Two Bulgarians were convicted of collaboration with the Afghan terrorist Osama bin Laden in drugs trafficking, the Italian newspaper Republica wrote. Grozdio Grozdev and Velizar Petkanov were arrested in Rome on November 5 with two Albanian drug dealers. Bulgarian, Austrian and Hungarian special services broke into the “road of bin Laden,” the newspaper claims, reporting on the arrest of the Bulgarian drug dealers. According to Republica, narcotic substances have been transported from Kandahar and stored in Bulgaria.