Post by radovic on May 21, 2008 8:36:51 GMT -5
Bosnia Muslims 'Move Weapons to Croatia'
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Most Bosniaks peacefully practice their religion21 May 2008 Sarajevo _ Muslim radical groups have been secretly moving large caches of weapons to Croatia, a Banja Luka daily reports citing anonymous intelligence sources.
Muslim extremists are counting on Croatia’s fast-track European Union membership and expected liberalisation of its visa regime, to move the weapons and explosives further into EU countries and use them for terrorist activities, said the report published by Nezavisne Novine on Wednesday.
The newspaper said the report was based on information received from Bosnian intelligence agencies. It listed a number of people who are reportedly involved in this transfer but stressed it was not able to neither contact any of the listed people nor independently confirm the report.
According to the article, Bosnia-based radical groups who follow the conservative Islamic teachings of Wahhabism, have used prolonged political crisis and lack of attention from local politicians to move on with their plans.
Ever since 1994, the international community has been pushing local Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) leaders to expel the few thousand Mujahedeen fighters who came to Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war to fight alongside local Bosniaks in the war against Serbs and Croats.
Most of those fighters left the country but a few hundred of them married local women and obtained Bosnian citizenship. There has been numerous speculation that some of these individuals have been linked to Al-Qaeda but only few such links were ever proved.
In 2002, Bosnian authorities, working under United States supervision, raided and closed several Islamic non-governmental organisations operating in Bosnia. They also delivered nine Wahhabis to Americans, and they eventually ended up in Guantanamo prison, yet no charges have even been pressed against them.
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Most Bosniaks peacefully practice their religion21 May 2008 Sarajevo _ Muslim radical groups have been secretly moving large caches of weapons to Croatia, a Banja Luka daily reports citing anonymous intelligence sources.
Muslim extremists are counting on Croatia’s fast-track European Union membership and expected liberalisation of its visa regime, to move the weapons and explosives further into EU countries and use them for terrorist activities, said the report published by Nezavisne Novine on Wednesday.
The newspaper said the report was based on information received from Bosnian intelligence agencies. It listed a number of people who are reportedly involved in this transfer but stressed it was not able to neither contact any of the listed people nor independently confirm the report.
According to the article, Bosnia-based radical groups who follow the conservative Islamic teachings of Wahhabism, have used prolonged political crisis and lack of attention from local politicians to move on with their plans.
Ever since 1994, the international community has been pushing local Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) leaders to expel the few thousand Mujahedeen fighters who came to Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war to fight alongside local Bosniaks in the war against Serbs and Croats.
Most of those fighters left the country but a few hundred of them married local women and obtained Bosnian citizenship. There has been numerous speculation that some of these individuals have been linked to Al-Qaeda but only few such links were ever proved.
In 2002, Bosnian authorities, working under United States supervision, raided and closed several Islamic non-governmental organisations operating in Bosnia. They also delivered nine Wahhabis to Americans, and they eventually ended up in Guantanamo prison, yet no charges have even been pressed against them.