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TexasTowelie

(112,160 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 04:10 AM Jan 2015

Suspects held in Greece as European terror crackdown widens

BRUSSELS

With Europe on edge, soldiers fanned out to guard possible terror targets in Belgium Saturday while police in Greece detained at least two suspects as part of a widening counterterrorism dragnet across the continent.

In France, one of the terrorists behind last week's attacks in Paris was given a secret burial as authorities sought to head off glorification of terrorism and civil unrest amid a groundswell of popular antagonism across Europe against radical Islam, and protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad across the Muslim world that have underscored vast cultural differences.

For the first time in three decades, authorities used paratroopers to reinforce police in Belgium's cities, guarding buildings within the Jewish quarter of the port city of Antwerp and some Belgian embassies. The move came a day after anti-terror raids netted dozens of suspects across Western Europe and increased anxiety across big swathes of the region.

Belgium has increased its terror warning to 3, the second-highest, following the anti-terror raids of Thursday which left two suspects dead. Police believe the cell they largely dismantled was on the verge of a major attack.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/world/article7144517.html

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Suspects held in Greece as European terror crackdown widens (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2015 OP
Most of Europe is pretty much lost to radical islam glasshouses Jan 2015 #1
Never fear. The USA will send in the marines! delrem Jan 2015 #4
Most of Europe is lost to neo-liberalism malaise Jan 2015 #5
I wish we had a "like" button ...... socialist_n_TN Jan 2015 #7
LOL malaise Jan 2015 #8
oh good. now europe can join us in the general madness. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #2
My thought exactly newfie11 Jan 2015 #3
The boys from ISIS and AQAP have come home. Rhinodawg Jan 2015 #6

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
7. I wish we had a "like" button ......
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 10:50 AM
Jan 2015

for posts. You'd get a "like" here malaise.

The propaganda is for taking attention away from where the money is going and what the money is doing to the masses in Europe.

malaise

(268,975 posts)
8. LOL
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 11:16 AM
Jan 2015

One more thing - the only thing they dislike about Sharia law is the law re usury - once they get rid of that, they can loot the ME the way they looted the rest of us.

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