British Embassy staff in Romania were targeted by a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist brandishing a sword.
The Iraqi, named as Karim Friad, was pounced on by police as he brandished the nine-inch blade near the building's gates in the capital, Bucharest.
Not likely to be al-Qaeda's smartest terrorist, is Karim...
Romania's SRI intelligence service are understood to have had the suspect under surveillance for days after he entered the country, according to The Sun.
Sources told the paper his mission was to kill British or American officials.
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed the incident to MailOnline, saying: 'We can confirm an individual was detained by the Romanian intelligence service.
'This matter is now for the SRI. We would like to thank the Romanian authorities for their help.'
The man was watched earlier near the US embassy in Bucharest but appears to have been put off by the layers of security round the complex.
Unlike in Benghazi...
He headed for the less secure British compound yesterday morning but was arrested by undercover SRI agents the moment he posed a threat to staff.
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Nine-inch sword - my great aunt has one of those, her brother brought it back from the war as a keepsake. I think they're called kaiken? It's a lady's toy, small enough to be stuck in the back of an obi - even wakazashi are longer.
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#5
Sounds like my letter opener. If he's being an ass, sure, but sword? A-team writing for other projects then?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
