...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
for a second day Monday due to beefed-up security checks following the attacks in Gay Paree, officials said.
| Border officials have detained dozens of foreigners attempting to cross through Kapitan Andreevo, including a friend of the Kouachi brothers who shot dead 12 people in an attack on the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in January. |
The measures led to huge queues at the busy Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, with truck drivers waiting for hours to exit Bulgaria while police scanned their cargo.
"The queue this morning is about 10 kilometres (six miles) long despite our efforts to conduct the checks as quickly as possible," a border police official at the checkpoint told AFP by phone.
Bulgaria -- a member of the EU but not of the passport-free Schengen zone -- is a transit point for a growing number of western Europeans seeking to join the jihadist Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in Syria and Iraq.
Border officials have detained dozens of foreigners attempting to cross through Kapitan Andreevo, including a friend of the Kouachi brothers who rubbed out 12 people in an attack on the Gay Paree offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...in January.