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| rdfs:comment | - Operation Labrador was a false flag operation carried out by the Yugoslav Air Force branch of the Counterintelligence Service (KOS) in Croatian capital city of Zagreb during the early stages of the Croatian War of Independence. It was devised as a seres of terrorist attacks carried out in order to discredit Croatia, making it appear a pro-fascist state. Two attacks were carried out on 19 August 1991—against the Jewish Community Centre and Jewish graves at the Mirogoj Cemetery. There were no casualties in the two bombings. Additional attacks targeted national railway network, and made to appear as if ordered by the Croatian President. Operation Labrador was complemented by Operation Opera—a propaganda campaign devised by the KOS to feed disinformation to media.
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| Partof | - the Croatian War of Independence
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| map caption | - Zagreb on a map of Croatia
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| executed by | - Yugoslav Air Force's Counterintelligence Service
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| Target | - Jewish Community Centre and Jewish graves at the Mirogoj Cemetery
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| abstract | - Operation Labrador was a false flag operation carried out by the Yugoslav Air Force branch of the Counterintelligence Service (KOS) in Croatian capital city of Zagreb during the early stages of the Croatian War of Independence. It was devised as a seres of terrorist attacks carried out in order to discredit Croatia, making it appear a pro-fascist state. Two attacks were carried out on 19 August 1991—against the Jewish Community Centre and Jewish graves at the Mirogoj Cemetery. There were no casualties in the two bombings. Additional attacks targeted national railway network, and made to appear as if ordered by the Croatian President. Operation Labrador was complemented by Operation Opera—a propaganda campaign devised by the KOS to feed disinformation to media. Further activities of Operation Labrador were abandoned in September, after the Croatian authorities captured Yugoslav Air Force regional headquarters in Zagreb, and confiscated documents related to the operation. Since the authorities took nearly a month to interpret the captured documents, the principal agents involved in the bombings fled. Fifteen were arrested in connection with the attack, but they were released in a prisoner exchange. Five KOS agents involved in Operation Labrador were tried in FR Yugoslavia on terrorism charges and acquitted. Croatian authorities captured two KOS agents who were a part of the operation and tried them along with seven other agents who were tried in absentia. The agents who were in custody during the trial were acquitted, while the trials in absentia resulted in convictions. Existence of Operation Labrador was confirmed through testimony of a former KOS agent, Major Mustafa Čandić, during the Trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2002.
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