Al Qaeda Planning To Attack Euro 2008 Football Championship
May 15, 2008
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Al Qaeda is planning to attack the Euro 2008 football championships in Switzerland and Austria in June, Swiss police say.
“The Euro 2008 tournament is a target cited by the Islamist terrorist network,” federal police spokesman Juerg Buehler told Swiss newspaper La Liberte.
He said messages had been posted on Islamist websites and police were “following the situation very closely”.
One of the messages urges terrorists to “transform the safest countries in Europe to the hell seen in Iraq or Afghanistan”.
“The time has come for the fighters of the faith. They must make their voices heard,” said another.
Authorities fear the global media coverage of the tournament will make it an attractive target for an attack.
Security will be tight in and around the grounds, and extra checks will be made on people buying tickets from “high-risk” areas in the Middle East, the newspaper reported.
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Hope one day people will learn to live together, and all terror groups like Al-Qaeda, who try to stop modern cultures grow, or PKK, Kurdish child killers, who try to divide, take over countries and name it Kurdistan will be history. Killing innocent civilians is a crime against humanity. We will never allow them succeed. God bless all those innocents murdered in terror attacks.