Brussels attack - 31 dead
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Yet another stereotype holds true.Good bet
And to think, many people in world think stereotypes are completely false.
Indeed. An act of war when you don't have permission from the country that has internationally recognized sovereignty over that territory.
In fact, although the US constantly needs to repeat the need to follow international law, it doesn't recognize it when it doesn't suit it. The bombing of Libya was a clear example, and was a breach of the UN Charter. The bombing of Serbia was another, done without UN Security Council approval. I guess they think that people will confuse the NATO with the UN. It also doesn't recognize the International Tribunal in the Hague... or rather only when it suits them.
For the majority of US politicians, the only laws they recognize are US laws.... no other. The US will not be subjected to the military command of another country.... unless they want to pat them on the head, like our general that conducted the illegal bombing of Libya....our very own war criminal..... 'But I vas just folloving ze orders' (famous last words at Nuremberg).
The US still think they're fighting WW2. That is, if you can just get rid of the dictator, like Uncle Adolf, then the war will suddenly end.
We're not in WW2 anymore. For every terrorist leader killed, at least one hundred line up to take his place.
Americans are obsessed with body counts. In this case terrorist leaders. But it does SFA to the overall effort. Blowing up things with drones gives you a lot of collateral damage, like innocent wedding parties and any random assembly of people get taken for terrorists gathering for some sort of powwow. What Obama has done (authorizing 5 times as many drone strikes as Dubya), is radicalizing more and more people who now have an axe to grind because they have lost relatives to those drone strikes. They even blow people up in [supposedly friendly] Pakistan. All these countries have cultures of revenge. No wonder they keep on joining Taliban and Al-Qaida.
Yup.
Trying to defeat ISIS will never happen. It's a huge band of individuals. Sure there's leaders and such, but even when dead the rest of the them still keep going.
However, people got to remember that the US loves wars. They try to make it look like they don't, and only get involved when needed. But that's not true. In just about every world conflict, guess whose there? The US. Infantry, bombers, remote army stations, ships you name it. Now it's attack drones. All the military companies love it. Just like gun companies. Weapon makers have such high power (or awesome lobbyists), the government never says no, and never declines a battle thinking superior training, gear and supplies will always win over all these unorganized rebels using old weapons and no battle gear.
Name one decently known conflict lately where there is zero US participation.
Actually, historians estimate 120 million killed in Africa by Islamic terrorists and about 80 million in India since 624AD.
Belgians are slow with security
Belgian nuclear guard ‘shot and security access badge stolen’
Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday.
The French language Derniere Heure (DH) newspaper reported the security guard’s badge was de-activated as soon as it was discovered he had been shot dead in the Charleroi region of Belgium and his badge stolen.
The information could not be independently verified. A police spokeswoman said she could not comment because an investigation was ongoing.
In a nation on high alert following this week’s attacks, the report stokes fears about the possibility militants are seeking to get hold of nuclear material or planning to attack a nuclear site.
Immediately after the attacks, security was boosted around Belgium's nuclear sites, and hundreds of workers were sent home. The country’s nuclear agency also said it had withdrawn the entry badges of some staff and had denied access to other people recently amid concern the nuclear plants could be a target.
According to DH, the suicide bombers who blew themselves up on Tuesday originally considered targeting a nuclear site, but a series of arrests of suspect militants forced them to speed up their plans and instead switch focus to the Belgian capital.
Late last year, investigators found a video tracking the movements of a man linked to the country’s nuclear industry during a search of a flat as part of investigations into the Islamist militant attack on Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people.
The video, lasting several hours, showed footage of the entrance to a home in northern Belgium and the arrival and departure of the director of Belgium’s nuclear research programme.
The material, filmed by a camera in bushes outside the official's home, was reportedly found at the property of Mohamed Bakkali, incarcerated in Belgium for his links to the Paris attackers.
One Belgian newspaper reported that the device was collected by none other than brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui – two of the Brussels suicide bombers.
The threats of ‘nuclear terrorism’
On Thursday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief, Yukiya Amano, warned of the dangers of “nuclear terrorism”, saying that the world needs to do more to prevent it.
"Terrorism is spreading and the possibility of using nuclear material cannot be excluded," Amano told AFP in an interview late Thursday.
"Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security," he said. "The countries which do not recognise the danger of nuclear terrorism is the biggest problem."
Major progress has been made, however, with countries reducing stockpiles of nuclear material.
This month, for example, Japan is returning enough plutonium to make 50 nuclear bombs to the United States.
But according to the International Panel on Fissile Materials, enough plutonium and highly enriched uranium still exist to make 20,000 weapons of the magnitude that levelled Hiroshima in 1945.
A grapefruit-sized amount of plutonium can be fashioned into a nuclear weapon, and according to Amano it is "not impossible" that extremists could manage to make a "primitive" device – if they got hold of the material.
"It is now an old technology and nowadays terrorists have the means, the knowledge and the information," he said.
But he said that a far likelier risk was a "dirty bomb".
This is a device using conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material other than uranium or plutonium.
Such material can be found in small quantities in universities, hospitals and other facilities the world over, often with little security.
"Dirty bombs will be enough to [drive] any big city in the world into panic," Amano said. "And the psychological, economic and political implications would be enormous."
http://www.france24.com/en/20160326...security-access-badge-stolen-brussels-attacks
Belgian nuclear guard ‘shot and security access badge stolen’
Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday.
The French language Derniere Heure (DH) newspaper reported the security guard’s badge was de-activated as soon as it was discovered he had been shot dead in the Charleroi region of Belgium and his badge stolen.
The information could not be independently verified. A police spokeswoman said she could not comment because an investigation was ongoing.
In a nation on high alert following this week’s attacks, the report stokes fears about the possibility militants are seeking to get hold of nuclear material or planning to attack a nuclear site.
Immediately after the attacks, security was boosted around Belgium's nuclear sites, and hundreds of workers were sent home. The country’s nuclear agency also said it had withdrawn the entry badges of some staff and had denied access to other people recently amid concern the nuclear plants could be a target.
According to DH, the suicide bombers who blew themselves up on Tuesday originally considered targeting a nuclear site, but a series of arrests of suspect militants forced them to speed up their plans and instead switch focus to the Belgian capital.
Late last year, investigators found a video tracking the movements of a man linked to the country’s nuclear industry during a search of a flat as part of investigations into the Islamist militant attack on Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people.
The video, lasting several hours, showed footage of the entrance to a home in northern Belgium and the arrival and departure of the director of Belgium’s nuclear research programme.
The material, filmed by a camera in bushes outside the official's home, was reportedly found at the property of Mohamed Bakkali, incarcerated in Belgium for his links to the Paris attackers.
One Belgian newspaper reported that the device was collected by none other than brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui – two of the Brussels suicide bombers.
The threats of ‘nuclear terrorism’
On Thursday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief, Yukiya Amano, warned of the dangers of “nuclear terrorism”, saying that the world needs to do more to prevent it.
"Terrorism is spreading and the possibility of using nuclear material cannot be excluded," Amano told AFP in an interview late Thursday.
"Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security," he said. "The countries which do not recognise the danger of nuclear terrorism is the biggest problem."
Major progress has been made, however, with countries reducing stockpiles of nuclear material.
This month, for example, Japan is returning enough plutonium to make 50 nuclear bombs to the United States.
But according to the International Panel on Fissile Materials, enough plutonium and highly enriched uranium still exist to make 20,000 weapons of the magnitude that levelled Hiroshima in 1945.
A grapefruit-sized amount of plutonium can be fashioned into a nuclear weapon, and according to Amano it is "not impossible" that extremists could manage to make a "primitive" device – if they got hold of the material.
"It is now an old technology and nowadays terrorists have the means, the knowledge and the information," he said.
But he said that a far likelier risk was a "dirty bomb".
This is a device using conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material other than uranium or plutonium.
Such material can be found in small quantities in universities, hospitals and other facilities the world over, often with little security.
"Dirty bombs will be enough to [drive] any big city in the world into panic," Amano said. "And the psychological, economic and political implications would be enormous."
http://www.france24.com/en/20160326...security-access-badge-stolen-brussels-attacks
Putin's bombing campaign created peace (according to notty) but the American bombing campaign was ineffective?
p.s. The Russian boots on the ground were actual Assad's troops telling which targets were 'bad guys'.
Sadly we don't have a better method of dealing with violently aggressive groups.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
It's not a matter of destroying the ideology but rather minimizing the risk they pose.
Hey I'm ok with it, I just find it hypocritical of the PM to say we're not at war.
Does anybody actually think the PM thinks before he makes a statement,...or even gives a shit what he says,...
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Canadian PM Trudeau: Overcome Islamic Terrorism With 'Openness' And 'Respect'
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How can ANYBODY admit in public they voted for this clown, has to be the ultimate way to degrade yourself.
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Suggest the Trudeau family take a selfie with this dude. Obviously, we failed him by not showing enough openness and respect.
