Thread: Brussels Zaventem airport rocked by two explosions

Did Noah really build an ark or was that all bullshit?...

Originally Posted by boloa

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Originally Posted by boloa

Originally Posted by ENT

Get that one into perspective.

Talking of perspectives ......... ‘Lone wolf’ attacks account for 70 percent of all terrorist deaths in the West since 2006 and 80 percent of those deaths can be attributed to right-wing extremism, nationalism, supremacism, anti-government extremism and other types of political ideologies rather than Islamic fundamentalism.

Talking of REAL perspectives 2016.....Muslim Terror-Killing-Refugees-Torture-Abnormal Social Behaviour make the news headlines every day.

Wake up !

So what about Boko Haram , they have killed more people than ISIS and their total have hit historic high's ......The Nigerian jihadist group have killed 1000's in Africa and just five countries suffer the bulk of terrorist acts, Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria ,accounting for 78 percent of all fatalities in 2014. Iraq bears the heaviest burden with 9,929 terrorist fatalities in 2014..
So a 100 get killed in Paris and 30+ in Brussels and you think the west is being hit hard .....I think it's you that needs to WAKE UP and see the bigger picture instead of insular European view that you seem top have !!!

Good take on that.

I've been reading their (Boko Haram)< > death tolls...fek!

Those deaths make up most of the daily Muslim on Muslim violent death rates, which are as high as 450 a day, or thereabouts by conservative estimations gleaned from the web.

All of it under the disguising cloak of some form of Islam.

Islam expansionism creeps in meekly, becomes strong, then overthrows local law, adopts sharia law, and lo and behold, you have a sefl supporting Muslim enclave.

Waking up to the beginnings of an outright attempt at Islamic expansionism masquerading as humanitarian needs, 75% of them mainly young male Muslims have entered Europe.

I don't think that can be ignored in the light of claims for a jihad over Europe.
This group is likely to become a major economic drain on Europe, and a potential jihadist threat against established order.

Keep feeding them, and they'll grow.

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Think Europe had better get used to attacks on a regular bases, seems no matter how bad or often, no government does anything.
Most of the terrorists are on watch lists, but watching does not remove the threat.
Bombing the desert doesn't kill the enemy in your inner city slum, the war is in the streets of Europe now, stepping up security can not stop attacks.

When you have runing gun battles in the streets, that's civil war, you can't expect the police to act as civil police when they are in the enemies territory.
Guns will get into the UK sooner or later, more martyrs will join the cause, cities will be shut down, business will cease as public transport is closed at the first sign of a threat.

Yet not one real plan to tackle the problem has been put forward, people want action and that action will come from right wing extremist groups.
Then more bombs, more shooting and the system will break down, police forces, emergency responses are not equipped to deal with on going incidents.

Our alleged freedom will be replaced by martial law, troops on the streets, APCs instead of police cars and the fault is all due to weak government.

Too late now for political answers, time for force, deport, round up, shot, take back the ghettos, close the mosques and make the Muslims comply to western values or get out.

And anyone who can't read the writing on the wall must have their head up their ass.

That's for sure.

Re-read Orwell's "1984" recently. First read it for my O-level English well over 35 years ago. Pretty chilling just how accurate it has turned out to be, eighty years after it was written.

Really looking forward to flying to UK next week.

Originally Posted by ENT

Not today, but twenty years ago in Northern Ireland they did.

They didn't did they?

Originally Posted by ENT

Better yet get rid of them, as a final solution.

Hmm, that's been tried before on another group and it didn't work then either, just pissed everyone off.

Originally Posted by kmart

Re-read Orwell's "1984" recently. First read it for my O-level English well over 35 years ago. Pretty chilling just how accurate it has turned out to be, eighty years after it was written.

Really looking forward to flying to UK next week.

If you hunt for the little All Saint's church in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, you can see his grave. David Astor arranged for his burial.



There are also some top village pubs in the vicinity.

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.
Najim Laachraoui, thought to be the man on the right in a CCTV image taken before the Zaventem airport attack, was reportedly held in the Anderlecht area.



Brussels attacks: Airport bombing suspect 'arrested' - BBC News

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.
Najim Laachraoui, thought to be the man on the right in a CCTV image taken before the Zaventem airport attack, was reportedly held in the Anderlecht area.

He was also named, on 21 March, as one of Salah Abdeslam's accomplices in the Paris attacks.

Belgian prosecutors say that DNA evidence had identified one of Abdeslam's accomplices as Najim Laachraoui, 24, who is still on the run.

Paris attacks: Salah Abdeslam 'worth his weight in gold' - BBC News

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.


Najim Laachraoui, thought to be the man on the right in a CCTV image taken before the Zaventem airport attack, was reportedly held in the Anderlecht area.
Two of the other attackers have been named in Belgian media as the brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui.

I am impressed with the speed at which Brussels authorities are putting this case together. Too bad they could not seem to stop things before they happened.

Am I the only one who saw a report quoting a British MEP as saying he felt something was going on the day before because of increased sucurity around the town, armoured vehicles and so on?
Wish I'd posted it now.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Am I the only one who saw a report quoting a British MEP as saying he felt something was going on the day before because of increased sucurity around the town, armoured vehicles and so on?
Wish I'd posted it now.

Well considering there was an ongoing security operation that led to the arrest of Abdelsam I don't think that's unexpected, do you?

They are now back-pedalling as to the arrest of the third suspect.

Brussels attacks: Terrorists 'will get through in UK'

Terrorists "will get through" the UK's defences to carry out an attack similar to that in Brussels, former home secretary Lord Reid has told the BBC.
He said: "Politicians ought to be honest with the British people and tell them, 'This will happen.'"

Four Britons were injured in explosions at an airport and metro station in Brussels on Tuesday; 34 people died.
There are also fears for David Dixon, an IT programmer from Nottingham, who has not been seen since the attacks.

Security has been stepped up at key sites across the UK, and on Wednesday morning David Cameron chaired a second emergency Cobra meeting in the wake of the events in Brussels.
Afterwards, Number 10 said: "We are concerned about one missing British national and we are in close contact with the Belgian authorities.
"We are aware of four British nationals who were injured in the attacks - three are being treated in hospital, one has already been discharged. Our embassy staff are working to assist all British nationals affected."

Home Secretary Theresa May will make a statement to the Commons on the UK response at about 12:30 GMT, following Prime Minister's Questions.
Lord Reid, who was Labour home secretary until shortly before the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "It will happen here because the terrorists only have to get through once.

"So you can quote the statistics on how many plots have been foiled, but the terrorists will get through."

Lord Reid said terrorists were now more likely to focus on "soft targets" like the transport network and crowded public places, because the security services had been so successful at preventing "spectacular" plots, for example, mid-flight attacks on aircraft.

Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK Counter Terrorism Policing Network, said that shift was "a very dangerous phenomenon".
But he insisted it was not a new one, and that police and security services in Britain had been preparing for such an incident since the Mumbai attacks in 2008.

Brussels attacks: Terrorists 'will get through in UK' - BBC News

Originally Posted by ENT

Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK Counter Terrorism Policing Network, said that shift was "a very dangerous phenomenon".
But he insisted it was not a new one, and that police and security services in Britain had been preparing for such an incident since the Mumbai attacks in 2008.

Total BS, once you have a bomb maker, or several, not hard to mak explosives, all you need then is nutters to detonate them.
Steal a petrol tanker, derail a high speed train, or just go out and kill at random, no amount of intel will stop this now.
It's called terrorism for a reason, you don't know if the guy/girl with a backpack is a bomber or not. you will look and feel unsafe.
If the leaders like Miss May feel it is safe, she can get rid of the bomb dogs and armed police escorts.
Not going to happen, UK armed police protect the HiSo, but unarmed police protect the rest of us.

Originally Posted by ENT

Brussels attacks: Terrorists 'will get through in UK'

Terrorists "will get through" the UK's defences to carry out an attack similar to that in Brussels, former home secretary Lord Reid has told the BBC.
He said: "Politicians ought to be honest with the British people and tell them, 'This will happen.'"

Four Britons were injured in explosions at an airport and metro station in Brussels on Tuesday; 34 people died.
There are also fears for David Dixon, an IT programmer from Nottingham, who has not been seen since the attacks.

Security has been stepped up at key sites across the UK, and on Wednesday morning David Cameron chaired a second emergency Cobra meeting in the wake of the events in Brussels.
Afterwards, Number 10 said: "We are concerned about one missing British national and we are in close contact with the Belgian authorities.
"We are aware of four British nationals who were injured in the attacks - three are being treated in hospital, one has already been discharged. Our embassy staff are working to assist all British nationals affected."

Home Secretary Theresa May will make a statement to the Commons on the UK response at about 12:30 GMT, following Prime Minister's Questions.
Lord Reid, who was Labour home secretary until shortly before the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "It will happen here because the terrorists only have to get through once.

"So you can quote the statistics on how many plots have been foiled, but the terrorists will get through."

Lord Reid said terrorists were now more likely to focus on "soft targets" like the transport network and crowded public places, because the security services had been so successful at preventing "spectacular" plots, for example, mid-flight attacks on aircraft.

Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK Counter Terrorism Policing Network, said that shift was "a very dangerous phenomenon".
But he insisted it was not a new one, and that police and security services in Britain had been preparing for such an incident since the Mumbai attacks in 2008.

Brussels attacks: Terrorists 'will get through in UK' - BBC News

I don't think they have to worry about them 'getting through'.
I'm sure there are enough, at least sympathisers, in country already to do the job.

UK's got a goodly supply of home-grown extremists, they seem to be nabbed quite regularly on their way to Syria.

The returnees and their new acquaintances from Syria/Turkey/ N Africa are another problem, hence the beefed up border agencies to stop them from getting through.

One estimate was that up to 100,000 jihadists have infiltrated Europe in the last year.

When sh*t hits the fan in UK, I guarantee that the mosques there will burn.

Tolerance is wearing thin, and Muslim exclusivism and triumphalism is pissing everyone off.

Originally Posted by ENT

When sh*t hits the fan in UK, I guarantee that the mosques there will burn.

Tolerance is wearing thin, and Muslim exclusivism and triumphalism is pissing everyone off.

Nothing like a bit of hyperbole, eh?

Now, as many many times before, religion is being used as a front for gangsters.

9/11, 7/7, Paris, Brussels - useless fucked up drunken whoring petty criminals.

Controlled by who?

Religion? - un-fuckn-likely.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.

Originally Posted by ENT

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.

Brussels attacks: Media quash reports of Laachraoui arrest - BBC News

Man arrested over Brussels attack is not third suspect: report - MarketWatch

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...fUO/story.html

Arrest or not?

Why the confusion?

Originally Posted by Dapper

Now, as many many times before, religion is being used as a front for gangsters.

9/11, 7/7, Paris, Brussels - useless fucked up drunken whoring petty criminals.

Controlled by who?

Religion? - un-fuckn-likely.

Purely political.
Defence from an ongoing imperial quest.

Yet, you'll find that the masses won't comprehend, as they don't understand who the real "bad guys" might be......
Just look into the mirror.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Purely political.

And the bottom line of that equation is what?

Money.

Originally Posted by Dapper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.

Originally Posted by ENT

A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.

Brussels attacks: Media quash reports of Laachraoui arrest - BBC News

Man arrested over Brussels attack is not third suspect: report - MarketWatch

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...fUO/story.html

Arrest or not?

Why the confusion?

The press is divided on the issue of publish and/or be damned.

The Guardian's got a piece by one of its writers advocating appeasement to avoid further conflict with IS et al., along with restricted reporting instead of what he termed 'blanket 'reporting of the Brussells bombings, which, he seems to blame for fanning the flames of further violent responses to events.

Certainly Europe is in no position to welcome any more migrants, given the synchronous terrorist actions, there's not enough security to handle any more without resorting to draconian methods, which is quite likely going to happe.

A shoot to kill policy is currently being debated in UK, along with increased police and military deployment.

But why did several news outlets report he'd been arrested and an hour later publish revised stories that that's not the case?

You would assume it was pretty cut and dried.