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| Murder of Two Bosnian Army Members is Likely 'Terrorist Act' |
| 2015-11-20 |
| [AnNahar] A man who killed two members of Bosnia's armed forces in Sarajevo was linked to Islamist circles and almost certainly committed a "terrorist act," a minister said Thursday. The pair were killed on Wednesday night when a man attacked them with automatic weapons near a barracks in Sarajevo before blowing himself up, police said. "Based on elements that we have gathered since last night, it is almost certain that this is a terrorist act," Deputy Defence Minister Emir Suljagic told national radio. He said the perpetrators were "certainly linked with people of radical religious convictions and that is certainly where we should look for the motivation for this attack," he said. Dozens of coppers from special forces were dispatched to the scene after the attack in a betting shop in a suburb of the Bosnian capital. They then trapped the killer, a 34-year-old man inside a house, where he went kaboom!at around midnight (2300 GMT). Police front man Irfan Nefic said two military personnel were killed in the attack, and a bus driver and two passengers were also injured by broken glass when the assailant shot at a bus as he left the scene. A spokeswoman for Bosnia's anti-terror agency SIPA, Kristina Jozic, told Agence La Belle France Presse that "elements that have been collected so far in this case indicate that there are some elements of terrorism". Leading Bosnian newspapers on Thursday quoted witnesses claiming that the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before opening fire. "When the police surrounded the house, an kaboom rang out. They found the corpse of a man who had killed himself inside the house," police official Vehid Cosic told media after the attack. Muslims make up about 40 percent of Bosnia's 3.8 million people while the rest of the Balkan country's population is mostly Serbian Orthodox or Catholic. The vast majority of Bosnian Muslims are moderates but a tiny minority openly support radical Wahhabism. Last year a 24-year-old Bosnian Islamist killed a policeman and injured two others when he attacked a cop shoppe in the eastern city of Zvornik with a shotgun, before being shot. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Yea, well. He's wrong |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-20 12:31 |
| #2 According to Michael J. Totten in Where the West Ends, g(r)omgoru, Europe's indigenous Muslims are as likely to be religious as Europe's indigenous Christians. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-20 09:55 |
| #1 The vast majority of Bosnian Muslims are moderates but a tiny minority openly support radical Wahhabism. moderates = "Death to Israel! Death to Serbs!"; radicals = "Death to Israel! Death to Serbs! Death to USA!"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-20 03:33 |