Heed Bolt's warnings on terror

The report adds:

"A native of Bahrain, Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad, known during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war as "Ubaidah al-Bahraini", was released on 30 December 2008 from a Bosnian prison where he served a 12-year sentence for robbery and terrorism."

Ali Hamad was a high-ranking officer of the notorious El-Mujahid unit, composed of foreign fighters from Islamic countries, and under the command of the Bosnian Army. El-Mujahid committed war crimes against ethnic Serbs and Croats in Bosnia. In 1997 Ali Hamad was eventually locked up for masterminding a terrorist car bomb attack in the Bosnian town of Mostar (Old Bridge) aimed against the ethnic Croat population.

Irony of ironies, he later sough asylum in Serbia, his former enemy in the Bosnian war, after his Bosnian citizenship was revoked but was reportedly deported to his native Bahrain.

So how on earth does this all have an impact down under, Australia? Concerns have been raised within Muslim Bosnian emigre communities in the West, who are predominately moderate, over the radicalisation of their youth by fanatical preachers. It also does not take a great deal to conclude that where a former Yugoslav military counterintelligence (KOS) officer of the calibre of Muslimovic has thrown in his lot with the radical Islamists then you know we here in Australia are in very big trouble. Convicted terrorist Nacer Ben Bricka is an amateur in comparison.

We are in big trouble, when your consider the former Yugoslav intelligence service (UDBa) ran rings around our own domestic spies ASIO, the CIA and even the KGB. I have spent 20 years investigating UDBa and have read the many de-classified ASIO files. During the 1970s and 80s, communist Yugoslavia was waging a dirty tricks campaign against Croats, Macedonians and others who had left Yugoslavia and settled in Australia and wanted to paint them as terrorists or trouble makers .

One of UDBa's greatest "jobs" was the Croatian Six set up in 1979, where an agent provocateur was able to frame six Sydney based Croats as "terrorists" and decades later owned up about his misdeed. The Croatian Six, as they became known, served their time in jail, and the current Federal Attorney General, Nicola Roxon, has refused to open an inquiry.

The Australian people of all religions, creeds, in facing the Islamic fundamentalist terror or any other terror, have a right to know the workings of UDBa, considering there are some ex officers and informers living in Australia. What I fear is that these people could be bribed or bullied into helping Al Qaeda or any other terror franchise by sharing UDBa tricks of the trade in spycraft. In our vigilance, and I have warned about this in previous articles, we should not allow those people who are Islamophobic a chance to use these fears as a vehicle for their own political agenda.

However, Roxon's refusal to open a judicial or government inquiry into the Croatian Six and UDBa activities could be placing us all in danger.