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Originally posted by It's xyz!
Hi time.

Terror alert is still high in Europe. I wonder how they feel?

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Originally posted by Slay
How do you feel about the entire city of Birmingham being a no-go zone for non-Muslims?

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Originally posted by Surtur
I think the title came from when first news of the attack was out and nobody knew exactly what was the cause yet.

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Originally posted by It's xyz!
Does the word possible have to be in the title?

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Originally posted by Surtur
I think we should go back to the "these f*cks should of still been in prison but were released early" thing. How many other potential terrorists have not served their full sentence for violent crimes?

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Originally posted by Ushgarak
TI, are you actively trying to get banned? My finger is on that trigger. I just told you to read people's posts properly, and you come back telling me to do something I already did. I already took apart the provenance of that source above.

And again, what you have there is one person saying it, no evidence, and not the remotest relation to your original contention that it is Muslims creating these zones- as opposed to this just referring to high-crime poverty stricken areas that you find in all cities. The US has plenty.

One more post where you are not reading what others say and you're gone.

Incidentally, my opinion does indeed beat Trump's, because I am basing what I say on reality and not taking cheap shots just to get votes from morons.

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Originally posted by Ushgarak
Death count unclear at this point. BBC have changed their heading from '13 dead' to 'many dead'. The Belgian PM is quoted as talking of 'scores' of dead, but as he also said 'scores' of injured, this might all be a mix up. It's going up though.

Some relevant analysis (from the BBC):

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The information we have so far suggests the bombings at Brussels airport happened before any security checks, in the public drop-off area. So it doesn't look like a security lapse at the scanning area.

There is a limit to what you can do at airports to stop this sort of attack. Prevention is more reliant on getting intelligence beforehand. American Airlines has told us they were not the nearest check-in desk.

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BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says it is "not a surprise" that this attack has taken place but says it is "shocking it was so successful".

He said since the Since Charlie Hebo attacks in Paris in January last year, which killed 12 people, there had been a number of terror cells "on the loose" that had been inspired by so-called Islamic State and had access to weapons and explosives.

He said Belgian intelligence services had been playing "catch-up" since then and did not have a "very good system" of sharing information across the various authorities.

He said attacks in Britain had been prevented by Muslim communities reporting suspicious behaviour to police but this was not yet happening in Belgium.

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That last one is interesting- I had thought before that in the UK we hadn't got very far with getting insider relations with the Muslim community- programmes like PREVENT, which is the anti-terror outreach programme, had received a lot of criticism.

But now I am hearing that it;s paying off and Muslims are speaking out against their extremists. That's good to hear and that's very relevant in these times of high racial tensions- demonising the entire Muslim community causes them to shut up, not help out.