Prof. John Schindler is a professor of strategy at the Naval War College and a former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. He served for nearly a decade with the NSA and was its top Balkans expert. An executive summary of his book consisting of 10 chapters is provided below.
CHAPTER 1: Islam in Bosnia. A historical overview from 1463-1991.
CHAPTER 2: Framing Bosnia. Salient events in Former Yugoslavia and relations between the Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia. Karadzic proposed a coalition between the SDA and SDS but Alija had no interest. In 1991 Alija requested membership in the OIC. He believed that only Muslims should be allowed full citizenship and refused to renounce the Islamic Declaration. In 1991 he formed the Patriotic League in preparation for the war.
CHAPTER 3: The Great Deceit. Print and TV journalists saw the war in stark terms: battle between good and evil, between medievalism and postmodernism. To many like David Reiff it was the Spanish civil war all over again. “Bosnia became another Spain.” Battle for Sarajevo was battle for Madrid. International brigades were brigades of mujahideen.
CHAPTER 4: With Koran and Kalashnikov. Subject seldom considered by Western journalists, scholars and politicians. The Islamic world found nothing objectionable in CNN’s coverage of the conflict. Alija made frequent trips to western capitals and spoke about multiculturalism, minority rights and democracy but no less frequent trips to Islamic capitals where he talked about jihad.
CHAPTER 5: MOS and Mujahideen. MOS-Muslim Intelligence Service. Tito’s secret police KOS officers were welcomed by SDA to join Muslim police and military. Fikret Muslimovic from top anti-Islamist in the JNA to top security intelligence officer in Muslim forces. Marx replaced by Muhammad.
CHAPTER 6. Not so Secret Secrets. What is C-130 Hercules doing in Tuzla sending arms? Norwegian helicopter pilot was threatened that “things could get messy for him.” It was embarrassing to Washington that Iranian supplied arms were transported by U.S. planes. Neither the CIA nor the Congress were on board.
CHAPTER 7: Bosnia: The Real war. In 1994 Alija & SDA consolidated power in 1/3 of Bosnia. Their dream of a Muslim mini state was accomplished, smaller than they would like as they wanted 50%. SDA included many communists derided as watermelons—green on outside but read on the inside. What SDA wanted was 45% of Bosnia plus Sandzak from Serbia which resembled their WWII dream under the Third Reich. It was to be the Balkan Islamistan subject to Holbrooke rather than Himler.
CHAPTER 8: From the Drina to Dayton. Summer 1995, the Clinton administration granted the Bosnian jihad victory at the negotiating table that Sarajevo could never win on the battlefield. The turning point was the Srebrenica massacre. “What happened at Srebrenica was never fully explained.” Schindler was not aware of the Srebrenica Research Group report, which in the book form was published recently.
CHAPTER 9: Whose Victory! Salient war issues related to the involvement of mujahideen. Creation of European Islamistan. Today Bosnia, tomorrow the world.
CHAPTER 10: Europe’s Afghanistan. In the aftermath of 9/11 Holbrooke defended U.S. policies towards Bosnia. Had it not been for the U.S. military intervention we would have to pursue Al Qaeda in dangerous hills of central Bosnia, but NATO removed that threat after Dayton! “How bin Laden’s legions got to Bosnia in the first place, and how deep the jihad’s Bosnian roots had become, were questions no one in Washington seemed eager to ask—or have answered.” Then Schindler made direct connection between 9/11 and Bosnian Jihad as I did in my book.
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