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Balkan Radical Islamists ready for terror
A group of radical Islamists that is ready to engage in terror
activities is based in Bosnia, says Bosnia's police chief Zlatko
Miletic.
"Wahabis have become the synonym for that sort of terrorism, but here is matter is about salafis as well," says Miletic.
Miletic says that 4 different groups operate in Bosnia, all of interest, because of their views of the world.
Most concerning, says Miletic, is that these groups are buying suicide vests.
"It is apparent that we have individuals that do not wish Bosnia well,
not to Muslims, not to Bosniaks nor other people," says Miletic.
"According to certain information, one illegal canal for transfer of
weapons goes through Posavina and is controlled by Vladimir Popilovski,
who was from
the war period, close to mujahedin and to members of the El Mujaheed,"
tells a source.
The chief of the entire operation is Semsudin Mehmedovic who was once chief of police in the municipality of Zenica.
Bosnian Muslim expert on terrorism, Dzevad Galijasevic, says that young
Bosnian Muslims that come from the economically depressed background are
recruited by
the Wahabis, often with monthly payments.
"BBI Bank is a consortium of the Dubai Islamic Bank, Abu Dabi Islamic
Bank, Malaysia Islamic Bank... It's the matter of banks based in Islamic
logic.
That has been functioning for years and Wahabis do this all the time in
the Federation of Bosnia," says Galijasevic.
Galijasevic cites the Wahabi community in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza,
where prominent Bosnian Muslim Sokolovic patriarchs pay young Muslim
men 400 Bosnian
Marks to convert and up to 1,000 Marks to Bosnian Muslim women to cloak
themselves into a Hijab and be submissive to men.
"Everyone that takes the pay to be a Wahabi one day has to return the
money wither with his own head, or someone else's," says Galijasevic.
 Wahabis in the village of Ostrvo, in Montenegro.
Bosnia's top cop, Zlatko Miletic, says that early in 2008, Wahabis and
other groups sympathetic to al-Qaeda are moving large quantities of
explosives and
weapons to Croatia.
The weapons are then hidden among the large Muslim communities in
Croatia's capital Zagreb but also in cities of Karlovac, Gunj and Split.
Islamic terrorists believe that Croatia will soon become a member of the
EU which would allow an unimpeded weapons transfer from Croatia and
into Europe.
"If we look at the Balkan region, the Wahabis have already done a string
of terror acts, from those that are smaller such as preventing the
concert of
Balkanika to murder of family Andjelic on Catholic Christmas," says
Darko Trifunovic, expert on radical Islam.
More recently, Wahabis detonated bombs in the Bosnian city of Vitez
killing several. Wahabis were involved in beatings of gay Muslims during
a %*%@# Festival
in Sarajevo. Besides Balkanika, Wahabis have disrupted other concerts,
such the one of Dzej Ramadanovski in September when a group of young
Bosnian Muslims
gathered around the concert hall ready to lynch Ramadanovski.
At the regional conference on security held in October in Slovenia's
city of Kranj, Serbia's security minister Ivica Dacic stressed that
there is
evidence of presence of the international and domestic terrorism in
Serbia citing Albanian terrorism in the south and the influence of
Wahabis in the Raska
area, referred to as Sandjak by the Muslims.
"Serbia cooperates with great deal of interest and readiness to assist
in all areas of regional cooperation that is done the most in Europe,
threat
assessment," said Dacic.
On Monday, a trial of 15 Wahabis is set to restart after Serbia's police
broke up the group involved in a plot to bomb buildings across Serbia
and the US
Embassy in Belgrade.
One of the Wahabis, Ismail Prentic, escaped to Kosovo where local
Albanians gave him sanctuary. Prentic was later apprehended but died in a
shoot out with the
police.
"Central social dimension of Wahabism is to grow among the people in the
field, and that is much more dangerous politically then what is being
done in
secret," says Galijasevic.
Galijasevic says that Wahabis secretly train, mobilize, inspire and
train recruits from the converts to be experts in explosives.
Ismail Hasani, sociology doctor at the American University in Kosovo's
capital Pristina, says that Wahabism is "alien" not only to Kosovo but
in
the entire southeastern Europe.
It is a "completely instrumentalized conscience of people that is a
result of actions by various foundations from all Islamic countries,"
told Hasani
the Deutsche Welle.
Yet, Deutsche Welle reports that an increasing number of young Muslim
Albanians in Kosovo are converting to Wahabism noticeable because they
wear a beard and
short pants.
 Kosovo Albanian Wahabis pray to Allah on streets.
"This movement does not fit well to some people especially its financial
side, because these people that are called to this pure Islam," says
Idriz
Bilibani, Kosovo Albanian with a masters degree in Islamic science from
Egypt.
Bilibani says that Wahabis do not preach no new Islam, they do not
consider themselves extremists, nor Wahabis, but pure Mohammedans.
"If you take a look at the [financial] situation of these people, most
of them do not own their homes but rent - so that is a pure lie,"
Bilibani
says.
Most refuse to talk about the problems of the growing Wahabi problem in Kosovo in order to keep "peace inside the house".
The issues of Wahabism could quickly disturb the harmony of the Kosovo
Albanian patriarchal family structure dominated by honor and vendettas.
In the Serbian Republic, in Bosnia, where Wahabism is viewed with
disdain, the friction inside the family often spills over into the
public.
A candidate for Mayor of Prijedor, Muharem Murselovic, told his son
Osman to take his wife and 3 children out of his house because Osman
became a Wahabi.
"You think its enough to shave your beard and to enter into my house," father Murselovic reportedly said and witnesses confirm.
Social worker, Dragan Savic, says that the authorities were quick to
find Osman and his family a shelter and were able to help get him
removed off the street.
"Yes, Osman is a pronounced Wahabi and he never hid that. Sarajevo
political scene knows well that Muharem Murselovic had great deal of
problems with his
son and used every conceivable way to hide his conversion," says
Galijasevic.
Trifunovic says that Wahabis are waging a war for the souls of the
people and to do that Wahabis are infiltrating the schools where young
Muslim boys are
educated.
"They often teach the children to hate all those who do not fit into they value system," says Trifunovic.
Among the youngest is the recently inaugurated Hafiz, or defender of
faith, Abdulah Porca, 12-year old son of the Bosnian extremist Muhamed
Porca.
"I would not be surprised if the little Porca, in few years walks in
with an explosive belt inside some embassy, school or a bus and show
vengeance to the
unbelievers and the enemies of Allah," says Trifunovic.
 Abdulah Porca receives his Hafiz degree because he was able to memorize every verse
of Koran.
Porca's Islamic cell in Vienna is considered as one among the top most
radical Islamic movements in Europe and it is directly connected to most
of the
terrorist organizations from Middle East, tells a source.
At a ceremony in Vienna and in front of numerous delegations from the
Islamic world Abdulah Porca was granted a degree and noticeably absent
was the chief
Bosnian Imam, Mustafa Ceric.
Trifunovic hail that move by Imam Ceric. "If reis Ceric does not
distance himself completely from Wahabism, it is very much possible that
that extreme
movement will become the dominant religion among Bosnian Muslims," says
Trifunovic.
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