Sarajevo, July 08: Nato troops in Bosnia are
investigating allegations of a plot to kill the US commander
of the stabilisation force during a visit to Mostar at
the weekend after a man armed with a sniper gun was arrested
during a security sweep, a SFOR spokesman said today.
Police in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar identified
the man as AK, aged 31, and said he was carrying a 9 mm
machinegun equipped with a silencer, sniperscope and
ammunition.
The man was arrested Saturday just before lieutenant-
General John Sylvester, commander of the 19,000 troops in
Bosnia, arrived in Mostar to meet with the town's mayor and
pay a visit to Spanish troops serving in the area.
In a statement, Mostar police said it was looking into
a link between the discovery of the "sophisticated weaponry"
and Sylvester's visit to Mostar.
A police source in Mostar identified the man as Adnan
Kadric, a member of a crime ring based in the central Bosnian
town of Zenica, and said authorities had ordered that he
remain in custody for eight days.
He said Kadric denies any wrongdoing, saying that he had
bought the gun in the nearby town of Posusje and planned to
deliver it to Zenica.
But the Croatian daily Vecernji list reported today that
Kadric was "leader of a terrorist organisation in Zenica."
Citing sources from Sfor and UN's international police
in Bosnia, the daily described Kadric as "an international
terrorist, who has recently resided in Germany and
Netherlands, where he was slightly wounded in a clash with
Russian mafia three months ago."
Bureau Report
