Official: Paris suspect may have been planning terrorist acts from Brussels

Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam may have been planning new terrorist acts from Brussels, The Associated Press reports Belgium's foreign minister said Sunday.

"We found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels," Didier Reynders said.

Abdeslam was charged Saturday with "terrorist murder" in the deadly Nov. 13 attacks throughout Paris. Abdeslam told Belgian officials he backed out of being a suicide bomber at the Stade de France.

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