Thread: Brussels Zaventem airport rocked by two explosions

I can see a bit of wog bashing on the horizon

On the horizon?

You need glasses, it's closer than that.

I thought the wogs where bashing us.

They are,...now it's our turn.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the two bomb attacks that killed at least 31 people and injured more than 220 in the departure hall of Brussels’ Zaventem airport and a metro station in the Belgian capital on Tuesday.

The Isis-affiliated news agency AMAQ said its fighters carried out “a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices”. It also said the extremists opened fire at the airport and that “several of them” detonated suicide belts in both attacks.

In the latest terror attack to hit continental Europe, two blasts targeted the main hall of the airport at about 8am, with a third detonating in the Maelbeek metro station, about 100 metres from the headquarters of the European commission, just over an hour later, during the morning rush-hour.

Belgian police appealed for help identifying one of three men captured on CCTV wheeling baggage trolleys through the airport. Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said two of the men were suspected suicide bombers, while the third was being sought.




“A photograph of three male suspects was taken at Zaventem. Two of them seem to have committed suicide attacks. The third, wearing a light-coloured jacket and a hat, is actively being sought,” Van Leeuw told a news conference.

Read more here;
Islamic State claims attacks at Brussels airport and metro station | World news | The Guardian

Prosecutor's office: 'Islamic State flag and explosive device found in Schaarbeek raid'

The Belgian prosecutor’s office has confirmed that raids were conducted in Schaarbeek, a northern suburb of Brussels, writes the Guardian’s Brussels correspondent, Jennifer Rankin:

“The searches ... have led to the discovery of an explosive device containing nails, among other things. The investigators have also discovered chemical products and an Islamic State flag.”

Brussels attacks: Isis flag and nail bomb found in raid ? live | World news | The Guardian

Belgian prosecutor: 'Too early to make the link between Paris and today's attacks'

The Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw has also spoken at the press conference and has given details of the attack:

There were several terrorist attacks this morning: two explosions in Zaventem and one in Maelbeek, which many killed and wounded.
Two of the three men in the CCTV photo “very likely committed a suicide attack.’

Van Leeuw confirmed that there is an active manhunt under way for the third man seen in CCTV footage at Zaventem airport dressed in white.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack through its media wing, but it was still “too early to make a direct connection between the attacks in Paris [in November] and today’s attacks”, Van Leeuw said. Isis’s claim of responsibility has not yet been formally verified, he said.

There are several raids under way across the country, but Van Leeuw warned of the risks of reporting details of active operations.
Witnesses are currently being questioned, with more being sought.

Several explosions were heard at the airport after the initial two blasts, but these were controlled detonations by security forces, Van Leeuw said, before warning that there may yet be more controlled detonations of suspect packages.
And with that, Van Leeuw declined to give any further information so as not to affect the ongoing investigations.

Brussels attacks: Isis flag and nail bomb found in raid ? live | World news | The Guardian

what the hell is wrong with people?

Originally Posted by Neverna

It would be scary if they got in there.

Is that all you got to say ?

Why has this thread not been moved to the Dog House ?

Originally Posted by Troy

I can see a bit of wog bashing on the horizon

Just wonder why

Originally Posted by Pound Hound

what the hell is wrong with people?

They got religion, feminists and middle class w**kers.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by taxexile

try telling that to the muslims. they answer only to allah which is why they can never co exist peacefully in any non muslim i.e. secular, country.

Yep, sure right there, wouldn't catch the Catholics and Protestants fighting for over 30 fucking years in Britain for sweet fuck all, would you?

Apples and Oranges and the meaning of "Fuck off Jeff" becomes so clear.

the 3 mussies in the pic shows 2 of them wearing 1 glove and the 1 who ain't is the 1 they're after.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Goes around, don't it?


Beware.
You're next.
Never see it coming.

Are you IN some kind of Nervana ?

The Brussels attacks show that Islamic State is still growing in ambition and capability

Europe must confront the possibility of such attacks on a regular basis

BELGIUM’S satisfaction at finding Salah Abdeslam, the man believed to have been the Islamic State (IS) logistics chief behind the Paris terror attacks, which took the lives of 130 people four months ago, was always likely to be fleeting. That it had taken so long to track Mr Abdeslam down was worrying. That he was found staying in the apartment of a friend’s mother in Molenbeek, the district of Brussels that is probably home to the highest concentration of jihadist sympathisers in Europe, is an indication of chronic intelligence failure on the part of Belgian’s State Security Service and the police.

But perhaps the biggest worry is the discovery that IS's network in Belgium, and perhaps across Europe, is so extensive. To be able to conduct serial complex attacks—such as the multiple bombings in Brussels’ international airport and metro system, which killed at least 30 people on the morning of March 22nd—suggests IS can draw on perhaps hundreds of supporters, some of whom have reliable bomb-making expertise and know how to communicate securely.

Some will argue that the timing of the attacks on Brussels, coming so soon after the arrest of Mr Abdeslam, is a coincidence. But that probably underestimates the scale of the IS operation in Belgium. Indeed, Mr Abdeslam’s arrest may well have been the trigger for another cell to go into action with a plan that had been some weeks or months in preparation.

There are still hopes that Mr Abdeslam’s arrest and almost certain extradition to France will yield information that fills in the gaps in what is known about the Paris and Brussels attacks. But what has been learned so far by French investigators after the interrogation of witnesses and investigation of both the crime scenes and places where the terrorists had lived is disturbing enough.

An overriding concern is the extent of the network across Europe that IS appears to have been building for at least the past three years as a platform for sustaining a series of major terrorist outrages in different cities. There are known to be 18 people being held in six countries who are suspected of helping the Paris attackers. That is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg.

Intelligence services are faced with a lethal combination: thousands of European citizens radicalised on the internet and drawn to IS by its military and propaganda successes; battle-hardened fighters returning from Syria and Iraq who have received expert training; and the opportunities to infiltrate back into Europe unnoticed amid the huge flows of genuine refugees.

French investigators have also been taken aback by the sophistication of the IS external operations wing. It appears from the traces left by the Paris suicide bombers that IS bomb-makers in Europe have mastered manufacturing explosive devices that use triacetone triperoxide, known as TATP, whose precursors can be found in easily available products such as nail polish remover and hair lighteners. Making multiple TATP devices that detonate reliably requires a good deal of skill, but police have yet to locate either a bomb factory or any of the bomb-makers, some of whom are likely to have been sent directly from Iraq or Syria.

Another sign of their competent tradecraft is the discipline of their communications security. The French authorities had no clue of what was to unfold on the evening of November 13th and there seems to have been no actionable intelligence before the attacks earlier today, despite warnings from the Belgian interior minister that more attacks were likely. Sim cards taken from “burners” (pre-paid mobile phones that are used only once before being discarded) show no evidence of text messaging, e-mails or chat-room use. The conclusion is that the terrorists are using encryption for all their electronic communication, but precisely what kind may still not be known.

Finally, it increasingly looks as if IS operational planning always aims at carrying out multiple, sequenced attacks to spread confusion and to stretch the ability of emergency services to respond. Over the weekend, there were reports that London’s police and the army’s SAS special forces are now working on the possibility that the capital could be hit by up to 10 attacks, all occurring on the same day. It is also clear that such attacks will be against soft targets with the aim of causing as many casualties as possible.

Europe now has to confront the possibility that IS has acquired the capability to make devastating attacks on what amounts to a fairly regular basis. Yet faced with such a threat, it is still far from certain that Europe can react in the way that America did in the aftermath of September 11th 2001, when it was quickly understood that the failure of different agencies to pool and share intelligence had been instrumental in allowing the plot to proceed. America’s long run of preventing another foreign-borne attack on its soil is an indication of how well the lessons were learned. In Britain too, with its experience of combating IRA terrorism for decades, the security agencies and the police have shown how it should be done.


the economist.

The Brussels attacks show that Islamic State is still growing in ambition and capability | The Economist

Today Brussels Police have arrested 30 Thalidomide Muslim Refugees
When they asked why they had been arrested the Police replied..............

" For bringing Small Arms into the Country "

Originally Posted by billy the kid

the 3 mussies in the pic shows 2 of them wearing 1 glove and the 1 who ain't is the 1 they're after.

You're observant Billy,
So wtf with the one glove bit, eh? Weird.

Originally Posted by Pound Hound

what the hell is wrong with people?

Ask the Belgians. They let the muslims into their country.

Something like this always brings out the absolute worst in some people doesn't it.

Originally Posted by ENT

So wtf with the one glove bit, eh? Weird.

Originally Posted by ENT

“A photograph of three male suspects was taken at Zaventem. Two of them seem to have committed suicide attacks. The third, wearing a light-coloured jacket and a hat, is actively being sought,”

The two wearing the gloves blew themselves up, so maybe tied in with a detonator?

Good one, that's a strong possibility, especially considering that both gloved hands were left hands.

This detail about how the suspected Brussels suicide bombers wore their gloves might have been a giveaway


The Belgian prosecutor's office has confirmed that the three men in this CCTV footage are suspects in the investigation of the Brussels attacks, according to the RTBF.

And this picture reveals an important detail that might have given them away.

The two men dressed in black are thought to have been the suicide bombers. Both of them are wearing only one glove on their left hand.

According to the Belgian news site La Libre, the single glove could have helped them hide a detonator. A security expert also told Sky News that the matching gloves could be a clue about which device was used.






gloves suspects


The man in white on the right is suspected of being an attacker and is being actively sought by the police. In addition to wearing a different colour scheme, he does not seem to be wearing a glove. It is not clear whether the fact that all three chose to use luggage carts is significant. It is unclear whether there were explosives on those trolleys. An unexploded suicide vest and a Kalashnikov were also found at the airport.

The attacks on the Belgian capital on Tuesday killed 30 people and left hundreds more injured. Two explosions ripped through the Zaventem Airport, and another explosion rocked the Maelbeek metro station in the centre of Brussels.

This detail about how the Brussels suicide bombers wore their gloves might have been a giveaway - Business Insider

Originally Posted by ENT

It is not clear whether the fact that all three chose to use luggage carts is significant. It is unclear whether there were explosives on those trolleys. An unexploded suicide vest and a Kalashnikov were also found at the airport.

It is also unclear whether they were convicted wankers because the gloves might have covered the blisters...FFS...

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by taxexile

try telling that to the muslims. they answer only to allah which is why they can never co exist peacefully in any non muslim i.e. secular, country.

Yep, sure right there, wouldn't catch the Catholics and Protestants fighting for over 30 fucking years in Britain for sweet fuck all, would you?

Originally Posted by ENT

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

Ya, I think that was a sarcastic comment by seekingsausage.

I find it very interesting that once PCness got involved in how to fight wars with our enemies, we began losing. It peaked during the Vietnam War when Washington had more say about what was going on in the battle arena than the generals did who were actually there. Take a good look at the outcome of that conflict and any rational person would say the US was defeated. Fast forward to the Iraq war, same thing and again in Afghanistan.

What good does it do to have superior weapons and troop training when it can not be used to its full potential because some idiot politician worries about what others think. It is time to change the rules of engagement and start kicking some ass, whether it be Muslim ass or any other ass that needs to be kicked that threatens our way of life. The politicians need to stick to politics and let the generals fight the wars. Why hobble the fighting machine? Let them loose and go into Syria and demolish ISIS.

Time to get tough. The US has tried it the PC way for over 50 hears now and it has been a joke. Time to unleash the lions.