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Europe
Belgium says ‘terrorist fighters’ planning new Europe attacks
2016-04-20
[IsraelTimes] Belgium said Tuesday that more "terrorist fighters" want to return to Europe from Syria to carry out further attacks, a month after suicide kabooms in Brussels killed 32 people.

"There is a lot of intelligence, for example signs that foreign terrorist fighters, combatants in Syria, want to return not just to Belgium, but to Europe to carry out an attack," Paul Van Tigchelt, the head of the government crisis center, told RTBF television.

Tigchelt said Belgium would maintain its terror alert at level 3, the second highest, for a "terrorist threat to the whole country", adding that it meant that the threat was "still considered serious, grave and likely".

The inquiry into the March 22 Brussels bombings -- which were claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group -- was "being carried out in an intense way... but the danger has not yet gone," Tighchelt added.

Security was still tight at key sites such as airports, railway stations and nuclear power stations, he said, adding that public areas such as shopping malls and cinemas could also benefit from more security.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Italy has Galileo Galilei, Belgium has Paul Van Tigchelt.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-20 03:16  

#1  Everyone is planning something. EU plans a new round of "Israeli-Palestinian Peace" talks. Russia plans to close EU down. And USA plans transgendered toilets, as well as the next generation fighter (do you suppose there is any connection?)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-04-20 00:13  

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