Polish authorities have arrested a radical nationalist who planned to blow up parliament and had links to the right-wing extremist who murdered dozens of people in Norway last year, the Independent Online website reports today (November 21, 2012).
The suspected plot -- to detonate a bomb outside parliament when the country's most senior officials were inside -- was the first of its kind since Poland threw off Communist rule more than 20 years ago.
"This is a new and dramatic experience," said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was one of the intended targets of the assassination plot, along with the president.
Prosecutors said the suspect -- a 45-year-old scientist who works for a university in the southern city of Krakow and has not been publicly identified -- planned to plant four tons of explosives in a vehicle outside parliament and detonate it remotely.
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