Belgian officials acknowledge warning signs missed

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and ANGELA CHARLTON

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium's prime minister refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers Thursday despite increasing evidence of intelligence and law enforcement failures to prevent this week's suicide bombings by Islamic militants.

With at least one attacker at large and an unknown number of accomplices, police detained six people in raids around the Belgian capital Thursday night. In a Paris suburb, a man suspected of plotting an imminent attack was also detained Thursday, but the interior minister reported no apparent link with the Brussels airport and subway bombings or the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris.

Authorities lowered Belgium's terror-threat level by one notch, although they said the situation remained grave and another attack is "likely and possible."

Belgium had been on its highest alert ever since Tuesday's bombings in the Brussels airport and subway that killed 31 people and wounded 270.

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[iandhr]

1. Schengen is starting to look like a real problem.

These foreign fighters are EU citizens. They go fight for ISIS and when they return and because there are no border checks within the Schengen zone they can escape every easily after committing a terrorist attack and have access to any other EU country.


European law enforcement and intelligence agencies have to find out who these foreign fighters are and arrest them the second they return.

[Democat]

2. Refused? He should have demanded their resignation.

Is Belgium going to take this seriously or just act like there is no problem with the way they deal with terrorists?