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2016-03-25 Terror Networks

The world's spies agree Belgian intelligence is broken

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-25 01:01|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Ostriches don't make for good intelligence.

Posted by gorb 2016-03-25 01:54|| 2016-03-25 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 That's how I feel about "western" intelligence in general.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-25 07:46|| 2016-03-25 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The Belgian intel guys have to be careful they don't run into a bunch of connected high mucky-mucks diddling kids. See Marc Dutroux.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-03-25 08:12|| 2016-03-25 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Easy to punch'em when they're down.
Doesn't make their work substandard.
"Sharing, even at a low level, is tentative."
Imagine Houston TX police getting an alert, on one man, from Ottawa CAN. That's about the same distance in miles, and perspective, as Turkey to Belgium. The guy just used Turkey Gov. transport.

The US doesn't have much of a integrated criminal dataset either and we hope it doesn't happen because I'll be bounced for the expired license on my farm truck and someone will interview you about excess ammo purchases.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-25 12:36|| 2016-03-25 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The question is: Would they do it again?

Posted by gorb 2016-03-25 15:30|| 2016-03-25 15:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Belgium is a country where each half the population refuses to speak to the other half. I'm not surprised it's disfunctional.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-25 17:10|| 2016-03-25 17:10|| Front Page Top

#7 I wasn't aware Belgium even had intelligence.

Posted by Barbara 2016-03-25 17:38|| 2016-03-25 17:38|| Front Page Top

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