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"The Interior Ministry called on citizens to be vigilant through Christmas."
"Belgium arrests 14 in terrorist plot," by Raf Casert for the Associated Press:
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said.
Security was heightened at airports, subway stations and other public places across the capital, and the U.S. Embassy warned Americans of "a heightened risk of terrorist attack in Brussels" although it had no indication of any American targets.
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said the government had information suggesting "preparation of an attack."
"Other acts of violence are not to be excluded," he said.
The prisoner, Nizar Trabelsi, a 37-year-old Tunisian who played soccer for several German teams, was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison four years ago. He had admitted planning to drive a car bomb into the canteen at Kleine Brogel, a Belgian air base where about 100 American military personnel are stationed.
The base is home to Belgian F-16 warplanes equipped with nuclear weapons that are under U.S. control, according GlobalSecurity.org, a U.S.-based military affairs think tank.
Trabelsi, who testified that he intended kill U.S. soldiers, says he met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and asked to become a suicide bomber. He was arrested in Brussels on Sept. 13, 2001. Police later discovered the raw materials for a huge bomb in the back of a Brussels restaurant.
The federal prosecutor's office said the 14 were planning to free the terrorist by force. "Trabelsi would be helped by a group of people, driven by an extremist vision of Islam," the prosecutor's office said.
The Interior Ministry called on citizens to be vigilant through Christmas. "You can point out possible suspect objects and actions to the local police," it said.
The U.S. Embassy urged U.S. citizens living or traveling in Belgium to maintain a high level of vigilance, especially in crowded places. But it had "no information to indicate that U.S. citizens or facilities are an intended target."
Posted by Marisol at December 21, 2007 9:18 AM
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And the jihad marches on, and on, and...Damn It!
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at December 21, 2007 9:21 AM
"Inner spiritual struggle" sounds similar to lactose intolerance. Both are painful and both are full of crap. But at least the latter has medication to deal with it-will someone please create a medicine for the former as well?
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 21, 2007 9:22 AM
Would a travel advisory from the State Department about a country like BELGIUM have even been THINKABLE a generation ago?
Posted by: John C at December 21, 2007 9:26 AM
I wonder how much help these fools got from the icky Brussels sprout of a mayor named Freddy Thielmanns? He can usually be counted on to do Illah's bidding.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 21, 2007 9:40 AM
Why is it that whenever Moslems engage in "inner spiritual struggle", they always lose?
Posted by: ebonystone at December 21, 2007 10:24 AM
"The Interior Ministry called on citizens to be vigilant through Christmas."
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Just horrifying that this is something we accept these day. Belgians should spend the next few days in expectation of visits from Sinterklaas and Pere Noel, not jihadist attacks.
If they need to be vigilant about anything, it should be going easy on the speculoos and the Buche de Noel, not keeping an eye out for murderous members of "the Religion of Peace".
Joyeux Noel and Vrolike Kerstmis to all. My it be a peaceful season.
at December 21, 2007 12:58 PM
Personally I hope that the Belgium's put these idiots away for a hell of a long time. I live about 40 kilometres away from the air force base that the idiot they were planning to release, had planned to blow up. It is well known that the Americans station Atomic weapons outside of the U.S.A. Sometimes without the host country knowing. As far as I know these weapons were stationed there with the sanctions of N.A.T.O. My own country men had Atomic weapons stationed at a base about 15 kilometres to the North of me in Germany. It almost cause a incident when during a N.A.T.O exercise several years ago Belgium parachutists were dropped there by mistake. The point I am trying to make is that if this idiot had succeeded, and Murphy's law had been working my family and kids would most likely have received a lethal dose of radiation. Not just me and my Family but the Ruhr in Germany is less than an hours drive away and the prevailing winds are westerly.
To put it very mildly, I am not pleased.
at December 21, 2007 3:22 PM
Only 14 huh...Hope Euro Dhimmis have a security system which works better than their parliament-Brussels is a prime TARGET in every sense of the word.No doubt
Al Quaeda wants to give a 'BIG BANG' Christmas present to the Infidels somewhere in Europe.
at December 21, 2007 4:47 PM
I'm waiting for them to flee to Britain, get refugee status and Vanessa Redgrave to bail them out.
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at December 21, 2007 10:08 PM
Today, 1 day later, Belgium has released all 14 suspects...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Belgium-Terrorism.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
at December 22, 2007 9:18 AM
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