BIN LADEN AND THE BALKANS: The Politics of Anti-Terrorism (ICG Balkans Report N° 119)
BIN LADEN AND THE BALKANS: The Politics of Anti-Terrorism (ICG Balkans Report N° 119)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity of Collectives, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Keywords: mujahidin;
Summary/Abstract: Given the presence of ex-mujahidin in Bosnia, the tens of thousands of former military and paramilitary fighters in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia who are Muslims by tradition, if not for the most part by observance, and the large deployments of U.S. and other troops in the region, some (though by no means all) senior Western sources describe the potential terrorist threat as significant. In this context, international officials and organisations in parts of the region, as well as certain governments, have taken extra security precautions, and clamped down on individuals and groups suspected of possible links to terrorist networks. In this context, it is important that the international community should not be distracted by the wave of anti-Muslim opinion and propaganda that has washed through Serbia, Macedonia, and the Serbcontrolled parts of Bosnia. In these countries, and also in Albania, Western capitals must reward governments. overall democratic performance, not the volume of their denunciations of terrorism.

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