The 2006 Prague terror plot was revealed on 23 September 2006, when security services in Prague went on high alert due to suspicions of an imminent terror attack.[1][2][3]
According to the Czech Republic's leading newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes, Islamist extremists were planning to kidnap and kill Jews in Prague. They intended to take Jews captive in a Prague synagogue, make demands which could not be met, and then blow up the building, killing everybody inside. Interior Minister Ivan Langer said the situation was "the most serious ever".[4]
According to Czech Chief RabbiEfraim Sidon, the attack had been planned against the Jerusalem Synagogue in the centre of the city, and not against a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter.[5] The Czech security services were investigating a possible link between fresh terror threats made by radical Muslims to kill Jews in Prague and the arrest of a Pakistani citizen in Oslo.[5]
