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| 'Al Qaeda helpers present in Bosnia' |
| 2007-08-19 |
| Al Qaeda uses Bosnia as a transit point, receiving help from Islamic veterans of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, US diplomat Raffi Gregorian said in an interview with a Sarajevo daily published Saturday. "Certain intelligence agencies consider Bosnia-Hercegovina as one of the Al Qaeda's transit points", Gregorian told the Dnevni Avaz newspaper. "There are sympathisers in the country who are ready to help Al Qaeda with hiding agents, providing financial support or providing false documents," he added. Gregorian is the principal deputy to Miroslav Lajcak, the top international representative here. Asked whether there were so-called 'sleepers' in the Balkans country, Gregorian replied "No, there are more likely helpers". Bosnia came under the spotlight after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States due to the presence in the former Yugoslav republic of former fighters from Islamic countries. |
| Posted by:Fred |