Belgian terrorists foiled

The Wall Street Journal reports that Belgian police shot another terrorist in his getaway stick as he was attempting to board a tram with his lethal load.

A Belgian government official described the captured man as a “big fish” and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel canceled a planned event with Secretary of State John Kerry just as the Schaerbeek operation began, officials said.

Cellphone videos taken by bystanders showed a man with a backpack lying on the ground at a tram station, as a bomb-disposal robot approached him.

Several witnesses, who were in their homes at the time of the operation, said they heard two gunshots as police opened fire on the man who refused to lie down and hand over his bag. He was shot in the leg and then police took him away, the witnesses said.

I’m guessing that Muslim Lives Matter will have something to say about that arrest. Other reports say that he was complying ith the police, but then they just decided to shoot him anyway. I’m not sure that folks in this country would stand for a bomb-robot searching a criminal here in the US. ACLU would have conniption fits. Five other terrorists have been arrested in Brussels along with this limping unfortunate fellow.

The French have been busy, too according to US News;

[Radio Télévision Belge Francophone] says the operation was in coordination with the arrest in France on Thursday of Reda Kriket, whom authorities had been looking for since January for his suspected connection to the November attack in Paris. Kriket and other suspects in the Nov. 13 attacks were convicted in absentia last year for terrorist activities.

What I find to be amazing about our European cousins is that they’re real good at rounding up criminals after a terrorist attack – as if they know right where all of the guys are suddenly. More than likely, they were being “watched” weeks ago – like watching them has ever prevented a terrorist attack. But, if you decide that you want to criticize the Europeans, you’ll draw the ire of our own John Kerry;

Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in Brussels on Friday in a hastily organized visit after his trip to Moscow, said that “carping” about Belgium’s shortcomings “is a little bit frantic and inappropriate.”

The Belgian Justice and Interior Ministers both offered their resignations before the smoke had cleared at the airport. They admitted their shortcomings. “Frantic and inappropriate” is what I’d call John Kerry showing up while the rubble is still bouncing.

An unnamed wife of an US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel was killed in the assault, by the way, according to Fox News.

Fox News also reported that the US announced that we took out an ISIS paymaaster in Syria in retaliation.

Category: Terror War