Thursday - January 15, 2015

police in anti terrorist raid … belgium tonight

Even usually quiet, little Belgium.

BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror raid in Belgian town centre ‘leaves two dead after 10-minute gun battle with Islamic State cell sent back to carry out attacks on Europe’

Official says that the police anti-terror raid is ‘jihadist-related’
Men targeted were under surveillance having returned from Syria last week
Islamic State video yesterday called for lone-wolf attacks in Europe
Comes after investigators said they were probing local arms dealer
He is believed to have sold weapons to deli killer Amedy Coulibaly

By Peter Allen and Damien Gayle for MailOnline and Reuters

Two people were killed by police during a ‘jihadi-related’ anti-terror raid tonight in the Belgian town of Verviers.

Shots and explosions were heard, including machine gun fire, as officers moved against an alleged cell in the eastern town, which is some 70 miles from Brussels.

It follows three days of violence in nearby France, which left 20 people dead, including three Islamic State and Al Qaeda linked terrorists.

Officials said the targets were a jihadist cell who had recently returned from Syria and had been ordered to carry out attacks in Europe by Islamic State superiors

Hooded commandos were seen in Verviers, near Liege, shortly before 6pm, and according to Belgian prosecutors they were trying to arrest Islamic extremists newly returned from fighting in Syria.

‘An operation is under way,’ a source in the mayor’s office told AFP without giving further details. Another official separately told the agency the incident was ‘jihadist-related’.

Beyond the dead – who number two or three – a ‘number of people were also arrested,’ said the local judicial source. Belgium, which has long been home to a large Muslim population, is believed to have the highest proportion of citizens who have left to fight in the Middle East, after Britain

Automatic weapons and a rocket launcher used in the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher supermarket attacks in Paris were purchased from Belgian gangs, police said earlier this week.

The Scorpion machine gun and the Tokarev handgun used by Amedy Coulibaly during his attack on the kosher supermarket which resulted in the deaths of four Jewish Parisians came from Brussels and Charleroi.

And the Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers used by the Kouachi brothers to attack the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, killing 12, were purchased by Coulibaly near the Gare du Midi in Brussels for less than £4000.

There was no immediate confirmation of any link between the Coulibaly investigation and Thursday’s raid.

One man, Neetin Farasula, from the airport city of Charleroi in French-speaking southern Belgium, is in detention on suspicion of a possible link to the weapons used in the Paris attacks.

lots to read, source.

Posted by peiper     on 01/15/2015 at 02:56 PM   
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