Bomb attacks in Brussels Airport and metro station

[Andrian]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

Latest Updatest from RT:

14:59 GMT

British Prime Minister David Cameron has tweeted that his government is increasing police presence at airports, ports, London Tube stations and international railway stations.

I have chaired a meeting of Cobra – we are increasing police presence at ports, airports, Tube stations and international railway stations.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) March 22, 2016

14:54 GMT

Belgium’s interior minister, Jan Jambon, has announced three days of national mourning.

14:51 GMT

Three American Mormon missionaries were among those injured at Brussels Airport, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement.


14:41 GMT

Rudi Vervoort, minister-president of the Brussels-Capital region, said that “as a Brussels citizen, I feel a horror that cannot be named.”

“I would like to express my support to the victims of the attacks of this morning, at the Brussels Airport in Zaventem and in the Maalbeek metro station. My thoughts are also directed to their families and closest [ones].

“This attack, without any precedent in Belgium, targeted strong symbols of its capital: its airport and its public transportation network. As a Brussels citizen, I feel a horror that cannot be named.

“My greatest recognition goes to all members of the security and emergency services that have been heavily mobilized to assist the victims.

“I want to address our determination. We will let no one cowardly attack the values of democracy. Barbarism will be fought continuously. Brussels will overcome obscurantism.

“Today, Brussels is showing its true nature: an exemplary solidarity through massive blood donations, free taxi rides and the numerous citizens who are opening their homes to host strangers in need on social networks,” the Guardian quoted him as saying.

14:36 GMT

The first picture of the possible suspects behind the Brussels Airport blasts has emerged online. Two men with black hair wearing black jumpers can be seen, both with airport trolleys.

The image allegedly comes from airport surveillance cameras.

PHOTOS - Les deux suspects possibles à l'aéroport de #Bruxelles #airporthttps://t.co/ZHinPvgeVP
via @ladh pic.twitter.com/6ivd8AmVBF
— BertrandRiotord (@BertrandRiotord) 22 March 2016

14:29 GMT

US President Barack Obama has offered his condolences in a phone call to Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, and vowed his support against the “scourge of terrorism.”

“The president reaffirmed the steadfast support of the United States for Belgium, and offered any assistance necessary in investigating these attacks and bringing those responsible to justice. The president reiterated that the United States stands together with the people of Belgium, as well as NATO and the European Union, and once again pledged the full cooperation and support of the United States in our shared commitment to defeat the scourge of terrorism,” a White House statement reads.

"The thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the people of Belgium" —@POTUS on the attacks in #Brussels https://t.co/TWxnIDfDqL
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 22, 2016

14:25 GMT

The EU Commission HQ in Brussels is being evacuated, Belga news reported, citing the police.

Now also #EuropeanCommission evacuated @Berlaymont, close to metro Schuman. #BruxellesAttack
— Hedwig Zeedijk (@hedzed) March 22, 2016

14:24 GMT

The Belgian Taxi Drivers Union has urged its members to offer free rides to those stranded after the attacks.

"Friends offer your services to your fellow citizens and help evacute people safely. Thank you." https://t.co/Jq6OjziFBF
— Unstally Mentable (@Sarcasmacus) March 22, 2016

14:22 GMT

US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says the attacks “strengthen our resolve to stand together to fight terrorism.”

These terrorists seek to undermine the democratic values that are the foundation of our way of life. They will never succeed. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 22, 2016

14:18 GMT

Bourse Square in Brussels has been transformed into a space for messages of solidarity following the attacks, with people expressing their condolences with sidewalk chalk. One message reads "F**k Terror."

On Bourse square in #Brussels, people writing chalk messages of peace and resilience pic.twitter.com/fiMgBhDHaR
— Aurélien Breeden (@aurelienbrd) March 22, 2016

14:17 GMT

In a telegram to the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Pope Francis has expressed his “deepest sympathy to the injured and their families, and all those who contribute to relief efforts, asking the Lord to bring them comfort and consolation in this ordeal.

The Holy Father again condemns the blind violence which causes so much suffering and imploring from God the gift of peace, he entrusts on the bereaved families and the Belgians the benefit of divine blessings.”

14:10 GMT

At least one of the bombs used at the airport contained nails in order to take more victims, VTM has reported.

"Some victims have nails in their bodies, thing that seems to indicate that offenders had additional metal attached to their bomb,” Marc Decramer of University Hospital Gasthuisberg told reporters.
14:05 GMT

Brussels Metro stations will reopen at 4pm local time, Belgium's Transport Minister has confirmed, according to Le Libre. Five-hundred soldiers have been deployed to ensure security.

 

[Windmill knight]

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Brussels metro blast immediate aftermath: Passengers flee tunnel following deadly Maalbeek bombing

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GRAPHIC: Belgium airport blast epicenter moments after tragedy

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Mayhem in Brussels airport: Immediate aftermath of Zaventem bombings

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[Alada]

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​Witnesses reported hearing Arabic shouting and shots fired ahead of the deadly blasts, one of which the Belgian federal prosecutor said was "possibly" a suicide attack.

The above is attributed to "The state-owned Belga news agency" according to the BBC, though I haven’t found a direct link yet.

But if you click the BBC link and listen to the video at the top of a witness report by James Firkin, the "Arabic shouting and shots fired" part is missing. He actually makes a note that they heard nothing (even though they were very close).

According to the report, he was queuing to check in at desk row 8 with his wife, but went to the nearby Starbucks to buy tea, but was close enough to rush back to his wife after the first explosion (if you look at a map of the airport it’s not far - close enough to hear any shots you would think anyway). They were close enough to the bombing to be covered by debris falling from the falling ceiling and said they were hiding behind suitcases because they were afraid there would be shootings, but said that there were no shots or people shouting in Arabic that they heard.

 

[Andrian]

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Thanks for sharing Windmill Knight, seeing the video was shocking to say the least. It's no surprising that through these strategy of tension Special Ops organized by our beloved leaders, people are distracted and manipulated in supporting their leader's agenda, basically the victim is manipulated in supporting his/her aggressor.

 

[Windmill knight]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

​Witnesses reported hearing Arabic shouting and shots fired ahead of the deadly blasts, one of which the Belgian federal prosecutor said was "possibly" a suicide attack.

The above is attributed to "The state-owned Belga news agency" according to the BBC, though I haven’t found a direct link yet.

But if you click the BBC link and listen to the video at the top of a witness report by James Firkin, the "Arabic shouting and shots fired" part is missing. He actually makes a note that they heard nothing (even though they were very close).

According to the report, he was queuing to check in at desk row 8 with his wife, but went to the nearby Starbucks to buy tea, but was close enough to rush back to his wife after the first explosion (if you look at a map of the airport it’s not far - close enough to hear any shots you would think anyway). They were close enough to the bombing to be covered by debris falling from the falling ceiling and said they were hiding behind suitcases because they were afraid there would be shootings, but said that there were no shots or people shouting in Arabic that they heard.

Also, according to RT:

15:04 GMT

Security officials believe at least one suitcase bomb was detonated at Brussels Airport, a US official told AP on condition on anonymity.

And there have been other mentions of possible explosive devices found in the airport. So it appears that the bombs were planted, and of course if you are going to do that, why do you need a suicide bomber or crazy shooter for? So yes, the "Arabic shouting" and "possibly suicide attack" sounds like a made up narrative for public consumption.

 

[Andrian]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

​Witnesses reported hearing Arabic shouting and shots fired ahead of the deadly blasts, one of which the Belgian federal prosecutor said was "possibly" a suicide attack.

The above is attributed to "The state-owned Belga news agency" according to the BBC, though I haven’t found a direct link yet.

But if you click the BBC link and listen to the video at the top of a witness report by James Firkin, the "Arabic shouting and shots fired" part is missing. He actually makes a note that they heard nothing (even though they were very close).

According to the report, he was queuing to check in at desk row 8 with his wife, but went to the nearby Starbucks to buy tea, but was close enough to rush back to his wife after the first explosion (if you look at a map of the airport it’s not far - close enough to hear any shots you would think anyway). They were close enough to the bombing to be covered by debris falling from the falling ceiling and said they were hiding behind suitcases because they were afraid there would be shootings, but said that there were no shots or people shouting in Arabic that they heard.

Also, according to RT:

15:04 GMT

Security officials believe at least one suitcase bomb was detonated at Brussels Airport, a US official told AP on condition on anonymity.

And there have been other mentions of possible explosive devices found in the airport. So it appears that the bombs were planted, and of course if you are going to do that, why do you need a suicide bomber or crazy shooter for? So yes, the "Arabic shouting" and "possibly suicide attack" sounds like a made up narrative for public consumption.

I absolutely agree with both of you Alada and Windmill Knight, i should have left a comment for clarity below the link of the Sputnik article...

 

[Alada]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

Excerpt form a Reuters article: Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill at least 30.

Public broadcaster VRT said police had found a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to the body of an attacker at the airport. Such weapons have become a trademark of Islamic State-inspired attacks in Europe, notably in Belgium and France, including on Nov. 13 in Paris.

An unused explosive belt was also found in the area, the public broadcaster said. Police were continuing to scour the airport for any further bombs or attackers.

Alphonse Youla, 40, who works at the airport, told Reuters he heard a man shouting out in Arabic before the first explosion. "Then the glass ceiling of the airport collapsed."

"I helped carry out five people dead, their legs destroyed," he said, his hands covered in blood.

A witness said the blasts occurred at a check-in desk.

Video showed devastation in the hall with ceiling tiles and glass scattered across the floor. Some passengers emerged from the terminal with blood spattered over their clothes. Smoke rose from the building through shattered windows and passengers fled down a slipway, some still hauling their bags.

Public broadcaster RTBF said police were searching houses in the Brussels area.

A Crisis Centre spokesman issued provisional figures of 20 killed in the metro and ten at the airport. Public broadcaster VRT had said earlier 20 were killed in the train and 14 at the airport.

Many of the dead and wounded at the airport were badly injured in the legs, one airport worker told Reuters, suggesting at least one bomb in a bag on the floor.

 

[Andrian]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

Hysteria to the Max, 2 Nulcear Plants have been also evacuated, after the Attacks, from ZeroHedge:

Energy utility Electrabel is evacuating Belgium's two nuclear power plants in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.

Doel, made up of four reactors, and Tihange, with three are closed and all vehicles coming and going are subject to checks. "Employees who are not needed to run the two power plants are now leaving the sites," Politico EU reports, adding that the "military arrived at the Tihange plant on Friday."

"Surveillance is stepped up with added security measures at nuclear plants," Belga says. "Vehicles are being checked with police and army on site."

As AFP reminds us, "in February, investigators probing the Paris attacks found video footage of a senior Belgian nuclear official at the property of a key suspect." That footage was discovered “as part of seizures made following the Paris attacks”, Belgian prosecutors said last month, while declining to divulge the individual’s identity “for obvious security reasons”. [...]

[...]

As France 24 reported in January, there are significant safety concerns surrounding both Tihange and Doel: "In summer 2012, Belgian authorities found small cracks in the pressure vessel of Doel 3 during a scheduled outage and safety check, opting to keep it offline until more tests were conducted [and] in September of the same year, the same flaws were discovered in the Tihange 3 reactor."

"With regard to the reactors Doel 3 and Tihange 2, many scientists are saying that there is a risk of a nuclear accident - with all the consequences that would entail for the population - because of the cracks found in the pressure vessels. So we are asking the court to stop operations of these reactors or alternatively to appoint a panel of experts to re-examine the scientific evidence," lawyers for the NGO Nucleaire Stop Kernenergie argued previously, in a bid to shut down the reactors.

 

[Gawan]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

And there have been other mentions of possible explosive devices found in the airport. So it appears that the bombs were planted, and of course if you are going to do that, why do you need a suicide bomber or crazy shooter for? So yes, the "Arabic shouting" and "possibly suicide attack" sounds like a made up narrative for public consumption.

That what I also thought, that the bombs most likely were planted beforehand. The shouting could be as well hysteria, that they think they heard something like that which didn't occur.

Here is also a short Sott-Exlusive article from Sott from a broader angle:

SOTT Exclusive: Who is Bombing European Civilians?

 

[angelburst29]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

Explosions hit Brussels airport, metro station
http://katehon.com/news/breaking-news-update-explosions-hit-brussels-airport-metro-station-least-23-killed

[...] Brussels University and museums were also evacuated in the wake of the blasts.

Jaume Duch, the European Parliament's press representative, told French daily Le Monde that security is being stepped at the parliament building in Brussels.

In the airport, shots were fired prior to the explosions, the Belgian news agency has reported.

Hundreds of people were evacuated onto the tarmac at the Zaventem Airport following the explosions.

Three explosives vests were reportedly found in Brussels airport.

Airport spokeswoman Anke Fransen said: "There were two blasts in the departure hall. First aid team are in place for help."

The blasts are believed to have occurred at the American Airlines check-in desk at around 8 am local time (0700 GMT).

Footage released on social media showed people running away with smoke billowing from the building. Windows were also shattered due to the shockwave.

An MP whose wife was present at the airport said that the wounded were hit by glass ceiling tiles.



Russian special services warned Belgium about danger of terrorism
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/hotspots/terror/22-03-2016/133885-belgium_terrorist_attack-0/

Representatives of Russian special services warned the Belgian authorities about the possibility of terrorist attacks. According to Russia's information, three ISIS militants, including two brothers from Belarus - Ivan and Aleksei Dovbash - and Marat Yunusov - went to Belgium in late February.

"Aleksei Dovbash, 27 years of age, was the first to have converted to Islam. He started communicating with radicals. His younger brother, 23-year-old Ivan, started shoring interest in radical movements as well," said the source, LifeNews reports.

According to security officials, the brothers joined terrorists in Syria, where they received special training before flying to the EU.



Three Days of Mourning Declared in Belgium After Deadly Terrorist Attacks
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160322/1036759414/belgium-terror-attacks-mourning.html

Officials in Belgium have declared three days of national mourning in the wake of terrorist attacks on the capitals airport and metro station.

 

[Andrian]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

And there have been other mentions of possible explosive devices found in the airport. So it appears that the bombs were planted, and of course if you are going to do that, why do you need a suicide bomber or crazy shooter for? So yes, the "Arabic shouting" and "possibly suicide attack" sounds like a made up narrative for public consumption.

That what I also thought, that the bombs most likely were planted beforehand. The shouting could be as well hysteria, that they think they heard something like that which didn't occur.

Here is also a short Sott-Exlusive article from Sott from a broader angle:

SOTT Exclusive: Who is Bombing European Civilians?

Thanks Gawan, i've just read the Sott Exclusive article, as always Sott editors have hit the nail on the head so to say. Good job.

 

[Cosmos]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

And there have been other mentions of possible explosive devices found in the airport. So it appears that the bombs were planted, and of course if you are going to do that, why do you need a suicide bomber or crazy shooter for? So yes, the "Arabic shouting" and "possibly suicide attack" sounds like a made up narrative for public consumption.

That what I also thought, that the bombs most likely were planted beforehand. The shouting could be as well hysteria, that they think they heard something like that which didn't occur.

Here is also a short Sott-Exlusive article from Sott from a broader angle:

SOTT Exclusive: Who is Bombing European Civilians?

Thanks Gawan, i've just read the Sott Exclusive article, as always Sott editors have hit the nail on the head so to say. Good job.

In the SOTT article something interesting is pointed out:

One also has to wonder about the strange coincidence of Turkish PM Erdogan warning just a few days ago that, "there is no reason why the bomb that exploded in Ankara [on March 12th] could not explode in Brussels."

So Erdogan obviously knew that there are concrete plans by his psychopathic friends from the empire (maybe his government was even directly part of the planning) to bomb Brussels, and made this "prophecy" a statement for his "just and good" cause of "fighting terrorisms" in turkey and syria.

 

[Joe]

Re: Bomb attack Belgium airport

Excerpt form a Reuters article: Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill at least 30.

Public broadcaster VRT said police had found a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to the body of an attacker at the airport. Such weapons have become a trademark of Islamic State-inspired attacks in Europe, notably in Belgium and France, including on Nov. 13 in Paris.

Planted.

An unused explosive belt was also found in the area, the public broadcaster said. Police were continuing to scour the airport for any further bombs or attackers.

Planted.

"I helped carry out five people dead, their legs destroyed," he said, his hands covered in blood.

Many of the dead and wounded at the airport were badly injured in the legs, one airport worker told Reuters, suggesting at least one bomb in a bag on the floor.

[/quote]

Shades of the London tube train bombings, where the floor of the carriages were clearly blown upwards from a bomb planted below on the rails.

Like most other alleged "suicide bombings" (which are usually announced with amazing speed after the attack, when it is not possible to know such things) this was NOT a suicide bombing, but rather as noted, a bomb placed at the site.

No doubt the security cams in that area of the airport were turned off at the time for some reason, or the tapes are inexplicably blank or missing.

Obviously though, these attacks are now part of a rolling narrative of "Islamic terrorism" that apparently needs no evidence to back up the immediate claims by authorities (with information provided to them by 'intel' personnel') that so and so the 'Muslim radical' was involved.

The whole thing is such a monumental farce that, frankly, I feel like just walking away from it (psychologically and emotionally-speaking) and leaving them to it.

We've tried consistently for 13 years to point out the problems with the narrative and highlight the obvious, but people seem to prefer their illusions. So be it.

 

[Cosmos]

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On twitter worldwide, the most trendy hashtag right now is #Bruessel followed by #StopIslam on the second position:
https://twitter.com/

 

[loreta]

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Thanks all of you for the information! Here is the only space that there are gray mater working.

Just to say one thing: before knowing who did the explosions, before taking the bodies from the floor, before analysing the situation in a same article you can read two contradicted information , one I read this morning: they didn't know who did it and even if it was a terrorist attack, that's a the beginning of the article. And then, at the end of the article it was a vengeance from the arrest of Abdeslam and insinuating that near the airport is a neighbour where a very dangerous terrorist, that the police is looking for, was coming from. I think this is very ugly to insinuate these things. When I read the information I thought with sadness about the people who lives now in this neighbour, surely Arabs. And RT is falling in this sort of very ugly and un-professional information.

Always the same scenario, always this bad taste in the mouth seeing all these sacrifices for them to attain their objective. I think it is a very big attack but surely they wanted to made it bigger and maybe the bombs that did not explode was the reason that we have less victims.