Sounds like he was a radical Islamicist that the Soviets/Bulgarians used to their advantage (as they thought).
They probably sealed their fate.
"Sounds like he was a radical Islamicist that the Soviets/Bulgarians used to their advantage (as they thought). That's always been my suspicion. The soviets have a history of that from iran in the 70s thru the plfp and plo, syria, libya, the whole shebang.