The Western military industrial intelligence establishment has a long standing relationship with various Islamist extremist groups stemming back over at least half a century.
Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1979, President Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski was the key architect of a plan to arm the Afghan Mujaheddin in what would later be known as 'Operation Cyclone.'
Thus began the modern era of cooperation between the Western powers, predominantly the U.S and the UK, and various Islamist extremist groups that has continued to this day.
While Operation Cyclone is widely acknowledged, any suggestion that Western powers continued their strategic support for Islamists groups, beyond the 1989 withdrawal of the Soviets from Afghanistan, is strictly taboo. We are instead asked to accept the simple narrative that the 'war on terror' is essentially a battle of good vs evil.
In reality, the West, ostensibly in the form of the Anglo-American led NATO establishment, often referred to as the U.S led coalition (especially in regard to recent military actions and wars in Libya, Iraq and Syria) has continued to use Islamist terrorists and ground forces as proxies in a game of geostrategic manipulation.
In 1991 both Croatia and Slovenia seceded from the former Yugoslavia, shortly followed by a declaration of independence by Bosnia-Herzegovina. Slobadan Milosevic's Serbian government supported the Bosnian Serb's rejection of the declaration and violence erupted between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims.
Bosnia-Herzegovina devolved into three separate regions. One Muslim Bosniak, another Croat and the other Serbian. During the Bosnian War the Bosnian Muslim were supported by the U.S. and the UK (and earlier Iran and Saudi Arabia), the Croats drew Catholic support from across Europe and the Russians, Israelis, Greeks and Ukrainians supported the Serbs, again drawing fighters from a number of eastern orthodox nations. Effectively, during this period, the Bosnian War, the war in Kosovo, The Albanian civil war and the insurgencies in the Presevo Valley and the Republic of Macedonia were all heavily influenced by more powerful, external 'players'. They all exercised their realpolitik through the sponsorship of various military factions.
In 1996 the Dutch Government commissioned a report from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) into the events surrounding the Bosnian War and, in particular, the massacre at Srebrenica. Their published 2002 report was a product of investigators unrestricted access to Dutch intelligence and high level access to other intelligence service's personnel and documentation. Their finding were extensive and unequivocal. They clarified that the CIA and MI6 were aware of the supply of arms and fighters to support the Bosnian Muslim Army. Rather than attempt to stop it, in 1993, they took it over and expanded so called 'Croatian Pipeline.' It facilitated the shipment of weapons, fighters and equipment via Turkey and Croatia into the war zone. The Dutch report stated:
“Clinton and State Department officials considered supplies via Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. This was not new: in the 1980s, Saudi Arabia had already supplied arms worth $500 million via the CIA to the Mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. There had also already been a close relationship with Turkey in the area of intelligence for some considerable time. For instance, there were various American monitoring stations in Turkey, and there was close collaboration of the Turkish domestic security service with the CIA and the FBI.”
This video provides primary evidence that thousands of foreign Islamist fighters were indeed present and engaged in the Bosnian war. It is notable that the MSM Sky news report insinuates that these fighters somehow found their way into the conflict as a result of the Bosnian Governments actions alone. However, as clearly evidenced by the NIOD report this was a distortion of the truth. Fake news in other words. The Western NATO powers were instructive and this is yet more evidence of the continuing support they provided for the Islamist factions, some of whom went on to form al Qaeda.
To fully explore the Wests longstanding relationship with Islamist extremists why not start with the In This Together article at:
https://in-this-together.com/islamist-extremists-proxies-of-the-west-part-1
