BOSNIAN SERB ADVISER WARNS BOCINJA VILLAGE TURNING INTO REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS
ONASA - September 25, 2003

Banja Luka - The adviser of the Serb member of the BiH (Bosnia-Hercegovina) Presidency for legal issues and implementation of the Dayton Agreement, Slobodan Radulj, said in a statement Thursday (25 September) that "the invitation the Serb returnees received from the mujahedin to convert to Islam if they want to live safely in Bocinja", indicates more clearly than anything else that this village on the slopes of Ozren mountain was turned into a camp for ideological training of terrorists.

"The ideological training is intended for those who have agreed to subject their lives to, and to sacrifice their lives for Islam, and it is mostly conducted in the religious centres," Radulj told daily Glas Srpske in a statement. Radulj claims that the mujahedin are aided by a number of Islamic, allegedly humanitarian, organizations which operate in BiH.

"One of these organizations is a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which operates in BiH under the name of the Young Muslims. This organization is notorious for producing so called sleepers, who, after they undergo ideological training, await their tasks," Radulj explained.

He said the it was "no secret" that Al-Qa'idah in its cells in BiH, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, trained local Muslim population for terrorist operations across the world.

"Since the terrorist operations have been conducted by the Arabs so far, Al-Qa'idah wants to recruit and train new kind of terrorists, according to them, blond and with blue eyes," Radulj said.

The similar claims have been uttered by former Maglaj Municipal Assembly speaker Dzevad Galijasevic, who dubs Bocinja a gun-powder barrel, since "terrorists from across the world, the persons who commit murders and sabotages across the West Europe" come to this village.

Source: Onasa news agency web site, Sarajevo, in English 25 Sep 03

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