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"It Looks Like A Warzone" - Army, APCs, Roadblocks Deployed In Brussels After Explosives, Chemical Weapons Found
In the aftermath of last night's warning of an "imminent" terror threat in Brussels when OCAM Crisis Center and the government raised the country's terror alert to the highest level, today the escalation continues and the Belgian capital looks like not only a ghost town but something out of a Call of Duty warzone after authorities deployed special forces, and APCs, shut the metro, locked down shopping centers, closed sporting events, and warned the public to avoid crowds, train stations, airports and commercial districts because of a "serious and imminent" threat of an attack.
As Reuters reports, a week after the Paris attacks carried out by Islamic State militants, of whom one suspect from Brussels is at large and said by authorities to be highly dangerous, Brussels was placed on the top level "four" in the government's threat scale after a meeting of top ministers, police and security services.
"The advice for the population is to avoid places where a lot of people come together like shopping centers, concerts, events or public transport stations wherever possible," a spokesman for the government's crisis center said.
As AFP reported earlier, the spike in the terror threat is due to a risk of attacks by "weapons and explosives"
#BREAKING Belgium terror alert linked to a risk of attacks by 'weapons and explosives': PM
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) November 21, 2015
The local security forces are taking no chances, and as can be seen on the photos below, APC have been deployed as the city barricades itself with the use of roadblocks at strategic locations.
Metro closed, all football games cancelled and city center looks like military base. #Brussels 2015 #Bruxelles pic.twitter.com/FP8UoCOFv5
— Zaprudsky (@ZaprudskyOU) November 21, 2015
this is brussels right now. It looks like the war. #Bruxelles pic.twitter.com/iOzES4H3Jg
— harry saw me (@lwtharoId) November 21, 2015
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel declined to give the reason why the authorities raised the alert level but told a news conference the government would review the security situation on Sunday afternoon and that the decision to raise the threat level was taken “based on quite precise information about the risk of an attack like the one that happened in Paris where several individuals with arms and explosives launch actions, perhaps even in several places at the same time." The metro system would remain closed until then, in line with the recommendation of the crisis center, he said.
The reason for the dramatic escalation is that chemicals and explosives were among the items found in the during a police raid on Vandepeerboom Street area in the immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek, a rundown area where Paris attacker Abdelhamid Abaaoud was suspected of operating a terrorist cell.
L'Echo has more:
A search was conducted on Friday at the home of a suspect placed under arrest, federal prosecutors said on Saturday. Some weapons have been discovered, but no explosives or explosive belt.
The suspect was arrested Thursday in the series of searches carried out in Brussels. The person concerned is suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks and participation in activities of a terrorist group.
The find came as Belgium’s capital entered a security lockdown. The government has warned that there could be a repeat of Paris-style attacks in the country’s capital, prompting the closure of subways in Brussels and the deployment of heavily armed police and soldiers.
Fears that terrorists may use chemical or biological weapons quickly spread to Paris where according to the Guardian, security has been stepped up at key water supply sites in Paris, after the French prime minister warned the country could not rule out attacks from “chemical or biological weapons”.
The heightened security comes as reports claim that biohazard suits have been stolen from a Paris hospital, the Telegraph reports. Eau de Paris, the municipal water company, yesterday told Le Parisien that access to its sites has been limited to only the necessary service personnel, and that they have been accredited by the defence ministry.
Furthermore, we learned today that one more suspect from last Friday's terror attack has been arrested in Brussels which has quickly emerged as the nerve center of last week's Paris attacks.
According to Belgian media @RTBFinfo a key suspect in the #ParisAttacks was arrested in the Brussels region last night
— Michael Horowitz (@michaelh992) November 21, 2015
As Reuters further adds, the crisis center website said it was calling on local authorities to cancel large events, urge people to avoid crowds, postpone soccer matches, close the Brussels metro for the weekend and stepping up the military and police presence. Suspected militant Salah Abdeslam, 26, returned home to Brussels from Paris after the attacks, when his elder brother Brahim blew himself up at a cafe.
Fears of the risk he still poses prompted the cancellation last week of an international friendly soccer match in Brussels against Spain. The crisis center said weekend games in the top two professional divisions should now be postponed.
The alert level for the whole country was raised following the Paris attacks to level three out of four, implying a "possible or probable" threat. Previously, only certain sites, such as the U.S. embassy, were at level three.
Belgium, and its capital in particular, have been at the center of investigations into the Paris attacks - which included suicide bombers targeting a France-Germany soccer match - after the links to Brussels emerged. Three people detained in Brussels are facing terrorism charges.
As a reminder, French authorities have said the attacks were planned in Brussels by a local man, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, who fought for Islamic State in Syria and was killed in the siege of an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis on Wednesday.
Salah Abdeslam, who was from the same Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek and is said by officials to have known Abaaoud in prison, was pulled over three times by French police but not arrested as he was driven back to Brussels early last Saturday by two of the men now in custody.
As well as Abdeslam's brother, a second man from Molenbeek, Bilal Hadfi, was also among the Paris suicide bombers.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon told reporters he wanted a register of everyone living in Molenbeek because it was not clear at present who was there, with authorities conducting door-to-door checks of every house. "The local administration should knock on every door and ask who really lives there," Jambon said. Curiously when Donald Trump suggests doing something comparable in the US, immediate comparisons with Hitler emerge.
Meanwhile, as the photos below show, soldiers are already on guard in all key parts of Brussels, including at the institutions of the European Union headquartered in the city. Brussels is also home to the headquarters of NATO.
More military and police deploy roadblocks around central #Brussels following terror threat. pic.twitter.com/XpQDmOK9KD
— M. Cruickshank CN (@MJ_Cruickshank) November 21, 2015
Finally, Belgium's interior ministry has released the following list of recommendations what the local population should do while the terror threat is at its highest level.
Evaluation of the terror threat - level 4 - Recommandations for the Brussels-Capital Region #Brussels #infographic pic.twitter.com/ArvZvMdzG6
— CrisisCenter Belgium (@CrisiscenterBE) November 21, 2015
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Why quibble? It depends upon which side of the joke you're on. If you need a fantastic public relations stunt, and if you need a holocaust industry, then six million turns out to be a stupifying number.
Well.....exactly.
#10 doesn't sound too bad.
Excellent post representing the knuckle-dragging-skinhead-worshipping hate mongers who live here. Keep it up!
Well, you can bomb them, but it does not help. You can fight them, but its even worse.... So how about this. Let's us their religion, the source of power against them. We take every single piece of a fucking suicide bomber, let pigs eat every their remains and then we gonna bury those pigs in a Christian grave.
Cheap and efficient.
The West never hears that Russia's defense of secular Syria was named 'Operation Salvation'. Nobody in the main scream media admits that this is the culture war forced by Zionists, and their 'scientific socialism', the Bolsheviks who wrought the Red Terror which slaughtered Russian Christians in tens of millions, yet whines about 6 million...while the First Zionist Congress said one cow in Palestine was worth more than all the jews in Europe. While people like Soros the self confessed Nazi in his youth stole from fellow jews in Hungary, and now as Rothschild agent funds countless NGOs, makes 'colour revolutions', continues advancing the AshkeNAZI rape, pillage - all for money, not for humankind.
The place now called Syria was Israel in the Bible. The place now called Israel was Judah which defied God; enslaved all for money, and wanting a 'king' to rule over them.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
All the bureauRats serve the lowly political cowards beholden to the money power...and waste the blood and treasure of all else.
Defy. Do not comply.
You don't have to be a Christian to know that it is the end of Western civilisation when Christians are about to be extinct in the lands they lived which gave birth to muslims, and Orthodox Jews said zionism was bad; Einstein said zionism was bad.
You will miss us when we are gone, my fellow Christians and others who respect others; our Constitution and Bill of Rights for all, regardless of creed, color or religion.
Tisquantum: there is the ideal; truth, reconciliation, forgiveness, trade without war.
When capitalism stagnates and declines, on response is to bring on fascism to “stabilize” the situation. The EU, along with the US and Japan are faced with daunting structural economic challenges- slerotic economies, declining industrial base, high unemployment coupled with anemic job growth, austerity, poverty and incresing deficits. The response to these problems has been an increasingly reckless and dangerous foreign policy, coupled increasing domestic repression. France is using the Paris attacks to institute fascism and it appears that Brussels is doing the same thing. Fascism uses state power- primarily the military and police, to maintain wealth distribution and class relations and is typically embraced by the financial elite and state military under times of social and economic stress. Europe has a rich tradition with fascism, previously being adopted in Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Portugal.
There are people doing these things, it's not enough to simply say "France" or "The United States" is engaging in such and such behavior.
Wouldn't it be nice the the people pulling these strings were out in the open and not hiding behind layers of obfuscation?
These parasites couldn't find their ass from a hole in the ground.The only possible explanation is they knew where the stashes were,,, which bring up the next logical question.
How would they know?
I'm not sure the Euro-Peons are any dumber then the Ameri-Bozo's but they're sure fighting for first place.
False flag setup.
False flag save.
Transparent.
So transparent that your 'fight club' only knows this belatedly after the bleedin obvious is pointed out to you, too clever and cowardly for your own good, but writing for your own good. You need a bigger world view, and less cowardice.
Join the party of humankind. It's never too late.
Oh really? Guess what? I was very near the WTC on 20010901, and the first words out of my mouth when the second plane hit was "false flag".
So... I'd have to say I had this figured out a long time ago.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean.
I was designing structures with steel for forty years at that time. I knew that day it is impossible for all the columns to collapse at the same instant. At best, heat would cause the columns to buckle first before they snapped, and the buckling would diminish from the source of heat. It's impossible for heat to travel instantly. For three buildings to come straight down like that, it had a classic demolition job. The columns were cut from below.
Alas, I've had terrible luck convincing most people who have no technical knowledge, including family. They rather believe official sources which reverses the laws of physics.
And so it goes with everything else that comes from official sources.
The Brits are keen
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUXdxJtWIAIe30S.jpg
The Daily Tel Aviv, formerly known as the Daily Telegraph, is keen for its City of London, rootless cosmopolitans of no fixed abode, and Zionists who demand Parliament bows to it.
Some journalsts on the DT are allowed to speak freely as it gives the impression of impartiality, but most are cowed by the zionist filth.
It is impossible to have a sensible discussion about modern life if people are so ignorant that they don't understand this:
Semite is ethnic.
Judaism is religion.
Zionism is a militarist, supremacist thing beholden to the self appointed money masters in the City of London, a sovereign entity to which even the mannequin queen bows before entering.
Defend the Constitution. This is our only hope to live in a multipolar world where we can all trade, and respect our differences without slaughtering each other for the international financiers of no fixed abode who care nothing for any land or people.
You Rothschilds (UK) and your agents like Soros(USA) and Bronfman (Canada) will be held to account, individually this time.
Up close and personal.
Allow open borders with the ME and your city could be under martial law without even a shot fired. Brilliant... Isnt that really the goal to lock everyone down and impose martial law? Is this worth open borders?
They let these people in starting 50 yrs ago. They let them set up and fester in their little no go zones. They knew who was who and what was going on, but they saved them for this time. All of this is CIA/Mossad, Europe is just a zone controlled by US/Israel, they decide nothing.
They want this war to go on forever. Recall John McCain saying we would be in Iraq for 100 years. That is what he was told, and he blurted out the truth. Next they will do a huge false flag in America so the American Sheeple scream for more war, you wait they will.
A NATO article 5 with all kinds of NATO boots on the ground is the clear guarantee for WW3. I mean what would Putin do when NATO and it's terrorists armies storm the Palace ? Watch for it.
So the other day I'm reading that chemical weapons are unlikely. Now chemical weapons found.
Track the money to find out what is going on. Especially track the price of oil who is hurt and who benefits. Everthing else is lies and bias.
Is this from the same anthrax playbook that had DC scared during 9/11 flase flag?
Constant escalation. Best to prepare for WWIII.
THE FREEDOM CENTER’S CAMPAIGN TO STOP CAMPUS SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM - http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260837/freedom-centers-campaign-stop-cam...
THE PERILS OF DIVERSITY: IMMIGRATION AND HUMAN NATURE - http://www.washsummit.com/shop/the-perils-of-diversity-immigration-and-h...
How’s that open immigration and PC-multiculturalism working out for you?