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The Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo, and developments..
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European nations have arrested dozens of Islamist suspects in the wake of the Belgian anti-terror raids, during which two suspects were killed.
Belgium said the cell was planning to kill police officers.
Greece arrests four over foiled Belgium terror attacks
Greece arrests four over foiled Belgium terror attacks http://str.sg/43W
Belgian police block a street in central Verviers in the east of Belgium on Jan 15, 2015. At least four people were arrested in Athens on Saturday as part of a probe into an Islamic militant cell that was dismantled in Belgium this week before it could carry out any attacks, a Greek police source said. — PHOTO: REUTERS ATHENS (AFP) – At least four people were arrested in Athens on Saturday as part of a probe into an Islamic militant cell that was dismantled in Belgium this week before it could carry out any attacks, a Greek police source said.
Greece’s anti-terror police were seeking to determine whether those arrested included Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the 27-year-old suspected mastermind of the cell who according to media reports may have been planning the foiled attacks from Greece.
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BELGIUM GOES ON HIGH ALERT!
Belgian troops guard possible sites of targets in wake of anti-terror sweep http://tdy.sg/1DMNLfI
People queue as police controls everybody who wants to enter the Palace of Justice in Brussels yesterday (Jan 16). Thirteen people were detained in Belgium and two arrested in France in an anti-terror sweep following a firefight in which two suspected terrorists were killed in the eastern city of Verviers on Thursday. Photo: APBRUSSELS — Armed soldiers fanned out to guard possible terror targets across Belgium as authorities rushed to thwart more attacks by people with links to Mideast Islamic extremists, a day after anti-terror raids netted dozens of suspects across Western Europe.
It was the first time in 30 years that authorities used troops to reinforce police in Belgium’s cities.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/europe/belgian-troops-guard-key-sites-wake-anti-terror-sweep
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Belgium deploys troops after foiling ‘terror’ plot
Belgium deploys troops after foiling ‘terror’ plot http://str.sg/43w
A Belgian paratrooper stands guard outside a Jewish school in the central city of Antwerp Jan 17, 2015. Belgium on Saturday began deploying hundreds of troops to patrol the streets after security forces smashed a suspected Islamist “terrorist” cell planning to kill police officers. — PHOTO: REUTERS BRUSSELS (AFP) – Belgium on Saturday began deploying hundreds of troops to patrol the streets after security forces smashed a suspected Islamist “terrorist” cell planning to kill police officers.
Up to 300 soldiers will be gradually deployed in the capital Brussels and the northern city of Antwerp, which has a large Jewish population, Prime Minister Charles Michel’s office said in a statement.
“The mobilised troops will be armed and their primary responsibility will be to survey certain sites” and to reinforce police, the statement said.
The soldiers could also eventually be deployed to the industrial eastern city of Verviers, where early on Friday security forces killed two suspected Islamists in a huge raid on an alleged militant cell planning to attack police in the country.
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Cruickshank: Terrorists killed in
#Belgium raid had explosive precursors & had police uniforms http://CNN.it/go pic.twitter.com/i004ipDVRN
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Belgium raid on alleged terror group kills two
By Alex Pigman | AFP News
Two shot dead, another arrested in #Belgium raid — allegedly on the verge of a major attack: http://yhoo.it/1ypaGsZ
Belgian police shot dead two alleged militants in a gun battle Thursday during a huge operation to prevent what they called imminent terrorist attacks, raising fresh alarm for Europe days after 17 people were killed in Paris.
A third person was arrested after the bloody shootout in the eastern town of Verviers, near the German border, which targeted a cell of the latest in a series of young Europeans said to have returned from jihad in Syria.
Police also conducted around a dozen searches in Brussels and its suburbs in a sweep that came on the heels of last week’s Islamist attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
“This operational cell of about ten people, some of whom had returned from Syria, was on the point of launching significant terrorist attacks in Belgium,” Thierry Werts of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office told a press conference in Brussels.
“During the search, certain suspects immediately opened fire at special forces of the police with automatic weapons. They opened fire for several minutes. Two suspects were killed and a third was arrested.”
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RT EU anti-terror alert: 2 suspects killed, 1 captured in Belgium raid http://on.rt.com/8vome1
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Reuters Top News Two reported dead in Belgian counter-terrorism raid http://reut.rs/158uMgL
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Belgian police engaged in a firefight with 3 people believed to be on the verge of committing a terrorist attack http://on.wsj.com/1C5pejH
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