I'm surprised. Islam is a religion of peace. What are the odds that yet another terrorist attack would happen to be committed by a lone wolf from this peaceful culture?
Posted on 05/29/2018 2:56:35 AM PDT by csvset
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A gunman killed two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being himself shot dead in the center of the eastern Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster RTBF said on its website.
Belgium’s anti-terrorist crisis center was monitoring the situation, Interior Minister Jan Jambon said on Twitter. It was unclear, however, what lay behind the incident in which the man had also taken a woman hostage, according to RTBF.
Two other police officers had been injured, Belga news agency said. A spokeswoman for the Liege public prosecutors office confirmed that two police officers had been shot dead and the gunman “neutralized” but could not confirm other details.
Images on social media showed people scurrying for safety on Liege’s central boulevard d’Avroy with shots and sirens being heard in the background. One video showed two police in body armor moving into position.
Liege, an industrial city close to the German border in the French-speaking Wallonia region, was also the scene of a shooting in 2011, when a gunman killed four people and wounded over 100 before turning the gun on himself.
Belgium has been on high alert since a Brussels-based Islamic State cell was involved in attacks on Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people and Brussels in 2016 in which 32 died.
Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Editing by Alastair Macdonald
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It is still “bomdadan”. Could be something else though.
LOL! It's Ramadama-ding-dong time again.
PS: The DailyMail reports the usual Allahu Akbar! shouting. Perhaps that helps.
Mirror reporting the same.
Let’s just blame it on Islamophobia and forget it ever happened.
Two words on motive: “Allahu akbar”
He yelled, Allah Akbar”...no motive yet discovered...
Reuters must have edited your linked article (2nd paragraph):
“La Libre Belgique newspaper quoted a police source as saying the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar — God is greatest in Arabic — and RTBF said investigators believed the attacker may well have had a terrorist motive. “
“Incompatible with Civilization” will be Islams Epitaph.
That’s the euro way.
The brilliance of the euros is beyond dazzling. Nothing gets by them.
Islam, again ?
Belgian broadcaster RTBF said the gunman had only been released from prison on Monday. It said that he may have been radicalised while in jail.
“This man DOES NOT represent Islam.”
(old quote, not in story)
Besides the fact that this is obviously false, JUST WHO keeps saying it? Western leaders. How the hell would Western Leaders know who does and who does not represent Islam?
RTBF now confirming, from recent presser, that this was indeed a terrorist attack.
Looks like the perp stabbed the 2 officers from behind and grabbed their weapons...
I'm surprised. Islam is a religion of peace. What are the odds that yet another terrorist attack would happen to be committed by a lone wolf from this peaceful culture?
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