SFOR UNDERTAKING SECURITY MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS

MOSTAR, Sept 19 (Hina) - Officers of the Stabilisation Force's (SFOR) multinational division for the southeast sector have warned that possible terrorist attacks in Bosnia could represent a threat to the NATO peacekeepers. The SFOR will do everything to ensure its security, division spokesman Marco Simonini told reporters in the southern town of Mostar on Wednesday. He was asked to comment on media allegations to the effect that in the Konjic and Jablanica areas there are camps for naturalised Bosnian citizens from Arabic countries, of whom some are suspected of being terrorists. Washington has requested the Bosnian authorities check 18 persons with Bosnian citizenship. A public relations officer of SFOR's multinational division for the southeast sector, Herve Petetin, said the division did not receive any request from Bosnian authorities for assistance in checking suspicious persons. The division is willing to help if requested, he added. The interior ministry of Bosnia's Herzegovina-Neretva Canton has refuted media reports that there are Mujahedeen camps in the Canton's Jablanica and Konjic areas. "There are, nor were there camps on Herzegovina-Neretva Canton territory in which terrorists are or were trained," the ministry said in a statement. (hina) ha sb