Topic: Brussels

Belgium rounds up 26 in anti-terror raids

Police busted Tuesday a Chechnya-linked Islamist network plotting to attack Belgium and rounded up another extremist group suspected of recruiting jihad fighters, amid heightened terrorism fears in Europe.Authorities detained 11 people in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany as part of an investigation ...
Belgian terror trial opens for 9 suspects with alleged links to al-Qaida Nine people went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, including a 50-year-old woman accused of using an incendiary Islamic Web site to recruit jihadists for suicide bombing missions.The trial opened ...

Brown summit scare: suicide bomber seized

FOURTEEN suspected al Qaeda terrorists were detained by Belgian police today amid fears they were plotting a suicide mission against Gordon Brown and other EU leaders in Brussels.. Mr Delmulle said that the information the security services had on the alleged cell ...