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2005-11-30 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-11-30 09:38|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Read an article last night that the Belgian intelligence service is miffed that French intelligence leaked the woman's identity to RTL. Report said the Belgians would have to hurry and arrest members of the Belgian jihadi cell before they disappeared.

Posted by ed 2005-11-30 10:19|| 2005-11-30 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 hey Ed, do you still remember where you read that article. Would like to read it, if possible.. thanks

Posted by Clereting Pheack1834 2005-11-30 11:34|| 2005-11-30 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Here it is:
14 suspects held in raids linked to suicide bomber

BRUSSELS â Belgian federal police arrested 14 people on Tuesday night in 14 house raids linked to the suicide bomb attack carried out by a Belgian woman in Iraq earlier this month. Police raided 14 homes in Brussels, Antwerp, Charleroi and Tongeren. Nine of the 14 suspects arrested will be ordered to appear at a later date in court. The majority of the suspects are Belgian, two of them are of Moroccan origin and one comes from Tunisia.

They have been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation on Belgian soil, newspaper 'De Standaard' reported on Wednesday.
Police seized documents during the house raids, but no explosives were found.

The raids are linked to a Belgian woman who carried out a suicide bomb attack on 9 November in Iraq. She is reportedly the first European woman to have conducted such an attack in Iraq.
Police have held the woman's family under surveillance for some time and decided to raid the targeted premises on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the public prosecution office, Lieve Pellens, has confirmed that a Belgian national carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq. French television broadcaster RTL broke the story on Tuesday.

The woman has been described as a Belgian national living in Brussels. She converted to Islam after marrying a radical Islamic man. She then travelled to Iraq with her husband. Belgian media has reported that six people were killed in the suicide bomb attack. The woman's husband might also be dead.

Meanwhile, a 27-year-old man has been arrested near Paris in an operation linked to the Belgian raids. The man's identity has not been revealed.
He is suspected of holding links with a terrorist cell that sends Islamic fighters from Belgium to Iraq. The heart of the network is reportedly in Belgium, but the suspect allegedly sought volunteers in France also.

According to one source, the man is allegedly an acquaintance of the female suicide bomber. He can be remanded in custody for another four days.
Police also arrested two men who allegedly gave the suspect accommodation.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-11-30 11:54|| 2005-11-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Oops, same story. More detail though. Could have sworn I saw that other story on Expatica yesterday, I think they pulled it.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-11-30 11:59|| 2005-11-30 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 In the Belgian press, there was no mention of a leak with French intelligence .

Posted by Clereting Pheack1834 2005-11-30 14:09|| 2005-11-30 14:09|| Front Page Top

#6 I will do a quick search for it and post it if I find it. The article is too new for it to show up on google. One other point of the article was that they expected arrests in 2 or 3 days to close down as much of the terrorist cell that sent the Belgian woman to Iraq. But now we know the arrests began the day after the article was written.

Posted by ed 2005-11-30 22:25|| 2005-11-30 22:25|| Front Page Top

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