Suspected Belgian - Algerian terrorist shot dead on the A8 Motorway in Belgium.(BE). A 39-year-old terrorist suspect from Algeria succumbed during a shooting after a police intervention in the area of Ath, in Hainaut Province in Wallonia. During a house search conducted at the home of the man, police discovered weapons and ammunition.
Police wanted to arrest the man but this attempt ended up in a shooting in which the terrorist suspect was killed. The incident happened yesterday afternoon on the A8 Motorway linking Doornik (Tournai) to Brussels. The road was closed for all traffic, which led to serious traffic congestion.
The man was suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation. Police next searched his house in Anderlecht and discovered explosives, weapons and ammunition, together with bullet-proof vests and night glasses.
The French judicial authorities had informed their Belgian colleagues about his possible terrorist links last year. However, the man was a suspect in Belgium as well, as he was linked to a violent armed robbery in the Restaurant "De Pajot" in Anderlecht on 21 March.Hmmmm......The name Abdelkader Merah brother of Mohammed merah the Toulouse shooter comes to mind. Read the full story here.
Related? How did Mohammed Merah become a jihadist? A senior Belgian counter terrorism official has told CNN that Abdelkader Merah first came to their notice during a joint investigation in 2008 with French police into a Brussels, Belgium-based jihadist recruitment network. The network was sending Belgian and French militants to Cairo en route to join militants in Iraq -- and may also have connected Europeans to jihadist groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
Update : HT: The Jawa Report.
The name of the 'terrorist' is Hakim Benladghem, Slideshow of weapons seized.
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