{"id":64973,"date":"2016-03-25T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64973"},"modified":"2016-03-25T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:44:38","slug":"belgian-law-enforcement-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64973","title":{"rendered":"Belgian law enforcement failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Belgians admit that they have failed their citizenry prior to the bombing the other day that killed more than thirty people and injured hundreds of others. One of the bombers, Brahim El Bakraoui, had been arrested by the Turks when he tried to get into Syria last summer. The Turks sent him back to Belgium at his own request. The Belgian government released him because they had no evidence that he had jihadist connections. His brother, 26-year-old Khalid, was found to have violated his parole last Spring by maintaining contact with his jihadi pals, but officials released him anyway. From Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Two sources familiar with the matter said the Bakraoui brothers had been on U.S. government counterterrorism watch lists before the attacks. But it was not clear how long they had been known to the authorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Belgian Interior Mininster Jan Jambon and Justice Minister Koen Geens offered to resign their posts, but Prime Minister Charles Michel asked them to stay, I guess because any trained monkey will do AFTER a successful terrorist attack. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Turkey said it had warned Belgium that it had flagged El Bakraoui as a “foreign terrorist fighter.” El Bakraoui had a criminal record in Belgium at the time he went to Turkey, but Belgian authorities also could find no links to terrorism.<\/p>\n

Geens appeared on a Belgian TV news show and was asked who was to blame for the failure to follow up on the Turkish warning.<\/p>\n

“It is clear it is not one single person, but it is true that we could have expected from Ankara or Istanbul a more diligent communication, we think, that perhaps could have avoided certain things.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, wait, Turkey deported El Bakraoui for tying to sneak into Syria and that wasn’t a “diligent communication”? You can’t convince me that they let the brothers loose for reasons other than political correctness. They didn’t want to anger the jihadis more than they were already angry.<\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, the third guy, the one in the light-colored jacket?<\/p>\n

Security sources told Belgian media the other suicide bomber at the airport was Najim Laachraoui, a veteran Belgian Islamist fighter in Syria suspected of making explosive belts for November’s Paris attacks. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If they knew that after the bombing, they knew it before the bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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