Belgium Arrests 14 in Terrorist Plot
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"You can point out possible suspect objects and actions to the local police"  Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said.Security was heightened at airports, subway stations and other public places across the capital, and the U.S. Embassy warned Americans of 'a heightened risk of terrorist attack in Brussels' although it had no indication of any American targets.Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said the government had information suggesting 'preparation of an attack.' Read more
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Two suspected Islamic extremists arrested this week are suspected of plotting to assassinate two Dutch lawmakers known for their critical stance towards Islam, the Dutch press reported.
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Belgian authorities on Tuesday arrested Youssef Belhadj, a Moroccan wanted by Spain in connection with the March 11 Madrid train bombing, the Belgian state prosecutor's office was quoted as saying.
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Dutch prosecutors said on Friday they  believed that some of those arrested at a suspected Kurdistan  Workers Party (PKK) camp in the Netherlands were planning to  carry out "terrorist attacks" in Turkey.
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Spanish police said on Monday they had  arrested 14 people, thought to be Moroccans, in a wide-ranging  operation against Islamic militants.
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Belgium arrested 14 suspects and  stepped up security in public places on Friday after thwarting  a plot to spring from jail an al Qaeda suspect arrested in  September 2001 for plotting attacks on U.S. targets.
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Fourteen men were arrested in   anti-terrorism raids in south and east London, police in the   British capital said on Saturday.
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Belgium steps up security in the capital after a plot to free a jailed al-Qaeda suspect is discovered, officials say.
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Belgian police arrest a man suspected of threatening to kill a senator who criticised fundamentalist Muslims.
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German police arrest 14 suspected Islamic radicals in massive raids across the country.
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A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say.
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Belgian authorities said 14 people were arrested Friday for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel.
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Police made 14 arrests in raids of apartments and mosques in five German states Wednesday in a crackdown on a criminal Islamic extremist organization suspected of aiding terrorists, authorities said.
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Spain's civil guard police arrested 14  suspected Islamist extremists in Barcelona on Saturday, Spanish  media reported, quoting Interior Ministry sources.
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The 14 people detained were described as Islamic extremists. Belgian authorities said raids in 15 locations, mostly in Brussels, had turned up explosives and arms.
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Belgian authorities on Saturday released 14 suspects detained over an alleged plot to free an al-Qaida prisoner because of a lack of evidence, the Federal Prosecutor's office said.
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Three Belgian soldiers have been placed under formal arrest as investigations widen into an alleged neo-Nazi terror plot, the federal prosecutor's office announced.