 | PRINT! | CLOSE! |
No Bin Laden Threat for Estonia TALLINN - The Estonian Security Police foresees no immediate danger for Estonia in an EU threat made Wednesday by Osama bin Laden."As the threat was intended for the whole European Union, pertaining to all residents of EU member countries, including Estonia, the Security Police will certainly not leave it unnoticed. But we do not currently forecast increase of the threat of terror in Estonia," Security Police commissar Andres Kahar told BNS. He said the Security Police Board continued meaningful activity in the prevention of terrorist acts. In an audio address published in the Internet on Wednesday, Osama bin Laden threatened the European Union with a punishment for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Bin Laden underlined that the publication of cartoons of the prophet was a much more severe crime than the combined miltary action by Western forces thusfar. Bin Laden went on to accuse the pope of taking part in a crusade against the Islamic world. The threat was published by an Islamic extremist web site that has hosted bin Laden's messages before. The cartoons of the prophet were originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in the Fall of 2005. This February many Danish papers republished the cartoons to protest against plans to murder the author of the cartoons. |
|