Terrorists in Europe find a base in Belgium

International Herald Tribune ^ | Elaine Sciolino and Hélène Fouquet

[knighthawk]

BRUSSELS On a damp, gray day in March 2004, the Dutch traffic police stopped a Belgian driver for a broken headlight and accidentally stumbled onto a major investigation of Islamic radicals.

The driver was Khalid Bouloudo, a sometime baker and former Ford autoworker born in Belgium. During a routine check, his name turned up on an Interpol watch list, for an international arrest warrant from Morocco charging him with links to a terrorist organization based in Morocco and involvement in suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.

The arrest set in motion a cascade of events that underscored the extent of the radicalization of young Muslims across Europe - and a rapidly expanding and homegrown terrorist threat.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[2banana]

Despite a well-integrated Moroccan immigrant population that has lived and worked in Belgium for more than half a century, the country has become the destination of choice for many French-speaking immigrants who are put off by France's intrusive security and intelligence services and tougher laws.

It was in Belgium, for example, that the two Tunisian killers of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Afghan resistance leader who was assassinated in September 2001, received logistical support. Disguised as journalists, they carried Belgian passports and had traveled to Afghanistan from Belgium.

I didn't know that. Massoud was and would have been a great asset in the fight against OBL and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

[DustyMoment]

Terrorists in Europe find a base in Belgium

And this is a surprise to whom??

[talleyman]

Bump...

[Owl558]

Wow, the Dutch are going to be so screwed. The moment that they cease being a convenient base for islamic terrorists to use, they become an easy target.

[catmanblack.]

it is time europe dumped its garbage right back where it came from-if you buy a lemon you get rid of it-the only time a country is truly destroyed is when it becomes morally bankrupt-get rid of the drugs,prositution,sexual deviants and turn back toward GOD-and they will be able to dump the sorry ass muslims.

[Dark Wing]

I think you said this would happen.

[Hyp]

"turn back toward GOD-and they will be able to dump the sorry ass muslims"

sure... which god would that be?
YHWH? The Nordic gods? The Roman gods?

All religions are idiotic and bloodthirsty. Hence why I keep Koran on the same shelf with some other murderous books: Mein Kampf, the Bible, Kapital, the Talmud.
Before you ask why I have all of them... it's called know your enemy.

[catmanblack.]

atheism is a religion itself-that has no boundaries-CHRIST came so others would have a way of real freedom-people that believe they came from monkies haven't noticed that all monkies have stayed the same no evolution-there is no way this world started by itself

[dagnabbit]

Every Prime Minister of the last 30 years who allowed the large-scale immigration of Islam into Belgium should now be in prison or awaiting trial.

[Hyp]

I was just referring to the fact that all of these books advocate genocide... not speaking about evolution/intelligent design (although, some things could be said about that, but I think this is the wrong place to make those arguments).

And on the topic; islamics will submit to european culture, all religions so far did so, and they won't be any exception. We might have to use some drastic measures here and there (we haven't exactly forgotten how to fight, we just don't think it's neccesary to do so at this point), but Europe is safe.
I think that the harry potter quote is quite appropriate here... you know the "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus". So far we've been tickled a bit...