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Explosives found in Slovakia ahead of NATO meeting
2004-05-27
Two bags filled with explosives were found by Slovak police near a building in the capital Bratislava where 300 NATO officials were to meet Friday. The two plastic bags, containing a total of almost one and a half kilos (about three pounds) of industrial explosives and charges were discovered under a rubbish bin, interior ministry spokesman Boris Azaltovic said. Around 300 representatives from 39 countries -- 26 members of the recently-expanded NATO and 13 associate members -- are due to gather for a five-day meeting of the transatlantic alliance's parliamentary assembly starting Friday in the city's concert hall. Assembly spokesman Keith Williams described the discovery as "disturbing" but played down its significance and said that no changes to the meeting or extra security arrangements were planned. "Given that the explosives were pretty old, the detonators were not linked up and no one has claimed responsibility this does not seem to be a serious threat. But it is possible that the intention was to activate the detonators later," Williams told AFP. "It looks as if this was more a protest rather than a serious threat."
Keith? Explosives are always a serious threat.
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