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| SuffolkRoyal | 23 Mar 2016, 11:11 PM Post #11 |
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I agree, and have said as much many times myself, but whatever the cause, the fight is now well and truly in Europe. We need to start to fighting the enemy within and stop treating the perpetrators with kid gloves. |
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| daib0 | 24 Mar 2016, 09:27 AM Post #12 |
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BBC News Brussels attacks: Scores remain critical after bombings Article starts: Scores of people remain in intensive care following Tuesday's suicide bomb attacks in Brussels that left 31 people dead, Belgium's health minister says. Maggie de Block said that of about 300 wounded people, 61 were still in a critical condition, and suggested that the death toll could rise further. Earlier, prosecutors confirmed they had identified two of the four attackers as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. Two other attackers have yet to be named. One died, another is on the run. Complete article: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35888271 |
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| daib0 | 29 Mar 2016, 12:25 PM Post #13 |
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Interesting posts by the Blackpool forum military specialist, reproduced here: Too be fair the security services have a an impossible task in detecting and subsequently grading possible terrorist in this country. There are various numbers given out for those who have travelled to the Middle East in the last four years ranging from several hundred to six hundred, with possibly as many as two hundred who have been and returned. As I understand it take twelve people to watch over one suspect so the manpower alone to cover hundreds would involve a small army cover all known possible links. To make matters worse those returning are not all jumping on a plane in Turkey and arriving at Stansted or East Midlands but some have returned overland and slipped back into the Uk. Only a couple of weeks ago a small craft that had left the continent arrived in a creek in Kent loaded with automatic weapons and it has been said that similar craft can arrive virtually unnoticed in various rivers and creeks in the region along with light aircraft able to land on private airfields in the county. A virtual impossible job to police all entry points and of all freight vehicles arriving at Dover only a small number are checked. The security services have an uphill struggle, we must wish them well in their endeavours in keeping us safe. there are a number of issues, some of which we cannot control. First of all there are several civil wars raging in the region, in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, in which the West has been drawn into and admittedly doesn't help the situation. Then there is our history in the region and for a moment you have to stand back and wear the Arab hat so to speak. First off I do not in anyway condone the terrorist attacks in North Africa, Turkey or Western Europe but for a moment imagine you are a young person with roots from any of the Middle East countries in conflict at present. For generations as far back as the break up of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the first world war, Britain and France mapped out Arabia into a number of countries and put in place who they thought fit to rule over them. There was little done in considering the different sects that had lived there previously and many were lumped together and forced to move to areas away from their original homelands. In the fifties Britain and France attacked and bombed Egypt because we did not like the way Nasser was behaving particularly after closing the Suez Canal , in the sixties we used force against the Arabs in the Aden Protectorate as I mentioned the other day against lightly armed Arab tribesmen we used Hawker Hunter jets with rockets and cannons. The West stood by and let the Serbs massacre Muslims in Bosnia even with a so called UN peacekeeping force present in the nineties, we also then interfered rightly or wrongly in Libya, again in Afghanistan because we believed Al-Qaeda were able to train there under the Taliban and again against Iraq on two occasions and finally in Syria. In all of the above emergencies, the West has controlled the skies and had at it's disposal the worlds most sophisticated weapons, it can hardly come as a surprise therefore that people with roots from that region want some kind of revenge. It is easy for some to say it all about oil, well to a degree that may well have some mileage, but western governments have needed the stuff, if it had been cut off then their citizens would have rioted on the streets, so yes there has been an interest in the region but it is the way it has been handled that I believe has left so much hatred of the Western countries hence the terror attacks. If anyone asks me why they hate us so much, the reason I believe lies above, I may well be wrong, but I remember Aden and how much they wanted us out and in reality times haven't changed much. |
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| SuffolkRoyal | 7 Apr 2016, 05:44 PM Post #14 |
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So after nearly three weeks, the best the Belgian authorities can come up with, about their No1 suspect of the bombings, is "The man in the hat". What a bunch of numpties they are in Belgium !!!!
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