Prague, Czech Republic – A plot to take Jews hostage in a Prague synagogue sparked a terrorism alert in the Czech Republic.
Heavily armed police officers are patrolling the Jewish Quarter and other parts of the city since the government uncovered this plot, which Minister of Interior Ivan Langer called the country’s “first concrete threat of a terrorist attack.”
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The attack was supposed to coincide with the Jewish holidays, when many Jewish tourists visit Prague and its seven major synagogues. “Arab terrorists wanted to abduct dozens of people, hold them hostage, and in the end massacre all of them,” according to the secret services, the terrorists wanted to penetrate into a synagogue in Prague’s centre during a Jewish religious holiday service and take all present believers hostage, and later to blast the building in which they would keep the hostages, and that they would have had explosives ready for use.
The alert led to tightened security at Prague’s airport and train stations as well as areas around the synagogues.
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PRAGUE, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Islamic extremists planned to kidnap dozens of Jews in Prague and hold them hostage before murdering them, the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes reported on Friday.
The Czech Republic’s leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources close to intelligence agencies as saying the captives would have been held in a Prague synagogue while the captors made broad demands that they knew could not be fulfilled.
When those demands — which were not specified by the sources — were not met, the extremists would blow up the building, killing all who were inside, the paper added.
The paper, which gave other few details, did not say whether any arrests were made and did not specify the identities of the extremists.
On Sept. 23 the government deployed armed guards around dozens of buildings and on the streets in the Czech capital after security services issued a warning that an unspecified attack was imminent.
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and government officials have since refused to divulge details of what kind of attack they feared in Prague.
“I am not authorised to provide any information in this case,” the paper quoted Topolanek as saying when asked about the information given by the sources.
“Concurrent with the government decision, I only continue to insist that the measures and the extent of information supplied to the public were, and are in proportion to the information obtained (by intelligence officials) and to the threat.”
The Czech Republic has a small military unit in Afghanistan and military police instructors in Iraq.
Prague’s Old Town is the location for the Jewish Quarter where thousands of tourists — many of them Jews — flock to see centuries-old synagogues and graves.
The country’s once-flourishing Jewish community was decimated during World War Two.
Prague has not been a target of terrorist attacks in the past, although strict security precautions were taken several years ago to protect the downtown headquarters of U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe.
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