B-H Islamic Magazine Editor in Chief Receives Death Threat From Alleged Arab Spy Sarajevo Saff in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 15 Jan 05 pp 32,33
[Second installment of report by Saff editor in chief Kemal Bakovic: "Udba Is Our Fate II: Intelligence Operatives Making Threats"] We announced that, in this edition of Saff, we would identify the collaborators of the intelligence services present in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the Bosniaks who in the previous period were the subject of intensive spying. We will not give this up; however, taking into account everything that has happened since we published the first part of the "Udba [former Yugoslav secret police] Is Our Fate" article, we have decided to inform the readers of these events. In the previous edition we wrote that the local and foreign intelligence services were spying and eavesdropping on the Islamic organizations present in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Without any evidence or reason, the world's intelligence organizations are trying to make out that all Arabs who work for humanitarian organizations and who came to Bosnia-Herzegovina to help in the most difficult period for our people appear criminals and potential terrorists. The reports of the intelligence services allege that the greatest Islamic authorities, such as Jusuf Kardavi and his followers in Bosnia, are terrorists. They also allege that the biggest Islamic parties in the world, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are terrorist organizations. The intelligence organizations also have not refrained from the completely illegal eavesdropping on the diplomatic offices and personnel of friendly countries, and have invested major resources in eavesdropping on and surveillance of these people. Bakovic as Kurban We should remind our readers that, in our previous edition, we published the names of several Arabs who take money for spying on the diplomatic offices of Islamic countries and the staff of the most prominent world Islamic organizations. One of the persons whose name we published is Rasid Seta. Following the publication of the article, we received a number of threats from Seta. Considering that we reported this to the police and that the police have done absolutely nothing to stop these threats, we have decided to publish some of the messages that Seta texted to the cellular telephone of Saff's editorial office. Seta wrote, among other things: "For Kemal from Rasid Seta: Everything that you wrote in your paper is a lie. But, for this you will pay with your life. For me, you are a kafir [infidel] who should be beheaded." After sending this message, Seta probably conducted an enquiry and, upon learning that Kemal Bakovic was attending an Arab language course, sent the following message: "I know where you are. I know that you are attending an Arab language course. I never forget my enemies. You will get a nice present when you finish the course." When one of the colleagues explained to him that Kemal was not attending the course and that he had learned Arabic in Jordan, Seta wrote: "Ja kelb [you fake], what brought you to Jordan?" He subsequently threatened to destroy the Saff Web page and Kemal Bakovic's private mail. To show that he cared about the opinion of the ulama [Muslim scholars], he sent a message that he had consulted certain scholars, who had told him that all Saff employees were kafirs and that he was allowed to take their entire property and families. The imaginative Seta then remembered that the Kurban-Bayram [Eid al-Adha -- Festival of Sacrifice] was drawing near and told Bakovic that he would, instead of paying 250 convertible marks, use Bakovic as kurban [sacrificial lamb] and thereby save a lot of money. After he received no reply to any of his messages, Seta threatened to rape Bakovic's wife and kill his child. The police obviously did not take any of these threats seriously and had no time to curb this maniac. No human rights protection organization issued a statement on this, either. Alcoholics' Revolution As an old collaborator of foreign intelligence services (we will report in detail on his activities and ties with intelligence services in one of the future editions of Saff), the editor in chief of the Slobodna Bosna magazine [Senad Avdic], a failed journalist and human being, also sided with US spies. He devoted four pages of his magazine to the retelling of our article and to wondering as to who could have supplied the Saff "Taliban" with the confidential documentation. Writing in the manner that he would have liked us to write, and not in the manner in which we actually wrote the said article, this person, who has been given the opportunity to put on paper the thoughts of an average alcoholic, blames Hasan Cengic [SDA -- Party for Democratic Action -- official] for everything. Who else would he blame? Unfortunately, as long as this state continues to allow such people to make public appearances, we will be forced to read and listen to their nonsense and lies fabricated one million times over. Imitating Slobodna Bosna, the B-H Federation Television's [FTV] "60 Minutes" show also mentioned the article published in the previous edition of Saff. Following the example of their senior colleagues from Slobodna Bosna, who taught them that the most important thing for the ratings is to lie as much as you can, they lied their heads off. Ignoring the fact that Saff published Rasid Seta's photograph and said that he was an Arab from Lebanon, 60 Minutes aired an "exclusive" statement of Rasid Seta, a Bosniak who had nothing to do with our article. This Seta stated that he was not a spy and that he never went to a mosque. Our article was carried by the daily printed in London, Asharq Al-Awsat, as well as by the popular Saudi Web portal, "Islam Today." Arab Nationalism or Something Else What surprised us most of all was the reaction of certain Arabs. Unfortunately, over the past few days, they have shown the extent of their nationalism. They have openly sided with the people for whom we have provided evidence that they are spies. This case is the best indicator of the actual role and work of certain Arab Islamic organizations; for them, it is more important to defend a brother Arab, regardless of what he did, than to defend the truth, which is an Islamic imperative they swear by. They have maliciously insinuated that, by publishing the names of Arab spies, we actually wanted to say that all Arabs in Bosnia were spies. With this excuse they prohibited the sale of Saff in their organizations. They told some of the people who sell Saff and at the same time work for their organizations to choose between working for their organizations and working for Saff. The most tragicomic example of this is a humanitarian organization (that was not even mentioned in the article) whose secretary telephoned a Bosniak who should have received a scholarship from this organization for a master's thesis and told him that he would not be granted the scholarship promised to him over the Saff article. We extend our regrets to the person who has been denied a scholarship over Saff, but had nothing to do with our magazine. However, we regret even more the narrow-mindedness of certain people, who are making a distinction between Arab Muslims and other Muslims. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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