12 Dead in Daytime Paris Attack at Satirical Magazine

[David Guyatt]

Below is the Indy lead headline:

French websites hacked as Kalashnikovs, bomb kit and police uniforms found in terror raids across Europe

Meanwhile the article itself with its own headline. There is no mention in the story at all of a website being hacked. Is there an intention by the Indy to link to the Korean hack? I wonder what their thinking was and why?

Belgium terror raids: Killed suspects had police uniforms, Kalashnikovs and bomb-making kit



Authorities said the cell was planning an imminent attack on police

LIZZIE DEARDEN

Friday 16 January 2015

The suspected terrorists shot dead by special forces during a raid in Belgium last night may have been planning to dress as police to launch a deadly gun and bomb attack, it has emerged.

Special forces who raided a property in the town of Verviers, killing the two men as snipers patrolled the rooftops, found four Kalashnikovs and bomb-making equipment among police uniforms, La Libre reported.
The same type of gun was used by the Kouachi brothers in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week.
Belgian authorities said Thursday night's raid on the former bakery and other locations was sparked by phone taps and intelligence suggesting an attack was "imminent".
The operation in Verviers targeted a group of three young men who had recently returned from Syria, where they were believed to have fought with an Islamist group.
Belgian police exit a building in Palais street, near Colline street in Verviers, eastern BelgiumTwo people were killed and another injured during a shoot-out shortly before 6pm (5pm GMT) and one suspect has been arrested.
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Alexandre Massaux, who witnessed the raid from his home nearby, said there was a shoot-out between suspects with automatic weapons and police punctuated by explosions.
"As soon as I opened the window, you could smell the gunpowder," he added.
"It sent shivers down my spine to think about [the fact they had come back from Syria]."
Footage posted online showed the building being rocked by blasts, gunshots and sirens as a fire sent smoke billowing into the air.
No police were wounded in the clash, which occurred at the height of rush hour in a busy part of the former industrial town of 56,000 about 80 miles south-east of the capital, Brussels.
Eric Van der Sypt, a federal magistrate, confirmed the suspects had opened fire, calling them "extremely well-armed men".
"They were on the verge of committing important terror attacks," he said.
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Police continued searches in Verviers and the greater Brussels area into the night as part of an investigation that started well before the terrorism spree last week that led to 17 deaths in Paris.
The Belgian operations do not appear to be linked to the French atrocities but the national terror alert level has been raised from two to three the second-highest state of alert.
Prime Minister Charles Michel said the increase in the threat level was "a choice for prudence."
"There is no concrete or specific knowledge of new elements of threat," he added.
Up to 300 Belgian residents have gone to fight with extremist Islamic groups in Syria and it was unclear how many have returned.
Additional reporting by AP