Breaking News Two Explosions At Brussels Airport.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3503928/Two-explosions-heard-Brussels-Airport.html

Could these have been intended to be set off aboard a US bound aircraft?

[naomi24]

SP, Ashraf Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli isn't who Khandro is talking about.

[retrocop]

Would someone enlighten me what a sticky is please?

[DTCwordfan]

There's one fundamental difference between Belgium and the UK when it comes to the screening of Muslims and why Brussels was exposed and that is the relationship between the secret services and the leaders of the community. The DT also mentioned this in their online service..... Essentially here our boys and girls keep very close relationships with the Imams and leaders of Muslim communities and this has led to a lot of tip-offs as to what is going on that could be subversive/Isis fuelled....

In Belgium, this connection or the espionage tentacles do not extend anywhere near as far as here - there is a fundamental distrust and that does not surprise me. Having lived in Belgium, there is a fear of the police and there always has been, certainly since the 80s when I was there - they are, in short, thugs. Hence the communications breakdown and aspects such as explosives and arms are freely available.......

[naomi24]

It's a thread that the editorial team place at the top of the page for a certain period of time. This one was up there for a few hours - then it was 'unstuck'. :o)

[naomi24]

^That was to Retrocop.

[retrocop]

Thanks Naomi
New one for me.

[sp1814]

naomi24

When you say:

SP, Ashraf Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli isn't who Khandro is talking about.

What do you mean? I was referring to Egypt's reaction to ISIS.

[sp1814]

DTCwordfan

Blimey...I didn't know that. I really wonder how our security services are doing. Are they on top of the situation? Is our intelligence that much more sophisticated? Is our relationship with Middle Eastern countries and the U.S. important to the position we are currently in???

[ChillDoubt]

Seems to me that the more we tolerate the RoP in Europe the more we suffer and are ridiculed by its followers.
Oh for a secular world.....

[retrocop]

Chilldoubt
Our tolerance is a sign of our weakness and do this scum easily exploit every weakness and chink in our 'armour'!

[-Talbot-]

I'm up to post 100 ... does the thread continue banging on about the liberal left?

[naomi24]

sp, //I was referring to Egypt's reaction to ISIS. //

Ah, right, but the speech Khandro mentioned involved a suggestion that the philosophy of Islam be modernised. Regardless of Egypt's efforts to repel terrorists, Islam isn't listening.

[agchristie]

Interesting that two of three suspects for the airport bombing were both wearing a black glove on their left hand. Possibly to hide detonation devices.

[sp1814]

naomi24

At the end khandro asked what Egypt had done since. I was listing what Egypt had done since.

[Svejk]

Sisi was talking to the Muslim world at large. Naturally he's doing what he can in his own backyard.

[Khandro]

sp; I didn't seem to make the point clearly enough (though naomi understood)
"they" referred to the imams.

[DTCwordfan]

well, sp, that was the postulation put forward in the DT and also on the Beeb's 'running' page and reflected on R4 around the 11am news this morning.....In my time, residents of Brussels were very wary about interfacing with the police - and not just the foreigners. From what I am hearing, not much has changed.

[naomi24]

SP, //I was referring to Egypt's reaction to ISIS. //

You really didn't understand Khandro's post at all.

[Hypognosis]

@AOG

//Could these have been intended to be set off aboard a US bound aircraft?//

With 20/20 hindsight, we know the answer is no?

The Pan Am flight (Lockerbie) was pre-suicide-bomber era. If there ever was a successful one, it soon prompted security changes which averted the shoe bomber and the underpants bomber. Baggage checks, ban on large containers of liquids, sniffer dogs, looking for visible signs of stress (facial sweating etc) and so on make it very difficult to board or smuggle in bogus luggage.

I would like to be able to say that they hate the west in general, not just the USA in particular but this attack seems pretty indiscriminate, one blast to create panic, another to exploit crowding at the exits. Being a multicultural city, how many Muslims might be among the victims?

[Hypognosis]

* we know the answer is no. (Stray ? above)

p.s. Job opportunity for newly arrived migrants. Station them in crowded public spaces and on underground carriages as a deterrent to indiscriminate explosives or gas attacks. Killing fellow Muslims apparently has dire consequences in the afterlife, I gather (eg dozens of Muslim workers were killed in the twin towers attack).