Hasan Čengić
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Hasan Čengić (born August 30, 1957 in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is the former deputy prime minister and defense minister of the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. A Muslim cleric, he was convicted together with the future president Alija Izetbegovic by the communist regime of Yugoslavia in 1983 and served 5 years of a 10 year sentence.
He is a member of a powerful clan headed by his father, Halid Čengić, the main logistics expert in the Bosnian army and a senior official, with his sons, in Bosnia's Agencija za Informacije I Dokumentaciju (AID) intelligence agency. Hasan Čengić has travelled frequently to Tehran since 1983 and has been deeply involved in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia. During the Bosnian War, he lived in Tehran and Istanbul. According to Austrian police, Čengić was on the supervisory board of the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian organization connected to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network. Čengić's involvement was confirmed by the TWRA's director, Elfatih Hassanein.
Well informed sources in Sarajevo claim that only Hasan addressed Izetbegovic with 'ti' [second person singular, used as an informal form of address] while all the others addressed him as 'Mr. President,'" a sign of his extraordinary degree of intimacy with the president.
As minister for refugee resettlement after the conflict, he has been accused of intimidating Serb refugees returning to their homes.
