POLICE have detained ten Islamists in Europe who are suspected of plotting an attack in Belgium, the prosecutor's office said.
| Ten cell phones, ten laptops... who knows where that might lead. Well done, lads and lasses! |
The arrests were part of "an inquiry into international jihadist terror," a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office said. "In total ten people suspected of preparing an attack in Belgium were arrested in Belgium, Holland and Germany," he said.
The suspects are from Belgium, The Netherlands, Morocco and Chechnya, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. The group used the extremist website Ansar Al Mujahideen.
| This probably isn't the Turkish group Germany was looking for, but possibly the one from Pakistan? Or were there, perhaps, more groups wandering the Western European landscape that we hadn't been informed of? |
The target of the plot was unknown.
The raid followed a months-long investigation that was launched by authorities in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp in late 2009, the office said.
| Hmm. Who was arrested in late 2009 in Antwerp who might have tattled -- or whose cell phone and laptop might have tattled? |
The investigation focused on recruiters, would-be "jihadists" and the financing of a Chechen "terrorist organisation," it said.
Russia has fought two full-blown wars with separatists in Muslim-majority Chechnya since 1994, which left the region devastated.
| Yes, yes. Although the logical response to such devastation would be to attack Russia, not Belgium. At least to those of us who studied geography instead of jihad. |
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