GALIJAŠEVIĆ: HELEZ IS BUILDING HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH WITHIN BiH ARMED FORCES

BIJELJINA, MAY 17 /SRNA/ - Defense Minister in the Council of Ministers Zukan Helez is building Hamas and Hezbollah within the BiH Armed Forces to turn them into a Muslim army, claims security expert Dževad Galijašević.

Galijašević says that Helez is working on dividing the Armed Forces of BiH, essentially implementing the Bosniak policy from the 1990s that was aimed at creating parallel structures. "This refers to paramilitary, parapolitical, para-intelligence, and para-Islamic structures," Galijašević told SRNA. He added that this also includes Wahhabism, as a para-religious, para-Islamic doctrine, which Helez also supports by allowing them to conduct shooting practice on the Armed Forces' training grounds. "Why are Wahhabis practicing shooting in BiH, just as they do in Syria, Iraq, and Libya?" asked Galijašević, explaining that this is done so they can learn to handle weapons, prepare for armed combat, and carry out terrorist actions. He claims that five members of the Wahhabi movement, not just one, were detained just a few days ago in Mostar for illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, but the act was classified merely as causing general danger. "As if it were about floods or natural disasters - an act regarded as something unintentional. But here there is intent, an organized religious movement, militant and radical, with its members, and they go to practice shooting," said Galijašević. He added that they were arrested because they were training at a military range belonging to the BiH Armed Forces, located near a forest in the Mostar area. "This was provided to them by Helez, who is building Hamas and Hezbollah within the BiH Armed Forces," Galijašević pointed out, and recalled that the SDA and SDP have always had parallel structures. Galijašević reminded that Serbian generals also pointed out in a letter that Helez is working on the division of the BiH Armed Forces. Galijašević also claims that the Wahhabis are organizing exercises near Sanski Most, Bužim, in the vicinity of Dubnica and Maoča, and in many Wahhabi settlements such as Ilidža and Igman. "These Wahhabis are commanded from Syria by Nusret Imamović, who is now the commander of the Muslim armed formation in Syria, the `Saudi al-Mali Network,'" said Galijašević. He pointed out that 10,000 people are passing through the security records of various structures in BiH and the region, which, he emphasized, is "a serious army for a serious war." "This army is of a global type, and Helez supports it and inserts it into the Armed Forces to divide and control them so that they become a Muslim army," Galijašević concluded. SNSD member of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Milorad Kojić said yesterday that allowing persons associated with the Wahhabi movement to hold exercises in the facilities of the BiH Armed Forces represents a serious security problem that someone is consciously producing in order to instill fear among the Serbian people who have gone through the ordeal due to the Wahhabis. Kojić assessed that this is creating an atmosphere of war in BiH, and added that most Bosniaks also shy away from the Wahhabis.