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| Islamic Terror Cell Uncovered in Lithuania |
| 2004-07-23 |
| Police raided an apartment in Vilnius Monday, acting on intelligence information that weapons and Jihadist literature were being stored there. Three Lithuanian Muslims were arrested on terror-related charges when police raided the apartment, which was being used as a makeshift mosque. The Baltic BNC network said literature and pamphlets inciting violence and providing logistical information for terrorist attacks were discovered in the prayer room. Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, is home to 30,000 of Lithuania's 110,000 Muslims. Lithuania, a former Soviet-bloc country with a population of 3.6 million people, joined European Union in May 2004. Recent investigations into the proliferation of nuclear materials have pointed to Lithuania as a major site of nuclear smuggling. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #5 Header sounds like a Monty Python skit... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-07-23 8:37:49 PM |
| #4 Lithuania, a former Soviet-bloc country with a population of 3.6 million people, joined (the) European Union in May 2004. So much for the execution... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-23 12:39:13 PM |
| #3 I tried to find some other info on this story and was only able to find a news report at Islam Online about it. (Which it seems is the original story) http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-07/22/article01.shtml I will keep an eye out for any additional information. |
| Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-07-23 10:50:45 AM |
| #2 I lived in Latvia in 1993 & 1994; what Baltic Blog writes mirrors what I saw there. Still I can't discount the possibility this is true. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-23 9:44:12 AM |
| #1 I'm sorry; this story's red-lining my BS detector. I live in the Baltics, have traveled to Lithuania on many occasions, and am pretty familiar with the country. First, I've never heard of the "Baltic BNC" network. If they exist they leave a light Google footprint. I've checked BNS (Baltic News Service), the AP-style wire service. Nada on this. Two, there are not 110,000 Muslims living in the country. More like 5,000. (State Dept. reference) And dollars to donuts they are mostly Muslims from central Asia that were forcibly collectivized under Stalin and forced to move, like the Tartars. The ones I've met are about as nominally post-religious as the rest of Christianized Europe. Lithuania ain't becoming the next Netherlands. |
| Posted by: Baltic Blog 2004-07-23 3:43:18 AM |