Balkans

Bulgaria urges harder EU stance on Hezbollah

EurActiv 19 February 2013

Bulgaria urged European governments on Monday (18 February) to take a harder stance towards Hezbollah after blaming the Lebanese Islamist movement for a bus bombing that

 

Bulgarian FM urges EU to stop Hezbollah

The Jerusalem Post 19 February 2013
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, HILARY LEILA KRIEGER

The European Union should take collective action against Hezbollah, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov said on Monday morning. He spoke with reporters as he walked

 

France considers recognition of Hezbollah as terror group

Ynetnews 18 February 2013

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said Saturday that his country was considering to officially recognize Hezbollah a terror organization if the organization

 

Europe's Learning Curve on Hezbollah

Huffington Post UK 15 February 2013
By Leo Cendrowicz

It's taken decades, but Europe is nearly ready to admit it: Hezbollah is terrorist group, and should be treated with stern diligence It was the Bulgaria hit that did it.

 

Bulgarian government denies meetings with Hamas

Jerusalem Post 15 February 2013
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

The Bulgarian government flatly rejected on Thursday reports that meetings between official representatives of the government and Hamas officials took place. Vessela

 

Illegal mosques financed by Saudis springing up near you

MINA 14 February 2013

Macedonia may need to follow Switzerland and ban the building of new mosques in the country. If the Swiss can do it and be applauded by the rest of Europe why can't we?

 

Kosovo Radical Islamists In New Political Offensive

The Weekly Standard 14 February 2013

Kosovo, the Albanian-majority Balkan republic, is probably best known for its fervent pro-Americanism, understandable given the role of U.S.-led NATO forces in assisting its

 

Production of halal items a boost to Bosnia

Southeast European Times 14 February 2013
By Ana Lovakovic

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has become a regional leader in the production of halal-certified products, and continued development of the sector is an important part of the

 

Hamas reportedly to meet Bulgaria lawmakers

JPost.com 14 February 2013
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Terror group's representatives arrive in Bulgaria to present "Palestinian narrative and expose the false Israeli narrative." Hamas officials who arrived in Bulgaria on Wednesday

 

Prosor to EU: Declare Hezbollah 'terrorists'

JPost.com 14 February 2013
By MICHAEL WILNER

At a UN Security Council discussion on the protection of civilians in armed conflict on Tuesday, Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor renewed his call for Hezbollah to be designated

 

Four Muslims arrested for war crimes in Bosnia

RAPSI 13 February 2013
By Yulia Petrovskaya

The State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on Tuesday arrested four Bosnian Muslims in the town of Bihac, in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, on suspicion of

 

German politicians urge EU to blacklist Hezbollah

JPost.com 13 February 2013
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

After Bulgaria’s interior minister said last week that Hezbollah operatives were involved in last year’s deadly terror attack on the European country’s soil, a number of German

 

EU’s Hezbollah policy has a steep price

The CJN 12 February 2013
By Paul Michaels

Bulgaria’s release of a report blaming Hezbollah for the bombing of a tourist bus in the city of Burgas last July that killed five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver has

 

Radical Islam surging in Balkans - Region has long history of Islamist concentration

WND 11 February 2013
By F. Michael Maloof

Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year

 

Bulgaria to brief EU ministers on bus bombing

Salon 11 February 2013

Bulgaria’s foreign minister says he will brief his EU colleagues on the results of the probe that linked the Shiite group Hezbollah to last year’s bus bombing that killed five

 

Hezbollah Bombs Europe

theTrumpet.com 8 February 2013
By Anthony Chibarirwe

Hezbollah being implicated in a bus bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last July is now putting pressure on the European Union to take a tougher stance against the Lebanon-based, Iran-funded "Party of Allah.”

Findings from a six-month probe into the attack, announced Tuesday by Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, found "obvious links” between two of the attackers and Hezbollah.

 

WaPo gives Hezb'allah Terrorist Killings the Chamberlain Treatment

American Thinker 8 February 2013
By Leo Rennert

Hezb'allah is a terrorist group with a global reach. Except for al-Qaeda, it has murdered more Americans than any other terrorist group. Thus, it comes as no surprise that

 

Europe's Hezbollah Problem

Foreign Policy 7 February 2013
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Since the Lebanese political movement Hezbollah's inception in 1982, the group's relations with the European Union have been characterized by a fragmented

 

Time for EU to call Hezbollah a terrorist group

MiamiHerald.com 7 February 2013
By BRIAN SIEGAL

Last July, a bomb went off in Burgas, Bulgaria, killing five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver, and wounding dozens more. After a six-month investigation,

 

Police join hunt for alleged Australian bomb-maker

The Age 7 February 2013
By David Wroe

AUSTRALIAN police have joined the hunt for an Australian suspected bomb-maker over an alleged Hezbollah terrorist attack in Bulgaria last year as experts warned of broader

 
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