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2015-12-30 Europe
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Belgium arrests two over 'New Year plot'
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[BBC] Belgian police have tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
two people suspected of planning attacks in Brussels during the festive season.
Raids took place on Sunday and Monday in Brussels and the provinces of Phlegmish Brabant and Liege.
Police seized military clothing and computer equipment in the raids, but no weapons or explosives.
Belgium has been on high alert since the attacks of 13 November in Gay Paree. Several of the perpetrators are thought to have been based in Belgium.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the latest arrests are not linked to the Gay Paree attacks, prosecutors say.
One of those arrested is suspected of leading and recruiting for a terrorist cell.
The suspects are accused of planning attacks against several "symbolic targets" in Brussels, as well as on the police, according to the Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
The two suspects, who the source said were male, were nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
following searches Sunday and Monday in the Brussels area, the Liege region and Phlegmish Brabant, the prosecutor's office said. It did not disclose their names or further information about them.
During the searches, military-type training uniforms, propaganda materials from the 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....
group and computer material were seized and are being examined.
Six people were taken in for questioning, but four were released, the office said.
| Interesting update from An Nahar at 7:30 a.m. ET: |
Belgium Probes Salafist Motorcycle Gang in Alleged Islamist New Year Plot
Belgium is probing whether a cycle of violence gang was involved in an alleged plot to launch attacks in Brussels during New Year's festivities, a source close to the probe told AFP Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that the authorities had locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
two people suspected of plotting to attack "emblematic sites" in the Belgian capital following raids in the areas of Brussels and Liege.
A source close to the investigation said a counter-terrorism judge was probing links between the "Kamikaze Riders" gang and the alleged plotters.
"The investigation is looking at this group of motorcyclists," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity without saying whether those tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
were gang member.
Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure said that one of those arrested is a Salafist who founded the gang and that several of its members are supporters of the jihadist cause.
The two suspects are due to appear in court on Thursday when a judge will determine whether to keep them in jug.
The source close to the investigation said prosecutors were trying to determine whether the alleged plotters had direct links to the Islamic State group.
Prosecutors said the police raids on Sunday and Monday was not linked to the deadly attacks in Gay Paree in November which were claimed by the Islamic State group and which La Belle France says were prepared in Belgium.
The Belga news agency, citing an internal police memo, said there "exists a possible and credible threat of Gay Paree-style attacks" against the high-profile Grand Place, the neighboring central cop shoppe as well as soldiers and police in uniform. Tourists and others flock to the Grand Place, the opulent central square of Brussels.
Belgian media reported that the city authorities will decide Wednesday whether to go ahead with a New Year's Eve fireworks display at Place de Brouckere, another central square. 
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