Trouble brewing as radicals rise up in Serbia's Muslim-populated south
NOVI PAZAR, Serbia: The discovery of a mountain cave packed with plastic explosives, masks and machine guns — and the recent arrests of men devoted to radical Islam — have fueled fears that extremists are trying to carve out a stronghold in this remote corner of Europe.
Police in southern Serbia's Sandzak region last month arrested six local Muslims and accused them of belonging to a fundamentalist Wahhabi sect — an austere brand of Sunni Islam promoted by extremists, including the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida fighters.
Recently leaked Western intelligence reports allege that the tense, impoverished area, along with Muslim-dominated regions in neighboring Bosnia, are rich ground for recruiting so-called "white al-Qaida" — Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and carry out attacks.
Al-Qaida and other radical Islamic groups, the reports warn, may be trying to increase their influence in the Muslim-populated regions in the southern Europe to penetrate deeper into the continent.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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