Belgium Is Worse Off Than We Were Told

Terrorists had video of a top official at a nuclear plant in Belgium:

On Friday, the authorities stripped security badges from several workers at one of two plants where all nonessential employees had been sent home hours after the attacks at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s busiest subway stations three days earlier. Video footage of a top official at another Belgian nuclear facility was discovered last year in the apartment of a suspected militant linked to the extremists who unleashed the horror in Paris in November.

Asked on Thursday at a London think tank whether there was a danger of the Islamic State’s obtaining a nuclear weapon, the British defense secretary, Michael Fallon, said that “was a new and emerging threat.”

Another article said the video was acquired by a terrorist cell which drove up to the guard’s property and quickly installed a small video camera (presumably like a GoPro with an extended battery and massive microSD card) in a bush pointed at his house. They then drove off, retrieving the camera later, presumably to try and nail down his schedule and procedures at departure and arrival.

It shows how the technological revolution can provide low-rent actors with advantages they wouldn’t have had years back. Oddly enough they did some surveillance of the Prime Minister too:

A laptop used by one of the bombers from last week’s attacks in Brussels contained images of the Belgian prime minister’s home and office, an official said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

The government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said that “it is alarming that they were apparently scouting the terrain” around the lush Royal Park where both his office, “Le 16,” and his Lambermont residence are located.

Kind of surprising the government didn’t run counter-surveillance in the areas around the PM’s residence and office, looking for anyone doing just this sort of attack planning. Try getting video of the security procedures and entrances to sensitive sites in DC, and I’d bet you’d get picked up fast. It is one more sign that the European surveillance state isn’t up to the American’s speed.

Some officials are now saying the Belgian terrorist infrastructure is too large to fully dismantle with certainty:

A security official told The Associated Press recently that Islamic State had at least 400 trained attackers in Europe. 

French President Francois Hollande said the network appears to be so widespread that a threat will remain, even if the inner circles are detained.

A nuclear reactor guard was actually murdered and his pass was stolen as well, though it isn’t clear if that was terrorism related. Regardless, they have their hands full over there, and now ISIS is polling people to see what color flags they think the Eiffel Tower will be lit in after the next attack. Clearly they aren’t afraid of being snatched out of their beds in the middle of the night and disappeared down some hole, the way they should be.

I hate to say it, but part of our problem today is the effectiveness of our state security. As they thwart attack after attack behind the scenes, our population’s amygdalae are not being trained to recognize the threat posed by Muslim immigration. As a result, the rabbit imbeciles import more and more Muslims, and within that population are crazier and crazier people who are looking to inflict ever more damage upon us. A lot of this is like Yin and Yang – the pendulum which swings back will do so with ever greater force the longer it takes to return.

Sooner or later one of these spectacular attacks will get through, and when it does, we will wish we had a small number of minor attacks to warn us of what was to come, so we would have curtailed that immigration early on.

The rabbits will wish that too, for they will be the ones upon whom the Trumpinator will lay the blame.