ISLAMIC TERRORISTS BEING RECRUITED IN BOSNIA

ISLAMIC TERRORISTS BEING RECRUITED IN BOSNIA, KOSOVO - SERBIAN ANALYST
BBC Monitoring International Reports - April 29, 2005

Text of report by Belgrade-based private BKTV on 28 April

[Presenter] Following the wars in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo-Metohija, the Balkans have become a springboard for Islamic terrorists, former Gendarmerie commander Goran Radosavljevic Guri has said at an international conference entitled "The terrorist threat to southeastern Europe".

[Reporter] Groups of several hundred mujahedin are located in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo-Metohija and serve as recruitment centres for fresh actions by Islamic terrorism in Western Europe and the USA, Goran Radosavljevic Guri, an analyst of the Centre for the Fight against Terrorism has warned.

[Radosavljevic] It seems that Zenica was the most important centre of Al-Qa'idah members, and there were several secret training camps for future terrorists there. Those camps have disappeared, but it is possible that small groups are still being trained in remote and isolated mountainous regions.

[Reporter] Radosavljevic said that the investigation into the terrorist train attack in Madrid on 11 March last year had shown that a large number of perpetrators had links with Bosnia-Hercegovina.

[Radosavljevic] During the investigation in Madrid, the Spanish police also found road maps from Bosnia-Hercegovina in the possession of the Syrian terrorist Edin Barkat. The maps marked roads from Bosnia-Hercegovina to the West, as well as terrorist training camps. The Spanish police confirmed that even the lighters used for activating the explosives in Madrid had been made in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

[Reporter] The former Gendarmerie commander warned of the existence of a terrorist green line, through which money, arms and fake documents were illegally taken through Macedonia, southern Serbia, Kosovo-Metohija, Sandzak and Bosnia-Hercegovina to Western Europe. Radosavljevic said that the attempt to have Islamic regulations introduced into schools and separate classes for boys and girls was enough to indicate that there was a danger of radical Islamist groups in southern Serbia.

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