Re: [Debconf-team] Sarajevo text

[Elvir Kuric <elvirkuric@yahoo.com>]

Hi, all 
 
 
 I cannot believe that you are discussing about terorism in B&H as problem connected to conference place.
From 1992 to 1995 during the war in B&H, I was in some kind of  "security " and I know what means terrorism and when attackers or if you wish aggressors tried to kill me and my friends, family every day for 4 years.
 And you think B&H  has terrorists, have  you any  proof for  accusations  like  that?
 I know that our invation to organize debconf in Sarajevo is only connected to Debian, because we just want to be good hosts and organise this event  for Debian community . 
 
 Regards from sunny Sarajevo.
 
 Elvir 
  
Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> wrote:
>  * Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [060705 16:51]:
> > On Tue,
>  Jul 04, 2006 at 12:15:59PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > > Option 2 - Student Dormitory together with Cultural Centre
> > > ==========================================================
> > 
> > > On the way to the Arabic culture center[31]  
> > 
> > > [31] https://gallery.debconf.org/jjsjjvenue/dscn2985
> > 
> > The sign on the pillar in that photo reads:
> > 
> >     U ime Allaha, Milostivog, Samilosnog. 
> >     Kulturni centar
> >     "Kralj Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud."
> >     15.09.2000. G.     17.06.1421. po H.
> > 
> > The King Fahd Mosque and Cultural Center seems to appear in a few
> > terrorism related reports, being reportedly a center for Wahhabism (the
> > variant of Islam most common in Saudi Arabia, as I understand it, [0]).
>
> yes, we are aware of that. I was lucky enough to meet a guy at
> the airport who seemed very well informed about the circumstances
> of this (and
>  an other report). It seemed to me that he was
> involved in the investigations. (i met him because i approached
> his wife who was swedish.)
>
> he told me that while the center is under investigation (and
> survaillance) there are no hard facts and that he would not
> recommend to exclude the center from our considerations on that
> basis, since there is a considerable partî??that is only rumor.
>
> first he was concerned because he thought that the center had
> approached us, but that was not the case. he thinks that the
> center is partly motivated by the desire for better press.
>
> I had asked safir about this, too, and he told me that they (some
> of the local team) knew people from the center and did not
> believe that there was much basis for the rumors/accusations.
>
> We did not mention it in the reports because we did not want to
> spread rumors and because this holds the potential of a
> mud-throwing campaine against sarajevo, which we
>  wanted to stay
> out of.
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