Posted by
Darko Trifunovic on Monday, September 01, 2008 8:25:30 PM
Al-Qaeda Smuggling Weapons Via Croatia
Al-Qaeda is smuggling weapons from Bosnia through Croatia’s capital Zagreb, Gunja and Split.
Translation
Members
and sympathisers of Al-Qaeda and radical Wahhabi Muslims from
Bosnia-Herzegovina have been smuggling large amounts of weapons and
explosives into Croatia in the past several months with the aim of
using them for terrorist attacks in Europe, Bosnian Banja Luka’s
Nezavisne novine daily reported on Wednesday.
Citing intelligence agencies in Bosnia, the paper writes that
members and sympathisers of Al-Qaeda and Wahhabi were “taking advantage
of the current political situation and engagement of Bosnian
authorities with reforms so they could transfer a large amount of
weaponry and explosive devices from Bosnia to the Croatian territory”.
The leaders of the said terrorist organisations are relying on
Croatia being admitted into the EU in the near future, creating
favourable conditions for weaponry and explosives to be distributed
across Europe from Croatia for the purpose of terrorist attacks because
the borders towards the EU will be open, the daily writes.
There is information that the weaponry is being transferred into
Zagreb, Karlovac, Gunja and Split, says the paper, quoting an
intelligence officer who requested to remain anonymous.