Radio in the US is reporting that they cannot detain him! Unbelievable.
The Belgium's GDP is ca 530 billion (2014), thus either the amount or the percentage in this article seems incorrect. because 4.5 Billion is 0.9% of Belgium's GDP. On the bottom of the article they speak of an annual GDP drop of 0.1 percent, which seems to cause the confusion. I think they mean a 4 billion cost this year (1% drop) and a 400 million/0.1 GDP drop for all years from now on....
BRUSSELS ATTACKS TO COST BELGIUM $4.47 BILLION
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Suspect on the Loose
The suspect, who has still not been publicly identified by police, is one of the most wanted men in Europe.
Dubbed the "man in white" because he was wearing a lighter shirt and lighter jacket than the other bombers, the third man is believed to have fled the scene after his bomb did not detonate when the others did, authorities said.
The undetonated third bomb was found in a suitcase by police who responded to the scene, according to authorities, who noted that the bomb later went off on its own while the bomb squad was on site because it was so unstable.
Wonder why " the man in white" had the most " unstable bomb " yet was the one who got away?
rbbm.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...-stands-week-deadly-attacks/story?id=38002143
What is matt skin ?
"He has a matt skin, brown eyes, dark hair and a small face"
The Belgium's GDP is ca 530 billion (2014), thus either the amount or the percentage in this article seems incorrect. because 4.5 Billion is 0.9% of Belgium's GDP. On the bottom of the article they speak of an annual GDP drop of 0.1 percent, which seems to cause the confusion. I think they mean a 4 billion cost this year (1% drop) and a 400 million/0.1 GDP drop for all years from now on.
The cause of confusion may be the use of USD in the article but Euros in the calculations?
[I tried to search to reply & quote the post but couldnt find it --- I know it was already posted...Regardless, thank you to that poster.]
According to ITV Good Morning Britain correspondent Jonathan Swain police who went back to the house where the men were picked up from found that the two other pieces of luggage left behind "also contained high explosives as well."
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-03-23/brussels-attackers-may-have-planned-even-more-explosions/
Acting with uncharacteristic and still unexplained swiftness, Belgian security forces sealed off the area around the apartment in Schaerbeek within 90 minutes of the airport attack. The authorities attributed their speedy reaction to a tip-off from the taxi driver.
But the driver was said to have alerted the police only after a photograph of the suspects in the attacks was released hours later, raising questions about whether the police had perhaps already had the building in their sights but, for some reason, had not moved in and smashed through the front door to the sixth-floor apartment until it was too late.
Young men in the Molenbeek district of Brussels were sent messages over the weekend calling on them to “make the right choice” and “fight the westerners”.
The texts were sent on Sunday night from a prepaid account that could not be traced or replied to. It followed a video distributed on Facebook, since removed, apparently showing local youths celebrating the attacks in Brussels last week.
It is not known how the recipients’ phone numbers were obtained, but community activists believe Isis handlers download all contacts from the phone books of new recruits and select young men of north African origin to follow up.
Jamal Ikazban, the local Socialist party MP, told the Guardian that the communications were stoking tensions in the community. “These people are trying to take our youth by storm,” he said.
“It is like having a big-time drug dealer outside the school gates. We feel the same. They have to be taken off the streets. They are predators and our youths are the victims.”