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Friday, January 16, 2015

Belgian Intervention

Belgian authorities have thwarted plans for massive attacks on police stations, one week after 17 people were killed by Islamist gunmen in France. Police have shot dead two members of armed group and arrested another in a shootout on Thursday in the eastern city of Verviers .  'Police said the three were Belgian citizens and some of them had returned from Syria. Prosecutors said the group was about to launch attacks on a grand scale, and that they raided about 10 locations including some in the capital, Brussels, to block the plan.' (NHK WORLD News, 16 January) RD

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