Terrorismo islámico en Bosnia i Herzegovina

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Terrorismo islámico en Bosnia i Herzegovina

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Atentos, detenidos posibles terroristas islamistas en Sarajevo
Bosnian Police Nab Suspected Terrorists
21 March 2008 Sarajevo_ Bosnia`s Interior Ministry anti-terrorist unit has detained five people suspected of weapons smuggling and possible links with terrorists, the ministry said Friday.

Ministry spokesperson Robert Cvrtak said the operation was conducted in Sarajevo and Bugojno in Central Bosnia on Thursday

The ministry would not reveal any details about the detained. Judiciary sources told Balkan Insight that the group is supected of possessing and collecting weapons and other materials that could be used as weapons.

They also said the men were citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that their appearance suggested they may belong to the radical Muslim Wahabi movement.

During the operation police found weapons, including mines and other explosive devices, as well as materials needed for the production of explosive devices, judiciary sources told Balkan insight .
Hay un tema delicado en BiH y es que se quiere repatriar a más de 600 excombatientes a sus países de origen. El problema es que tienen la nacionalidad bosniaca, otorgada por sus méritos durante la guerra, y se la han tenido que retirar

Muchos de ellos son exyihadistas.
Ex-Bosnians Battle Deportation Threat

By Nidzara Ahmetasevic in Sarajevo

13 March 2008 Some of the 661 Bosnians recently stripped of their citizenship are contesting their planned deportation back to the Middle East.

Foreign-born ex-fighters and volunteers in Bosnia whose passports have been revoked fear they could soon be deported back to countries and face persecution.

The Bosnian authorities recently released a report naming 661 people whose citizenship is to be revoked.

While most left the country years ago those still in Bosnia have the status of illegal immigrants, pending deportation or a court decision that would allow them to remain.

While the government says it has not violated these men’s rights, human rights organisations side with the deportees in battling to stay in Europe.

Of the 661 names, 41 in total have contested the decision, five of whom have had their complaints rejected by the courts. These include Algerian-born Atau Mimun, deported last December, and Imad Al Husayn, known as Abu Hamza.

Hamza was scheduled for deportation on February 5 but a complaint to the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg resulted in his deportation being halted. He now awaits a decision by Bosnia’s Constitutional Court.

The names on the report, compiled over two years by the state Commission for Reviewing Citizenship, are mostly of people from Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt and Syria. Many are also from the former Soviet Union and Western Europe, however.

During its investigation, the nine-member commission reviewed more than 1,000 citizenships granted to foreigners from April 1992 to January 2006 out a total of at least 18,000 granted in the same period.

The foreigners who caused most concern were, not surprisingly, mercenaries and former combatants who came to fight in Bosnia during the war.

In the meantime, Bosnia’s public prosecutor, so Balkan Insight has learned from spokesperson Borise Grubesic, has started checking whether any of the names on the list are connected to organised crime, terrorism or war crimes.

They have also started checking whether any officials who helped give the 661 names their citizenship broke the law by doing so.


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The Dayton peace accord obliged Bosnia’s government to rid the country of foreign fighters within one month of its signing in 1995.

“All Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina not of local origin, whether or not they are legally and militarily subordinated to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or Republika Srpska, shall be withdrawn together with their equipment from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina within thirty (30) days,” it said.

For years, this clause in the Accord was a dead letter. The international community, responsible for overseeing Dayton, was far from vigilant in ensuring the Sarajevo government dealt with this problem.

It was only the September 2001 bombings in New York that alerted them to the danger of Islamic militancy in Europe. Since then, the US government has repeatedly urged Bosnia to close the issue, warning that some foreigners based in Bosnia were probably linked to global terrorism networks.

To show willing, the government empowered a commission to review all citizenships granted to foreigners during the 1992-5 war. But it was only in 2006 that a new commission was finally established, leading to the January 2008 release of the list of 661 names.

The named foreigners were mostly former combatants from the three former warring armies; the mainly Bosniak Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the army of the Republika Srpska, VRS, and the Croatian Defense Council, HVO, based in Mostar. Some were volunteers and others mercenaries, as several different UN reports from the war indicated.

The fighters for the Bosnian Army mostly came from the Islamic world and although exact numbers are hard to obtain, it is thought they numbered about 1,000, about 500 of whom enrolled in the army’s El Mujahedin unit.

A slightly smaller number, comprising about 600 or 700 men, joined the Bosnian Serb army. Most came from the former Soviet Union. About 150 foreigners fought in the ranks of the HVO.

“Most of these people are not living in Bosnia any more,” Dragan Mektic, director for State Service for Foreigners, a body that regulates foreigners’ stay in the country, told Balkan Insight.

“We know this because they have not renewed their documents for some years even though, as is well known, every Bosnian had to take out a new ID by 2006; most of them have not done this.”

Many mercenaries left voluntarily, turning their attention to other wars around the world.

Syrians Fight On:

Most of the 41 Bosnians contesting their loss of citizenship have decided to fight on. Some now have large families in the country, like Syrian-born Ayman Awad, 42, and Imad Al Husayn, 43, who have four and six children respectively.

Husayn and Awad came to study in Yugoslavia long before the war broke out in the mid-1980s. After the fighting started, they left off their studies in Croatia and came to Bosnia to “fight with their Muslim brothers”, though both claim they were not active combatants but worked only as interpreters and as aid workers.

After 1995, they lived in the small village of Bocinja together with a group of other ex-Mujahedin fighters, but following a couple of incidents the government expelled them all from the village during 2000 and 2001.

The two devout Muslims are the only working members of their families. Since losing his citizenship, Husayn, who used to run shop in a Sarajevo suburb, has not had a job, either.

Awad, who lives near Zenica, in central Bosnia, keeps bees and sells honey. The two men’s wives are both unemployed because, so they say, their wearing of the niqab, or Islamic headdress, is regarded with suspicion.

Sitting in a restaurant, which incidentally serves alcohol, Awad sips tea and Husayn, coffee and juice as they flip through the local newspapers looking for stories about themselves, for they have become local celebrities over the citizenship issue.

Both insist they pose no danger to Bosnia’s national security. “Maybe we are a threat but we would like to see some proof for that in the form of a decision made by a court in this country,” Awad said.

Dusko Tomic, a lawyer in Sarajevo, has been prominently involved in the deportees’ cause since 2002. He formerly represented the families of six men of Algerian origin extradited from Bosnia at the US government’s behest and since kept in Guantanamo Bay without charges.

Tomic is sceptical of the Syrian men’s chances of remaining. “It’s the way that a small country responds to the demands of the great powers,” he says of the deportations. “It’s not possible, even using all legal means, to help those people. We can try but it is only tilting against windmills.”

But Husayn and Awad are ready to use all legal means to stay in Bosnia. Their next move, they say, is a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

They say the European Convention on Human Rights states no one can be deported to a country where he or she has a legitimate fear of persecution. They are also appealing Bosnia’s decision on the grounds of their young families.

“If they deport us, they will separate us from our kids. I do not know how to tell them what is happening,” Awad told Balkan Insight. “My youngest one is already afraid, has developed sleeping problems and is always asking for me, saying he will not let them take me away.”

The Bosnian authorities claim the men’s rights are not being violated, however, while the Commission’s January report says different organisations were consulted in order to avoid such violations.

But human rights activists side with the deportees. Last December, the Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International wrote an open letter to government officials.

In the letter, the rights groups asked them government to guarantee that every person in Bosnia who was the subject of a deportation order would be “protected against return to countries where they would be at risk of serious human rights abuses, including torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

The groups expressed concern over official comments, apparently encouraging those “whose presence or citizenship is being reviewed to voluntarily leave the country before they are deported”.

One such voluntary departure was made by Aleksander Kravchenko, a Russian who gained a Bosnian citizenship in October 1995. His name is also on the list, though he has already left Bosnia.

The Republika Srpska interior ministry granted Kravchenko, who was born in Russia in 1972. By then he had gained a hero’s status among Serbs for his exploits and many stories were told of his deeds on the Internet.

See: http://www.apisgroup.org/zapisi.html. It is even possible to read his diary about the time he spent in Bosnia on the net.

In his own words, Kravchenko came to Bosnia with a group of Cossacks to fight for his Orthodox Slav brothers in 1992 before being wounded in 1993. He stayed in Bosnia until 1999 but is back in Russia. Now that Kravchenko’s citizenship has been revoked, he will need a visa if he is to return to the country.

Meanwhile, Awad and Husayn are afraid to go back to Syria. “If we are deported, the way the Syrian government will look at us will be very dangerous for us,” Husayn said. “I don’t want to leave the country voluntarily but will wait for them to deport me. I’ll complain to Strasbourg.”

Awad’s and Husayn’s dilemma will soon be over one way or another. If the Bosnian State Court rules in favour of the Commission concerning the 35 remaining complaints, the Constitutional Court will have to issue a final ruling. Then it may be over to Strasbourg.

Another problem concerns the fate of those who granted citizenship to the 661 people in question. Few names are mentioned in the Commission’s report but one is Mico Stanisic, a former interior minister in the Republika Srpska indicted for war crimes and who now awaits trial in The Hague. Others worked for the interior and foreign ministries of both entities.

Going through the report, it is clear firstly that the bulk of citizenships were granted at the end of 1995 and beginning of 1996 and secondly that many documents were signed by the same official. This was Borisha Arnaut, the Bosnian interior ministry official who signed the documents of Awad and Hysain.

“Yes, our papers were signed by the same man,” Awad and Husayn told Balkan Insight. “But no one should blame him. He just did what the state ordered him to. He was a state official,” Balkan Insight could not reach Arnaut for comment.

Nidzara Ahmetasevic is a regular Balkan Insight contributor. Balkan Insight is BIRN`s online publication.
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Artículo sobre yihadismo en Bosnia Herzegovina en www.athenaintelligence.org/assesment_BiH.pdf El autor es el profesor Javier Jordán
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Presencia Yihadista en BiH

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El artículo publicado en Athena Intelligence no está escrito por el Profesor Javier Jordán, si no por Juan Carlos Antúnez, que recientemente ha publicado diversoso artículos en la misma web acerca de la situación actual de la comunidad islámica de BiH, el islamismo radical en Kosovo y la realidad religiosa en la volátil región de Sandzak.
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Uy, perdón, es completamente cierto, perdonad el fallo. Efectivamente el autor es Juan Carlos Antúnez. Un saludo y disculpad el lapsus
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Re: Yihadistas en Europa

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Aquí teneis un enlace a una página que incluye una serie de artículos sobre los Balcanes. Hay dos que encajan en este hilo "Islam in Albania" y "Wahhabism in the balkans". El enlace es http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/arag/docu ... n%20series
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Re: Yihadistas en Europa

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Curioso artículo de Adrián Mac Liman sobre el riesgo de que los grupos radicales surgidos en el triángulo formado por Macedonia, Bulgaria y Bosnia por la influencia de agentes del wahabismo puedan aprovechar el espacio Schengen para moverse libremente por Europa.

http://www.revistafusion.com/2010093017 ... n-casa.htm
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Re: Yihadistas en Europa

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Muy interesante Cartledge. Junta eso de Bosnia con el wahabismo ya tratado en el área Misión FAS: Bosnia, Kosovo, Balcanes...

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Había por ahí unos monografías sobre los Balcanes de la United Kingdom Defence Academy muy interesantes.
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Atacan la embajada de EE.UU en Sarajevo http://www.elmundo.com.sv/internacional ... erido.html
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Re: Terrorismo islámico en Bosnia i Herzegovina

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Al hilo de este tema dos enlaces interesantes de la United Kingdom Defence Academy:
Wahabismo en los Balcanes http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... NTM9RY3QUw
Otro enlace del mismo sitio: Islam en Albania http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/arag/docu ... V.pdf/view
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