organizations, ethnic or religious associations active in BiH. On various occasions in 2009, individuals and groups belonging to those associations and organizations caused incidents by displaying intolerant, provocative and aggressive attitude, varying in form and intensity, towards members of other ethnicities, religions or religious beliefs, creating incidents, perpetrating incidents, and expressing intolerance and hatred, sometimes under the false pretext of their own national and religious interests. All those activities further affected the security situation in parts of BiH where they were committed or in the whole of BiH. They are more or less of the same intensity, characteristics and background as in the previous period. Same or intensified activities of some members of radical religious groups in BiH and the region continued in the previous period. Those activities aim at spreading radical religious ideology and recruiting new followers. Some of them, through intensive religious and ideological activity (mainly verbal), generally deny the constitutional order and rule of law, regulations and laws of any state, including BiH, and democracy and democratic trends, calling for disrespect for the rule of law, democratically elected government, etc. In terms of active display of hatred and creating of incidents, some individuals and groups have been more prominent lately. They belong to legally established organizations and associations with ethnic or religious denominators, active in BiH, whose members or followers display, spread, and incite ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance. This is done mainly verbally, but also through writing and dissemination of offensive nationalistic graffiti, posters and stickers, sending threatening and radical email and text messages, disturbance of law and order and participation in incidents and fights due to disagreement and disapproval of ideas and beliefs of others. The impression may be that the intensity and background of those activities are directly linked to certain “current public developments in the society” (and general negative atmosphere) related to the resolution of problems in BiH (primarily political, but economic and social as well as of lately) and its neighborhood. A relatively new trend in BiH is abuse of cyber technology by extreme radical subjects of security interest (individuals, groups, organizations, associations, etc.). However, there are no reliable indicators as to the extent of problem. There are some indications that cyber technology is used by individuals and groups from this area for purposes which have or may have security implications. The main characteristic of the mentioned structures is that they use cyber technology primarily for their mutual communication, to spread radical ideology, to indoctrinate declared or potential followers, to distribute various materials (such as propaganda and support to global terrorist organizations and movements using chat, web forums and web sites), to collect and exchange data and information (documents, brochures, books, audio and video materials), to raise funds, to woo, recruit, mobilize and train new members, for networking, and connecting cells and members, for planning, coordination and control of activities, and to conduct computer and psychological warfare. By analyzing some web sites, it becomes clear that cyber attacks are no longer sporadic individual activities and that they become increasingly coordinated. In BiH and in the region, the use of modern technology for promotion and spreading of radical beliefs and ideas is a new phenomenon, primarily targeting young people, who are computer literate and most eager Internet users. 19