Third Brussels airport suspect arrested
The other two were apparently suicide bombers and are dead.
The third man has not been publicly identified yet, but he had appeared on surveillance video in a light-colored jacket. Nor has it been announced how he was found, but reports are that he is already in the custody of authorities:
A third bomb, which did not explode, was found in a suitcase at the airport, leading authorities to believe the other bombs were also hidden inside suitcases. The man wearing the light jacket can be seen in the photo with a black suitcase authorities believe contained the bomb they found unexploded.
Police released a bulletin saying they are searching for the man in the light jacket, asking for public assistance in finding him. A senior U.S. official briefed on the case confirms that the IDs of the suspected attackers have been shared with U.S. authorities.
This is a case where the ticking time bomb scenario and dilemma could apply.
[ADDENDUM: Here’s some more information:
More explosive devices reportedly were turned up Tuesday as police raided homes throughout Belgium in a desperate manhunt for a third suspect believed to have survived the morning’s coordinated bombings in Brussels, where at least 34 people were killed.
Belgian federal prosecutors said the search of a home in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek “led to the discovery of an explosive device containing among other things nails.” Investigators also found chemical products and an ISIS flag…
Authorities were led to the Schaerbeek home by a taxi driver who had picked the three men up there earlier and driven them to the airport, Sky News reported…
Abdeslam [the recently-captured Paris attack terrorist] reportedly stayed in Schaerbeek, the neighborhood where the unexploded bomb and chemicals were reportedly found, for up to three weeks after he fled Paris in November. A more middle-class community than the infamous Muslim enclave of Molenbeek, the western portion of Schaerbeek is home to a large population of Turkish and Morrocan immigrants.
The flurry of law enforcement activity came after a channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram that is maintained by ISIS described the operation and took credit for the carnage.
So it wasn’t Molenbeek.]
ISIS claimed responsibility, yes? The French PM called this an act of war. An act of war on a NATO member invokes Article 5 and we’re all at war with ISIS. Come on, it has to be better than always waiting for the other sandal to drop. And, frankly, it might do Europe a world of good to be able to beat their chests a bit. Crusade, anyone?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition either.
Apparently the brother of the white jacketed handler is an Olympic athlete for Belgium in Tae Kwon Do. Doesn’t fit the profile of terrorists being marginalized, lacking in opportunities as the western apologists like to claim.
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Andy McCarthy @PJ Media has a good post about how ISIS, being an off-shoot of AQ, knows that the unwillingness of authorities to go too far in their interrogation buys them time to go through with their planned attacks before their captured brother will reveal the details (though they need to move up the date, as they just did in Belgium).
The west is not serious about dealing with Political Islam (historic Islam). History has been excised from the education curriculum for a generation (or 2 or 3) and this is having its intended effect; the escalation of the bureaucracy and a people easily led as sheep. The knowledge that our federal government was formed for the very purpose of protecting our borders and way of life is lost on the majority. It will take a miracle for people to wake up to reality without a full-blown “man-made” disaster potentially waking the west.
Sharon W is quite right.
Jefferson and John Adams had the same problem with Islam. It took naval combat to squelch the buggers then. “To the shores of Tripoli.”
Things have not changed in principle. Only the scale has, thanks to mideast oil.
“Thanks to Mideast oil” OK, we can get our own oil, so why do we not?
Noteworthy: The Spanish Inquisition, a court that pursued suspected spies and traitors, was not founded until the late fifteenth century, three hundred years after the last Crusade.
Michael Adams — Because our whack-job lefties won’t let us, because oil is bad, bad, bad! It would be interesting to know if there is any correlation between Saudi contributions to US universities and their production of AGW activists? Has anybody ever studied that?
Turns out they had a tip about the airport..
EXCLUSIVE: Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing
Attack in subway likely also known in advance by Belgian and Western agencies; attack plan was formulated at de-facto ISIS capital of Raqqa, in Syria.
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.710572
this is the result of a globalist view…
when things are about individual nations (nationalist), you have operatives from a certain location and can hold the individual to some kind of result
but when its globalist, there is no border divide, and so there is no national anything to pressure for result and so, its all over and no where at once.
the left thinks globalism is the answer
but what your watching is globalisms change to the war and battle and altercation scene.
rather than have separate factions you have to build in each country with difficulty moving from place to place, you have a single faction, that exists in all places in which borders are weak enough not to matter.
the old international conflict has given way to globalist conflict.. and it wont get better, because as stalin said, size is a quality unto itself. meaning that when the whole is so large, there is no way to cover it or operate in it with strength…
What will be the acid test, at some point, will be how some in the West react to “collateral damage” when things get serious.
The MSM these days is prone to act as 5th columnists in this regard. Just as they did with the massive influx into Europe of “refugees,” highlighting sentimental, anecdotal stories rather than noting the huge percentage of unattached young males.
Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing
Attack in subway likely also known in advance by Belgian and Western agencies; attack plan was formulated at de-facto ISIS capital of Raqqa, in Syria.
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.710572
-Thanks, Art.
I guess the Euro Ruling Class is insulated from the plebes who get killed while standing in line. It is really too bad a Muzzie doesnt take Merkel or the EU hobnobs out. But the day may be coming.
You are right. You could flay many western victims alive in the street, and they would still not accept what was happening to them. And if they once did, they would either whimper, or else rejoice in having achieved true victim-hood and thus through their miserable and pointless deaths, “righteousness” enough to justify having once been alive.
Sometime, someplace, normal Americans are going to have to draw a moral line between themselves and the masochists who sublimate their perversion through the politics of “liberalism”.
If they are congenitally unwilling to defend or justify their own life or right to one free and unmolested. why should anyone else bother?
AP is reporting IS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed
what a sad shadow over things
NEO: Chag Purim Sameach, Freilichin Purim
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It is really too bad a Muzzie doesnt take Merkel or the EU hobnobs out.
I hear that the EU aristocrats have armed body guards. Pretty sweet deal, eh Frog. All the peasants are disarmed though, as is their Place.
President Clinton, 17FEB98: