ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, Dragan Covic, has received threats about possible attacks during the upcoming Christmas holidays, Covic's office said in a statement Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Presidency, Dragan Covic, has received threats about possible attacks
during the upcoming Christmas holidays, Covic's office said in a
statement Tuesday.#L#
Bosnia's edition of the Zagreb-based daily Vecernji list cited unnamed
sources as saying that "foreign intelligence services informed
chairman Covic of assassination threats from Islamic radical circles
in Bosnia".
Covic said in an interview for the Washington Times last summer that
there were "cells" in Bosnia which were connected with al-Quaida.
Members of the Muslim-led Social Democratic Action (SDA) protested in
parliament against Covic's statement.
Late last week, the NATO-led Stabilisation force raided several houses
in the Muslim-populated village of Serici in central Bosnia under
suspicion that persons of Arab origins were hiding there. This was
also confirmed by the local police.
Reporting on the SFOR operation, the Federation's news agency FENA
said that SFOR members from the U.S. contingent raided residential
areas searching for weapons and other materials which could lead to
the al-Quida terrorist network.
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