Posted on 03/17/2003 4:59:38 PM PST by Destro
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:40:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Terrorists linked to the al Qaeda network are operating in Bosnia, according to the Croatian member of the country's tripartite presidency.
"Al Qaeda cells are active in Bosnia," President Dragan Covic said in an interview with The Washington Times. "The Bush administration needs to deal aggressively with this problem. If nothing is done about this, Islamic extremist groups could in the future destabilize the entire region."
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..a former colonel with the Bosnian army’s military intelligence unit told the Stars and Stripes [that] "Al-Qaida trained Mujahedeen to go and fight in Bosnia during the early ’90s, and bin Laden’s Services Office also maintained an office in neighboring Croatia’s capital, Zagreb." The Mujahedeen came into Bosnia from Croatia, the colonel said. "They came into Croatia at the ports of Split and Rijeka. Those were big centers." Along with the fighters, the arms pipeline came through Croatia and was funded by Third World Relief Agency, the Washington Post reported in a September 1996 story.
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