The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Prelude to the Capture of Srebrenica
lish sources, see Ivan Stefanovic, “Serbs in Bosnia Proclaim Own Constitution,”
March 27, 1992; Nesho Djuric, “Fresh ethnic violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
leaders appeal to UN,” United Press International, March 27, 1992; Slobodan
Lekic, “Death visits Bosnian town,” Associated Press, March 28, 1992; H. Evans
Thomas, “Ethnic clashes involve federal army, Serbs, Croats and Muslims,”
United Press International, March 28, 1992; Slobodan Lekic, “Three killed in
northern Bosnia, militiamen turn back refugees,” Associated Press, March 29,
1992; and Nesho Djuric, “Sporadic ethnic violence despite truce in Bosnia-
Herzegovina,” United Press International, March 29, 1992.
10 Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War (New York: Penguin
Books, 1992), p.146.
11 Sefer Halilovic, Lukava Strategija (“The Cunning Strategy”—Sarajevo: Matica,
1998). Halilovic’s exact words are: “Our forces are organized in the Patriotic
League of Bosnia and Hercegovina in formation from the smallest military unit
to a brigade strength of 120,000 men” (p. 222). Also see Steven L. Burg and Paul
S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia - Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention
(Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), pp. 74-75. For Burg and
Shoup's source in Halilovic, see endnote #54, p. 427.
12 Alija Izetbegovic, Islamic Declaration: A Programme for the Islamization of Muslims
and of Muslim Peoples (“Islamska deklaracija”), no translator listed, 1970, 1990,
p. 30 (as posted to the website of the Balkan Repository Project,
).
13 Yossef Bodansky and Vaughn S. Forrest, “Iran’s European Springboard?” Task
Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, House Republican Research
Committee, September 1, 1992 (as posted to the website of the Balkan Repository
Project, ).
14 Dani, September 24, 1999. In testimony given late during the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic, the British journalist Eve-Ann Prentice stated that while awaiting the
start of scheduled appointment with Alija Izetbegovic around November, 1994,
she witnessed an “Arabic looking” man ushered in to see Izetbegovic before her.
One of the other journalists in her company at the time, Der Spiegel’s Renate
Flottau, later identified this man as Osama bin Laden. See Milosevic Trial Transcript,
IT-02-54-T, February 3, 2006, pp. 47,949 - 47,950, .
15 For a wealth of evidence about the illegal arms shipments to the Bosnian Muslims
during the war, including essential sources, see Cees Wiebes, Intelligence and
the War in Bosnia, 1992 – 1995 (London: Lit Verlag, 2003), Chapter 4, Section
2, “Arms supplies to the ABiH: the Croatian Pipeline,” pp. 158-177; and Section
3, “Secret arms supplies to the ABiH: the Black Flights to Tuzla,” pp. 177-198.
Also see James Risen and Doyle McManus, “Clinton Secretly OKed Iran’s Arms
Shipments to Bosnia,” Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1996. Most important, see the
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