“They said, ‘You are going to the infidels.'” Making the “infidels” more attractive than ISIS is the key to winning this fight. ISIS faces a number of challenges to its rule, including an intense U.S.-airstrike campaign and government and rebel forces on the ground fighting to take back land from the militants. You have to get the information from these people.”.@realDonaldTrump suggests torture could have thwarted #Brussels plot: https://t.co/gemXAgdu25 – Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) March 22, 2016 The Boston Globe said that Trump’s policies “could violate worldwide law and has been condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike.
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“With this resolution, we’re sending a clear message that we stand with the people of Belgium”, said Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
And Obama has been unsparing in his counterattacks on Republicans such as Donald Trump, who has controversially called for a wall to be built along the border with Mexico and the banning of Muslims from entering the United States. But the more inclusive treatment that immigrants have been afforded in this country has diluted the strength of appeals to American Muslims to join jihadists in establishing an Islamic caliphate.
“I just left a country that engages in that kind of surveillance”, Obama said of his previous stop in Cuba, “which by the way the father of Sen”. “They’re not an existential threat to us”.
As is customary for Muslims, my wife and I awakened on Tuesday morning to offer our morning prayers in order to begin the day in a spirit of graciousness and gratitude that God allowed us to see the beginning of a new day.
Obama says the US will also providing any assistance it can to investigate the bombing attacks in Brussels. Those calls intensified after a US-led coalition launched air strikes against the group’s strongholds in Syria and Iraq in mid-2014.
“We will also continue to go after ISIL [ISIS] aggressively until it is removed from Syria and removed from Iraq, and is finally destroyed”. “While we are doing that, we’re also extraordinarily vigilant about preventing attacks in our homeland and working with our allies to prevent attacks in Europe”.
The concern was reflected in a State Department alert warning USA citizens traveling to Europe that terrorists continue to plot near term attacks.
Before the terrorist attacks Tuesday that killed at least 30 in Brussels, 48% of Americans anxious “a great deal” about the possibility of future terrorist attacks in the U.S. While this percentage is higher than in most years since 2004, a possible terrorist attack was not Americans’ top concern. Approximately 230 others were injured.
Two bombs ripped through Brussels’ Zaventem airport – one from a suicide bomber in the departures area – and another at the entrance to the Maelbeek subway station in the heart of the city, near the European Union headquarters.
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Belgian media reported that one person was arrested Wednesday, while counterterror official Paul Van Tigchelt warned Wednesday that there were others involved in the plot who remained at large in Belgium and still posed a threat.
