(Jerusalem Post) Police in Budapest Tuesday arrested a 42-year-old dentist of "Palestine origin" who is the spiritual leader of the Islamic community in the city and suggested he was planning to bomb the city's Jewish museum. Two Syrians also were detained on related charges. Senior law enforcement officials in Hungary denied that visiting Israeli President Moshe Katsav was the target of the planned attack. Police Lt. Col. Attila Petofi said the suspect began making phone calls in November to friends "to get explosives," and on one occasion "he asked an acquaintance to use the explosive to blow up a Jewish museum."
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