Brussels: Is This Just the Beginning?

The terror attack in Brussels was a horrific tragedy, but the worst may be yet to come. According to the AP, ISIS may have 400 fighters on the way to Europe.

The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum chaos, officials have told The Associated Press.

The network of agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq.

The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West. Before being killed in a police raid, the ringleader of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks claimed he had entered Europe in a multinational group of 90 fighters, who scattered "more or less everywhere."

The lesson of Europe is simple. We need common sense vigilance in the face of terror at home and a no nonsense approach to global jihad, or innocents will die.


Source: AAN