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Chicago Tribune VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters) August 26, 2007 Fighting terrorists The Tribune is to be congratulated for publishing the letters to the editor (Voice of the people, Aug. 19) regarding the dire situation in Kosovo in response to "Liberating Kosovo" (Editorial, Aug. 13). Since the beginning of the war that started in Bosnia, virtually no attention has been given to the voice of the Serbs and it was gratifying to see letters giving them that voice. Professor John Schindler of the strategy department at the Naval War College and former National Security Agency intelligence analyst writes of the shocking story in his book, "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida and the Rise of Global Jihad," just how Osama bin Laden successfully exploited the Bosnian conflict for his own ends, why Bosnia and its secret jihad matter to America and our war on terrorism today and how bin Laden used Bosnia as a base for terrorist operations worldwide -- including attacks on the United States from the Millennium Plot to Sept. 11, 2001. Today we are seeing the result of that blowback due to the mishandling of the latest Balkan war. At one time, there were 40,000 Serbs living in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Today there are approximately 150 Serbs, mostly elderly too terrified to leave their ghetto without the protection of NATO troops for fear of being killed by Albanian mobs. If Kosovo Albanians achieve their independence, it would guarantee the final eradication of Serbia's culture, language and religion in Serbia's Jerusalem. Furthermore Kosovo would be in the hands of Kosovo's prime minister, Agim Ceku, who, according to Jane's Defense Weekly, masterminded two of the grizzliest episodes of slaughter against the Serbs in the Yugoslav war. Is this to whom we are to entrust the lives of the remaining Serbs? After Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush told the American people that we would do whatever it takes to defend our country against Muslim terrorists, yet we denied the Serbs the right to defend themselves against the same Muslim terrorists that we are fighting today. Stella L. Jatras Camp Hill, Pa.
