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The Czech Republic has stepped up security in the wake of US warnings of a
possible terrorist attack in Europe. Tightened security measures are in
place at airports, railway stations and bus terminals as well as around
foreign embassies and high-risk facilities. Although the Czech Interior
Ministry has said it has no evidence to suggest that the perceived threat
of an attack by Al Qaeda terrorists relates specifically to the Czech
Republic. Radio Prague asked security expert and former head of the
country’s military intelligence service Andor Šándor what could make
the Czech Republic a potential target. More
Current AffairsNuclear materials uncovered in briefcase of ex-director of Czech power plant
The former director of the country’s biggest nuclear plant Temelín,
František Hezoučký, is in hot water after it emerged that he attempted
to leave the plant carrying nuclear material in his briefcase a few weeks
ago. Both the police and the State Office for Nuclear Safety are now
looking into the incident.
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Current AffairsAnti-blast bins begin appearing in Prague metro stations over eight years after 9/11
All of the rubbish bins in Prague’s metro stations were removed for
security reasons in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United
States. Now, over eight years later, they are slowly making a comeback,
after Prague’s authorities decided to invest in high tech bomb-resistant
bins for the city’s underground rail system.
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Current AffairsCounter-intelligence service confirms it averted Iraq planned attack in 2003
Security experts and the public alike were left reeling on Sunday after a
Czech TV station revealed that Iraqi intelligence agents working for Saddam
Hussein plotted an attack on the Prague headquarters of Radio Free Europe.
Spokesman Jan Šubert of the Czech intelligence service told TV Nova that
the agents planned a machine gun and rocket propelled grenade attack on the
building in a plot ordered by Saddam Hussein.
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