Police arrest two alleged terror plotters

The Hellenic Police said Tuesday that in a coordinated operation with the country's National Intelligence Service (EYP), they had "dismantled a terrorist network that, guided from abroad, was planning attacks against carefully selected targets within Greece."

The police and EYP were assisted by Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad, a statement released Tuesday evening by the office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Greek police further said they had arrested two individuals, identified by government officials speaking on condition of anonymity to multiple media sources as of Pakistani origin.

A third individual, whom the police called the "brains" of the network, is active abroad.

Data seized on the arrested individuals as well as "digital information" revealed that the two "had already chosen a target of special significance;...