Brussels attacks: Names of attackers and victims emerge
Authorities reveal details about men who attacked Belgian capital as identities of their victims become known.
| Belgium, ISIS, Security, Europe
Details are emerging about the men who carried out the deadly bomb attacks in the Belgian capital Brussels on Tuesday, and their 31 victims.
Police continued to hunt a fourth suspect on Thursday, whose identity is unknown, but all three men who succeeded in blowing themselves up were named.
Two of the attackers who targeted Brussels Zaventem airport were named as Brahim el-Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui.
The third attacker, who appears besides the pair in a CCTV photo from the airport, is believed to be on the run after he failed to detonate his explosives.
Muslims like me are asked the same questions after any terrorist attack. For the record, here are our answers
Considering the fact that Donald Trump has come out with more unfounded claims about Muslims, it’s more important than ever to set the record straight
“The Donald” has once again reared his head, this time in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. After being called out last year for his lie about no-go areas in the UK by the Chief of the Police, he claimed today that Muslims are sheltering terrorists and not reporting suspected terror cases to the police.
The problem with Donald Trump - other than the fact that his statements on Muslims seem to be a classic case of political fear-mongering: conflating issues of terrorism, criminality, refugees and migration to gain votes with no regard to its consequences - is that he seems to makes claims based on very little real evidence.
Almost 87 million small children are growing up in conflict zones, says UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund reports nearly 87 million children under seven years of age know no life outside conflict zones. Exposure to trauma can hinder a child's brain development.
UNICEF released the new worldwide figures on Thursday, pointing out that in addition to the immediate physical threats facing children caught up in war and conflict; they risked deep-rooted emotional scars.
Children in crises were at risk of living in a state of "toxic stress" which inhibited brain cell connections, the UN's children's fund said.
"Conflict robs children of their safety, family and friends, play and routine," UNICEF Chief of Early Childhood Development Pia Britto said. "Yet these are all elements of childhood that give children the best possible chance of developing fully and learning effectively, enabling them to contribute to their economies and societies, and building strong and safe communities when they reach adulthood."
A Palestinian Takes A Different Road In His Fight
NPR.org
Bassam Aramin was not born hating Israel, but he learned young.
He was 5 or 6 years old the first time he saw Israeli soldiers. This was about a decade after the 1967 war, when Israel captured the West Bank. Aramin's large family lived an ancient lifestyle. Like many families in the area, their home was in a cave in the south, near Hebron. They farmed for a living.
The soldiers arrived by helicopter — a strange creature to the young boy's eyes — and crossed the valley to his home on foot, Aramin remembers. During a conversation he could not follow, one soldier, he says, slapped his older cousin.
"In his face," Aramin remembers. "It's like a shot." He cowered beside his mother, watching his aunt yell at the armed Israelis.
Europe’s refugee plan is so inhumane, Doctors Without Borders is refusing to work with it
Updated by Amanda Taub
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, often known by its French acronym MSF (Medecines Sans Frontières), which provides aid to some of the most vulnerable people in some of the most dangerous war zones on Earth, announced yesterday that it would shut down operations in a Greek refugee camp that is one of the front lines of the European refugee crisis.
The group is responding to a new European Union plan for dealing with the refugee crisis, under which it will forcibly send refugees who arrive in Greece back to Turkey. MSF says it considers this "unfair and inhumane" and will refuse to participate, even complicitly, by providing services at the refugee camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesvos.
ISLAMIC STATE BRAGGED THAT ITS ATTACKS WOULD HELP BREAK UP THE EUROPEAN UNION
A newsletter circulated after Islamic State’s November massacre in Paris sheds light on what the group believes yesterday’s deadly attack in Brussels will accomplish, including weakening unity on the continent and exhausting European states economically.
An issue of the Islamic State newsletter, al-Naba, published weeks after the Paris attack, boasted in one section that “the Paris raid has caused the creation of a state of instability in European countries which will have long-term effects,” listed as “the weakening of European cohesion, including demands to repeal the Schengen Agreement…which permits free traveling in Europe without checkpoints” and “security measures [which] will cost them tens of millions of dollars,” along with “mutual accusations between France and Belgium” over security failings.
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