Bulgarian FBI Bust Radical Islam Cell

Former regional Mufti, Aydan Mohamed, told Darik radio that police are conducting a special anti-radical Islam operation in villages of southern Bulgaria. Photo by DarikNews

Employees of the Bulgarian National Agency for State Security (DANS) and of the anti-mafia police unit in the southern town of Gotse Delchev are carrying out a special anti-radical Islam police operation.

The operation took place Wednesday in the villages of Lazhnitsa and Avramovo.

The former regional Mufti, Aydan Mohamed, told Darik radio that police are now raiding the home of the Lazhnitsa Imam, Mohamed Kamber, and the situation in the village is very "tense."

The special task force is looking at documents for donations and for education of people from the southern region abroad, all signed by the Imam.

The police have seized a large number of propaganda brochures with radical Islam content, promoting religious hate and change of the Bulgarian constitution. All have been published by the extremist Al Waqf al Islami Foundaton. The authorities have further confiscated a number of invoices showing illegal financing and violations of the tax laws, the Interior Ministry press center reports.

The Al Waqf al Islami Foundation was established in the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands and it is believed to be financed by extremist Muslim circles from Saudi Arabia.

Its headquarters were closed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US, when the Dutch authorities discovered ties between the Foundation and the perpetrators of the attacks.

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