Terrorist Islamist threat in Bulgaria

By Ioannis MichaletosIn July 2012 Bulgaria’s main tourism destination, the Burgas coastal city, was hit by a suicide bomber that killed a group of five Israeli tourists in the local airport, signaling the first attack of such type in the Balkans and bringing once more time into the surface, the issue of extremist Islam in the region, which has flourished over the past 20 years, especially in the Western Balkans.