SARAJEVO, Aug 28 (Hina) - A Saudi citizen, Ahmed Zuhair, after whom Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities had been searching for due to a car bombing in Mostar, was arrested this week in Pakistan as a member of the Taliban movement and was
transferred to a U.S. military base in Guantanamno, Cuba where several hundred Osama Bin Laden followers are being detained, Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation Television (FTV) reported on Wednesday.
SARAJEVO, Aug 28 (Hina) - A Saudi citizen, Ahmed Zuhair, after whom
Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities had been searching for due to a car
bombing in Mostar, was arrested this week in Pakistan as a member of
the Taliban movement and was transferred to a U.S. military base in
Guantanamno, Cuba where several hundred Osama Bin Laden followers
are being detained, Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation Television
(FTV) reported on Wednesday. #L#
The news was confirmed by anonymous sources close to the Bosnian and
U.S. authorities.
Ahmed Zuhair, better known as Handala was on the top of the list of
persons being searched for by the Bosnian police.
He was sentenced in absentia to ten year imprisonment after it was
ascertained that he was responsible for a car bombing in western
Mostar in 1997 when several dozen cars were destroyed and several
buildings damaged.
(hina) sp/it sb