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Terrorism

A member of the Wahhabi community, 23-year-old Mevlid Jašarević, born in Novi Pazar, carried out a terrorist attack on the United States Embassy in Sarajevo on Friday, 28 October, which resulted in the serious injury of 41-year-old policeman Mirsad Velic, engaged in securing the embassy. As the police investigation has so far revealed, Jašarević arrived in Sarajevo on Friday around 14:00 in the company of two Wahhabis from the village of Gornja Maoca...

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The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim were buried at an unknown location deep in the Libyan Desert on 25th October. This definitely ended Gaddafi's era in Libya, which started a long time ago, in 1969, when he launched a coupe d'etat. He was the leader of a group of young officers, who came from less privileged tribes and could not get an education at civilian universities, and therefore joined the army.

Interview: Canton Sarajevo Minister of Internal Affairs Muhamed Budimlić

Community policing is a type of police engagement in use in most developed countries today. Its main objective is to contribute to a safer environment and a general feeling of security for both individuals and communities. With the help of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the project of community based policing was initiated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Canton Sarajevo plans to intensify efforts to promote this concept of policing in the following year.

Professor Graeme P. Herd from Geneva Center for Security Policy