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Secret Report Shows Just How Badly Belgium Mishandled Hunt for ISIS Operatives 2017-01-06 02:28:32 Post No. 97489
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Secret Report Shows Just How Badly Belgium Mishandled Hunt for ISIS Operatives
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2017-01-06 02:28:32
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>Belgian police had numerous chances to unmask the Islamic State terror cell that later carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks, according to a confidential report prepared for Belgium’s Parliament.
>In early 2015, Brussels police stopped a car driven by Brahim Abdeslam, later one of the Paris attackers, and arrested him for drug possession. At the time, Brahim was on a terror watch list. He carried a booklet about “parental consent for the Jihad.” Police found a USB thumb drive hidden behind his car radio.
>He was let go after brief questioning. Authorities failed to analyze the thumb drive or other electronics seized after the drug stop from an apartment Brahim shared with his younger brother, also involved in the attacks, Salah Abdeslam. Another unnoticed detail: The email address the suspect supplied, [email protected], was a fake.
>The Comité P report and other documents expose the Belgian security apparatus as underfunded and dysfunctional. Law-enforcement bodies, with no single chain of command, are divided into various fiefs split along linguistic lines—Dutch in the north and French in the south, with a bilingual Brussels divided among overlapping zones.
>Both brothers had earlier brushes with the law. According to the Comité P report, Brahim was involved in 40 offenses starting at age 15, including robbery, weapons possession and drugs. Salah’s 12 offenses included a 2010 break-in at a parking garage, for which he served a month in prison.
>She reported that the brothers were getting radicalized, were in touch with Mr. Abaaoud and were planning something “irreversible.” Another counterterror police officer, assigned to check out the tip, concluded that at least one of the brothers was “radicalized and wanted to go to Syria, because his mother took his passport away.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-report-shows-just-how-badly-belgium-mishandled-hunt-for-isis-operatives-1483630994
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>However, the officer never shared the information with other police units, because he was uncertain which of the brothers the source was talking about and didn’t want to incriminate the wrong one, according to Comité P.
>The second tip linking the Abdeslams to Mr. Abaaoud came in January 2015, shortly after a police raid and shootout foiled a plot in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers. The plot again had been coordinated by Mr. Abaaoud, at that point a highly sought-after terror suspect.
>Electronics belonging to the brothers the police seized after the traffic stop—a mobile phone, four computers, two Sim cards and three thumb drives, including the one found hidden behind the car’s radio—could have shown some of these statements to be lies. But they sat untouched by police until after the Paris attacks.
>When police finally examined the electronics and cellphone records, they showed that both brothers had been in touch with people known for their radical or terrorist ties. Brahim was communicating with Mohamed Abrini, known as the “man in the hat” seen in surveillance footage of the three Brussels airport bombers, and who now is in custody in Belgium awaiting trial on terrorism charges.
>In the months preceding the Paris attacks, other movements by Salah throughout Europe were flagged, but to no avail: He was tracked in Greece on Aug. 5, boarding a ferry to Italy with another suspect, according to Comité P. Then, on Sept. 9, Salah was checked by Austrian police when traveling from Hungary with two men—who turned out to be Brussels attackers—in a rented Mercedes. They claimed to be headed to Vienna for vacation.
>Meanwhile, Brahim’s brushes with the law continued—in July, he was found with a knife in a crashed car—but the incidents weren’t properly cross-referenced to his terrorism file.
>In August, Brahim checked in at Brussels airport for a 5:10 a.m. flight to Morocco. Federal authorities should have been alerted by border police, but no report was made.
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>Finally, in late October, three weeks before the Paris attacks, a Belgian terror-threat analysis body detected that Salah had changed his social-media profile picture to an ISIS flag. It alerted federal police. Nothing was done with that information; the police said the case had been closed.
well fucking done you muslim loving retards
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>>97492
I hate mudslimes as much as the next /pol/tard but there are tons of edgy kids that have ISIS flags on their profiles and sit on their ass all day.
Still, it was definitely a sign.
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