Expert names some Al

Expert names some Al-Qa'idah members present in Bosnia
SRNA - July 14, 2004

Banja Luka, 14 July: Darko Trifunovic, an expert on international law and terrorism, said that he supported the US plan to retain the Orao military base in Tuzla after the Sfor NATO-led Stabilization Force in Bosnia mission ended because Al-Qa'idah network and terrorist training camps were still present in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Trifunovic told SRNA that he had reliable information that there were "dangerous terrorists of the Iranian origin, who have Bosnia-Hercegovina citizenship and passports, most notably Mustafa Kamal, Shah Mohammad Ali Tala'ti, Talati Ali Sahmedi as received , and Javad Hesarbani" in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

He went on to say that Hasan Ali Fateh, one of Usamah Bin Ladin's closest associates, was in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Fateh, according to Trifunovic, was granted the Bosnia-Hercegovina citizenship and passport in the Bosnia-Hercegovina General Consulate in Istanbul under the number U-06-616-4/95 on 25 December 1995.

Trifunovic said that Fateh was put in the Bosnia-Hercegovina Registration of Births in 1999 under the number 10-782 and that the number of his Bosnia-Hercegovina passport was 084779, which was issued to him on 24 April 1999.

Trifunovic went on to say that this terrorist was registered at Hasan Kikic Street 14 in Sarajevo, but that he has never lived at this address.

"There are also terrorists of the Palestinian origin in Bosnia-Hercegovina such as Abu Jajalah Nasez as received and Alkhgasan Savarahat Mahabuhagag as received ," Trifunovic said, adding that there were also less known terrorists from Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1242 gmt 14 Jul 04

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