March 24, 2016
By Greg Miller
For three days last week, (click here) counterterrorism officials and experts from dozens of countries gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.
They passed through an airport whose vulnerabilities had been assessed by Islamist militants. Some even stepped off a subway system already marked as a soft target. They heard a top Belgian official warn that the recent arrest of a suspect in November's Paris attacks had exposed only the edge of a larger network.
The suspect, Salah Abdeslam, "was ready to restart something from Brussels" four months after he went underground, said Didier Reynders, the Belgian Foreign Minister. At the conclusion of the massive manhunt, authorities had "found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons ... and we are seeing a new network of people around him in Brussels."...
By Greg Miller
For three days last week, (click here) counterterrorism officials and experts from dozens of countries gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.
They passed through an airport whose vulnerabilities had been assessed by Islamist militants. Some even stepped off a subway system already marked as a soft target. They heard a top Belgian official warn that the recent arrest of a suspect in November's Paris attacks had exposed only the edge of a larger network.
The suspect, Salah Abdeslam, "was ready to restart something from Brussels" four months after he went underground, said Didier Reynders, the Belgian Foreign Minister. At the conclusion of the massive manhunt, authorities had "found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons ... and we are seeing a new network of people around him in Brussels."...
