Police in the Netherlands have arrested a 34-year-old man on accusations he sought to join al-Qaida in order to carry out an attack in the Middle East, reports said Friday.
Details of the arrest, reported by BNO News and the Dutch-language newspapers De Telegraaf and Almere Vandaag, remained sketchy.
As reported by the by-subscription website BNO News, the country's prosecutor's office said the suspect was arrested earlier this week in the city of Almere.
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"The reason for the investigation is a report from the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD)," a statement from the prosecutor’s office said, according to BNO. "The man became the focus of an AIVD investigation into jihadist networks."
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BNO, citing the AIVD report, said the suspect had planned to travel to Syria to join the al-Qaida network. From there, he would possible travel to Iraq or the West Bank or Gaza to carry out some kind of attack, BNO reported.
A Rotterdam magistrate extended the man’s detention for at least two weeks, BNO reported.














