WELL, WHADDYA KNOW! out of "706 terror-related EU arrests in 2006... Half of the offenses involved threats from Islamic extremists," Europol says SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE (cough cough)!! BRUSSELS, Belgium - More than 700 people were arrested across the European Union for terrorism-related offenses in 2006, and half of those arrests involved threats from Islamic extremists, a European-wide law enforcement organization said Tuesday. The Europol report was released as EU officials debated proposals for boosting the powers of the bloc’s law enforcement arm to enhance police cooperation in fighting cross-border crime and terrorism. Almost 500 terrorist-related offenses were carried out in the 27-nation EU in 2006, most of them by separatists or nationalists on the French island of Corsica and in the Spanish Basque region, the report said. A total of 706 people in 11 EU countries were arrested in connection with terror-related offenses, half of them related to plots by Islamic ex...