Belgium detains al-Qaeda suspects

Belgian police have detained 14 people suspected of being members of the al-Qaeda network including a man believed to have been about to launch a suicide attack, officials said.

Federal prosecutor Johan Delmulle said police did not know where the suspected suicide attack was to have targeted and it is thought he is likely in to be from Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Thus far, a total of 242 police officers carried out 16 raids in Brussels and one in the eastern city of Liege, officials said. When they seize, they usually,seize computers, data storage equipment and a pistol during the raids, reports say, and the men and women arrested are due to appear before anti-terrorism judges later.