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Izetbegovic is no more
superFOB
10/19/03 at 16:49:41
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3205392.stm
Re: Izetbegovic is no more
jannah
10/19/03 at 17:17:34
wlm,

Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi rajeoon.....

dobro kako si ti  to any bosnians on the board...



Re: Izetbegovic is no more
tincanman
10/19/03 at 17:26:56
Izetbegovic is a good example of what happens when we do what it takes to be loved by the disbeliever. He refused to form a Bosnian Army because he said if he did it would provoke the Surbs in to Invading.
The only reason the Cowards invaded was because Bosnia didn't have an Army!
During the War all the Kufr said Izetbegovic was in the right, but they still slaped an arms embargo on Bosnia and inforced it.
For the people who dont know, there was no arms embargo on the Croations and the one on the Surbs was just a statement, it wasn't enforced at all.
But the Kaffar did cry while Muslim women were raped. They did make statements of support to the Muslims and statement of condemnation at the Surbs and Croats while they tide the arms of the Muslims to help us get sloughtered.
Its time to live according to the rules of God and not the rules the Kaffar impose on us!
Re: Izetbegovic is no more
timbuktu
10/19/03 at 18:55:09
[slm] Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi rajeoon.....

From Allah we come, & to HIM we will all return.

although bro tincanman is right, with hindsight we can say the peaceful nature of Izetbeg helped in the inavsion. but did he have a choice?

History tells us that muslims ahve been invaded after their arms & army have been whittled down to nothing. when will our leaders learn? & since leaders are reflections of the populace, when we embark on self-purification.

Ramadn is on the horizon. do we seek Allah's forgiveness, & promise not to waste HIS blessings, instead using these to build the Ummah.
A tribute to Alija Izetbegovik
amatullah
10/22/03 at 17:36:48
a forwarded tribute to Alija Izetbegovik

Father Of Bosnian Independence Alija Izetbegovic Dies
Death would come when Allah willed it, Izetbegovic had earlier said
SARAJEVO, October 19 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Alija
Izetbegovic,
former hero of Muslim resistance during the siege of Sarajevo who led
his
country to independence from communist Yugoslavia, died Sunday, October
19,
at the age of 78.

He was a devout Muslim who fought for the emancipation of his people
within
a multi-ethnic state, but never realized his dream of a reunified
Bosnia,
Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
"President Izetbegovic passed away," Sulejman Tihic, the Muslim member
of
Bosnia's presidency, told reporters gathered outside the Sarajevo
hospital
where Izetbegovic had been admitted last month with four broken ribs.
Doctors said the cause of death was a "prolonged heart illness caused
by a
previous heart attack which further deteriorated due to a serial
fracture of
ribs.

"Izetbegovic's heart stopped at 14.20 pm (1220 GMT)," said Amila
Arslanagic,
a doctor.
She added that Izetbegovic was conscious until the moment of death and
had
brushed his teeth just 30 minutes before passing away.
Bosnian television and radio stations interrupted their programming to
announce the death of Izetbegovic.
Izetbegovic long advocated a state in which ethnic Muslims, Croats and
Serbs
would fully enjoy their national and religious rights, denied in former
communist Yugoslavia.
But seven years after the 1992-1995 war, his country remains divided
along
ethnic lines and is struggling to recover.

Key Figure
Izetbegovic's bravery was exemplified by the way he withstood the
almost
medieval siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs, Owen said.
He was a key figure during the war in Bosnia when some 200,000 people
died
and more than two million were forced out of their homes.
He won worldwide sympathy by running the government from sandbagged
buildings during the three-and-a-half-year-long siege of Sarajevo by
Bosnian
Serbs, under constant threat from their artillery and sniper attacks.
The short, blue-eyed Muslim walked to his office through the
bombardment,
believing, according to those who knew him, that death would come when
Allah
willed it.
Together with the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and former
Serbian
strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Izetbegovic participated in marathon
peace
negotiations in the U.S. city of Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 led by
the
U.S.-diplomat Richard Holbrooke. These resulted in a peace accord for
Bosnia.
The deal split the country into two highly-autonomous entities -- the
Serbs'
Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation -- and brought in
NATO-led
peacekeepers to maintain security.
"This is not a just peace, but it is more just than continuation of the
war," Izetbegovic told his people after signing the accord:
"In the situation as it is, and in the world as it is, a better peace
could
not be achieved."
Izetbegovic said in an interview he considered his greatest achievement
to
be the fact that Bosnia never fell under Milosevic's regime.

Tough But Honest
"I think he was a very courageous man. When the history of
Bosnia-Hercegovina is written, he will have a major role in it," said
former
Balkans peace broker David Owen.
Owen, a former British foreign minister who was the European
Community's
peace envoy to the former Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995, said that
Izetbegovic, who died in a Sarajevo hospital aged 78, was tough but
honest.
"He personally played a major role in the creation of
Bosnia-Hercegovina,"
said Owen.
"I think he was a very brave leader. At one stage, the portion that his
government controlled of Bosnia-Hercegovina was down to just over 10
percent," Owen recounted.
Izetbegovic's bravery was exemplified by the way he withstood the
"almost
medieval siege" of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs, Owen said.
Owen said that he found Izetbegovic relatively straightforward to deal
with
as he was one of the few Balkan leaders of the time who was not a
former
communist.
"He wasn't easy. He was quite determined, but he was honest, within the
constraints of the time," Owen said.
"You did know, when you were dealing with him, that there was something
different. He didn't espouse communist attitudes ... that made it much
easier to deal with him.
"He was tough, and for what he wanted and what was prepared to get, he
was
quite unscrupulous in some ways in getting what he needed, but he did
it
with an objective that was not a personal one. It was for the good of
his
country."
In the postwar period Izetbegovic filled the Muslim seat in the
tripartite
presidency that also included a Croat and a Serb member.
But in October 2000, his encroaching age and failing health forced him
to
step down from the presidency, after he was weakened by two heart
attacks.
In 2002, he also stepped down as head of his Muslim nationalist Party
of
Democratic Action (SDA), remaining its honorary president.
He was fitted with a pacemaker by Slovenian cardiologists in 2002.
Thereafter Izetbegovic rarely appeared in the media.

Criticism
His wartime charisma began to fade amid criticism that the country's
economic situation was failing to improve leaving the country dependent
on
foreign aid.
Bosnian Serbs also claimed Izetbegovic was responsible for "war crimes"
committed by Muslim forces. They provided documents to the United
Nations
tribunal in The Hague in a bid to have him formally indicted, but the
tribunal has yet to respond.
The international community, deeply involved in the Bosnian peace
process,
also accused Izetbegovic's party, the SDA, of trying to dominate the
multi-ethnic state.
Meanwhile Izetbegovic said the international community had tried to
reduce
the influence of Muslims, who make up more than 40 percent of the
country's
population.
Izetbegovic was twice jailed for a total of 12 years for his opposition
to
the communist regime in the former Yugoslavia.
He was released in 1988 and less then a year later he co-founded the
SDA,
which won the 1990 elections along with Serb and Croat nationalist
parties.
After the elections, Izetbegovic was appointed Bosnia's president.
In 1992, the country declared independence, following in the footsteps
of
Slovenia and Croatia, sparking the war with pro-Belgrade Bosnian Serbs.

Izetbegovic, who like other Bosnian Muslims practiced a moderate form
of
Islam, said on many occasions he had never wished to create an Islamic
state
in Bosnia, stressing his ultimate support for a multi-ethnic country.
Born on August 8, 1925 in the northeastern town of Bosanski Samac,
Izetbegovic moved to Sarajevo with his family at the age of three.
He was legal counsel to two Sarajevo firms before entering politics
full-time in his mid-sixties.
The fact that he was a newcomer to politics was seen by many as the
reason
for what was perceived as his indecisiveness and lack of diplomatic
skills.
Izetbegovic, reportedly separated from his wife, lived modestly. He had
two
daughters and a son.

Huge Loss
Sarajevo residents reacted with sadness to the news of Izetbegovic's
death.
"It is a huge loss for Bosnia-Herzegovina, he was the greatest man this
country had," Osman Ibric, a pensioner, told AFP.
"I just heard it. I am so sad," added a tearful Hadzira Cavcic.
Reaction was much different, however, among Bosnia's Serb
population."No
Serb can feel sorry because he is dead. I am glad that he is gone,"
Mirko
Savic told AFP in Pale, a Bosnian Serb wartime stronghold.
"I am sorry that he escaped an indictment by The Hague tribunal," Ilic
Dragoljub added.
Since the end of Bosnia's war, experts from the Bosnian Muslim
commission
for missing people exhumed remains of 16,500 bodies from 273 mass
graves.
In October 2002, Bosnian and international forensic experts said they
had
completed the exhumation of what they described as the largest mass
grave
found in Bosnia since the country's 1992-95 war.


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