Brussels Airport and Subway Explosions Kill 34

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Two explosions were reported at the departure hall at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, on Tuesday.
The airport evacuated the building amid reports of several fatalities. Ketevan Kardava, via Associated Press
Brussels Airport and Subway Explosions Kill 34
By ALISSA J. RUBIN, AURELIEN BREEDEN and ANITA RAGHAVANMARCH 22, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe/brussels-airport-explosions.html?_r=0

  "BRUSSELS — A series of deadly terrorist attacks struck Brussels on
   Tuesday, with two explosions at the city's main international airport
   and a third in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the
   headquarters complex of the European Union.
   
   At least one of the two airport explosions was touched off by a suicide
   bomber, officials said. At least 34 people were killed — 14 at the
   airport and 20 at the subway station — and many more wounded, including
   92 at the airport and 106 at the subway station.
   
   "We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened," Prime
   Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said at a news conference, calling
   the attacks "blind, violent, cowardly."
   
   On Twitter, he called on the population to "avoid all movement," as the
   authorities braced for the possibility of additional violence.
   https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/712210298267176960
   
   The attacks occurred four days after the capture on Friday of Europe's
   most wanted man, Salah Abdeslam. He is the sole survivor of the 10 men
   believed to have been directly involved in the attacks that killed 130
   people in and around Paris on Nov. 13.
   
   President François Hollande of France vowed "to relentlessly fight
   terrorism, both internationally and internally." He added, "Through the
   Brussels attacks, it is the whole of Europe that is hit."
   
   The French government ordered 1,600 extra police officers to patrol the
   nation's borders, including at train stations, airports and ports. The
   National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, observed a moment of
   silence to honor the dead. The Eiffel Tower was to be lit with the
   colors of Belgium's flag on Tuesday night.
   https://twitter.com/Anne_Hidalgo/status/712231115680047104
   
   Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain called an emergency meeting of
   ministers. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany said the
   attacks "aim at the heart of Europe." Pope Francis expressed
   condolences.
   
   President Obama, speaking in Havana, expressed solidarity with the
   victims in Brussels. "This is yet another reminder that the world must
   unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith
   in fighting against the scourge of terrorism," he said. "We can and we
   will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people around
   the world." Before the speech, Mr. Obama called Mr. Michel, while
   Secretary of State John Kerry called Didier Reynders, Belgium's foreign
   minister.
   
   

   The Belgian prosecutor Frédéric Van Leeuw said the explosion at the
   Brussels airport on Tuesday morning was probably a suicide attack, and
   Prime Minister Charles Michel said Belgium had anticipated a terrorist
   attack. By REUTERS on Publish Date March 22, 2016. Photo by Laurent
   Dubrule/European Pressphoto Agency. Watch in Times Video »
   
   Since the Paris attacks, security experts have warned that Europe was
   likely to face additional assaults by the Islamic State and by other
   terrorist groups.
   
   The Paris attacks showed that the scale and sophistication of the
   Islamic State's efforts to carry out operations in Europe were greater
   than first believed, and analysts have also pointed to Europe's
   particular vulnerabilities. They include the huge flow of undocumented
   migrants to the Continent from the Middle East last year, the movement
   of European citizens between their home countries and Syria to fight
   with the Islamic State, and persistent problems with intelligence
   sharing among European countries and even between competing security
   agencies in some nations.
   
   Few countries have been more vulnerable than Belgium. It has an
   especially high proportion of citizens who have traveled to Syria or
   Iraq, insular Muslim communities that have helped shield jihadists, and
   security services that have had persistent problems conducting
   effective counterterrorism operations, not least in its four-month
   effort to capture Mr. Abdeslam.
   
   The attacks on Tuesday put the Belgian capital in a state of virtual
   lockdown, with the threat level raised to its highest possible level.
   Frédéric Van Leeuw, the Belgian federal prosecutor, said that border
   controls had been strengthened and extra police officers mobilized.
   
   All flights to and from Brussels Airport were canceled indefinitely,
   https://twitter.com/BrusselsAirport/status/712204444843315201
   with flights scheduled to land there diverted. Subway, tram and bus
   travel was shut down.
   https://twitter.com/STIBMIVB/status/712202618274189312
   Eurostar canceled its trains connecting Brussels
   with London. Thalys, which runs high-speed trains linking dozens of
   cities in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, suspended
   service. Cellphone lines were jammed as panicked travelers and Belgians
   tried to make calls.
   
   What Happened at Each Location in the Brussels Attacks   
   Explosions at the city's main international airport and at a downtown
   subway station have killed more than two dozen people and left the
   Belgian capital in a state of virtual lockdown.
   OPEN Graphic
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   The events on Tuesday began with a pair of explosions at a departure
   hall at Brussels Airport, in the town of Zaventem, about seven miles
   northeast of the city center, just before 8 a.m.
   
   "We were going to check in around 7:30 a.m.," said one traveler, Ilaria
   Ruggiano. "There were seven of us. We were a bit late. We heard a big
   noise and saw a big flash. My mother went to the floor — she was hit. I
   just dropped my luggage and went to the floor. A kid came out, bleeding
   a lot. I tried to help him with a tissue, but it was not enough. There
   were two bombs."
   
   Another passenger, Jérôme Delanois, said he was at an Internet cafe
   near the Delta Air Lines counter when he heard a thunderous noise.
   "There were two explosions — one big one and one little one," he said.
   "The first one blew all the walls and everything. There were burning
   flames. The first one was bigger. It blew out all the windows."
   
   Belinda How, a traveler from Malaysia who was in Brussels for a
   vacation, said she had been lining up to check in for an Etihad Airways
   flight when she heard the blast. "I was the last passenger queuing up,"
   she said. "I was very close to the first blast. Everybody was
   screaming."
   
   She added: "I said to my son — he is a Down syndrome special-needs
   child — 'You have to run.' He said, 'My leg hurts.' I think he was
   panicked. I left my luggage, dragged him and ran. Before I ran out,
   there was another bomb."
   
   

   A blast shook the Maelbeek station in downtown Brussels, not far from
   the area that houses most of the European Union's core institutions. By
   THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date March 22, 2016. Photo by Emmanuel
   Dunand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Watch in Times Video »
   
   
   Alan Merbaum, who had flown in from Washington, said he had narrowly
   avoided the blast.
   
   "I heard what sounded like a thud a minute or so before 8 a.m.," he
   said. "It sounded like it could have been something dropped off the
   back of a truck. Ten to 20 seconds later, I heard a loud explosion and
   I immediately knew what it was. I saw smoke coming out of the front
   entrance of the airport."
   
   Photographs posted online showed passengers covered in blood and soot,
   looking stunned but conscious. Some passengers were seen being taken
   away on luggage carts.
   
   Other images posted on social media showed smoke rising from a
   https://twitter.com/ikazban/status/712178117532643330
   departure hall, where the windows had been blown out, and people
   running away from the building. Hundreds were herded outside.
   
   At 9:11 a.m., a bomb tore through the last car of a subway train as it
   pulled out of the Maelbeek station, said Françoise Ledune, a
   spokeswoman for the Brussels transit agency.
   
   Henk Stuten, 50, who works for the European Commission in an office
   above the station said, "We felt a boom, we felt the building tremble,"
   adding, "We saw through the windows that people were rushing out of the
   metro exit."
   
   

   Planes, runways and terminals were cleared after two explosions rocked
   the city's international airport. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish
   Date March 22, 2016. Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press.
   Watch in Times Video »
   
   
   About 10 to 15 minutes later, the office was evacuated, Mr. Stuten
   said. Some people were "very calm," others were "very emotional," he
   added.
   
   He said most of the wounded were on Rue de la Loi, outside the station,
   which serves the area that houses most of the European Union's core
   institutions.
   
   "There were colleagues who just five minutes before were in the metro,"
   he said. "You realize how close these things can come to you."
   
   Brian Carroll, 31, a communications consultant from Washington, said he
   was on a subway car near Maelbeek en route to a conference in downtown
   Brussels when he heard a loud blast.
   
   "As we were pulling into the station there was suddenly a loud
   explosion," he said in a phone interview. "There was smoke everywhere.
   Everyone dropped to the ground. People were screaming and crying."
   
   Mr. Carroll said he had remained on the ground for one or two minutes,
   then got up, pried open a door of the subway car with his hands and
   fled. "I thought to myself, 'I've got to get out of here,' " he said.
   "I headed toward an exit. There was smoke and soot everywhere. There
   was glass everywhere. It was like running through a cloud of dust. I
   saw the exit of the station was destroyed. I ran out of the station; I
   ran as far as I could."
   
   Earlier in the morning, police officers taped off the numerous streets
   leading to the subway station as emergency vehicles raced to the blast
   site. Ambulances were clustered around the entrance, next to the
   normally busy Rue de la Loi, which runs through the heart of the
   so-called European quarter. A police helicopter flew overhead.
   
   Yvan Mayeur, the mayor of Brussels, warned that the death toll of 20 at
   the subway station could rise.
   
   "The situation in the subway is extremely chaotic," he said at a news
   conference. "Forensic police have lots of work ahead to identify the
   victims. It will be long and difficult work."
   
   Belgium has emerged as a focus of counterterrorism investigators after
   the attacks in Paris.
   
   On Monday, the Belgian authorities asked for the public's help in
   finding Najim Laachraoui, 24, who they identified as an accomplice of
   Mr. Abdeslam. The authorities are also searching for Mohamed Abrini,
   31, who was filmed with Mr. Abdeslam at a gas station on a highway to
   Paris two days before the Nov. 13 attacks.
   
   Reporting was contributed by Dan Bilefsky and Prashant Rao from London;
   Lilia Blaise, Nicola Clark, Benoît Morenne and Milan Schreuer from
   Paris; James Kanter from Brussels; and Julie Hirschfeld Davis from
   Havana. "

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Witness: First one blast, then bigger explosion
by CNN , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lHyfl52t8
  "Jef Versele, who was in the Brussels airport when two explosions hit, speaks to CNN."

Chaos as blasts rock Brussels airport
by Reuters , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyv93t5T63k
  "Video shows a large police presence at Brussels airport after deadly explosions
   media reports say was a suicide attack. Rough cut (no reporter narration)"

[Hereward]

Watch at around 12 seconds into video. A "father" picks up a "baby" (lying face down), doesn't look to see if it's OK and moves off with presumably it's mother.  The baby looks stiff just like a doll! The baby would be crying its eyes out and in distress and need comforting if it were real.
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https://youtu.be/FUBXfwkn5vI

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PHOTO. THESE ARE THE [ALLEGED] SUSPECTS OF ZAVENTEM
https://twitter.com/r0eland/status/712286257066418176

Hi Hereward : Here's how to embed a youtube on this forum :

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Reiziger filmt chaos en paniek na ontploffingen in vertrekhal.
by rmstock , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYrsTDuZk4
  "Reiziger filmt chaos en paniek na ontploffingen in vertrekhal. #vrtnieuws #brusselsattack
   VRT deredactie.be
   @vrtderedactie
   Brussels 6:40 AM - 22 Mar 2016
   https://twitter.com/vrtderedactie/status/712272741114650624

   Brussels Airport and Subway Explosions Kill 34 "

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Brussels Attack | Explosions Rock Airport, Subway Station [BREAKING NEWS]
by ABC News , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPgwkagMANU
  "Belgian media is reporting high death toll after the multiple
   explosions. At least 28 people have been confirmed dead in multiple
   explosion in Brussels. Blasts were reported at the international
   airport and a subway station near a European Union office."

Trump Responds to Brussels Terror Attacks
by ABC News , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvga6d7sDDk
  "Donald Trump calls into "GMA" to talk about the explosions that took
   place in the Belgium capital."

Bernie Sanders Remarks on Brussels Attacks
by ABC News , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRQMGUvgeE
"Sanders calls for increased actions against ISIS following Brussels
   attacks."

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What Happened at Each
Location in the Brussels Attacks
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/22/world/europe/brussels-attacks-graphic.html?_r=0

  "Explosions at the city's main airport and at a downtown subway station
   have killed dozens of people. MARCH 22, 2016 Related Article
   
   
   
   The attacks occurred four days after the capture of Salah Abdeslam,
   believed to be the sole surviving direct participant in the Paris
   attacks in November.
   
 
   About 8 a.m.: Airport explosions
   
   
   
   A pair of blasts struck a departure hall at Brussels Airport. At least
   one of the explosions appeared to have been set off by a suicide
   bomber, officials said. An airport spokeswoman said the airport would
   remain closed to all incoming and outbound flights until at least
   Wednesday morning.
   
   
   
   At least one explosion targeted a check-in area, where video footage
   showed passengers gathered with luggage.
   
   
   The departure hall as seen on Aug. 3, 2015.
   Virginie Lefour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
   
   
   Check-in row 3 in the departure hall after the explosions.
   Photograph via Twitter user @fduboccage
     
   
   About 9:10 a.m.: Subway explosion
   
   Another blast shook the Maelbeek subway station in downtown Brussels at
   the height of the morning rush. The subway station is near many
   European Union buildings, including the European Parliament.
   
   European Union buildings in the area of the subway attack
   
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   Many of the wounded were seen on the Rue de la Loi, a normally busy
   street that runs through the heart of the so-called European quarter.
   
   
   
   
   The Investigation After the Attacks
   
   
    Officials believe the two men on the left in this airport surveillance photo were suicide bombers. Police asked for help identifying the man on the right. Belgian Federal Police/AFP — Getty Images
   
   Police conducted a series of house raids in Brussels. They found a bomb
   containing nails, chemical products and a flag of the Islamic State in
   the Schaerbeek neighborhood, the Belgian prosecutor said.
   
   
   By Karen Yourish, Derek Watkins, Patrick Smith, Haeyoun Park, Josh Keller,
      Larry Buchanan, Sarah Almukhtar and Gregor Aisch "

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The Truth About the Brussels Attack
by Paul Joseph Watson , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyhY8WVCm0
  "How many Europeans need to be slaughtered before we acknowledge that
   Islam is not a "religion of peace"? "

[Christopher Marlowe]

This is another HOAX in my opinion.

3/22 = Skull & Bones.  This is another fake terror attack done by Gladio/CIA.

The first video released from the CCTV cameras at the scene were actually from CCTV from previous bombings: 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fake-video-used-in-news-coverage-of-brussels-terror-attacks/5515894

Fake Video Used in News Coverage of Brussels Terror Attacks
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, March 22, 2016

Brussels News media Dernière Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance Video of the terror attacks.

The published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on Media Part.

The video pertains to a terror attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on 24 January 2011 (posted on youtube in November 2013).

The  report of DHnet.be on the Brussels airport attack used the video of the Moscow 2011 attack with the date of the Brussels attack: (22/03/2016) pasted onto the Russian video.

Why would a real terror attack use CCTV from different terror attacks? Because there is NO REAL CCTV footage of any terror attack, obviously. There is no real CCTV footage because no actual bombs exploded and no one was hurt. 

Here's a video of a couple saving their FAKE BABY after the bombing:

According to the "Dailymail" Mr Mason (pictured below) survived Boston, Paris and now Brussels.

    Mason Wells, 19, an American Mormon missionary, has survived his third terrorist attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3505243/It-s-blessing-God-s-alive-American-Mormon-injured-brush-terrorism-Brussels-surviving-Boston-bombing-Paris-attacks.html#ixzz43hplRnw5

Here is a news report with THE WORST ACTOR IN THE WORLD at the last 15 secs:

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This is another HOAX in my opinion.

3/22 = Skull & Bones.  This is another fake terror attack done by Gladio/CIA.
[ ... ]

Here's a video of a couple saving their FAKE BABY after the bombing:

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Here's the same footage, showing Man with Baby Doll, which actually has
been used by any and all of the major mainstream news agencies, given a
single or two exceptions :

Reiziger filmt chaos en paniek na ontploffingen in vertrekhal.
by rmstock , Published on Mar 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYrsTDuZk4
"Reiziger filmt chaos en paniek na ontploffingen in vertrekhal. #vrtnieuws #brusselsattack
   VRT deredactie.be
   @vrtderedactie
   Brussels 6:40 AM - 22 Mar 2016
   https://twitter dot com/vrtderedactie/status/712272741114650624  "

VRT is the main Belgian News/TV Channel. BBC, ABC, NBC
MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, FOX, have _ALL_ used above footage. However
the full 2min 4 secs clips is a montage.  About the Man with the
Doll. Oh well, tragedies happen in every family, even the most
reputed ones, where boys rather want to play with Dolls, than play
with Dinky Toy Cars, Fleischmann Miniature Trains or Revell Airplane
Models. Maybe the Man had just purchased a replica of Brussels
Manneken Pis, meaning "Little man Pee" in Dutch, as a souvenir.

[Amanda]

Sorry, short on time and don't know how to bring all the photos over:

http://memoryholeblog.com/2016/03/27/the-dark-truth-behind-the-brussels-attacks/#more-26617 (comments over at MHB usually worth reading)

The Dark Truth Behind the Brussels Attack
by MHB Administrator • Guest Posts • Tags: Brussels Attacks, crisis actors, false flag terror, media disinformation, news media analysis, Paris 11/13, psychological warfare, terrorism, war on terror   
Was Brussels 3/22 Another Staged Event?

James Robertson
Crimes of Empire

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Two explosions were reported at the departure hall at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, on Tuesday. The airport evacuated the building amid reports of several fatalities.
Ketevan Kardava, via Associated Press

02

Smoke filled the departure hall at Brussels Airport after an explosion.
Ralph Usbeck/Associated Press

03

A wounded man lay on the ground at the airport.
Ketevan Kardava/Associated Press

04

A security guard helped a wounded woman outside the Maelbeek subway station.
Michael Villa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

05

A Belgian soldier inside the departure terminal the airport after two bombs, believed to be hidden in luggage, exploded.
Jef Versele, via Reuters

06

Travelers were evacuated from Brussels Airport after the explosions.
Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images

07

Travelers who were evacuated from the airport took shelter at a nearby sports complex.
John Thys/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

08

Passengers evacuated a metro car after a blast at the Maelbeek subway station.
Evan Lamos/Associated Press

09

Police officers stood guard around Maelbeek subway station.
Martin Meissner/Associated Press

10

Emergency rescue workers placed a person on a stretcher at the site of an explosion at the Maelbeek subway station in Brussels.
APTN, via Associated Press

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A security perimeter was set up near the Maelbeek subway station.
Olivier Hoslet/European Pressphoto Agency