The daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet reported on Monday that cooperation between Hungarian secret services, the Counter Terrorism Centre and European police forces played a major role in uncovering an armed terrorist attack in Budapest ordered by a leader of the Taliban resistance.

However, the news website Index wrote that János Hajdú, head of the Counter Terrorism Centre, stated decidedly at the closed sitting of Parliament’s national security committee on Thursday that there was no failed terrorist plot planned in Budapest whose perpetrators were caught with the help of TEK and Hungarian authorities before carrying out the attack.

According to the state news agency MTI, the committee’s Socialist chairman Zsolt Molnár said that the cited newspaper article contained misinformation for reasons currently being examined by services. He too confirmed that there was no Taliban terror attack planned in Budapest and no information suggests that Hungary is directly threatened by terrorism.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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