He thought himself in Paradise, as he reached after a long journey of Zagreb. In the Croatian capital city of the Bosnian Muslim Alen Halimovic visited the middle school, from which he graduated with success, he then began sports studies. Now Halimovic sitting in a Restaurant in the old town of Sarajevo, SIPS his tea and tells of the hell.
In Zagreb, had made the young man five years ago, the school leaving certificate from an Islamic high school. It is a state-recognized school. Halimovic worked part time for a telecommunications company, spent a lot of time with the family and was glad to live in a “beautiful European city” – to him, the Croatian secret service, the SOA took to the visor.
The Bosnians was barely 18 years old, as an official einbestellte him to confidential meetings in various Restaurants. The Student must regularly report on who’s in the Zagreb mosque and go and what was spoken there, called the SOA staff. In addition, Halimovic was supposed to go to Gornja Maoca, an Islamist enclave in the North of Bosnia, to gather information about the activities of religious zealots.
Alen Halimovic, the means, the truth is otherwise refused to cooperate. “I wanted to have nothing to do with the Croatian secret service with the silly bearded fanatics.” He did not change his mind, as the Croatian agents offered him a Monthly remuneration in the amount equivalent to 1100 Swiss francs. Now it was uncomfortable. He and his family would soon feel the consequences, if he refused to make spy services, was threatened with a civil servant.
Here were a pair of characters of the Islamic state: the entrance to the enclave of Gornja Maoca in Northern Bosnia. Photo: Reuters
Halimovic, the sports teacher, has been determined by the Croatian police authorities as a threat to national security and expelled from the country. His father, a construction worker, lost the Job.
A secret service scandal
Alen Halimovic is not an isolated case. In recent days, several Bosnian Muslims have been reported in the case of Avdo Avdic. You all complain about the dirty methods of the Croatian secret service. Avdic, a well-known investigative Journalist, has recently revealed one of the biggest intelligence scandals in the Balkans. According to previous findings, Croatian message nThe artists tried, in Croatia and in Slovenia, living in the Bosnian state of citizens for adventurous actions to recruit.
to back the Bosnian Muslims in a bad light, should some of them be forced to leave weapons and explosives in mosques in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A Welder who would also like to remain anonymous, explained in Bosnian media, the Croats would have him and his family promised many privileges, when he lead the mission successfully. Who has not cooperated, had to leave Croatia.
“imagine how big the Outcry in the West would have been if the Bosnian police had found Clues from Zagreb, in several mosques weapons,” says Journalist Avdic in the conversation. The aim of the campaign was to defame Bosnia as a hotbed of Islamic terrorism, it was said from the Bosnian Ministry of the interior. The outrage in Sarajevo about the secret operation in the neighboring country. Croatia, since 2013, a member of the EU, such forges intrigues, but on foreign policy in the Adriatic Republic.
An old dream of the Croatian nationalists is to create in Bosnia a private autonomy.
to warn, especially the Croatian President, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic no opportunity, before the risk due to Bosnian Islamists. In Bosnia there were 10’000 jihadists, the Croatia and Europe as the enemy to be reformed, she said as soon as 2017. Evidence not provided. In Meetings with EU politicians, the conservative head of state often brings the alleged oppression of the Croats in Bosnia.
“This campaign has the goal to establish a third, Croat-dominated Republic in Bosnia”, the journalist Faruk Vele, who has written a book about the Croatian war crimes against Bosnian Muslims in the 90s. According to the peace Treaty of Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina consists of two entities (entities) part: the Bosniac-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska, the Serbian-controlled country whose political leadership calls for a connection to Serbia. An old dream of the Croatian nationalists is to create in Bosnia a private Autonomous area, could be a disintegration of the fragile state of a part of Croatia. Croatia got on the map in the shape of a Croissants, fill with Bosnian territory to claim the hard-liners.
To the dismemberment of Bosnia promoted: Croatia’s President Franjo Tudjman (right) and Slobodan Milosevic (left) at the signing of the peace agreement in 1995. Photo: Keystone
What made Croatia to Bosnia last, was “a kind of Declaration of war,” says Faruk Vele. He recalled that the Croatian autocrat Franjo Tudjman Hand-in-Hand with the Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the dismemberment of Bosnia have driven.
At a dinner with diplomats outlined Tudjman on a napkin, the new borders of Bosnia, according to which Croatia would absorb half of the Balkan country, the other half would be under Belgrade’s control. The Hague UN Tribunal sentenced 2017 six Bosnian Croats to a total of 111 years in prison for war crimes against the Muslims. In the ruling, even Tudjman and his closest associates are accused of a “joint criminal enterprise”.
Officially, Croatia is committed to the territorial integrity of Bosnia. But the recent machinations of the Croatian agents to poison the political climate between the neighboring States. Leading politicians in Zagreb to reject the allegations out of Sarajevo as “nonsense” and “anti-Croatian hysteria”.
“Untrue and malicious”
But in the meantime, Croatia had to provide secret service chief contacts with at least one Person, which he described as a “suspect” is Meant the above-mentioned Welders, weapons smuggling, and mosques should be deposited. At the request of the Croatian intelligence service referred to the allegations as “untrue and malicious”. The fight against terrorism among the priorities of the SOA and will be managed professionally and responsibly, in order to protect Croatia and the whole of Europe.
The authorities in Sarajevo have in the meantime begun an investigation. A lot of you may not expect. The Bosnian judiciary is considered corrupt, judges and prosecutors to be held by politicians on the leash. Soon, the EU has seconded a lawyer to take the judiciary under scrutiny and proposals for Reform. For the journalist Avdo Avdic, it is strange that the Bosnian Prosecutor General meets at the peak of the secret service affair with the Russian Ambassador in Sarajevo. The woman is a Bosnian Croatian, and apparently with the two protagonists of the scandal related.
Avdic does not belong to those Muslims who want to talk about the Problem with Islamists is small. On his phone he shows the images of 76 of the Bosnian citizens, who were killed on the territory of the so-called Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. Including four children and five women. More than 200 devout Bosnian Muslims joined the Islamic state, to fight against the Regime of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.
On Instagram they all want to look perfect.
The traditionally tolerant, liberal and open-minded Bosnian Islam is challenged by radical currents. The head of the Bosnian Muslims, Grossmufti Husein Kavazovic, has arranged sites in the past years, the closure of several illegal prayer. After the Islamist motivated terrorist attacks in Paris, he moved in all the mosques of the Balkan country, the call to prayer around five minutes, in order to show solidarity with the innocent Victims.
For the Cairo-trained theologians Kavazovic Islam and democracy are not a contradiction. In 2017, he appealed to his compatriots in Switzerland to respect the local values. Don’t like the fanatics at all. Recently, it has been captured in Syria, a Bosnian Islamist Kurdish fighters. In a video message he had threatened the Grossmufti with death. You’ll heads Kavazovic “in the name of Allah” in the Bascarsija, such as the centre of Sarajevo.
In Syria is just the last one IS Bastion fell. About Alen Halimovic, who is studying for his deportation from Croatia of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo is happy. You should not allow the “anti-social muddle-headed” set the tone, and a entire Religion discredit, he says. His voice is almost drowned out by screaming young women posing for a Selfie. Some wear fashionable headscarves, others do not. On Instagram you want to look but all perfect.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 03.04.2019, 17:37 PM
