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| Sarajevo US embassy attacked, gunny nabbed | |
| 2011-10-28 | |
| [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.
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. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Drudge has "Terror in Bosnia". More like pathetic attempt to do something and gets shot down like a dog. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-10-28 13:10 |