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Man opens fire with automatic weapon in terrorist attack outside US Embassy in

Bosnia

By Sabina Niksic, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – 25 minutes ago

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A man opened fire with an automatic weapon

outside the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia on Friday, and authorities said he was

targeting the building in a terrorist attack.

The man injured at least one police officer guarding the embassy before police

surrounded him. After a 30-minute standoff, the sound of a single shot echoed

and the shooter slumped to the ground.

Police arrested the wounded man and took him away in an ambulance as pedestrians

watched from behind buildings and vehicles. Sarajevo police spokesman Irfan

Nefic said the man was being treated at a hospital.

The U.S. Embassy said none of its employees was injured.

Bakir Izetbegovic, one of Bosnia's three presidents, issued a statement

condemning " the terrorist attack on the embassy of the United States in

Bosnia-Herzegovina. "

" The United States is a proven friend of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Its government and

its people supported us in the most difficult moments in our history and nobody

has the right to jeopardize our relations, " he said.

The gunman wore a beard and was dressed in an outfit typical for followers of

the conservative Wahabi branch of Islam.

Bosnian TV identified the shooter as Mevlid Jasarevic, from Novi Pazar, Serbia.

It said he is a Wahabi follower, but did not cite its sources.

The Wahabis are an extremely conservative branch of Islam which is rooted in

Saudi Arabia and linked to religious militants in parts of Afghanistan and

Pakistan.

A Sarajevo city official, Muhamed Budimlic, told The Associated Press that a

policeman guarding the embassy was injured.