Police hold Iranian in Belgian bomb plot: prosecutor
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Belgian police have arrested an  Iranian who said he was involved in a plot to bomb a passenger  plane in Belgium, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors  office said on Thursday.
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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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Moroccan officials said Friday they have arrested an alleged member of a terrorist group that is believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in Casablanca.
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German prosecutors said Monday they had arrested an engineer on suspicion that he helped Libya in its efforts to build a nuclear weapons program, eight months after the man was named by authorities in Malaysia as a key figure in a network that spread nuclear secrets around the world.
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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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Dutch police have made a fresh arrest in the investigation into the murder of a filmmaker who was critical of Islam, while two other suspects were released, the Amsterdam prosecutor said on Saturday.
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Coalition forces on Thursday arrested a suspected member of an elite Iranian unit that has been accused of training and equipping insurgents in Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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Indonesian police have arrested four  suspects, among them a bomb-maker, over a blast outside the  Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 10 people in  September, police chief Da'i Bachtiar said Wednesday.
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Police in Holland have arrested a Dutch national suspected of supplying thousands of tonnes of nerve gas to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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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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Switzerland confirmed on Wednesday it was holding the Algerian suspected leader of a radical Islamic cell believed to have been plotting a bomb attack in Spain.
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Police on Wednesday arrested a Moroccan and three Algerians in connection with an alleged plot by a radical Islamic cell to blow up a court and other buildings in Spain, officials said.
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Dutch police have arrested a man for  a "joke" bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the U.S.  embassy in The Hague last week, they said on Wednesday.
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The German police arrested three Iraqis on Friday who the chief federal prosecutor said appeared to have been planning an attack on the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, who is here for talks with Chancellor ...
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German authorities have released a Lebanese man arrested in connection with an alleged plot against Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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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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Seventeen are held after raids in the military for allegedly 'plotting attacks', Belgian prosecutors say.