[AnNahar] Bosnia has extradited to the United States a Kosovo jihadist whom Washington suspects of links to jihadist groups, four months after his arrest in Sarajevo, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Bosnia's prosecutors "took part in a complex operation to locate and extradite to the U.S. a person originating from Kosovo with terrorism links," a statement said.
No more details were available due to "sensitivity of the case," it added.
But the Zurnal.info website, specialized in terrorism issues, identified the man as Mirsad Kandic, a "dangerous collaborator of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" jihadist group.
U.S. authorities accuse Kandic of having spent time in the former IS bastion of Raqa in Syria, and of providing logistical support to the jihadists, the site reported.
He had provided IS with weapons and boom jackets, used notably by Jake Bilardi, an 18-year-old Australian killed in a 2015 suicide kaboom against the Iraqi army in the west of the country, according to Zurnal.info.
Kandic entered Bosnia early this year through Sarajevo airport, using a fake Ukrainian passport.
He was tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
in July during a raid on a Sarajevo apartment.
Around 240 Bosnian citizens had joined the jihadists on the frontlines of Iraq and Syria since 2012, the Bosnian authorities said in August.
A total of 116, nearly half of them men, were still believed to be there, while at least 65 were killed.
Half of the 46 who returned to Bosnia were condemned to prison terms.
Some 300 Kosovo Albanians had also joined the jihadists' ranks in Iraq and Syria in recent years, among whom some 60 were killed, according to the Kosovo authorities. 
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