Connections with Attacks in Spain
On April 8 2004, the police in Serbia was in a state of alert due to indications that the followers of Naser Oric, who is currently in custody unit in The Hague where he is waiting on a trial for war crimes, were getting ready to carry out a bigger terrorist act in Belgrade or somewhere else in Serbia.
Oric, a hardcore Islamic fighter, was in charge of Islamic fighters in Srebrenica during the war in BiH and often attacked the Serb villages during the war that ended in 1995. According to the sources, Amer Al-Aziz, Sanel Sjekirica and Rabei Ousmane Ahmed were involved in planning the suggested attacks. Sanel Sjekirica is a Bosnian Muslim, born in Mostar, and was the member of the 7th brigade along with Amer Al-Aziz that fought in the BiH civil war until 1995. It is important to say that in the beginning of April 2004 the Spanish Government issued three additional arrest warrants for Amer Al-Aziz, Sanel Sjekirica and Rabei Ousmane Ahmed.
In the beginning of April 2004 the Spanish Police concluded that those three gathered most of those, who are responsible for the attack in Madrid on March 11 2004, and identified most of the others. A total of five Madrid terrorists are dead now, and 17 of them are in custody, including five bombers under names – Yougam, Chaoui, Bekkali, Zbakh (who made bombs) and Ghazoun. The other 12 in custody are charged with having cooperated with them. Nine arrestees were released due to lack of evidence. (GIS sources report that Sanel Sjekirica, who was born in 1980, resides in the Splitska Street #62/11 in Mostar, BiH. It is known that he was taken as a child to the training to the Mujahedeen camp.)
Despite frequent claims of media, which emphasized the Moroccan nature of Madrid attack, the latest arrest warrants showed the permanent Bosnian connection with terrorist activities in a wide spectrum. Terrorist roads through BiH A group that calls itself Abu Najaf Al-Afghani Group Ansar Al-Qaida claimed it was responsible for the attacks in Madrid on April 11 2004 (probably a misprint – interpreter’s note), and a bomb, which was planted later and was not activated on the tracks of a train between Madrid and Seville. This implicated a connection between this group and Moroccans Islamic Battle Group (GICM – Groupe Islamique Combatant Marocain), or pointed that they had some overlaps or similar nature.
A videotape, found in the remains of the apartment that was destroyed in a clash between the Spanish group for special ops and bombers on April 3 2004 in Legano, a suburb of Madrid, shows three masked men wearing traditional Arabic clothes and reading an ultimatum in Arabic language stating, “Al-Mufti and Ansar Al-Qaida brigades decided to follow the road of jihad and demand an urgent withdrawal of Spanish troops from Muslim countries (for example – Iraq).”
Also, in the beginning of April 2004, the police from the area of the Gorazde Municipality in the RS – a state of Bosnian Serbs within BiH – arrested several Kosovo Albanians, who tried to buy explosive. The Gorazde corridor in the RS territory is the main area through which the Islamites must go coming from the Bosnian Islamic territories to the Islamic area of Raska in southern Serbia towards Kosovo and Albania.
The GIS sources also quote that there is information that a very highly ranked member of Al Qaeda was arrested somewhere in the Balkans for some minor crime but under a false name. The GIS sources also say they believe that this was Omar Alavadi. Al Qaeda’s coordinator in the Balkans Omar Alavadi from Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda’s official, directly in charge of Al Qaeda’s coordination in the Balkans. It is known that he is a very close associate of Osama Bin Laden and that he is closely affiliated with Fatah Ali Hasanin, one more Saudi who is in charge of extreme jihad in the SE Europe.
During the crisis in Kosovo, Hasanin was in Macedonia (Skopje, Tetovo and Gostivar). He would go to Kosovo from there from time to time in a vehicle that belongs to KFOR (NATO’s forces for protection in Kosovo) with the French license plates. At that time he had meetings with Hasim Taci, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – a terrorist and guerilla organization. Taci is presently the leader of the Kosovo Democratic Party.
It is believed that Taci conducted necessary preparations for a military training of Albanian terrorists in Macedonia, and that he is in contact with extremists in Tetovo, Gostivar, Skopje and Kicevo. In the meantime, the GIS sources in the region identified the key Iranian officials, responsible for terrorist operations in the Balkans. They were named as Ismet Kryeziu, who is considered to be the key Iranian that controls the paramilitary formations belonging to Albanian ethnic groups, which are active in the Balkans; and Asllan Hudut, a close associate to Ismet Kryeziu, who is considered to be in charge of Islamisation and radicalization of Albanians in the Balkans. –sd (Gregory Copley – pg 12&13 of 52)