12 Facts About Bosnian mujahideen

Volunteer Bosnian mujahideen arrived from all around the world, including Afghanistan, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.

The Bosnian mujahideen were primarily from Iran, Afghanistan and Arab countries.

Foreign Bosnian mujahideen recruited local young men, offering them military training, uniforms and weapons.

The foreign volunteers even became unpopular with many of the Bosniak population, because the Bosnian mujahideen army had thousands of troops and had no need for more soldiers, but rather for arms.

The Bosnian mujahideen group established there included Bosnian mujahideen from Arab countries as well as some Bosniaks.

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Sakib Mahmuljin, a top Bosnian general, has stated that the mujahideen sent 28 severed heads of POW Bosnian Serb soldiers to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Iran.

However, the ICTY Appeals Chamber in April 2008 concluded that the relationship between the 3rd Corps of the Bosnian mujahideen Army headed by Hadzihasanovic and the El Mudzahid detachment was not one of subordination but was instead close to overt hostility since the only way to control the detachment was to attack them as if they were a distinct enemy force.

In 1995, veterans of the Bosnian mujahideen established the Active Islamic Youth, regarded the most dangerous of the Islamist groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Foreign Bosnian mujahideen were required to leave the Balkans under the terms of the 1995 Dayton Agreement, but many stayed.

Bosnian mujahideen was acquitted from the charge of not saving 24 imprisoned Croat POWs and 19 years old Croat girl Ana Pranjes from being executed by the Mujahideen since the prosecution couldn't prove he had already assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the ARBiH to which he had been appointed on the same day.

Bosnian mujahideen was sentenced to 10 years in first instance in January 2021.

Bosnian mujahideen noted that Serbian and Croatian sources about the subject are "pure propaganda" based on their historical hatred for Bosniaks "as Muslim aliens in the heart of Christian lands".