Two explosions at Brussels airport

Information unfolding on suspects and their movements... just goes to prove what I and others have said all along.

I said after the Paris attacks that there would be another within a matter of months. Here's my next easy forecast: multiple attacks this summer.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeQWq2oW4AATH_C.jpg

BREAKING: The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves, the AP has learned.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 23, 2016

BREAKING: Officials: Suspected bombmaker for Paris attacks was one of two dead suicide bombers at Brussels airport.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 23, 2016
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1c166...wave-bloodshed

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Originally Posted by Associated Press (AP)

PARIS (AP) — The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage, officials have told The Associated Press.

The network of agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq. The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to attack the West. Before being killed in a police raid, the ringleader of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks claimed he had entered Europe in a multinational group of 90 fighters, who scattered "more or less everywhere."

But the biggest break yet in the Paris attacks investigation — the arrest on Friday of fugitive Salah Abdeslam— did not thwart the multipronged attack just four days later on the Belgian capital's airport and metro that left 31 people dead and an estimated 270 wounded. Three suicide bombers also died.

Just as in Paris, Belgian authorities were searching for at least one fugitive in Tuesday's attacks — this time for a man wearing a white jacket who was seen on airport security footage with the two suicide attackers. The fear is that the man, whose identity Belgian officials say is not known, will find Abdeslam's path instructive.

After fleeing Paris immediately after the November attacks, Abdeslam forged a new network back in his childhood neighborhood of Molenbeek in Belgium, long known as a haven for jihadis, and renewed plotting, according to Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders.

"Not only did he drop out of sight, but he did so to organize another attack, with accomplices everywhere. With suicide belts. Two attacks organized just like in Paris. And his arrest, since they knew he was going to talk, it was a response: 'So what if he was arrested? We'll show you that it doesn't change a thing,'" said French Senator Nathalie Goulet, co-head of a commission tracking jihadi networks.

Estimates range from 400 to 600 Islamic State fighters trained specifically for external attacks, according to the officials, including Goulet. Some 5,000 Europeans have gone to Syria.

It's one thing blaming the terrorists themselves: sure they're completely evil and insane. But it is another thing for our leaders not only to demand open borders to keep their EU project alive when there is a home-grown terror threat, it is another thing to actively invite near a million people in from the Middle East and counting. It's expected that with better weather conditions coming soon, we're going to see an exodus into Europe that will dwarf last autumn.

And yet they're talking about extending the EU's already non-existent borders to Syria and Iraq. But hey, the EU keeps us safe, right? :rolleyes:

400. An estimate. Let that sink in. If a handful can pull off Paris and Brussels.........

I read just then too that Europol estimates 3,000 to 5,000 jihadists who went to fight in Syria have already returned to Europe.

Just came across this interesting image:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeQ5kU0WEAA74I0.jpg

@xxMATTGxx; Not surprised to see Britain and Spain ahead in past decades, probably down to IRA and ETA(?) which are now largely defunct.

Interesting also to see the instant drop in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union. Funding to pro-Soviet groups comes to an end.

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

Another America-hater who argues America is to blame for everything. What next, it was those Jews and Israel that made Islam nasty?

Muslim countries have been at war with the western world for more than a thousand years before the USA even existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...t_attacks#2016

India, Somalia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Spain and countless others aren't exactly involved in Middle Eastern wars. Yet they're attacked.

This is a religious/ideological war that has been going on for centuries. Read what the terrorists write, say and do before talking absolute garbage.

I clearly said US (as in us = we etc) not USA and I even specified it to avoid confusion. Shows you never read well and just blabber on.

Really terrible news :( I hope they catch all who are responsible...
makes me feel ill