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| Bulgarian interior ministry denies reports of terrorists organizing attacks |
| 2004-01-24 |
| Bulgaria’s National Security Service has received no specific information about any people in Bulgaria to be organizing terrorist attacks, the country’s Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov said Friday. The Minister’s statement came as a response to a question addressed to him during the Parliament session. He also refuted speculations that there were emissaries of the al Qaeda and Hezbollah terror networks operating in the Bulgarian towns of Velingrad and Sarnitsa. Earlier in the month media claimed that missionaries recruit volunteers among the poor population of the Rhodope mountains and offer them a USD 5,000 bounty to fight for the cause of liberating Iraq. The agents toured the regions of Balkan countries with predominantly Muslim population, convinced that the European Muslims should fight against the invaders in Iraq. The missionaries reportedly assured the Muslims that the service in Iraq does not threaten their life, but would only prove them to be real Muslims. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 ....poor population of the Rhodope mountains and offer them a USD 5,000 bounty to fight for the cause of liberating Iraq. The missionaries reportedly assured the Muslims that the service in Iraq does not threaten their life, but would only prove them Send them to fight in a war zone,but not to worry they won't die. Sounds like the Rope-a-dope mountains are apptly named. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-1-24 7:24:15 AM |