Nihad  Cosic, also known as Abdul Rahman, was born in Muhlacker in Germany on 11/06/1977 to a family from Bosnia. He is a Bosnian Muslim Citizen. Nihad  Cosic claims he fought in the 90s’ in Bosnia and then in Chechnya.

Nihad  Cosic lived for few years in Germany and, in late 2005, left to join Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nihad  Cosic was arrested, in 01/2007, in a police raid in Pakistan, shortly after he had contacted the Bosnia-Herzegovina Embassy and claimed he lost his passport, but was released for lack of evidence and flown home to Sarajevo. Nihad  Cosic’s passport was subsequently found in the Al Qaeda camp near the town of Damadola, Bajaur province in North-West Pakistan.

Diplomatic source claimed that Nihad  Cosic had infiltrated the Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan on orders from the German intelligence service and that he was shown two photographs, one of Abu Muhammed, known as Ismail Jerba, and Abu Abdullah, known as Farad.  They are claimed to be Al Qaeda instructors who trained two Germany-based Libyan students in how to make explosive devices from highly inflammable chemical substances.  According to the same source, the German intelligence service BND arrested the two students following the London 7/7 attack in 2005. Nihad  Cosic was instructed to locate the two instructors and try to lure them to the Afghan-Pakistani border where they would be captured by anti terrorist teams from the CIA, the BND, and the Pakistani intelligence service - ISI.

In 04/2007, Nihad  Cosic offered his most recent description of his years fighting with Al Qaeda to Austrian and German journalists visiting Sarajevo and provided some insight about the connections between German and Austrian Muslim residents and Islamic militant organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Nihad  Cosic boosted that while fighting in Afghanistan he cut the throat of a captured Australian soldier sometime in fall 2005 (there is no report of an Australian missing in Afghanistan in 2005 to confirm the story). Nihad  Cosic also took proud of allegedly being connected to the Madrid Trains Bombing (03/11/2004) perpetrators.  

Yet Bosnian police have not sought to arrest him for terrorism, and last year an intelligence official told a Sarajevo publication that Nihad  Cosic posed no threat to Bosnia and had dropped "very low on the list of priorities."

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06/10/2009 07:14:21