From AP
Dutch authorities on Sunday cleared five of the 12 Somali men who were detained Christmas Eve on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in the Netherlands.
Prosecutors said they had no evidence of criminal involvement against the five men, but the investigation of the other seven was continuing.
The men were picked up in Rotterdam after a tip from intelligence services that an attack may be imminent.
Three of the detainees who had no valid residency permits were turned over to immigration police, prosecutors said. Two of them were residents of Denmark and the residency of the third was not established. Two Dutch residents were released.
Authorities said they cannot know for sure if they prevented a terrorist assault, but they did not want to take any risks. "What we did is take away the threat that was formed by these people," prosecutor Gerrit van der Burg said Saturday on national television.
Source: AP
Comments: Better to be safe by arresting them than to be sorry after a terror attack.
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