Terrorist leader helped prevent attack in Europe

Abdelkader Belliraj, the Moroccan-Belgian currently being held in Morocco on suspicion of leading a terrorist cell, helped the Belgian Security Service to prevent an attack in another, unnamed European country. As details come out, it appears that Belliraj lead a double life – having terrorism links, but also was a golden tip giver for Bellgian…

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    One trail of Barcelona terrorist cell “leads to Frankfurt”

    A group of Islamist extremists in Frankfurt were planning an attack in Germany, according to a would-be suicide bomber captures in Spain. Testimony from the informant, who was captured after he arrived in Barcelona on January 16th, led to the arrest of 14 South Asians after he told police an Islamist extremist cell planned to…

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      Wrong to suspect converts to Islam: top prosecutor

      Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) – It would be wrong to cast a general cloud of suspicion over converts to Islam, German Attorney General Monika Harms said Thursday, following the smashing last week of an alleged Islamist terrorist cell. The revelation that two of those arrested on September 4 for planning potentially devastating bomb attacks against US…

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        Expelled from Egypt, Free in France

        No charge. In the end, France had no complaint against eight supposed islamists expelled from Egypt last week. All were freed. The group was arrested in mid-Novmeber in a Cairo neighborhood. According to the Egyptian minister of the interior, they were part of a terrorist cell recruiting volunteers in order to incite them to jihad…

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