Office for Foreign Relations and Information 

Today in the morning you participated in the meeting of the intelligence group composed of the representatives of Czech intelligence services and special part of the police. Has the meeting led to any new measures or has it provided any new information?

Except for the information that have been provided by the Minister of the Interior and except for the measures he has specified, no other measures have been taken. It is especially due to the fact that no details are available at this moment and there is no clue as to where to start to solve the whole matter.

Is the information really unknown or are you, as the representatives of secret services, keeping it for yourself for the time being?

Don't tell me that you have the same information as we, the journalists, have from open sources. No, I really cannot confirm now that no further information other than the information from open sources is known.

What is today, several years after the attack on New York, meant by Al Qaeda? Has the attack in London proved that there may be the so-called sleeping cells of Al Qaeda in Europe?

It is very difficult to say. What happened today in London of course indicates that in Europe there can be, as you say, Al Qaeda sleeping cells. Al Qaeda cannot be regarded as a solid structure. It is more a network of loosely connected groups which communicate and cooperate with each other in a certain way.

What actually connects them? Are there any other relating factors except for carrying out terrorist actions, probably mainly aimed at Western Christian countries, or is it really a loose group?

In my opinion it is really a loose group. Naturally, they are connected by a certain common ideological objective.

I remember when you were the guest to Interview BBC about 9 months ago that you indicated that in your opinion the threat of terrorist attacks had increased after the war in Iraq, although, at the beginning of the war against terrorism Afghanistan and Iraq were said to provide a refuge for Al Qaeda and its people. Do you think that the attack in the centre of London, or better to say, the attacks in the centre of London have proved the thesis claiming that the world has become more dangerous after four years of the war against terrorism?

I wouldn't say it is more dangerous. We can say that with regard to the historical experience of the events in Afghanistan or Iraq, the danger of similar attacks has certainly not reduced.