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Current AffairsPolice uncover first case of a terrorist network operating in the Czech Republic, eight charged with aiding Dagestani Shariat Jamaat
Police in the Czech Republic have uncovered the first ever case of an
international terrorist network operating within the country. It has now
been reported that eight foreigners from the radical Islamic organisation
Shariat Jamaat of Dagestan, were arrested in April from sites around
Bohemia, after a three-year investigation for proof of their complicity in
terrorism in the North Caucuses region. The news is the first evidence of a
long-held fear that the Czech Republic may be an apt strategic location for
terrorist cells. Christian Falvey has this report. More
Current AffairsPreferential votes turn party ballots upside down
In the Czech general elections, voters shook up the political scene by
turning away from the major parties and supporting newcomers. But the
change did not stop there: in a new phenomenon of Czech politics, thousands
of preferential votes sent many of the old, familiar faces in the lower
house home, to be replaced by outsiders from the bottom of party’s
ballots.
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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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Current AffairsPM Fischer’s government gets new lease on life
The caretaker government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer – originally set
up
for a brief five-month period – is now set to rule the country until
regular general elections scheduled for May 2010. On Wednesday, Mr Fischer
addressed the lower house of the Czech Parliament, and outlined his
cabinet’s major priorities for the coming months. More
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