Future Terror Base in the Balkans?

07-29-2008

There has been some concern that Muslim Kosovo would become radicalized from Saudi money and fundamentalist Wahhabi influence and turn into an Islamic terror base in the underbelly of Europe.

But the excellent independent journalist Michael J. Totten says the real problem in the Balkans lies south of Kosovo, in majority Christian Macedonia.

Totten documents disturbing Saudi Wahhabi infiltration of Macedonia's Muslim community, a community that makes up one third of the population in the former Yugoslav republic.

Totten, who has reported extensively from Iraq, says the large number of women in Burkhas reminded him of Fallujah, the former terrorist stronghold in Iraq.

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