LUCIN: THERE IS NO 100% SECURITY FROM TERRORISM

ZAGREB, Sept 19 (Hina) - Not even expensive security systems, including the American, can completely respond to the challenge of new forms of international terrorism, Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in parliament on Wednesday. Croatia has done all it can to increase security to the maximum following last week's terrorist attacks on the United States. The control of goods and people entering and leaving the country has been tightened, special control has been introduced at airports and some people with police files have been put under police surveillance, Lucin said in answer to a question by a Social Liberal who wanted to know if the ministry was ready and able to guarantee safety to the citizens after the terrorist attacks on the USA. The minister warned that it was not good to consider every bomb explosion a terrorist attack. There are cases when people use explosive devices in neighbour quarrels, he said. The police have solved 83% of 240 attacks involving explosive devices which took place in this year's first seven months, Lucin said. He confirmed that four bombings which occurred in Zagreb had not been solved yet and that some persons who possessed the same explosive as used in the bombings had been arrested and later released. However, there is no statute of limitation on such criminal acts, he said, adding the trial of the perpetrators of a bombing committed six years ago would start at the end of this month. The police believe that the latest case, the bombing of the Mormon church in Varazdin, has nothing to do with the terrorist attacks in the United States. Some two weeks before the bombing, hate messages were written on the church door, but that was not reported to the police, he said. (hina) rml