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September 26, 2006

Bosnia: Swedish Muslim In Terror Video

News from The Local states that a trial has resumed in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, yesterday involving two individuals who were arrested on October 23 last year, suspected of plotting a terror attack.

A video was shown to the court, states The Local, in which two masked men are shown threatening to carry out terror attacks in Europe. In addition, a collection of weapons, including hand grenades and what seem to be explosives, are displayed in the footage. The individuals on the video state that the arsenal was to be used against European countries which had soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that they were all ready to commit the attack.

Monika Jagerman is from the Swedish Embassy in Bosnia, and she has said that the Swedish man has admitted that he had made the video on a camera he had borrowed from his Bosnian aunt. The video was recovered from the apartment that he shared with the other accused man, a Turkish national who has a Danish residency permit.

Sweden's media is very politically correct, and does not give the accused man's name, but we at WR follow no such niceties. The Swede's name is Mirsad Bektasevic, and his co-accused is Cesur Abdulkadir. The pair had arrived in Bosnia three weeks before their arrest last October, as we stated earlier.

When the pair were arrested, they were living in Ilidza, a suburb of Sarajevo. Their arrest had come after a surveillance operation which had also involved 10 people when it began. The arrest had uncovered not only the videotape, but also suicide vests, about 30 kilograms, or 65 pounds, of high explosive, as well as exploding bullets and a machine pistol.

Mirsad Bektasevic, the Swede, had relatives in Bosnia. He had grown up on the west coast of Sweden. His mother, Nafija Hamedovic, claimed that Mirsad had left school about a year and a half before his arrest, and had begun to attend a mosque in Gothenburg, not far from their home.

It was at this mosque, she claimed last November, that her son became influenced by three men - a Palestinian from Syria, a Kurd and a Somali. She said: "He was not religious before, but in the past two years he practiced more seriously."

"Some people frightened him and talked to him about hell, and told him he would be tortured in hell if he does not pray and does not believe."

The two men have been in custody in Sarajevo since their arrest last October. Though the Swedish counsel has said that Mirsad Bektasevic has admitted to being one of the men in the video, in court, both men have denied that it is them on the tape. Yesterday, a speech analyst said that it was "highly probable" that one of the individuals talking is Bektasevic, but said that he could not guarantee this 100%.

The pair had first appeared in court on May 3, where they were also joined by Barjo Ikanovic, a Bosnian. All three pleaded not guilty to the charges of plotting a terrorist attack in a European country.

Police and intelligence services have identified Mirsad Bektasevic as a recruiter of Muslim, who were to go to Iraq to join the insurgency, who went under the codename Maximus.

Following the Bosnia arrest of Bektasevic (now aged 20) and Cesur Abdulkadir (now aged 19) others were arrested in Denmark. On October 24, four young suspects were arrested in Copenhagen, followed by the arrest of two more on October 28 and another shortly after.

The youngest of the Danish suspects was 16 at the time of arrest. Six out of the seven Danish individuals attended the same mosque in Noebbro district, whose imam is the notorious Abu Laban. Laban, who would later provoke the cartoon crisis, said of the Danish suspects that the youths were introverted, because they had a "colossal hatred" toward society.

Mirsad Bektasevic, in his codename of Maximus was linked with three men who were arrested in Britain. Waseem Mughal from Kent, Younis Tsouli from West London, and Tariq al-Daour, were charged on November 4 last year with conspiracy and terror charges in the UK. The British terror suspects are assumed to have been hatching a plot to attack the White House in Washington DC, US.

The British suspects were arrested on October 21 to 22. Mughal faces 8 charges. He is accused of having a recipe for making rocket propellants and also possessing a DVD of jihadist "martyrdom operations." Tsouli faces 8 charges. He is accused of having a video presentation on his computer showing how to make a car bomb, and also is said to have had a picture presentation of various locations in Washington DC. All three are accused of credit card fraud, and al-Daour is accused of receiving money and assets knowing that they may be used in terrorism.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 26, 2006 7:10 AM

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