Declining to disclose Samardzic's identity, SFOR spokesman Mark Hope told reporters in Sarajevo that the operation in Bileca was launched so as to arrest a person after whom the Sarajevo Cantonal Court had already issued two arrest warrants for a number of criminal offences, including war crimes.
During the operation, the person resisted the arrest and used firearms against SFOR members, Hope said. SFOR troops shot back in self-defence and wounded the attacker, he added.
He said that the wounded man was transferred to an SFOR hospital.
Samardzic, aged 40, whose name was revealed by the local media, reportedly has a thick police record and the local judiciary indicted him for war crimes.
He, however, has not been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.