<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TerrorFinanceBlog/~3/174907523/testimony-of- fo.html> Testimony of Former Al Qaeda Lieutenant in Bosnia
Today, October 25, 2007, 11 hours ago | Ilan Weinglass <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TerrorFinanceBlog/~3/174907523/testimony-of- fo.html> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TerrorFinanceBlog/~3/174907523/testimony-of-f o.html On behalf of Darko Trifunovic, I am posting a document containing key segments from Ali Hamad, a former top lieutenant of Al Qaeda in Bosnia, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The following excerpt deals with charity fronts which were involved in funding Al Qaeda: C) Humanitarian organization "Third World Relief Agency" The men who had waited and helped me when I had arrived in Zagreb (Croatia) were employed in this organization, and they were Sudanians. When I had got to Zagreb, Abu Eyman had immediately recognized me and told me that he had been called from Bahrain and informed about my arrival, so he had had the duty to help me. At the beginning of the war the bulk of humanitarian organizations that have engaged in giving the aid to the BH civilian population, on the grounds of security, had located their head offices in Croatia, and this organization was among them. Abu Edmen was its representative who used to visit Bijelo Buèje by a large truck, that was filled up with food and many other supplies, that were given us as the aid for my military unit from that humanitarian organization. In so far as he has noted that certain food articles were out of use period, he used to tell me: "Don't consume it, the use period has passed, but transfer it to Bosnians." D) Humanitarian organization "Al Haramain" Abu Mohammad, who was injured and temporarily returned to Saudi Arabia for the hospital treatment, after his recovery went back to BH, but this time not in the status of Allah's warrior, but as the humanitarian director of the Travnik office of this organization. The entire document is uploaded. Download <http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/files/Inserts_from_Ali _Hamad_testemony.doc> Inserts_from_Ali_Hamad_testemony.doc _____ Dr Darko Trifunovic University of Belgrade - Faculty of Security Studies Some key segments from testimony to the ICTY of Al Hamad former top lieutenant of Al Qaeda in Bosnia .."Al-Qaida" has from its foundation become far stronger and more active than all other Islamic terrorist organizations, because of its enormous financial capacities. "Al-Qaida" has quickly received a great number of fighters and other members. Many members of other terrorist groups have joined "Al-Qaida". Bin Laden has with his intentions gained the support and help of almost complete Moslem world, the officials of Islam countries - many of them have clandestinely supported Bin Laden and his organization. The Egyptian terrorist organization, named "Gama-at el-Djihad al-Islamiya", supported and welcomed the establishment of "Al-Qaida". It helped to the highest extent and cooperated with "Al-Qaida". Today one of the heads of that organization Abu-Ayman al-Zavahiri became the main associates of Bin Laden and the master-mind of "Al-Qaida". Various terrorist organizations renewed their mutual relationships and started to collaborate. "Al-Qaida" showed capabilities and without it many foreign moudjahedins could not have come to Afghanistan to join the struggle. "Al-Qaida" has soon succeeded to establish the contacts and cooperation with numerous Islamitic officials. .."Al-Qaida's" men had not many difficulties and much work to invest in brain-washing by that sort of people, so they have not troubled much about them, because they had seen that those BH citizens were of the same opinion. The described sort of people, i. e. native moudjahedins, are far more dangerous than the other sort of BHF citizens, who were neither so much involved in religious rituals, nor the faith was so expressedly present in their individual lives before the war. Before the joining they had observed the arrival of foreign moudjahedins during the war who were well-of and well provided with finances, while in that period many those citizens suffered from the hard material crisis and the lack of food, and among them the above-mentioned second sort of Bosnians. For that reason they joined the moudjahedins, hoping that the moudjahedins satisfy their urgent need for food and money. ..It means that their association was the consequence of personal interests, while the foreign moudjahedins misused maliciously their unpleasant situation, giving them all they needed, but simultaneously they have dictated their reasoning and instilled their ill terrorist ideas into the heads of those citizens. ..At the beginning of 1994 two moudjahedins came to Bosnia and Herzegovina with a new task. I have come to know that those two moudjahedins had been sent to BH from Saudi Arabia with enormous financial resources in order to form a new moudjahedin unit, which would be separated from "El Moudjahedin" detachment, would be placed in the village of ®eljezno Polje, near ®epèe (in the Middle Bosnia). I was informed that in the wake of the establishment of that unit El-Zubeir had had several secret meetings with the leaders of "El Moudjahedin" detachment. At those meetings, Abu el-Zubeir have informed the leaders of the detachment about the task for which he had been sent and he cited that the task had been ordered to him in Saudi Arabia, where it had been approved (such decisions could not possibly be made without the prior assent and agreement of Ossama bin Laden). The commanders had finally to reconcile with it, because they were persuaded, after special check-ups, that the decision had been made by "Al-Qaida". In that period "El Moudjahid" detachment expanded much and established in the BH Army. The moudjahedins who had arrived in BH from the Near and Middle East (Asia) have complained that most of the commanders of "El Moudjahid" detachment is of African origin (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan). The bulk of the fighters of that brigade being from the Middle East, they have rebelled because the moudjahedin brigade had been led according to the African system/manner, while its founder Bin Laden and almost all its sponsors originated in Asia. The new unit was formed under the leadership of Abu el-Zubeir el-Haliliy. After him there arrived Abu Hajar personally - he was sent to BH to accomplish one task (opening of the islamic Balkan center in Zenica) for which he brought enormous money. Abu Hajar resided in Zubeir's unit during his short visit and got married with a citizen of the BH Federation, whom he has left when he has returned to wherefrom he arrived. In so far as Bosnians have demanded so, he has sent them to "El Moudjahedin" detachment, that received all the interested men with a great pleasure. After the formation of the Asian moudjahedin unit, Abu el-Zubeir strenghtened its impact in BH, distributing his soldiers on several locations. Zubeir's unit has got about 130 foreign, mostly Asian moudjahedins for a short time after its foundation. Both the moudjahedin units, "El Moudjahedin" detachment and Zubeir's unit, were very pleased with their belonging to the Third corps. Zubeir's unit had got its own administration for all the civil and military issues, and has been placed in an evacuated Serbs' house in Zenica. That Zubeir has had a direct or indirect connection with "Al-Qaida" is documented by the fact that once he said to me: "I look for you for three days. I need to talk with you a bit. I carry an important message for you." I have conjectured, when he mentioned the important message, that the message was exactly the new decision about my case by "Al-Qaida", for in that period I have not expected any news from anywhere else but from the leaders of "Al-Qaida". I have anticipated their response by means of "El Moudjahedin" detachment. I have reasoned: "It can't be that he is 'Al-Qaida's' messenger and he knows that I'm a member of the damned 'Al-Qaida'?! It seems that I will be imprisoned soon." He replied: "Abu el-Zubeir has recently arrived in Bosnia. You're maybe acquainted with him from earlier. He has started to organize a military unit in ®eljezno Polje, which will be similar to El-Qetiba (i. e. 'El Moudjahedin'). I inform you that neither you have anything to do with them anymore nor do they with you. In short, I have looked for you in order to transmit you the following: you must stay in Bosnia. From now on, you will be by Abu el-Zubeir in his unit. I have only transmitted the message to you. You know very well whom the message comes from. It wouldn't be clever to refuse it too. For that matter, Abu el-Zubeir acknowledges and respects you much. You will be in no worse position than he." Through conversation with him, I have witnessed that the heads of "Al-Qaida", attempting to satisfy my wish for the separation from Abu el-Harris and also from "El Moudjahedin" detachment, had made the decision that I should join Zubeir's unit. Therefore, without any explanation, I was not licensed to go to a battlefield in any other country, which I had expected from the heads of "Al-Qaida". The number of foreign moudjahedins at that location began to increase. So, I had to admit joining in the above-mentioned moudjahedin unit. The refusal of the order without an acceptable justification would have threatened my life. The foreign moudjahedins have understood that there is no more justification neither for the illegal residence in BH, nor for the false statement: "We have come here to help the Bosnian Moslem movement, that had been attacked by brutal agression, with the approval of the Christian world, in order that this country would be cleansed from Moslems." Izetbegoviæ's visit and the content of their conversation caused worry by the moudjahedins and they were afraid that the attention of men who had led the state in that period would be concentrated on them and their illegal presence here after the recovery from the war. The decision was made that all the foreign moudjahedins who had not been married in Bosnia should get married immediately with BH citizens, and then to submit the request to authorized institutions for acknowledgment of the BH citizenship, because in that period it was enabled to almost all the foreign moudjahedins that had waged the war within the BH Army to get a passport. So, the most clever and wise post-Deytonian movement made by the heads of "El Moudjahedin" detachment (by which they masked their face and deceived the BH authorities, perhaps even the whole world) was their decision to invest their enormous financial resources into a legal trade company, named "Bedr Bosnia", and they were meant for the sponsorship of the war needs of moudjahedins during the war. ISLAMIC BALKAN CENTER IN ZENICA WERE BUILD UP WITH AL QAEDA MONEY ...The new unit was formed under the leadership of Abu el-Zubeir el-Haliliy. After him there arrived Abu Hajar personally - he was sent to BH to accomplish one task (opening of the islamic Balkan center in Zenica) for which he brought enormous money. Abu Hajar resided in Zubeir's unit during his short visit and got married with a citizen of the BH Federation, whom he has left when he has returned to wherefrom he arrived. In so far as Bosnians have demanded so, he has sent them to "El Moudjahedin" detachment, that received all the interested men with a great pleasure. After the formation of the Asian moudjahedin unit, Abu el-Zubeir strenghtened its impact in BH, distributing his soldiers on several locations. Zubeir's unit has got about 130 foreign, mostly Asian moudjahedins for a short time after its foundation. Both the moudjahedin units, "El Moudjahedin" detachment and Zubeir's unit, were very pleased with their belonging to the Third corps. Zubeir's unit had got its own administration for all the civil and military issues, and has been placed in an evacuated Serbs' house in Zenica. That Zubeir has had a direct or indirect connection with "Al-Qaida" is documented by the fact that once he said to me: "I look for you for three days. I need to talk with you a bit. I carry an important message for you." I have conjectured, when he mentioned the important message, that the message was exactly the new decision about my case by "Al-Qaida", for in that period I have not expected any news from anywhere else but from the leaders of "Al-Qaida". I have anticipated their response by means of "El Moudjahedin" detachment. I have reasoned: "It can't be that he is 'Al-Qaida's' messenger and he knows that I'm a member of the damned 'Al-Qaida'?! It seems that I will be imprisoned soon." Financial support to Al Qaeda members in Bosnia I have regularly received financial resources from that organization as expenses for the needed units, and the obtained amounts have oscillated between 10,000 and 50,000 German marks (7-30,000 USA $), and that was the money intended as the aid for the civil population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Whenever I have received money from the heads of the cited organization, those heads have provided unfilled bills from somewhere, then they have filled them as if the money delivered to me were spent for the benefit of Bosnian civilians, in order that they prove the correctness of their work by those faked bills. In the area of Travnik, they have regularly visited my unit in Bijelo Buèje, too, and they took part in several military operations under my command, in that they surprised me showing their fighting abilities and experience. They addressed to me manifesting their longing for struggle. One moudjahedin had operated with the foreign moudjahedins in BH and then, in a strange way, became the director of the Travnik office of Kuwaitian humanitarian organization in the period 1992-93. After the end of the war 1995 he became the director of the Zenica office of the same organization. Long time after that, Saudian Abid es-Shergiy has become the director of the Zenica office of the same organization. Abid was in Afghanistan once upon a time, where he fought together with Bin Laden's guys, and there we were in the same military unit. In 1995, that is after the signing of the Deyton agreement, Abid had got at his disposal amounts that have reached 2 million USA dollars and one hundred German marks. The cited Abid, with the approval of Abu el-Zubeir, sponsored the departure of Zubeir's soldiers from BH from that money which stood in his hands. Say, if 130 fighters had got three thousand dollars each, that is approximately 390,000 USA $, and it means that there remains in Abid's safes 1,610,000 dollars more and the whole amount of German marks. All the three cited men got married with BH citizens. So called charities and their engagement in supporting and financing Al Qaeda members in Bosnia C) Humanitarian organization "Third World Relief Agency" The men who had waited and helped me when I had arrived in Zagreb (Croatia) were employed in this organization, and they were Sudanians. When I had got to Zagreb, Abu Eyman had immediately recognized me and told me that he had been called from Bahrain and informed about my arrival, so he had had the duty to help me. At the beginning of the war the bulk of humanitarian organizations that have engaged in giving the aid to the BH civilian population, on the grounds of security, had located their head offices in Croatia, and this organization was among them. Abu Edmen was its representative who used to visit Bijelo Buèje by a large truck, that was filled up with food and many other supplies, that were given us as the aid for my military unit from that humanitarian organization. In so far as he has noted that certain food articles were out of use period, he used to tell me: "Don't consume it, the use period has passed, but transfer it to Bosnians." D) Humanitarian organization "Al Haramain" Abu Mohammad, who was injured and temporarily returned to Saudi Arabia for the hospital treatment, after his recovery went back to BH, but this time not in the status of Allah's warrior, but as the humanitarian director of the Travnik office of this organization. E) Humanitarian organization "The High Saudi Committee" It was deeply involved with moudjahedins. In 1994 Saudian Hussamudin became the representative of the director of the Zenica office of "HSC", and the director of this organization was Salih el-Gamidid. For that matter, Hussamudin was one of the first foreign moudjahedins who came to BH from the very beginning of the war in 1992, where he performed significant activities (fighting) along with the foreign moudjahedins who were placed in Te¹anj (the Middle Bosnia). When he had recovered from wounding, he came back to BH to occupy a certain new function, which served as a mask, i. e. he became the director's representative of the Zenica office of "HSC". The members of the moudjahedin brigade ("El Moudjahedin" detachment), as well as the members of Zubeir's unit, were not satisfied with the above-mentioned director of the Zenica office of "HSC", Salih el-Gamidid, for he had forbidden them to enter the rented house for the humanitarian organization. The moudjahedins lodged a complaint against Salih el-Gamidid, urging from the chief director in Zagreb that he gets rid of Salih from the Zenica office, and to nominate instead Hussamudin. Under very strange circumstances, the chief director Nasser es-Said accepted that complaint and fulfilled the demands of the moudjahedins, that is he removed Salih el-Gamidid at some new job and appointed Hussamudin as the director of the Zenica office of the same organization. Hussamudin has without any obstacles and control given a great help in food and money to the members of "El Moudjahedin" detachment and of Zubeir's unit, and many moudjahedins transiting BH have passed military and police checkpoints without control, as if they had been the members of international institution UNHCR. I want to notice that I was personally given such service by the same organization, that is by the end of 1994 or at the beginning of 1995 the same organization employed one of its vehicles with the marks of UNHCR to transport me and another wounded moudjahedin from BH to Zagreb. But, then they delivered me travel expenses, too, for I had not got enough financial resources. In 1993 the director of Sarajevo office of "HSC" was Saudian Abu el-Djihad el-Dossariyda; he was among the first moudjahedins that had arrived in BH from the very beginning of the war and in that period he was soldier in the same brigade; thereafter he left BH, and later he returned as a humanitarian activist, as well as in the status of the director of the Sarajevo office of "HSC". After the war had finished, the same organization employed several moudjahedins which operated (fought) in BH within the BH Army during the war. When Abu Abdel-Azziz left BH, the above-mentioned Ramadan has continued to operate with moudjahedins, but it did not prevented the leaders of this organization from employing him in the Zenica office. I, too, have performed my job in the status of humanitarian worker for several months. Then I put in charge a vehicle with diplomatic car registrations, and I have often used vehicles with the car registrations of UNHCR, which enabled me to move throughout the country without any control in that period. I still possess the documents, certified by the stamp of "HSC", and with the signature of the director of the Mostar office, in which is verified that I was an employee in that organization. In one occasion, Moudjahedin Abu Handala was arrested in Vitez (the Middle Bosnia, under Croatian control) as a war captive by Croats. He has complained that Croats abuse him physically and psychologically every day, claimed that Croats planned to kill him, making the appeal to the director Nasser to save him. When Abu Handala was freed, in front of the jail they awaited him in one of the HSC's cars that has carried the car registrations with the marks of UNHCR. There were an unknown figure from the BH administration of that time and two or three leaders of HSC, among them Salih el-Gamidiy, too. When Abu Handala had exited the jail, they received him and got him back to Sarajevo, where he was liberated on the same day. The above-mentioned Abid abandoned his position in the Kuwaitian organization and engaged in HSC in Sarajevo. Therefore, I don't doubt that the reason for his abandonment of the Kuwaitian organization was dissatisfaction with the salaries to the amount of 1,000 to 1,500 DEM (700 to 1,000 USA $), while here he has received 7,000 DEM (5,000 USA $) monthly. The same Abid was sent to Kosovo (Serbian province) during the war crisis in 1999, where he performed his job as the chief director of HSC, that opened its office there for the sake of help to Kosovo Moslem people. F) Humanitarian organization "Tayba: ®" Three humanitarian workers from that organization have often visited us. But, lately I came to know that one of them was the director of the same organization. Those three have frequently stood overnight in the house which resided the soldiers from Zubeir's unit and they have kept tight relationships with the commander of that unit and his representative. G) Bahrainian humanitarian organization "Sind el-Infaq el-Harriy" That organization has not performed any significant humanitarian action in this area, except for a bit of humanitarian aid that was distributed to the Bosnian population via the Egyptian humanitarian organization located in Zenica. That organization has helped the preparation and printing the islamist literature that was shared among Bosnian people in this area. Among Zubeir's fighters there was a story that Nasser Lorriy had come to BH within the scope of his organization. He was a guest in Zubeir's unit. He expressed the wish to visit the moudjahedins placed in the village of Borovnica (the Middle Bosnia), expecting the movement towards Serbian village Vozuæa, that was occupied by moudjahedins in 1994. During his short visit he met Abu el-Zubeir and Abid several times, and he was always followed by Bahrainian Abu Ali (the same person who had earlier transmitted to me the "Al-Qaida's" decision about my case when I had separated from the moudjahedin administration), which was the member of Zubeir's unit. H) Bahrainian humanitarian organization "Gemiyet el-Islam" Some humanitarians came to BH with the aim to give the civilian population humane aid, but they also were moudjahedins in the guise of humanitarian workers. I am really astonished when I see those our humanitarians how they can be furious and dangerous during the battle. Nasser has got the contact with Egyptian humanitarian organization in Zenica during his sojourn in BH. When he came to BH, he brought along a great amount of money, from which he has given a good deal to the main commander of Zubeir's unit as the aid for that unit from the organization for which he works. He met the commanders of Zubeir's unit and the above-mentioned three humanitarians from organization "Tayba: ®" in the moudjahedins' house. After his arrival in BH he has immediately taken the military uniform and took part in the attack on Vozuæa with a great pleasure and joy, along with the members of Zubeir's unit. Saudi Arabia gave support to moudjahedins in BH during the war In 1993 the foreign moudjahedins, under very strange circumstances, became a regular and acknowledged light brigade in the composition of the BH Army. Then, after hard efforts, they could accomplish one really great wish, that is establishing the links with Saudian Islam and the official who was placed in Saudi Arabia, by name Mohammad Salih el-Useymin. He has been very important person, listened to and respected not only by Islamitic people, but also by all the state authorities of Islamitic countries. His opinions and words were obeyed to among Moslems worldwide in so high extent that, if he opposed to "Al-Qaida" and its adherents, and if he announced publicly that it and its partners are misled and that Islam does not support their activities, almost all the Moslems would counter to "Al-Qaida". It means that the above-mentioned Islamitic official was able, by his words only, to took a significant part in disabling and demarking the actions of "Al-Qaida". The same Islamitic official accepted the appeal of the moudjahedins from BH during the war to establish the contact by means of a special telephone line and that contact endured until the end of the war, that is even after the resigning of moudjahedins from the BH Army after the conclusion of the Dayton agreement. The same official gave advices to the moudjahedins and the best suggestions for resolving their potential problems and for setting the optimal rules within the brigades. He also gave the complete support to the BH moudjahedins for all other activities. They have said: "It suffices to us that our Sheikh Mohammad Salih el-Useymin has confirmed that the Bosnian war is the holy war (djihad). He has praised and supported moudjahedins, which he would have never done if they had been bad people and if they fight hadn't been in the name of Allah." The leaders of "El Moudjahedin" detachment have made use of that support in the best possible way, keeping the video- and audio-cassettes in order to prove that they had a contact with this official and that they enjoyed his full support and confidence, knowing that those cassettes would bring them more money and more fighters. Several cassettes were taken away out of the BH territory. Saudian authorities must have known of those contacts. The link between Bosnian Muslims authorities and foreign citizen's moudjahedins Foreign moudjahedins have arrived, according to the "Al-Qaida" scheduled program, in this area during the war 1992-95, then they were exploited to murder and slaughter innocent people only for the reason that they do not belong to the Islamitic confession. They also worked for "Al-Qaida", and they came here seeking the shelter and in order to make this country a transit station for their incidents and terrorism. The attack on the USA on September 11th, 2001, that carried away the lives of about 3,000 innocent persons, must not be forgotten by the authorities of BH. It should remind them to eliminate all the persons who had arrived in this area during the war, and they were actually like-minded with those who hit the USA on September 11th. The BH authorities of that time gave foreign moudjahedins the aid, support and shelters in this country, and they enabled them without interference to propagate their ill and terrorist thoughts among younger population of BH, by means of printing and distribution of the literature called Islamitic books, which helped expanding the phenomenon of native moudjahedins. The BH authorities had made possible to the foreign moudjahedins to enter the core of the BH armed forces and they had got a significant influence in the former BH Army. Also, thereby they have facilitated the entrance of host of the foreign citizens criminals into the country, whether individually or in groups, who, misusing the state of war, have engaged in illegal business. A large number of law fugitives have entered the country, too, for they had known that the BH authorities in that time had received everyone with welcome and without any check only if one had declared as moudjahedin and Allah's warrior. If once those fugitives, criminals and terrorists have found a suitable terrain and shelter in this country, the relevant institutions should now undertake the appropriate security measures and clean these areas from their remnants. A) From the very beginning of their arrival during the war the foreign moudjahedins have been welcomed, in spite of the fact that their residence in this country was illegal. B) The figures who had led Bosnia and Herzegovina have made possible the organized massive arrival of foreign moudjahedins in the country. That happened in September, October, November and December 1992, and that on the basis of the request of the foreign moudjahedins who had earlier come to BH and organized themselves as a military unit. The BH authorities in that time have made possible and facilitated the massive arrival of moudjahedins, awaiting each foreign moudjahedin in Travnik, and have sent them, depending on individual wishes, in the place where the first moudjahedin camp was located (Mehuriæi) or where the moudjahedin combative unit resided. C) In 1993 the moudjahedins succeeded to found their regular and acknowledged brigade ("El Moudjahedin" detachment), that was included in the composition of the Seventh corps of the BH Army. The official insertion of moudjahedins in the BH Army has not made any obstacles to the administration in that time, that is it permitted the inclusion, giving general Alagiæ assent to receive moudjahedins in his corps. Why the commander of the Third corps Sakib Mahmuljin followed him in receiving the same moudjahedin brigade in his corps, after the emergence of controversies and disagreements between moudjahedins and general Alagiæ? D) Since the very arrival of the foreign moudjahedins in BH at the beginning of the war, general Mehmed Alagiæ have cherished very tight relations with the BH moudjahedins, and he have arranged several meetings with their leaders in Mehuriæi. E) It is the fact that there was a certain connection between the former head of the Travnik police and Ramadan el-Suriy in 1993. Ramadan obtained a car without any documents from somewhere, which means that the car had been stolen. By the same car, Ramadan drove to Travnik, where he met, as Ramadan says, with his friend, i. e. the police head in Travnik, who worked out for him, whether as present or for a compensation, all the necessary papers for that vehicle. F) The attack on Vozuæa in 1994 was one of the serious mistakes of the BH authorities, when they allowed the foreign moudjahedins to kill and massacre Serbian citizens without any constraint, and the leading role in that attack was played by general Sakib Mahmuljin. Earlier in 1994 the members of the BH Army had twice tried to conquer Vozuæa, but they had failed, although the members of Zubeir's unit had taken part in the first attack. Mahmuljin has prepared the foreign moudjahedins for the attack at both sides of Vozuæa. He was aware that no one among the members of his corps could not break and clean Vozuæa, so he sent the African moudjahedins at Vozuæa to find their death there, giving them the opportunity to murder all the Serbs in that zone. His plan was that the most blood-thirsty men he had ever seen (the foreign moudjahedins) should be at the straightforward frontline. The commanders of "El Moudjahedin" detachment accepted to participate in the attack on Vozuæa under one condition, and it was that the prime command of that attack should be under their control, without the interference of general Sakib Mahmuljin or his officers, i. e. that the moudjahedins should decide how long the reconnaissance of the terrain before the attack would last, that all the soldiers should be under their control and domination and that they should seize all the war trophies, especially armament. It has been recounted among the moudjahedins that Mahmuljin had agreed with all those conditions, which meant that from the beginning till the very end of the attack on Vozuæa the command of the foreign moudjahedins, and not Mahmuljin's, would be obeyed to. The moudjahedins who took part in that attack has told that many Serbian soldiers had been killed and massacred. Before the movement towards Ozren the commanders of "El Moudjahedin" detachment had installed the checkpoint near Vozuæa with their guys, with the intention to take away all the war trophies from Vozuæa and Ozren, and especially they wanted to retain the armament. I saw two trucks covered with tarpaulin, about which I have later come to know that they had driven away from Ozren. Those two trucks stopped at the checkpoint for control. I noticed that blood dropped down one of the trucks. In the other truck, from which blood also dropped, I observed corpses in military uniforms, but there were also corpses which were almost naked. Those corpses were thrown onto one another. I suppose that there were about 20 bodies. I perceived that almost all the bodies were decapitated, but there were several torn heads thrown among those corpses. There were located many moudjahedins from "El Moudjahedin" detachment, but even more Bosniac soldiers. I and Abu Zubeir have visited Sakib Mahmuljin Sakib Mahmuljin in Zavidoviæi (the Middle Bosnia) for several times. Ahmed Zuhairi was present during one of those visits, and three of us met in a separate room. Ahmed asked Bosnian officer Rekiæ if he possessed mechanical clocks for the activation of explosive machines. Rekiæ, boasting, showed some sorts of these devices and told us: "Please, guys, you mustn't say to anyone that I have shown you these devices!" I think that thereby major Rekiæ has revealed a very sensitive and confident piece of military information. G) I have mentioned earlier that in 1993 two Turks had arrived in Bosnia and they took part in the war within the BH Army under the command of the Third corps. They were tightly related and regularly linked to the foreign moudjahedins from "El Moudjahedin" detachment. Their illegal bussiness that they practised here has demonstrated the opposite of what they have claimed and has disclosed their true aim about the arrival in BH. They have earned a lot of money to the detrimen of this country and this people, by means of smuggling with the Serbian forces located at Vla¹iæ (mountain near Travnik). The same group has established the trade contact with Serbs, thanks to some native persons. They have travelled to Vla¹iæ many times, in the presence of native supporters, where they have bought the enormous amounts of various sorts of cigarettes from Serbian soldiers and they gained enormous profits, that attained millions of German marks (or dollars). I should add that in that period the Moslem police has been located at several places, even on Vla¹iæ, not very far away from Serbian frontlines, in order to prevent such smuggling, and Mahmuljin's military police was involved in that action. Mahmuljin gave Kemal and Handala certificate for the cigarette smuggling, and in turn he had got a stake from each transported delivery. H) I have mentioned that in 1995 the members of HVO (Croats) had caught Ahmed Zuhairi (Abu Handala) in Vitez (the Middle Bosnia), and he was sentenced to jail. I have also mentioned that Saudian humanitarian organization HSC had played an important role in his liberation from the continued serving the sentence, with the strong support of Ejub Ganiæ, the member of the BH Presidium. In 1995, before his imprisonment in Vitez, Ahmed Zuhairi had organized a small criminal group, that consisted of several foreign moudjahedins, but among them were also native people. The gruop engaged in stealing cars, with the aim to use those stolen vehicles for performing certain dirty jobs, i. e. in order to hunt and execute individually the members of international forces in BH, especially Americans and other foreigners. Ahmed Zuhairi has claimed that the war against Islam here was not finished, but it just started. Nevertheless, he offered me to stay, too, saying the following: "We mustn't leave Bosnia. The war has just begun. It wouldn't be good that Americans come here, and that we leave. It would be a total loss for Islam and Moslems. We'll fight against them and hunt them one by one." In the same year it happened the murder of one citizen of the USA in or near Tuzla (the North-East Bosnia). The local police suspected Ahmed Zuhairi and his group to be involved in that murder. They have not caught Ahmed Zuhairi, although they claim that Zuhairi has driven the car of the murdered American (he has moved across Bosnia before their eyes). They caught Abu Hisham, because he was involved in the same murder. He was arrested for three or four months in Tuzla, and then they have liberated him. Ahmed Zuhairi has just escaped from BH, for he has got the information that the police decided to imprison him in 2004. He was accused for the same terrorist act for which I am sentenced, and left BH under very unusual circumstances. The organizer of this terrorist act, Ahmed Zuhairi (Abu Handala), had managed to escape from BH and he was tried in absentia. Ahmed Zuhairi was arrested in Quatar under the suspicion that he had taken part in the terrorist operations of Bin Laden's "Al-Qaida". The BH administration during the war and also after the war has enabled a great number of foreign moudjahedins to get the BH citizenship under very suspicious, unclear and illegal conditions, which means that the same government made them possible the permanent residence in BH. In the wake and after the signing of the Deyton agreement the foreign moudjahedins have talked that the BH administration has issued citizenship to all the interested moudjahedins for 1,111 German marks (800 USA dollars), no matter whether they have possessed proper documents. The interested moudjahedins have submitted the request for achieving the BH citizenship (which comprised falsified documents and their translation into the native language) to the authorized institution by means of the Zenica police. After about a month the interested persons had got the BH citizenships and passports, with improper data, and those passports were treated as if they were regular. In this way many of the foreign moudjahedins, as well as terrorists linked to terrorist networks, fugitives from the countries where they had commited crimes, have managed to change their identity, <outbind://700/#_ftn1> 1 of course, thanks to the BH authorities in that period. Anyone could disclose that those documents were not correct and were not faked aptly. J) The men who had led this country during and after the war enabled the members of "El Moudjahedin" detachment to propagate among Bosniac people, especially among younger generation, their ill reasoning and terrorist education, by means of printing and free distribution of the various literature with islamic contents. Through such books moudjahedins have appealed to Bosnian population to accept and endorse Vahabite-Salafian mezheb (ritual), instilling them impression that they could not be the true and sincere Moslems until they accept that ritual, which in no way suits the mentality and customs of the native Moslem people. By means of such, allegedly, Islamitic books they have propagated the hatred and intollerance, as well as inimical feelings towards non-Moslem citizens, and exactly that was the ground for the appearance and expansion of the unwanted sect, that is native moudjahedins, even after the war. I hold that the authorized persons have committed catastrophic mistakes when they approved the moudjahedins to participate in the Islamitic education of Bosnian people. By editing the books which indirectly claimed that Islam supports violence towards non-Moslems, they have suggested that Islam prescribe duties to its followers to love and hate exclusively on confessional basis, i. e. that they must love only Moslems and hate everyone who is not Moslem; also, that Islam forbids any cooperation and agreement, even a friendly association, with non-Moslems. Those books have declared and given the impression to the readers that Islam and Moslems are heavily attacked by Christians and Jews through special missions of all sorts, with the predicted goal of elimination of the Islam confession from the whole world. Such books could create in many Moslems the inimicity and aversion against adherents of other religious communities, and induce them to attack them, keeping in mind the false idea that those attacks were in self-defense. The author of most of those books was connected with "Al-Qaida" and he was one of the leaders of the moudjahedin forces in Bihaæ (the Western Bosnia) during the whole war. After the war he has become one of the managers of the Boèinja community, until his imprisonment. The strongest proof for that is a small booklet written by the above-mentioned imam (that is, Islamitic priest). That booklet frankly speaks about some special mission by Christians and Jews in order to destroy Islam. That publication in fact appeals to all the Moslems in this area, having instilled in them the expression that they are under attack, to defend by any possible means and to launch counter-attacks. The troubles that those people caused by propagating their opinions and religious rituals among the youth are very serious, inducing native people to accept foreign religious education from the books which the moudjahedins had published. They announced that the old, traditional religious practice had not been the proper one and that the natives should renounce it. The BH authorities has unconsciously made service to the members of the terrorist network "Al-Qaida" permitting the foreign moudjahedins to found their center for allegedly Islamitic culture and education, located in Zenica, under the name Islamitic Balkan Center. It is clear that the center has been intended for the false Islamitic education of the younger Moslem population. That center was installed in BH according to the order of the main cell of "Al-Qaida", for the sake of the indoctrination activities in this country and propagation of the ill, violent and terrorist attitudes among Bosnian youth. In other words, the center was, for the public opinion, for the sake of masking the undercover, intended to the expansion of the Islamitic religious instruction, while its true aim was to attract younger Bosnian population for the education, i. e. production of the native moudjahedins, whom "Al-Qaida" could always exploit for committing the terrorist crimes here or in the surrounding countries. The fact that can ultimately corroborate this claim is that the director of the Islamitic center is Abu el-Hassan el-Mekkiy. I remind that Abu el-Hassan is the same person who, instead of me, had commanded the moudjahedin combative brigade in Bijelo Buèje, near Travnik, in 1993. Thereafter he has become the commander of the moudjahedin training camp in Ora¹je, near Travnik. In the same camp, while it was under his leadership, the above-mentioned five captives were imprisoned and ill-treated physically and psychologically. The main cell of "Al-Qaida" sponsored the foundation of that cultural center through its confident man by name Abu Hajar. For that matter, Abu Hajar had come to Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war and brought with him a large amount of money by which he supported establishing of that center. Then he has personally chosen Abu el-Hassan for the director of the center. I remind that Abu Hajar was one of "Al-Qaida's" guys authorized for the conquering of younger generations for "Al-Qaida", and for sending them to the training in appropriate terrorist camps in various countries. Also I have mentioned that Abu Hajar has arranged several meetings with the leaders of "El Moudjahedin" detachment during his sojourn in BH. One among the activities that the cultural center has performed was the printing and distribution of the so-called Islamitic literature in this area. K) Algerian Abu el-Mehaliy el-Jezairiy was at the top of the moudjahedin brigade ("El Moudjahedin" detachment) and awaited the demobilization at that position. After the signing of the Deyton peace agreement Abu el-Mehaliy had got the written approval for carrying the personal arms from the Zenica police, and on this basis he has always brought with himself a pistol, during the whole his sojourn here. In 1998 that person disappeared from this area. L) The figures who has led this country were not satisfied that they gave moudjahedins all the necessary help and support during the whole damned war, but continued, even after the Deyton agreement, to enable them to mask and hide their true moudjahedin look, by means of establishing the trade company named "Bedr Bosnia", in order to extend their further presence in this area, acting as tradesmen who manage regular trade business. The foreign moudjahedins who had arrived in BH during the war, and thereafter joined the regular and acknowledged brigade within the BH Army, have uniformly received great amounts of money from certain foreign sponsors, especially from Saudi Arabia, to be able to carry out illegal activities, e. g. supporting the illegal residence of Allah's warriors in BH, participation in the war, sponsoring the establishment of terrorist camps for military and spiritual education, both for foreign and native moudjahedins, like the moudjahedin camps which were located in Mehuriæi and Ora¹je, near Travnik. The same company was intended for attracting young Bosniac population, who has become the native moudjahedins after spiritual terrorist lectures (brain-washing), then for providing military devices, documents, as well as for sponsoring other activities which moudjahedins have practised, like arresting other moudjahedins, liquidations, kidnapping and taking hostages, liberating the captivated fighters and so on. The BH investigation officers in that period should, before they have enabled moudjahedins to found the above-mentioned firm, have inquired legality of the capital invested in that enterprise, i. e. they should put an embargo on that capital until the circumstances under which the moudjahedins had obtained it have been elucidated, for instance wherefrom that money was sent, through whom was sent, who is the addresser and wherefrom he originates, who received the money in BH and where is currently he who has received the money, but it is most important to investigate why this money was sent. It is well-known that the international antiterrorist institutions, within the scope of counter-terrorist struggle, have blocked several bank accounts with enormous amounts of financial resources, that belonged to many personalities and institutions, because of the suspicion that they serve for sponsoring people who are engaged in terrorism anywhere in the world. _____ <outbind://700/#_ftnref1> 1 One of the moudjahedin leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Imad el-Misriy, of Egyptian origin, who had got the BH citizenship during or after the war, was arrested in BH, then in 2001 he was extraded to Egypt, where he was sentenced to prison because of a former criminal act in Egypt. Egyptian authorities asserted that his proper name was Ussama Faragalla, while in his BH passport, that is regarded as regular, it is written that his name is Eslam Durmo. Among all the native and foreign moudjahedins he is well-known as Irad el-Misr. 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