More on the Brussels bombing
RIP, Justin and Stephanie Shults.
I also suggest you read this article about how the Belgian authorities treated captured Paris terrorist Abdeslan with kid gloves. Here’s an excerpt:
Astonishingly, officials did not question Abdeslam at all for his first 24 hours in custody. He spent Friday night in the hospital recovering from a leg wound sustained in the raid. When he was finally returned to the police on Saturday, he was questioned by authorities for a grand total of .”‰.”‰. two hours ”“ and then was not questioned again until after the attacks. Why? “He seemed very tired and he had been operated on the day before,” a senior Belgian security official told Politico.
He seemed tired? That’s precisely when they should be interrogating him. The CIA used sleep deprivation as one of its most effective interrogation tools. But for Belgians, a terrorist’s exhaustion is a reason to stop questioning, not intensify it.
But here is the most incredible part: During those two hours of questioning, The Post reports, “investigators did not ask .”‰.”‰. about his knowledge of future plots.”…
Investigators had found unused detonators and weapons in a safe house with his fingerprints. Did it occur to them to ask what he had intended to use them for? Apparently not.
Abdeslam’s questioning is a textbook example of why the law enforcement model for interrogating terrorists is a disaster.
Authorities found no “ticking time bomb” scenario there, that’s for sure.
The author goes on to explain that the interrogation used the old criminal law template of trying to build a case against the perp rather than to foil coming attacks. In addition, the article criticizes the fact that Belgian police announced to the world that he was cooperating.
At this point it’s not only that the jihadis who seem to be on a suicide mission. A fatally kinder, gentler, and stupider Europe seems to be on one as well—only that latter endeavor is pure suicide rather than suicide-murder.
Be careful with that.
US has a way of thinking that follows closely the English culture. And English people are among the most adaptable people in Europe.
Center and north of Europe, on the contrary… there people like to do things their way. Not used to change or adapt. And until now, Central Europe was quite probably the safest place in the world, a place where the usual challenge any policeman used to face was getting a kitten down from a tree. Everybody was kind, everybody was civilized. Police are used to that way and they are quite resilient to change.
English (and American) people adapt. Central European people continue to do the same… until one day they blow up. That’s the reason because some people say that, sooner or later, a bloodbath is likely happen in Central Europe. Not in UK or US, but in Germany, Austria or Sweden. Or Belgium.
Rather than overlooking obvious questions and ignorance of tried and true interrogation methodologies, I suspect that investigators are being kept on a very tight leash.
The EU elite are very aware of what they are doing.
GB…
TPTB may fear being tried at the Hague.
It has to be in their minds.