BOSNIAN AUTHORITIES PROBING 700 FOREIGNERS WITH TERROR LINKS

BOSNIAN AUTHORITIES PROBING 700 FOREIGNERS WITH TERROR LINKS - SECURITY OFFICIAL
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 26, 2005

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 26 January: Bosnia-Hercegovina Deputy Security Minister Dragan Mektic has said that Bosnia-Hercegovina security officials have recently been checking more than 700 foreign citizens who have been granted Bosnia-Hercegovina citizenship in different ways, but who are suspected of having worked for certain terrorist organizations.

"This revision will be carried out to the end, while so far Bosnia-Hercegovina has closed down around 10 foreign humanitarian organizations with links to terrorist organizations," Mektic told reporters in Banja Luka.

He specified that some of these foreigners had been granted Bosnia-Hercegovina citizenship in the last two years, which, he said, was incomprehensible.

Mektic added that all police structures were working on uncovering these criminal activities.

Speaking about the incident between the DGS (State Border Service) and the RS (Bosnian Serb Republic) police at Banja Luka airport during (war crimes suspect) Savo Todovic's extradition to The Hague, Mektic said that the DGS had drawn up a report on this, but that a Serb Republic Interior Ministry report was being awaited, after which the facts will be known.

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