Dragan Lukac

BANJA LUKA - Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpka (RS) Dragan Lukac said Friday that the RS police had obtained information, from multiple sources, that groups and individuals "with bad intentions" were coming from the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia and Serbia to Banja Luka for protests scheduled for Saturday.
    

CIA chief John Brennan met Bosnian security officials on Friday to discuss security issues in the Balkan country, Dragan Lukac, head of the Federation entity's police directorate, said after the meeting.

Local experts said the visit was also an opportunity for Bosnia's security agencies and institutions to improve quality of their counter-terrorism activities.

Dragan Lukac, Interior Minister of Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity of Bosnia, said the entity government will soon send its special police units for training in Russia and is also keen to buy military equipment from Moscow.

The Minister of the Interior in Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska, has launched an extraordinary attack on an independent journalist from Banja Luka, Slobodan Vaskovic, accusing him of trying to destroy the entity's institutions.

The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, which is in charge of the fight against terrorism and organized crime in Bosnia, is still conducting operations in Republika Srpska, even though the government of the Serb-dominated entity has halted cooperation with the agency.

The Republika Srpska government said on Thursday that it has halted all cooperation with the State Investigation and Protection Agency and the state prosecution after they arrested five Bosnian Serbs for alleged war crimes in Bosanski Novi and searched official buildings in the Republika Srpska town for evidence.

Bosnian authorities in the Canton of Sarajevo on Thursday confirmed the identity of the man who killed two soldiers the night before in the suburbs of Sarajevo.

Enes Omeragic shot dead two soldiers and injured another before escaping to his home in the neighborhood of Sokolje, in the western part of Sarajevo.

Police in Bosnia's Canton of Sarajevo said a man killed two members of the Bosnian Army inside a betting shop in the suburb of Rajlovac at around 7:30 pm.

The reasons for the attack are unknown but television N1 reported that the attacker shouted the Islamist slogan "Allahu Akbar" before shooting the soldiers. This report has not been confirmed.

A post on social networks under the alias of Boris Dodik, allegedly from Germany - which offered 100,000 euro for the life of the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik - has triggered fresh debate about security threats in Bosnia.

Police in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, RS, have arrested 30 persons suspected of involvement in Islamist radical activity and of posing a possible security threat, RS police confirmed on Thursday.