Brussels bombed by Islamic terrorists

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

Sounds fair to me.

[think positive]

If I see em I'm gunna BEAT IT faster than Billy Jean

(Bet I'm not the only one taking another look at that pic!)

[Morrigu]

[Pies4shaw]

Since the authorities have now identified all 3 suspects and it appears that they were well known for involvement in organised crime, under suspicion of supplying ammunition for the Paris attacks and on the run following the capture of their village-idiot mate in the Brussels raids last week, this just looks like a massive failure of police "surveillance" and "intelligence" agency operations.

As these people were high on the list of suspects thought to have aided and abetted previous atrocities, it might have been desirable to let the transport authorities know to keep an eye out for them.

[Culprit]

Terrorist attacks are becoming the norm and the media are slowly desensitising the people. Soon a bomb will go off and people will just switch off. Who knows once the shock and awe disappears these idiots may stop. I don't think so, what will happen will be a nuclear suicide bomber to shock us even more as the small explosions will have no effect on the masses.

Religious fundamentalists are just crazy ^%$^%$^&. There is no real defence for suicide bombers. I hear education is the key and I just laugh as these type of people have an agenda and that is to kill people that do not agree with them. This has been going on for centuries and will be going on since many of us have left this life.

[Wokko]

Looking like this is just the beginning.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRUSSELS_ATTACKS_CELLS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-23-15-15-46

[Jezza]

It's a worrying trend Wokko.

I remember reading a few months back that an ISIS defector claimed that the group had told potential foreign fighters who attempted to cross the Turkish-Syrian border to stay in their home countries and commit home-grown attacks rather than coming into Syria and fighting on the front lines there, whereas in 2014 the group was much more accepting of those willing to fight in Syria and Iraq.

Europe has serious problems but it's not really surprising this is happening unfortunately.

[Pies4shaw]

The problem in Europe appears to be that they don't seem to want to employ anyone with an IQ over about 47 in the police or the security services. This is all very worrying but the most worrying thing about it is the complete ineptitude of the people who are supposed to be protecting the public.

The world is full of bad people but when you know exactly who they are, where they've been and what they're doing, there's not much excuse for letting them wander into an airport and a train station carrying bombs.

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

Who knows? I harp on this because we seem to be willing to cede all sorts of rights for the benefit of "protections" that seem to prove all to often to be illusory. There are broader lessons to be learned here.

[Jezza]

I actually don't believe anti-terror legislation enhances our protection for that matter so I'm generally opposed to it in most cases.

We're better off preserving our system rather than changing it even if in reality it's an illusion.

[Morrigu]

YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN: Why will no one admit the way some western Muslims raise their children is fomenting terror?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3507086/Why-no-one-admit-way-western-Muslims-raise-children-fomenting-terror.html

Yes David it is from the Daily Mail - BUT it is not a bashing article - it genuinely offers explanation and insight.

[Wokko]

[HAL]

Try to be less subjective.