Police 'feared attack on Barroso'
Three alleged members of a radical Dutch Islamic group were arrested in June and deported to the Netherlands because police feared they were planning an attack on then-Prime Minister Jose Barroso, a former top Portuguese police official said in comments published Monday. The government in the Netherlands confirmed that three men arrested June 11 in Porto, Portugal — the site of the European Championship soccer tournament — are alleged members of a group referred to by Dutch intelligence as the “Hofstad Network,” which has been linked to the November 2 killing of filmmaker Theo van Gogh.Full Story