ISLAMIST SUICIDE ATTACK THREAT AGAINST BOSNIAN SERB ENTITY, EXPERT TELLS DAILY
BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 11, 2007, Saturday

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 11 August: There is real danger of Islamist suicide attacks against the [Bosnian] Serb Republic (RS), Slobodan Radulj, expert on international terrorism issues [and former member of Bosnia-Hercegovina's anti-terrorist task force], has maintained.

"This is confirmed by the evermore poisonous speeches by certain imams of the Islamic Community in the West, who do not refrain from openly threatening terror attacks against the RS," Radulj said in an interview for [Belgrade-based] daily Press.

He further points out that the imams in the West when addressing their believers speak of Serbs as occupiers in Banja Luka and other places in the RS where they [Serbs] form the majority.

Radulj singles out the views of Imam Ahmed Dzinovic, who holds his services in Graz in Austria, as especially dangerous as he often likens the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis with the situation in B-H.

According to him, the constant demands for the abolition of the RS, put forward by [Party for B-H leader and B-H Presidency member] Haris Silajdzic and extremist Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] politicians, represent the political preparations for terror attacks.

Radulj warned that it was finally time for the RS to realize the danger posed by extremist Islamic organizations, underlining that the problems of Islamic terror and Wahhabism are talked about more in other countries than in B-H.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0724 gmt 11 Aug 07

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