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Thick iron bars block the entrance to Abu Hamza’s store in Sarajevo’s Islamic shopping center. Affixed to the bars is a handwritten note: “My Bosnian http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2437 has been revoked. I have to defend myself, and for this reason my store is only open sporadically.”
Abu Hamza, a bearded 42-year-old man originally from Syria, sits in his store among colorful veils and gold-embroidered tunics and speaks in a gentle voice about Bosnia’s fate. He believes that there will be either an evolution of true Islam or a revolution.
Abu Hamza is one of the stars among the missionaries who want to spread a strict interpretation of Islam in Bosnia. He came here in the early 1990s, one of thousands who aided their Muslim brothers in the war against the Serbs. In return, they were given Bosnian citizenship. This meant that they were “nationalized” and thereby did not fall under the provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords, which stipulated that all foreign combatants had to leave the country. The United States in particular was annoyed by the trick and, under pressure from Washington, a Bosnia government commission revoked the Bosnian citizenship of nearly 400 “suspected mujahedeen of foreign heritage,” including Abu Hamza. The suspects are believed to have ties to Islamic terrorists.
American diplomat Raffi Gregorian, deputy high representative for Bosnia, speaks of a growing number of al-Qaida sympathizers in the country. Gregorian works for the Office of the High Representative, the civilian peace implementation agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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