Balkan connection
A front-page article (June 19) reported that the planned poison gas
attack on the New York subway system was canceled by al-Qaida's No. 2 man,
Ayman al-Zawahiri, 45 days before its execution because "it would not be
spectacular enough."
A July 27 article, which reports that al-Zawahiri is seeking support
for jihad from non-Muslims, clearly demonstrates the terrorist dangers to
this country. In addition to non-Muslims, Islamic terrorists are
reportedly relying on European Muslims who don't fit the physical profile
of Middle Eastern terrorists. Because the Balkans has become a central
point of this recruitment effort, we must not ignore al-Zawahiri's
connection to the area.
The Serbian province of Kosovo, under U.N. administration since 1999,
has been the center of Islamic terrorism and ethnic cleansing.
Unfortunately, some in the administration are moving headlong toward
establishing Kosovo as an independent state run by terrorists and war
criminals, while ignoring the fact that Kosovo has become a center for
terrorism and crime in the Balkans. Did we learn nothing from 9/11, or are
we about to make another colossal mistake in the Balkans?
-- STELLA L. JATRAS, Camp Hill
