Greece arrests over Belgian 'jihadist terror plot'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30865316

17 January 2015

Greek police have arrested several people over alleged links to a suspected terror plot in Belgium.

One of the men is alleged to have been in contact with the cell in Verviers, Belgium, where a shootout with police left two suspects dead on Thursday.

Europe is on high alert after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in Paris. More than 20 people have been arrested in Belgium, France and Germany.

Troops were deployed across Belgium on Saturday to guard potential targets.

Belgium launched a series of raids on Thursday evening on a group of suspected jihadists.

Guns, munitions and explosives, as well as police uniforms and a large amount of money, were all seized by police during the operation.

Prosecutors said the group had planned to kill police officers and they charged five people on Friday with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group".............>

One suspect has been shot dead, officials say, and as many as two others are said to be on the run after a counter-terrorism raid in Brussels.

The suspects were believed to have been barricaded in a flat after earlier firing shots at the police.

Four police officers were wounded in the south Brussels suburb of Forest.

The raid was linked to last year's Paris attacks in which 130 people died. Islamic State (IS) militants have claimed responsibility for the attacks.

French police also took part in Tuesday's operation.............>

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Tdog

The key remaining suspect in November's Paris terror attacks, Mohamed Abrini, has been arrested in Belgium, prosecutors have confirmed.

Belgian media say Abrini is also likely to be the "man in the hat" seen on CCTV before bomb blasts in the Brussels airport departure hall on 22 March.

Five arrests were made on Friday. One suspect, Osama K, will be investigated over the bomb attack on the metro that followed the airport bombing...............>

Three dead and nine injured in Belgium train crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36457186

6 June 2016

At least three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy, near Liege, latest reports say.

A passenger train crashed into the back of a goods train at high speed about 23:00 (21:00 GMT), said Belgium's rail infrastructure manager, Infrabel.

The two trains were on the same track, a spokesman for Infrabel said.

A witness told French newspaper L'Avenir that the train carriages were completely destroyed.

The passenger train, with about 40 people on board, was travelling between Liege and Namur at about 90 km/h (55mph) when it hit the goods train.

"Two of the six carriages derailed and are lying on the tracks," said a statement issued by Infrabel and the national rail operator, SNCB.

Twelve arrests as Belgium swoops on terror suspects

18 June 2016  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36566336

Police in Belgium have made 12 arrests in a huge anti-terror operation, nearly three months after the deadly bomb attacks on Brussels.

Those detained overnight are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, prosecutors say. They were among 40 taken in for questioning.

Searches were conducted in 16 municipalities, mainly around Brussels, with checks on 152 lock-up garages.............>

Belgium suspends funding for Palestinian education after schools named for terrorist

https://worldisraelnews.com/belgium-suspends-funding-for-palestinian-education-after-schools-named-for-terrorist/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israeli+Hero%2C+Father+of+4%2C+Stabbed+to+Death+in+Gush+Etzion%3B+Israel+Launches+Missile+Attack+on+Damascus%3B+Israelis+Bust+%27Miss+Hitler%27&utm_campaign=20180916_m147188835_Israeli+Hero%2C+Father+of+4%2C+Stabbed+to+Death+in+Gush+Etzion%3B+Israel+Launches+Missile+Attack+on+Damascus%3B+Israelis+Bust+%27Miss+Hitler%27&utm_term=_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09Read+Now_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09

September 16, 2018

The Belgian Ministry of Development Cooperation announced on Friday it was suspending its funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) education system after the latter named two schools after terrorists.

In an apparent mockery of Belgium, the Palestinian educational system named two schools after “the Martyr Dalal Mughrabi” while attempting to circumvent Belgian protests against this policy.

Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre in 1978, during which she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.

Right on.

I always get the feeling that we're being laughed at....

Belgium's traditional potato "frites" could soon be 3cm (1.1in) smaller than normal, growers have warned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45559264 

Pierre Lebrun, head of the Walloon Potato Growers' Association, said lower levels of rainfall had cut potato crop yields by 25%.

"Because the potatoes are smaller at the moment, we will all be eating smaller chips," he told the Sudpresse newspaper.

"Frites" are a signature Belgian dish, often eaten with mayonnaise.

Mr Lebrun said the dry ground also made farmers' work more difficult. "It's the same thing across southern England, the Netherlands, France and western Germany," he said.

Last month, the Guardian newspaper reported that Belgium has applied to the EU for emergency funds to deal with the drought.

"It is a disaster in the fields that the farmers could not irrigate. We record losses of around 30%," Romain Cools, the secretary general of Belgapom, the country's largest potato grower, told the newspaper.

The "frite" is reputed to have originated in Namur in francophone Belgium, where the locals were particularly fond of fried fish. When the River Meuse froze over one cold winter in 1680, people are said to have fried potatoes instead.