BELGRADE, Serbia-Serbia's state prosecutors on Friday filed criminal charges against 15 Muslim men from a tense southern region for terrorist activity.
Most of the indicted men were arrested in raids earlier this year in the Sandzak region bordering Kosovo where large caches of ammunition and bomb-making material were also discovered, the prosecution office said. The prosecutors believe the weapons were intended for terrorist actions by Muslim extremists against targets in the region.
The men were arrested in March and April and police accused them of being Islamic radicals and adherents of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, which is followed by Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida members. Police said at the time that they discovered a mountain cave that served as a terrorist training ground packed with plastic explosives, masks and machine guns.
Western intelligence reports leaked recently have suggested that Sandzak, as well as Muslim-dominated regions in neighboring Bosnia and Kosovo, could be an ideal recruitment spot for the so-called "white al-Qaida", Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and execute terrorist attacks. Several incidents have taken place recently in Sandzak within the Muslim community, but no terrorist attacks have been reported.
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India’s Central Bureau of Intelligence says most wanted Tamil rebel Kumaran Padmanadan, 53, was seen in Norway. A confidential dossier of India’s premier investigating agency said Padamanadan, who India wants in connection with the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was in Oslo for nearly a year between 2003 and 2004.
The dossier said the monitoring agency, set up to investigate Gandhi's killing, visited Colombo recently and presented a letter to the Sri Lankan administration. According to a top CBI official, the panel provided bank details of Padamanadan to 19 countries. The agency had on Dec. 17, 2003, received inputs that Padamanadan was undergoing medical treatment in a hospital in Oslo, The Asian Age newspaper said Monday.
The CBI official said the agency immediately sent a request to the Norwegian government urging them to arrest and deport him to India. Norwegian authorities did not take any action, according to dossier.
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