Bosnian security agencies have registered about 3,000 people in Bosnia and Herzegovina as potential terrorists, and only a small number of them are foreigners, local media said on Tuesday citing a report the Bosnian intelligence agency OSA has submitted to the country's parliament.
"I see a potential threat from 3,000 persons who can undergo a change at any moment, either because of their state of mind or for other reasons, and commit an act of terrorism that will have much greater consequences than the one in Bugojno," OSA Director Almir Dzuvo was quoted by the Dnevni Avaz daily as saying at a meeting of the parliamentary Defence and Security Commission.
The commission met on Monday to discuss the security situation in the country after a terrorist attack on a police station in the central town of Bugojno on June 27, in which one police officer was killed and several were wounded.
According to the report, only three to four per cent of the persons believed to be connected with terrorism are foreign nationals.
Dzuvo warned that the existing laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not allow an effective fight against terrorist threats. If the laws are changed, within the next three months the police can see to it that none of the suspected terrorists are at large any more, he said.
The police chief of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, Zlatko Miletic, said that two more persons had been arrested after the Bugojno attack, adding that more arrests would follow.
Miletic said that there was no political will to take more resolute action against terrorist threats.
"The police are doing their job, but as for the rest there's no political will," Miletic said, citing a danger of the Muslim Salafi movement whose adherents are the most radical in denying the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its institutions.
