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SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Barisa Colak, Bosnian Security minister\u003cbr/\u003e\"Even so, we have to be extremely careful and serious and not miss anything\" \u003cbr/\u003e9.  Dragan Lukac, chief of Bosnian security agency SIPA sitting at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Dragan Lukac, chief of Bosnian security agency SIPA \u003cbr/\u003e\"All together, this is a breeding ground for such categories of people to gather these young people for various activities of their interest, including terrorist activities.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Muslim stalls in Sarajevo\u003cbr/\u003e12. Book on Guantanamo bay\u003cbr/\u003e13. Young Bosnian Muslims looking at the stalls\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mosque in Sarajevo\u003cbr/\u003e15. set up shot of Bosnian mufti Mustafa Ceric \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Bosnian mufti Mustafa Ceric\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we wanted terrorism, we had a chance to do so in the heat of our suffering, and we did not, cause it is not in our nature.''\u003cbr/\u003e17. King Fahd mosque in Sarajevo\u003cbr/\u003e18. cu sign on the mosque reading King Fahd''s mosque\u003cbr/\u003e19. People praying inside the mosque\u003cbr/\u003e20. Imam reading prayer\u003cbr/\u003e21. People leaving the mosque\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Nezim Halilovic, imam of the mosque\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is just a trick played on the Muslims. They were framed to bring the world''s attention on Bosnia-Herzegovina as a ''terrorist'' country.\" \u003cbr/\u003e23. Shot of the Mosque\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Nezim Halilovic, imam of the mosque\u003cbr/\u003e\"Europe and the whole world should not be afraid of Bosnian Muslims.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide shot of the mosque\u003cbr/\u003eIslamic militants with ties to al-Qaida and other organisations have been crisscrossing the Balkans for more than 15 years, according to an intelligence report focusing on their activities in Bosnia.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 252-page analysis, compiled jointly by U.S. and Croatian intelligence and obtained by The Associated Press, said extremists financed in part with cash from narcotics smuggling operations were trying to infiltrate Western Europe from Afghanistan and points further east via a corridor running through Turkey, Kosovo and Albania.\u003cbr/\u003eThe report offers new evidence to support what authorities long have suspected: that militants have taken advantage of the Balkans'' porous borders and relatively lax security to meet, train and possibly plot attacks elsewhere in Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eMirsad Bektasevic is one of two suspected militants charged last week by a Bosnian court with planning to blow up an unidentified target in Europe. \u003cbr/\u003eIt''s thought the Swedish national of Serbian origin was acting in coordination with associates in Denmark, according to the charges.\u003cbr/\u003eBektasevic has reportedly held secret meetings in a shabby room at the Banana City Hotel on the gritty outskirts of Sarajevo but he was known by his code name ''Maximus''.\u003cbr/\u003eBosnian police put ''Maximus'' under surveillance, and raided his apartment on Poligonska Street last autumn.  \u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities seized explosives, a suicide bomber belt and a videotape of masked men begging Allah''s forgiveness for the sacrifice they were about to commit.\u003cbr/\u003eInvestigators, who believe the cell was close to carrying out a plot to blow up a European embassy, found out ''Maximus'' was in fact a 19-year-old Swedish citizen of Serbian origin with ties to a senior al-Qaida operative.\u003cbr/\u003eMilitants have been working to recruit non-Arab sympathisers, so-called \"white Muslims\" with Western features who theoretically could more easily blend into European cities and execute attacks, according to classified intelligence documents obtained by The Associated Press.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new report  jointly compiled by Croatian and U.S. intelligence on the activities of Islamic groups in Bosnia that might pose a threat suggests the attempted recruitment of radicalised Muslims in the region may have begun as long as four years ago, when Arab militants ran up against tough post-Sept. 11, 2001, security obstacles.\u003cbr/\u003eBosnia''s minister of security, Barisa Colak, acknowledged the existence of the intelligence report but said authorities had no concrete evidence that recruitment efforts are widespread.\u003cbr/\u003eThere are no known cases of a \"white Muslim\" recruit being involved in an actual attack. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd complicated visa requirements for citizens from ex-Yugoslavia traveling to Western Europe or the United States would be a hindrance to using Balkan recruits for terror attacks.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Even so, we have to be extremely careful and serious and not miss anything,\" Colak told AP Television.\u003cbr/\u003eDragan Lukac, the deputy director of SIPA , Bosnia''s equivalent of the FBI, also said authorities are taking no chances. \u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities who arrested Bektasevic and several alleged associates last October tipped off police in Britain, who within days arrested three suspected British Muslim accomplices. \u003cbr/\u003eThey also alerted authorities in Denmark, who took seven others into custody.\u003cbr/\u003eInvestigators say they since have established that Bektasevic maintained close ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eSince the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Bosnia has deported dozens of Arabs and other foreign Muslims for suspected ties to militant groups or alleged involvement in dummy charities believed to have raised cash to bankroll attacks.\u003cbr/\u003eIn February, the country launched an exhaustive review of all cases in which citizenship was granted to foreigners dating back to 1992 and vowed to deport any with suspected links to terrorism.\u003cbr/\u003ePolice also confirmed they are keeping close tabs on dozens of Islamic fighters who came to Bosnia to fight on the Muslim side in the 1992-95 war. Although most left for other conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and elsewhere, some stayed on and married local women.\u003cbr/\u003eThe vast majority of Bosnia''s Muslims rejects the mujahedeen''s fiery brand of Islam. Yet young, restless men frustrated with 40 percent joblessness and angered by real or perceived insults to Islam can be open to hard-line dogma, the Prague-based think tank Transitions Online said in a recent report.\u003cbr/\u003e Mustafa Ceric, the authoritarian leader of Bosnia''s Islamic community insists that there was no stomach for extremist violence after years of devastating ethnic conflict.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we wanted terrorism, we had a chance to do so in the heat of our suffering, and we did not, cause it is not in our nature.'' he told AP Television. \u003cbr/\u003eA Franciscan priest who heads an interfaith cultural centre in Sarajevo says although Ceric keeps close tabs on Bosnia''s imams, and disciplines any teachers who stir up anti-Western sentiment or preach jihad,  he doesn''t control everything.\u003cbr/\u003eNor do the 6,500 European Union peacekeepers who now patrol Bosnia, a force one-tenth the size of the NATO contingent that deployed nationwide in 1995. 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