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translation: Palestinian ambasador in Sarajevo, Zuhair Al Shun announced that in next 20 days first group of 30 palestinians wounded in Conflict with Israel should arrive in Tuzla. "We are prowd and we grade high descission of University hospital in Tuzla and are satisfied with done agreement and we will inform goverment and people of Palestine of descission!" said Al Shun. As (Muslim) Daily "Oslobodjenje" said, within next year, in university hospital in tuzla, arround 300 wounded Palestinians will be admitted. It also says that first group of 30 will arrive soon. Director of hospital, Dr. Nedret Mujkanović stated that...

Sarajevo, 25 Sept. (AKI) - At least three foreigners with Bosnian citizenship are on the revised United Nations list of individuals who are aiding or who belong to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior Bosnian official said on Monday. Dragan Lukac, assistant director of the Bosnian state security agency, said in an interview with the daily Nezavisne Novine that three Tunisians, who are on the UN terrorist list, were granted Bosnian citizenship after the country's 1992-1995 civil war. "It's difficult to say where they are at the moment, but we can say with great certainty that they are not in...

The jihad in Serbia is one that is obscured in a particularly vexing way. Accordingly it must be emphasized that in alerting people to attacks on the Serbs, and to the destruction of ancient churches and monasteries, and on the infiltration into the area of Arabs bringing a brand of Islam quite different from the relaxed, syncretistic local version (not exactly full-bodied Islam in practice, because that local practice was affected by the centuries of proximity to non-Muslims, and to the effect of Communism), one is not endorsing any massacres by some Serbs. One can distance oneself --most Serbs do,...

BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A Bosnian Serb leader says he will call an independence referendum if U.N. envoys insist on abolishing the Serb-run entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Milorad Dodik, prime minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-run Republika Srpska, said he will never agree to reform police and security forces as demanded by the European Union as a condition for EU association talks, Serbia's RTS radio-television said Thursday. Dodik said Republika Srpska has the right to secede from Bosnia-Herzegovina, just as Montenegro seceded from the union with Serbia in May, or the predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province could become independent from Serbian government...

SARAJEVO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb Republic Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said on Tuesday his people did not see their future in Bosnia, which they have reluctantly shared with the Muslim-Croat federation since war ended in 1995. A lingering Bosnian Serb secessionist sentiment has been revived after Montenegro's independence vote in May and is expected to become much stronger if Serbia's Albanian-dominated, U.N.-run province of Kosovo becomes a sovereign state this year or next. "The dominant feeling among the people in the Serb Republic is that they don't see the Serb Republic in Bosnia in the long run," Dodik...