| Embassy of the United States in Sarajevo | |
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| Location | Sarajevo |
| Address | 1Robert C. Frasure Street |
| Coordinates | 43°51′23.89″N18°24′1.5″E / 43.8566361°N 18.400417°E /43.8566361; 18.400417 |
| Ambassador | Michael J. Murphy[1] |
TheUnited States Department of State opened theUnited States Embassy in Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 4, 1994.[2][3]Bosnia and Herzegovina had formerly been a part ofYugoslavia; the United States recognized the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 7, 1992.
In the month followingal-Qaeda'sterrorist attacks on major American cities ofNew York City andWashington, D.C., onSeptember 11, 2001, American intelligence analysts became concerned that Arab immigrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina planned to attack the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.[4][5]
In early October 2001, under pressure from the United States,six men of Algerian descent were arrested by the police of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Bosnian officials said that American officials had assured them that they had evidence, including wiretaps, proving that the six men were in contact with an al-Qaeda leader inAfghanistan, but American officials did not provide that evidence.[citation needed]
From October 2001 to January 2002, the six men went through the Bosnian equivalent ofhabeas corpus. In January 2002, the case made its way to theBosnian Supreme Court.[citation needed]
The six men continued to face allegations that they had participated in a plot to bomb the embassy at their 2004Combatant Status Review Tribunals and at their annualAdministrative Review Board hearings in 2005, 2006 and 2007.[7][8][9][10]The men testified that their interrogators had never asked them about the plot, which led them to believe they recognized that there was no plot.[citation needed]
In 2008, after the Guantanamo captives had their access to habeas corpus in the US justice system restored, theUnited States Department of Justice acknowledged that there had never been any evidence of a bomb plot.[6]
On 28 October 2011,Mevlid Jašarević, aWahhabiIslamist,fired on the embassy, and wounded a policeman. He was eventually shot and wounded by aMinistry of Interior sniper, was given medical treatment and taken into custody afterwards.[11][12] He was later sentenced to 18 years in prison.[13]
Victor Jackovich presented his credentials as American Ambassador on June 23, 1993; however, a physical American Embassy to Bosnia-Herzegovina was not established until November 10, 1993, on the premises of the American Embassy in Vienna, Austria. The American Embassy in Sarajevo was established on July 4, 1994, with Jackovich as ambassador.
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