Belgian police kill two in raid on suspected Islamists

Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale," Reuters reports. The raids came as anxieties over Islamic extremism remain high in France and across Europe in the wake of the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last week. + One man arrested in Belgium "claims that he wanted to buy a car from the wife of [Amedy] Coulibaly," the gunman who killed four at a kosher market last Friday and was reportedly linked to the Charlie Hebdo shooters, the Associated Pressreports. + The Muslim man who saved a dozen in the market hostage crisis is finally getting the recognition he deserves. + Charting 13 years of terrorist attacks in Europe is incredibly revealing. + Seven comic essays from cartoonists around the world on the Charlie Hebdoattack