TERRORISTS PREPARED ASSASSINATIONS IN E. BOSNIAN CAMP

MOSTAR, April 23 (Hina) - Members of a training camp Pogorelica near the eastern Bosnian town of Fojnica, who were trained by members of the Iranian intelligence service, seven years ago prepared the murder of politician Muhamed Filipovic and former Bosnian Presidency member Fikret Abdic, said sources at the Interior Ministry of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, speaking on condition of anonymity. #L# Filipovic, considered one of the leading Bosniak intellectuals in the past several decades, said in an interview on Federation TV on Monday he had information that his liquidation had been prepared at Pogorelica camp. In the early 1990s, Filipovic disagreed with Bosnian leader Alija Izetbegovic's policy and has been criticising it consistently since. At the first multiparty elections in Bosnia in the early 1990s, Fikret Abdic, a candidate for the Bosniak member of the state presidency, won more votes than Izetbegovic, but by behind-the- scenes manoeuvring, which was never clarified, Izetbegovic was elected presidency chairman instead of Abdic. Abdic enters a political conflict with Izetbegovic, leaves Sarajevo and returns to the western Bosnian Cazinska Krajina region, where he continues conducting a policy which was not loyal to Izetbegovic. This resulted in military clashes in the region between Abdic's supporters and members of the Bosnian army, who were loyal to Izetbegovic. Several hundred Bosniaks were killed in the conflicts. Abdic is now on trial as a Croatian citizen at the Karlovac County Court. His trial was requested by the authorities in Sarajevo, which four years ago, at the time of Izetbegovic's rule, accused him of war crimes against Bosniaks. In the mid-1990s, unidentified persons tried to kill Abdic near the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka. The perpetrators remain unknown. (hina) rml