Olympics attack's planners were arrested

The Brazilian police announced the arrest of the twelfth member of a group suspected of planning a terrorist attack which were to take place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, reports Le Figaro. Ten of the suspects were arrested on Thursday while the eleventh one was handed to the authorities on Friday. They are now in a security prison in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, near the border with Paraguay.

The last of the suspects was also arrested. "The military police of the state of Mato Grosso located the fugitive in the city of Comodoro. He will be heard and then transferred to a federal prison," explained the authorities.

The group was inspired by ISIS and mostly organized online, Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said. De Moraes said the suspects are all Brazilian nationals, and that one minor was mentioned in the conversations. The Minister added that the group was not an organized cell, calling it "absolutely amateur - with no preparation."

This week, Brazil's intelligence agency said it was reviewing all threats after a jihadi messaging channel called for its followers to target the Olympics, which start August 5. "Many (threats) are discarded and the ones that deserve attention are investigated exhaustively," the agency said.

SITE Institute, which monitors terrorist activities online, reported that the group was called "Ansar al-Khilafah" and its members recently posted on Telegram within the messaging app that they supports the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

"There is not a specific threat," Lt. Gen. Luiz Linhares of Brazil's Ministry of Defense said. "You have to screen for a great (spectrum) of threat."