MOSTAR HAD CROATIAN ID - OFFICIAL MOSTAR, 21 May (Hina) - The Deputy Interior Minister of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tomislav Mislav, on Tuesday gave a statement to Mostar-based TV station OSCAR saying that one person
responsible for the 1997 car-bomb terrorist attack had his identification documents issued in Zagreb.
MOSTAR, 21 May (Hina) - The Deputy Interior Minister of the
Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tomislav Mislav, on Tuesday gave
a statement to Mostar-based TV station OSCAR saying that one person
responsible for the 1997 car-bomb terrorist attack had his
identification documents issued in Zagreb.#L#
This is the first time that a Bosnian official has confirmed in
public, that some of the persons from Arabic countries, involved in
terrorist attacks in Bosnia-Herzegovina, had documents issued in
Croatia.
Sarajevo press on several occasions published articles according
to which citizens of Arabic states who claimed they were
humanitarian workers received their documents in Croatia with
false names to be able to enter Bosnia. Some of them joined the
Mujahedin in Central Bosnia and fought against the Croatian Council
of Defence.
Former Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Silajdjic, one of the most
influential Bosniak politician in the last decade, said after the
car-bomb explosion in the western part of Mostar in autumn 1997,
that Croats had planted the bomb themselves and not citizens of
Arabic countries, who were later arrested and tried in Zenica.
The then American envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbart, demanded of
Silajdjic to apologise to Croats, but he never did.