Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Has Europe Underestimated The Islamic State Terror Threat?

Police stand guard at Midi train station following bomb attacks in Brussels, Belgium. (Reuters)

Remi Benoit Piet, Special to Al Arabiya: Brussels attacks: How Europe is underestimating ISIS’s terror

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks that caused the demise of at least thirty people and injured 200 more in Brussels on Tuesday, according to the Belgian Interior ministry.

Twenty of them died in an explosion at the metro station Maelbeek, a few hundred meters away from the European Parliament, while at least ten were killed by suicide bombers at the international airport.

The terrorist group quickly reacted two days after the Belgian police finally tracked down Salah Abdeslam, the last fugitive of the November attacks in Paris, who had been on the run for the last four months.

The French and Belgian government who had praised over the weekend the arrest as a serious blow to terrorist groups were quickly proven wrong.

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WNU Editor: There are still many in Europe who are in denial on what is happening ... and I see zero change in policy from the major Western governments. It is going to take a few more terror hits before these is a change.

2 comments:

hurhur said...

political correctness effects policy and this is the result. nubs

Young Communist said...

The only political change with few more terror hits is to fascism.