Islamic terrorists planning attack on Czech capital

 - daily World News BBC Monitoring

 Excerpt from report by Pavel Blazek, headlined: "Islamic terrorism threatens Prague as well", by Czech newspaper Pravo on 13 August 

The threat of Islamic terrorism is hanging above Prague. This has been unanimously confirmed by the Czech intelligence services, the police, and the National Antidrug Centre. Hundreds of casualties following the fall of an ultralight plane at Prague's Old Town Square or its vicinity. The subway flooded after a massive explosion in a subway tunnel under the Vltava River. Hundreds of dead sports fans in an explosion in a sports arena. 

These pictures are not from a catastrophic movie, nor are they scare-mongering rumours. These are alleged plans of Islamic terrorists. Nobody knows how far they are on their way from the plans to the attack. Magical City and Destructive Hatred Terrorists might attack using remote controlled explosive charges or raids in ultralight planes carrying as much as 160 kilograms of explosives either piloted by suicides or remote-controlled. 

The aeroplanes are believed to be assembled on the takeoff site in meadows or suitable roads in Prague or its surroundings with little traffic. They would reach the target by flying low above rooftops or over the river surface. Islamic terrorists have a number of reasons to attack Prague. According to an expert in Islamic terrorism, one of the motives is the almost destructive hatred of Islamic extremists towards Jews. 

"Prague is a significant place of pilgrimage for Jewish believers, and they know it. There might be a bomb attack on the Old-New Synagogue and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery," said the expert. Czech High Land Rabbi Karol Sidon confirmed for Pravo that Prague is a pilgrim destination for Jews. "Prague is almost as important for believing Jews as the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It is not just about the Old-New Synagogue, the cemetery, and the Holocaust Memorial. Significant personalities of the Jewish culture lived in Prague," 

Rabbi Sidon explained. Pravo provided the information it collected on the terrorists' intentions to the Security Information Service (BIS), the civil intelligence service [UZSI, Office for Foreign Relations and Information], and the National Antidrug Centre. The information includes a list of more than 100 people from the milieu of Islamic terrorism and the narcomafia who plan the attacks on Prague. According to the response of the intelligence services, the information is important. "A great thank for the information. 

They are interesting as a whole. We have known some of it; some pieces are new. Allegedly, many of them, when inserted in the relevant contexts, appear to be valuable," BIS Spokesperson Jan Subert stated in an official response to the information on Islamic terrorism in the Czech Republic compiled by our daily. Concerning the linkages between terrorists and the organized crime, he admitted that criminals from the organized crime environment "are capable of preparing and executing a violent attack in exchange for an appropriate financial sum." National Antidrug Centre Director Jiri Komorous also confirmed the factuality of Pravo 's information. "The information about the people should not be published right now. It would impair the operative work of the police," Komorous told Pravo after having acquainted himself with the information on links between terrorists and the drug mafia. [passage omitted] Albanian Deals? Terrorist threats cannot be underestimated also because they are planned many years in advance and in deep illegality. Moreover, nothing is too abhorrent for terrorists. According to Pravo 's information, an agreement was allegedly made in 1998 between certain Albanian political and Islamic officials and officials of the governmental Iranian revolutionary guards and Iraq's Husayn guards on Albania serving as a "mother flattop" for terrorist operations and the drug mafia's operations deploying Albanians, ethnic Albanians and people from families who studied in the 1950s in the Czech Republic and other countries of the former Soviet bloc. 

These people are to be used for their knowledge of the language, the environment, and their personal relations in the countries. Asked about plausibility of the above information, Bohumil Srajer, the spokesperson for the civil intelligence, spoke diplomatically and evasively. "As an intelligence service, we cannot publicly comment on such concrete information. This reticence ought not to be explained as confirmation or negation of the relevancy of the information. This is an attitude strictly followed by the secret services worldwide," was Srajer's response to Pravo 's question regarding the Albanian deals and information about terrorists abroad who are linked with the Czech Arab group. 

The group, including foreign cells aimed against the Czech Republic, is believed to have about 20 members. Pravo gave the UZSI a complete list of names with phone contacts. Source: Pravo, Prague, in Czech 13 Aug 05 pp 1, 5