SARAJEVO, Oct 6 (Hina) - Three Egyptians of whom one is a suspect in a 1997 car-bomb blast in the Croatian seaport of Rijeka were deported from Bosnia to their home country on Saturday. The Interior Ministry of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim
federation said in a statement that two persons arrested last July were deported after it was established they had stayed in Bosnia under false names. The third person was deported after failing to report his stay to local authorities. The statement says Al Sherif Hassan Mahmoud Saad, aka Sakhr, was hiding in Bosnia under the name Abdulah Esindar, under which he had been granted Bosnian citizenship. Croatia's police are looking for him as the primary suspect in the Rijeka explosion, but Bosnia's authorities decided to extradite him to Egypt, which had also issued an arrest warrant after him, instead of Croatia. Federal Interior Minister Muhamed Besic said a week ago such a
SARAJEVO, Oct 6 (Hina) - Three Egyptians of whom one is a suspect in
a 1997 car-bomb blast in the Croatian seaport of Rijeka were
deported from Bosnia to their home country on Saturday.
The Interior Ministry of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation said in a
statement that two persons arrested last July were deported after
it was established they had stayed in Bosnia under false names.
The third person was deported after failing to report his stay to
local authorities.
The statement says Al Sherif Hassan Mahmoud Saad, aka Sakhr, was
hiding in Bosnia under the name Abdulah Esindar, under which he had
been granted Bosnian citizenship.
Croatia's police are looking for him as the primary suspect in the
Rijeka explosion, but Bosnia's authorities decided to extradite
him to Egypt, which had also issued an arrest warrant after him,
instead of Croatia.
Federal Interior Minister Muhamed Besic said a week ago such a
decision was made as Croatia was not extraditing people sought
after by the Bosnian police and judiciary.
Besic mentioned the case of Mario Milicevic, who is in Croatia and
whom Bosnian authorities want on suspicion that he was an accessory
in the assassination of Jozo Leutar, a former federal deputy
interior minister.
The second man deported from Bosnia today was Al Husseiny Arman
Ahmed, who stayed in Bosnia under the false name of Eslam Durmo. He
and Sakhr were arrested in Zenica, central Bosnia, on July 19.
The third Egyptian, Abd Al-Halim Hassanyn Khafagy, used the false
name Abu El Halim Khafagy. He is believed to be the man NATO's
Stabilisation Force arrested in the Sarajevo area on Sept. 26 as
part of anti-terrorist activities.
He was arrested together with a Jordanian who should have been
deported yesterday. There has been no confirmation about his
extradition.
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