Bosnian terrorist threat. (Insider Report).The U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, was closed to the public on March 20th following an intelligence report that al-Qaeda terrorists had decided that "in Sarajevo something will happen to Americans similar to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of last September," a Bosnian official told the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . At a secret meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, the terrorists reportedly planned strikes against the U.S. and various European embassies in the Bosnian capital city. On the day before the threats, Bosnian police The Bosnian Police consists of two different Police entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Police and the Republika Srpska Police. Bosnia also has its Counter Terrorism Agency SIPA. raided the offices of an organization called Bosnian Ideal Future (BIF BIF In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Burundi Franc. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ), a Muslim charity Muslim Charity is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, charity registration number 1078488. The charity was founded in 1999 by Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada to provide relief for the needy around the world. suspected of being a terrorist front. (The federal government has frozen the assets of BIF offices in Illinois and New Jersey.) Two days later police arrested Munib Zahiragic, who headed the Bosnian BIF chapter. Zahiragic, the former head of the Bosnian Muslim secret police organization, was charged with espionage espionage (ĕs`pēənäzh'), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. . "No details on whom he was supposed to be spying for were released," noted AP. However, a March 8th speech by Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija offers a fairly compelling clue. Shortly before departing for a two-day official visit to Teheran, Lagumdzija hailed the ties of "friendship" between Iran's terrorist regime and the UN-installed Bosnian Muslim regime in Sarajevo. Declaring that his government "will never forget the support of the Iranian government" during the Yugoslav civil wars, Lagumdzija expressed hope that Iran could assist Sarajevo in the unfolding "anti-terrorism struggle...." |
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