CROATIAN POLICE WANT IDENTITY OF ZENICA PRISON INMATE ESTABLISHED

ZAGREB, Aug 31 (Hina) - The Croatian Interior Ministry confirmed on Friday that it requested the authorities of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina to establish the identity of the person they arrested more than a month ago whom Croatia's authorities suspected of involvement in a car bomb incident which happened in front of a police station in Rijeka in 1995. The ministry's spokeswoman, Zinka Bardic, said the Zagreb Interpol office issued an arrest warrant for Hasan al Sharif on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act in Rijeka. On July 12, the Federation police arrested a man called Abdulah Essindar, born in Yemen. Essindar was placed in a prison in Zenica near Sarajevo, but it is believed the man in question is actually Hasan Mahmoud Al Sherif, an Egyptian involved in the Rijeka bomb attack, according to indictments published in the Bosnian media. The Federation police arrested him for illegally acquiring Bosnian citizenship but unofficial sources say Interpol has issued a "red" arrest warrant for him on suspicion of being connected with Muslim terrorist groups. "After we were informed that he was arrested and incarcerated in Zenica, we requested the Bosnian authorities to check his identity, and the procedure is underway," the spokeswoman said. (hina) sb rml