Serbia steps up security checks on foreigners – especially Arabs

UPI ^ | August 23, 2005

[joan]

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published August 23, 2005

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- Serbian security forces have stepped up security checks on foreign nationals, especially Arabs.

The tighter measures implemented by the Serbian Interior Ministry has already led to the arrest of Moroccan national Abdelmajid Bouchar, a suspect in the Madrid terrorist attacks, the FoNet web-site reported. The beefed up security was ordered after the Madrid terror bombings that killed 200 people in March 2004, but they have recently been intensified, FoNet said.

They involve stricter border controls and in-depth checks on the movement and behaviour of potentially suspicious persons. In contrast to the United States, where so-called racial profiling remains a political hot potato and avoided issue, the Serbian police show no compunction about giving special attention to citizens from Arab countries, Arabs from Western Europe, and Muslim citizens coming from Kosovo or Bosnia-Hercegovina, the web-site said.

Serbian security forces have also implemented visible measures of protection against terrorist attacks including stepped up security at airports and railway stations, as well as at foreign embassies, diplomatic and consular offices and residencies of ambassadors from countries that could be a target of terrorist attacks.

Counter-terrorism measures have also been stepped up in connection with the European basketball and handball championships scheduled to take place in Belgrade in September.

[sheik yerbouty]

Bravo Serbia!

[farlander]

And they're socialists! Well, not pacifist for sure.

If only our left were... so inclined. We have a special brand of left here - defeatist, apologist, and unpatriotic.

[Spirited]

That's what any intelligent nation would do if it understood the danger of treasonous citizens.