BREAKING: Two dead in anti-terror raid in Belgium

[Archy]

Belgium Verviers plot 'aimed to kill police'

A suspected jihadist group targeted in a major anti-terror raid on Thursday had been planning to kill policemen in the street and at police stations, Belgian prosecutors say.

The planned attacks were imminent, they said, adding that two suspects shot dead in Verviers during the raids were still being identified.

Searches were also carried out overnight in the Brussels area.

Thirteen suspects had been arrested, while two were arrested in France.

Guns, munitions and explosives, as well as police uniforms and a large amount of money, were seized during the raids, prosecution spokesman Thierry Werts told reporters.

Eric Van Der Sypt, another spokesman, added: "The investigation... has shown that these people had the intention to kill several policemen in the street and at police commissariats [police stations].

"The operation was meant to dismantle a terrorist cell... but also the logistics network behind it," he said.

No link had been established with last week's attacks in Paris, Mr Van Der Sypt said, adding that Belgium would seek the extradition of the two suspects in France.

"I can confirm that we started this investigation before the attacks in Paris," he said.

Last week, gunmen in Paris attacked the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher supermarket and police officers, killing 17 people in the French capital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30848946

Rumor  has it they also planned to kidnap a high police offical and decapitate him to post the fim on internet. 

This is getting a bit frightening, Verviers is only a sleepy provincial town of less than 60.000 inhabitants. If this is also starting to spread out of the big cities 

[CountDeMoney]

That's pretty fucked up.

[derspiess]

So who was it that was killed in the raid?  Bad guys, good guys, or some of both?

[Liep]

So who was it that was killed in the raid?  Bad guys, good guys, or some of both?

The two dead was "suspected jihadists".

[The Brain]

Luckily they turned out to be drug dealers.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Je suis Poirot!

Ik ben Poirot!

little chance that Poirot spoke, or even understood, Dutch afaik. 't wasn't the times for it