[AP] Toby Sterling - Dutch police on Thursday arrested seven people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam, including a relative of one of the attackers in the 2004 bombings in Madrid. Mayor Job Cohen said, "Men were planning to put explosives in the shops and wanted to cause casualties in busy places." District Attorney Herman Bolhaar said six men and one woman were arrested in Amsterdam. All are Dutch nationals of Moroccan ancestry.
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