Investigations still running > therefore every information has to be handled with extreme care
By now the balance of victims mentioned in this posting has been upgraded to more deaths and more wounded.
explosions at Zaventem airport in Brussels + Maelbeek Metro Station triggered by Kamikazes brothers Ibrahim + Khalid El Bakraoui, close to Salah Abdeslam, main actors of the attacks in Paris
The two indentified terrorists (source: rtl.fr)
atmosphere at the European Parliament: General consternation.
Let us hope those who survived will not spend the rest of their life with physical or/and psychological consequences.
Using violence to get one’s way is never acceptable!
After Paris, Ankara, Istanbul, Ouagadougou, Abidjan or Garissa, it is now the turn of Belgium’s capital to be the victim of a murderous terrorist attack. The investigations are still running and therefore every information has to be handled with extreme care. But some things are known.
Concerning the explosions at the Zaventem airport in Brussels and the Maelbeek Metro Station: They have been triggered by Kamikazes. Two of them have been identified as being brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui. One of them blew himself up at the Airport and the other one at the station. Both of them were close to Salah Abdeslam, who was one of the main actors of the attacks in Paris, in which the brothers were probably also involved. They have helped Abdeslam to escape from the manhunt following the Paris attacks, which ended with Abdeslam finally getting arrested on March 19th. There…
A joint effort of several authors who do find that nobody can keep standing at the side and that “Everyone" must care about what is going on in today’s world.
We are a bunch of people who do not mind that somebody has a totally different idea but is willing to share the ideas with others and to be Active and willing to let others understand how "today’s decisions will influence the future”. Therefore we would love to see many others to "Act today".
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