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User:Sabahudin9 proposed the deletation of the article on 1 April 2015, claiming that the article "fails to meet notability criteria". I'd like him to make a more detailed explanation.

According to the WP:Notability, the article must meet the general notability guideline.

I believe this criteria is met.

--Yerevani Axjik (talk) 06:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] - User:Sabahudin9, consensus will hardly be reached if I'm the only one discussing. --Yerevani Axjik (talk) 06:26, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• I agree the topic, itself, is certainly notable. I am concerned however that the article is quite biased, seeming to accept the dark paranoid fantasies of dark paranoid US counter-intelligence analysts at face value.
• Consider the Algerian Six. The dark paranoid US counter-intelligence establishment squandered over $100 million to keep these men locked up in Guantanamo, based on the foundationless dark paranoid fantasy that the men constituted a sleeper cell who planned to bomb the US embassy to Bosnia.
• Consider that over a dozen Guantanamo captives had their continued detention in Guantanamo justified, at least in part, by the accusation that their names were on the "list of Bosnian mujahideen".

So, was there a grain of truth to this list? Yeah, a tiny one. Some foreigners did volunteer to travel to Bosnia to fight beside Bosnian secessionists, because they were muslims who believed observant muslims should volunteer to help fellow muslims who were being attacked. After Bosnia acheived independence it offered to waive the citizen application fee to any immigrant who had volunteered to help during the war.

Just one of those men seems to have actually volunteered, Tariq el Sawah.

When the other men were asked to answer this allegation, during their OARDEC hearings, all but one of them said they were mystified. They acknowledged that they had applied for Bosnian citizenship, but they all said they applied after Bosnia acheived independence. They described themselves as liberal muslims, who felt out of place in the conservative muslims nations they were born in, who wanted to live in a muslim community in a nice liberal European country. Most of them said that the exit and entry stamps on their passport would confirm they never traveled to Bosnia until after it achieved independence.

One guys story was similar, except he knew exactly how he got on this list.

Like many countries, there was complicated paper-work required to apply for citizenship. So he hired an immigration consultant, who he trusted to manage that paperwork, and pay his application fee. He learned that his consultant was a crook. His consultant forged an affadavit in his name, claiming he had been one of the foreign volunteers, and thus claiming he was entitled to have his application fee waived. Apparently the Bosnian ministry of immigration routinely rubber-stamped these fee-waivers, when they came from someone with an Arabic name.

The incompetent members of the US counter-terrorism establishment apparently never realized that the size of the Bosnian ministry of immigration's list of foreign fighters who asked for citizenship was so large because a large number of applications from wannabe citizens were requesting fee exemptions, who were lovers, not fighters, peaceful, liberal muslims who wanted to fit into a progressive, liberal European country.

This article can't republish the dark paranoid fantasies, at face value, without violating WP:NPOV. Geo Swan (talk) 16:35, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All content must be firmly rooted in reliable sources (see: WP:RS but also see: WP:ONUS), especially when it comes to content with exceptional claims (see: WP:REDFLAG) in an article with a controversial topic like this one (see: Wikipedia:Creating controversial content Wikipedia:Controversial subjects WP:CONTROVERSY, otherwise it will be removed per WP:USI in WP:REMOVAL ౪ Santa ౪^99° 12:38, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]