Bosnia Arrests Suspect Over US Embassy Attack

The sources said Ahmetspahic had spent a long time in the village of Maoca in northeast Bosnia, a known hub for members of the hardline Muslim Wahhabi community. He had also spent time in the war zones of Iraq and Syria fighting for Islamist forces.

“The person arrested is suspected of staying in Syrian and Iraqi territories as a member of terrorist organizations Al-Nusra Front and ISIL … in 2013,” Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, said on Friday.

Ahmetspahic is allegedly connected also with the attack on the US Embassy in Sarajevo on October 28, 2011, for which the gunman, Mevlid Jasarevic, was earlier found quilty.

Ahmetspahic went on trial with Jasarevic in 2012, but was acquitted of charges of having participated in the organisation of a terrorist group.

It was alleged that as a member of the terrorist group, he procured funds with another person, and undertook other actions that created the conditions for the commission of the offence.

Jasarevic was found guilty in 2012 of committing a terrorist attack. He had fired shots at the US embassy in Sarajevo for some 50 minutes, firing at least 105 bullets, wounding a Bosnian policeman guarding the building and threatening officials of the embassy.