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Brussels (AFP) Nov 23, 2010 Belgian police detained around 15 people in Brussels on Tuesday in connection with a probe into an Iraq and Afghanistan war recruitment drive, after a separate raid in an unrelated terror investigation. Federal police conducted 17 searches in homes across the Belgian capital in a pre-dawn operation aimed at "dismantling a group with terrorist characteristics," the prosecutor's office said in a statement. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office told AFP that "around 15 people" were detained. The arrests followed a three-year investigation into people connected with a Belgian Islamic centre, the prosecutor's office said. Foreign police services cooperated in the probe. Some of the people arrested are suspected members of a group that recruited would-be "jihadists" volunteering to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan, the statement said. Authorities announced earlier the arrest of 11 people in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany as part of an investigation into a Chechnya-linked Islamist network plotting to attack Belgium.
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