On Jul 9, 8:27 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and which group of Americans screamed about the treatment of the
> muzzies?
> ----
> Thursday, May 24, 2007
>
> The man who helped overthrow Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic says
> the State Department is pressuring him to hand over Christian Bosnia
> to its powerful Muslim neighbor, threatening the delicate balance that
> ended the Bosnian War.
>
> The Bosnian Serbian entity was created under the 1995 Dayton peace
> accords.
>
> "At the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, I was threatened that if I did not
> agree to these U.S. demands, I would have problems," Bosnian Serb
> Prime Minister Milorad Dodik told NewsMax in an exclusive interview.
>
> In a meeting on Wednesday at the State Department, Dodik said that
> Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried didn't repeat the threats, but
> insisted that Dodik and the Christian Bosnian Serb government agree to
> dissolve its independent police force and parliament, and merge them
> into Muslim-majority federal institutions.
>
> "The United States is trying to assimilate us into Bosnia and
> Herzegovina (BiH), which is a Muslim entity," Dodik said. Today, Dodik
> will be meeting with Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who is
> expected to reinforce these demands. Dodik told NewsMax, "I will
> refuse."
>
> Asked why he was coming to Washington if to be read the riot act,
> Dodik said it was "hard to refuse when you've been summoned."
>
> Nearly 1.4 million Serbian Christians live in the Republic of Srpska,
> the autonomous Serbian entity that Serbs say was "forced down [their]
> throats" under the 1995 Dayton agreement.
>
> Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. official who negotiated the 1995
> agreement, told a forum marking the 10th anniversary of the Dayton
> accords in November 2005 that among his "mistakes" were the words
> "Republika Srpska." He called for the Serbian entity to be dissolved
> into Muslim Bosnia.
>
> Dodik said that while 99 percent of Bosnian Serbs would prefer to live
> in an independent state, the Dayton accords had achieved a "balance"
> and that it would be a mistake to change them now.
>
> State Department spokesman Tom Casey was taken by surprise when a
> reporter asked him at the daily briefing on Wednesday about the visit
> of Dodik and BiH president, Sulejman Tihic, a Muslim.
>
> "I can confirm for you that we will have some Bosnian officials here
> in the building today," he said. "They'll be meeting here with Dan
> Fried. It's an opportunity for us to talk about our longstanding
> desire to see Bosnia move forward with some of the necessary
> constitutional reforms that we have long been advocating and that many
> Bosnian leaders have long recognized as being necessary for the
> country to finalize the Dayton process."
>
> The only Bosnian leaders seeking the "reforms" Casey mentioned are
> Bosnian Muslim leaders, Dodik said.
>
> "If the U.S. project of turning BiH into a single government
> controlled under one man one vote, in 10 years there will be no more
> Serbs in the area. All I want is for the U.S. to leave us alone."
>
> Under the current arrangement, the Bosnian Serbs have 22 members of
> the federal parliament, and the Bosnian Muslims have 24 members.
> Simple majority rule, as advocated by the United States, would allow
> the Bosnian Muslims to transform the Bosnian federation into an
> Islamic Republic.
>
> In addition, the assimilation of the independent Bosnian Serb police
> force into a single, federal force "would mean we must accept
> terrorists who have been recruited into the police by the Bosnian
> Muslims."
>
> Dodik and several advisers who also spoke with NewsMax in Washington
> warned that Muslim Bosnia has become "a platform for attacking the
> United States and Europe using 'white' Al Qaeda members who look like
> Europeans."
>
> "When I was asked by [former State Department official] Bob Gelbard
> why we have to stay in Bosnia, I said it was to prevent the creation
> of a Muslim state in the heart of Europe," Dodik said.
>
> Well before the Dayton accords, the Bosnian Muslim authorities forged
> a close relationship with Osama Bin Laden, even providing him a
> Bosnian diplomatic passport after his Saudi passport was revoked by
> the Saudi government.
>
> Five of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were trained in Bosnian Muslim al
> Qaeda camps.
>
> During the Clinton administration, "the U.S. gave its blessing as
> 4,400 jihadis came to Bosnia from Afghanistan," Dodik said.
>
> On Jul 9, 4:29 pm, euwe <machgie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sarajevo
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