Algerian "Junior Osama Bin Laden" Resurfaces in Bosnia-Herzegovina
By Evan Kohlmann
An Algerian terrorist commander once thought to head a transnational sleeper cell network that included would-be Al-Qaida Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam has resurfaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina, vehemently denying allegations recently presented to the Bosnian Supreme Court in Sarajevo that his foreign mujahideen unit committed war crimes during the Bosnian civil conflict of the 1990s. Algerian militant commander Abu el-Maali--the former chief of the foreign mujahideen unit in Bosnia--granted an exclusive interview to a mujahideen-affiliated magazine in Bosnia in order to respond to charges leveled during the recent trial of Iraqi-born Abduladhim Maktouf--convicted in early July of aiding in the 1993 kidnapping of three Croat civilians subsequently held prisoner in a mujahideen-run torture camp.
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NOTE: In the interests of full disclosure, I should add that I appeared as an expert witness on behalf of international prosecutors during the recent Bosnian Supreme Court case against Abduladhim Maktouf to testify about Abu el-Ma`ali and the foreign mujahideen detachment in the Balkans. I challenge Abu el-Ma`ali to abandon his ridiculous rhetoric and respond to a single substantive point of my testimony--including my discussion of his petty blood feud with fellow terror recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri. For more, see my book Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: the Afghan-Bosnian Network.
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