Posted on 09/21/2014 5:05:51 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) – Belgian authorities have detained two people, who planned a terrorist attack in European Commission Headquarters in Brussels, Agence France-Presse has reported citing the local media.
According to Belgian daily L'Echo, the country’s authorities have been conducting a number of preventive operations in recent months against the extremism in the region and have arrested several people suspected of links with jihadists.
A source told L'Echo that about 400 Belgian citizens are involved in the Syrian conflict fighting on the side of the extremists, and approximately 90 people have returned home.
The Dutch NOS Media Company has claimed that among those detained in Belgium were also two residents of The Hague.
“They were planning an attack. One of the targets was the European Commission building. Individual commissioners were not particularly targeted. It would be more like the Jewish museum attack… with the aim to kill as many people as possible," NOS quoted an unnamed source as saying.
“We are aware of the reports… We are confident the national authorities will ensure the appropriate follow-up," Agence France-Presse cited a European Commission spokesman as saying.
An aborted Jihadist attack against a major EU centre has an awful familiar sound. Early 2001 a Sarin attack agsinst the Euroepan parliament was averted. We all remember what happened a few months later on the other side of the Atlantic. The number of islamist terror attacks is increasing in Europe, just like they did prior to 911. Be aware!
December 2000
Targets: Strasbourg Christmas Market and European Parliament
In December 2000, German police raided an apartment in Frankfurt, arresting four men and finding bomb-making equipment. They also discovered a recently-made video of the crowded Christmas Market in Strasbourg, France, with a voiceover calling the people in the video "enemies of God." The Germans were tipped off by British intelligence, which, according to news reports, had intercepted a call from one of the arrested men indicating an attack was imminent. The phone conversation was with Abu Doha, a man wanted by the United States in connection with a plot to explode a bomb at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Members in the Frankfurt cell had trained in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and had connections in Spain and Italy as well as ties to the Algeria-based Salafist Group for Call and Combat, better known by its French acronym, GSPC. According to the London Sunday Telegraph, the arrests in Frankfurt led to further arrests in Britain and the discovery of a plot to kill the members of the European Parliament with sarin nerve gas as they met in Strasbourg in February 2001.
Must be Dutch Christians that tried to pull off another caper, if it were jihadists, they’d just say so. /s
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