Terror Trial of U.S. Embassy Shooter Starts in Bosnia

The gunman who opened fire on the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia in October last year and his two accomplices will go on trial in Sarajevo on terrorism charges on Friday. According to Bosnian prosecutors, Mevlid Jasarevic, Emrah Fojnica and Munib Ahmetspahic formed a terrorist group in the northeastern village of Gornja Maoca, home to adherents of the ultraconservative Wahhabi branch of Islam, with the goal "to improve the status of their community through violence and terrorist activities against state institutions and foreign diplomatic missions.” (...)