Brussels Zaventem airport rocked by two explosions

[bimble]

Yeah I take it all back, hats off to these lads they've played a blinder. Credit where credit's due and all that.

He's obviously not commending the act, just saying that calling the people who did it stupid & insane doesn't help. Maybe it's stupid / insane to try to understand, though.

 

[brogdale]

You have to question that public statement from the Bel authorities that Abdasalem was "co-operating fully" with the security service. Maybe, some thought they had little time to lose?

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah I take it all back, hats off to these lads they've played a blinder. Credit where credit's due and all that.

fuck me but you're thick. you're underestimating the enemy, which does you no credit at all. if these lads are all stupid and insane how come they or people like them are doing so well in e.g. afghanistan, yemen, 'the islamic state'? perhaps you should return to sun tzu, in particular that bit about knowing your enemy.

 

[kebabking]

yeh like people who assume their enemies are stupid and insane. i thought after 9/11 you'd have heard the last of the 'they're stupid' bollocks, considering the thinking and frankly intelligence behind it. yeh, they're bastards: but they are neither stupid nor insane.

Agreed, but the fundamentalist brains behind things like this undeniably exploit vulnerable/hard of thought.

Yeah I take it all back, hats off to these lads they've played a blinder. Credit where credit's due and all that.

speaking as one very much living in a glass house, could we possibly take this legitimate discussion elsewhere? it certainly needs exploring, but it won't get the effort and notice it deserves in this thread.

 

[danny la rouge]

You have to question that public statement from the Bel authorities that Abdasalem was "co-operating fully" with the security service. Maybe, some thought they had little time to lose?

That was one of my thoughts too. It seems a very quick reaction though if that's it. Must have been planned for longer, surely?

 

[kebabking]

You have to question that public statement from the Bel authorities that Abdasalem was "co-operating fully" with the security service. Maybe, some thought they had little time to lose?

dunno, although they obviously had the people and gear ready, this is quite a complex op to lay in on in 24 hours - perhaps a reaction to the raids and his capture 48-72 hours ago..?

 

[Pickman's model]

speaking as one very much living in a glass house, could we possibly take this legitimate discussion elsewhere? it certainly needs exploring, but it won't get the effort and notice it deserves in this thread.

that's fine, it's a hardy perennial

 

[brogdale]

How long before the first claims that this supports 'remain'/'leave'?

 

[laptop]

. Arts-Loi and Schuman are both major interchange stations

They're also the stations either side of Maalbeek. I'm hoping there's some confusion here... ppl being evacuated from trains through them just...

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

How long before the first claims that this supports 'remain'/'leave'?

Allison Pearson took about 30 seconds...

 

[laptop]

How long before the first claims that this supports 'remain'/'leave'?

Surely there's already a #hashtag ?
Or two...

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Allison Pearson took about 30 seconds...

Got some flak for it too, & rightly so.

 

[J Ed]

How long before the first claims that this supports 'remain'/'leave'?

Both sides will use it as they have used everything else in their simultaneous race to the gutter.

 

[purves grundy]

He's obviously not commending the act, just saying that calling the people who did it stupid & insane doesn't help. Maybe it's stupid / insane to try to understand, though.

Like the 'pure evil' platitudes, they're reassuring and convenient and gives the impression that these aren't ordinary people in any shape or form, just bizarre, inhuman phenomena.

 

[brogdale]

Guardian reporting Russian 'analysis'...

Chair of the Duma’s foreign policy committee Alexei Pushkov tweeted: “While (Nato chief Jens) Stoltenberg, is busy fighting the imaginary ‘Russian threat’ and putting troops in Latvia, under his nose in Brussels people are blown up.”

 

[malatesta32]

EDL eejit claiming this will be good for recruiting! beyond stupidity.

 

[J Ed]

Allison Pearson took about 30 seconds...

...then remain supporters took about 30 seconds after that in response.

 

[laptop]

Like the 'pure evil' platitudes, they're reassuring and convenient and gives the impression that these aren't ordinary people in any shape or form, just bizarre, inhuman phenomena.

These bizarre, inhuman phenomena must be condemned IN EVERY WAY!

They smell! They're stupid! They pick their noses!

 

[brogdale]

...then remain supporters took about 30 seconds after that in response.

 

[J Ed]

I think that if 24 hour newsmedia makes terrorism x10 more effective twitter must amplify it by at least another ten

 

[malatesta32]

yeah brexit will mean all terrorists will give up on UK

 

[J Ed]

The story behind the disproportionate numbers of Belgian jihadists is interesting btw, covered somewhat in this podcast Belgian Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria

 

[Pickman's model]

yeah brexit will mean all terrorists will give up on UK

why shouldn't they? so many other people will.

 

[brogdale]

That was one of my thoughts too. It seems a very quick reaction though if that's it. Must have been planned for longer, surely?

I'd imagine they could have had planned for the eventual arrest over the intervening months of hiding since Paris?

 

[J Ed]

why shouldn't they? so many other people will.

Who with any sense hasn't already?

 

[malatesta32]

bomb placed between ryanair and starbucks! those infidel cheap tickets and lattes!
21 dead, 35 injured sayAl Jazz.

 

[Pickman's model]

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[Fingers]

She is getting destroyed on Twitter

 

[Pickman's model]

She is getting destroyed on Twitter

sadness in her eyes

 

[Sprocket.]

sadness in her eyes

Due to her realisation that she is a fool.