Belgian police foil jihadist attacks
Belgian police say that they’ve thwarted some jihadist terrorist plots there. According to Die Welt;
According to the sources of the Belgian newspaper report, authorities believe there are links between the planned terrorist attacks and the jihadist group “Islamic State,” which has taken over large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Roughly 400 Belgians are believed to have travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist groups, L’Echo wrote. Police have been surveilling several of the 90 who have returned so far.
“Our starting point is that among them, one out of nine aim to carry out an attack,” L’Echo quoted an unnamed source as saying. “That is a conservative estimate, if you also take into account the people who help them.”
You might remember that in May, a jihadist murdered four people outside the Holocaust Museum in Brussels – the gunman in that attack is believed to have trained in Syria for more than a year.
Category: Terror War
So is this the JV team that isn’t really Islamic? I’m losing track.
Well. I see there’s no denial of reality going on in Europe. Belgium, France, Germany, probably Spain as well. UK is cracking down, too, and one of the Nordic countries – I think it’s Sweden, not sure.
Anyone in WDC paying attention?
Naw, I didn’t think so.
Yep, I’m sure glad we don’t have any of that going on here, just a bunch of workplace violence.
/sarc off
The Swedes are about to replace their center-right government with (another) leftish one, so I wouldn’t count on them in the “no denial of reality” camp for very long.
You know for a “small regional threat” only, this IS group really gets around. Belgium, Australia. Where next? Hopefully not a town near you or me soon.
Sparks. “Where next?” Liechtenstein or Hoboken, but I’m giving the edge to Liechtenstein. It has no military and a police force that could fit comfortably into two yellow school busses.
Yes, but you have to find Lichtenstein first.
I’d put Battery Park on their target list. Tourists, public place, people sitting around drinking coffee, enjoying the day.
Or how about one of those outdoor cafes in WDC? There used to be a lot of those.
Lichtenstan as far as the Jihadis are concerned.
EX, why not the Mall of America, in Minnesota? The non-jihadist, non-Muslim members of the religion of pieces seem to like to make statements when they do their deed. With the added bonus that there is a whole lot of Somali Muslims close by, for support.
Religion of peace, MY ASS!
I wish all terrorist ended up like this boy: