Bosnian president condemns terrorist attack on U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo

Bosnian President Bakir Izetbekovic on Friday condemned the shooting at U.S. embassy in Sarajevo as a terrorist attack, in which a policeman and the gunman were wounded. In his statement, Izetbekovic strongly condemned the "terrorist attack" on the U.S. embassy, saying it must be thoroughly investigated. He also said the United States was a proven friend of Bosnia. A gunman was wounded and arrested after he fired rounds at the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo with automatic weapon on Friday afternoon. He wounded at least one policeman guarding the embassy. The U.S. embassy said none of its employees were injured in the attack. A Sarajevo police spokesman told Bosnian national television that the gunman had been taken to hospital and his injuries were not life-threatening. The website of Serbian television B92 said the gunman, Mevlid Jasarevic, was born in Novi Pazar, a southwestern Serbian city. The Wahhabi follower was arrested in Novi Pazar last November, as he was found carrying a knife when several ambassadors, including that from the United States, visited the city. He was released several hours later. He was also sentenced to 3 years in jail in Vienna for robbery. The website of Bosnian daily Avaz quoted unconfirmed information from police sources that there are four gunmen in all. Two of them were injured by police shot, and the other is believed to be at large. Bosnia has small minority of followers of Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative brand of Islam. A lot of volunteers from Muslim countries went to Bosnia, and took part in the 1992-1995 civil war among the Croats, Serbs and Muslims.