Terrorist Attack in Brussels 3-22-2016

Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the European Union, has been hit by two coordinated blasts – one in its subway and another one at its airport — causing so far 21 deaths on Tuesday morning. It’s the deadliest attack perpetrated in Belgium, France’s neighboring country, since WWII.

The blasts at Zaventem airport – Belgium’s largest — killed 13 people and was caused by a suicide bombing, per the Belgian prosecutor. 35 people have been injured.

The bomb attack in the subway took place roughly an hour later at the station Maelbeek in Brussels which is located 400 meters from the European Commission, now placed under maximum security. At last 10 people have been killed in the subway blast.

Charles Michel, Belgium’s prime minister, called the attacks “blind, violent and coward.”

“We’re at war. Europe has been repeatedly attacked and we must be determined to fight terrorism. The threat is even greater today than before the Nov.13 attacks at the Bataclan and Stade de France,” said Manuel Valls, France’s prime minister.

Local media have noted the attacks on Belgian soil come four days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, one of the prime suspects in the Nov.13 Paris attack, in Brussels. Explosives were found in Abdeslam’s apartment, leading investigators to think that he was plotting another attack.

Police have been conducting anti-terrorism raids in Belgium to track down Abdeslam’s suspected accomplices: Laachroui Najim, Mohamed Abrini and Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, according to report.

comment: We have come a long way from some terrorist with a bomb in his shoe. It is only a matter of time until we see something like this happen in the U.S.

Medclinician

I had an instructor who was a Greek national with Canadian citizenship....he said that Europeans scoffed at US terrorist preparations, and acknowledged that there would be occasional terrorist attacks/bombings as a fact of life.  They were willing to make this trade-off with the money spent in the US on homeland security, loss of privacy from surveillance, high US gun mortality rates etc. 

One of the discussions in Europe is about internal border control. It is an old discussion but the refugee-crisis brought new life to it. 

If international governments seriously want to fight terrorism they would do something about bank-secrecy. IS needs money. But the international flow of money is-for a large part-secret. Several countries (Switzerland, Luxembourg) have become rich in doing dirty (financial) deals with dictators, terrorists etc. 

https://www.rt.com/news/336985-brussels-terror-nuclear-plants/

This guy should use better language and better prepare his presentations. A terrorist group inside a nuclear powerplant would have enough knowledge if they want to do serious harm.