Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men from Zoetermeer, near The Hague, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men from Zoetermeer, near The Hague, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n Authorities say they believe the attack would likely have been carried out in the Netherlands at the end of the year, using “bomb vests and one or more car bombs”.<\/p>\n The two suspects, aged 20 and 34, were detained on Monday.<\/p>\n After carrying out searches, police found items including a throwing axe and a dagger hidden above a ceiling at one of the suspect’s addresses.<\/p>\n No firearms or explosives were found on the suspects.<\/p>\n Information from Dutch intelligence services indicated that the two men had “intended to commit a terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n They were said to be “planning to use explosives and undergo training to use them”.<\/p>\n In a statement, Openbaar Ministerie, the Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands, said the target of the attack was not clear.<\/p>\n Authorities stated that a National Police Unit investigation had been launched in October, with information from the AIVD, the intelligence and security agency of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n The two men were being interrogated by the police on Monday and will be brought before the examining magistrate in Rotterdam on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men from Zoetermeer, near The Hague, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men from Zoetermeer, near The Hague, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Authorities say they believe the attack would likely have been carried out in the Netherlands …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[363,1136,632],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attack","tag-dutch","tag-terrorist"],"yoast_head":"\n