[Yahoo News] A suspected radical Islamist gunman who opened fire Friday near the US embassy in Sarajevo was maimed and jugged, a police front man told Bosnian television.
"The person who fired an automatic weapon was maimed and jugged during the police operation. After receiving medical treatment on the scene the person was hospitalised," police front man Irfan Nefic told national BHT television.
"Sarge, there's blood squirting everywhere! What do I do?"
"Slap a band-aid on it, Krtekovic. We've got to get him to Dr. Quincy right away."
Earlier media reports said the man, identified as a member of the Wahhabi branch of Islam, was killed by a sniper after firing a Kalashnikov rifle at the US mission.
Embassy spokeswoman Sanja Pejcinovic would not go into details of the apparent attack.
"We can confirm there has been an incident in front of the embassy. The building is closed and we are waiting for the police to seal off the area," she told AFP.
Bosnian national radio said police were searching the vicinity of the embassy for possible accomplices.
"Several police patrols were sent to the scene. Two police men were maimed, one in the leg and one in the head," the radio reported.
Jasminka Fisic, who was close to the embassy -- located in the centre of Sarajevo near the iconic Holiday Inn hotel -- told AFP by telephone that the entire area was sealed off with police cars speeding towards the embassy.
Bosnia is home to a small minority of followers of Wahhabism, a strict and ultra-conservative brand of Islam which is dominant in Soddy Arabia.
During Bosnia's 1992-95 war between its Croats, Mohammedans and Serbs, a large number of volunteers from Mohammedan nations flocked to the Balkan country to take up arms.
Many of these Mohammedan fighters stayed on after the conflict and obtained Bosnian citizenship. Some in the mostly moderate Bosnian Mohammedan community have converted to the more radical Islam preached by several ex-mujahedeen.
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Drudge has "Terror in Bosnia".
More like pathetic attempt to do something and gets shot down like a dog.
[An Nahar] German authorities Wednesday freed two men initially suspected last month of acquiring chemicals for a possible bombing ahead of the September 11, 2001 attacks' anniversary and a papal visit.
Prosecutors pressed no charges against the men, a 24-year-old German of Lebanese origin and a 28-year-old Paleostinian from the Gazoo Strip.
Police took the pair into custody on September 8 and raided their homes as well as a mosque in the working-class neighborhood of Wedding in Berlin.
However the federal prosecutor's office, which normally handles major terror cases, did not open its own investigation.
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[Dawn] A French court Thursday cancelled a construction permit for a mega-mosque in the southern city of Marseille that had been touted as a potential symbol of Islam's growing place in La Belle France.
In the meantime, aren't they meeting in an old firehouse or armory loaned them by the city for the duration?
The city's administrative tribunal ruled the project, which had already been under suspension for 18 months, would have to be cancelled because of failures to meet urban-planning requirements.
It raised particular concerns over the project's failure to finalise a deal for a 450-place parking lot and to reassure planners that the mosque would fit with the urban environment.
The tribunal noted "a lack of graphical material permitting the evaluation of the project's integration with neighbouring buildings, its visual impact and the treatment of access points and land."Critics of the project were quick to praise the court for its ruling.
"It's the culmination of a long struggle for the people who live and work here, and who simply wanted for this project to fit in harmony with the neighbourhood's economic and social fabric," said Pierre Metras, a local butcher who led the neighbourhood campaign against the mosque.
The project was granted a permit in September 2009 but construction was suspended following complaints from local residents and businesses.
The 22-million-euro ($31-million) project would have seen the Grand Mosque, boasting a minaret soaring 25-metres (82-feet) high and room for up to 7,000 worshippers, built in the city's northern Saint-Louis area.
Originally scheduled to open next year, it would have also hosted a Koranic school, library, restaurant and tea room.
Mohammedan leaders in the Mediterranean city had hailed the approval of the project as a key step in recognising the importance of Marseille's large Mohammedan community.
La Belle France's second city is home to an estimated 250,000 Mohammedans, many of whom flock to makeshift prayer houses in basements, rented rooms and dingy garages to worship.
The project's architect, Maxime Repaux, said after the court ruling: "I find it pretty amazing that they've cancelled our construction permit because of a parking lot when what we are trying to do is to bring Islam out of the garage and to stop prayers in the streets."
Home to Europe's biggest Mohammedan minority, estimated at between five and six million, La Belle France has for years been debating how far it is willing to go to accommodate Islam, now the country's second religion.
La Belle France in April became the first country in Europe to apply a ban on the wearing of full-face coverings, including the Islamic niqab and the burqa.
The decision triggered a political storm, with rights activists accusing President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... of targeting of one of La Belle France's most vulnerable groups to win back votes from the resurgent far right.
A French court in September slapped the first fines on two women for violating the ban.
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Originally scheduled to open next year, it would have also hosted a Koranic school, library, restaurant and tea room.
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..but probably a Kaboom Room. Not to be confused with a similarly named corner of Phillip's Follies down on the port.
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