Polish Breivik Wannabe: Dr Brunon Kwiecień
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Last week the Polish government announced the thwarting of a terrorism plot that is worrisome in its audacity and in who was behind it. In a country with minimal experience of terrorism, the discovery of a sophisticated homegrown bomber seeking to decapitate the government by blowing up the parliament and the president has caused shockwaves and introspection.....(with) ..four tons of high-grade explosives..
An excellent, short article on what is known to date about this alleged plot, the wider context and the sometimes murky world of domestic pre-emption:
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It seems that... the domestic intelligence service was deeply involved in the plot for some time.
Which ends with:
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...the chilling prospect that Anders Breivik was the first of his kind, not the last.
Link:http://nationalinterest.org/commenta...an-terror-7762
Curiously this event has not been reported by the BBC and the Daily Telegraph has a short report where this sentence aroused my attention:
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The Polish press reported that students at Krakow’s Agricultural University, where Brunon K worked, had become alarmed by their lecturer’s comments about the need to remove the government.
Closer to the Dr.:
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It also emerged that Bruno K’s wife, a biologist, had gone to the police when her husband started to enquire about how to kill many people with a biological dirty bomb.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-mistake.html
A murky end to this loner
Prompted by a conference this week on Lone Actor Terrorism (officialdom dislikes wolves incidentally) and a Polish speaker I wondered what happened to this suspect.
So the BBC in December 2015 reported that:
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A Polish university lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for plotting to ram a car packed with explosives into parliament.Brunon Kwiecien, 48, was convicted of planning a terrorist attack, illegal weapons possession and inciting two students to carry out an attack.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35159074
Polish justice moves slowly, he was arrested three years before. A translated Wikipedia entry refers to a two year long trial, plus an ongoing appeal and that his associates were:Link:https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunon_Kwiecień