Under the indictment, Alispahic and his associates in late 1995 and early 1996 carried out preparations to assassinate the former Bosniak politician and businessman, who at the time lived in the northern Croatian Adriatic city of Rijeka.
Alispahic and his associates hired several Bosniaks from Bihac, who were to kill Abdic on the road between Crikvenica and Rijeka, which he travelled daily on his way to work.
The Croatian police discovered plans to assassinate Abdic on time, seized the weapons and arrested the potential assassins.
Alispahic dismissed the charges, calling them lies and fabrications.
The trial of Alispahic and his associates is the result of a broader investigation into a terrorist training camp on Mt. Pogorelica in central Bosnia, which was established before the end of the war by the AID, with the help of instructors from Iran.
It is believed that AID members were trained on Mt. Pogorelica to attack and kill the opponents of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA).
The camp was closed by members of NATO-led peace forces in Bosnia after a raid in early 1996.