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...until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place day by day without knowing why I am here, how long I am going to stay, and where I am going to go after this. I sit, eat, sleep and do nothing...
...case in Bosnia highlights the damage to America's image. In October 2001, U.S. troops working with Bosnian police arrested six Algerian-born men - one of whom was Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme...
...conversation was stilted. What I’d stumbled upon was an end-of-the-road hideaway in an area now controlled by Bosnian Muslims. Perhaps this small Catholic cell had been here during the ethnic cleansing, or maybe they were shuffled here thereafter—either way, this was the Church’s frontier crew, antisocial monstrosities of the kind created by a millenium-plus of facing repression with dogged determination...
...speaking and a few ambulances were dispatched to resuscitate the chosen few who couldn’t handle the heat, a rush of people flowed from the massive green. Far from a silent, self-reflective end to a mass, the “Croats” (really, they are Bosnians per their nationality, though they call themselves Croats) began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely...
That said, my return to Gracanica was not without some cool Papal loot including a guidebook to Catholicism in Bosnian, a bona fide Bosnian flag and a bright yellow hat decorated with pictures of the Pope. Sunny as it was, I thought about wearing this hat into Gracanica before realizing the emblem would not likely sit well in a town filled with minarets, where vandalizing the old Orthodox Church is a favorite area hobby. The Pope had come on a mission of reconciliation and peace. What I’d seen were fervored Catholic Bosnians waving Croatian flags, a great...