-Caveat Lector- > > > Friday January 18, 3:09 PM > > Police evacuate Arab detainees from Sarajevo prison amid incidents > > Police of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation managed to evacuate six Arab > terror suspects from Sarajevo prison to an unknown destination after > hours of standoffs with demonstrators. > > The hooded detainees had been taken out of the prison in two police > vehicles late Thursday but a hundred people blocked the roads outside > the prison. > > The demonstrators, belonging to Sarajevo's Muslim community, called for > the immediate release of the prisoners but police finally succeeded > early Friday in getting them through and the crowd started to disperse. > > Bosnia's Muslim-Croat supreme court decided on Thursday to release the > six Arabs detained since October on suspicion of links to Osama bin > Laden, their lawyer said. > > The six, one Yemeni and five Algerians, were held on suspicion of having > ties to bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and being behind security threats > to US interests in the country. Five have Bosnian citizenship. > > The US and British embassies were closed for five days in October > because of a security threat thought to be connected to the US-led > bombing of Afghanistan. > > Police said that before the arrest of the five Algerians they had > decoded a cell-phone conversation intercepted by US intelligence, > between two of them, saying that "American interests would be > jeopardized within 48 hours." > > Their lawyer Fahrija Karkin told journalists: "According to unofficial > information... they should be transferred to Cuba," referring to a US > Navy base where some 80 Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners are being held. > > Bosnian media recently speculated that the six would be released and > deported to third countries. > > Four of the five Algerians have appealed to the Bosnian Human Rights > Chamber, a national human rights institution created under Bosnia's > peace agreement, to prevent their possible deportation. > > The Chamber ordered Thursday that "all necessary steps be taken to > prevent that the applicants are taken out of Bosnia-Hercegovina by the > use of force" until February 11, when it will issue a final decision. > > The four also pressed charges before the Chamber against Bosnia and the > Muslim-Croat entity, due to "irregularities in procedure and violation > of law," Karkin said. > > A number of volunteers from Islamic countries fought alongside troops > from the Muslim-led Bosnian government during the country's 1992-95 war. > > Several dozen of them stayed in Bosnia and obtained citizenship. > > The September 11 terror attacks on the United States revived speculation > that terrorist groups were hiding in Bosnia. > > Since the attacks, Bosnian police and NATO peacekeepers have detained > and deported over a dozen people from Islamic countries suspected of > links to terror groups. > > > > >
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