Armoured vehicles and heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key landmarks, intersections and subways in the Belgian capital today. The city was unusually quiet in the face of a government security alert. (BBC)
This is some serious stuff! I will say I am scared for them too!
But, in many, many ways when I think about our own governments response to the Boston bombing...we didn’t go far enough to find all parts of the “cell” of the brothers.
Armoured vehicles and heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key landmarks, intersections and subways in the Belgian capital today. The city was unusually quiet in the face of a government security alert. (BBC)
There were many Freepers who did not approve of the way the Boston bombing was handled.
Too militaristic——too many “jackbooted thugs”.
The fact that the Boston area people were delighted didn’t matter to them one whit.
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The FBI were questioning the younger Tsarnaev brother in his hospital bed; he hadn't been charged, so it was legitimate. A Federal judge, with "entourage", hastened there and charged him, so that the FBI could no longer question him without his lawyer present. His lawyer naturally told him to clam up.
Of course, they held that ridiculous memorial service just a couple of days after the bombing. Tuesday, the FBI was gathering surveillance video from the stores near the finish line. They scheduled a press conference for Wednesday at 1:00 p.m., then pushed it back to 5:30 p.m., then cancelled until further notice. Obama flew in for the memorial service, which naturally tied up traffic everywhere in the area. Once Obama's plane left, the FBI agent in charge finally had the press conference and showed the pictures they had gathered; the guys were identified. If their car hadn't broken down (they car-jacked a vehicle, the owner of which managed to sneak off while they were getting gas and notified police), they most likely would have made it to NYC, where they were reportedly headed to try the same thing in Times Square.
As with everything Obama, just makes you wonder which side our(?) gov't is on!