Al-Qaeda "Active on the Balkans"
January 11, 2005
BG
Extremists with links to Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network are present in the Balkans and are infiltrating other European countries, a senior Bulgarian secret service official said.
"We have information that people with connections to structures linked to Al Qaeda have passed through Bulgaria to on their way to other European countries," secret service chief General Kircho Kirov told Trud daily newspaper.
In his words some of the extremists, who have entered the Balkans, have previously been in Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq.
