BANJA LUKA, Jan 8 (Hina) - Young Bosnian men, members of radical Islamic groups such as Vehabije, enlist for volunteer units in Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya and their deployment is organised by informal associations. In addition,
foreign nationals eager to fight in the said countries also arrive in Bosnia as a transit country from where they continue to travel to their destinations, a source close to the NATO-led Stabilisation Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina told the Banja-Luka based Nezavisne novine daily.
BANJA LUKA, Jan 8 (Hina) - Young Bosnian men, members of radical
Islamic groups such as Vehabije, enlist for volunteer units in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya and their deployment is organised by
informal associations. In addition, foreign nationals eager to fight
in the said countries also arrive in Bosnia as a transit country from
where they continue to travel to their destinations, a source close to
the NATO-led Stabilisation Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina told the
Banja-Luka based Nezavisne novine daily.#L#
The foreigners' stay is organised by the Mujahedeen who came in Bosnia
during the war in this country in the 1990s and have remained there.
According to the same source, the drafted young men receive about
20,000 euros and after a short training they go to the fronts where
they are deployed for a few days, but not longer than two weeks. After
that they come home and become so-called sleepers as the organisation
which sent them to the front can call them again at any moment.
Police sources have already reported that the interior ministry of the
Bosnian Croat-Muslim Federation is collecting documentation and data
on activities of groups and people believed to be linked with the
terrorist organisation Al Qaida.
(Hina) ms sb