For instance, it is not widely known that the jihad against the Czech Republic was officially announced.
Its reason is the participation of Czech soldiers in the international military mission in Afghanistan, Raz said."A religious fatva on the need to declare jihad against everyone who participates in the military operations in Afghanistan also applies to our country," Raz said.According to the police, a terrorist attack that militants could organise in the Czech Republic would probably be a matter of an Czechs ask USA to help modernise its military cargo aircraft ...
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Rice says Czechs might travel to USA visa-free by year end ... individual or a narrow group of people.The attackers would probably use explosives in it."According to our information, no terrorist organisation permanently operates in the Czech Republic and no open expression of terrorism has taken place there," Raz said.However, police have registered that well known terrorists who are prosecuted in other countries have either stayed in the Czech Republic and passed through its territory, he said.Police have also come across the material that was produced with the goal to radicalise young people and attract them to supporting jihad, he said."We have also discovered Internet pages in the Czech language that provided advice on how to build a training camp, how to communicate without using such words as an attack or a bomb in the communication, the pages that contain sharply hostile texts aimed against the United States and Europe and glorifying international terrorism," Raz said.According to him, terrorist attacks do not take place far from the Czech Republic but very near it.In addition, the events that happened in Denmark after caricatures satirising Prophet Mohammad were published there show that practically any act could lead to a conflict breaking out, Raz said."If we do not want to suppress our own freedom of speech and introduce self-censorship or any kind of censorship we must be prepared for such a risk," he said.Raz said that regardless of the risk of terrorism he did not think that the legislators should widen the police powers in any way and should provide them, for instance, with wider possibilities to limit human rights and freedoms.It is rather necessary to improve action ability of specialised police units, to raise to a better level communication between police units in the Czech Republic and abroad and to achieve a better quality of cooperation with the judiciary, he said.State institutions should also bear in mind the danger of a terrorist attack while preparing integrated rescue systems and it is also necessary to increase the awareness of public institutions and the general public awareness of terrorism."It is necessary to emphasise that the problem of terrorism is not fashionable or virtual but real," Raz said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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