Posted on 04/05/2005 4:56:49 PM PDT by joan
PARIS, April 4 (AFP) - A haul of some 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of Semtex explosives seized at the weekend by French police in the northern town of Hazebrouck came from Bosnia and was destined for the criminal underground, justice officials said Monday.
Five people were detained after the Czech-made explosives, along with a stock of detonators, were found on Saturday concealed in a lorry containing metal parts bound for a company in the area.
Three were arrested at the scene and two others -- the suspected purchasers of the Semtex -- were detained later in Paris. The ring-leader was a former Bosnian soldier, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
The seizure was ordered by a Paris magistrate as part of an investigation opened last month into organised crime. According to sources close to the enquiry, the explosives were due to be delivered to Paris, but the judge decided to take preemptive action.
The explosives may have come from Bosnian army stocks, justice officials said. They were brought by road to France via Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Belgium.
Police have long expressed concern that supplies of arms and explosives reaching criminal gangs in France are being supplied from the former Yugoslavia.
A kilogram of Semtex can fetch up to 4,000 euros (5,150 dollars) on the black market, Le Parisien said. Investigators believe Saturday's haul was to be divided up and sold off in bits.
But you seem to follow that dog with lips pressed tightly...
It is curious how Ronly Bonly Jones has side-stepped his previous banning on Free Republic and has returned to spew his Muhammedan hugging tripe into the Balkan threads again.
Is banning always ignored so easily?
Guess we'll have to chase down all the info again. We do know that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed recieved Bosnian citizenship on April 30, 1994, and his passport soon after.
Al Qaeda has many, many friends in Bosnia!
Why yes, it appears they did...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/691608/posts
I ran thru it quickly.
I wonder why the Saudis extremists are so hot to take over Bosnia? Foothold in Europe, as a base of further operations in terrorism??
Seems like they could just as easily use Kosovo or Albania. Well, maybe they want all of them. Seems like most muslims are odd and dangerous folks.
Now give it a rest, pup.
And to enforce their independence, they made many disappear into the night and fog just as they had done in WWII.
Only this time, they actually had Americans playing the roles of useful idiots for their Jihad. Case in point: Ronly Bonly bin Laden!
How better to address a liar and a fool, Bonly-boy?
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