understand the origin of the whole affair, in sinister meetings between Germany and the U.S.

truthout - Comments for "Bosnian Genocide, No Apologies"
7/27/08 15:23
Bob Heaney

Bob is correct. This photo
Bob is correct. This photo was staged, and its actually the pinnacle of bad faith and arrogance to have one of the authors of this fabrication have the nerve to bring it up again. Actually, when I saw the title or the article I thought that it was about nobody ever apologizing for this canard, but it turns out that instead of an apology, this is just a timely "re-heating" of an already totally stale and cold story.

Sure, I understand that since the arch villain of Bosnia, the new Hitler of the Balkans, the Evil Genocidal Doctor, Radovan Karadzic, has been "caught" (read: sold out by his own Serbian brothers) it is important to pile up as much propaganda as possible on the man. But guys, the Serbs *did* commit plenty of *real* horrors in the Balkans (although no more or less than the others) so there is no need to refer to totally discredited baloney.

Is there nobody at truthout who knows anything about Bosnia?!

truthout - Comments for "Bosnian Genocide, No Apologies"
7/27/08 16:38
Vineyardsaker

... It took years before a
... It took years before a German journalist Thomas Deichman, in an article titled The Picture That Fooled The World, described how the famous photo was staged by its takers...
Goog it.

truthout - Comments for "Bosnian Genocide, No Apologies"
7/27/08 21:02
prthatkills

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