Wife of Egyptian promiment fundementalist ask Croatia to reveal his destiny

The wife of a promiment Egyptian fundementalist who disappered 5 years ago has asked the Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to interfere to reveal the destiny of her husband and to prosecute those involved.

Mrs. Amani Mahran talked for the first time about the incident of her husbands disappearance engineer Talat Kasem known by 'Abu Talal El-Kasemi' who was living as a refugee in Denmark in order to flee from the Egyptian authorities as being the spokesman of the Islamic group.

Her message to Croatia was sent through the Croatia embassy in Cairo.

Montaser El-Zayat, Kasem's lawyer delivered a message yesterday to officials in the Croatian embassy in Cairo and said that Mrs. Amani Mahran tried to deliver the message to the Croatia embassy in Copenhagen but the officials there refused receiving it.

Mrs. Amani Mahran who lives currently with her 6 children in Denmark said in the message that the security forces in Zaghreb arrested her husband on September the 13th 1995 illegally and since that time no information was revealed about his destiny. She considered that her husband was kidnapped and delivered to Egypt in an implementation to a plan carried out by Egyptian and Croatia security forces, saying that "in 1995 my husband intended to write a book about the conflict betwen Croatia and Bosnia and decided to visit the 2 countries to follow up the subject."