Croatian arrested in Ky. on Bosnia torture charges
(h/t: mawskrat)
…U.S. Marshals arrested 52-year-old Azra Basic on Tuesday in Stanton, about 45 miles east of Lexington, where she lives and works at a nearby food processing plant. She has lived in Kentucky for several years, but it’s not clear how she wound up in the rural city best known for its annual corn festival.
The Croatian-born Basic is wanted in Bosnia on charges of committing war crimes against ethnic Serb civilians in 1992, including acts of murder and torture, Assistant U.S. Attorney James Arehart wrote in a complaint requesting extradition.
Arehart says Bosnian authorities accuse Basic, a one-time member of the Croatian Army, of killing at least one person and torturing others at three camps from April to June 1992, during Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.
[...]
Basic said at the court hearing that she had been working at the Nestle Prepared Foods plant in Mount Sterling, where frozen foods are processed. Nash declined to comment on whether Basic has any family in the state and why she was in Kentucky. A message left for the media relations office at Nestle was not immediately returned Thursday.
Just as an aside, the thought of a torture-murderer working in any food processing plant is stomach-turning. According to the Washington Post, “Basic was an employee at the Mount Sterling, Ky., Nestle Prepared Foods plant that makes Hot Pockets-brand sandwiches, the company said, declining to provide additional details.”
Court records list her as having lived at two addresses in Stanton.
Basic also worked at the Stanton Nursing Home, said neighbor Eli Vires, whose mother-in-law stayed there. Basic displayed compassion toward her patients, Vires said, quoting her as saying: “The only thing that can’t be replaced was human life.”
[...]
Bosnian authorities in Doboj charged Basic in January 1993 as an unknown defendant, using witness statements, medical examinations and forensic experts between 1992 and 2001 to identify her. Interpol traced Basic to Kentucky in 2004 and an international arrest warrant went out in 2006.Arehart’s complaint accuses Basic of committing crimes at three camps near the majority-Serbian settlement of Cardak in Derventa. Witness said the Croatian military took ethnic Serbs from the Cardak settlement in late April of 1992 and tortured them.
Radojic Garic, listed in the complaint as a witness, said Blagoje Djuras was beaten unconscious. Garic said Basic then stabbed him in the neck, killing him, and dragged other Serbs to the body “and made us drink that blood.”
A second witness, Dragan Kovacevic, told investigators in October 1994 that Basic slit the throat of Djuras. Arehart said Kovacevic identified a picture of Basic in December 2009.
Another man, Sreten Jovanovic, told investigators in September 1992 that he was forced to drink gasoline, beaten unconscious and his hands and face were set on fire by Basic, who was wearing a military police uniform from a brigade in Rijeka, a port city in Croatia.
Arehart wrote that a subsequent medical examination concluded that Jovanovic suffered “torture in captivity.”
Other witnesses listed in the complaint said Basic and other soldiers beat and burned them and pulled their nails out with pliers.
In August 1992, witness Cedo Maric told Bosnian investigators that Basic cut a cross and four “S” letters into his forehead before hacking his neck below the Adam’s apple.
In November 1994 testimony, Mile Kuzmanovic told investigators Basic forced him to “swallow a handful of salt and eat Yugoslav money” before beating him with boots, weapon butts, metal bars and batons. Kuzmanovic said Basic and others forced him to “lick blood off floors covered in broken glass and crawl on the glass with a knotted rope in his mouth with which soldiers used to pull out the teeth of prisoners.”
I will spare you the obligatory Serb-bash that appeared at the end of this article. Two decades on, it is still impossible for any mainstream media outlet or wire service to report a story about Serbs, without poisoning the well by repeating baseless, and often provably false, allegations against other prominent Serbs, or against the Serbian people as a whole. After all, it would never do for the audience to start feeling sympathetic toward Serbs.
The mainstream media still insists that if the UN, or any kangaroo court associated with it, claims that a Serb is guilty, then it is so, despite the utter absence of due process of law in such venues. But then, during the Clinton Administration, these same media outlets and their operatives played a vital part in starting and continuing the war against the Serbian people. All I can say is that what goes around, comes around. Some day these media minions may themselves be facing a kangaroo court in some unknown part of the world. Do not expect me to speak up in their behalf.
Originally published on 1389 Blog.
Tags: Bill Clinton, Croatia, disgusting, Evil, Kentucky, lamestream media, Mainstream Media, Murder, Serb-bashing, torture
Hey, we have two new threads at the same time ? This one and “Commemorate the Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Genocides in NYC”.
@ Guggi:
I put the second one back in the box.
How much do you wanna bet she cheats the ICJ like Slobodan
MilosevicMisonofabitch?Azra Basic. Does this mean there is an Azra Advanced out there somewhere?
Macker wrote:
Milosevic was killed in prison by being deliberately denied medical treatment. He was incarcerated by ICTY, which is a kangaroo court entirely separate from the ICJ. The ICTY couldn’t come up with an convincing case to convict him, even in their biased venue, so they just dragged it out until he became severely ill, then denied him treatment.
Iron Fist wrote:
Probably.
1389AD wrote:
And thus, Obamacare was born…
//
lobo91 wrote:
Thanks!
lobo91 wrote:
Yup.
It’s to their advantage to keep unemployment and severe underemployment high, especially among older workers. Impoverished people die a lot sooner, and won’t cost the Obamacare or the Social Security system anything. See “Boxer” in Animal Farm. That would be me.
@ 1389AD:
Right there with you…
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but the interview I went to on Friday seemed like it went pretty well.
Considering that I now have 1 week of benefits left on what appears to be the final extension they’re going to do, it would be nice if I got the job…
@ lobo91:
{{{lobo91}}}
lobo91 wrote:
I hope you do too. I had to appeal my initial denial, waiting for date to call in to judge and explain my case.
@ Guggi:
What kind of job is it ?
Someone let CJ know that we’ve found some cockpit video of operations over Libya:
Guggi wrote:
It’s in the financial aid department of a large community college. Specifically, it has to do with dealing with potential loan defaults.
Oh, Joy:
Yet another long war in a Muslim country, and this time without any discernable US interest whatsoever. Obama needed to look like he wasn’t a wimp, so here we go. Please note that I would have supported Obama if instead of Libya we were attacking Iran. There you have a pressing US interest. Here you don’t.
lobo91 wrote:
Good luck, lobo !!!
@ Guggi:
Thanks.
@ Iron Fist:
This might cheer some of yinz up….
SEIU Hit With RICO Lawsuit…
•throwing plastic roaches onto food being served by Sodexo USA at a high profile event;
•scaring hospital patients by insinuating that Sodexo USA food contained bugs, rat droppings, mold and flies;
•lying to interfere with Sodexo USA business and sneaking into elementary schools to avoid security;
•violating lobbying laws to steer business away from Sodexo USA, even at the risk of costing Sodexo USA employees their jobs; and
•harassing Sodexo USA employees by threatening to accuse them of wrongdoing
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/03/20/seiu-hit-with-rico-lawsuit/
Plenty more here….
@ NoThreat2U:
Good to see…
@ lobo91:
Good luck lobo. If it doesn’t work out, re check with their HR dept for other openings in admin. Never know what you might find.
@ NoThreat2U:
ABOUT FRAKKIN’ TIME!
It’s interesting to see that they’ve got EA-18G Growlers operating in support of the operation in Libya.
The first Growler squadron just started its initial deployment last month.
@ Macker:
It could set a precedent. Take the wind out of their damn sails.
snowcrash wrote:
Their openings aren’t filled that way. It’s a state job. The applications all have to go through the state personnel department in Denver, then they’re sent to someone at the actual agency where the job is located.
@ lobo91:
Good luck with the job. Know that everyone here is rooting for ya
@ snowcrash:
I don’t think they’re really doing much hiring, anyway. There’s still basically a hiring freeze on. They got special permission to hire someone for this job because it’s for a sort of task force to deal with loan defaults.
@ NoThreat2U:
Thanks.
OFF-TOPIC: Attention T-Mobile Customers…Say Hello to T&AT!
@ lobo91:
good luck!
@ Prebanned:
Thanks
@ Prebanned:
I like your other avatar better. Just my opinion….
Macker wrote:
Of course, the most important question about that is, do they get to keep Carly, the T-Mobile girl?
//
@ lobo91:
“Nice degree you got there, kid. You wouldn’t want anything to happen to it, would you?”
Good luck, Lobo.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
LOL
Thanks
@ NoThreat2U:
Oh Yeah?
Well I like your current avatar.
so there?
Hope your stomace is feeling better.
I gotta go work on a dog pen.
@ lobo91:
I hope You have to get up at 6 am every day and shave and hurry hurry to get to work.
@ Prebanned:
stomach stomach
Yesterday’s class went pretty well, too.
I signed up 2 new NRA members.
lobo91 wrote:
Best of luck with that. Been there, done that, couldn’t afford the T-shirt.
The Dookies just dodged a bullet, beating Michigan
73 to 71 .
Michigan missed a last second shot to send it to
overtime.
@ Prebanned:
So there??? What are you….12??? lol lol lol Go to the doc this week to see what the dealio is. As long as I eat rice cakes and crackers I am fine. lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
I would last about a day on that…
@ lobo91:
No choice at the moment. You get used to it. Although I would kill for a steak every now and then.
@ NoThreat2U:
Rice cakes are what I imagine packing peanuts taste like. Lol
@ snowcrash:
Same texture but they hide it behind “apple * cinnamon flavor”. lol lol lol
By RYAN LUCAS
I am sure that the consequences of our actions
have been thoroughly analyzed by the president
from the Beach at Rio.
lobo91 wrote:
Boeing’s newest plane, the 747-800 Intercontinental is making its first flight right now. Watch it here-
http://www.newairplane.com/747/incredible/
@ NoThreat2U:
Rice is gluten free. Never know what the triggers are until you eliminate certain known culprits from your diet.
@ snowcrash:
I think that may be part of my problem…gluten. Just like I was never lactose intolerant before but now, dairy practically kills me. And that is no exaggeration. Getting old I guess *sigh*.
RIX wrote:
We are assisting our greater enemy Abu Yahya Al-Liby against our lesser enemy Muammar Gaddafi.
Woe be unto us.
[I've been all over New England this past weekend (since Thursday), visiting some law schools -- just arrived home a few hours ago.]
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
467 passengers…
@ Philip_Daniel:
Yes, supporing the Libyan rebels puts us on
the same page wit AlQueda, not a good place
to be.
Why are you visiting law schools?
@ lobo91:
You will spend more time lining up to board the dam’ thing than you will spend in the air.
I like flying Westjet (based in Calgary). They use 737s exclusively.
RIX wrote:
How can you question this when Hillary, Susan and Samantha were the leading figures behind it ?
@ Philip_Daniel:
@ Guggi:
True, I lost my head.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
I’m sure they’re set up the same way the 777 is for boarding through two doors simultaneously.
Of course, that only works if the gate is built for it. Some of the gates in United’s section at Denver are set up that way.
@ Mike C.:
Give me a break. You know that’s not me. You know what I’m really after.
@ Mike C.:
LOL!
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen all week…
Journalism students are the same way.
They all think they’re going to be the next Bob Woodward (although I really can’t understand why someone would aspire to that, personally).
In reality, they’re going to be lucky if they get a job writing the police blotter report column in Minot, North Dakota for $19k a year…
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Hot chicks ?
Actually, no -- I haven’t a clue. Wish I’d gone to law school when the opportunity presented itself. I got accepted, and my employer would have paid for it, but there was no time to do it, even at night. Wellsite duties, you know.
I had no intention of practicing law -- just wanted to learn it. My boss on this current contract did exactly that, and I envy him.
lobo91 wrote:
Growlers? Are they dropping half gallon bottles of microbrews on Q-Duck?
lobo91 wrote:
She’s not as “hawt” as their old spokesbabe, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
@ 62 lobo91: or like all the young kids that think they need to change the world with a strong social statement that’s been done before to death. too many busy bodies.
In Brazil Obama can be legally considered a white person.
Seditiouslam. Imperialislam.
The Muslim Students Association’s “Pledge of Allegiance”
Since this dickhead was a Croat, I assume he claimed to be Catholic. I can’t see Slavic secularists caring about a Catholic / Orthodox schism. (They might however care about Kosovo.)
From what little I know of the Church, my understanding is that you’re supposed to repent if you’re to continue taking Communion. I’d think that true repentance wouldn’t involve fleeing to another country, and having to be dug out of there to face charges. Did anyone think to excommunicate him? or did he lie to his priest too?
Guggi wrote:
Hey what is European opinion on this Libya intervention? What are people in the streets saying?
@ Zimriel:
This guy was a fake and probably lied to his priest.
@ The Osprey:
The EA-18G Growler is the replacement for the EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare planes.
It’s based on the F/A-18F airframe.
What changed?
orangecrush wrote:
Actually he would be mulatto, which is what he really is.
@ RIX:
He’s President, that’s what changed!
@ RIX:
Since he became president, that Constitution thingie has become optional…
Rodan wrote:
Funny how that changed everything. Obama is doing
now what they tried to criminalise Bush for.
Barry is a lightworker & what he does is by
definition good.
RIX wrote:
Haven’t you heard? He Won… Apparently that give’s him the right to do any damned thing he wants to.
@ doriangrey:
And he pretty much does. If it wasn’t for the
Constitution written by those old dead honkys &
that annoying Supreme Court he could be the
Emperor.
Everybody have a great evening.
I have seious business tonight, Illinois
plays Kansas & Notre Dame Plays Florida
State in the NCAA.
RIX wrote:
College sports are for people constitutionally incapable of accepting that they are no long young or in college anymore.
@ doriangrey:
And gamblers:-)
Bumr50 wrote:
Yup…
@ RIX:
Obama lied and people dies!
The ATF is at it again, with its usual outstanding customer service.
From the newsletter my club sends to its members:
Rodan wrote:
Mixed. Some believe that Gaddafi’s soldiers have committed huge massacres because the rebels said so others say G. is not our business but fear that many refugees will come to Europe (I don’t think so, at least not yet).
What only few know is that G. did a quite good job in developing poor countries in Africa. With the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP) he invested in the economy in poor countries and re-invested the benefits in other poor countries.
As crazy and as criminal he is -- he isn’t stupid. The HDI (human development index) of Libya is higher than the one in Russia, Mexico or Brazil.
The U.S. and allied forces claimed significant success in the early stages of enforcing a U.N.-sanctioned no-fly zone in Libya, said a military official at the Pentagon.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/20/significant-success-early-stages-enforcing-sanctioned-fly-zone/#ixzz1HBYBwFv5
Someone should point out to the Obama Admin that Libya is basically a mickey mouse military. I wouldn’t go around doing to much bragging
@ Nevergiveup:
No kidding.
I would hope that we got something for the $100 million or so worth of ordnance we expended yesterday…
@ Nevergiveup:
Reminds me of the runup to Desert Storm, when all the media types made sure to include a mention of Saddam’s army being the “fourth largest in the world” or whatever it was at the time.
I guess they thought that we were going to fight them using Civil War tactics…
lobo91 wrote:
Well since we have to replace that ordnance, I guess that’s good for the economy
Nevergiveup wrote:
Stimulus!
The Obama boom continues…
lobo91 wrote:
Actually i am sure alot more than that. Each cruise missile costs about $660,000 and we shot what 135 so far? And we flew 3 B-2s all the way from CONUS and back?
@ Nevergiveup:
Of course, if you’re planning to downsize the military, you don’t necessarily have to replace that stuff…
@ Nevergiveup:
We fired 122 cruise missiles. The Brits fired 2.
And the bombs those planes dropped are relatively cheap. Even with the guidance kit, they only cost about $25k apiece.
lobo91 wrote:
Actually they fired more Cruise Missiles today I think. Yeah the Bombs the B-2 drop are pretty cheap, but just flying the B-2s must cost alot, but I guess it’s a great training mission. Of course just one B-2 cost more than the whole country of Libya not counting the oil.
the UAW must be defanged
http://kirls.blogspot.com/2011/03/uaw-breaks-godwins-law.html
@ Nevergiveup:
As long as they don’t crash, there’s not much danger there. The Libyan air defenses don’t have much hope of taking down a B-2, especially when there are Navy Growlers loitering in the area.
As soon as they turn on their targeting radars, they’ll get to meet Allah, compliments of an AGM-88 HARM…
lobo91 wrote:
Hey But I thought this was suppose to be a EU/Arab lead campaign????
@ Nevergiveup:
I think they wrote the text of the UN resolution.
Does that count?
Kirly wrote:
The unions in Wisconsin are blaming the governor for the death of some teacher with a history of depression who killed herself.
Before they even passed the bill, of course.
lobo91 wrote:
i know. they are evil.
Kirly wrote:
They’re basically Communists.
So it’s not really surprising…
lobo91 wrote:
exactly right. the link i posted to my blog, is to the UAW using Neimollers saying in a sick and twisted way to call all the normals nazis. check it out. http://kirls.blogspot.com/2011/03/uaw-breaks-godwins-law.html
At least one person has figured out why we’re bombing Libya:
@ Kirly:
I’m reading this at the moment. Currently, I’m on the part about the ’60s anti-war movement.
They used the same tactic then. Anyone who didn’t support the Communist line was a “fascist.”
lobo91 wrote:
Takbir!
lobo91 wrote:
i think the progs are willing at this point and not being manipulated.
@ Kirly:
The manipulated college students from the ’60s are today’s leaders of the left.
I love this picture:
I wonder what dogs say when they jump? “Rin Tin Tin!” maybe?
@ lobo91:
that is a great picture!
Kirly wrote:
That shows why we have to win, ultimately.
Even our dogs are braver than the jihadis…
lobo91 wrote:
that is because dogs are basically good unless some evil human makes them bad. well, that’s my opinion anyway.
@ lobo91:
Doggie say WhooooHoooo!
What do Apache say when they jump, John Wayne?
@ lobo91:
Pardon my ignorance, but how far up were they? I can’t believe they train doggies to jump like that!
This dog has the same rank I do…
Looks like he is wearing a life jacket from Bass Pro Shops.
I can tell he really is a brave dog because his tail is tucked between his legs but he jumped anyway.
@ lobo91:
Those are the most awesomest pix ever! WOOF!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Probably 40-50 feet.
It’s called helocasting. They push an inflatable boat out of the helicopter first, and then the troops jump into the water near it and swim over to it.
@ lobo91:
That is just too cool. I stole those pix and posted them on my facebook. Brave men and brave dogs. God I love America!!!!!!!
@ NoThreat2U:
That’s a Ft Carson dog (and Soldier).
@ lobo91:
I am very familiar with Ft. Carson. They really took a beating for awhile there. I lost a semi family member out of Ft. Carson. That is just too cool though…bad ass doggies. Imagina if our military was let loose to do what it does best. We would have seen world peace years ago. I am rambling….
I giggled when you said that dog had the same rank as you. lol
@ NoThreat2U:
I wonder if the dog is a USASMA graduate?
No more US blood and treasure for Arab tribal thugs.
Save the Libyan rebels! (But do we know who they are?)With Libyan government troops closing in on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, virtually all American commentators appear to be united in the conviction that America or “the West” should intervene to save the Libyan rebels. But one month after the unrest in Libya began, we still know almost nothing about them. This fact seems not to trouble the commentators or even certain heads of state.
Last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy famously recognized the rebels’ so-called National Council as the “legitimate representative of the Libyan people.” But a report in last weekend’s edition of the French daily Le Figaro notes that the full membership of the council is not even known. Reporting from Benghazi, Figaro correspondent Tanguy Berthemet writes, “Officially, it is supposed to have 31 members. But only seven names have been made public. …One does not know where its headquarters are or what its daily order of business is.”
More ominously, Berthemet’s report makes clear that the National Council is supported by local Islamists. Indeed, it might well contain some. Although Berthemet’s article cites “security concerns,” perhaps this is the reason that the names have not been released. In any case, Berthemet notes that the next step for the National Council is to put together “a veritable transitional government.” His report continues:
“It’s just a matter of time,” Mohammed Bosidra says, “It’s not a problem, and this government will be recognized by all countries, even in the West.” For Bosidra, a lawyer who is close to the Islamists and who was imprisoned for twenty years, radical Muslims are the only force capable of preventing the formation of a cabinet. But Abdul Hakim al-Hisasady, the voice of Libya’s Islamists, has given his go-ahead.By “Abdul-Hakim al-Hisasady,” Berthemet appears to mean Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi, who reportedly declared an “Islamic Emirate” in eastern Libya shortly after the start of the Libyan unrest (and who landed a notably chummy interview with the New York Times earlier this month.
I REAL:LY hate to have to say … “I told you so”. …But I told you so!
It would appear that the ‘missing’ representatives of the rebel council are in fact. Muslim Brotherhood.
So I ask you ….Really how come the US is borrowing Chinese money to risk the lives of US servicemen and women to defend these slimebags who want us all dead?
Tjis latest trip in toe BIZZARO WORLD of the State Department is getting more surreal.
You just can’t write this stuff!
NATO forces continued to do damage to Libya’s air defenses today, and warplanes began bombing other military assets, including the command-and-control building in Col. Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that it was important not to exceed the mandate of the UN by extending NATO’s mission beyond the original stated goals. The Arab League is already unhappy, and has objected to what it sees as the duplicitous behavior of NATO in doing more than simply enforcing a no-fly zone.