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It has come to our attention at the American Council for Kosovo that there still may be some confusion about an unauthorized mirror site, created by persons styling themselves the "American Council for Kosova." This deceptive site closely patterns the appearance of the genuine American Council for Kosovo site (www.savekosovo.org) but with a pro-Albanian separatist, anti-Serbian, pro-Kosovo independence message. Indeed, suggestions even have been made that we at the American Council for Kosovo are also behind the mirror site in order to "work both sides of the street," on the pro-Albanian side as well as the pro-Serbian side.
Nothing could be further from the truth! The pro-Albanian "Kosova" site appeared within days of our creation of the genuine American Council for Kosovo site. Its purpose was clearly to detract from the effort we had launched on behalf of the Christian Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija under the guidance of Vladyka Artemije. It is characteristic of the pro-separation advocates that they are afraid to engage on the facts and international standards concerning Kosovo -- both of which favor the Serbian position -- and need to stoop to cheap tricks and deception in a feeble attempt to undermine our increasingly successful message. In that sense, we take their efforts -- which, given the activity of the fraudulent site, clearly are quite well-funded -- as a compliment to our work and evidence of increasing fear on the Muslim Albanian side that the the pro-separatist agenda is in deep trouble.
We at the American Council for Kosovo have been asked (1) why we did not preempt the available internet addresses for the fraudulent site, and (2) why we don't take legal action to shut them down. The short answer is that doing so would take away time and resources from our own activities, which given the formidable opposition we still face, we cannot afford to spare. Conversely, we are confident that intelligent readers, if they do chance across the fraudulent mirror site will soon see it for what it is: just more of the dishonest and misleading "Kosova" propaganda to which the world has been subject for the past decade and more. We ask the critical reader to make the appropriate comparisons and dismiss the fraulent mirror site to the oblivion it so richly deserves.
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December 2006

Islamic Terror in Kosovo

Serbia court tries 15 accused jihadists; one defendant says indictment looked like "it was written by Bush" or CIA agent

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source: Jihad Watch

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Right. Bush dropped that off on the way to his whirlwind Mideast tour. "Serbia court tries 15 on ‘terrorism’ charges," from Agence France-Presse:

BELGRADE - A court in Belgrade heard prosecutors accuse 15 suspected radical Islamists of running training camps and plotting assassinations inside the country, Beta news agency reported Monday.

‘The defendants organised a criminal group in order to jeopardize the security of Serbia by planning attacks against police and murders,’ deputy prosecutor Jovica Jovanovic said in his opening remarks, Beta reported.

The defendants face charges of terrorism and illegal possession of arms.

All but two defendants, believed to be followers of the radical Wahhabite sect of Islam, were arrested last year near Novi Pazar, the main town in the southern Sandzak region, which has a large Muslim population.

Prosecutors say they had set up secret camps in the region for terrorist and military training.

They also alleged that the defendants had planned both an attack against a police station in Novi Pazar and the murder of Muarem Zukorlic, a local mufti, or Muslim cleric.

Gee, they should know better than to misunderstand their religion like that.

Jovanovic said the group had close ties with fellow Islamists in neighbouring countries and several other countries.

The indictment alleged the group had asked their commanders in Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and Austria for approval to kill Zukorlic—and had eventually decided to do so, Beta reported.

No attempt on Zukorlic’s life took place before the arrest of the suspects.

Jovanovic said that in a search of defendant Mehmedin Koljsi’s computer, police had found maps of Belgrade and photographs of several buildings in the capital including a hotel, a theatre and the US embassy.

At the end of the prosecution’s opening remarks, the first defendant, Senad Ramovic, pleaded not guilty, state-run Tanjug news agency reported.

Ramovic said the indictment was ‘based on hate towards Islam and Muslims,’ adding that it looked like ‘it was written by (US President George W.) Bush or CIA agent Zukorlic,’ the mufti named as a target in the indictment.

Other defendants are expected to enter their plea in the coming days.

Wahhabis are followers of a fundamentalist movement in Sunni Islam as practised in Saudi Arabia, who insist that their beliefs are those of the first three generations of Muslims.

Although local media reports say that their presence has increased in the Balkans in recent years, experts believe that they are still marginal.

The authorities have blamed the radicalisation of Sandzak, whose 420,000 population is 45 percent Muslim, on tensions between two of the region’s rival political parties.

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