Peter Worthington, Scott Taylor and the Sun newspapers are all to be highly
congratulated on the printing of "Al-Qaida takes root in the
Balkans." It is refreshing to get a proper slant on what happened in
Bosnia, at last.
Taylor has the direct experience, Peter Worthington the wide perspective and the Sun papers the courage to swim against a stream. The views of the Canadian peacekeepers have been muzzled for too long. In the 1939-45 war in which I served, the Allies made use of dubious groups in Europe to harass the Nazi Germans. This included the Italian Mafia,( curbed by Mussolini, but resurrected by the OSS) the Societe Corse in France and virtually any brigand that came forward. An RCAF friend who bailed out over Belgium said that he was more afraid of the underground man who hid him than he was of the Germans. It was a serious mistake to make use of criminals and we have been paying the price ever since.
All too ready
The U.S. State Department was all too ready to arm supposedly anti-communist Afghans against the U.S.S.R. and this fostered the rapid growth of al-Qaida that has come to be the scourge of its early patrons. Scott Taylor has shown that the Bosnian Muslims were not only helped, but led on to atrocities they had not contemplated by al-Qaida who, in turn, were helped by the U.S. forces. It would have been only prudent to learn the real objective of these mujihadeen.
It was entirely contrary to that of the Council of Europe or the U.S.A. When it is shown that the al-Qaida in both Bosnia and Kosovo received material assistance from the CIA and the SAS, Canadians should be concerned over the proposed expansion of Task Force Two, an organization that is quite independent from the Canadian Armed Forces.
Geoffrey Wasteneys
(We respect Peter and Scott's opinions, but we don't think anyone has a full handle on what's going on in the Balkans)
Taylor has the direct experience, Peter Worthington the wide perspective and the Sun papers the courage to swim against a stream. The views of the Canadian peacekeepers have been muzzled for too long. In the 1939-45 war in which I served, the Allies made use of dubious groups in Europe to harass the Nazi Germans. This included the Italian Mafia,( curbed by Mussolini, but resurrected by the OSS) the Societe Corse in France and virtually any brigand that came forward. An RCAF friend who bailed out over Belgium said that he was more afraid of the underground man who hid him than he was of the Germans. It was a serious mistake to make use of criminals and we have been paying the price ever since.
All too ready
The U.S. State Department was all too ready to arm supposedly anti-communist Afghans against the U.S.S.R. and this fostered the rapid growth of al-Qaida that has come to be the scourge of its early patrons. Scott Taylor has shown that the Bosnian Muslims were not only helped, but led on to atrocities they had not contemplated by al-Qaida who, in turn, were helped by the U.S. forces. It would have been only prudent to learn the real objective of these mujihadeen.
It was entirely contrary to that of the Council of Europe or the U.S.A. When it is shown that the al-Qaida in both Bosnia and Kosovo received material assistance from the CIA and the SAS, Canadians should be concerned over the proposed expansion of Task Force Two, an organization that is quite independent from the Canadian Armed Forces.
Geoffrey Wasteneys
(We respect Peter and Scott's opinions, but we don't think anyone has a full handle on what's going on in the Balkans)
