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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/terrorism

Swedish Eurojust representative claims EU played down planned terrorist attacks in EU before 11 September

Stockholm, 18/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Swedish radio on Thursday, the Swedish Eurojust (the national legal systems' consultation forum) representative, Bjorn Blomkvist, said that EU authorities had played down a spectacular series of terrorist attacks planned for six EU Member States last summer. He said the planned attacks would not have killed as many people as the September attacks in the US, but would have been spectacular from the terrorist point of view. Mr Blomkvist reported that suspects allegedly belonging to the Al Quaida network had been arrested but would not give any details or be forthcoming about which Member States had been targeted. The EU had sent this information to their US counterparts, he said, but there were insufficient details to be able to forecast the 11 September attacks.

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