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Belgium: Muslim motorcycle gang charged with planning New Year’s Eve jihad attacks in Brussels

Jan 3, 2016 10:29 am By Robert Spencer

It isn’t over: “I do not want to categorically say ‘we escaped’ or ‘we didn’t escape’…when investigations have progressed over the coming weeks we will be able to speak more certainly.” And even if this jihad plot can be said at any point to have been successfully thwarted, there will be another, and another, and another — courtesy Europe’s suicidal immigration and refugee policies.

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“Belgium terror plot: Kamikaze Riders motorbike club members charged with planning attacks on Brussels,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, December 31, 2015:

Two members of a motorbike gang with alleged links to global terror networks are among the suspects arrested over a plot to launch attacks in Brussels.

Authorities said a suspected Isis terror cell were planning to attack high-profile targets in the Belgian capital over the festive season, prompting the cancellation of its main New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

Military fatigues, Airsoft replica gun equipment, Isis propaganda, phones and computers have been seized from homes of the alleged suspects in a series of police raids.

Charles Michel, the Belgian Prime Minister, would not be drawn on whether security forces had successfully thwarted an attack.

“I do not want to categorically say ‘we escaped’ or ‘we didn’t escape’…when investigations have progressed over the coming weeks we will be able to speak more certainly,” he said in a television interview.

A 30-year-old man named as Said Saouti has been charged with threatening terror attacks, recruiting people with the aim of carrying them out and participating in the activities of a terrorist group, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said.

His alleged accomplice, Mohammed Karay, 27, is accused of making terror threats and participating in the activities of a terrorist group.

The two Belgians, who deny the charges, are members of the Kamikaze Riders motorcycle club, which has been previously described by a security expert as “closely associated with jihadists active in Iraq and Syria”.

Although the group uses Japanese imagery and bikes, the word “kamikaze” is also used to refer to suicide bombers in French.

Alexandra Jones, a strategic crime analyst based at The Hague, wrote that the group was founded by Saouti and his friends, and mainly joined by men of Moroccan descent in Antwerp and Brussels.

Before his arrest this week, she called Saouti a “Salafist preacher” who allegedly named Anwar al-Awlaki, among other extremists, as his teacher.

The article, posted on the Foreign Intrigue website, claimed to show a photo of Saouti with an Isis flag in the background, along with evidence of Islamist extremism from other members on social media.

What appears to be Saouti’s current Facebook page lists al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda recruiter killed by an American drone strike in Yemen, as his “place of work”.

Belgian media reports said he had also been associated with the now banned Sharia4Belgium group.

Karay works as a car mechanic and is also a paintball enthusiast, La Dernière Heure reported.

Links between the Kamikaze Riders and extremism were previously drawn in Belgium when founder Abdelouafi Elouassaki, who has since died in a road accident, was investigated for alleged links to Islamist extremism but cleared of involvement. His three brothers are said to have fought with Isis in Syria.

A member of the Kamikaze riders said the group was not a gang or linked to terrorism….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Look at that happy young couple in the picture. This is the Belgium that their countrymen (and maybe them) have created for their children. A country forced into a police state because of a massive population of raging moslem jihadis — any of which could go off like a ticking time bomb and start to murder and plot the murder of infidels as soon as they get serious about what their Koran says. Happy New Year, little Belgies! You incredible retards.

    • Ernie says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 2:29 pm

      And a happy New Year to you mr. McKellar . The common people of Belgium haven’t created this situation at all sir , so don’t accuse them please . It started about 50 years ago . Employers needed cheap labor and imported people from the Maghreb . The imported people were to stay here for a certain period ( politicians said 2 years maximum) and they would return to their lands of origin . It was a lie ; the common people of Belgium , were conned by these politicians , as were the people of Germany , the Netherlands etc . Democracy is a farce in Europe , the powerful have their own agenda , and don’t give a f… about the common populations . The European Union is an UNDEMOCRATIC monster . We are being controlled . Do you think that the populations of our countries like this situation ? Well , I can inform you most people over here don’t like it at all . We have been dragged into wars by these politicians ( former Yugoslavia , Iraq , Afghanistan , Libya , Ukraine and Syria ) . The United States Administrations of the last 30 years or so have ABUSED their powers by waging war on many countries . That military adventurism has proven to be a disaster and contributed to the dire situation we are in now . So Mr. McKellar , please don’t blame and insult our peoples here ; it doesn’t help . Really .

  2. PrayerWarrior says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    And meanwhile, in the Philippines a rebel Moslem group continues its campaign to break a piece of the Philippines off to form a new Islamic state.

    http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/phillip/articles/20160103.aspx

    [quote] By the end of 2015 the Moslem separatist group MILF agreed to proceed with the peace deal even if the legislature does not approve all aspects of the autonomy package. … The major problem down there in that a sizable minority of southern Moslems (ten percent or more) want to hold out and keep fighting to establish a separate Moslem state in the south. [quote/]

    First the muslims create a series of ‘no go’ zones inside a host country. Then when there’s enough of them, they press for a separate Islamic state made out of those ‘no go’ zones. They do not have to completely taken over a country. They can just keep spammed ‘no go’ zones into a country and break off pieces of it, one by one. Truly, the religion of pieces.

    I suspect that this is the next thing in store for the UK and France.

    • Charli Main says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 2:04 pm

      I suspect that, even if all Muslim ” immigration ” into Britain ended overnight, it would make no difference to their Islamisation programme. There are now enough Muslims in Britain to eventually outbreed Britain´s non Muslim population and obtain the critical “take over ” mass they require. Muslim Sharia zones will expand exponentially until entire cities are swallowed up and become part of Dar al Islam.

    • DAI says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      MILF. Muslims id like to fuck up

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 5, 2016 at 8:45 pm

        I had just taken a sip of coffee when I read your post. It might have been bad for my computer screen if I didn’t have so much control. Grimly hilarious.

  3. Undaunted says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    No, it isn’t over and it won’t be over for quite a long time, if ever. That goes for Europe, and for the US as well. In the latest attack on US soil at San Bernardino, cops took way too long to act, endangering lives and showing future terrorists that for the most part law enforcement agencies do not have the will or the balls to attack this problem correctly. We mock the French for being so timid, but during the Paris attack, without waiting for their version of SWAT, two officers entered the concert venue and killed at least one terrorist, an act that helped the body-count to be lower than it would have been had they just waited outside the door like San Bernardino PD “heroes”. All the details below:

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2016/01/told-you-so.html

    • Rob says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 3:15 pm

      After ‘Clock Boy’ I don’t blame the San Bernardino first responders.
      Hell Obama delayed as long as he could before condemning the attacks, hoping it was workplace violence incident.
      The Clock Boy first responders which included teachers, have been held up to ridicule because of the stance they took.
      Imagine being a teacher at Clock Boy’s school bravely leading the oath each morning, only to have the POTUS who is charged with defense of the Constitution undermine you in such a humiliating way?

      • Undaunted says

        Jan 3, 2016 at 3:59 pm

        There’s a difference between a dip-shit president waiting to call the act terrorism and cops who are trained and paid to go in and stop it no matter what it’s called or when it’s called whatever it’s called.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 5, 2016 at 8:47 pm

          So true, Undaunted.

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    ‘Kamikaze’ is a synonym for ‘jihadist’.

    • Undaunted says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 2:35 pm

      The difference between a Muslim jihadist and a Japanese kamikaze attacker is that the Japanese who made suicidal charges into USMC steel and/or flew their planes into the decks of destroyers and AC carriers knew they were going to lose the war and yet decided to commit his particular outrage.

      The Muslim jihadist sees his or her act of barbarism as a guarantee of victory.

      • TrueDutch says

        Jan 3, 2016 at 5:24 pm

        Actually, the Kamikazes restricted their suicide attacks to armed and engaged enemies. Despicable enough. But these squealing Muslims are the first to attack unarmed and (as yet) unengaged civilians.

        • Charli Main says

          Jan 4, 2016 at 3:19 am

          Muslim ” warriors” are at their bravest when attacking women, children and unarmed men, but then Mad Mohammed of Mecca was a spineless coward so based on his example its halal.

  5. Westman says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    More Moroccans, the source of The Netherlands’ main Muslim antagonists. Geert Wilder is being prosecuted for saying the obvious: the Netherlands needs less Moroccans. Eventually,The Hague will see the error of its perceptions; most likely in terrorist explosions.

    Isn’t it interesting that Molenbeek and Brussels keep providing evidence that the EU administration’s Kumbaya and forced acceptance of fake “Syrians” is delusional?

  6. Edwin1683 says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    Muslims have motorcycle gangs? They would not survive for two minutes against America’s patriotic bikers.

    I can just picture them riding their hogs (!) in their long robes.

    • Undaunted says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      Really? The “patriotic bikers” I see are usually fat and out of shape, many with long hair and beards that make easy handles in a fight. To underestimate the Muslim bikers is folly and lets us stay complacent.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    “… And even if this jihad plot can be said at any point to have been successfully thwarted, there will be another, and another, and another — courtesy Europe’s suicidal immigration and refugee policies…”

    Yes, death by a thousand cuts.

  8. abad says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    Belgium needs to round up Muslims on their soil and deport every last one of them.

  9. Ronen says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 2:41 am

    Useful idiot Belgians will take more and more Arab immigration. The end is near and its ugly.

  10. Liam1304 says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 2:51 am

    As a motorcyclist (no, not a fat hairy “biker”) I am really upset that these baby killers have invaded my wonderful sport.

    If you search on Youtube under Said abu Shahid (check out his beard) you will find his account and immediately note his attraction to the head hackers as well as videos of the Kamikaze Riders.

    Gotta wonder how Youtube seemed to have been OK with all this when you consider other channels that get taken down for much less.

    • don vito says

      Jan 4, 2016 at 4:43 am

      Dittos, indeed, many mega dittos.

  11. Glen says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    I can’t wait for the next attack by the muzzers so that I can light candles and hug random people in the street (and hopefully choose one who isn’t carrying a machete and screaming ‘allah u akbar’). That will really scare the jihadis into laying down their AKs and going to McDonalds for a good old feed!!

    Continental Europe is a basket case and always has been, countless wars are proof of that, but the way almost every country is kneeling in submission at the feet of islam is embarrassing..Charles Martel, Richard the Lionheart and Jan Sobieski will be spinning in their graves.

  12. LR says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    In regards to Europe, I don’t get it. Why the heck, does Britain, or any other place allow ‘no-go zones’, and Sharia courts?

    So, Europe goes through the devastating hell of WW1 & 2, and then finally has a good peace, with a decent modern society, only to now allow barbaric people to move into their countries?

    Why not deport the people who are Sharia minded, when they aren’t citizens? For the citizens who want Sharia, there is a pretty easy word to live by on that…’NO’.

  13. Jerry says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 5:13 am

    This cannot be Islam
    Islam is a peaceful religion

    Except that it is Islam
    and Islam was never ever a peaceful religion
    ever since invented by the fake prophet
    about 1400 years ago.

    Deport all Muslims illegal “refugees” and “migrants”
    Revoke the citizenship of all naturalised Muslim
    involved or connected with Islamic terror or crime,
    especially organised crime and then deport them.

    Close all mosques and madrassahs preaching, inciting
    and or advocating Islamic Jihadi terror, even if it means
    closing all mosques and madrassas.

    The Qur’an is not a true religious work but the Manual
    of hate and genocidal plans and aspirations invented
    to support Muhammada style organised crime.

    Treat it as such.

  14. Angemon says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    Belgium terror plot: Kamikaze Riders motorbike club members charged with planning attacks on Brussels

    I’m confused – how the hell do the fly motorcycles into buildings?

  15. gravenimage says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Belgium: Muslim motorcycle gang charged with planning New Year’s Eve jihad attacks in Brussels
    ………………………

    Muslims had even more death and destruction planned to usher in the new year.

    God, I hate Islam.

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