5 people charged with fighting for ISIL

BELGRADE - The Serbian Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office stated on Tuesday that it has raised an indictment against four persons from Novi Pazar and one from Belgrade on suspicion of partaking in armed operations of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The indictment was raised as they were suspected of organizing and financing the mobilization of citizens from Serbia and other countries for terrorist training camps in Syria and battlefield, reads a statement by Special Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic.

After the investigation, the Prosecutor's Office pressed charges against Abid Podbicanin, 35, Sead Plojovic, 31, Tefika Mujovic, 34, Izudin Crnovrsanin, 25, from Novi Pazar and Ferat Kasumovic, 25, from Belgrade, the statement reads.

They and a number of unidentified other persons are suspected of financing terrorism, and training and recruitment of perspective terrorists in Serbia and other countries early in 2013.

Podbicanin and Mujovic are believed to have established a connection with ISIL and al-Nusra Front in order to seize power in the Syrian Arab Republic by force.

Their goal was to use this territory as a base for terrorist attacks against Iraq, the Middle East, North Africa and South and Central Europe, including Serbia, so as to create the future global Islamic state - Caliphate.

It is also believed that Podbicanin, Mujovic, Plojovic and Crnovrsanin raised money in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Luxembourg and financed the mobilization of citizens from Serbia and other countries for terrorist training camps in Syria and battlefield.

According to the indictment, they organized accommodation at the Furkan mosque in Novi Pazar for people...