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BAKU/SARAJEVO, March 14 (FENA) - Former Croatian President Ivo Josipović said today in a statement to BiH journalists in Baku that the information on the suspected activities of the Croatian intelligence services who tried to recruit some members of the so-called Salafi movement to transfer weapons to Bosnian masjids and mosques in order to discredit the state of BiH has to be thoroughly checked.
Josipović says that he does not know anything about it, that it is a matter that needs to be checked, and “if true, then this is a serious and grave matter”.
“I can only hope that the information turns out not be true,” said Josipović, who is one of the participants of the Seventh Global Baku Forum, in a statement to FENA’s journalist reporting from Baku.
Investigative journalism web portal “Žurnal” was the first to publish the information that the Croatian intelligence agencies and diplomats tried to recruit members of the so-called Salafi movement from Bosnia and Herzegovina at least on two occasions to transfer weapons and explosives to masjids and mosques in the area of the Zenica-Doboj Canton.
The goal was, as Žurnal writes, referring to documents in possession of the BiH security agencies, to confirm the accusations and statements expressed by the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who claimed on several occasions that “BiH is a hotbed of terrorism".
In the meantime, Minister of Security of BiH Dragan Mektić also gave his statement. He confirmed in an interview for Radiosarajevo.ba information that Croatian intelligence agents tried to recruit members of the so-called Salafi groups to transfer weapons to Bosnian masjids in order to discredit the state of BiH.
Mektić argued that Croatian intelligence agencies engaged in a secret operation aimed at demonstrating that there are armed groups of radical Islamists and Salafi groups in BiH in order to justify the statements made by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović about thousands of Islamist extremists in BiH “that pose a threat to the security of the entire region.”
(FENA) S. R.
