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Article: Report blames Bosnia Muslims as terrorists. (U.S. House Republican Research Committee)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 19, 1993
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ROSLINDALE, Mass. -- Human rights yield once more to political expediency in a 6,000-word report on the war in Bosnia distributed to policy-markers last September by the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the House Republican Research Committee.
With total contempt for the facts, the report presents the besieged Muslims in Sarajevo as terrorists who are waging an armed struggle against the Serbs and Croats. It further presents them as being used by Iran and its allies as "a springboard for the launching of a jihad," or holy war, in Europe.
Bosnia's Muslims "have long been considered by the Islamic leadership in the Middle East to be ...