At least 36 people were killed today and well over 200 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Belgian capital of Brussels, where ISIS bombers targeted the airport with a pair of suicide blasts, and subsequently bombed a subway train at Maelbeek station, near the EU headquarters.
There appear to have been three bombers at the Brussels Airport, two of them killed as suicide bombers, and the other placing a nail-bomb before leaving the airport. He is still at large, and authorities recovered his bomb, which failed to detonate.
The deadliest attack came an hour after the airport bombings, however, when a man opened fire in a subway train before detonating, killing over 20 people. Officials say they recovered a Kalashnikov rifle from the scene.
Brussels has been under virtual lockdown since then, with the airport closed, and all public transportation shut down. The Eurostar train system, despite not being targeted, has similarly been shut down in the wake of the attacks.
Several nations have offered travel warnings against going to Brussels since then, and indeed it would be difficult to do so even if one was of a mind to. The fear of more ISIS attacks is spreading far beyond Brussels, however.
Officials reported stepped up security in several major US cities, and travel firms say they believe that summer vacations to all cities in Europe are likely to be down dramatically over last year because of fear about security risks.
With Belgian officials focusing their efforts on the third bomber at the airport, US intelligence officials say they believe there are “more than a handful” of other ISIS figures involved in the attack who are yet to be tracked down.
ISIS was quick to claim credit for the strikes and bragged about more coming, but US officials say there is no credible evidence that any specific threat exists against any particular target in the US.
The suspects were born in Belgium and their motive was to retaliate against Belgium’s role in the international coalition against the Islamic State. Belgium had bombed the Islamic State since 2014, but in 2015, it withdrew its air force due to financial difficulties, but it still employs 35 military advisors to advise the Kurdish and Iraqi forces to fight against the Islamic State.
It is a mistake to believe that the attack was a result of Islamic State propaganda. The attackers were born and raised in Belgium and did the attacks precisely because the West had increased their bombing in the Middle East.
Wow, a complete and very fast metamorphosis from totally irreligious,criminal person to” very devout individual overnight .Strange indeed.
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Salah Abdeslam: pot-smoking enigma of Paris attacks”
“Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in the Paris attacks arrested on Friday,
showed little sign of religious fervour before the assaults and was
even known to enjoy a beer and a joint in the bar he ran with his
brother in the Brussels district where he was captured….
…Salah also developed a taste for casinos, gambling in the Dutch city of Breda in June 2014 and in Brussels last year.”
http://news.yahoo.com/salah-abdeslam-pot-smoking-enigma-paris-attacks-205837580.html
Once again ,western hypocrisy is on display in a very big way and so clear as sun light to any one with open mind.The whole world is being “bombarded “by around the clock converges,news outlets devoting so much time and providing too many reports ,world leaders are competing to see who express the most outrage and anger and who would retaliate the hardest all for people who were “murdered ” in European country.The response would be the same whether the number killed was one or thirty or more.
Contrast this with the reaction and response(actually the the lack of) to the bombing that took few days before in Ankara,in Turkey.
30,50,1000,500,000 non-Europeans get killed by ISIS,or by the US ,France,UK is never a big deal and all the times and “it is worth the price” as one time an official from the civilized part of the world once declared.
When the “west” attacks and kills civilians it is either always justified as retaliation in self defense collateral damages,or as the republican front runner for the President of the great USA sees as simply mistakes done over and over.We meant and we always mean to do good unlike them they just and simply hate us ,it is has nothing whatsoever to do with our actions.
Similarly, when the Islamic State attacked dozens of civilians in Baghdad or Damascus they get relatively little coverage. The Islamic State attacked Shi’ite Mosques partly because the Shi’ite government in Iraq had oppressed Sunni Muslims; they place the blame on all Shi’ite Muslims for this.
How do you know it was ISIS Jason? Any trials, investigations ?
Never heard of a false flag, Operation GLADIO Operation AJAX?
Or are you a MOCKINGBIRD?
Funny how this site questions government/corporate media narratives until it comes to the crucial issue of terrorism. Then it falls right into line with the rest of the world’s media playing the official narrative like a mighty Wurlitzer
The First Question to Ask After Any Terror Attack: Was It a False Flag?
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/11/the-first-question-to-ask-after-any-terror-attack-was-it-a-false-flag.html