"Islamic group bombs police station in Bosnia

A police officer was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday when a bomb exploded behind the police station in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno, reported Radio Sarajevo.

During the past week, an international Wahhabi organization has launched a campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina calling on non-Muslims to convert to Islam.

Only one person has ever faced justice for the horrific bombardment of the Markale market place 16 years ago – and many people want to know why.

Bosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma because it does not allow them to run for parliament or president, the European Court of Human Rights said in a ruling Tuesday.

"In addition to the AU, both the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference are calling for the indictment to be deferred by the U.N. Security Council to prevent further destabilization. Such calls echo the darkest periods of the Bosnian war and even afterward, when Western diplomats shielded Messrs. Karadzic and Milosevic from pressure in the name of stability -- even as the Serb leaders were plotting and executing the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.

In Darfur genocide by attrition continues apace, with refugees herded into camps where they still risk rape and murder as the countryside is further depopulated. Because of Mr. Bashir there is no real peace process in the region.

Despite various assessments over the past decade about the prospects of a decline of violent radical Islamist groups due to better cooperation in countering terrorism in general, and the Islamist brand in particular, it seems that this kind of terrorism is still developing.

"The way the Serb politicians speak is getting more and more nationalistic," says Svetlana Cenic, a writer and newspaper columnist. "Everybody should be worried," she warns. "This is the Balkans, and nationalist rhetoric here always leads to war."

The polite explanation for Barack Obama's diffidence on Iran is that he doesn't want to give the mullahs the excuse to say the Great Satan is meddling in Tehran's affairs.

Bosnian security forces have conducted a series of arrests of former El-Mujahid fighters on the basis of illegal residency and potential security threats in an attempt to improve the country's image in the face of western pressure to help fight terrorism.

"A Bosnian Muslim waitress has demanded compensation from the London bar where she worked over a red dress she was asked to wear, British media reported Thursday.

Fata Lemes, 33, told an employment tribunal that she felt forced to wear the sleeveless dress with a low neckline and an open back, thought the Rocket bar was run like a "sex club" and filed for 20,000 pounds in compensation.

"Two former top Western diplomats have warned that Bosnia-Herzegovina is in danger of collapsing and that the international community could be "sleepwalking into another Balkan crisis."

In an open letter published in the British daily "The Guardian" on October 22, former U.S. Balkan envoy Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords, and British politician Paddy Ashdown, the former high representative to Bosnia, wrote that tensions in the Balkan state are about to erupt."

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