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Bulgaria Likely Terror Target - The Guardian Politics: 21 March 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria faces the real threat to become a terror attack target should Al-Qaeda terrorists manage to penetrate it. According to Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian's security affairs editor, Bulgaria is on the list of Al-Qaeda targets but still remains outside the priorities of the terror networks. Talking to a Bulgarian national private channel Taylor expressed the opinion that the terrorists' strikes can be prevented only accidentally as they come according to no schedule. The opinion comes a day after British Birmingham Post-Herald reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's second...

Terror cells regroup - and now their target is Europe Secret intelligence papers from across the continent reveal a growing danger from a widening network of fanatics - and this is a struggle the West cannot lose Antony Barnett, Jason Burke and Zoe Smith Sunday January 11, 2004 The Observer They had been watching him for months, aware that his pop star good looks concealed a secret life as one of Europe's new terrorist kingpins. Finally, on a cold winter dawn, the police moved in. Abderrazak Mahdjoub did not resist as armed German officers surrounded his Hamburg home and led...

Issue 34: 22 to 28, 2003 Sofia al-Qaeda links denied Alexandra Alexandrova THE Director of National Security Service, General Ivan Chobanov, has rejected reports by a newspaper published in Montenegro that an associate of Osama bin Laden was living in Sofia.Last week, the Dan newspaper wrote that this figure was co-ordinating Albanian extremists and Islamic fundamentalists to mastermind strikes against Serbia's main cities. Boiko Borissov, Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, said that police and special services of Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia and Montenegro maintain a daily exchange of information on international terrorism. He categorically denied the existence of any...