When media in Bosnia claimed that Croatia was recently trying to recruit Bosnians to transport weapons to Muslim gathering sites, it was an attempt to destabilize Croatia, a report the Croatian intelligence agency published on Monday said.
The allegations came in March, when a local online magazine, Zurnal, published interviews with Bosnian Muslims who claimed that Croatia’s Intelligence Agency tried to recruit them to transport weapons and explosives in Bosnian mosques.
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Bosnia’s Security Minister, Dragan Mektic, said the allegations were true and had the goal was to portray Bosnia as a terrorist haven.
Apart from the weapon transports, Zurnal claimed that Croatia’s Agency wanted those it targeted to create fake social media accounts and use them to embrace ISIS online.
But in its latest report, Croatia’s Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) has “pointed out activities by some countries which are trying to portray Croatia in various ways and create our image in the world. We need to have counter-arguments that will take us in a positive direction, as we are a modern European country,” President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said on Tuesday, commenting the SOA Report.
The report also said that two people from Bosnia with Croatian citizenship are a threat to the country’s national security because they fought for ISIS.
