Man held over plot to blow up Poland's parliament

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Agencja Gazeta / ReutersMembers of Poland's Internal Security Agency (AWB) and the Prosecutors Office sit in front of a screen showing evidence of a planned attack, during a news conference in Warsaw, Tuesday. By ReutersPolish officials said Tuesday they had arrested a radical nationalist who planned to detonate a vehicle loaded with 4.4 tons of explosives outside parliament, possibly when the president and prime minister were in the building.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld Prosecutors said the man, a scientist who works for a university in the southern city of Krakow, had assembled a small arsenal of explosive material, guns and remote-controlled detonators and was trying to recruit others to help him.

A video recording taken from the suspect showed what prosecutors said was a test explosion he conducted, leaving a large crater in the ground.

'Anti-Semitic,' 'xenophobic' motives

Polish television, citing sources close to the investigation, said the suspect planned to copy methods used by Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year and said he was driven by far-right views.

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