Bosnian U.S. embassy attacker gets 18 years
A Bosnian court has sentenced a man to 18 years in jail after
convicting him of terrorism for shooting at the U.S. Embassy, Radio
Liberty reported.
Mevlid Jasarevic opened fire on the Sarajevo Embassy on October 28,
2011, injuring a police officer before he was shot in the leg and
arrested.
He said in a video made before the attack that he wanted NATO out
of Afghanistan and demanded that Bosnia-Herzegovina stop harassing
his Muslim sect.
Two alleged accomplices were acquitted.
The prosecutor's office said it will appeal the acquittals.
The three are followers of the Wahhabi sect, an austere brand of
Sunni Islam that authorities in Bosnia consider a threat.
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