'Muslim Brotherhood Fifth Column?' - 6 Bosnians in U.S. Indicted For Funding And Aiding ISIS!

'Muslim Brotherhood Fifth Column?' - 6 Bosnians in U.S. Indicted For Funding And Aiding ISIS! (PNW).

Six “dreamers” from Bosnia, who apparently have been little more than sleeper cells for the Islamic State, have been indicted for sending money to terrorists and planning to kill people.

CNYCentral reports:

The Justice Department announced late Friday the arrests of six people charged with conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists from the ISIS network in Iraq and Syria. One of the six suspects is from Utica.

Nihad Rosic, 26, is named in the indictment. The others are Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 40, his wife Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 35, and Armin Harcevic, 37, all of St. Louis County, Missouri; Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 34, of Schiller Park, Illinois; and Jasminka Ramic, 42, of Rockford, Illinois. All six are charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists, and with providing material support to terrorists.

All six suspects are natives of Bosnia who immigrated to the United States.

If convicted, the penalties range up to 15 years on each count and/or fines of up to $250,000. The crime Rosic is charged with, conspiring to kill and maim persons in a foreign country, carries a penalty of up to life in prison.

“Today’s charges and arrests underscore our resolve to identify, thwart, and hold accountable individuals within the United States who seek to provide material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations operating in Syria and Iraq,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin.

“Preventing the provision of supplies, money, and personnel to foreign terrorist organizations like ISIL remains a top priority of the National Security Division and our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities. I want to thank the many agents, analysts and prosecutors responsible for this case.”

“The indictment unsealed today epitomizes the FBI’s commitment to disrupting and holding accountable those who seek to provide material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations,” said Special Agent in Charge Woods. “This case underscores the clear need for continued vigilance in rooting out those who seek to join or aid terrorist groups that threaten our national security.”
Hmmm.....Bosnia....Turkey.....Obama's BFF Erdogan.....Muslim Brotherhood rings a bell........yup found it, see below A MUST READ !!!!!


Members of the Ikhwan, from its founder Hasan al-Banna to Turkey’s Erdogan, have all been aware that terrorism can be a useful adjunct in the Islamistrevolution. It has been used more frequently in that epoch of Arab history that dates from the Muslim world’s rejection of Arab nationalism. Following the death of Nasser (Arab nationalism’s primary sponsor), in the nineteen-seventies a plethora of jihadist branches sprang from the Ikhwan tree. Uniformly, the organizations rejected the Ikhwan’s evolutionary philosophy that had been forced on it by Nasser and then by Egypt’s powerful military caste.

The Islamist movement came to a boil with the war in Afghanistan. It festered with the American presence in the first war in Iraq, and gained strength with the war in the Balkans. In that war, Muslim Brothers Sudan’s Hassan al-Turabi and Bosnia’s Izetbegovic, together with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his mentor Islamist politician Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) had played a major role.

In the early 1990s, Erbakan and Erdogan served as money launderers and arms purchasers in the Islamist-backed insurgency in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania.

Their activity can be seen as a starting point in what would be a continuing Islamist effort to infiltrate the Turkish polity and dominate its future.

Egyptian Muslim Brother Yusuf al-Qaradawi, from his exile in Qatar, Tunisia’s Rashid Ghannouchi, from his exile in London, and the members of the Egyptian Ikhwan at home and in exile, also played part in the Balkan war, though less directly.

Erdogan eulogy of Erbakan, his political (and Ikhwan) mentor, showed he remained in the thrall of such predecessors as the internationalist al-Afghani, the Ikhwan al-Muslimun founder Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s terrorist ideologue Sayid Qutb and the Afghan-Arab and Palestinian Ikhwan Abdalla Azzam. Thus, the appearance of an Islamist mujahideen in a Turkish hospital surprised few Turks who had been following developments in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring.

The genesis of the Arab Spring is found in Tunisia where the previously outlawed Ennahda party — an Ikhwan al-Muslimun institution — came to power following the overthrow of an entrenched secular (and sclerotic) government. Immediately, the jailed jihadists were released. And the former Arab-Afghan mujahideen emerged from hiding. Ironically, the capture of Tunisia’s polity should have been easy were it not for the fact that neither Ghannouchi nor his Ennahda politicians and gunmen showed any leadership.

In Libya, its Muslim Brotherhood, founded in the mid-1950s, was already poised to attack its dictator Muammar Qaddafi. They had been badly bloodied in the late nineteen-nineties in a failed effort to depose the leader. Thousands were jailed or forced into exile. However, the events in Tunisia were a call to return home, where the Ikhwan had secured an important foothold in Cyrenaica. In 2006 Qaddafi for the first time since seizing power had sought a reconciliation with the Ikhwan (some said at U.S. insistance). And when the effort was underway to oust Qaddafi, Yusuf Qaradawi issued a fatwa that made it incumbent on all Libyan soldiers to assassinate Qaddafi if they had the opportunity to do so. It is claimed that today the Ikhwan is behind (and actually supports) the chaos that hinders the creation of a national government.

In what is an ironic twist of fate, Erdogan, the man who played an essential part in running guns to the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Balkan wars, became an essential element in the movement of arms to the rebels in Syria. 

For the second time, the United States played into his hands, assisting in the shipment of arms from Benghazi to Syrian rebels through Turkish ports. Almost certainly, the arms would reach those rebels that the Ikhwan’s Erdogan found most favorable, even if they were the terrorist Islamist factions the United States opposed.

From the activity of U.S. embassies in Cairo, Tunis, Khartoum, Doha and Ankara, it seems that American policy makers are convinced that it is possible to do business with the Ikhwan al-Muslimun and Brothers like Erdogan.

In country after country, they have had to learn the hard way that underneath any Brother’s outward disguise is an Islamist. Given recent events, it is a good idea to watch what the Ikhwan are up to in Baghdad.

In Iraq, an Ikhwan branch was founded in 1948 in the form of the Society for the Salvation of Palestine (Jamiyat Inqadh Filastin). Its membership was derived from Iraqis influenced by Brotherhood in Egypt. With the crackdown of 1958 and a coup led by Abd al-Karim Kassem, Ikhwan activity was quashed for the next half century. Nevertheless, the Ikhwan founded in 1960 the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP, or Hizb al-Islami al-Airaqi) after which it argued that political action was “a religious and national duty”. Its principles demanded individual rights for all citizens, national elections, a legal system based on shari’a, land reform, a women’s right to work, establishment of trade unions, and the protection of natural resources.

Although the Ikhwan sought a working relationship with Iraqi Shia, Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, the highest ranking Shia cleric, forbade cooperation with the Iraqi Islamic Party. The Sunni often attacked the Shia, calling them renegades (al-rafidha) or heretics (ahl al-bid’ah).

Following first Gulf War the Iraqi Islamic Party revived and began publication of its periodical, Dar al-Salam. The Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood was considered Iraq’s largest Sunni movement. Domestically, it emphasized education and Islamic outreach, and it rejected outright sectarianism and Western thought, including Marxism and nationalism. When Saddam Hussein embraced Islam following the end of first Gulf War, he opened new mosques and built the Saddam University that taught Sunni theology. He put “there is no god but God” on the Iraqi flag. And in months before the U.S. invasion in 2003 Saddam eased off the Ikhwan to win over Sunni Arabs, his core constituency.

In December 2004, the Iraqi Islamic Party reemerged, fielding 275 candidates for the 275 seat National Assembly charged with drafting a constitution. The Shiite element in Iraqi politics would eventually emerge much more powerful thanks to its population advantage. Still, the Ikhwan remains a powerful political element within the Sunni population. Should Iraq split into thirds (Kurdistan, a Shia division, and a Sunni division), the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood would likely take power.

One wonders if the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has planned for that eventuality?

* J. Millard Burr is a Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy.



Related:

Turkish media reported that Mustafa Ceric was expected to receive approximately 4% of the vote. 

In August, the GMBDW reported on an Al Jazeera article titled “Does Religion Have Role In Bosnia Elections?” detailing the controversy surrounding the decision by former Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric to run as an independent candidate for the Bosnian Muslim seat of the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency. As noted then, the Al Jazeera article failed to note additional and key issues about Dr. Ceric who held the position of Chief Mufti of the Bosnian Islamic Community for almost 19 years but was replaced in September 2012

Dr. Ceric has had a long and extensive history of ties to Islamists since the time of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War including a long association with Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi who heads the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) where Dr. Ceric is a member. 

Questions have also been raised concerning what have been described as Dr. Ceric’s “shady business dealings” and his efforts to placate extremists and silence their moderate critics. 

The GMBDW reported in June on Dr. Ceric’s decision to run for the Presidency and in April, The Telegraph in the UK cited the GMBDW as the source for their story on the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Brotherhood links of Dr.Ceric, one of the Foundation’s advisors. 

For a profile of Dr. Ceric, go here.

And then there's this :

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