France And Belgium Are Working On Scores Of Terror Cases
CNN: Belgium: Europe's front line in the war on terror
Belgium (CNN)Brussels: It's a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, as a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters.
According to police, the carnage of the Paris attacks was plotted here, and it was in these streets that fugitive Salah Abdeslam hid out in an apartment after abandoning his mission, dumping his suicide belt in a Parisian street and calling friends for help, after apparently driving his co-conspirators to their deaths.
That Abdeslam was caught at all appears to have been an enormous stroke of luck. Despite a massive security operation, the trail appeared to have gone cold, until police, initiating a search for evidence at Abdeslam's safe house on Tuesday, encountered a barrage of gunfire which tipped them off that something -- or someone -- important was inside.
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More News On Terrorism Fears In France And Belgium
Key Paris Attacks Accomplice Identified -- VOA
Is this the Paris bomb maker? Police hunt suspect whose DNA was found on suicide vests used in the massacre – as secret report reveals there could be '90 kamikazes' waiting to attack Europe -- Daily Mail
Disposable phones and no emails: Police report shows how the Paris attacks were planned -- Business Insider
Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam spends first night in jail -- France 24
Paris Attacks Suspect's Arrest Risks Activating Terror Cells Across Europe -- Sputnik
Europe's terror enclaves hidden in plain sight -- David Andelman, USA Today
For Parisians, capture of 'most wanted' terrorist brings little closure -- Colette Davidson & Sara Miller Llana, CSM
Despite Capture of Europe’s Most-Wanted Terrorist, the News Is Not Good -- Abigail R. Esman, Algemeiner
The inside story of the Paris attack -- Paul Cruickshank, CNN
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