[Nettime-bold] Re: Bus Attacker in U.S. Was War Veteran With Criminal Record

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

I didn't doubt for a moment that he was a war veteran. There are 
plenty like him in Croatia. There were couple of cases of car bombs 
last year in Zagreb, the capital. Those cases that were solved - 
always ended up with a similar story: war veteran with criminal 
record, drugs (heroin) and arms dealing. This guy, however, 
somehow, ended up here. As if every insanity eventually finds its 
way to the U.S. But that's what war does in today's globally 
interconnected world - it is impossible to be involved in strirring 
trouble in one part of the world and be fully isolated from the 
consequences wherever you are. The solution: no more wars.
ivo 

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From:           	Andras Riedlmayer <riedlmay@FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject:        	Bus Attacker in U.S. Was War Veteran With Criminal Record
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Damir Igric, the bus hijacker in Tennessee, was a veteran of Croatia's
1991-95 "homeland war" according to Croatian state television.  He also
had an arrest record for dealing drugs and illegal weapons possession
and a history of mental problems.  Given his criminal record in Croatia,
it seems a bit odd that he was able to obtain a one-month visitor's visa
to enter the US in 1999 (which he then overstayed by two years).

     His neighbors in Slavonski Brod told HRT that Igric was calm
     and a bit introverted after returning from the war.

     The Croatian embassy in U.S. said Wednesday it will assist
     [US] national authorities with the investigation.

     In the United States, Greyhound Lines resumed services some
     eight hours after the attack. The nation's largest bus company said
     it was assured by the FBI that the attack was an isolated incident,
     not an act of terrorism.

Andras Riedlmayer
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur
October 4, 2001

Bus Attacker in U.S. Was War Veteran With Criminal Record

   ZAGREB, Oct 4 (dpa) -- A Croatian attacker who caused a bus accident
in the United States in which six people were killed one day ago was
a war veteran with a criminal record, Croatian police said Thursday.

   State-run HRT television said the attacker, Damir Igric, 29, "had
fought in the homeland war", a reference to the war of independence
from Belgrade in the 1990s.

   Igric had slit the Greyhound bus driver's throat, causing the vehicle
to flip over and slide off the side of a highway in Tennessee. He was
among those killed.

   The attacker was from the town of Slavonski Brod, 200 kilometers east
of the capital Zagreb and had been charged with illegal possession of
firearms and drugs dealing, police said.

   Igric, who also had a record of mental problems, entered the
United States in 1999 on a one-month visa issued by the American
embassy in Zagreb, according to FBI spokesman Scott Nowinski.

   However, it was unclear if Igric had suffered from post traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), a disease many Croat war veterans are
suffering from.

   His neighbors in Slavonski Brod told HRT that Igric was calm and
a bit introverted after returning from the war.

   The Croatian embassy in U.S. said Wednesday it will assist national
authorities with the investigation.

   In the United States, Greyhound Lines resumed services some eight hours
after the attack. The nation's largest bus company said it was assured by
the FBI that the attack was an isolated incident, not an act of terrorism.


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