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Notorious terrorist has not resided in Bulgaria

Thu, Oct 25 2001 14:00 CET

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A new full-scale check of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry and consultations with foreign intelligence services found no information that notorious terrorist Aiman al-Zawahiri has ever stayed or passed through Bulgarian territory, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elena Poptodorova said on Wednesday.

The information was announced as a comment on a publication in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The newspaper wrote on Tuesday that, in 1996, al-Zawahiri, allegedly the world's number two most wanted terrorist, spent a short time in Bulgaria and applied for political asylum. A year earlier, he was among the organizers of four terrorist acts against civilian Egyptian installations in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Pakistan and Egypt. A total of 20 people were killed, according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry finds it inexplicable that the paper decided to run this story right now, Poptodorova added. "We would like to think that this is within the context of the fight against terrorism," she said.

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