"We already feel the separation," said a Muslim businessman in Bijelo Polje who would give his name only as Daco.

"It's the politicians who spoiled our relations," said Ibrahim Toure, 38, a Muslim businessman in Yopougon.

Those reports followed articles in both newspapers this week saying the bomb was built at the Hilltop Lodge, a dingy downtown inn popular with Muslim businessmen.

"We are scared," said a Muslim businessman who insisted on anonymity.

Other European merchants openly traded with Muslim, African and Hindu businessmen, regardless of religious and cultural difference.

India is home to several influential Muslim businessmen.

By 2006, a new hall had been built using private funds from many Indian Muslim businessman.

Bihac, where a Muslim businessman has turned against the Bosnian Government and announced a secession, is in such turmoil that it cannot bother the Serbs.

The abducted were then allegedly burned behind the shops of Muslim businessmen.

New tactics will include picketing London's Saudi and Kuwaiti embassies and targeting leading Muslim businessmen to put pressure on the secular business community.