Suspects arrested in Bosnia admit to preparing terrorist act

Suspects arrested in Bosnia admit to preparing terrorist act - paper
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - November 19, 2005 Saturday

Text of report in English by Croatian news agency HINA

Sarajevo, 19 November: Two persons arrested in Sarajevo on Friday [18 November] on suspicion of terrorist connections admitted to the police that they were preparing a terrorist attack in Bosnia-Hercegovina, [Sarajevo] Dnevni avaz daily said on Saturday.

Citing an unnamed Bosnian official, the newspaper said the two men were Muslim and that they had been obtaining explosive for two men previously arrested on suspicion of terrorism, Mirsad Bektasevic and Abdulkadir Cesir.

Swedish citizen Bektasevic and Turkish citizen Cesir were arrested in Sarajevo on 19 October. They are being investigated by the Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office on suspicion that they planned an attack on a Western embassy in Bosnia.

According to the media, the two men arrested yesterday were also involved in some sort of paramilitary activity around Bjelasnica and Igman mountains.

The police and the Intelligence and Security Agency are looking for other possible members of a terrorist group.

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