US EXPERT SAYS BIN LADIN NETWORK ACTIVE IN BOSNIA
BBC Monitoring - October 25, 2004

(Newsreader) Yossef Bodansky, director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US Congress, has told the Glas Srpske daily that a terrorist network whose groups are responsible to Usamah Bin Ladin is active in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

The assertions of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) politicians who reject the presence of international terrorists in the region would be founded if (the central Bosnian town of ) Zenica was not a part of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bodansky said, citing Zenica as an example of the latest finding by US investigative bodies who were probing the possible involvement of Bosnia-Hercegovina in the global terrorist network.

US investigators have established that Islamic terrorists from Western Europe were behind suicide attacks and bombings in Baghdad. They were trained in the Zenica area and from there sent to Iraq via Italy to fight American forces, the US terrorist expert claimed.

He went on to say that in a series of arrests in London this year, terrorists allegedly conceded to having links with Bosnia-Hercegovina. These are very serious accusations.
 

Source: Independent TV Hayat, Sarajevo, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1700 gmt 25 Oct 04

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