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| Sofia denies "al-Qaeda links" speculations |
| 2003-11-19 |
| Experts at Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry have received no information about possible Al-Qaeda activity in the country, the Ministry’s Chief Secretary Gen. Boyko Borissov told local bTV channel early on Wednesday. That may just mean that they’ve been quiet about it ... His words came in response to an article published at Sofia-based "24 Chasa" daily claiming that Turkish special services were investigating persons allegedly involved in weapons channels through Bulgaria and Romania in a bid to track down the supplier of the bombs in Saturday’s attacks that killed at least 23 people outside two Istanbul synagogues. The newspaper cited confidential information of the Turkish consulate in Munich according to which the terrorists were planning to plant bombs in different capitals within a period of 20 days. Interesting, because Zarqawi’s al-Tawhid was planning a similar hit to that on Jewish targets in Germany back in April 2002. Looks like al-Qaeda really hates Attaturk for creating a reasonably sane (and secular) Muslim state. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |