UPDATE: Donevski received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Hero Robert Donevski was the son of a cousin of a Serbian source named Danny, who sent me the following story:

Soldier from Sun City dies in Afghanistan

The Defense Department says a 19-year-old soldier from Sun City has been killed in Afghanistan.

Robert Donevski died Saturday of gunshot wounds he suffered when a small band of Taliban insurgents ambushed his unit in Abad, his father said Wednesday.

Ganko Donevski, a Vietnam veteran, said his son died defending other members of his unit and will receive the Bronze Star.

He said Robert always longed to serve in the military like his father and vowed to enlist after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“He said, ‘Daddy, I’ll make them pay for this 9-11,’ ” Ganko Donevski remembers.

He said [his] son had recently been promoted to the rank of sergeant.

Donevski was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

He joined the Army in July 2008 and was deployed to Afghanistan in June 2009. He was based in Fort Carson, Colo. and is the 39th soldier from Fort Carson to be killed in Afghanistan. An additional 255 have been killed in Iraq, the Army said.

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Alleged Albanian Mobster Nabbed

Toronto detectives arrested a reputed Albanian mobster wanted in New Jersey for peddling everything from stolen loot to heroin.

While Myfit “Mike” Dika, 45, was arrested Monday without incident on The Queensway, a co-accused wanted by the FBI in Newark, N.J., Kujitim “Timmy” Lika, also 45, remained at large and possibly living in Canada.

A third suspect, Gazmir Gjoka, 56, was arrested in Albania last November.

Det.-Const. Bob Grewal of the Toronto fugitive squad said the unit has been “working the case” since last August.

During a sweep last year in the U.S., FBI agents arrested 17 of 26 suspects in the Albanian mob ring. U.S. media reports about the sweep indicated FBI undercover agents were in Toronto allegedly buying drugs from the group.

The trio of alleged mobsters fled the U.S. after the FBI shut down Project Black Eagle, named after the double-headed eagle on the Albanian flag in March 2009.

The investigation focused on money laundering, drug and firearms trafficking and stolen property.

Police seized heroin, Oxycodone and Ecstasy in the sweep.

The FBI alleged Dika and Lika are prominent members of the loosely knit organization that linked Europe and North America. Police were reluctant to call the men leaders because Albania organized crime groups don’t have a hierarchy that’s similar to traditional crime groups.

They’re accused of planning to ship about 100 kilograms of heroin to the U.S.

The FBI reported they also have surveillance video of Lika and Dika selling 1.5 kilograms of what’s believed to be Afghan heroin to an undercover agent. They also showed the agent how to cut the drug to maximize profits on the streets.

The group intended on smuggling the shipment by sea with furniture originating in either Albania or the Republic of Macedonia, the FBI said in a release last year. A spokesman from the Newark FBI office refused to comment.

Call it Subdivision “Al-Al-Qaeda.”

I would have missed this if I hadn’t clicked on De-Construct.net, which linked to the following tale about yet another non-terrorist, non-Muslimy, “pro-American” Albanian:

NatWest handed Al Qaeda terrorist 100% mortgage to buy £93,000 home he turned into a bomb factory (Dec. 16):

A bank has sparked outrage by handing over a 100 per cent mortgage to an Al Qaeda terrorist who smuggled himself into Britain.

Albanian Krenar Lusha, 30, was given £93,000 after NatWest failed to complete full checks on his UK status.

He used the cash to buy a house in Derby, where he stored bomb-making equipment and information on how to carry out attacks.

The illegal immigrant also managed to get a UK driving licence, secure a £30,000-a-year engineering job and was even offered a second mortgage - which he declined.

Lusha opened a NatWest bank account in 2000, soon after he sneaked into Britain on the back of a lorry.
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Yesterday Lusha was jailed for seven years after he was convicted of five out of 10 terror charges following a three-week trial.

…A jury heard how he boasted to a string of women on dating websites of being a ‘terrorist’ and a ’sniper’ and how he ‘loved’ to see Jews and Americans killed.

Lusha denied 10 counts of possessing articles which gave rise to a reasonable suspicion that they were for a terror-related purpose. However, the jury of six men and six women convicted him on five counts after deliberating for four days.

Lusha was convicted of possessing 71.8 litres of petrol, computer documents called Ragnar’s Detonators and The Bomb Book, and video films called the Hezbollah Military Instructions Manual and Mobile Detonators.

The jury heard that he was in the process of downloading the Hezbollah videos when police visited his home in Derby on August 26 last year [2008].

Prosecutor Nigel Godsmark QC told the court that the Hezbollah instructional videos were in Arabic and advised how to make detonators, explosives, a missile and a suicide bomber belt.

Gallons of petrol found inside the Derby home of Lusha: Police said it was to be used in explosive devices

Instructions: Officers found bomb manuals on Lusha’s computer

Some also contained instructions on landmine placement and how to field-strip an AK-47 automatic rifle.

The petrol was found in the cellar of his terrace home in Moore Street, Normanton, a multicultural area of Derby.

Lusha told the jury some of the fuel belonged to his brother and that he was also stockpiling it because of price hikes.

He was cleared of possessing nearly 4.5lb of potassium nitrate, and documents entitled The Car Bomb Recognition Guide, Middle Eastern Terrorist Bomb Design, Improvised Radio Detonation Techniques, and The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook.

The Mobile Detonators video gave instructions on how to turn a mobile phone into a bomb trigger, the jury heard.

Lusha had 14 mobile phones at his address when police called at about 7.30am and found him in bed.

Mr Godsmark told the court there was also gruesome footage of live beheadings by extreme Islamic groups.

Lusha told the jury that he studied Islam and Arabic in Qatar as a youth and that it was not possible to discuss religion in Communist Albania when he was a teen.

So contrary to what we hear from Albanian defenders — namely, that they are like anyone else: victims of the current, worldwide Islamic wave — this Arabic-speaker was one of the many Albanians who was all up in the Islam even in the early 90s.

He also admitted possessing fake identification documents, including bogus Italian and Yugoslavian driving licences.

Lusha revealed he paid thousands of dollars to a gang to smuggle him into Britain, but went it alone after they deserted him in Italy.

He settled in Derby and worked long shifts as a factory machinist at HL Plastics in nearby Denby, which enabled him to send money back to his parents in Puke, Albania. [How perfect is “Puke, Albania”!!!]

He also obtained a mortgage and bought a £93,000 home. Derby City Council confirmed he was paid benefits up until 2003, while his asylum claim was processed.

Police described him as a ‘lone wolf’ who ‘was off everybody’s radar’ who only came to their attention when they were investigating another matter.

Potassium Nitrate that was found inside the Derby home of Lusha

When detectives knocked on his door last year he was living and working illegally in the UK.

Police sources said his claim for asylum, on the grounds that he was a Kosovan in fear of persecution by the Serbian authorities, was rejected by the UK authorities.

Recall that the Albanian network advises Albanians to say exactly this in order to get into Western countries: “Tell them you’re from Kosovo.” Here’s what the result looks like:

After losing an appeal he absconded from immigration control.

Lusha also told police that because he and his four brothers didn’t fight in the Balkans war he was persecuted by those that did.

So first he was fleeing imaginary Serbian pursuers, and then he was fleeing Albanians. So, then, where was he a “sniper,” as he presented himself to the girls on the dating sites?

Mr Justice Butterfield…imposed concurrent seven-year sentences for each of the five guilty verdicts, and warned Lusha he would be returned to Albania after his sentence.

Lusha had faced a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. […]

This is part of the phenomenon described last January in “80 foreign murderers welcomed to Britain: Albanian killers allowed to stay despite being on Interpol ‘wanted’ list“

Kosovo Police and KFOR Dog Handlers Make a Great Team in Joint Training

116th Public Affairs Detachment
Story by Sgt. Jill Fischer
Date: 01.01.2010

CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo – K9 forces from all areas of Kosovo conducted Joint Action Training here recently to share experiences, information and ideas.

Joint Action Training creates bridges between different countries’ K9 handlers and also their dogs. This training is important to develop the dog handlers’ skills in detection of explosives, some that may not be readily available within their own countries.

It’s also important that the Kosovo Police K9 units be trained alongside KFOR in order to improve proficiencies so that they can take the lead on explosive detection missions.

Warrant Officer Lars Persson, a member of the European Rule of Law in Kosovo K9 Unit, has been training K9 handlers and their dogs in Kosovo for 11 months. He’ll be heading back to Sweden in early January.

During his time in Kosovo, he has worked with handlers from many nations, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Finnish Advisors, Kosovo Police, and other EULEX members.

Persson shares his knowledge with K9 handlers, while, at the same time, learning form them. He finds and develops new ways to train the K9 handlers and their dogs.
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The training, which has been conducted every week since Persson arrived, is set up by the handlers. The training locations are rotated between different camps of participating NATO countries. […]

See here and here re Albanians running down dogs with cars and otherwise killing them off in Kosovo. Of course, now that the barbarians require the service of these more civilized beasts…

When I first heard that Carter was “apologizing” to Jews, I knew that this cynical bastard was just trying to have his cake and eat it too. His anti-Jewish screeds are still out there influencing opinion and making money, so any apology would have to begin with him publicly taking apart all his anti-Israel books and op-eds and his anti-Jewish statements, and pointing out the passages where he lied, where he omitted, where he distorted—and why. He might also consider returning some of the terrorist money that finances The Carter Center.

Of course, thanks to a piece this week by Ed Koch, we now know that Carter’s spawn’s sperm is running for office in a Jewish-heavy area, so the not-too-apologetic apology means nothing from the get-go. Koch makes reference to “Carter’s Baptist faith,” which “tells him that he will be held accountable by God for his statements and actions here on earth.” But the point about Carter is that he is the opposite of faithful.

After I wrote the article “Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot” in March of 2006 — before Carter released his then latest version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — I received a letter from an Iowa reader named Lee, who grew up in a small Georgia town called Tifton, about 40 miles from Plains. Her family is all too familiar with the reality of Jimmy Carter rather than the “humanitarian” and “best ex-president,” as she related to me in a letter at the time:

Carter is everything that is bad about ‘religion’ as apposed to faith.

He uses his religion to advance his social position.

He uses his supposed religious scholarship as a way of oppressing others within his congregation and anywhere else he can.

He uses his ‘good works’ as a form of currency to buy his way into arenas he would be kept out of otherwise.

He uses his hate as a form of ‘wisdom’, an easy way to accrue followers, his true goal. (The racist is always working to convince others of the ‘wisdom’ of their point of view, they package it as not hate, just practical wisdom.)

He uses his ‘good works’ as a way of stifling critics of his past or present.

He found life at the top of the celebrity heap irresistible, and will do anything to stay there. Both he and Clinton love the Celebrity Life. Both he and Clinton were never exposed to the heady life of power politics until they were elected president. Both lusted after it and were unable to focus on anything else once they attained it.

We should take a lesson from this: Never elect a person President who has not been exposed to this social environment before, and shown they can retain humility and perspective. Someone who has shown that being part of that social whirl is not their core motivation.

The fact that both the Carters and the Clintons move to states just to be able to move into Washington politics should be a first water disqualifier. The sad part of celebrity is that it is fed by people who will do anything to be associated with it, even if it is only having one as their Rep. or Sen. The pathetic history of the Kennedy family should dissuade them from biting on that worm, but it hasn’t so far. Now that we are a ‘mature’ nation the states should pass laws making it a requirement that anyone running for congress from that state must have been a fulltime resident of that state for at least 10 years…Any celebrity glow is dulled and eroded by this law, and the merits of the person have to be their only running strength. It also forces people who want to do this kind of thing to display something they usually lack: Patience.

The advantage the Bush family has over the current crop of Kennedy wannabes is this: They were part of the higher levels of society and power long before this generation. They don’t show signs of ‘pushing’ their kids. If a child doesn’t want to go into politics, that’s just fine with them. It isn’t the prime force behind the family’s social status or wealth. Once they are there, they better show they are SERVING, not grandstanding. Before the family will back them, they better BE WORTHY. Barb and George were never boosters for their eldest son until he straightened up. Part of the American Puritan Ethic is: Be worthy first, then serve others in your family, then your community: Then GO HOME and shut up. The Bushes are Puritans from way back. The Kennedys, Clintons, and Carters are not.

This reinforces the part of the American Idea that people who lust for power should never be given it. Sometimes we mess up and do, though.
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Can you imagine ‘Shrub’ taking over his church when he moves back to Texas? I can’t. Mom would be utterly revolted. Dad would be ’saddened’. The kiss of familial death in the Bush Clan.

The comparison between the two motivations is clear: Bush Sr. has “kept to the code” of shut-up and sit down, Carter and Clinton have not.

In his eternal cynicism, Carter also may be finding motivation to apologize by the contemplation of his own mortality, as Ed Koch suggests. So again, he wants to have his cake and eat it too, in the event that he did offend God by egging on Jew-killers. (Koch quotes Psalms 129: “They will be humiliated and will fall backwards, all enemies of Zion.”) So in case this is all a sign that Carter is nearing the grave, I think it’s worth reproducing the eulogy I wrote for him earlier this year:

O Jimmy Carter,
Upon this world were you a farter.
Things were tough enough, and you made them harder,
Iran was never sweet, but you made it tarter.
Did you know you’d be such a fire-starter?

You thought yourself a uniter, instead you were a parter,
For jihad were you a happy martyr.
And when, despite the words in his own Charter,
You nonetheless slipped off Arafat’s garter,
With the Devil did this “Christian” barter.
In the end, even the Dumb Jews from you did finally departer.

You think you’re going to Heaven, but God is smarter,
For Hell will make you a fire-darter.

Here we go again. Isn’t this how it all started in Kosovo? Letting the Albanians have their own institutions and letting them make their language dominant? And isn’t Medvedja among the three municipalities represented by a separatist army? Hello?

Serbian University to Teach in Albanian
Medvedja | 13 October 2009 | Nikola Lazic

A new university department, situated in the southern Serbian town of Medvedja, will teach in the Albanian language.

A combined department of the Nis University’s Faculties of Economics and Law opened in Medvedja on Monday, with an initial intake of 33 students of ethnic Albanian and Serbian nationality, who will learn in their native languages in classes that kick off later this week.

The US Agency for International Development and OSCE Mission to Serbia financed the opening of the department, which is located in a local high school building.

“The Serbian government has fulfilled its promise to open a university department in Medvedja, where classes will be held in both the Serbian and Albanian languages. This is a sign that the government is working on resolving issues [in] southern Serbia,” Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said at the opening.

The vice-president of the Coordination Body for South Serbia, Sima Gazikalovic, told Balkan Insight that the opening of the university department, teaching in the Albanian language, was one of the state’s “strategic priorities”.

“Now parents of the students will have less expenses, while youths from both national communities in southern Serbia will have more job opportunities once they finish their studies,” Gazikalovic said.

He announced that, at the beginning of next year, the university’s Law and Economics Departments should open a branch in Presevo and Bujanovac as well.

The speaker of the Presevo local parliament, Skender Destani, told Balkan Insight that the opening of the university department in Medvedja is of considerable importance to ethnic Albanians in the area.

“I expect that local Albanians in Presevo and Bujanovac will also get such an institution in their native language soon […] it will resolve at least part of the problems we face in the education system,” he said.

Young ethnic Albanians from Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac municipalities were forced to study in their language in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania.

Since Kosovo declared independence, on February 17 last year, Serbia does not recognise Kosovo university degrees. Thus, most recent ethnic Albanian graduates cannot apply for jobs in Serbia that they are qualified for.

And of course Serbia’s Vojvodina region is inching closer to neighboring Hungary.

Kosovo, “the final leg of the breakup of Yugoslavia” indeed!

I submitted a letter to the editor at Miami Herald about the writer’s insertion of the adjective “Jewish” to describe the concentration camps at Jasenovac, but in the meantime there is another point to make about the same article, which appeared last month:

Nazi hunter, speaking in Miami, chronicles his triumphs and frustrations

Minutes after a judge in Croatia condemned Dinko Sakic in 1999 to 20 years in prison for crimes committed during World War II, a man came up to Efraim Zuroff and told him he only had two words for him: “Thank You.'’

Zuroff, 61, a Nazi hunter from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, had captured Sakic in Argentina, where the head of Jasenovac, the largest Jewish extermination camp in Croatia, had been living for years.

The man who approached Zuroff in court was the brother of Milan Boskovic, who Sakic was believed to have executed with his own hands.

“That was one of the happiest moments of my career,'’ Zuroff said during a three-day visit to Miami to promote his book Operation Last Chance, which chronicles his quest to bring Nazi criminals to justice during three decades.

Zuroff appeared Monday night at Florida International University…Zuroff, the last of a small legion of men who hunted down Nazis through five continents, is working against the clock, well aware that almost seven decades since the Holocaust, few Nazis remain alive.

That’s why in 2002, Zuroff launched an offensive called Operation Last Chance, which offers financial rewards up to $10,000 for information that leads to the conviction and punishment of Nazi war criminals. The project has led to the names of 520 suspected Nazi officials, 100 of which have been submitted to local prosecutors.
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One of the most frustrating setbacks of Zuroff’s career occurred last summer, he said.

For more than two years, he had been following leads on the whereabouts of Aribert Heim — an Austrian doctor nicknamed “Dr. Death'’ because he removed the organs of Jewish prisoners without using anesthesia. The Wiesenthal Center offered a $500,000 reward for Heim’s capture.

But relatives of Heim’s and other witnesses told The New York Times that in 1992, he had died of rectal cancer in Cairo, where he had lived and converted to Islam — and also changed his name to Tarek Hussein Farid.

German police confirmed that a suitcase found at the Hotel Kasr el-Madina, in Cairo, where Heim lived, contained letters and legal and financial records that linked Heim to the suitcase.

Zuroff refuses to close the case because he doubts any information provided by relatives of Nazi officials. […]

So let’s make a note of yet another Nazi who converted to Islam. What did he see in Islam that was of a kindred spirit for a Jew-hater/killer?

Indeed, it is well known that in addition to Latin America, the Middle East was also a destination for fleeing Nazis. In the now virulently anti-Semitic regions of Latin America and the Middle East, the Nazis had set about indoctrinating the local populations into the National Socialist ideology, and grooming new leaders. At the same time, according to Chuck Morse, it wasn’t until Hitler met with the Jerusalem mufti that his plan to exile the Jews became a plan to exterminate the Jews. Leading to the question: Who’s been converting whom?

I opened the post by saying that I submitted a letter to the Miami Herald about the writer’s description of Jasenovac as a “Jewish concentration camp.” It’s been a month since I sent that later and so it’s probably safe to say that it will not be published. So I’ll reproduce it here for the paper’s embarrassment:

Dear Editor:

Daniel Shoer Roth’s piece (“Nazi hunter, speaking in Miami, chronicles his triumphs and frustrations,” Nov. 16) included the sentence “Zuroff…had captured [Dinko] Sakic in Argentina, where the head of Jasenovac, the largest Jewish extermination camp in Croatia, had been living for years.”

Jasenovac, the third-largest concentration camp system of WW2 — and conspicuously the least known — was not a “Jewish” camp. It was set up by the Croatians to liquidate Serbs, more than 500,000 of whom perished there in methods so barbaric that the comparatively humanitarian Germans had to put an end to the madness of their Croatian allies — the Ustashe, as the Croatian regime was called. (The Germans did so because the stories were causing revolts in Yugoslavia’s countryside.) The 40,000 Jews and 10,000 gypsies plus many anti-fascist Croats who died at Jasenovac were mere garnish around the main platter — Serbs. The Croatians were assisted not only by Croatian-Catholic clergy acting as guards and executioners, but by Bosnian Muslims serving at the camps and in their own Nazi divisions, set up by Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini.

As a Jew, I take exception to the widespread and concerted effort to cover up the Holocaust of the Serbian people in WWII — a genocide that led directly to the 1990s Balkan wars when, upon Croatia’s and Bosnia’s illegal secessions and border usurpations from Yugoslavia, Serbs living there suddenly found themselves under the rule of the very people who slaughtered their families. Survival dictated seceding from the secessionists. This is what caused the wars, and not some guy named Milosevic, as the thorough indoctrination goes.

One has to wonder about the insertion of the adjective “Jewish” before the words “concentration camp” to begin with, particularly when its absence would have rendered the sentence entirely inconspicuous. Call it an error, but please note that it’s thanks to the diligent placement of inaccuracies and omissions like this over the past 20 years of Balkans coverage that we arrived at the very surreal point of wartime Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic being invited to the 1993 dedication ceremony of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The latter was a recruiter for Hitler in his youth and wrote a supremacist tract titled “The Islamic Declaration.” The former was a Holocaust minimizer who in his book The Wastelands of Historical Reality blamed Jews for their fates at Jasenovac, and who as president praised the Ustashe and tried to re-bury their remains at a memorial where Jewish victims lay. (He also called Jews “Judeo-Nazis” for their “genocidal” policies toward Palestinians.) At the Holocaust Museum itself, none of the Croatians’ or Bosniaks’ handiwork — either against Jews or Serbs — was visible among the extensive displays. Instead, the museum’s walls depicted Croatians and Bosniaks as the exclusive victims of the current wars in their region, and Serbs as the exclusive culprits. Imagine: a Holocaust museum promoting a contemporary agenda.

But Mr. Roth deserves credit for not shying away from mentioning that the Nazi whom the hunter still seeks — the possibly deceased Austrian doctor who removed Jewish organs without anesthesia — moved to Cairo and converted to Islam. Indeed, it was shortly after his meeting with the Jerusalem mufti that Hitler’s plan to exile the Jews transformed into a plan to exterminate them instead.

I keep a haphazard log of supporting evidence for my 2007 article “Unborn Activists,” which chronicled examples of fetuses making known their happiness or displeasure over their parents’ actions, and sometimes operating on a reward-and-punishment system based on their parents’ decisions. There were at least two examples of a fetus kicking loose its mother’s tumor after she refused a doctor-recommended abortion. In a more recent, and more subtle, example of fetuses asserting themselves, I caught something in an article about a woman who felt her 18-week-old fetus kicking for the first or second time while she was performing an abortion on someone else’s 18-week-old fetus:

Abortionist Reflects on Dismembering One Baby While Feeling Her Own Flutter in Her Womb By Kathleen Gilbert

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a ‘thump, thump’ in my abdomen. Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes.” So writes abortionist Lisa Harris in a disturbing article relating her experiences as an abortionist, particularly her anguished and “brutally visceral” experience of dismembering an 18 week gestation unborn child, while 18 weeks pregnant herself.

In the article, entitled “Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the Discourse,” Harris, an abortionist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan, explains the ethical position that she says helps her and other abortionists continue practicing despite the moral and psychological hurdles involved in what she describes as an undoubtedly “violent” procedure. The article was originally published in “Reproductive Health Matters” in May 2008.
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Harris then describes how she once performed an abortion on a woman whose fetus was at 18 weeks gestation. Ironically, Harris herself was pregnant at the time, and her baby was also at 18 weeks gestation.
Consequently, she explains how she was “more interested than usual in seeing the fetal parts when I was done, since they would so closely resemble those of my own fetus.”

“I went about doing the procedure as usual,” she writes. “I used electrical suction to remove the amniotic fluid, picked up my forceps and began to remove the fetus in parts, as I always did. I felt lucky that this one was already in the breech position - it would make grasping small parts (legs and arms) a little easier.”

With my first pass of the forceps, I grasped an extremity and began to pull it down. I could see a small foot hanging from the teeth of my forceps. With a quick tug, I separated the leg. Precisely at that moment, I felt a kick - a fluttery “thump, thump” in my own uterus. It was one of the first times I felt fetal movement. There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a “thump, thump” in my abdomen. Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes - without me - meaning my conscious brain - even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling - a brutally visceral response - heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics. It was one of the more raw moments in my life. Doing second trimester abortions did not get easier after my pregnancy; in fact, dealing with little infant parts of my born baby only made dealing with dismembered fetal parts sadder.

Harris concludes that the “visually and viscerally different” component of a second-trimester abortion, as opposed to a first-trimester one, leads to questions such as: “What kind of dissociative process inside us allows us to do this routinely? What normal person does this kind of work?”

To answer the questions, Harris notes that the “violence” of abortion must be acknowledged, and relates a “bizarre” experience she once had of observing a premature baby struggling to survive immediately after dismembering an unborn child the same age:

The last patient I saw one day was 23 weeks pregnant. I performed an uncomplicated D&E procedure. Dutifully, I went through the task of reassembling the fetal parts in the metal tray. It is an odd ritual that abortion providers perform - required as a clinical safety measure to ensure that nothing is left behind in the uterus to cause a complication - but it also permits us in an odd way to pay respect to the fetus (feelings of awe are not uncommon when looking at miniature fingers and fingernails, heart, intestines, kidneys, adrenal glands), even as we simultaneously have complete disregard for it. Then I rushed upstairs to take overnight call on labour and delivery. The first patient that came in was prematurely delivering at 23-24 weeks. As her exact gestational age was in question, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) team resuscitated the premature newborn and brought it to the NICU. Later, along with the distraught parents, I watched the neonate on the ventilator. I thought to myself how bizarre it was that I could have legally dismembered this fetus-now-newborn if it were inside its mother’s uterus - but that the same kind of violence against it now would be illegal, and unspeakable. […]

A more blatant example of fetuses or babies making their displeasure known happened in May: Crying Baby Interrupted Obama as He Justified His Abortion Position at Notre Dame By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) - The distinct sound of a baby crying broke out in the capacious basketball arena where the Notre Dame commencement exercise was being held on Sunday when President Obama — who was giving the commencement address — began talking about abortion.
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Fr. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, had followed through on his decision to have Obama speak and to honor him with an honorary degree at the ceremony even though that decision was criticized by more than 70 American Catholic bishops and was called a “source of the greatest scandal” by Archbishop Raymond Burke, head of the highest court of the Roman Catholic Church.

The baby’s cry was clearly heard in television broadcasts of Obama’s speech during that part of the address where the president spoke about abortion….Obama is staunchly in favor of legalized abortion. He has said he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act (which would eliminate virtually all existing legal restrictions on abortion), has ordered that federal tax dollars can be used to fund organizations that perform and promote abortions in foreign nations, and has ordered that federal tax dollars can be used to fund embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos. […]

In another case that I never logged — from 2007 — we have a fetus that simply refused to be aborted: We’re twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the boy who refused to die By LUCY LAING

They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable.

When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart, and believed he was going to die in the womb, his mother Rebecca Jones had to make a heartbreaking decision.

Doctors told her his death could cause his twin brother to die too before they were born, and that it would be better to end Gabriel’s suffering sooner rather than later.

Firstly they tried to sever his umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply, but the cord was too strong.

They then cut Mrs Jones’s placenta in half so that when Gabriel died, it would not affect his twin brother.

But after the operation which was meant to end his life, tiny Gabriel had other ideas.

Although he weighed less than a pound, he put up such a fight for survival that doctors called him Rocky.

Astonishingly, he managed to carry on living in his mother’s womb for another five weeks - until the babies were delivered by caesarean section.

Now he and Ieuan are back at home in Stoke - and are so close they are always holding each other’s hand.

Mrs Jones, 35, a financial adviser whose husband Mark, 36, is a car salesman, said: “It really is a miracle. Doctors carried out an operation to let Gabriel die - yet he hung on.

“It was unbelievable.”

“When I felt him kicking madly the morning after the operation, I suddenly knew that he was going to hang on.

“The doctors couldn’t believe it when they could still hear his heartbeat the next morning.”
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Gabriel hung on, and his enlarged heart started to reduce in size. He also gained weight.

Mrs Jones said: “They thought it may be because the placenta had been divided. Inadvertently, it had evened out the distribution of nutrition between them, allowing Gabriel to survive.’
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Mrs Jones said: “The boys are so healthy, they have huge appetites too. Ieuan is the noisy one, while Gabriel is always laughing, it’s like he’s just so happy to be here.

“There is such a strong bond between them.

“They are always holding hands and if one cries, the other reaches out to comfort him.”

“Doctors tried to break their bond in the womb, but they just proved it couldn’t be broken.”

This kid’s heart mended itself too:

Mother has healthy baby boy despite abortion warning by doctor

By Paul Stokes (Dec 2008)

Gaynor Purdy was warned her first child could have a fatal chromosome defect and a life threatening heart condition.

But she rejected two suggestions to terminate the pregnancy and she and her husband Lee are celebrating life with their “perfect” ten-month-old son.

Mrs Purdy, 28, a quality control inspector, said: “We refused to give up on him, and decided throughout the pregnancy that as long as he was fighting, we would continue fighting with him.”

The couple from Scunthorpe, Lincs, were delighted when they discovered they had conceived shortly before their first wedding anniversary.

Four months into the pregnancy doctors told them that part of their unborn child’s heart was narrow and underdeveloped and would mean open heart surgery if the baby was born.

They were warned the condition could worsen and around Christmas last year, an immediate termination should be considered.

Further tests conducted a few days later on New Year’s Eve suggested the baby could also have Edwards Syndrome - the presence of an 18th chromosome - with a life expectancy of only up to four months if birth is survived.

Consultants again recommended the couple consider aborting the baby, fearing he would [have] little to no quality of life once he was born.

For the second time, Mrs Purdy and her husband, a 29 year old forklift driver, declined the suggestion.

Kai was born six weeks premature on March 5 at Scunthorpe General Hospital weighing just 2lb 6oz and immediately admitted to intensive care, but was discharged within six weeks.

One side of his heart was slightly bigger than the other which may need an operation to correct in the future, but regular tests have been showing the condition is constantly improving.

The chromosome disorder, which affects growth, is also being closely monitored and he is due to undergo some corrective cosmetic surgery in the New Year.

Mrs Purdy added: “Doctors told us he was a little miracle baby. They said his heart must have been mending itself. […]

I previously blogged about the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in the context of how dangerous it is when honest businessmen like Jim Casey, who founded UPS and wasn’t particularly liberal or leftist, pass away and leave a foundation behind them. It is almost always hijacked by the Left, and then inevitably used to promote jihad as was the case in the post linked above. One other example is that of Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose Republican business-man husband died, leaving her all his money. She, of course, is a leftist who then married leftist John Kerry. And so all that Republican-earned money is now going to the most atrocious left-wing causes.

So the latest on the tragic trajectory of the Casey Foundation is this:

Official at ACORN Funder to Head Corporation for National and Community Service (from Oct. 6):

President Obama announced he plans to nominate Patrick Corvington to be chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America. Big Government readers will remember that “the Corporation” assumed a prominent role on the infamous NEA Conference call, where ”the Corporation’s” Nell Abernathy joined White House and NEA officials to nudge artists to produce works supporting the Obama Administration’s legislative priorities.

Although the charity Corvington works for, Annie E. Casey Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland, has granted funding to ACORN during his tenure, it is unclear if Corvington has ties to ACORN.

Nonetheless, Corvington is part of the same cluster of organizations that provides financial and other support for ACORN which is a longtime fixture in the activist community.

Since 2001 the Annie E. Casey Foundation has pumped at least $1,705,500 into the ACORN network, according to philanthropy database information.

Of the $1,705,500, at least $850,500 was earmarked for ACORN operations in Baltimore, Maryland, home of the ACORN branch office first shown in the recent undercover videos that debuted on BigGovernment.com. Those videos show James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles pretending to be a pimp and a prostitute and receiving mountains of advice on evading laws pertaining to tax evasion and prostitution (among other things).

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a major funder of other groups on the left.

Looking at just the first letter of the alphabet, its grant recipients are labor federation AFL-CIO, abortion rights think tank Alan Guttmacher Institute, and liberal policy shop the Aspen Institute.

Although most of its grants go to groups on the political left, the foundation has funded at least one think tank on the political right. It has provided a few grants to the American Enterprise Institute.

I’ve been meaning to bring up something that was reawakened by a recent verdict at a Serbian war crimes trial. What most people are kept ignorant of is that the first shots of the Bosnian war were fired upon a retreating convoy of Yugoslav troops from Bosnia. As they were retreating, per the agreement between Belgrade and Sarajevo, the multi-ethnic soldiers of the JNA (Yugoslav National Army) were fired upon by the Muslims. It was a massacre, triggering the bloody war. That was the shot heard ’round the world if, of course, if you don’t count the Bosnian Muslim who in March 1992 killed the father of the groom in a Serbian wedding party in Sarajevo.

In a mainstream news source reporting on the verdict (AP), I was surprised to see the writer actually deign to consider the real chronology of the start of the war — rather than defer to the usual “Milosevic, the man who started three wars in the Balkans….”:

Bosnian jailed in Serbia for war crimes

BELGRADE, Serbia — A Serbian court on Monday convicted a wartime Bosnian security officer of ordering a 1992 attack on a Yugoslav army convoy that killed at least 50 soldiers, and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The trial of [Bosnian Croat] Ilija Jurisic at the Serbian war crimes court has strained relations between Bosnia and Serbia. Bosnian officials had claimed the proceedings were staged and politically motivated and demanded his release.

Jurisic was found guilty of ordering the attack against the Serb-led army convoy consisting of dozens of army trucks carrying some 100 soldiers withdrawing from the predominantly Muslim Bosnian town of Tuzla in May 1992.

The court said in its verdict that the Bosnian troops first killed the truck drivers with sniper fire, and then fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at the idled vehicles. At least 44 army soldiers were also injured in the clash.

Bosnian authorities have maintained that the Yugoslav soldiers fired first during the pullout arranged between Belgrade and Sarajevo. They said the Bosnian troops acted in self-defense in one of the bloodiest clashes during the opening days of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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The war in Bosnia started after the country’s Muslims and Croats voted to split from Serb-led Yugoslavia, triggering a rebellion by the Bosnian Serbs. The conflict — which saw Europe’s worst bloodshed since World War II — lasted until a U.S.-brokered peace deal was signed in 1995.

In January De-Construct.net had a more detailed report on the security officer convicted above:

Massacre of Yugoslav Army Conscripts Approved by Sarajevo

On May 15, 1992, Bosnian Muslim paramilitary troops, aided by local officials, used snipers to ambush and attack [a] Yugoslav Army convoy while it was attempting to withdraw from the territory of then-Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a result, up to 200 JNA conscripts were killed, 33 were wounded, 140 were imprisoned and tortured, many of whom were handed back to their loved ones in the body bags later on. For some, this atrocious war crime signaled [the] actual start of the Bosnian civil war (1992-1995).

At the trial of [Bosnian] Croat Ilija Jurišić, indicted for ordering the attack on the convoy of Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) conscripts during their scheduled retreat from Tuzla in May 1992, Deputy Chief of Military Security at the time, Marko Novaković, who testified on January 16, said that the attack “never could have been carried out without the express approval of the Bosnian Muslim supreme command in Sarajevo.”

In a case known as the Tuzla Column massacre, [the] trial before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber [of] Ilija Jurišić continues to provide solid evidence that the cold-blooded massacre was ordered and coordinated at the very top of Bosnian Muslim leadership.

According to the indictment, [a] JNA convoy, consisting mainly of unarmed 18-year-old conscripts from all parts of former Yugoslavia and of all nationalities, who were serving in the unified country in various military polygons throughout state of Yugoslavia, obeyed a decision on [the] peaceful withdrawal of troops from the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in order not to [exacerbate] with their presence a tense atmosphere at the time one segment of the population, Bosnian Muslims, demanded secession of the republic from Yugoslavia.

The JNA convoy that attempted to withdraw from the town of Tuzla was given guarantees by Muslim leadership that they will be allowed to retreat and provided a safe passage to Serbia through Bijeljina. Nevertheless, [the] convoy was ambushed and brutally attacked by the Bosnian Muslim paramilitary troops, with the help of local officials headed by Jurišić, at the very start of retreat…

Jurišić, who at the time was a member of the Bosnian Interior Ministry police reserves and a senior officer in the Public Security Service operational HQ, is accused of issuing a direct order to attack JNA convoy in retreat. On the basis of his orders, snipers in nearby buildings first shot and killed the drivers of the military vehicles, thus stopping the vehicles and blocking the way for the rest of the column. They then proceeded to target the conscripts in those vehicles, shooting and killing the young men who had not been equipped to fight or resist attack, the indictment states.

As the JNA conscripts were jumping out of the vehicles, they were being cut down by the snipers. [An] identical attack was also carried out against the visibly marked sanitation vehicles in the convoy.

Zoran Vukojević and Slobodan Radić, former reservists who survived the attack on the JNA column in Tuzla, testified that the convoy had been attacked after the second attempt to leave the army barracks. They confirmed that the drivers of the military and sanitation vehicles had come under fire first, and then everybody else in the convoy, as they were trying to to get away from the burning vehicles and find refuge in the nearby buildings. Witnesses claimed that explosions could be heard later.

Tatomir Krušić, a conscript who was wounded in the attack, testified that on the afternoon of May 15, 1992, when the JNA convoy had set off to leave Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he had heard gunshots and seen that the driver of the truck he was in had been shot.

“The army convoy was coming under fire from all sides. Bora (the driver) was shot and I told everybody to get out of the truck. The four of us jumped out, and that’s when I was wounded,” Krušić recalled.

The brutal attack on the convoy of unarmed conscripts was being broadcast live on a local Bosnian Muslim television station, showing that the column was being shot at even from the Tuzla hospital building. Part of that footage, including abuse and murder of the conscripts by the Bosnian Muslims and Croats is shown in the documentary “Truth.” As the local Muslim television was showing the burning column of Yugoslav Army vehicles, the commentator in studio asks for [a] cold beer and then informs the viewers they ought to go and “help out” [with] one conscript he saw reaching the entrance of a nearby building, suggesting the wounded soldier should not be left alive.

Another survivor of the Tuzla Column atrocity described how one of his unarmed friends that was lightly wounded in the arm managed to hide in the entrance of a building, only to be handed over in a body bag six days later. Most of the 140 conscripts who were caught alive were subsequently abused, tortured and killed in the Bosnian Muslim and Croat camps.

President of Bijeljina’s Association of Missing, Imprisoned and Killed Bosnian Serb army members and civilians, Žarko Radić said it is impossible to tell how many of the conscripts killed in [the] Tuzla Column massacre have been buried in Spomen Kosturnica, [a] mass grave turned into [a] memorial after the civil war. He said there are cases where remains of several soldiers and civilians killed in [the] Tuzla column were placed in the same casket. It is believed that remains of at least 80 JNA conscripts killed in Tuzla are buried as “unknown persons” in Bijeljina alone.

Jurišić pleaded not guilty to the charges when the trial began on February 22. He was arrested upon the international arrest warrant on May 2007, at Belgrade airport Nikola Tesla, while attempting to escape to Cologne, Germany.

For a more general reminder of how it all started, here is Andy Wilcoxson’s short article from a few years ago BOSNIA: How the war started:

On March 18, 1992, Alija Izetbegovic (Bosnian-Muslim leader), Mate Boban (Bosnian-Croat leader), and Radovan Karadzic (Bosnian-Serb Leader) all reached an agreement on the peaceful succession of Bosnia & Herzegovina from Yugoslavia.

The Agreement was known as the Lisbon Agreement (it is also known as the Cutileiro Plan). The agreement called for an independent Bosnia divided into three constituent and geographically separate parts, each of which would be autonomous. Izetbegovic, Boban, and Karadzic all agreed to the plan, and signed the agreement.

The agreement was all set, internal and external borders, and the administrative functions of the central and autonomous governments had all been agreed upon. The threat of civil war had been removed from Bosnia, that is until the U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmerman showed up.

On March 28, 1992, ten days after the agreement was reached that would have avoided war in Bosnia, Warren Zimmerman showed up in Sarajevo and met with the Bosnian-Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic. Upon finding that Izetbegovic was having second thoughts about the agreement he had signed in Lisbon, the Ambassador suggested that if he withdrew his signature, the United States would grant recognition to Bosnia as an independent state. Izetbegovic then withdrew his signature and renounced the agreement.

After Izetbegovic reneged on the Lisbon Agreement, he called a referendum on separation that was constitutionally illegal. On the second day of the referendum there was a Muslim-led attack on a Serb wedding. But the real trigger was Izetbegovic announcing a full mobilization on April 4, 1992. He could not legally do that without Serb & Croat consent, but he did it anyway. That night terror reigned in Sarajevo. The war was on.
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The United States likes to point to Bosnia as a shining example of where it helped Muslims. It is true that the United States armed the Muslims in Bosnia. But, after many thousands of deaths and massive destruction throughout Bosnia, the Muslims were afforded by the terms of the Dayton Accords, less territory than they had been guaranteed by the Lisbon Agreement, which the United States urged the Muslim leader to reject.

The bottom line here is that this war didn’t have to happen at all. Nobody had to die in Bosnia. If Ambassador Zimmerman had just left Izetbegovic alone, then none of this would have happened to begin with. It’s that simple. The blame for all of the death and destruction associated with the Bosnian war lies exclusively with Alija Izetbegovic for starting the war, and with the U.S. President [Herbert Walker Bush] for sending that idiot Zimmerman to Bosnia in the first place.

In addition to journalism’s newfound/uncharacteristic/temporary respect for war chronology, as exemplified in the AP item above, I also recently stumbled on a Reuters report that casually mentions — as if this is how it was being reported all along — systematic rape on all sides, actually naming Croatians and Muslims as no less guilty than Serbs:

Amnesty urges justice for Bosnia war rape victims (Sep 30, 2009)

SARAJEVO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Amnesty International urged Bosnia on Thursday to seek justice for up to 50,000 women and girls who were raped during the country’s 1992-95 war and to punish the perpetrators, many of whom still hold public posts.

During the war, Bosnian Croats, Serbs and Muslims all participated in systematic rape as part of widespread ethnic cleansing but the victims, most of them Muslims, have been denied reparations given to civilian war victims, the human rights watchdog said in a report. […]

The piece goes on to say that the estimate is actually between 20,000 and 50,000 victims (a 30,000-victim span!), and that most don’t come forward because of the stigma attached, as well as the fact that the culprits still occupy positions of power in officialdom and the police force. Which would certainly lead to an appreciation for the courageousness of the Bosnian-Muslim woman who had five aliases, all of whom claimed multiple rapes.

Here’s just a related note on the man whose shooting at the Serbian wedding party was considered the opening shot of the Bosnian war. He died in 2007:

Bosnian crime boss killed (June 28, 2007):

SARAJEVO — Crime boss Ramiz Delalić was murdered late last night in Sarajevo.
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The murder was not considered a surprise in Sarajevo, Delalić was known for problems with the law and a history of violent behavior. Delalić is best known for killing a Serbian man in front of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Sarajevo in 1992. He was not indicted for the crime until late 2004.

Police were unable to locate Dalalić until August 2004. During the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, [he] was the commander of the Ninth Motorized Brigade of the Bosnian Muslim Army.

Notice how in both Bosnia and Kosovo, the “freedom-lovers” whom we passed off as anti-communists in order to gain public approval for backing them are all crime bosses. Here’s more:

Bosnia: EUR 500,000 found in dead bosnian muslim crime boss’ apartment (July 3, 2007)

SARAJEVO — Police found EUR 500,000 in the apartment rented by Ramiz Delalić, who was killed last week.

According to Dnevni Avaz, citing sources close to the police, ten to 15 kilograms of gold and platinum jewellery, ten pistols and two automatic weapons were found in the apartment as well.

Delalić was killed last Wednesday in front of the apartment, located in downtown Sarajevo.

He is best known to the public for being charged with killing a Serbian man at a Sarajevo wedding in May [sic] 1992, an event that sparked armed conflict in the city.

Delalić was familiar to Sarajevo police and was on different occasions charged for attacks on police officers, murder attempts, death threats, illegal possession of fire arms, violent behaviour and other crimes. […]

Kosovo Albanian suspect in Delalić murder (June 30, 2007)

SARAJEVO — Lirim Bytyqi, 29, native of Prizren, Kosovo, is suspected of murdering a Bosnian crime boss in Sarajevo Wednesday.

Police issued a warrant for Bytyqi’s arrest. He is also wanted on charges of inflicting severe gunshot wounds on Amir Faća, 36, in downtown Sarajevo on June 12.
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Delalić was best known to the public for killing a Serbian man in front of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Sarajevo in 1992. […]

Indeed, it seems that every other jihadi — whether Middle Eastern or Eastern European or even black or white or any of the hundreds of thousands of all colors being converted while in jail — has a criminal background separate from jihad. As I’ve written before, it’s the inability to walk a straight path that draws them to jihad to begin with — criminality with a higher purpose.

In addition to the Duka brothers who were planning a massacre at Ft. Dix, and in addition to Kosovo’s leaders — all of whom started out as petty and not so petty crooks and continue their rackets today — we have this update on the Bosnian guy involved in the North Carolina-based plot disrupted over the summer:

…[Friend Jasmin] Smajic claims that the arrested Anes Subasic was a “refugee” from Bosnia who fled ethnic persecution by Serbian authorities during the Bosnian civil war that started in 1992. [Here we go again. Ah, how war traumatizes the violent.]

The police in the Bosnian Serb city of Banja Luka say that the 33-year old Anes Subasic was born in a Banja Luka suburb of Laus, that his father went by a pseudonym Tutma, but that Anes is a man involved in criminal activities that include attempted murder, extortion and robbery.

The Bosnian Serb police say that in 1992, Anes changed his name to Mladen, an ethnic Serbian name, and that under both names Anes was charged 11 times on 16 counts of attempted murder, extortion and robbery.

The police in Banja Luka has also investigated Anes Subasic for an attempted murder of Stanslav Koljancic, an ethnic Serb and an owner of Banja Luka night club Kajak.

In my recent unpublished letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, I tried to warn the zombies about the possible backgrounds of some of the paper’s celebrated, resettled “victims” of the Bosnian war, saying that Salt Lake City shooter Sulejman Talovic’s father wasn’t the only one who lied about his war record to get refugee status. I should have added that they can also lie about their criminal records to get that status:

Bosnian fighting extradition indicted on South Dakota charges (March 23, 2007):

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota-A Bosnian man was indicted on state charges of aggravated assault as he fights extradition for a 1995 slaying in his homeland.

Samir Avdic, who was found guilty in absentia in his home country of shooting and killing a man while they hid in a cave to escape the violence in Bosnia, has been fighting a federal complaint accusing him of being a fugitive from a foreign country.

Avdic, 40, is in the United States on a temporary visa and has been living in Sioux Falls with his family and working at the John Morrell & Co. meatpacking plant. He was arrested March 9 by Sioux Falls police after he
was accused of using his vehicle to ram into another vehicle carrying his stepdaughter’s boyfriend.

A grand jury on Thursday indicted him on two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of simple assault and reckless driving…In August 1995, Avdic and two other men were hiding in a cave while the nearby town of Srebrenica was under siege by Serbian forces, according to the federal complaint. The three men argued and Avdci fatally shot one of them in the back and, with the third man’s help, threw the body down a
ravine, according to the complaint.

A Bosnian court issued a warrant for Avdic’s arrest in November 1998 and he was convicted a month later.

Avdic was initially sentenced to 12 years in prison but an appeals court later reduced it to six years after re-evaluating mitigating factors, the complaint states.

So even when they’re not in battle, Bosniaks — like Albanians — have a propensity to kill. That must be the mitigating factor. Similarly, even Croatia’s heroes and top military commanders are ex-cons: Croat War Crimes General was Armed Robber (AP)

Jihadists=Bosniaks=Albanians=Croatians=Nazis

Wouldn’t you think that even a dime of all that rock star money that pours into the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative might get to the three-year-olds who are having heart attacks and epileptic spells because of the lead-heavy areas his war displaced them to? Instead of helping where he has caused suffering, he looks far far away, toward Africa and even obesity, to look for causes to help. Meanwhile, he is killing hundreds of Roma children like Sara:

UN saved us from war…and left us to die of poisoning (See my note on this unfortunate title at bottom.)

By BRIAN FLYNN

LITTLE Sara Jahirovic is dying a slow, painful death.

Staring up with big, haunting brown eyes, Sara is a victim of broken promises by United Nations charity chiefs more than a decade after British troops helped free Kosovo.

Her desperate father - he has eight other children - explains that at the age of three she has already had three heart attacks and, as she now suffers daily fainting fits, this Christmas may well be her last.

Sara is just one of hundreds of forgotten children abandoned to suffer brain damage and await death in an international scandal exposed today by The Sun.

The youngsters are being poisoned by dust blowing into a stinking refugee camp from a mountain of toxic lead waste towering above them.

They were packed into the contaminated site by the UN ten years ago after British soldiers went in with our allies to rescue Kosovo from Serbian tyrant Slobodan Milosevic.

Their families, burned from their own homes by ethnic cleansing as the conflict ended, were assured it would be for just a few months until a safer place could be found.

But the UN High Commission For Refugees and sister agency UNMIK - the UN Mission in Kosovo - abandoned them behind the barbed wire of the filthy Osterode camp in Mitrovica when they pulled out two years ago and left the Kosovo government with the problem.
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The World Health Organisation and humanitarian campaigners say only immediate evacuation and medical treatment will save the children.

Yet the UN and its agencies STILL refuse to act.

Last night British scientists and humanitarian campaigners called on Foreign Secretary David Miliband to intervene.

Leading toxicologist Professor Alastair Hay, a UK Government adviser, said: “I have never encountered a situation in all the years I have been looking at lead where the situation is so catastrophic as it is for these children.

“I think this is absolutely criminal. It is such a disgrace that these children are exposed.”

So far, at least 84 refugees have died in the camp - many of them children whose organs simply packed up.

Sara’s father Feruz, 38, wipes away a tear as he watches her play in the filthy, crumbling former army barracks and says he expects her to join them soon.

Feruz, his own skin tainted with a dull, grey film of the deadly dust, said: “We do not know how long Sara will be with us.

“She has had three heart attacks and she is only three. She has regular fainting fits and epileptic attacks, yet she is a lovely, happy child. The only grace is that she does not understand what is happening to her.

“If she gets too excited, she collapses with an attack. At night she is screaming and my wife and I take turns to be awake with her because at any second she could die. We are exhausted…The United Nations moved us here and told us it would be for a few months. We believed them and were grateful. Now they have gone but we are still here.”
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When the World Health Organisation first tested the childrens’ blood for lead five years ago, the readings for 90 per cent of the children went off the scale.

The levels were the highest they had ever recorded in any area, with many children poisoned by more than four times the amount that triggers brain damage.

Three months ago, after repeated pleas for help were ignored, outraged WHO bosses called for the camp’s “immediate and urgent” closure.

Standing on top of the 200 metre high mountain of 100 million tons of lead waste, you can see the air thick with the fine, grey dust that blows on to the camp.

The colossal slag heap that dominates the skyline was formed by Europe’s biggest mining and smelting complex, which has lain derelict since the Kosovo war. Below, children play in skips of human excrement and drink water from communal taps on land contaminated with the lead waste.

British human rights campaigner Bernard Sullivan…said: “The UN has left these people high and dry. They have a moral responsibility to clean up the mess they have made.”

Both UN organisations claim they are still committed to helping the families even though they are no longer in charge.

But Kosovo government spokesman Memli Krasniqi said: “The UN did not do anything to move these people. We don’t know why.

“They have done their job badly. Now we are trying to deal with it but a lot of time has been lost.”

Meanwhile, only one thing is certain this winter in the camp - even more children will die.

This has been just the latest report to start coming out on the poisoned Roma of Kosovo, about a decade late of course, as with all things Kosovo-related. But a point on the title “UN saved us from war…and left us to die of poisoning”: The U.S.-led NATO operation in Kosovo did not save from war; it brought war, after years of Western escalation of the otherwise low-scale conflict.

The article repeatedly lays blame at the feet of the Useless Nations, a.k.a the UN, but although it was tasked with administering the province, this was NOT the UN’s war. The UN did NOT approve of the NATO blitzkrieg. This was a U.S.-led aggression, and the responsibility to help the poisoned generation of Kosovo lies with the U.S. And especially with some rich folks named Bill and Hillary Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright and Wesley Clark.

Now, pay attention also to this sentence: “Their families, burned from their own homes by ethnic cleansing as the conflict ended, were assured it would be for just a few months until a safer place could be found.”

Here the writer has engaged in the usual Balkans-reporting ploy that was handily chronicled in Peter Brock’s masterpiece “Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting“: the writer leaves the reader to assume that the burning of homes “by ethnic cleansing” was done by Serbs, when in fact Albanians were the ones burning all non-Albanian homes and cleansing non-Albanians, with particular ferocity at the end of the “official” end of the war in mid-June, 1999.

Another sentence that warrants clarification: “But the UN High Commission For Refugees and sister agency UNMIK - the UN Mission in Kosovo - abandoned them behind the barbed wire of the filthy Osterode camp in Mitrovica when they pulled out two years ago and left the Kosovo government with the problem.”

Aw, the poor Kosovo “government.” Got its war of ethnic cleansing but didn’t manage to clear out all the non-Albanians and is now saddled with a problem it created. Of course, the Albanians who run Kosovo never wanted to be in power in order to deal with the province’s “problems” as a legitimate government. The whole point was to set up a mafia empire.

Here we have another gem:

But Kosovo government spokesman Memli Krasniqi said: “The UN did not do anything to move these people. We don’t know why. They have done their job badly. Now we are trying to deal with it but a lot of time has been lost.”

This is simply a classic Albanianism: As with the terrorism and wahhabism taking root in Kosovo since our intervention on behalf of Albanian land-grabbers, taking care of their backyard is always someone else’s responsibility. Until, of course, that responsibility gets in the way of their criminal enterprises, at which point it’s time to “Get out!”

Finally, British troops did not help to “free” Kosovo from any tyrants. They helped to detach it.

From “Munich” author George Jonas:

Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were never being oppressed or cleansed because of how they worshipped or who their parents were. Whenever examples of atrocities against ethnic Albanians occurred, they occurred because they’ve been fighting the Serbs for the mastery of a region.
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The conflict in that unhappy land was always sparked by the resolve of one group, the Albanians, to be masters in what they view as their own house, colliding with the resolve of another group, the Serbians, to be masters in the same house — which they also regard as their own.