Pro-ISIS Video Calls for Balkan Caliphate

A new video published on July 10 on YouTube, named "Put hilafa",  which in Bosniak means "Way of caliphate", calls for the establishment of a caliphate in the Balkans - Serbia above all.

The video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with the video has been terminated.

The same account earlier published the series of videos glorifying Isis and calling for holy war and radical Islam.

The new video, which began with quotations from the Koran, continued in the form of a poem. "People from the Balkans be happy, better days are approaching, Muslims are coming, we are the Islamic caliphate," the first stanza said.

The unknown author then calls for the conquest of Serbia while other countries are shown through sniper sight, covered with the black Isis flag.

Then the author called for terrorist activities in Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia, promising that the democracy in these countries would be destroyed and sharia law established in its place.

At the end, death threats are addressed to US President Barack Obama with the words: "Be happy you too Obama, victory belongs to us, we are the sons of Islam, we are the Islamic caliphate."  

Police in Serbia have not yet commented on the video's authors and authenticity and what danger it may represent.

However, a professor of the Faculty of Security in Belgrade, Zoran Dragisic, said the danger of terrorist attacks in the Balkans was real.

"The terrorists have their own networks in the Balkans and no one can exclude the possibility that terrorist attacks may occur in the countries mentioned in the video," Dragisic told BIRN.

He said the goal of the video was to spread radical Islamist propaganda and to intimidate...