Dutch arrest three for planning jihadist terror attacks

Dutch police have arrested three men including an ex-jihadist fighter suspected of planning terror attacks and funding other fighters in Syria, prosecutors said today.
The three men, two aged 26 and a third aged 30, were arrested in the southern Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Arnhem, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
"They are suspected of preparing terror attacks and wanting to join the Al-Nusra Front," Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, it said, but did not give further details.
One of the men is also suspected of giving money to jihadist fighters in Syria.
Prosecutors started their probe during the summer after receiving information from the Dutch security services (AIVD), said the statement.

Law enforcement officers raided the suspects' homes late last month in various cities and confiscated computers, tablets and mobile phones.
They also seized the men's passports as well as the passports of three other suspects.
Around 130 Dutch jihadists have left to fight in Syria, with 30 already having returned and 14 others killed in the fighting, according to the country's latest intelligence statistics.