B-H Islamic Magazine Editor in Chief Receives Death Threat From Alleged Arab
Spy
Sarajevo Saff in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 15 Jan 05 pp 32,33
[Second installment of report by Saff editor in chief Kemal Bakovic: "Udba
Is Our Fate II: Intelligence Operatives Making Threats"]
We announced that, in this edition of Saff, we would identify the
collaborators of the intelligence services present in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as
well as the Bosniaks who in the previous period were the subject of
intensive spying. We will not give this up; however, taking into account
everything that has happened since we published the first part of the "Udba
[former Yugoslav secret police] Is Our Fate" article, we have decided to
inform the readers of these events.
In the previous edition we wrote that the local and foreign intelligence
services were spying and eavesdropping on the Islamic organizations present
in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Without any evidence or reason, the world's
intelligence organizations are trying to make out that all Arabs who work
for humanitarian organizations and who came to Bosnia-Herzegovina to help in
the most difficult period for our people appear criminals and potential
terrorists. The reports of the intelligence services allege that the
greatest Islamic authorities, such as Jusuf Kardavi and his followers in
Bosnia, are terrorists. They also allege that the biggest Islamic parties
in the world, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are terrorist organizations.
The intelligence organizations also have not refrained from the completely
illegal eavesdropping on the diplomatic offices and personnel of friendly
countries, and have invested major resources in eavesdropping on and
surveillance of these people.
Bakovic as Kurban
We should remind our readers that, in our previous edition, we published
the names of several Arabs who take money for spying on the diplomatic
offices of Islamic countries and the staff of the most prominent world
Islamic organizations. One of the persons whose name we published is Rasid
Seta. Following the publication of the article, we received a number of
threats from Seta. Considering that we reported this to the police and
that the police have done absolutely nothing to stop these threats, we have
decided to publish some of the messages that Seta texted to the cellular
telephone of Saff's editorial office. Seta wrote, among other things: "For
Kemal from Rasid Seta: Everything that you wrote in your paper is a lie.
But, for this you will pay with your life. For me, you are a kafir
[infidel] who should be beheaded." After sending this message, Seta
probably conducted an enquiry and, upon learning that Kemal Bakovic was
attending an Arab language course, sent the following message: "I know where
you are. I know that you are attending an Arab language course. I never
forget my enemies. You will get a nice present when you finish the
course." When one of the colleagues explained to him that Kemal was not
attending the course and that he had learned Arabic in Jordan, Seta wrote:
"Ja kelb [you fake], what brought you to Jordan?" He subsequently
threatened to destroy the Saff Web page and Kemal Bakovic's private mail.
To show that he cared about the opinion of the ulama [Muslim scholars], he
sent a message that he had consulted certain scholars, who had told him that
all Saff employees were kafirs and that he was allowed to take their entire
property and families. The imaginative Seta then remembered that the
Kurban-Bayram [Eid al-Adha -- Festival of Sacrifice] was drawing near and
told Bakovic that he would, instead of paying 250 convertible marks, use
Bakovic as kurban [sacrificial lamb] and thereby save a lot of money.
After he received no reply to any of his messages, Seta threatened to rape
Bakovic's wife and kill his child. The police obviously did not take any
of these threats seriously and had no time to curb this maniac. No human
rights protection organization issued a statement on this, either.
Alcoholics' Revolution
As an old collaborator of foreign intelligence services (we will report
in detail on his activities and ties with intelligence services in one of
the future editions of Saff), the editor in chief of the Slobodna Bosna
magazine [Senad Avdic], a failed journalist and human being, also sided with
US spies. He devoted four pages of his magazine to the retelling of our
article and to wondering as to who could have supplied the Saff "Taliban"
with the confidential documentation. Writing in the manner that he would
have liked us to write, and not in the manner in which we actually wrote the
said article, this person, who has been given the opportunity to put on
paper the thoughts of an average alcoholic, blames Hasan Cengic [SDA --
Party for Democratic Action -- official] for everything. Who else would he
blame? Unfortunately, as long as this state continues to allow such people
to make public appearances, we will be forced to read and listen to their
nonsense and lies fabricated one million times over.
Imitating Slobodna Bosna, the B-H Federation Television's [FTV] "60
Minutes" show also mentioned the article published in the previous edition
of Saff. Following the example of their senior colleagues from Slobodna
Bosna, who taught them that the most important thing for the ratings is to
lie as much as you can, they lied their heads off. Ignoring the fact that
Saff published Rasid Seta's photograph and said that he was an Arab from
Lebanon, 60 Minutes aired an "exclusive" statement of Rasid Seta, a Bosniak
who had nothing to do with our article. This Seta stated that he was not a
spy and that he never went to a mosque.
Our article was carried by the daily printed in London, Asharq Al-Awsat,
as well as by the popular Saudi Web portal, "Islam Today."
Arab Nationalism or Something Else
What surprised us most of all was the reaction of certain Arabs.
Unfortunately, over the past few days, they have shown the extent of their
nationalism. They have openly sided with the people for whom we have
provided evidence that they are spies. This case is the best indicator of
the actual role and work of certain Arab Islamic organizations; for them, it
is more important to defend a brother Arab, regardless of what he did, than
to defend the truth, which is an Islamic imperative they swear by. They
have maliciously insinuated that, by publishing the names of Arab spies, we
actually wanted to say that all Arabs in Bosnia were spies. With this
excuse they prohibited the sale of Saff in their organizations. They told
some of the people who sell Saff and at the same time work for their
organizations to choose between working for their organizations and working
for Saff. The most tragicomic example of this is a humanitarian
organization (that was not even mentioned in the article) whose secretary
telephoned a Bosniak who should have received a scholarship from this
organization for a master's thesis and told him that he would not be granted
the scholarship promised to him over the Saff article. We extend our
regrets to the person who has been denied a scholarship over Saff, but had
nothing to do with our magazine. However, we regret even more the
narrow-mindedness of certain people, who are making a distinction between
Arab Muslims and other Muslims.
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