Word: bosnian
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...conversation was in code, but to trained ears it was easily understood. Picked up by U.S. listening devices on Oct. 16 in Sarajevo, it ranged in topics from the bombing in Afghanistan to "what the response should be here," a senior Bosnian official told TIME. U.S. and British targets in Bosnia were mentioned. But it was the sign-off that got listeners' attention: "Tomorrow we will start." Both countries shut down their embassies and branch offices overnight. Using mobile-phone-card registration numbers, Bosnian police tracked down and arrested both callers--Algerian nationals with Bosnian citizenship. Within 72 hours three...
Bensayah Belkacem, 41 Algerian Status: Arrested Oct. 8 in Zenica, Bosnia. Suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell. Numbers in his mobile phone link him to at least one of bin Laden?s top lieutenants. Arrested on tip from U.S. Calls to bin Laden?s aides, intercepted by intelligence organizations, suggest he was trying to arrange for false papers...
...Muslims in Bosnia. In June 1995, police raided the premises and arrested dozens of men on allegations of terrorism. One of Shaari?s predecessors, Anwar Shaban, who was under investigation in Italy for possible terrorist links, was later killed under mysterious circumstances in Croatia after going to help the Bosnian cause. The Milan institute?s name pops up again in the trial of suspects in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa...
...ticket to Islamabad via London are seized Oct. 1, 2001 Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended in London. Zain-ul-Abidin was linked to Sakina Security, the company that reportedly offered Muslims combat training in Afghan camps Oct. 8, 2001 Bensayah Belkacem, suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested in Zenica, Bosnia Oct. 10, 2001 Lased Ben Heni, closely tied to bin Laden, nabbed in Munich on suspicion of planning a biochemical attack. Aouadi Ben Belgacem, a Tunisian national also suspected of planning a chemical attack, arrested in Milan Oct. 17, 2001 Harun Aydin, a Turk, apprehended...
...paranoia level has grown to the point that airlines sometimes are throwing people off flights simply because nervous fellow passengers deem them "suspicious." When an Indian passenger told an American he was a bass guitarist, which another traveler misheard as "Bosnian terrorist," he and another Indian flying with him were booted off a Singapore Airlines flight preparing to leave for Hong Kong. Northwest ground staff refused to board three Iraqi-born Americans on a flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, and two Pakistani businessmen were marched off a US Airways Florida-Baltimore shuttle when the pilot refused to take...