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Brussels: “War scene” as jihad suicide bombings rock airport and subway

Mar 22, 2016 7:34 am By Robert Spencer

It is indeed a “war scene,” and part of a war that is ongoing, that Brussels and the rest of Europe have invited for themselves and still refuse to admit is happening. These attacks were revenge for the arrest of Salah Abdeslam. The jihadis, like their Leftist allies, would prefer the West surrender quietly.

Brussels airport

“Brussels in lockdown: Deadly blasts confirmed as suicide attacks,” TVNZ, March 22, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):

It has been confirmed that a series of explosions in Brussels are the result of terror attacks, a Belgian prosecutor says.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says Belgium has “again been hit by cowardly and murderous attacks. Our hearts go out to the victims and next of kin. The Netherlands stands ready to help and support our southern neighbors in any possible way.”

Explosions rocked the Brussels airport and the subway system this evening, with local media reporting the blasts have killed 23 people and injuring many others just days after the main suspect in the November Paris attacks was arrested.

Witnesses described the ceiling caving in and blood everywhere after two explosions in the departure hall at the Brussels airport.

All flights were cancelled, arriving planes and trains were diverted and Belgium’s terror alert level was raised to maximum….

Authorities told people in Brussels to stay where they were, bringing the city to a standstill. Security was also tightened at all Paris airports.

European security officials have been braced for a major attack for weeks, and warned that Islamic State was actively preparing.

The arrest of Salah Abdeslam in Brussels last week heightened those fears, as investigators said many people involved in the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people were still on the loose.

After Abdeslam was arrested, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said authorities learned he had created a new network around him and had access to several weapons, though there was no immediate indication that he or the Islamic State group had any involvement in today’s attacks.

Belgian media reported 13 people were killed at the airport. It was not clear whether any died in the metro explosion.

Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told BFM television that the second, louder explosion brought down ceilings and ruptured pipes, mixing water with blood from victims.

“It was atrocious. The ceilings collapsed,” he said. “There was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere.”

“We were walking in the debris. It was a war scene,” he said….

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  1. Jayke says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:38 am

    Reuters, citing the Belga news agency, reported that shots were fired and shouting in Arabic was heard before the explosions.

    I wonder what they were shouting in Arabic.

    • GuntherL says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 7:43 am

      “Alans snackbar”. I guess they were hungry.

    • Simone Fields says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 12:33 pm

      I’ve been watching the coverage of this since early this morning in London and the BBC had a reporter on there from Doha saying that French Muslims feel disenfranchised and that he has spent the past year speaking to Muslim communities and that they are so discriminated against and talked about right wing groups all across Europe…….on and on it went with absolutely no challenging from the newsreader.

  2. Angemon says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:39 am

    “We were walking in the debris. It was a war scene,” he said

    Unfortunately, it’s only the opening shot.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 10:17 am

      Not the opening shot, Angemon–but certainly no the last, either.

      God, I hate Islam.

  3. Jura says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Well, and the Turks are going to demand more money for fullfillment of the recent EU-Turkey accord.

  4. grace says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:46 am

    Bet they are glad they let in hundreds of thousands of moslems. Really thrilled.

  5. Bezelel says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:46 am

    Was this preventable? What was their first clue that it was terrorism? What do they plan to do to keep this from happening again?

    • efoc says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 7:57 am

      “What do they plan to do to keep this from happening again?”

      Bring in more Muslim immigrants.

      • Bezelel says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 8:10 am

        Sad but true.

      • Budvarakbar says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 9:45 am

        You hit it on the button — Since the ‘terrorists’ are a very small percentage (/sarc) the more you bring in the more diluted they become!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 10:19 am

      With the implementation of tight airport security, I had wondered how long it would take for Jihadists to simply start blowing up airport waiting areas. Now we know…

      • LR says

        Mar 23, 2016 at 3:23 am

        Or, this attack was already planned and ‘bumped up’, for fear of being found out – according to some.

        ==============

        Oh well, this is all just a Gov’t/CIA plot, picking on Islam, because well, we
        want the oil, land, or whatever – God, the conspiracy nuts are out.

  6. Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:50 am

    I do not want to hear the sickeningly trite ‘this is not Islam..islam means peace…sufism..” repeated again.
    Only lasting solution is to carpet bomb the entire area where these terrorists live. Let those who shield them also die. Call it Insha Allah.

    Europe is being incredibly stupid by allowing in more of these migrants into their countries.

    • jura says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 8:17 am

      They live in Brussels.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 7:05 pm

        Not ‘Brussels’, generally. The central focus and forward operating base of the Allah gang in Brussels is a suburb called Molenbeek where there is a huge mosque built with money from the Abominable House of Saud.

        If Belgium were to send in the *army* into Molenbeek, with overwhelming force, and surprise-search every single known mosque and associated premises, using sniffer dogs, and raze to the ground every such mosque that was discovered to have even the faintest trace of explosives and /or illegal drugs and/ or any other kind of illegal / criminal/ treacherous activity, and arrest, interrogate and deport imams and other head honchoes, that would be a pretty good start.

        Any Mohammedans that rioted in resistance to the army … they get killed in action as enemy combatants and those that are captured are identified as prisoners of war. But because it’s expensive and dangerous to intern them they get stripped of their Belgian (or other-infidel-state) citizenship and get the boot back to someplace in the Dar al Islam, whether that ‘someplace’ says it’s willing to take them back or not.

        If the allah gang colony in Molenbeek were cleared out, a lot of Jihad in Belgium and other European locations would be reduced significantly.

  7. JawsV says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:50 am

    Europe’s reaping what it’s sown by letting in the Moslems.

    • NYgal says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 3:46 pm

      Europe is reaping what it has sown supporting terrorism. EU finances the PLO, Hamas and anti-Israel NGOs and has been doing so for decades. It vilifies Israel and boycotts its people and products, while turning Arab terrorists with blood on their hands into heroes and victims of supposed Israeli ‘oppression’.
      Now, European clergy has managed to turn Jesus from a Jew to Palestinian. Yes, there are voices in Europe of reason and integrity, but they a few and being silenced.

      Well, the Bible is right once again. Perhaps Europeans should read it, especially Genesis 12:3.

  8. efoc says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:52 am

    Won’t be long until the usual lines are trotted out……”this has nothing to do with Islam”, “we must not backlash against Muslims”, “Islam means peace”….

    Does anyone in the European political establishment (apart from Geert Wilders) actually have the courage to stand up and say Islam is a cult of death? That Islam promotes violence against non-Muslims? That Islam is an anti-life doctrine that has no place in the modern world? And therefore, Europe must not take in anymore Muslims?

    The truth will come out at some point.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 12:30 pm

      efoc wrote:

      Won’t be long until the usual lines are trotted out……”this has nothing to do with Islam”, “we must not backlash against Muslims”
      ………………………….

      It’s so boilerplate at this point it just took a couple of hours, efoc:

      “International Business Times: ‘Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack'”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/international-business-times-muslims-fear-backlash-after-brussels-attack

      • efoc says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 4:23 pm

        Unbelievable. It’s an Orwellian doublespeak reflex; it’s an actual mental sickness when people start saying this and not thinking things through logically about how evil Islam is.

  9. Singh the Sikh says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:56 am

    No worries, Brussels will shrug this off and move on. Leaders will go through the usual motions of expressing sympathy for the victims and in time all wil be forgotten. Leaders will urge people to be brave in the face of terrorism, yet again, and not to give on to islamiphobia, as the periodic slaughter continues. In a few moths things will be back to normal. The latest attacks angers and saddens but doesn’t surprise. Where you have Muslim migrants in enough numbers you have terrorism. They go hand in hand. The migrants will turn neighbourhoods into war zones as in their native lands. Bombings and killings are a normal part of Muslim countries and Europe has happily imported this phenomena and reaping the fruits. It is oh so predictable. This is by no means the end of it.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 9:50 am

      And any politician who just hints at Islam being THE problem will be attacked as islamophobic — well we sure as hell had better start finding them

  10. Hindu American says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:58 am

    I bet the European politicos will be looking for a motive. Must be the lack of dole.

    We in America must brace ourselves. I have a bad feeling about this. What Europe is going through now, is a precursor of things to come here here. The barbarians are already within our gates. Circle the wagons and purge ’em out. The future of our freedom, democracy and our way of life that we take so much for granted is at stake.

    • linnte says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 8:42 am

      Circle the wagons! Right on!

  11. Demsci says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 8:20 am

    Terrible, this should and will have consequences for a rising popularity of the anti-Islam-parties everywhere in Europe, this and all the other by now regular deadly terrorist acts; it’s not just Israel anymore that suffers these.

    A few years ago, I remember a Jihad Watch visitor predict that “Deportation” is the “inevitable outcome of this process”. I myself dare not say this very taboo word in connection with WHOM to deport. The very word is taboo, and connecting any group to it will release a storm of fierce and vicious protest.\\\

    But yes, I can imagine I would be in favor of a “wise sort of deportation”, in balance with all this migration around the world, when so many can come in in our countries, why could we not deport the “bad apples’ among them OUT? IF some other country will take them (back), if need be with a payment? Isn’t it true that immigration countries would let in many more if it was understood that they also could throw them out again, with the first signs of trouble”? Now, the principle is; “Once IN, NEVER forcibly OUT”. Why?

    And …… at the moment Europe negotiates with Turkey to “deport” refugees back to Turkey with Turkey actually accepting them back in their country. Can this be precedent?

    The anti-Islam-parties could evolve to demanding deportation, and by growing very popular, they could put big pressure on both Muslims and POLICORs (Political Corrects).

    On the Muslims, to clearly declare, per person and per mosque, to choose pro Western democratic system OVER any Theocratic System. And on POLICORs to at least allow discriminating lawfully against Muslims who refuse to choose democratic over theocratic system.

    When only neutrality renders a Muslim with zero trustworthyness by now. When only condemning Islamic State or saying “this is not my Islam” is hopelessly insufficient for renewed trustworthyness.

    Because then it is so easy for Muslims to say in their minds and among themselves: “But we, or our own Islam, condemns the West and democracy even more!”.

    • Demsci says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 8:46 am

      Specification; Can’t mainstream politicians and their voters see the dilemma for Moslims?

      “Will, I, Muslim, side with my fellow Muslims, under a theocratic antidemocratic system and with a likewise enemy?

      Or will I side with NON-Muslims, with their democratic system and nations”. I will, if need be, call myself a “democratic Muslim”.

      Can’t mainstream politicians see that this renders Muslims in Democratic nations who just want to remain neutral, undecided, as being with zero trustworthyness?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 12:12 pm

      Demsci wrote:

      Isn’t it true that immigration countries would let in many more if it was understood that they also could throw them out again, with the first signs of trouble”?
      ……………………………

      With all respect, Demsci, urging us to take in *more* Muslims seems ill-considered at best.

      More:

      Specification; Can’t mainstream politicians and their voters see the dilemma for Moslims?

      “Will, I, Muslim, side with my fellow Muslims, under a theocratic antidemocratic system and with a likewise enemy?

      Or will I side with NON-Muslims, with their democratic system and nations”. I will, if need be, call myself a “democratic Muslim”.

      Can’t mainstream politicians see that this renders Muslims in Democratic nations who just want to remain neutral, undecided, as being with zero trustworthyness?
      ……………………………

      This should not be an issue–it is only an issue because Muslims are taught to *never* side with Infidels against their fellow Muslims–no matter what the circumstances.

      You are right that they cannot be trusted.

  12. Charli Main says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 8:25 am

    More examples of the cultural and social enrichments that Muslims are bringing into Europe.
    Thank you, Cameron, Merkel, Hollande and all those Euro MPs in Brussels for importing 20 million+ Muslims into Europe.
    Can´t begin to imagine how much more our lives are going to be enriched, when you allow all the Muslims in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa into the European Union, to join all their brothers already here.
    I hope and pray that Britain and Hungary get out of the EU before the lunatics in Brussels complete their “islamisation of Europe” plan.

  13. concerned canadian says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 8:34 am

    I wonder how Obama will blame us for this ?

    How do we apologize to the killers ?

  14. nacazo says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 8:37 am

    cue in the “we must protect muslims from any backlash” in 3….2….1….

  15. Mikey says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 9:08 am

    I was just at that airport 3 days ago. I found it to be the most horrible airport I have ever experienced. I remember there were armed soldiers everywhere. But it still didn’t make any difference. Oh yeah, and criminal “culture enrichers” downstairs near the taxi stand, literally grabbing people and trying to force them into their unofficial “taxis”. Get into one of those cars and God only knows what will happen to you.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 12:18 pm

      Scary, Mikey–but not a surprise.

  16. Dave Flang says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 9:34 am

    While governments fail in vetting Muslims, Muslims vet themselves.

  17. scotty says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 10:10 am

    This just in from Brussells
    “We are at war with terrorism and they will not win”.
    Its good to hear theyre on top of things.

  18. gravenimage says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 10:12 am

    Brussels: “War scene” as jihad suicide bombings rock airport and subway

    It is indeed a “war scene,” and part of a war that is ongoing, that Brussels and the rest of Europe have invited for themselves and still refuse to admit is happening. These attacks were revenge for the arrest of Salah Abdeslam.
    ……………………..

    I just heard about the attacks on the radio as we were waking up.

    My first thought as soon as I heard “Brussels” was that this was “revenge” for their daring to arrest a perpetrator of a previous Jihad terror attack.

    After the attack, the heavily Muslim Molenbeek district where Abdeslam was apprehended erupted in riots–though, shamefully, this was little reported:

    “Belgium: Muslims riot, attack police after arrest of Paris jihad mass murderer”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/belgium-muslims-riot-attack-police-after-arrest-of-paris-jihad-mass-murderer

    Now we are seeing Jihad for daring to go after those who wage Jihad.

    Of course it was a war scene. Islam has been at war with us for some time now.

    • Charli Main says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 11:13 am

      @ GI
      I have been listening to and watching the on going news about the attacks in Brussels all day.

      NOT ONCE have Muslims and Islam been mentioned. Its endless twaddle about ” terrorists” and ISIS and the ” terrorists” will not win.
      I can´t see how we can win, WHEN WE WON´T EVEN NAME THE ENEMY.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 12:20 pm

        So depressing, Charli. But I am not surprised.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Mar 22, 2016 at 7:13 pm

        The *comments* sections at places like the Daily Mail are, however, something else again.

        People get round the heavy censorship in all sorts of clever ways. Read the comments; read between the lines. Though some foil the ‘keyword’ filter by simply breaking up the relevant words into letters or syllables – e.g. m u s li m s.

        It’s quite plain that a large section of the population (those who have bothered to comment at, say, Daily Mail, add up to several *thousands* of unique commenters, mostly from the Anglosphere – lots from the UK – but also many from continental Europe, and here and there, people from places like India and Sri Lanka) sees very clearly that ISLAM is the source of this sort of evil mass-murderous behaviour. Islam. And that it is Muslims doing it.

        And not a few people are bringing up the concept of mass deportation of you-know-who because of the ugly and deadly-dangerous nature of you-know-what.

      • LR says

        Mar 23, 2016 at 5:16 am

        Some news talk people say they don’t acknowledge they are ‘Islamic’ because they don’t represent real ‘Islam’,..And they think It’s more insulting to use the term ‘Daesh’…

  19. poltak says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 10:17 am

    Islamic country not tolerated islamic terorrist.
    But europe?? What’s wrong with europe?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 22, 2016 at 12:22 pm

      Islamic countries tolerate Jihad all the time–we see this in places like Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. They hesitate to fight back, because the don’t really disagree with the aims of the Jihadists.

      The idea–sometimes bandied about–that Muslim countries are the ones who are tough on terrorism simply does not hold water.

      • LR says

        Mar 23, 2016 at 4:53 am

        Ironically, ISIS is losing some power and territory, so suicide terrorists are of better use in Europe…

        I have a suspicion that certain voices in Europe are going to shut up about Poland, and Orban and…

  20. jura says

    Mar 22, 2016 at 10:45 am

    Well,
    Karel Capek: War with the Newts.
    page 332: https://goo.gl/LzKbFJ

  21. LR says

    Mar 23, 2016 at 2:55 am

    Or, this attack was already planned and ‘bumped up’, for fear of being found out – according to some.

    ==============

    Oh well, this is all just a Gov’t/CIA plot, picking on Islam, because well, we
    want the oil, land, or whatever – God, the conspiracy nuts are out.

    • Charli Main says

      Mar 23, 2016 at 3:37 am

      it was all a plot by the Joosszzs/ Israeli Mossed agents to give Islam and peace loving Muslims a bad name. Everyone knows that Allah/ Mohammed was the Mahatma Gandhi of his day and NEVER advocated violence of any kind.

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