One such song was directed at Alija Izetbegović, in which the first-person speaker would boast that he will slay the president just as Miloš slew the sultan.

The attack is thought to have been in retaliation for the arrest of Bosnia's Muslim President Alija Izetbegović, who was detained at Sarajevo Airport by Yugoslav police the previous day.

Alija Izetbegović () ( 8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003 ) was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Izetbegović was born in the town of Bosanski Šamac, situated in the north of Bosnia ; he was one of five children born to a distinguished but impoverished family descended from former Slavic Ottoman aristocrats from Belgrade who fled to Bosnia in 1868, after Serbia gained independence from the Ottoman Empire.

After the war, Izetbegović was arrested in 1946 and sentenced to 3 years in prison due to his activities during the war.

All of those tried were convicted and Izetbegović was sentenced to fourteen years in prison.

Although Izetbegović was to due to hold the presidency for only one year according to the constitution, this arrangement was initially suspended due to " extraordinary circumstances " and was eventually abandoned altogether during the war as the Serb and Croat nationalistic parties SDS and HDZ abandoned the government.

Izetbegović publicly complained that he was being forced to ally with one side or the other, vividly characterising the dilemma by comparing it to having to choose between leukaemia and a brain tumour.

After the Bosnian War was formally ended by the Dayton peace accord in November 1995, Izetbegović became a Member President of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

An ICTY investigation of Izetbegović was in progress, but terminated after his death.

The Party of Democratic Action was founded in May 1990 by Alija Izetbegović, representing the Bosniaks and other Slavic Muslim population in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Yugoslavia.

A Muslim cleric, he was convicted together with the future president Alija Izetbegović by the communist regime of Yugoslavia in 1983 and served 5 years of a 10 year sentence.

Živko Radišić with 52 % of the Serb vote was elected chairman of the collective presidency for the first 8 months ; Ante Jelavić with 52 % of the Croat vote followed Radišić in the rotation ; Alija Izetbegović with 87 % of the Bosniak vote won the highest number of votes in the election but was ineligible to serve a second term until Radišić and Jelavić had each served a first term as Chairman of the Presidency.

On October 13, 2001, Tihić was chosen to succeed Alija Izetbegović as head of the SDA party.

In one particular case he advised him not to sign the Vance-Owen peace plan: " Mr Izetbegović was not endorsing it, but thinking out loud and saying perhaps the plan would not be so bad, that we could live with it.

In May 1992, Lagumdžija was with Alija Izetbegović, Izetbegović ’ s daughter Sabina and his bodyguard, returning from the Lisbon negotiations, when they were surrounded at the Sarajevo airport by the JNA, kidnapped and driven in a convoy to Lukavica, in Serb-held territory.

Alija Izetbegović during his visit to the United States of America | United States in 1997.

Alija Izetbegović during his visit to the United States in 1997.

In April 1983, Izetbegović and twelve other Bosniak activists ( including Melika Salihbegović, Edhem Bičakčić, Omer Behmen, Mustafa Spahić and Hasan Čengić ) were tried before a Sarajevo court for a variety of offences, principally hostile activity inspired by Muslim nationalism, association for purposes of hostile activity and hostile propaganda.

Although Izetbegović regarded them as symbolically valuable as a sign of the Muslim world's support for Bosnia, they appear to have made little military difference and became a major political liability.

* " Obituary: Alija Izetbegović: Bosnia's first president, a devout Muslim who fought for his country's survival in war and peace during the 1990s ", The Guardian ( UK ), 20 October 2003

* 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

* 19-Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected president of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War.

* August 8 – Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

The main participants from the region were the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević ( representing the Bosnian Serb interests due to absence of Karadžić ), President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman, and President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović with his Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey.

In April 1992, the Bosnian government under President Alija Izetbegović demanded that the government of Yugoslavia remove these forces.

The seniority of the figure who delivered the message varied wildly from country to country, ranging from Presidents and Prime Ministers on one end of the spectrum to junior ministers or ambassadors on the other, but a few very significant European political figures did appear, including long-serving Swedish premier Göran Persson and President Alija Izetbegović of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Izetbegović became closely involved in Bosniak society as he grew up during the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1970, Izetbegović published a manifesto entitled the Islamic Declaration, expressing his views on relationships between Islam, state and society.

Izetbegović vigorously denied such accusations.

Izetbegović wrote what is however regarded as his central work, the book Islam between East and West, in 1980.

The introduction of a multi-party system in Yugoslavia at the end of the 1980s prompted Izetbegović and other Bosniak activists to establish a political party, the Party of Democratic Action ( Stranka Demokratske Akcije, SDA ) in 1989.

Abdić agreed to stand down as the Bosniak candidate for the Presidency and Izetbegović became President.

Izetbegović initially proposed a loose confederation to preserve a unitary Bosnian state and strongly urged a peaceful solution.

Initially, all three sides signed up to the agreement ; Izetbegović for the Bosniaks, Radovan Karadžić for the Serbs and Mate Boban for the Croats.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

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Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

There was one further step in my religious progress.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.

The prevalent opinion which we encountered in a variety of expressions in your country denied not only the existence of this conflict but it was elaborated even further with an incredible semantic dexterity.

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

There was no cleaning or further care, but the wound healed in less than two weeks and showed no scar.

There was another on this side, a little further down.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.