Globe Trot: Terrorists arrested in Belgium planned Paris-like attack

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BELGIUM:Islamist fighters killed and arrested in the town of Verviers today intended a major terrorist attack, according to authorities: “You could say a second potential Paris has been averted.”

FRANCE: Lassana Bathily, 24, the Malian Muslim supermarket employee who herded everyone into the store’s freezer during last week’s deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, will be awarded French nationality.

HOMELAND SECURITY: Efforts yesterday in the U.S. House to strip funding from the Department of Homeland Security are pretty dumb in the current moment.

NIGERIA: Satellite imagery shows part of the brutal extent of Boko Haram’s attack on Baga, where reportedly hundreds were killed a week ago—3,700 homes and buildings burned to the ground.

I’M READING: The First Thousand Years by Robert Louis Wilken, a highly readable and important work. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m rereading and it’s worth another mention.

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Mindy Belz

Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.

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