Belgian fighters in Syria and Iraq
- Part II of our series on ISIS : Blogforum "Kalifat des Terrors: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf den Islamischen Staat" On Thursday January 15, only a week after the bloodyattacks in Paris by the Kouachi brothers and AmedyCoulibali, Belgium was on high alert. In a raid carriedout by police and security forces in the small villageof Verviers, two alleged terrorists were shot dead, a third suspect wasarrested. The action was part of a larger operation carried out throughout thecountry to prevent imminent attacks by a group of Islamists, some of whomwere directly tied to the war in Syria and Iraq. In the days that followed itbecame clear that the prevented attacks probably were aimed at a highranking police official. The terror threat level was subsequently raised tolevel three, indicating that the threat of attacks was imminent. What makesBelgium such a hub for Jihadis?..
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| Author: | Pieter van Ostaeyen |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-367548 |
| URL: | http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2015/01/28/belgian-fighters-in-syria-and-iraq/ |
| Parent Title (German): | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/01/28 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2015/01/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/02/03 |
| Tag: | al-Qaida; belgium; iraq; islamic state; jabhat an-nusra; sharia4belgium; suqur as-sham; syria; terrorism; verviers |
| Note: | Dieses Werk bzw. Inhalt steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell-KeineBearbeitung 3.0 Unported Lizenz.Über diese Lizenz hinausgehende Erlaubnisse können Sie unter redaktion@sicherheitspolitik-blog.de erhalten |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 356382060 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
