John Lloyd, Reuters: The world’s spies agree Belgian intelligence is broken
The attack on Europe’s political capital on Tuesday has been widely blamed on bad intelligence; not just the dysfunctional separation of powers in Belgium, but on the lack of sharing of information among the many intelligence services of the 28 states of the European Union. The services in the former Communist states to the east were reconfigured after the collapse of the Soviet-backed regimes in 1990, but some still contain habits — and in a few cases personnel — from the days when they saw the West European states’ agencies as the enemy. Sharing, even at a low level, is tentative.
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WNU Editor: What's my take. A security organization that does not enough resources .... faced with a massive Muslim-immigrant community that feels alienated from Belgium society and where many of its citizens have gone to fight in the Middle East .... coupled with a political establishment that is deeply divided on numerous issues and not focused on security .... what can one say but that this was a disaster that was about to happen. That is why I am not surprised by this .... Number of terrorists, victims: Mysteries remain 2 days after Brussels attack (USA Today).
More News On The State Of Belgium's Security And Intelligence Forces
Brussels attacks a 'failure of intelligence': Belgian terrorism expert -- SBS
Experts: Belgium often comes up short in preventing attacks -- AP
Belgian security forces under scrutiny after Brussels attacks -- AFP
Islamic State threat in Europe ‘more urgent’ than feared, security chief warns -- Washington Post
Belgium’s Security Failures Made the Brussels Attacks All But Inevitable -- Vivienne Walt, Time
Brussels Attacks: Belgian Intelligence Services 'Overwhelmed and Outnumbered by Jihadists' -- Newsweek
Brussels attacks highlight how Belgium became hub of Islamist terror -- Kim Sengupta, The Independent
Brussels attacks another reminder of Belgian security's weak link -- Robin Emmott, Reuters
Brussels attacks: Belgian intelligence service seen as weak link in Europe -- Irish Times
Why Belgium is the 'weakest link' in Europe’s fight against violent extremists -- Colin Daileda and Megan Specia, Mashable
US counterterrorism experts claim Belgian security services are 's*****' and like children for their failure to stop jihadi strikes -- Daily Mail
U.S. Officials Bash ‘Shitty’ Belgian Security Forces -- Michael Weiss & Nancy A. Youssef & Nadette De Visser, Daily Beast
U.S. concerned terror plots accelerated after Brussels -- CBS/AP
As Terrorists Cross Borders, Europe Sees Anew That Its Intelligence Does Not -- New York Times
EU reportedly ordered Belgium to close security holes weeks before Brussels attacks -- FOX News
EU Discussing Security Measures After Brussels Attacks -- VOA
Why Europe must unify its intelligence networks -- Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Brussels Airport And Metro Bombings: Could EU Intelligence Sharing Have Stopped Belgian Terror Attacks? -- Jess Mchugh, IBTimes
2 comments:
Not broken too soft and weak.
The primary goal among Belgian and other Western European allied leaders for many, many years now has been to look for ways to hurt the United States. These are definitely not our allies, will never help us, will actively work to hurt us at any opportunity, and any support we might offer them needs to understand this reality as ignoring reality NEVER changes it.
With that said Islamic terrorists may be a dangerous common enemy to warrant us supporting them in any way we can. Any support for them needs to grasp reality. These are NOT our friends and will hurt us at any opportunity.
Now if their security and intellegence services are broken, this must be because they focused their resources on America and ignored or even helped their real enemies. At least Belgian and other Western European intelligence services have a degree of competence. Anerica's intelligence services consist of a combination of incompetent boobs and left wing political hacks
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