Bosnia has extradited to the United States a Kosovo jihadist whom Washington suspects of links to jihadist groups, four months after his arrest in Sarajevo, prosecutors said Tuesday. Bosnia's prosecutors "took part in a complex operation to locate and extradite to the US a person originating from Kosovo with terrorism links," a statement said.
No more details were available due to "sensitivity of the case," it added. But the Zurnal.info website, specialised in terrorism issues, identified the man as Mirsad Kandic, a "dangerous collaborator of the Islamic State" jihadist group. US authorities accuse Kandic of having spent time in the former IS bastion of Raqa in Syria, and of providing logistical support to the jihadists, the site reported.
He had provided IS with weapons and suicide vests, used notably by Jake Bilardi, an 18-year-old Australian killed in a 2015 suicide attack against the Iraqi army in the west of the country, according to Zurnal.info. Kandic entered Bosnia early this year through Sarajevo airport, using a fake Ukrainian passport.