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2016-03-25 Europe

Complaints grow that Belgium bungled security before attacks

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 We tried being nice to them and they still try to kill us - it must be the fault of the police.

On the other hand, no one criticizes the US security system, except for the long lines, pat-downs of grannies, the occasional firearm slipping through airport security, and then - of course - Boston and San Bernardino.

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-25 07:32|| 2016-03-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 How soon we forget the FBI's monstruous lapses in the weeks leading up to 9/11.

Posted by Glusogum Unomble5785 2016-03-25 10:18|| 2016-03-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 How soon we forget the FBI's monstruous lapses in the weeks leading up to 9/11.
Posted by Glusogum Unomble

Whilst whistle blowers within the Bureau were ostracized, belittled. and everyone kept their jobs.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-25 11:46|| 2016-03-25 11:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Via Powerline from the Wall Street Journal:

The Belgian police have also been hampered by bizarre rules. According to Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens, just two days after the Paris attacks Abdeslam was “likely in a flat in Molenbeek.” But because of the country’s penal code, which prohibits raids between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless a crime is in progress or in case of fire, police were ordered to wait until dawn to pursue him. By then, Abdeslam was nowhere to be seen.

Words fail. I'm just gonna go sit in the SinkTrap.

Posted by SteveS 2016-03-25 16:07|| 2016-03-25 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 But because of the countryâs penal code, which prohibits raids between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless a crime is in progress or in case of fire

When we lived there, I was told by the American Women's Club (an international organization with branches in most countries where there are American expats) not to let the police in after normal business hours because they were so corrupt that bad things would be done with impunity. You may not recall, SteveS, but there was a big child sex trafficking scandal in Belgium early in the new millennium -- it turned out the kidnap ring was being run out of the office of the Minister of the Interior. Note that it was not the ministry, but the Interior Minister's own office. Their top (cumulative) customer, as I recall, were the Dutch; the majority of the taken children had come to Belgium as refugees.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-03-25 18:25|| 2016-03-25 18:25|| Front Page Top

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