2006 Prague terror plot
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The 2006 Prague terror plot was revealed on September 23, 2006, when security services in Prague went on high alert due to suspicions of an imminent terror attack.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/world/europe/07czech.html|title=Report of Plot to Attack Jews Prompts Terror Alert in Prague|last=Smith|first=Craig S.|date=2006-10-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/more-light-shed-on-terror-threat-against-czech-republic|title=More light shed on terror threat against Czech Republic {{!}} Radio Prague|website=Radio Praha|date=26 September 2006 |language=en|access-date=2018-12-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/10/10/archive/report-on-terror-threat-in-prague-is-surprise-to-jewish-community|title=Report on Terror Threat in Prague is Surprise to Jewish Community|date=2006-10-10|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-24}}
The plot
According to the Czech Republic's leading newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes, Islamist extremists were planning to kidnap and kill Jews in Prague. They intended to take Jews captive in a Prague synagogue, make demands which could not be met and then blow up the building, killing everybody inside. Interior Minister Ivan Langer said the situation was "the most serious ever".[http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,441131,00.html Plot Against Jews Reported in Prague], Spiegel, October 06, 2006
According to Czech Chief Rabbi Efraim Sidon, the attack had been planned against the Jerusalem Synagogue in the center of the city, and not against a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter.[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771427.html Czech officials: Synagogue plot may be linked to Oslo attacks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301041858/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771427.html |date=2007-03-01 }}, Haaretz, October 8th, 2006 The Czech security services were investigating a possible link between fresh terror threats made by radical Muslims to kill Jews in Prague and the arrest of a Pakistani citizen in Oslo.
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Category:Antisemitism in the Czech Republic
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Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2006
Category:Terrorist incidents in the Czech Republic
Category:Terrorist incidents in Europe in 2006
Category:September 2006 in Europe
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