At least two suspects have been killed and another arrested in a series of raids in Belgium against Islamic extremists thought to have recently returned from fighting in Syria. Authorities say the targets of the raid were suspected of having links to ISIS and planning a “large-scale” terrorist attack along the lines of last week’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
The raid comes after a Belgian arms dealer confessed earlier this week to supplying the weapons used in the Paris attacks. Belgium was also the site of the previous major terrorist attack in Europe, the shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last May, when four people died. And, with between 300 and 400 Belgians fighting in Syria, Belgium is Europe’s leading supplier of the foreign fighters, many of them joining ISIS and the al-Qaida linked group Jabhat al-Nusra, who authorities worry could return home to carry out attacks.
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