Belgium steps up security after terror threat

[American Patriot]

Belgium steps up security after terror threat
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | December 21, 2007

Excerpt -

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian authorities plan to step up security measures following a terrorist threat, officials said on Friday.

They made the announcement at a news conference held by the Belgian federal prosecutors and the country's crisis coordination centre.
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[American Patriot]

This seems to be the reasoning...

Belgium arrests 14 in Islamic jail break plot

Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:46am GMT


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium arrested 14 suspects and stepped up security in public places on Friday after thwarting a plot to spring from jail an al Qaeda suspect arrested in September 2001 for plotting attacks on U.S. targets.


"They were planning to use weapons and explosives to free him....These means could be employed for another use," Lieve Pellens, spokeswoman for Belgium's federal prosecutors, told a news conference.


(Reporting by Julien Ponthus; editing by Mark John)

[American Patriot]

http://www.rtbf.be/info/belganews/BELGANEWS21065021_5
via translation -


Terrorist threat linked to an attempted escape from Trabelsi


(Belga) As part of an investigation by an examining magistrate in Brussels, the federal police had foiled an escape attempt by Nizar Trabelsi, who was sentenced in June 2004 to 10 years in prison for the preparation of an attack on the military base at Kleine-Brogel. Fifteen searches were conducted Friday morning in different judicial districts and 14 persons were arrested.


The terrorism section of the Federal Police and prosecutors fear of federal acts of terrorism in the coming days, they said Friday at a press conference. Enhanced security measures, visible and less visible, will apply until January 2, mainly in strategic locations in Brussels. The authorities called on the Belgian population to remain vigilant but not to panic. (GFR)