They found “a large number of propaganda papers with radical content preaching religious hatred.” What? In an Islamic foundation? There must be some mistake! “Bulgarian police raid offices of Islamic foundation,” from AFP (no online link), October 6 (thanks to David): Oct. 06 (AFP) — Bulgarian prosecutors and police on Wednesday raided the offices of […]
Bulgarian Police Official Warns Of Jihadist Threat
Jihad in the Balkans. But wait a minute: don’t the learned pundits say that there is no significant threat there? “Bulgarian Police Official Warns Of Islamist Threat,” from AP, with thanks to Nicolei: SOFIA (AP)–Bulgaria’s top police official warned Thursday that pockets of Islamic fundamentalism in the Balkans are creating a favorable environment for the […]
Arabs of Bulgarian Citizenship on Iraq’s Terrorist List
More evidence of the jihadist presence in Europe. From Bulgaria’s Novinite, with thanks to Anthony: Some dozen Arabs with Bulgarian citizenship have been detected among the active terrorist groups in Iraq, according to CIA quoted by Bulgarian TRUD daily. However, Bulgaria’s special services and military intelligence denied having such information. The CIA claimed that one […]
US State Department funding mosque building in Bulgaria
Apparently the Federal Government can’t give money to religious groups except outside the US. I wonder what provisions the State Department has made to ensure that this Bulgarian mosque will not be staffed or influenced by radical Muslims who want nothing more for State than to drop a bomb on it. From the Focus News […]
Decapitated Body Found in Iraq, Bulgaria Checking
Plus some information on the latest hostages, from Reuters: BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – A decapitated corpse was found by police in northern Iraq Thursday and Bulgaria said it was investigating whether the body was one of two Bulgarians seized by militants loyal to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In Kuwait, the transport company that […]
Three U.S. Allies Face New Threat in Iraq
Even though it only had 51 troops in Iraq, the Philippines has dealt the coalition and the free world a major blow by caving in to terrorist demands and withdrawing them. Not only will they not bring peace to the Philippines or the Middle East, but many more people will be murdered by the terrorists. […]
Jihadist group says it killed one Bulgarian hostage
Zarqawi’s group says it has killed one of the Bulgarian hostages. The Bulgarians, of course, unlike the Filipinos, didn’t cravenly cower before the jihadist threats. This man is a martyr for the cause of the equality of dignity and rights of all people. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A militant group holding two Bulgarian truck drivers said […]
Captors still hold Filipino and Bulgarians
The Philippine government promised to leave Iraq almost immediately after this man’s kidnappers demanded that it do so. But now they are setting a deadline for the withdrawal as a condition for the man’s life. I expect that Philippine officials will probably agree to this demand. After all, they’ve already established what the Philippine government […]
Bulgaria says it won’t give in to hostage-takers’ demand
The Bulgarians are evidently made of sterner stuff than the Filipinos and Spanish. Or at least they know that appeasement only emboldens the aggressor. From AFP: SOFIA — The Bulgarian government said Friday it would not give in to blackmail after reports that two Bulgarian hostages in Iraq would be killed unless US troops freed […]
Jihad in Bulgaria
The trench-coated KGB types have cleared out of Bulgaria, and the jihadists have rushed in to fill the vacuum. But the Bulgarian government is on top of the situation, and has not hesitated to close Islamic centers that have been found to be fomenting terrorism and sedition: “Bulgaria has dismantled Islamic centres with possible links […]