**rway's government called off a week-long terror alert on Thursday, saying an attack by a militant Islamist group with combat training in Syria was ** longer seen as imminent. Security forces had been put on high alert last Thursday with armed units placed at high-risk locations after police received information that a small militant group was on its way to carry out attacks in the West, with **rway among its targets. "The probability that the original information was correct has been reduced," Benedicte Bjoernland, the director of the Police Security Service, the police's intelligence unit, told a news conference. "The threat of an attack is therefore lower." Scandinavian governments have repeatedly warned that several hundred people have traveled to Syria from Scandinavia for combat training since civil war broke out in Syria two years ago.
08-01-2014, 08:15 PM
**rway calls off terror alert, ** longer sees imminent Islamist attack
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