The Banja Luka Security Studies Faculty Dean Predrag Ceranic told N1 on Sunday that the State Department's report on terrorism is mostly based on political remarks concerning Bosnia and that it would be far more useful of the Central Intelligence Agency was to publish its own report on the situation in this field.

“Given that this is a document publicly released by the State Department, it's understandable that it contained some general remarks. We see this in the section concerning the progress in the deradicalisation in the country. There are still a dozen of Bosnian citizens in Syria. We know that some 50 fighters still have to arrive from Syria and that there are a dozen others in Syria, Irak and Ukraine,” Ceranic said.

He added that Bosnia did indeed record some progress in the fight against terrorism, as suggested by the report.

The professor also agreed with the report concerning the progress in the legal reform concerning the punishment for acts of terrorism in Bosnia and warned that the country still faces many challenges, like the remaining para-jamaats.  

The report said that the “slow government formation after the October 2018 elections continues to delay the adoption of new measures, the report said and added that “law enforcement cooperation continued to suffer from interpersonal and institutional infighting.”