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Detachment "El - Mujahideen" (Bosnian: "Odred el - mudžahedin"), Created by foreign muslim volunteers who fought on the Bosnian muslim side during the war. They first arrived in central Bosnia in the latter half of 1992 with the aim of helping their Bosnian muslim co-religionists in fights against Serb and Croat forces.
The 200 villagers who were being escorted to Mehurici by the 306th Brigade military police were intercepted by a group of mujahideens and a dozen Bosnian Army forces in Poljanice. They took prisoner at least 24 military-aged Croats and a 19 years old Croat girl who was wearing a Red Cross armband.
The 7th Muslim Brigade (Bosnian: 7. muslimanska brigada / 7. muslimanska viteška oslobidilačka brigada) was an elite all-volunteer brigade of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina which was active during the Bosnian War.
Although, former U.S. Balkans peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke said in an interview that he believed the Bosnian Muslims wouldn't have survived without foreign help, as at the time a U.N. arms embargo uniquely diminished the Bosnian government's fighting capabilities - he called the arrival of the mujahideen "a pact with the devil" from which ...
At the beginning of 1995, a shaky ceasefire began across most of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Fighting continued along the perimeter of the surrounded Bihać enclave in the north west – the territory of the unrecognised breakaway proto-state within Bosnia and Herzegovina known as the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APWB) led by Fikret Abdić.
The town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992 during the first days of the Bosnian War.Bosnian Serb members of the local Territorial Defence (TO), supported by local Bosnian Serb police and some members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), quickly overcame heavily overmatched local Bosnian Muslim police and reserve police elements ...
They formed mujahideen fighting groups that were known as El Mudžahid (El Mujahid) that were joined by local radical Bosnian Muslims. The first foreign group to arrive was led by Abu Abdul Al-Aziz from Saudi Arabia. [132] [133] Izetbegović and the SDA initially claimed that they had no knowledge of mujahideen units in the region. [134]
The commander of the paramilitary in Bosnia accepted subordination with the Bosnian Army general staff. This choice would get him assassinated by the anti-Bosnian faction in the Croatian defense council. With the superior dead this armed force slowly faded away and few units would be absorbed and reorganized into the Bosnian army.