An “ensemble cast" from international terrorist groups came together to carry out a terrorist attack with a RPG launcher against the US Embassy in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 1991 as a warning against the United States before the launch of the land Desert Storm operation against Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein (essentially the second stage of the First Gulf War or the First Iraq War), a former Bulgarian intelligence chief has revealed in an interview.
The terrorist attack against the US Embassy in Sofia, which was ultimately foiled, had been planned for February 9, 1991, Gen. Todor Boyadzhiev, a former intelligence officer and former Chief Secretary of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has told news site Dnes.dir.bg, discussing an upcoming book, his third, in which he reveals actual “spy stories".
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