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Serbia: Wahabis plead not guilty to terrorism charges
Belgrade, 18 Dec. (AKI) Two members of the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi
movement accused of planning terrorist activities pleaded not guilty before a
Belgrade court on Thursday. Before the court they praised Allah for showing
them the right way and directed derogatory remarks at prosecutors and judges
alike.
Adis Muric, 21, and Enes Mujanovic, 19, were arrested in September 2007 in the
southern predominantly Muslim town of Novi Pazar on charges of having planned
terrorist acts.
Police discovered terrorist literature, videos, maps, explosives and weapons in
their hide-out.
Another two members of the group, Nedzat Bulic (31) and Bajram Aslani (28), a
Kosovar, are on the run and will be tried in absentia.
Muric and Mujanovic said they knew that they had been followed by police and
that their phones were tapped. But denied any involvement in terrorist
activities.
Muric said he was followed just because he was a believer. The indictment
could have been written only by someone who hates Islam and Muslims, Muric
said. The prosecutor looks like an American servant to me, not a Serb, he
added.
He than read passages from the Koran in Arabic and thanked Allah for having
showed him the right way.
The trial was adjourned until February when prosecutors will present their
first witnesses and evidence.
The Wahabi movement originated in Saudi Arabia and is relatively new in the
Balkans. The fundamental Islamist ideology was brought to the Balkans by
"mujahadeen" fighters from Muslim countries during 1995-1995 civil war in
Bosnia.
Wahabism has slowly gained support in Bosnia ever since, and many mujahadeen
who remained there after the war have reportedly indoctrinated local youths
with radical Islam.
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