Bosnian Police Arrest 5 Terror Suspects

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From 'International Herald Tribune': The Bosnian police have arrested five people suspected of terrorism, and seized anti-tank mines, laser sights, maps and manuals describing how to build bombs, officials said on Friday. The raids on the suspects' homes in Sarajevo and the central town of Bugojno on Thursday turned up what officials described as a significant amount of weapons, electronic equipment, maps and other items that they said could be used for acts of terrorism, a police statement said. The police did not identify those arrested by name, but said they were suspected of "having prepared a terrorism act as an organized group." Local media reports said they were members of a radical Muslim movement and were Bosnian citizens.

The group was under surveillance for several months by Bosnia's intelligence service and the prosecutor's office. During the surveillance, the authorities concluded that the five had set up a "group with the aim to cause damage on the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina," the statement said. The Bosnian government formed an anti-terrorism unit after the attacks of September 11, 2001. In 2005, the police in Bosnia, in cooperation with the authorities in Denmark, Sweden and Britain, arrested a group that was plotting to blow up an unidentified European target. Four members of the group were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in Bosnia.