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BELGIAN SOLDIERS DEPLOYED TO FIGHT TERRORISTS HAD NO BULLETS IN RIFLES
Front Page Magazine ^ | 27 March 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/27/2016 6:39:17 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

Much of counterterrorism is really security theater. TSA searches that have yet to stop a terrorist. Bombing raids that don't drop bombs. Soldiers standing with rifles that have no bullets in them. It looks impressive. But there's no substance behind it.

Rabbi Menachem Hadad of Brussels’ Shomre Hadas haredi Orthodox community said that soldiers who were posted outside a synagogue and the city’s Chabad House following the slaying of four Jews in Brussels’ Jewish Museum of Belgium in 2014 told him that for months, they used to guard the area with no bullets in their rifles. “It was just a show."

Of course it's just for show. Anything else would be too much. Western governments don't want to actually stop Islamic terrorism. They want to look like they're trying.

It's not just Obama. It's the whole system.

After every terror attack, there's security theater. Empty reassurances that the guys running everything are really taking it seriously. But there's no there, there. Instead they'll keep on bringing huge numbers of Muslims, creating the next wave of terror, even while they put on a show of being serious about the latest attack.

Being serious about Islamic terrorism means ending Muslim migration. Any government that doesn't want to do that is also not going to do much to fight Islamic terrorism except go through the motions.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; belgium; bluezones; brussels; counterterrorism; europejihad; nobullets
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To: gaijin
The Marines at the gates in Lebanon also did not have ammo, when a suicide truck drove in and blew the place sky-high.

Not quite. The Marines guards at the Beirut barracks had loaded magazines in their ammo pouches, but were ordered not to lock the magizines into their rifles or load a round into the chambers without an order by an NCO. There was also a pair of 90mm recoilless rifle positions atop the multistory barracks building, but the gunners were ordered not to close the breeches of the guns, whose M371A1 high explosive antitank warheads could have taken out the truck as much as 400 meters away from the building.

81 posted on 03/28/2016 11:17:08 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: gaijin; joemeadors
USS Cole Captain wanted to avoid "potential tragedies" immediately AFTER they had come under attack --no live ammo passed out to gunners.

The Cole crew was still better off than that of the USS Liberty, rocketed, bombed and torpedoed and strafed by Israeli warplanes, after which the crew in the lifeboats were machinegunned by the Israelis.


82 posted on 03/28/2016 11:26:45 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: BobL
but he would be very dumb to live that lifestyle without having one.

If he's that stupid- and Gary Hart was- he's not fit to be President.

83 posted on 03/28/2016 11:33:12 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: BobL
Not that I’ll ever be in a position to have armed guards, but if I were, I would ask EVERY ONE OF THEM if their guns are loaded.

This is America; you are your own armed guard, with the right and duty of protecting yourself and, as necessary and to the best of your ability, others.

Is your gun loaded?

84 posted on 03/28/2016 11:35:46 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
Back in my day in military training they were called clips.

M-1 Garands?

85 posted on 03/28/2016 3:10:31 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: ExSES

They are actually called magazine clips. When I was in we carried “20 round clips” for our M16s but only put 18 rounds in them. Otherwise, they’d jam.


86 posted on 03/28/2016 7:39:21 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: onona
why not just issue them billy clubs ?

Part of the safety training I had as a Department of the Navy Civilian small arms ordnance worker included the amusing anecdote regarding the most expensive non-injury unauthorized discharge of a handgun in military history, the *cure* for the problem, and the consequences thereof.

A USAF weather reconnaissance unit stationed WAY up north was protected by armed USAF sentries; since the unit had the wartime job of target damage assessment following nuclear strikes, some of their photographic and electronic equipment was stratospherically costly. The guards were warned that if they were caught reading on duty, the fine was $100 for the first offense, doubling on the second, and so forth. They could enter the hanger buildings [and had to, to check water lines from freezing in the subzero conditions] a good thing when the temps hit -15 degrees and the wind 45-50 knots. Accordingly one lad scrounged up a magazine's worth of dummy ammunition and practiced drawing his .45 M1911A1 handgun, chambering a round, and firing from the hip. The first week he was a little jerky at it; by the second he was better, and after two months of 4 hours of every-other-evening practice sessions, he was actually pretty good at it. And of course one night it happened: he got a live round mixed into his magazine full of dummy training ammo, and with a lightning-fast sudden draw, there was a sudden *BANG*. Followed by...nothing much. There was a plane parked on the service ramp outside his maintenance hanger, but any crew or mechanics tinkering with it had headed for the mess hall once the sun had gone down, and with it, the temperature.

There was no one else in the big lonely building, and the gate guards were far enough away and the wind sufficiently noisy that maybe he could get away with it. He took his flashlight and began to check to see where his .45 round had gone, and he found it pretty quickly- he'd been using a white safety warning poster as his *bad guy* target, and the slug had passed through the sheet metal door just to the side of it. He found a ballpein hammer in an unlocked toolbox and neatly rebent the torn petals of the hole he had made in the door, slapped a piece of repair [duct] tape over the hole on the outside and hit it with a shot of paint from a spray can. On the inside he simply moved the tape holding the poster over six inches or so, and the evidence was covered up. And just to make sure all was okay, he went outside to make sure none of the crew or mechanics had returned or had stayed behind, but happily, he was indeed alone.

The funny thing was, even with the wind whistling, he could hear a hissing sound. The closer he got to the plane the louder the hiss, until he got close to the landing gear under one wing, and saw the snow and sleet being blown by the air coming out of the .45-caliber hole in one of the main landing gear tires. With which he still might have gotten away, since planes pick up *FOD* junk, nuts and bolts and dropped tools all the time, and the in-and-out through bullet hole might have been overlooked as a slow leak. He hoped.

Until the tire lost enough air that it and its twin brother were no longer sufficient to support the weight of the electronics and photo-recon pod mounted under the wing on that side, and as it slowly dipped, so too did it slowly crush the 28-million-dollar pod full of highly classified, highly sensitive, highly now-worthless junk. I think the fine he got was more than $100.

That's not yet the end of the story. They took the .45 pistols away from the guards and gave them nightsticks instead. A few months afterward, one of the mechanics got the chance to chat with one of the pilots about the nasty weather he must of encountered on his way in....but no, he was told it had been surprisingly uneventful and decent that particular flight, whereupon the mechanic pointed out a line of dents and dings on the leading edge of the wing of the sort made when hitting hail at near-supersonic speeds with a 20-ton aircraft.

Nope, no hail on the weather charts, and they were still scratching their heads trying to figure it out when one of the ramp guards passed by along the front wing edge of the next plane parked nearby, tapping out the rhythm of a popular song with the hardwood stick on the soft aluminum, thumk-thunk-thunkety-thunk thunk.

They took the sticks away from the guards after that. The whistles that replaced the pistols and clubs may not have been able to be heard over the wind, but at least they wouldn't tear up any more of the taxpayers airplanes. Probably.

Just when you think something is idiot-proof, along comes an improved model idiot.

87 posted on 03/30/2016 10:47:46 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy

That is freaking hilarious !!


88 posted on 03/30/2016 10:51:44 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: archy

“Resurrect the Republic”? Those guys sound like their nuts. Babbling about Vatican Assassins, Vatican New World Order.


89 posted on 04/16/2016 2:50:19 AM PDT by Jacob Kell (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history, Obama is the yellow stain in front)
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