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Brussels death count could have been in HUNDREDS as third 'MOST POWERFUL' bomb failed
The London Express ^ | March 23, 2016 | Selina Sykes

Posted on 03/23/2016 9:11:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

BELGIAN prosecutors have said the carnage at Brussels airport could have left hundreds more dead after revealing a third far more powerful bomb failed to detonate.

Suspected chief bomb maker Najim Laachraoui, whose DNA was also found on several explosives used in the Paris attacks, was carrying the "most powerful" bomb in a large bag, Belgian prosecutors have confirmed.

But the lethal explosive failed to detonate after two explosions ripped through Zaventem airport which killed 14 people and left 96 injured.

The bomb was safely deactivated by experts.

Authorities discovered the third bomb after a taxi driver who drove the terrorists to the airport told police his passengers had three items of luggage.

It has also emerged the taxi driver potentially stopped the terrorists blowing-up even more explosives.

The driver told police the trio wanted to take more luggage in his vehicle but he told them there was not enough space.

The taxi driver revealed he had also driven the band of terrorists to an apartment in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, which led to a police raid finding an array of bomb making materials and an Islamic State (ISIS) flag....

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: belgium; brussels; brusselsterrorattack; isil; isis
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1 posted on 03/23/2016 9:11:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, next time we can assume they will
A. Not take a taxi, or
B. Kill the driver

Not certain this kind of info needs to be public this early in the game.


2 posted on 03/23/2016 9:20:27 PM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank God the big one failed!

This vermin must be expunged.


3 posted on 03/23/2016 9:21:25 PM PDT by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: Bobalu

Talk about a miracle.


4 posted on 03/23/2016 9:26:11 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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“Thank God the big one failed!”

I am not so sure I’d be thankful for that.

It appears to me that only a huge attack is going to wake enough people up to deal with the problem. Furthermore the attack needs to leftist Westerners. If non-socialist die the socialist won’t care.

I do not know the number but 3000 didn’t get the job done in the US


5 posted on 03/23/2016 9:26:37 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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Muslims have a massive inferiority complex and lash out against the West in frustration. They have no products to sell us, no inventions, no technical or scientific manufacturing expertise. Everything they own is Western in origin. If they make a bomb it’s with components from the West. They operate several successful airlines but don’t design or build aircraft or even crew the planes themselves. Just tell a Muslim that face to face and you will see by their furious reaction how correct it is.


6 posted on 03/23/2016 9:33:48 PM PDT by SteveH
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they have oil, but never knew it..took the west to find it, and then get it out of the ground...refine it..etc


7 posted on 03/23/2016 9:41:43 PM PDT by basalt
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Oil ticks.


8 posted on 03/23/2016 9:44:08 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: SteveH

Well they did invent a machine to make a spiral cut to the finger bone ...and the handy dandy hand remover machine.


9 posted on 03/23/2016 9:44:09 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They are all grown up now:


10 posted on 03/23/2016 9:44:09 PM PDT by Slyfox (Donald Trump's First Principle is the Art of the Deal)
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To: BlueNgold

How many, ahem, ‘faithful’ taxi drivers are there in, say, New York City?


11 posted on 03/23/2016 9:44:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m thinking the third guy finked out. I guess it could have “failed to detonate”, and then he fled, but it just seems very plausible to me that perhaps he hesitated, and then the other two bombs went off, and his chain of thought was interrupted at that point.


12 posted on 03/23/2016 9:47:46 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Fai Mao

That’s sadly correct. At the moment, the response Brussels citizens to these devil worshippers is drawing multicolored hearts and “Je Suis Bruxelles” in chalk all over the sidewalks and lighting IKEA tea lights.

I have always believed that nothing short of total LEVELLING of St. Peters or the Louvre for there to be a temporary wake up for a year or so.


13 posted on 03/23/2016 9:49:21 PM PDT by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: BlueNgold

100% correct. This driver is now a target. Why is this kind of information made public? The West still has a lot to learn.


14 posted on 03/23/2016 9:53:32 PM PDT by Netz
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To: BlueNgold
Not certain this kind of info needs to be public this early in the game.

Would Mossad release this information to the media?

15 posted on 03/23/2016 9:56:31 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Proportionally to the Belgian population, this is the equivalent of 9/11.


16 posted on 03/23/2016 9:59:30 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In an interview with Aaron Klein on John Batchelor tonight, he said that there were reports that ISIS has sent orders to their Chechen allies to attack Russia and Western Europe, and orders to their US terrorists to do what they can, although apparently organizing large bombings in the US is more difficult. This ties in to his previous Breitbart report about at least 90 suicide bombers are already in place in Europe.


17 posted on 03/23/2016 10:12:47 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need to level Mosul. Give them 24 hours to leave then whoosh. Gone.

Then we go to their next biggest city and repeat. Tell ISIS for every one of ours, its 10,000 of theirs. 35 dead would mean 350,000. That works. Either they stop or they are stopped.

Wait till they get small tactical nukes?


18 posted on 03/23/2016 10:26:57 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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Davy Crockett nuke. 50 year old tactical nuke technology...off the shelf. Just waiting for the buyer with cash.

We must go on the offensive NOW.


19 posted on 03/23/2016 10:28:14 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: BlueNgold

You are spot on.


20 posted on 03/23/2016 10:31:28 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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