(ANSA) - ZAGREB - According to estimates made by some security experts, a relatively strong network of radical Islamic groups has been created in the last fifteen years in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo, Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji list reported today in a lengthy report on terrorist threats in the Balkans.

The daily, citing anonymous sources inside Croatian secret services, says that among the Muslims in Kosovo and Albania ''the number of radicalised people is higher than in Bosnia''.

This situation could result from divisions and internecine clashes in the different Muslim communities, whereas in Bosnia the Muslim community appears much more unanimous in condemning extremists and terrorism. Something simliar appears to have been recorded in Macedonia, where parts of the large Albanian minority (25% of the population) are working together closely with some groups in Albania. The most worrying situation appears to have been detected in the Muslim region of Sandzak, which is divided among three countries (Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia). Within this area, many internal divisions have been recorded, particularly after several Bosnian Wahabi leaders have moved to Sandzak. In Croatia, where about 60,000 Muslims are well-integrated into local society, about 70 people were identified as ''Islamic extremists'' by secret services and are therefore under control. None of these people seem to be willing to commit terror acts of terror so far. (ANSA).