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Four Arrested, Arms Cache Found after Brussels Terror Raids
2017-07-06
[AnNahar] Four people have been tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
and an arms cache found after overnight terror raids in Brussels linked to a bikers' club called the Kamikaze Riders
...a Salafist motorcycle gang inspired by ISIS, several of whose members were arrested in the final days of 2015 for planning a Paris-style mass attack on Brussels' Grand Place and the nearby police station...
federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

"During one of the house searches, various weapons were found. In all, four persons were arrested and taken in for questioning," prosecutors said in a statement.

A front man said the raids were linked to the Kamikaze Riders, which has been implicated in terror offences.

A source close to the investigation said the raids in the gritty Anderlecht district found at least two Kalashnikov assault rifles while reports spoke of explosives also being discovered.

The statement from prosecutors said the raids were "completely independent" from the probe into the deadly November 2015 Gay Paree and March 2016 Brussels attacks, which were claimed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and carried out by jihadi cells based in the Belgian capital.

Meanwhile in northern La Belle France, a joint Franco-Belgian anti-terrorist operation picked up a man on suspicion of having links to the Kamikaze Riders.

The 42-year-old, arrested in a suburb of the northern city of Lille, is suspected of plotting a "violent action", a source close to the case said.

The Kamikazes Riders, formed in 2003, are suspected of links to foiled attacks in Brussels in late 2015.

In October 2016, two members of the group were convicted of belonging to a terrorist group. One was enjugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for six years, the other for three. They were suspected of plotting an attack similar to the November 2015 jihadist rampage in Gay Paree that left 130 people dead.
The Times of Israel adds:
At least two of the suspects placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
in Brussels terror raids overnight were suspected of planning an attack, a source close to the investigation says.

The source, who asked not to be named, confirms media reports saying the two were brothers of Said Saouti, a member of the Kamikaze Bikers club who was tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
for six years in 2016 for belonging to a terrorist group.
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