Kosovo issues indictments for nine local men on charges of planning to carry out terror attacks against Israel’s national soccer team during a World Cup match in Albania in November 2016, Reuters reports.
The nine are part of a larger group of 19 arrested last year for alleged links with the Islamic State and purported plans to carry out terror attacks.
The November 12 game was moved “to a venue near the capital Tirana from a stadium in the northern town of Shkoder” due to the threat, Reuters reports.
The nine men were allegedly receiving instructions from Lavdrim Muhaxheri, an IS commander believed killed in Syria.
According to Reuters:
One of the defendants had kept in his basement 283 grams of self-made triacetone triperoxide (TATP) explosives. The same explosive was used in attacks in Paris and Brussels and was found in a series of foiled bombings in Europe since 2007.
Another defendant had produced half a kilo of explosives at his house from ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), it said.
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