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March 25, 2016
From NYC - Understanding Belgium Security Failures
Many are pointing out that the Brussels attack happened (and could have been checked and prevented) had there been no lapses in intelligence and police work. Molebeek for instance had several police districts and could have looked the other way at the activities (of Muslims) who compromise the bulk of the 100,000 population there. The fact was many of the terrorism committed in the past were traceable to Molenbeek, and still no red flag was raised. Intelligence work, data bases on suspected terrorist could have been nil or sloppy. Turkey emailed Brussels on one of the bombers who was a convicted criminal in Brusel who was briefly detained in Turkey for suspected terrorist activity. His brother Khalid, suspect in Paris bombing continued to elude police. Even relatives of the bombers notified the police of the radicalization of their relatives. The police could have ignored/failed to act on the info.
An American intelligence officer was interviewed and this were the things he told about this Brussels incident:
1. There are three stages in the aftermath of this attacks: the chaos, identification of the suspect, and raids being conducted to gather more intelligence.
2. The purpose of the raid is to gather more intelligence. For instance, many are wondering why they can not identify the 3rd suspect. The straightforward method is to show the picture of the suspect, and ask whom they arrested who he is. That he is known to the Brussels police surprised the US intelligence officer. The data base then should be analyzed for connection/links
3. You cant play defense,with thousands of foreign nationals joining the ISIS at Syria. A serious offense must be played. Thus tracking the fighters and monitoring nationals returning from Syria, placing them on watchlist.
From Fox News - Haji Imam, no 2 man, Finance Minister of ISIS killed by US special ops
(Some doubt this news though. This is the third time he would have been killed. He has been killed twice all ready. In April 2015, and September 2014, according to critics)
I would even suggest that Mollenbeek be zoned (as what the Japanesed did) or that it be razed.
4. The police security and intelligence works would not be sufficient. While the tails are being cut, the head should be destroyed as well, like the killing of the #2 man of ISIS, the bag man. Or cutting off their logistics like bombing the money stash of ISIS.
