SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010


KLMNO BY ARTHURMAX


amsterdam—Dutchpolicehave arrested 12 Somali men in the major port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the Netherlands’ public prosecutor said Saturday. The men, aged 19 to 48, were


detained Friday on a tip fromthe intelligence services that they were planning an attack in the Netherlands in the near future. Therewasno immediate informa-


tiononthe allegedtarget,butRot- terdam is Europe’s biggest port and a hub ofmaritime commerce, withhugeoilandgas storage facil- ities and dozens ofmassive docks. European officials stepped up


security around the holidays this year after aNigerianmanleftAm- sterdamairportonChristmasDay last year and allegedly tried to blowup a plane over Detroitwith explosives tapedtohisunderwear. Holiday-related security con-


cerns have also grown in Europe following a suicide bombing in


Sweden and attacks on two em- bassies thisweek inRome. Dutch police searched a phone


shop, four houses and two motel rooms in the Rotterdam area, prosecutors said Saturday. No weapons or explosives were found. Six of the suspects lived in Rotterdam, five had no perma- nent residenceandonecamefrom Denmark, they said. The Dutch National Terrorism


Coordinator left the terrorist alert level unchanged after the arrests, indicatingthat thelikelihoodofan


attackwas “limited.” Dutch intelligence services


have reportedly been closely watching the growing Somali community in the Netherlands. One U.S. citizen of Somali extrac- tion is under arrest and fighting extradition to the United States, suspected of supplying money to the al-Shabab insurgent group for weapons and to finance trips for potential recruits. The U.S. State Department considers al-Shabab a terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda.


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The World A11 Dutch police arrest 12 Somali men suspected of plotting terrorist attack Last year, 24-year-old Umar


Farouk Abdulmutallab, who had studied in London, boarded a Northwest Airlines flight to De- troit from Amsterdam. He is ac- cused of trying to blow up the flight, and a judge in a federal court inDetroit has entered a not- guilty plea onhis behalf. On Thursday, anarchists sent


mail bombs to the Chilean and SwissembassiesinRome, injuring twomail employees. A top Italian security official said the attackers wanted to avenge blows by those


countries against their move- ment. Last Monday, 12 men were ar-


rested in Britain in the largest counter-terrorism raid there in nearly two years. Security officials said a large-scale terrorist attack was aimed at British landmarks and public spaces. French officials, meanwhile,


have ordered plainclothes police patrols in key tourist sites for the holidays, including an additional 6,000 police forNewYear’sEve. —AssociatedPress


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