Once magnet for foreign mujahedeen, Bosnia now exports them

Bill Clinton sent American soldiers to fight alongside these “mujahedeen” against the Serb Christians in the Bosnia war. Most Americans still don’t know or understand the implications of America’s support of the jihad in Europe. The Democrats aligned with the jihad then and the Democrats align with the jihad now, despite the thousands of Americans slaughtered at their hand.

Here is yet more of the unending poisonous yield of Clinton’s vicious ill-conceived war.

“Once magnet for foreign mujahedeen, Bosnia now exports them”, AFP By Rusmir Smajilhodzic, Apr 29, 2015

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Bosnian policemen secure a perimeter around a crime scene at the police station in eastern Bosnia town of Zvornik, on April 28, 2015
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Bosnian policemen Stevo Milovanovic and Zeljko Gajic lie in their hospital beds in eastern Bosnia town of Zvornik, on April 28, 2015, a day after an attack at their police station in the town of ZvornikView Photo

Bosnian policemen Stevo Milovanovic and Zeljko Gajic lie in their hospital beds in …

A magnet for foreign jihadists during its 1990s war, Bosnia is now grappling with the threat from home-grown extremists wooed by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

While most Bosnian Muslims are moderates, a few thousand have adopted the ultraconservative Salafist brand of Sunni Islam introduced by the fighters who flocked to Bosnia from North Africa, the Middle East and Asia during the 1992-1995 conflict between Serbs, Muslims and Croats.

Most of those foreign fighters, or “mujahedeen”, left Bosnia when the war ended.

But the seed had already been sown. Twenty years on, the radical preachers giving fiery sermons in “mesdzids”, or improvised prayer halls, are no longer foreigners.

Those taking up arms are also local men.

On Monday, a gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest” in Arabic) opened fire on a police station in the eastern town of Zvornik, killing one officer and wounding two others before being killed in a shootout.

The assailant, identified as 24-year-old Nerdin Ibric from a village near the northeastern town of Zvornik, was suspected of links to radical Islamist groups. Another man, said to have travelled to Syria, was arrested Tuesday over the attack.

Suspected Islamist extremists had made their presence felt before in the Balkan country.

In October 2011, a gunman opened fire on the US embassy in Sarajevo, wounding a policeman before being injured himself and arrested.

In June of the previous year, a man set off an explosive device at a police station in the central town of Bugojno, killing one officer and wounding six others in what the government called a “terrorist act”.

– Prayer room recruitment –

Would-be jihadists are suspected of being recruited by radical preachers, operating through a network of informal prayer rooms.

“There is no doubt that the recruitment process is possible due to the existence of a network of such places of worship,” Esad Hecimovic, a local journalist who has reported extensively on the subject told AFP.

Hardliners, whose numbers are estimated by the authorities at around 3,000 followers, represent just a fraction of Bosnian Muslims, who make up around 40 per cent of the population of 3.8 million.

But their ranks are suspecting of supplying scores of fighters to the wars in the Middle East.

– ‘Terrorism spreading’ –

Reacting to the attack on the police station in Zvornik Security Minister Dragan Mektic warned terrorism had become “a serious problem”.

“We need to use all our capacity to stop this terrorism that has been spreading in Bosnia,” he said.

“Either we defeat terrorism or it will defeat us.”

Some 150 Bosnians are believed to have joined jihadists groups in Iraq and Syria, while some 50 others have already been and returned from the battlefield, according to the intelligence services.

Two men arrested at Sarajevo airport in February were charged with attempting to join the Islamic State group, which has sown terror throughout the Middle East and North Africa and executed several Western hostages.

“Those who return to the country are very dangerous. They are of course under surveillance but the danger is that they start to recruit others,” said Jasmin Ahic, a professor at the Sarajevo University Faculty of Criminology.

– Stiff sentences –

To prevent their departure, parliament last year introduced sentences of up to 20 years in prison for jihadists and their recruiters.

In January, a radical imam in the northwestern town of Buzim was the first person to go on trial accused of recruiting people for jihad.

Husein Bosnic, a former member of a mujahedeen unit in Bosnia’s war, replaced Nusret Imamovic as leader of the country’s Salafists after Imamovic left for Syria in late 2013, according to intelligence sources and the US State Department.

Imamovic, who is named on a US State Department terrorist list, is believed to be the third-in-command of Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

Testifying at Bosnic’s trial in Sarajevo, the relatives of several youths who travelled to Syria or Iraq, some of whom have died in fighting, said their kin attended his sermons.

The prosecution accused the cleric of receiving “significant” funding from unnamed backers in Arab states.

Bosnia’s Balkans neighbours Albania, Serbia and Kosovo have also swooped on jihadist networks in recent weeks.

Fifteen men went on trial in Serbia and Albania in March accused of recruiting and financing volunteers for the war in Syria.

“For the first time in the region, people who call on others, in a very sophisticated way, to go to foreign battlefields and commit crimes, are being tried,” Ahic said.

“What will come out of these trials has yet to be seen.”

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Lia

9 years ago

Perhaps Bsnia has had enough of them and is very cleverly exporting them to other shores by telling them that those other climes are where islam is to be fought for? Can one tell the muslims of the USA, UK & Europe such a story?

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Betty4440

9 years ago

mo no no don’t send them to other shores. let them leave but don’t by any means let them come back.let them go to Syria.

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Rick

9 years ago

Reply to  Betty4440

Amen, and well said Betty. It’s good to see you again; and I hope that all is well with you.

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Betty4440

9 years ago

Reply to  Rick

yes Rick thing are good. out of work today go for pre op.

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Rick

9 years ago

Reply to  Betty4440

I will be praying for you Betty and I hope your operation turns out well for you.

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Betty4440

9 years ago

Reply to  Rick

thank you Rick Dr. doing eye surgery. Monday 11th.left eye for now. later right eye. those cataracts do strange things. was I couldn’t read the Bible with out contacts in or glasses now I can. didn’t know cataracts could change like that. but they do. GOD will be with me in this. so I don’t really worry about it. just put my faith in him.

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Pazuzu

9 years ago

Slobidan Milosavich was doing good work exterminating moozlums. Why did Bill Clinton want him stopped?

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paendragon

9 years ago

Reply to  Pazuzu

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Rick

9 years ago

Reply to  Pazuzu

Zipper Bill was probably to busy with Monica to worry about Bosnia Pazuzu.

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Rick

9 years ago

Marshall Tito, resurrect thyself.

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