Posted on 08/29/2005 2:59:52 AM PDT by Wiz
Belgrade, 26 August (AKI) - The al-Qaeda terror network is active in Bosnia and the wider Balkans region, but is changing tactics and primarily fighting for the hearts and minds of the local Muslim population, according to a leading Serbian terrorism expert, Darko Trifunovic, a professor at Belgrade University's civil defence faculty. Training is now being conducted in small groups in elementary schools and sports halls, in the guise of social and sports activities, according to Trifunovic.
“The greatest success of al-Qaeda in Bosnia is that it has managed to radicalise the local Muslim population and has even recruited several Bosnian youths to fight in Iraq, Chechnya and Afghanistan,” Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI) in an interview.
Commenting on recent media reports that al-Qaeda operated secret training camps in Bosnia, Trifunovic, who is also a Serbia and Montenegro researcher for the Washington based Institute for International Strategic Studies (ISS), said that the impact of al-Qaeda's activities in Bosnia has still to be felt.
A report in the Italian Corriere della Sera daily on Thursday seems to lend support to Trifunovic's claim that Islamic extremists are operating in the Balkans. The paper disclosed a recent intelligence operation conducted in the Balkans by Italian secret services in collaboration with Bosnian and Croatian police that uncovered a Wahabi Islamist terror cell based in the eastern Bosnian village of Gornja Maoca, which was apparently plotting terror attacks in Italy. The Wahabi school of thought, the strictest of Sunni Islam, is espoused by al-Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden.
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Huh? I thought Clinton solved this problem.
the older ones must be wising up.
I guess the DUmmies need to add this to their list of "terror magnets" that we've created.
"Al-Qaeda now seeking young hearts and minds" becuase they make good target practice for American soldiers.
Clinton created a horrible mess that's going to be hard to clean up. A lot of people are going to die because of his utterly stupid war.
What's to say. Clinton bombed and invaded the Balkins, though they never committed any terrorist attacks against us, and now it serves to increase terrorism and terrorist recruiting. It's a quagmire I tell ya. LOL
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