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Bosnia and the Roots of Global Jihad: A Historical Perspective

Misreading Bosnia. How the US and the West have misunderstood the Bosnian war of 1992-1995How Al-Qa'ida and the Global Jihad have benefitted from this Western misreadWhat was the true nature of the Bosnian war, and what did it mean for the Global Jihad?. Islam in Bosnia: Myths and Realities. The Ottoman Heritage.

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Bosnia and the Roots of Global Jihad: A Historical Perspective

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    1. Bosnia and the Roots of Global Jihad: A Historical Perspective Dr. John R. Schindler IHI Fellow

    3. Islam in Bosnia: Myths and Realities

    4. The Ottoman Heritage How Islam came to Bosnia Ottoman rule and its impact on Bosnian state and society The decline and fall of Ottoman rule over Bosnia The controversial nature of the Ottoman legacy in modern Bosnia

    5. The Habsburg Occupation The 1878 Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia: causes and effects Habsburg rule: political, economic, social impacts Bosnia’s Muslims: From ardent enemies to ‘the most loyal element’ Bosnia’s enduring Austro-Hungarian legacy

    6. The First Yugoslavia and the Young Muslims The Muslim Brotherhood: the international dimension Radical Islam in Bosnia: from conspiracy to collaboration Alija Izetbegovic and YM leadership cadres: from the 1940s onward

    7. Islam and Communism in the Second Yugoslavia Tito’s Yugoslavia and Islam: persecution and prospects Crafting a secular ‘Muslim’ identity in Communist Bosnia The Young Muslims and Communism Tito’s secret police and Islamism

    8. Yugoslavia: Decline and Fall

    9. Enter the SDA The Party of Democratic Action (SDA): obscured origins SDA: some history, membership, and prospects Izetbegovic, Zulfikarpašic, and Abdic: whither the SDA as Yugoslavia collapses?

    10. The Islamist Agenda

    11. Framing Bosnia The Yugoslav People’s Army, the secret police, and the fate of Bosnia Belgrade’s ‘Military Line’ and FRAME SDA arms and paramilitaries: Hasan Cengic and the Patriotic League

    12. Into the Abyss

    13. Sarajevo PSYOPS Manipulating Western media and governments Exploiting the “CNN effect” Advocacy journalism and the SDA The origins of “ethnic cleansing” in the Bosnian war

    14. Bin Laden, Al-Qa’ida and the Bosnian Jihad Al-Qa’ida in 1992: strategy, operations, and options AQ objectives in Bosnia Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the Bosnian jihad AQ propaganda (da’wa) and Bosnia

    15. MOS and Mujahidin The Muslim Intelligence Service (MOS) and the jihad Enter the mujahidin: friends and “brothers” Who comes to Bosnia, how, and why? The strange case of Fikret Muslimovic

    16. The SDA’s ‘Special Units’ Political Islam and the SDA in wartime The 7th Muslim Brigade The El-Mujahid Detachment Sarajevo’s special units: military and political effects

    17. The Larks

    18. The Saudi Dimension Riyadh and the “Islamic Cold War” Saudi money and influence in Sarajevo Fronts and sub-fronts: - MWL - IIRO - al-Haramayn

    19. The Iranian Dimension Tehran’s agenda in Bosnia Iran and the “special relationship” with the SDA Iranian operations and fronts in Bosnia: - VEVAK - Pasdaran - Iranian “NGOs”

    20. Allah’s NGO’s “Official NGOs” and the Bosnian jihad Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) The Case of Fatih al-Hasanayn Jihad, crime, and corruption: Cengic and others

    21. From Srebrenica to Dayton

    22. Europe and the Bosnian Jihad From the Balkans to Western Europe The Roubaix Gang The Caze and Dumont cases: converts and jihad GIA and Bosnia: spreading the jihad globally

    23. The Ugljen Case Nedžad Ugljen: “the key to all events in wartime Sarajevo”? Ugljen and the Iranian factor Operation EAGLE and Ugljen’s demise Aftermaths of the case in Sarajevo

    24. Europe’s Afghanistan From radicalism to terrorism – SDA and AIO Islamism in postwar Bosnia: imported phenomenon, domestic challenges AQ and the mujahidin: the continuing problem for Europe From Zenica to Los Angeles (via Montreal)

    25. 9/11 and After 9/11: Bosnian connections and impacts Lightning strikes twice: the Alibabic case AQ’s infrastructure in Bosnia (BIF, Aarnout) How “moderate” really is Bosnian Islam in the 21st century?

    26. Bosnia and the Global Jihad Today To what extent is Bosnia is a front in the “Long War” in 2010? What is AQ’s current presence in Bosnia – and influence? What role did the Bosnian war play in the development of the Global Jihad, and what does this tell us about the enemy? What lessons can be identified (and perhaps learned) from the Bosnian jihad?

    27. Questions?

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