Re: The Balkan Islamic Jihad: A Pan-European calamity
Sofia Denies "Al-Qaeda Links" Speculations
November 19, 2003
BG
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.
His words came in return of 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.
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