Bosnian Mujahideen and foreign fighters.

[Magda Hassan]

Larouchie warning. But some interesting info.

Stankovicwhose father was a fanatical "Greater Serbia"
Chetnik during World War II, for whom he had created
a sort of shrine in his housewas one of only three British
British mujahideen' officers fluent in the language. Trained for special operations,
Stankovic was first assigned in central Bosnia to British Army
caught inBosnia headquarters of the Cheshire Battalion (the same used in "anti-terror" provocations in Northern Ireland) under Robert
by Umberto Pascali Stewart inNovaBila, and then to theCommander ofUnprofor (UN Protection Forces), Sir Michael Rose. He served four
tours, and became the chief liaison officer between the British
One of the most trusted subordinates of Gen. Sir Michael commanders of Unprofor and the Serb warlords, including
Rose, the British NATO commander in Bosnia, will stand war criminals Radovan Karadzic andMladic.
trial in Britain at the Guildford court, Surrey, beginning on The story of Stankovic leads directly to the SAS operaMarch
11. BritishMaj.Milos Stankovic, a.k.a.Michael Stan- tions in 1992-93 in central Bosnia. In August 1993, EIR exley,
will stand trial under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act posed how the British were creating nominally Muslim and
for espionage and passing information to the enemy. Stanko- Croat groupings, and howthis "gang-countergang" operation
vic, while stationed in Bosnia during 1992-95 (mostly while was used to ignite a "war between the victims." Elements of
serving as the right-hand man to Rose), had revealed every British special forceswere sent into the area to train the gangs
classified or confidential NATO plan to war criminal Ratko and to push them to commit atrocities.
Mladic, the head of the "Greater Serbia" gangs. As the Croatian magazine Danas reported on July 16,
How many people died because of Stankovic's actions? 1993, "the massacre in the Muslim village of Ahmici, was
How long was the genocidal war prolonged? Nobody knows carried out by one of those groups commanded by a British
for the moment. What is known is that: citizen, the desecration of the Croatian monastery of Guca
The arrest of Stankovic was not a British initiative, Gora . . . was executed by a group of mujahideens, combut
rather the result of U.S. pressure, particularly from U.S. manded by a British mercenary known as Rose." Danas deintelligence
organizations. U.S. intelligence elements have tailed the story of some of these British "mercenaries," such
participated in every interrogation of him. The "secret war" as Norry Phillips, "a former member of the Royal Navy, who
between the United States and Britain in Bosnia dates back came to Croatia [in 1991] to train Croatian soldiers. Upon
to the beginning of the military intervention there, formally the arrival of Unprofor to Croatia, Phillips joined the Croat
under the UN. In the fall of 1994, U.S. intelligence stopped Council of Defense (HVO), and when the clashes between
sharing information with its British counterpart in the area. Croats and Muslims started in Mostar, the marine Norry
Stankovic did nothing that was not approved by his shifted to the Muslim side. There would be nothing strange
commanders, according to British Independent Member of in that if he himself was not the one who tried to persuade the
Parliament Martin Bell, a Stankovic supporter and former HVO commanders to actions against the Muslims. Mostar
BBC correspondent in Bosnia. Bell believes that the only cannot be a town with two armies,' he used to say, let us deal
reason Stankovic was arrested was because of "a witch-hunt with the Bosnia army in two days and the world will accept
by American and Bosnian Muslim officials," as he was para- it.' People from theHVOfound it strange that he was suggestphrased
by the New York Times. ing this, while at the same time he was selling weapons to
The trial is only the tip of the iceberg. The "iceberg," the Muslims."
iswhatEIR has denounced since the beginning of theBosnian Are the details of the British intelligence operation in
genocide: that the British, and in particular, Sir Michael Rose, central Bosnia going to come out in the Stankovic trial? Will
did everything to help the war criminals in their genocidal this be a deterrent against the similar use of theKosova Liberdrive,
including the synthetic creation of groups of "Islamic ation Army by the British?
fighters" and "Croat extremists" used to fuel a general spiral It was Sir Michael Rose who, in November 1994, saboof
war in the Balkans. taged the air strikes against the Mladic genocidal gangs that
Putting the spotlight on the British role in Bosnia, is of were about to overrun the UN safe area of Bihac, which they
crucial importance at a moment when London is determined had kept under siege, using napalm and cluster bombs, for 30
to explode the Kosova region, using the so-called Kosova months. At the last moment, Washington broke through the
Liberation Army, and giving the green light to Slobodan Mi- opposition from Rose, and U.S. planes from the NATO base
losevic's "anti-terror" gangsters. in Aviano, Italy reached Bihac. But they could not stop the
"There is no doubt that British intelligence knew what Serb gangs. The SAS teams that were supposed to relay the
Stankovic was up to," a Balkan diplomatic source told EIR. positions of the targets, did not do so.Why? U.S. intelligence
Another source called attention to the continuing "secret war" intercepted a message from Rose's headquarters to the SAS
between the U.S. and British in Bosnia. spotters: "Hold off. . . . Do not indentify targets!"
36 International EIR March 13, 1998