Islamist Extremism in Bosnia

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 peri..