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| DEBKAfile: Al Qaeda gets its bombs in Serbia |
| 2005-07-08 |
| Salt to taste:Belgrade is where al Qaeda goes shopping for the explosives and arms for its terror attacks, according DEBKAfile’s exclusive intelligence and counter-terror sources. Thursday, July 7, eight hours after four coordinated blasts hit London transport and killed at least 50 people, British terror experts were on a special flight from London to the Serbian capital. They were carrying samples of the explosives collected from the four crime scenes to probe their origin and find out how the substance was smuggled into the UK. According to our sources, several large illicit weapons traffickers set up business in Belgrade a year ago. Al Qaeda is one of their biggest customers. The Americans discovered this from examinations of explosives and weapons seized from terrorists in Iraq and Israeli probes of the origin of weapons seized from smugglers crossing through the southern Negev on their way from Egyptian Sinai to Jordan and thence to Iraq. The arms traffickers in Belgrade help themselves to the contents of Serbian army arms stores by bribing the right officers. The Serbian government has not responded to appeals from Washington to shut down this arms racket operations. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Seems as if UK muzzys visit Bosnia regularly, Watch & Listen |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-07-08 12:16 |
| #4 Time to take out some of the arms dealers? I know how |
| Posted by: Kyzer Soze 2005-07-08 11:29 |
| #3 Wouldn't even have to be by bribing the right officers. As a result of its unique, Tito-enabled situation, Yugoslavia had long been a gray-market for arms. Factories can't just stop producing. Show up with the properly-filled in paperwork and cash, and they'd even load it on the transport for you. No questions asked, no looking beyond the documents and the money. Makes sense that the descendent nations would be in the same business. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-07-08 11:03 |
| #2 Didn't a groups of Brit muslims get arrested a year or two ago with a ton of explosive ammonium nitrate? Until the explosive type is released, I won't even try to guess the origin. Yes, much of the military weaponry in the French Banlieues come from Yugoslavia. It would be very educational for the French to surround and take apart a sample of their suburban apartment blocks to find out just what their muslim guests are armed with. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-07-08 10:56 |
| #1 Could be. From my uninformed pov (ie MSM reports) the blossoming small arms and explosive contraband in France (where they are used when needed, such as one prison-attack with kalashnikovs, rpg-7 and plastic explosives a few years ago) does actually originate from the ex-Yugoslavia; gangsters go to Serbia, Croatia or Kosovo, where theses weapons are widely available, get some training in the use of what they're buying, and come back as satified customers. IIUC, what's "funny" is that despite the clichés, automatic weaponry is actually more common on some European streets than in US ones. When you realize street crime is heavily dominated by muslims, as is increasingly "grand banditisme" and organized crime, you understand that getting weaponry and assorted goods is probably fairly easy for would-be terrorists... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-07-08 10:36 |