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Text of report by Bosnian independent weekly Slobodna Bosna on 29 March
[Report by Suzana Mijatovic: "Gornja Maoca Is Transit Point for Wahhabis Who Go to Jihad"]
Until 28 October last year, when Mevlid Jasarevic, a radical Wahhabi from Novi Pazar, left Gornja Maoca and went to Sarajevo, after he previously planned a crazy terrorist attack on the US Embassy, this Salafi community, located on the Mt Majevica, was totally isolated from the rest of the world. Irrespective of the police operation "Svjetlost" [light], which was carried out two years ago, as the first serious attempt of the state institutions to introduce law and order among the outlaw residents, Gornja Maoca functioned as an exterritorial zone, in which life has been organized based on the strict Sharia rules, and the village was absolutely closed for all the uninvited guests. However, although the Salafis from Gornja Maoca persistently refused any contact with journalists (an exception was an exclusive participation of their leader Nusret Imamovic on the BHTV1 [state television channel] programme,) one of Imamovic's former followers agreed to uncover the secret details about the Wahhabi community, exclusively for Slobodna Bosna. On the condition of his anonymity (for understandable fear for his safety), a former resident of Gornja Maoca spoke about the self-proclaimed Wahhabi leader Nusret Imamovic and his closest associates, "brothers" from Gornja Maoca who left for jihad, the connections with the Wahhabi headquarters in Vienna, Muhamed Porca, and Nedzad Balkan, and so on.
Ideology of Nusret Imamovic Is Ideology of Al-Qa'idah
After the breakup of Bocinje, the strong radical faction of the Salafis found refuge across the mountain, in Gornja Maoca. The village was bought with the intention to turn it into a base for people who are strictly abiding by the religious rules. Keeping in mind that the village could not survive economically, certain individuals began to emphasize the need for investment. However, with the arrival of Nusret Imamovic in Maoca, takfir [the practice of one Muslim declaring another Muslim unbeliever] started to emerge, at first, the mild version, and later it became stronger and stronger, eventually reaching the level of extremism. Being carried away with his investment [as published], Nusret Imamovic has banished, over the past years, all those who opposed him, even...