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Brussels jihadis worked in airport where they killed infidels; 50 more Islamic State supporters still work there

Apr 1, 2016 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

“Even today, there are at least 50 supporters of the Islamic state who work at the airport. They have a security badge and have access to the cockpit of a plane.” What could possibly go wrong?

Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui

“At least FIFTY ISIS supporters are working as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff at Brussels airport, claim police,” by John Stevens, Daily Mail, April 1, 2016:

Police at Brussels airport have claimed at least 50 Islamic State supporters are working there as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff.

In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.

The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.

The extraordinary claims come after the Mail reported how the family of two of the bombers involved in the attacks last week said they had worked as cleaners at the airport.

‘Some people suspected of having fought in Syria came to the airport as “false tourists”. We reported their presence but we do not know if anything was done with that information,’ the airport police wrote in their letter.

The officers said they had raised suspicions about certain staff members including those who apparently celebrated after the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people.

‘When we checked these people, we were surprised more than once. It was men with a radical ideology and a long police history,’ the officers continued.

‘Even today, there are at least 50 supporters of the Islamic state who work at the airport. They have a security badge and have access to the cockpit of a plane.

‘In the past, a number of people had their badges revoked because they had IS sympathies. But clearly not everyone, especially in store personnel, cleaning services and baggage where we find the most suspicious people.’

Police raised concerns about inadequate security at the airport just four days before the attack took place.

The Belgian police union, NSPV, told the interior ministry on Friday 18 March that they would go on strike unless it was improved.

Alain Peeters, the general secretary, said: ‘The sad events of 22 March demonstrate that our concerns are justified. We demand more security and more staff.’

Officers have said that they will not return to work when the airport re-opens unless staffing numbers are increased and that no vehicles can approach within 100 metres of the temporary check-in hall that is being built.

The police have complained that they are not sufficiently resourced and do not have enough new uniforms to go around let alone the most up-to-date weapons.

An uncle of Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui last week told how the brothers had been employed at the airport and would have gained intimate knowledge of the terminal destroyed in the carnage.

The man, who asked not to be named, told the Mail: ‘They worked cleaning at the airport and in a restaurant. They didn’t finish high school in the end. They cleaned the airport in the summer months.’…

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Filed Under: air security, Belgium, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Ibrahim El Bakraoui, Khalid El Bakraoui


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  1. Sam says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    “Brussels jihadis worked in airport where they killed infidels; 50 more Islamic State supporters still work there”

    Come on now. Lets not be discriminatory. These are “Moderate Muslims” and I am sure they have been wetted not to be white extremists,

    I suggest to have a “Give a Hug to a Muslim Man, not Muslima” day.

    • Shane says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 4:28 pm

      Lesson to be learned; stay the hell out of Belgium; the Jihadis are everywhere.

    • Annie says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 8:56 pm

      Not only that, they were lowly “cleaners”, obviously affecting their self esteem and causing them to blow the place up

  2. john spielman says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    same probably holds true in EVERY other European and North American airports!!!!

    • Zeke Zick says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 4:21 pm

      My wife often fly’s in and out of Minneapolis airport for business. According to her 75% of the employees, including the TSA agents appear to be from Somalia.

      • miriamrove says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm

        Out of that 75% it will take one to blow up an air plane full of people. M

        • Ex-muslim says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 6:25 pm

          Hundreds, may be thousands of serious muslims are working airports in the Western world and they are all like ticking time bombs! But FOOLS in the West think that all religions are equal and that islam is just as peaceful as Christianity or Hinduism etc. Let them get their karma! Let them learn their lessons in the hard way. I will shed NO tears for them!

        • linnte says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 6:44 pm

          Neither will I EX. There is only one way for them to learn I guess, and that is the hard way. Let us just pray that the human damage is minimal.

    • Baucent says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      Exactly right. This is a huge issue, with so many muslim baggage handlers etc with access to aircraft it is only a matter of time before one of the brothers smuggles a bomb on a European flight, as happened in Egypt. It’s such a pandoras box the authorities don’t even want to go there.

    • Laura says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Yes, even in Phoenix they are a heavy influence among the cleaning crews anyone can observe in the terminals.

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    This has been recommended many times by me — as a compact slice (4 minutes & 57 seconds) on how the nicely behaved Muslim becomes the murderer:

    “The Jihad Triangle” — on You Tube — created by the brilliant counter-jihadist, Islam expert and Christian blogger David Wood, with his typical touch of dark humor.

    For those of you who have not seen it yet, take time out from a hectic weekend to devote a few minutes, and also pass it along to Aunt Ethel and Uncle Herb, still not COMPLETELY CONVINCED on how rapidly a not-too-bright human mind can change when there is a deceptive and sick person’s recruiter’s persuasion happening.

  4. Larry A. Singleton says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    Surprise, surprise…going through my “Saudi Arabia” file:

    According to a three part report by Adrian Morgan on Saudi influence, Brussels was one of the first stops in Saudi Arabia’s efforts at subversion and infiltration in 1963 when anti-semite King Faisal and his successor King Khaled Ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud poured money into what was to become the Islamic Center of Belgium (CIB). Thanks to Saudi money, (billions of dollars that have also been poured into our universities), bribed the mayor of Molenbeek Brussels to sell public parkland in order to build what is now “the largest mosque in Belgium”, the Grand Mosque.

    According to the article, “Saudis Funding Islamist Centers of Hate”, Belgium had a small Muslim population where wahibism got its start “in a small rented building in a Brussels suburb”.

    • E.L.O says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 6:04 pm

      Thanks for the Information!. I like to know that people like you are super smart!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 1:01 am

      Thanks, Larry.

  5. Thomas says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    I was at the exact same check-in desks just a few days before the bombings, and I noticed then what a muslim-infested place it was. And I don’t just mean passengers, but airport staff too.

    Goodbye airline industry. I’m not going to fly now. Not unless I absolutely have to.

    Who in their right mind will now stand in a check-in queue in which there are muslims when any single one of them could be wearing a suicide vest?

    Who in their right mind will get on a plane knowing muslims may have loaded their baggage onto that plane, along with a little something extra?

    No more air travel for me. It was already a massive pain in the ass thanks to the muslims, but now it’s going to be much worse. Now not only do you have to worry about mechanical failure, pilot error, being blown out of the sky, but you even have to worry about being blown to smithereens at check-in.

  6. linnte says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    People who live near airports, all over the world, need to go silently there and set up candles and flowers and flags of different countries, a small scale grieving site. When someone asks, tell them about the poor security in Brussels airport and possibly every airport, and you just thought you’d set up an advance memorial for those who are going to die in the future. SMH!

  7. Angemon says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.

    The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.

    This should prompt Belgians into action. Keyword: should…

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 1:03 am

    Brussels jihadis worked in airport where they killed infidels; 50 more Islamic State supporters still work there
    ………………….

    Nothing to see here…sarc/off

  9. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 1:28 am

    Perhaps more than anything else, Third World countries are characterised by a relative failure to enforce the laws governing their societies. Ineptitude, corruption and rival fiefdoms all play their part in this failure of the State. What we are seeing in the sometimes wilful, sometimes haphazard, implementation of the law, in relation to Islamic lawlessness and crime, is an indication of the steady crumbling of the authority of the State and the abandonment of its commitment to maintain law and order for its citizenry. Belgium and its neighbouring Western European States are progressively transforming into Third World approximations of their former selves.

  10. Troybeam says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 9:30 am

    Would not worry about Europe airport but we need to examine the personal at our airports, not to far fetched that we have the same issue here only they will not be bombing European airlines. Golden rule applies:NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM.

  11. Enrico says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 9:55 am

    Do they need more cops, or do they need more security measurements, or do they need architectural changes to decrease security risks? No! Just ban Islam and Muslims from the country. Problem solved. But that would be racist, we are supposed to love killer muslims, these brainwashed NWO Belgians think.

  12. Mark says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:09 am

    This 1 hr documentary will cure any guilt trips someone may have about the crusades. It exposes Islam for the conquest ideology it is.
    This next documentary shows how the Bible is historically valid.
    This web site shows a different perspective on Christianity than we are used to in the west and I think is far more accurate. http://www.roccoaerrico.com/index_htm_files/903.png

    These videos need to be shared as widely and rapidly as possible

  13. Mike Turner says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 11:03 am

    I become enraged when at airports going through long and onerous security checks because of muslims, I see muslim workers, some at TSA checkpoints.

    It doesn’t even make any sense.

    WTF is wrong with the world?

  14. Ashley says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathizers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.

    The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.
    ______________________

    I hope these officers do go on strike. I hope the pilots go on strike. I hope passengers boycott the airport. I hope the airlines go belly-up.

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