Belgian Terror Arrests Highlight Europe's Security Nightmare
Belgian police made new terror arrests over the weekend, but other terrorists are reportedly ready to strike.
The news comes as Europe finds itself with a security nightmare on its hands thanks to decades of welcoming dangerous radical Muslims to immigrate, all in the name of multiculturalism.
Police officers picked up four men during raids in Brussels over the weekend and charged them with complicity in last month's attacks that killed 32 people.
One was a Swedish national. Another was Mohamed Abrini, the man who was spotted alongside the two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Brussel's airport.
Abrini told interrogators that attacking Brussels was not the original plan. Instead, after the Paris attacks last November, the terror cell intended to attack France again. But with police on their trail and closing in, they decided to strike Brussels instead.
Since the Brussels' attacks, many have felt like a countdown is underway until the next terrorist attack in Europe.
Belgian Prime Minister Michel has already admitted there will be more attacks and more will die. Finally realizing it has a war on its hands, Belgium's interior minister says the nation is recruiting 1,000 new federal agents and boosting its counterterrorism budget.
"We are recruiting for the federal police," Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said. "The objective is to recruit 1,000 police officers for the federal police."
In the Netherlands, there are fears that a terrorist network is poised to strike Amsterdam. And there have been fresh terror warnings in Britain.
Trevor Phillips, the former chief of Britain's Equalities and Human Rights Commission who helped popularize the term "Islamophobia," now admits he got almost everything wrong on Muslim immigration.
"For a long time, I too thought that Europe's Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoning their ancestral ways, wearing their religious and cultural baggage lightly, and gradually blending into Britain's diverse identity landscape..." he wrote. Instead, they're creating "nations within nations."
Belgian authorities believe the most important members of the Brussels' terror cell are either dead or have been captured. But the hunt continues for others tied to the attacks, and officials say the threat to Belgium, France, and the rest of Europe remains very high.
