On Edge in Belgium

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Tis the season for elevated security fears. The Religion of Peace is once again in the news and in Belgium of all places.

"The release of the 14 does not mean the investigation is finished, all the material that was found is being examined," said Alain Lefevre, a director of the center. "Depending on the results, our measures will be adapted."

The 14 are expected to remain under police surveillance and could be detained again if more evidence is uncovered. The authorities did not release the suspects' identities.

Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the Prosecutor's Office alleged that the suspects had planned to use explosives and weapons to free Nizar Trabelsi, a 37-year-old Tunisian sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003 for planning to a drive a car bomb into the cafeteria of a Belgian air base where about 100 U.S. military personnel are stationed.

The U.S. Embassy had warned Americans "there is currently a heightened risk of terrorist attack in Brussels," although it said it had no indication of specific targets.

The authorities tightened security, warning of a heightened threat of attacks despite the arrests. The police in Brussels stepped up patrols at the airport, at subway stations and at the central Christmas market, which draws large crowds of holiday shoppers.

"Other acts of violence are not to be excluded," Verhofstadt warned.

Pellens said intelligence that an attack could be imminent meant the security forces had to act without waiting to gather the evidence.

"We could not treat this as we would a normal criminal case," Pellens said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/22/e urope/belgium.1-193640.php

"Some pigs must die tonight!"

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Revolutions do not require a majority. They only require a dedicated cadre of people willing to use the most extreme means to change the status quo.

The situation is unstable, and it is getting worse by the day.

If the French State is not able to bring the Law back to the banlieues, the banlieues will destroy the French State.

At some point, Europe is going to see the rise of the its small at present Ethnic Nationalist parties who will take to the streets in counter-riots against the denizens of the banlieues and their like all across Europe. The Ethnic Nationalist, read "Nazis", would set fire to the whole of Europe for a White Europe, and then, like the Wiemar Republic of old, Europe will be destroyed by its inner demons.

Death and Misery are in store for Europe.

If this riot had occurred in the summer, when the weather was more conducive to rioting, we well could have seen a real intifada in France, and with it, the rise of something much worse.

As it is, that may happen on another day in the not so distant future.


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IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.

What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!”

The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.

“I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,” said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.

His bruised and bloodied face signalled a worrying new level of barbarity in the mainly Muslim banlieues, where organised gangs of rioters used guns against police in a two-day rampage of looting and burning last week.

Not far from where Illy was lying was a policeman who lost his right eye after being hit by pellets from a shotgun. Another policeman displayed a hole the size of a 10p coin in his shoulder where a bullet had passed through his body armour.

Altogether 130 policemen were injured, dozens by shotgun pellets and shells packed with nails that were fired from a homemade bazooka. It prompted talk of urban “guerrilla warfare” being waged on French streets against the forces of law and order.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2983714.ece?print=yes&randnum=1196630482984