BiH Prosecutor’s Office Searching for TWRA Documentations
NEZAVISNE NOVINE - October 2, 2004

Sarajevo/Bihac – The purpose of the FBiH Interior Ministry’s operation in the building of the Unsko-Sanski (U-S) Government was confiscation of TWRA’s documentation, TWRA is an Agency for helping Muslims in third world courtiers and it is suspected of helping terrorist organizations’ network, several sources close to the BiH Prosecutor’s Office confirmed on Friday.

The Head of the Special BiH Prosecutor’s Department for Fighting Organized Crime, John McNair, refused to comment on Nezavisne’s findings. However, our collocutor close to BiH Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that police confiscated part of documentation from 1995 to 1998 period that was in the U-S Cantonal Government’s archive. The operation of the FBiH Interior Ministry started on Wednesday and was finished on midnight.

Humanitarian Organization TWRA was established in 1987 by Fatih Ali Hasanein from Sudan and his brother Sukarno. TWRA organized purchase of weapons and equipment for BiH Army in 1992. Money was collected by Islamic countries and transferred to BiH Army through First Austrian Bank in Vienna.

International community now links TWRA with financing networks of the terrorist organizations in the world. Late Alija Izetbegovic and his son Bakir, current delegate at the BiH parliament, Hasan Cengic, businessman Senad “Saja” Sahinpasic, one of suspects in “Pogorelica” case, Irfan Ljevakovic, and the most wanted world’s terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, were mentioned as Ali Hasanein’s friends and associates.

According to information of the Austrian investigative institutions, about 350 million dollars were transferred during the war through TWRA, i.e. the First Austrian Bank. TWRA is still active in Vienna, while now head of this organization is Ali Hasanein’s brother Sukarno.

Source: NEZAVISNE NOVINE (Independent Newspaper, Serbian national weekly from Banja Luka) - 10/02/04
Translated by: U.S. Army Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Cell, ACofS G2 MNB(N)

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