Ex-Bosnian officials arrested for terrorisim and espionage walk free

serbianunity.net ^ | October 1st, 2002 | AFP

[Destro]

Ex-Bosnian officials arrested for terrorisim and espionage walk free, AFP, October1st, 2002.

SARAJEVO, Sept 30 (AFP) - Five former Bosnian Muslim officials arrested on suspicion of terrorism and espionage were released Monday but they remain under investigation, a lawyer said.

The five, arrested in May, include Bakir Alispahic, a former interior minister and former head of the Muslim-led intelligence service (AID), two other former AID officials and two senior police officers.

Alispahic's lawyer, Namik Silajdzic, told AFP all five had been released Monday by the supreme court of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat part.

Silajdzic added that they remained under investigation and that there was no legal deadline for the proceedings to end.

Court officials, who could not produce an indictment after five months of investigation, were not available for comment.

Investigators came under public pressure as Muslim civic associations requested the five to be released, claiming the accusations against them were unfounded.

The Muslim nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA) also called for their release and accused the ruling moderate alliance led by the Social democrats of reprisals against former officials.

The court ruling comes as the elections campaign in Bosnia intensifies, less than a week before the vote.

The five former Muslim officials, close to SDA, were suspected of setting up a camp that may have trained and armed terrorists.

The Pogorelica camp, near Fojnica, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Sarajevo, offered military training by Iranian secret service instructors for Bosnian Muslim students.

The NATO-led force deployed in Bosnia since the end of the 1992-95 war, raided the camp in 1996, on suspicion that it was being used as a terrorist training base.

Eight Muslim intelligence officers and three Iranian instructors were arrested during the raid and stocks of arms and booby-trapped children's toys were seized.

[chemainus]

Thank you for this post. We agree on many issues and disagree on a few. However your post is articulate and excellent. Thank you. ( Please seek "pre-Clinton/Albright/NATO/ media spin" first hand accounts of the situation as it unfolded in September and October before the bombing. Before it rushed to line up behind Clinton, the WP and many other outlets as well as the United States intelligence apparatus was excoriating the 'invasion' of the soft underbelly of Europe from Albania by various mixed cohorts of Arab/Muslim trained militants and terrorists. The numbers were somewhere around 18,000 if my memory serves and the tactics were bestial. This is all available as primary research, authoritative, rather than secondary. Thank you again for a great post.

[kosta50]

I've always spelled it with a "j", since that's what I've seen mostly. I've also seen it with an "i", but much less frequently

That may be so, but his surname was Mihailovich, and official documents spell it with an "i."

[wonders]

Serbs were offered full autonomy in Croatia in 1991, and in 1995. They refused the entire time.

Offers made conditional and unworkable.

Both of you need to study up. Didn't happen at all the way you guys make it sound in 1991. Didn't happen PERIOD in 1995.

[wonders]

You're kidding, right? Ever heard of Z-4?

Now YOU'RE kidding, right? ;)

True, RSK wouldn't go with it in 1991, but the Croats refused to even look at it. Therefore, Serbs were offered no autonomy by Croatia in real terms. There was no real offer on the table from the Croats that they refused. (That's not to say those criminals, Martic and Babic would have accepted it had there been one -- I doubt they would have, the selfish pigs.)

Abosolutely no offer at all was made in 1995. If you're talking aobut that hasty "peace" meeting on 3 August, the Serbs said yes to Z-4, while the Croats, of course, with all those troops massed and a public "green light" from Clinton, said "no way."

[DestroyEraseImprove]

That's not to say those criminals, Martic and Babic would have accepted it had there been one -- I doubt they would have, the selfish pigs.

The selfish!? pigs thought Serbia was behind them, but they couldn't know there is even a bigger pig then both of them together in Belgrade(SM)!

[kosta50]

Z-4 or not, autonomy was not an option, is not an option, will not be an option.

Serbs had an equal and parallel right to to stay in Yugoslavia by communist-enacted constitution. Either communist-created Croatian laws and borders were valid or were not. Legally, they were valid. Croatia had no right to force Serbs to leave Yugoslavia. Tyranny of a majority was not a legal decision-making process; it is something Croats have accused the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of practicing only to exercise the same thing when it suited them.

If Croatia accepted communist-created borders, then the communist-enacted constitution was equally (in)valid. Period.

You see, Tropoljac, we can't accept one communist creation when it suits us, and demonize it when it doesn't. And don't tell me Croatia changed the Constitution. Croatia seceded unilaterally, unconstitutionally, illegally, and its new Constitution which erased Serbs from it was equally illegitimate.

[DestroyEraseImprove]

No. I got it long time before many people around me were getting it at that time. The problem was in Belgrade - no concept, no vision to create a Serbian Federation out of the ashes of the SFRY. Instead a Federation with Montenegro - look where it brought us today, an eternal shithole! As to Kosta's post, there's nothing to add - autonomy was not an option, is not an option, will not be an option.

[wonders]

(sigh) I think Lord Owen is a better source.

[wonders]

Nah, they knew exactly what the deal was in 1995. The traitors sold out. (Yes, they thought Slobo was behind them in the beginning, but they knew the real deal by 1995 and they sold out big-time. You wouldn't believe how big-time!)