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Al-Qa'idah members plan attacks on NATO troops in Bosnia - Serb expert
April 13, 2004
BIH
Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 13 April: Darko Trifunovic, the expert on international law and terrorism, has warned that Islamists in Bosnia-Hercegovina "are awaiting a go-ahead from abroad to mount an attack on Sfor [NATO-led Stabilization Force in Bosnia], and claimed that the Bosnia-Hercegovina citizen, Sanel Sjekirica, who is suspected of taking part in the recent terrorist attack in Madrid by the Spanish government, is a member of Al-Qa'idah.
Trifunovic told SRNA that it was not coincidental that Sjekirica was in Spain [at the time of the attacks], rather that "he was deliberately infiltrated by Al-Qaidah into Islamist ranks in that country".

Sanel Sjekirica (24) from Mostar, suspected of being linked to the terrorist attacks in Madrid which claimed the lives of 200 people, has been in contact with police investigators in Spain. [Passage omitted]

Darko Trifunovic warned that Islamists could attack Sfor "with the aim of alleviating the great pressure which has recently been exerted on Islamists in Iraq by coalition forces".

He went on to say that all Islamist activities had begun in the Balkans and that they would end in Bosnia-Hercegovina. He recalled that "the first Mojahedin battles for Islam started in Bosnia-Hercegovina and that Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq were fighting coalition forces - both with the same objective". [Passage omitted]