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  • Brussels attacks: Molenbeek's gangster jihadists (nothing to do with Islam)

    03/27/2016 10:44:46 AM PDT · by Dallas59 · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 3/24/2016 | BBC
    In the poor inner-city areas of Brussels, deprivation, petty crime and radicalisation appear to have gone hand in hand. The BBC's Secunder Kermani has been finding out how drinking, smoking cannabis and fighting - combined with resentment towards white Belgian society for its perceived discrimination against Arabs - prepared some young men for a role as fighters in Syria, and terrorists in Europe.
  • Belgian police arrest six in bombing probe, French foil Paris plot

    03/24/2016 8:08:09 PM PDT · by Innovative · 16 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 25, 2016 | Alastair Macdonald, Ingrid Melander and Foo Yun Chee
    Belgian police arrested six people in their probe of Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there "that was at an advanced stage." The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium said on Thursday that the arrests came during police searches in the Brussels neighbourhoods of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the centre of the Belgian capital. The arrests came days after suicide bombers hit the Brussels airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 in the worst...