Muslim cleric slams US envoy for anti-Islam plot

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

SARAJEVO (AFP)

Bosnia's Islamic leader on Wednesday accused a senior U.S. diplomat in the country of being behind a report carried in the local media that alleged Bosnia's top Muslim officials were linked in a criminal network.

"Now we know who is behind a project to satanize everything Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)," the Dnevni Avaz daily quoted Mustafa Ceric as saying. Bosnia's top Islamic cleric was referring to Raffi Gregorian, the U.S. deputy to the top international envoy to Bosnia, Valentin Inzko.

Earlier this week, the Dnevni Avaz and the weekly magazine Global published excerpts of the report and a criminal network diagram, allegedly prepared under Gregorian's supervision that featured a number of top Bosnian Muslim political, religious and business leaders.

Ceric and Fahrudin Radoncic, the owner of the country's largest newspaper publisher Avaz, were shown at the center of the criminal network, which also included the Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency Haris Silajdzic and the leader of the Muslim main Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Sulejman Tihic.

Both the Dnevni Avaz and the Global are published by Radoncic's company.

According to the newspapers, the report said that the officials shown in the diagram drew "their influence and motivation from their political power, accumulation of wealth, support to criminals and also by strengthening and extending the influence of Islam in the region and globally."

Ceric said the published documents resembled the "(Nazi Germany's) final solution for Jews in Europe."

Source: Al-Arabiya.
Link: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/04/90224.html.