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| Spain arrests three accused of connections to Islamist militants |
| 2017-01-14 |
[Ynet] Spanish police have locked awayMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! three people accused of connections with Islamist krazed killers, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, two in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and a third in the northern town of Figueras. The two detained had been through a long radicalisation process and formed part of a group which was thought to be at an advanced stage of preparation for potential attacks, it said. Police, searching six locations in relation to the arrests, found one gun and three non-firing weapons, the ministry said, though it did not elaborate. Separately, the ministry said later on Friday that police had detained a Moroccan man with Dutch papers accused of belonging to ISIS and who may have returned to Spain from a conflict zone within the last couple of days. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Thank you for the update, dear Pancho Snore8829. Rantburg is the result of such teamwork. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-14 20:29 |
| #5 "why do they put so much diplomatic effort into hammering Israel?" Anti-Semitism, #3 ed. Otherwise known as business as usual. But you knew that. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-01-14 20:02 |
| #4 Belgian police detained three people for questioning after carrying out house searches in Brussels that were related to an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on Saturday. The house searches were carried out in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, which gained international attention when locals with links to Syria took part in the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. "The searches were carried out as part of an investigation by Brussels prosecutors," a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors said. "While nothing was found, three people were taken in for questioning." The area where the searches took place was closed off to traffic as special police forces with machine guns moved in, a Reuters journalist said. |
| Posted by: Pancho Snore8829 2017-01-14 18:44 |
| #3 So, if the Europeans spend all this effort trying to fight Islamic terrorism, why do they put so much diplomatic effort into hammering Israel? (Just curious if there's a logical reason here...) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-01-14 18:20 |
| #2 Thank you for the heads up, Bright Pebbles. The Daily Mail has an article started -- it'll be posted for tomorrow. Hopefully by then more will be known. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-14 18:12 |
| #1 Also #BREAKING; Army deployed to #Molenbeek, #Brussels, where huge anti-#terror operation is ongoing.!! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-01-14 17:31 |