September 12th 2007 02:48:22 AM
More on Jihadists as Peacekeepers
Posted by Julia GorinIn a post last week I mentioned that jihadist operatives have been serving in the multinational peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, and this paragraph from Deliso’s The Coming Balkan Caliphate goes to this point:
Caught up in the pleasures of what became known as a “paradise mission,” the internationals paid little attention when “a few funny-looking foreign Muslims,” as one European official wryly notes, busily set up shop. From the beginning, Islamic charities and cultural associations worked to develop Wahhabi influence in Kosovo. These organizations were also used by states such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey to provide covers for their intelligence operatives. At the same time, military intelligence agents from Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and others were embedded within military detachments pledged to the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission that was supposed to guarantee stability. Yet contingents from Islamic states in KFOR did other things besides keeping the peace in Kosovo.