Belgian police have made 16 arrests in anti-terror raids, but suspected Paris attacks gunman Salah Abdeslam remains at large, the authorities have said.
A total of 22 raids were carried out on Sunday across Brussels and Charleroi, prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said. Link.
So far the gunmen in Verviers do not appear to have been linked with Shariah4Belgium, which was mainly active in the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium and in Brussels - not in French-speaking Wallonia.And there is no apparent link with the Islamist gunmen who killed 17 people in Paris last week, attacking Charlie Hebdo magazine, police and a kosher supermarket.
Most of the Belgian fighters we know of are Belgian-born youngsters of Moroccan origin.
Their socio-economic backgrounds are quite diverse. It certainly is not true that all of them were radicalised out of deprivation or a problematic or criminal past.
The number of Muslim converts among them is quite small, and it is striking that many of them were raised in ethnically mixed families or adopted abroad. That probably contributed to identity issues, resulting in their radical religious choice.
[h=2]Foreign plots[/h]Islamist extremism and jihad goes back a long way in Belgium. Belgiums Jihadist Networks Link.
They've spotted Abdelsalam (what an ironic name) in a car near Liege but he managed to escape to Germany so I hear.
Imagine what a manned border crossing for every person crossing between countries would have done to slow his progress down.
Why people thought open borders would only be used by innocent civilians is beyond me.
Imagine what a manned border crossing for every person crossing between countries would have done to slow his progress down.
Why people thought open borders would only be used by innocent civilians is beyond me.
Imagine what a manned border crossing for every person crossing between countries would have done to slow his progress down.
Why people thought open borders would only be used by innocent civilians is beyond me.
Now it's also time to work on these so-called "no-go" zones. Anytime law enforcement stops or appears afraid to patrol areas invites serious problems as we are seeing now.
The profile is quite strange too, the Belgian jihadis appear to have had a better chance of integrating but did not.
Would not have slowed him down, he would just have used one of the unmanned border crossings or just walked over the border in the middle of a field.
Now it's also time to work on these so-called "no-go" zones. Anytime law enforcement stops or appears afraid to patrol areas invites serious problems as we are seeing now.
The profile is quite strange too, the Belgian jihadis appear to have had a better chance of integrating but did not.
Why call it Aix la Chapelle? Are you French?Where we were living Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) was one of a number of cities that have no-go zones.
I dont see your point. Thats as absurd as blaming open borders between US states allow fugitives to run free. Surely you dont advocate all state crossings to be manned so why would you suggest the same in the EU as the EU/country relationship operates similar to state/federal relationship.
Would not have slowed him down, he would just have used one of the unmanned border crossings or just walked over the border in the middle of a field.
The EU keeps saying it's not a federal body; thus the countries (not states) are not analogous to states in the USA. Before Schengen came into operation there were borders - that is undeniable; borders which checked ID and passports of people trying to cross.
Why call it Aix la Chapelle? Are you French?
The EU keeps saying it's not a federal body; thus the countries (not states) are not analogous to states in the USA. Before Schengen came into operation there were borders - that is undeniable; borders which checked ID and passports of people trying to cross.
Just lovely
~ no one ever checked my ID at the French or Swiss borders when I crossed them several times a month to go shopping. It happened maybe once or twice and only on the Swiss side, never on the French side.
~ Sure I had to wave my passport ~
Where we were living Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) was one of a number of cities that have no-go zones. This was unheard of 30 years ago in Germany, but has grown out of a trend to ethnic dominated ghettoization that set in in the 1960s and 70s, when large numbers of foreign labor was imported. Generally the European groups progressed to integrate better than the Turks did. Later Russian enclaves have appeared and now there will be Arab population adding in. The administration is making an effort to distribute these new immigrants around more.
Foreign labor imported by capitalists who wanted to go around the labor/wage laws at the time. Horrific mistake.
Not capitalists.
People who feed of free market capitalism that want to introduce a plutocratic, corrupt, unaccountable global governing structure to eliminate competition so only they can operate and introduce artificial scarcity so they can increase prices and their own wealth.
Why call it Aix la Chapelle? Are you French?
Where we were living Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) was one of a number of cities that have no-go zones. This was unheard of 30 years ago in Germany, but has grown out of a trend to ethnic dominated ghettoization that set in in the 1960s and 70s, when large numbers of foreign labor was imported. Generally the European groups progressed to integrate better than the Turks did. Later Russian enclaves have appeared and now there will be Arab population adding in. The administration is making an effort to distribute these new immigrants around more.
But that IS capitalism. Or what it becomes eventually. Go where the money goes, if it's cheaper to produce goods and services with cheap labor, it's a no brainer. Shouldn't you know this as a libertarian? Haha
Capitalism has competition. Monopolies/oligarchs don't want competition as it threatens their dominance.
These monopolies have built up their wealth using capitalism now the chaos they intentionally created will obviously create public anger which will then be used to increase socialist policies which will limit free market capitalism that the monopolies used to build themselves up while they are immune to the taxes which the socialist government will introduce. These monopolies will work with that socialist government which they supported in gaining power to selectively tax companies which they are in competition with.
As the elites have said "Competition is a sin"- John D. Rockefeller
Their goal is to eliminate competition because it challenges their hegemony.
I didn't say monopolies, I said the reason for the import of cheap labor was to get around labor/wage laws. Are you disputing that?
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