Explosions in Brussels

[Tracy Riddle]

PARIS (AP) Security officials have told The Associated Press that the Islamic State group has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe for terror attacks.
The network of interlocking, agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria. The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, describe camps designed specifically to train for attacks against the West.
The officials say the fighters have been given orders to find the right time, place and method to carry out their mission.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4fe6b297e...-bloodshed

That's it. The whole story. Who are these unnamed "security officials" and how do they have this information?

Well, while I'm not saying that this is not just made up or exaggerated to terrorize the European and Western populations (generally), but what would you do if your country had been invaded several times in the last 150 years and again recently, millions killed, your government and nearby governments overthrown, your religion and heritage dragged in the mud, and your faith and aspirations condemned as an entire group - but to strike back at what you perceive as the attackers?!...... It really doesn't take a genius to figure out that there would be less problem if 'we' in the West left others alone, rather than bomb them, steal their resources, kill them, make their lives miserable, and try to control their governments and more for our own purposes..... My own hunch is there have been some real revenge attacks and many more false-flag attacks - with some LIHOP thrown in for good measure.

Yes, Peter, but as we've seen with the FBI's constant recruitment/entrapment of terrorist patsies, it's very easy to take it one step farther. There are lots of angry young Muslims who can be recruited to play a role in attacks like this - they may believe they are actually carrying it out, when the main event is being produced by military-grade explosives and covert operators.