Sejfudin Tokic was a participant or observer in the following events:  Renate Flottau. [Source: Public domain]Renate
Flottau, a reporter for Der Spiegel, later claims she meets Osama bin
Laden in Bosnia some time in 1994. She is in a waiting room of Bosnian
Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic’s office in order to interview him
when she runs into bin Laden. He gives her a business card but at the
time she does not recognize the name. They speak for about ten minutes
and he talks to her in excellent English. He asks no questions but
reveals that he is in Bosnia to help bring Muslim fighters into the
country and that he has a Bosnian passport. Izetbegovic’s staffers seem
displeased that bin Laden is speaking to a Western journalist. One tells
her that bin Laden is “here every day and we don’t know how to make him
go away.” She sees bin Laden at Izetbegovic’s office again one week
later. This time he is accompanied by several senior members of
Izetbegovic’s political party that she recognizes, including members
from the secret police. She later calls the encounter “incredibly
bizarre.” [Schindler, 2007, pp. 123-125]
A journalist for the London Times will witness Flottau’s first
encounter with bin Laden and testify about it in a later court trial
(see November 1994).
Members of the SDA, Izetbegovic’s political party, will later deny the
existence of such visits. But one Muslim politician, Sejfudin Tokic,
speaker of the upper house of the Bosnian parliament, will say that such
visits were “not a fabrication,” and that photos exist of bin Laden and
Izetbegovic together. One such photo will later appear in a local
magazine. Author John Schindler will say the photo is “fuzzy but appears
to be genuine.” [Schindler, 2007, pp. 124-125, 342] According to one account, bin Laden continues to visit the Balkan region as late as 1996. [Wall Street Journal (Europe), 1/11/2001]
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