4 Arrested for Incitement to Radical Islamism in Bulgaria

Crime | February 20, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00

Bulgaria's special unit for fight against organized crime busted two web pages that incite radical Islamism on Monday, Darik News reported.

The Internet sites also called for jihad and radical changes in Bulgaria's constitution.

The police arrested four individuals - two men and two women. All of them are connected to the established in 2006 Union of the Muslims in Bulgaria. The leader of the crime group is a 51-year-old man. He is allegedly connected to a Jordan citizen, who was expelled from the country for founding a branch of the radical Islamic organization "Muslim Brothers".

One of the arrested women, wife of the leader, had to gather information from Chechen web pages, translate it in Bulgarian and then upload it on the site.

The other arrested woman, a 27-year-old who had recently converted herself to Islam, created another web page, which is propagates Wahhabism - this is the ideology of modern terrorism and lays in the basic ideology of Al-Qaeda.

The two pages appeal to all Muslims over the world to unite and help with money, arms and human force the holy war against the infidels.

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