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Acting on intelligence data, police in Belgium raided a
property in the city of Verviers
and killed two ISIS terrorists, while detaining a third. The
surprise raid was conducted as police discovered the militants were
about to perpetrate "major terrorist attacks." The deceased
terrorists had just returned to Belgium from Syria, where they
received instructions from ISIS, the terrorist group notorious for
beheading innocent American journalists.
CNN stated the raid was accelerated as well due in
part to, "The arrest of a Belgian arms dealer suspected of
providing weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, the man who attacked a Paris
kosher supermarket and also pledged allegiance to ISIS. Belgian
investigators questioned him and searched his possessions, the
source said."
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Belgian operation thwarted 'major terrorist attacks'
Updated 7:59 PM ET, Thu January 15, 2015 -(CNN) A terror cell on
the brink of carrying out an attack was the target of a raid
Thursday that left two suspects dead, Belgian authorities said. A third suspect was injured and taken into custody in the
operation at a building in the eastern city of Verviers,
prosecutor's spokesman Thierry Werts told reporters.
A senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN that the
alleged terror cell is believed to have received instructions from
ISIS. Some members of the cell had traveled to Syria and met with ISIS,
which plotted the attacks as retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes in
Syria and Iraq, the Belgian source said.
"This was in the framework of an operation looking into an
operational cell made up of people, some of whom coming back from
Syria," Werts said. "The investigation made it possible to determine
that the group was about to carry out major terrorist attacks in
Belgium imminently." The operation, which authorities said was ongoing, added fresh
fuel to a fear that's been simmering for months as thousands of
Europeans went off to join ISIS fighters in Syria...
