Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina: what Wikipedia removed

Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the al-Qaeda branch formed during the Bosnian War in 1992. Through 2015 the opening said the group, operating through the Saudi High Commission, carried out the terrorist attack in Mostar in 1997. Today the opening carries none of this, though the word survives 8 times in the body. A reader arriving now learns that the group operated through the Saudi High Commission after the war, and not that it carried out a terrorist attack in Mostar.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 8. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/al-qaeda-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	1	0	0	0
jihad	1	0	0	0

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• The sentence on the group organizing the El Mudžahid volunteer jihadist detachment was reworded without changing its core meaning.
• The clause naming the 1997 terrorist attack in Mostar is gone from the opening, though the word terror survives 8 times in the body.

How it opened then, and now

2015 (revision 663418126):

Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina was present since the Bosnian War in 1992, where they organised a volunteer jihadist detachment El Mudžahid of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina . They were operating through the Saudi High Commission (SHC), and carried out the terrorist attack in Mostar in 1997.

2025 (revision 1294999817):

Al-Qaeda branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the al-Qaeda branch based in Bosnia and Herzegovina , formed during the Bosnian War in 1992. During the Bosnian War, the group contributed volunteers to the Bosnian mujahideen (called El Mudžahid ), a volunteer detachment of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina . After the war, the group operated through the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SHC).

Related

• The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
• The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
• Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
• The live article on Wikipedia

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