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To: aristeides&--------------- ALL Europeans Hold Six Islamic Suspects
Europeans Hold Six Islamic Suspects

By REUTERS

September 14, 2001

BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM Sept 14 (Reuters) - Police in Belgium and the Netherlands arrested six suspected Islamic extremists in a joint swoop on a network thought to be planning attacks on U.S. targets in Europe, authorities said on Friday.

Two of the men were arrested on Thursday in Brussels and police found two Uzi machine pistols during a house search, a spokeswoman for the Brussels Public Prosecutor's Office said.

The other four were arrested in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam on Thursday night, Dutch prosecutor's spokesman Wim de Bruijn said.

He said there was no connection with Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States, in which intelligence officials have said fugitive Saudi-born Islamic guerrilla chieftain Osama bin Laden is the number one suspect.

Germany released on Friday an airport worker held for 24 hours in connection with the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. German investigators were continuing a probe into Hamburg-based extremists allegedly involved.

De Bruijn would not say whether the men held in the Netherlands were armed or whether they had anything suspicious in their possession. Asked whether the Dutch authorities were in contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation or other U.S. agencies, he said: ``I am unable to answer that.''

The identities and nationalities of the suspects were not disclosed. Two other men were detained in Brussels with the two suspects but were later released.

``Those four persons (detained in Brussels) all belong to a radical Islamic movement,'' Belgian spokeswoman Beatrice Behets said. Police also seized documents which are now being analysed, she added.

The arrests followed a tipoff from the Belgian State Security Service that one of the suspects might be preparing attacks on U.S. targets in Europe, Behets said.

A spokesman for the Belgian State Security Service would only say that the information from the Public Prosecutor's Office ``was not wrong,'' but declined to give further details.

6 posted on 09/14/2001 10:08:49 AM PDT by t-shirt
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Friday, Sept. 14, 2001

Suspect linked to Minnesota

By PATRICK HOWE

Associated Press Writer

ST. PAUL -- The investigation into this week's terrorist attacks reached Minnesota on Wednesday, with one person detained on an immigration issue. And Minnesota was among several states where flight schools were being contacted as FBI agents ran down reports that some of the hijackers trained in America.

Authorities wanted to question the person held in Minnesota about the plot, but the person refused and requested a lawyer, a law enforcement source speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press.

U.S. officials confirmed that a few weeks ago the FBI detained the Arab man in Minnesota when he tried to seek flight simulator training for a large jetliner. Those who hijacked the four airliners received similar training.

Officials said the FBI had no reason to charge him at the time and instead began deportation proceedings. Those proceedings were ongoing when the attacks took place Tuesday, and he was re-detained.

The Associated Press learned a man who shared a Florida home searched by FBI agents Wednesday lived at a St. Paul house from the end of January through October 2000. Ali Alamri, believed to be 27, was placed in the home through a referral service, according to the owner of the house near Macalester College.

Sherry Sandey, president of International Home Stay Services Inc., the agency that placed Alamri, said she believed another man, Abdulrahman Saeed Alomari, and Alamri were brothers, and that Alomari stayed at a Days Inn in suburban Bloomington.

Alomari, 38, later moved to Vero Beach, where his house was among at least two searched by FBI agents for 12 hours on Wednesday; the agents left with several garbage bags of evidence.

FAA records list a pilot license for an Abdulrahman Saeed Alomari, though it wasn't certain if that was the same man who lived in both St. Paul and Vero Beach. The address on the pilot license was Jedda, Saudi Arabia.

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