Brussels airport bombing

[TimothyVanwinkle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3503928/Two-explosions-heard-Brussels-Airport.html


Muslim terrorist killing more innocent people yet again 😔

[pleno1]

Looks like possibly 17 dead. Very sad, RIP.

[Doobs]

Metro station now as well.  Morons planted the bombs though.

[bergeroo]

Was in Brussels a couple of weeks ago staying in the same district as that metro station. Awful developments...

[DaveShoelace]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

[Doobs]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost. 

[DaveShoelace]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost. 

I'm referring to disrupting our way of life, not a tally of who is winning based on headcount.

[DungBeetle]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

I worry about the tube.  I mean there is no security whatsoever and more people.  Why bother with an airport?

[Doobs]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost. 

I'm referring to disrupting our way of life, not a tally of who is winning based on headcount.

Oh come on, you were going way over the top when you said they were winning.  Our way of life is going to be the same as it was before.  The chances of anybody in the West getting killed by a terrorist attack are still absolutely minuscule.   Get a grip.

[DaveShoelace]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost. 

I'm referring to disrupting our way of life, not a tally of who is winning based on headcount.

Oh come on, you were going way over the top when you said they were winning.  Our way of life is going to be the same as it was before.  The chances of anybody in the West getting killed by a terrorist attack are still absolutely minuscule.   Get a grip.

Again, you are talking about headcount, I am talking about this changing the way we deal with this going forward. There was only one shoe bomber but we all have to take our shoes off at aiports.

Anyway, this is probably going to derail into a pointless debate. I might be overreacting.

[DungBeetle]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost. 

I'm referring to disrupting our way of life, not a tally of who is winning based on headcount.

Oh come on, you were going way over the top when you said they were winning.  Our way of life is going to be the same as it was before.  The chances of anybody in the West getting killed by a terrorist attack are still absolutely minuscule.   Get a grip.

They might not be "winning" as such, but they are proving themselves capable of executing atrocities on a pretty regular basis so if they are aiming to create fear then that is certainly working.

[Jon MW]

Horrible stuff. I was in Brussels at the end of last year, a truly lovely place with lovely people. I must say the security didn't seem great at the time.

I fear London is next. I think we may start having security check in outside of airport buildings in the future.

The terrorists are winning.

The terrorists are killing people still, but that is a long way from winning anything.  Given the likelihood they are dead, then it is safe to assume these particular terrorists have lost.  

I'm referring to disrupting our way of life, not a tally of who is winning based on headcount.

Oh come on, you were going way over the top when you said they were winning.  Our way of life is going to be the same as it was before.  The chances of anybody in the West getting killed by a terrorist attack are still absolutely minuscule.   Get a grip.

They might not be "winning" as such, but they are proving themselves capable of executing atrocities on a pretty regular basis so if they are aiming to create fear then that is certainly working.

I wouldn't count disruption as 'winning' - creating fear would, but an illustrative example would be that provisional figures for Paris tourism shows that visitor numbers continued to go up in 2015 despite the attack. I would have thought that suggests they're a long way from winning.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain#Attacks_involving_violence_or_serious_threat_to_life
Comparing decades I think suggests we're really not doing that badly at the moment.

[AndrewT]

Is it really creating fear though? I was living in London when the 7/7 attacks occured and after that happened people just went about their business as usual - there was obviously shock at first but very few people changed their daily lives as a result (some people were certainly wary of travelling on the Tube but I didn't notice the carriages getting any less busy)

Of course, back then we didn't have Facebook/Twitter for people to tell everyone how scared they were - that's what's changed now, a few people say they're scared and this gets retweeted and magnified and the impression is given that we're all a bunch of scaredy cats now.

[Pinchop73]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

[Doobs]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

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