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News, documents and analysis on violent extremismTuesday, February 9, 2010
American Arrested in Raid on Bosnian VillageAn American citizen was arrested during a police raid on a Bosnian village populated by Wahhabis, according to Balkans media outlets.Enis Bosnic, of Jacksonville, Florida, was among several people arrested in "Operation Light," a sting operation conducted in Gornja Maoca, in northern Bosnia. The residents of Gornja Maoca live under Shariah law. Some members of the community are believed to have relocated there after the Bosnian government shut down a notorious village of former mujahideen known as Donja Bocinja. According to Bosnian news outlets, Edis Bosnic is a Bosnian national who became a naturalized American citizen. A person by that name was nominated to the board of directors of the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida in 2004. According to the Bosnian TV news magazine "60 Minutes" (no relation to CBS), Bosnic was in close contact with Adis Medunjanin, the Queens man arrested in the U.S. on suspicion of taking part in a bomb plot led by Afghan national Najibullah Zazi. Bosnian journalist Bosnian journalist Esad Hecimovic contributed to this report. Sources: Glas Srpske International Relations and Security Network Washington Post Labels: Adis-Medunjanin, American-Jihadists, Bosnia, Edis-Bosnic, Najibullah-Zazi, Sarajevo-Ricochet Views expressed on INTELWIRE are those of the author alone.
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