FORMER BOSNIAN OFFICIALS ORGANISED WEAPONG SMUGGLING?

SARAJEVO, Jan 10 (Hina) - Two former senior Bosnian Muslim military and police officials are the organisers of a big chain of weapon smuggling that ran from Bosnia to Kosovo and Macedonia, the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje said on Thursday. The paper claims that Kemal Ademovic, the recently replaced director of the Investigation and Documentation Agency (AID), the Bosnian Muslim secret service, and Hasan Cengic, a former Bosnian Federation deputy defence minister, are at the helm of two separate weapon smuggling chains. Oslobodjenje quotes as its source an unnamed person close to a special United States team for the prevention of weapon smuggling from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This team was allegedly set up as part of international anti- terrorist measures. Its activities in the Balkans are coordinated by the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Thomas Miller, in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Croatia. Ademovic and Cengic are both known for their considerable influence on and connections with top Bosnian Muslim politicians. For years Ademovic was said to have been Alija Izetbegovic's most trustworthy associate. (hina) ha sb