Yesterday’s terror attacks in Brussels were reportedly carried out by two brothers who had previously served time in Belgian prisons for violent crimes — and had been set free.
Now questions are swirling about whether Europe’s continued softness on crime is putting the rest of the world at risk.
The two suspected suicide bombers from Tuesday’s deadly attacks, Ibrahim and Khalid El-Bakraoui, were career criminals that were already known to police.
At a press conference Wednesday, Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw admitted that in 2010, Ibrahim was sentenced to nine years in prison by the Brussels criminal court for shooting at police with a Kalashnikov during a robbery of a currency exchange office.
The next year, his brother Khalid was arrested for illegal possession of Kalashnikovs rifles and was later sentenced to five years in prison for carjackings.
It was not immediately clear why either had been let out of prison early.
Authorities have been quiet on the issue, instead focusing on their planned response to the attacks.
“It’s a war that terrorism has declared not only on France and on Europe, but on the world,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Wednesday on Europe-1 radio. Valls, who planned to visit Brussels later Wednesday, urged tougher controls of the European Union’s external borders.
But maybe it’s time for European countries to take a look at the people — especially the criminals — who are already living within their nations.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
This is what happens when a society becomes too soft on violent criminals!
I totally agree with James Andrews !!
me too!
Of course oBama is not exempt from letting criminala go free…
Obama is just as guilty!!!
Let the criminals out and give them guns and take them off the Good Americans that protects himself,home and family!!!!
If only they had more gun control in the EU! I would say LOL, but it is really tragic.
Your right Obama is a sleeper cell Muslim and our congress and judiciary are all a part of the problem and Obama and Clinton were running guns (taxpayer funded) to the Muslim brotherhood and not just in Bengazi either !
obama is not guilty of anything……just ask him, he`ll tell you no lies….he`ll also tell you that he`s the best president our country has ever had…..
The U. S. Government and Justice Department under the Obama administration haVE been doing exactly the same thing. Gitmo at one end. Emptying prisons of convicted criminals at the other, and not Enforcing The Law time after time. (Illegals) Stark Stupidity is letting people into this country for whom we have no records and assimilating them throughout the country without records of who they are or where they are ;using the excuse of Human Compassion. Human Compassion has gotten us into $19,000,000,000.00 of debt. as our current Presidential Administration, military and congress are mired in complacency, indecision, and total lack of fortitude, which is undermining our capability.
Europe has fallen into this lacidasical, self promoted compassionate trap with muslims and Syrians AND as in Belgium, etc. etc. they are dying because of their ineptness. You can cry Human Compassion all you want , but ANIMALS have to be treated like animals. Out of control Humans inflicting injury and death deserve no better. Without Severe Penalty Assessment and extermination of Hostility we no longer have RULE OF LAW and are no longer an orderly society. More deaths in Europe and the United States most surely shall be incurred, unless our congress stops dithering and takes aggressive military positions to stop this foolishness dead in its tracks. Obama is , was and shall do NOTHING. Germany, Belgium and Canadian leaders have and will do nothing. REACTIONARY ACTIONS, AFTER THE FACT, IS TOO LATE. We must have proactiveU. S. military intervention to knock out Isis, stop illegal border crossings , and protect our Country’s citizens, or it won’t get done. Congress better take off the blinders, stop the politically correct unaccountable nonsense, and unequivocally knock out the enemy. Otherwise, we are left with no other option but to defend our families and our property as best we can with our Second Amendment Rights. The government is and will have failed.
Nothing is going to be done. The New World Order, The Elite, The Bilderbergers, Congress, and Obama, were all told not to do anything, but to allow this to escalate into a Civil War so the Military can be called in to take away our guns and ammo so the above can take over. You can not take over an armed country, look at history.
Yes…you are right.
I AGREE 100 %
So so true!
Go Trump.
Obummer is not exempt from anything. I have lived under 13 Presidents and I conclude that 13 really is an unlucky number. America is in as sorry a state as I can remember and it’s not all the Presidents fault. When we moved to letting even the dumbest among us to vote and that has given us the most corrupt Government since Woodrow Wilson. When the public discovers they can live off the treasury of the people the Republic dies. Well! we had a good 230 year run and it was a good thing while it lasted but the last 30 years has driven the final nail in our collective coffin. Maybe God can HELP America but since we have abandoned him I’m not looking for any miracles anytime soon.
AMEN.
INDEED, THEY SHOT AT THE POLICE WITH AK47S DURING A ROBBERY AND DIDN’T DO 20 YEARS MINIUMIUM…. IT SEEMS WE ALL WOULD OF BEEN BETTER OFF IF THE EUROPEAN COPS HAD JUST KILLED THEM THEN!!!
THE ONLY GOOD NEWS IS THAT THEY WILL NOT NEED TO BE “SPANKED” AGAINS AND THE SAVED MONEY ON THEIR INCARCERATION CAN NOW BE UTILIZED FEEDING AND HOUSING THE OTHER RADICALIZED COMING TO TOWN FROM ISIL AREAS WHERE THE WORLD REFUSES TO ENGAGE THEIR RAGE!!!
Totally agree! Their stance on crime, even the violent kinds, is ridiculous!
Obamsais doing the same here. He just had our system release. Thousands of prisoners with “lesser” crimes out into our communities.
That is so true it puts us all in danger
With a Jihadist in the White House we will not make any headway in destroying ISIS or any other terrorist organisations. Obama is part of the problem, a big part and will not do anything against his fellow Muslims. The USA and Europe must know where the leaders of terrorism are but they do nothing. Send in a dozen Cruise Missiles and settle the problem once and for all. Instead they mess around with small hits here and there in the pretense of fighting off the terrorists. Unfortunately innocents will die but they are being killed anyway so the time to declare official war on Islamic Terrorism is long past. Down with Obama first and then down with Islam can follow. The civilized world cannot survive in and environment where Islam is in charge.
No Law,—– No Borders——-No Country Every night, on television you hear about heinous Crimes, and then they add as an afterthought, “Oh, he had priors”. Soft on Crime promotes Crime, no accountability, no penalty for breaking Law, it just becomes a Free For All. Our Justice system has a huge problem with Soft Judges, it’s not just abroad.
Having been stationed in England with the USAF I had a chance to observe the court there and also in other parts of
Europe. Their criminal justice system is a revolving door and very few are ever locked up for life and I can not recall
the last time they put a rabid animal down to remove the threat to society. They still seem to believer that you should
not suffer in jail and have very lax rules for prisoners and they are released after a time period I jail. The judges I
had the privilege of meeting and knowing were unhappy with the British system of punishment and said it had become
weak and ineffectual in deterring career criminals and murders. While I was in Turkey on two occasions I was justice
dispensed very harshly upon a couple of criminals who had overstepped the bounds. They were found guilty and
executed, no appeal and no life imprisonment. This was not Sharia law but Turkish law which has its roots in Sharia
Law. In one instance a man had raped a woman and to restore her and her families honor she was given the opportunity
to either execute the individual or spare him. She was the one to pull the trigger. Another case involved a thief stealing
from a merchant and when they chased him down and caught him they cut off the hand of the offender. Brutal and
against our norms in America, but that was their law. Our legal system is so diluted with corrupt and criminal inclined
lawyers and politicians that people do not respect the legal system to give them justice any more. Our elected leaders
constantly violate the legal system for their own personal gain and profit by passing laws that make then the exception
to laws that would have the majority of us in jail. How else can a broke elected representative become a millionaire in s
under four years and pay off all their campaign debts on the salary they make?
Hi All;
It is not necessary to cut off the right hand of a thief, thereby making him an outcast and unemployable for life, in order to discourage others from following his example. What is required is swift justice. The punishment must be equally severe as the crime, and it should be administered quickly enough that all who know the criminal will know what happened to him. In the US, it averages about 12 years from conviction to final disposition of a capital case. That’s 12 years in which it seems to the murderers buddies that he got away with it. Plenty of time to do more of the same!
Cheers! Stu.
Wow. Sharia-based law that actually allows a woman to say she was raped, AND they give her the power to declare the sentence (where else in the world do they do THAT?)? Just WOW.
We are headed down the very same path, under this administration—God help us..
We were so good before Obama.REALLY
“BY WAY OF DECEPTION THOU SHALL MAKE WAR” Who’s motto is this, I wonder?
was it mo?
JAPANESE ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO who planed the SNEAK ATTACK on PEARL HARBOR
Europe is being engulfed by a lot of bad, liberal ideology. Thanks to their flawed theories Europe is quickly entering into the darkness of Islam. If the people of Europe doesn’t make some major changes their future is going to be bleak.
Absolutely dittos. They didn’t learn from the NAZIs and world war II. WWIII is upon us. Europe and the U.S. hasn’t figured it out yet and when we do. It’ll be too late to stop it.
what future?
Obama and The Communist Progressive Crime party, formerly called Democrats, The ones in Cuba. They are not for America, They are crime ridden liars. This fall we can clean out the majority of them and put Donald Trump as President, IF and only IF The stupid Republican Party gets behind Donald Trump. If they don’t then America is lost, I do not care at that point I will vote my Republicans out.
i am voting my congressional reps out this fall, also the governor. we have a house full of progressive socialist liberals in nh ruining our state and not following our state motto “live free or die”. time to go back to a red state. sick of illegal criminal aliens being funded and refugee cities. get rid of them in every state and give Trump people who also want to make America great. If you have a john mccain or mitch o’connell, get rid of them.
Frances Quinn, I have John McCain & you’re 100% right, AZ will get rid of him soon.
Good luck with that. If Killary can backstab, lie, cheat, and still have people voting for her (either because she’s a “woman” or they’re vote-for-anyone-Democrat) despite an FBI indictment breathing down her neck, her cronies have probably got a scheme to get her in the Oval Office even if 99% of the votes go against her.
So so true!
I’m with you!
Can’t help but to say it~~Obama’s boy’s~~they most certainly were NOT Christians.
Yet the Obama administration, in furtherence of destroying this country in any and all ways possible, opened the floodgates to these people to infiltrate this country with ‘his people’ (Islamist) by the millions.
Trunp is spot on, Muslim immigration must be stopped~~at least until this country has the means to adequately investigate and vett
who they are and why they wish to immigrate HERE. Obviously, they are NOT a persecuted group, nor is there ANY ‘Humanitarian’ reasons that would require the United States to accept terrorists with open arms.
Most persons in the USA do not know this. I read part of an English language translation of the Koran. It says in part “when the holy months are over slay the idolators wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and merciful. ” So you may see, the Muslims holy book directs them to murder everyone else. President Obama must know that since he attended Muslim prayers when he was a boy. So Obama allowing a flood of people into the USA that are directed by their Koran to murder everyone who is not Muslim (idolators) causes it to appear that Obama is an enemy of the state. He is in effect importing a civil war on purpose. Have a nice day.
Sounds something like Obama does, leave criminals and criminal illegals out of prison!
We have the same lame liberal Ideology polices in our country. When someone like Bill Ayres a convicted felon teaches Law at the University of Chicago, who are we kidding. Last night I was watching Bill O’Reilly and he asked two lovely ladies if carpet bombing would eliminate ISIS. They both we’re giving there view which was evident they knew very little about what they we’re talking about and no experience of the rules of engagement in war. Why wouldn’t Bill have asked an experienced member of the military instead of two ladies who never served in anything except perhaps a liberal safe society protected by the the constitution. “Hello” isn’t it about time we start looking for a realistic solution to address the issues of today’s madness. Ancient Rome, Greece, all fell within because of the same corruption and a liberal society we are experiencing today. We have a congress on both sides who only care about themselves and are not interested as to why they we’re elected in the first place. ” To serve the people”.
It is quite clear why the silent majority is supporting Donald Trump. We are fed up with business as usual in Washington.
Dittos
One of the major problems in Europe is that they have allowed Muslims into their countries and are now paying the price.
Absolutely correct and they are setting up their own little enclaves and even the police do not enter. Europe is going to pay a high price for it happy unicorn, feel good, can’t we just all get along liberal/socialist policies.
I wouldn’t say they’ve “allowed” Muslims in (current “refugees” excepted) any more than we “allow” Mexicans in; France, for one, has about as easy a time controlling access via the Mediterranean shore as we do the Rio Grande. What they DO do, is take such an extreme position on the separation of Church and State (a few years ago there was a major riff about whether Christians could wear rosaries–they couldn’t, because the rosary wasn’t an “essential” part of the Christian religion), that, without being able to see the “ruffled feathers” in mainstream of a religion, leaves them completely blind to the extremist elements that may be festering underground.
Sounds like California. We are in the same boat thanks to liberal/socialist policies. Good people are being victimized and the criminals are being given a free pass to keep the prisons from being over crowded because it’s unconstitutional according to liberal/socialist judges. Good citizens have no rights anymore but the criminals do. The world is upside down.
Our problem in the United States involves our absurd waste of taxpayer resources to incarcerate non violent offenders. This is primarily the result of the many “wars on drugs” initiated by politicians which have the result of enriching drug barons and jailing addicts. Is it possible that some off these vast illegal drug profits find their way back to politicians as a reward for maintaining the status quo ? Just a thought…
To make room for non violent offenders (who are then turned into criminals inside prisons), we must release violent offenders who have now become smarter and more viscious career criminals.
Yep. Privatized incarceration is big business. Big campaign contributions. And the poor schmucks who get 20+ years for first-time offense would be too busy surviving to bother voting, anyway, so it’s no loss at the polls. Heck, better to have no vote (many states permanently bar ever-convicted felons from voting), than someone who will vote against you, right?
How many drug dealers and convicts of other crimes did Obama let out of our provisions early last year? Thousands! And they are among us, with hundreds of thousands of Muslims coming this year as well as our wide open southern border bringing in MS 13 hand members and the like!
Yet our cops are the criminals and their hands are literally handcuffed for fighting crime.
So, we look at Europe and criticize their system, when Obama has done far worse!
He even initially said that San Berardino was an act of gun violence and it took him three days to call it terrorism.
They are here. It’s just a matter of time before the balm, communists and all sorts of slime converge with the other groups to take us down and Obama wants to restrict gun ownership! What is wrong with this story?
Europe has tied itself in knots with a rope of political correctness. The attitude of’ go along to get along’ has never worked. The European Union was a first step experiment in Globalization, it took a little time but it has proven it doesn’t work. Countries aren’t provinces. Each has to have it’s own borders to retain it’s personal morals, religion, ethnicity and pride and political leanings. It’s true, the experiment was slowly fraying at the edges but would have limped along for another generation or two except for the invasion of the continent by mobs of refugees from the middle east: too many of them able bodied young men who should have been home fighting for their own country, The cultures were bound to clash, there was already an undercurrent in Europe and the UK because the Bosnian and Muslims already in residence had refused to assimilate and were becoming a burden to the legal and social systems. This has led to more criminals in the streets and mass abuse of European women by Arab men such as the one at Christmas of this year.To add to the difficulty, the ordinary citizen of Europe has been disarmed and has no way to defend his territory. Only Switzerland has had the wisdom to allow a standing army, allowing each able bodied citizen keep a gun in his home. The Uk wisely kept it’s own currency and is about to make the decision to stay in or possibly withdraw from this very flawed system.. . .
When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that these P O S are not terrorists. They are warriors of and for Islam, they are following the Koran, and the rules of war as laid down by Mohamed. Sure, sure, we want to be nice and not smear all Muslims with the same brush, but if we continue on that tolerant or over-tolerant path, then we are headed for big trouble.
We are not learning from history. The Nazis were an ideological/political movement. Islam is the same thing. It is a political agenda hidden under the guise of a so-called religion. Far more dangerous and blood thirsty then the Nazis could ever have hoped to be. We did not tip toe around the Nazis, even though no more then 25% of the German population were card carrying Nazis. So, apart from the Islamic con job of being called a religion, why are we too afraid to call it what it is?
It is a cancer that needs to be eradicated, then reigned in.
During the 1200s AD the Mongols invaded Eastern Europe. (Russia, Kiev, Poland, Austria) The European Kings, Dukes, and nobility had to combine forces to fight the Khan’s Army. Europe is going to have to develop a strategy to fight once again for their existence. But first they have to realize the seriousness of the threat. They imported Turks and Northern Africans after WWII because they needed labor and manpower. Now they (Europe) has to decide what they’ll do about this horde that they have invited into their midst. This is a war. Europe can fight or surrender.
Might it be that the inmates are running the institute?
Time to start jailing liberals! Not kidding at all! If you are a liberal you should not have a position of civic or governmental authority and all of this will go away.
Terroist should never be captured and imprisoned…..shoot their sorry rear ends on sight.
One of the things that suicide bombers should be aware of and their clergy will never tell them, is that the Koran preaches that castrated men can not go to heaven. (and enjoy the virgins). Castration is one of the severest punishment for Muslim men.The fact is that when a suicide bombers blows himself up with a explosive west, the head blows of mostly intact. That is why Israelis are so quick to determine who it was, They had enough training. But during the time of Henry XIII (Tudors) it was practice to do beheading for people who were a nuisance. From that time It is also known that the severed head lived for 3 to 8 seconds after the separation. The conclusion is: When a bomber looses his body and is therefore very much castrated indeed, he is still alive. According to the Koran, it is for him: ” Bye, Bye Virgins.”
Well, wouldn’t you know it! They won’t be getting out of prison early this time!!! Too bad, seemed like nice guys!