Video - One year ago, the Brussels Airport was attacked by Islamist terrorists, 5 people recall the events.

One year ago, @KARDAVAKETEVAN was at the #BrusselsAirport when the terrorist attacks happened. She still has vivid memories of what she saw. pic.twitter.com/qaBvo0dkkk

— dwnews (@dwnews) March 22, 2017

France, Belgium ID ISIS 'brain'of Paris & Brussels attacks; seen here in an Amnesty campaign in 2010.

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France, Belgium ID ISIS Oussama Atar,'brain'of Paris & Brussels attacks; seen here in an Amnesty campaign. (Telegraph).

French investigators have identified a Syria-based extremist of dual Belgian and Moroccan nationality as a suspected coordinator of attacks in Paris and Brussels, sources close to the case have told French media.

Amnesty international was campaigning  in 2010 to provide him with medical help not to have him released, they stated today.
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Oussama Ahmad Atar, a 32-year-old thought to be a member of Isil, was already a suspect in the Brussels attacks on March 22 but has now been linked to the November 13, 2015 atrocities in Paris.

"He's the only coordinator from Syria to have been identified during the investigations," one of the sources told AFP.

Investigators in Belgium and France were long unsure as to who was the person behind Abou Amahad, a nom de guerre long linked to the terror attacks that killed 130 in Paris on November 13 and 32 in Brussels on March 22.

According to Le Monde, he was identified from a strip of several photograph as Oussama Atar by one of the terror suspects he had sent to Europe to commit atrocities.

Atar’s name had already been mentioned in the Belgian & French press in August as a potential “mastermind” of the Brussels attack with no further details. Now a “certain consensus” exists that he coordinated the attacks in both capitals remotely from Syria.

Atar is the cousin of Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui - two brothers who blew themselves up in the March Brussels airport and metro attacks, also linked to the Paris attacks. Read the full story here.

Terrorist Najim Laachraoui, worked for five years in the Brussels airport, knew security apparatus well.

Najim Laachraoui, worked for five years in the Brussels airport knew security apparatus well. (VTM) [GoogleTranslated].

Najim Laachraoui, one of the two terrorists who blew himself up at Brussels Airport, would have worked for five years at the same airport. That's wath VTM NEWS has learned. The man was working with a temporary contract for a company that operates at the airport. This means he was well-informed about the security at Zaventem.

The police discovered shortly before the attacks a clandestine secret prayer room  in the airport itself where radicalized personnel came together to meet in secret and praying. Although the airport is equipped with special prayer rooms, among them one for Muslims, but still a small group chose to organize their own secret prayer. At the request of the police is that space was emptied and shut down. That was shortly before the attack on the airport on March 22.

Research shows that there would be a list of names of at least 50 radicalized personnel at the airport. 

That list was drawn up after the attacks, but the secret prayer was discovered before the attacks and shut down. Hmmmm.....Proof of what I've been saying for many years 'Airport staff is the weakest link in airport security. Read the full story here.

Police at Brussels Zaventem airport threatens strike if security measures don't improve.

Temporary check in terminal

Police at Brussels Zaventem airport threatens strike if security measures don't improve. (HLN).[GoogleTranslated]

Police Brussels Airport Zaventem will no longer work at the airport Wednesday if the security measures do not significantly improve. For example, there should be more staff be deployed for security.

Belgian news agency Belga reported Sunday that this was confirmed by a spokesman of the police union in question that there will be a strike if demands are not met. The union demanded action even before the bloody attacks last Tuesday in the departure hall.

The Belgian Ministry of the Interior was told Friday March 18 it would discontinue airport police if there was no action. "The sad events of (Tuesday) March 22 prove that our concerns are justified," said Alain Peeters from the police union NSPV Sunday.

We demand more security and additional staff," says Alain Peeters, national secretary ad interim of the National Syndicate of Police and Security Personnel (NSPV). Today, discussions took place between the NSPV and the head of the government at the airport. "At the Brussels Airport management, we have expressed our concerns.

Specifically, we ask an audit of all travelers before they enter the temporary infrastructure, Which will probably be 'build' in the form of a tent. Secondly, we demand that no cars may appear in a radius of at least 100 meters to the temporary terminal of actual entrance of the airport. ​​"

The measures must be taken before the airport reopens, says the union. The airport authorities want 'Zaventem' to reopen again on Wednesday. Hmmmm......And no this is not an Onion piece.

Top Brussels rabbi: 'Belgian authorities know nothing about security'.

Top Brussels rabbi: 'Belgian authorities know nothing about security'. (TOI).

Amid revelations of perceived failures in Belgium’s handling of terror threats, a prominent rabbi from Brussels said Belgian authorities “have no understanding of security issues.”

Hadad said that soldiers who were posted outside a synagogue and the city’s Chabad House following the slaying of four Jews in Brussels’ Jewish Museum of Belgium in 2014 told him that for months, they used to guard the area with no bullets in their rifles. “It was just a show. It’s not normal,” he said. Read the full story here.

'Sometimes NATO Ally' Turkey releases remaining Hundred ISIS suspects in mass IS trial.

'Sometimes NATO Ally' Turkey releases remaining Hundred ISIS suspects in mass IS trial. (Turkish Minute).

A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the release from custody of all remaining suspects in the trial of almost 100 people suspected of ties to the Islamic State jihadist group, reports said.

The trial in Istanbul is the most significant yet in Turkey against alleged members of IS, dozens of whom have been detained in nationwide security sweeps in recent months.

Until Thursday's hearing, seven of the 96 defendants were still in custody.

But in what was the fourth hearing in the trial, the court ordered that the seven -- five Turks and two Syrians -- be released under judicial supervision, the Dogan news agency reported.

The trial was adjourned to an unspecified date in June. Dozens of defendants are also being tried in absentia.

Those released included Halis Bayancuk, whom press reports had dubbed the "emir" of IS in Istanbul with the nom-de-guerre Ebu Hanzala.

Bayancuk is charged with being a member of IS and faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. He denies the charges.

Another suspect -- Syrian national Asaad Khalif al-Khadr -- is also charged with forging passports.

The seven freed Thursday cannot leave Turkey and will have to report to the authorities three times a week.

The Turkish government in August conducted large-scale operations against three terrorist organizations, including ISIL, and detained hundreds of suspects in a counterterrorism campaign launched in the wake of an explosion in Suruç that claimed 33 lives on July 20, 2015, among them Bayancuk, also known as Abu Hanzala. Bayancuk was detained in İstanbul with his wife on July 27 and later arrested with several other suspected ISIL members.

The Suruç explosion took place in front of the Amara Cultural Center where a large number of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) from İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Diyarbakır were making a statement to the press regarding their planned efforts to help reconstruct the Syrian border town of Kobani. The media reported that 300 members of the SGDF were preparing to travel to Kobani to help with the efforts to rebuild. Thirty-three young people died from injuries sustained in the explosion.

Bayancuk led an Eid prayer on July 2015 in İstanbul where he criticized the Turkish government and made a call for a “holy war.” The media reported that a group of ISIL militants — allegedly consisting of 1,000 members — gathered at a picnic site in İstanbul’s Ömerli neighborhood to perform the prayers signaling the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the beginning of the celebration of Eid al-Fitr.

Bayancuk was also detained on Jan. 14, 2014, along with dozens of others during anti-terrorism raids on al-Qaeda cells by the police and gendarmerie units in six provinces across Turkey. 

He was later arrested. However, he was released in the eastern city of Van in October 2014 by a controversial court order after Turkey’s government removed the police chiefs who ordered the raids from office.

This man was released today by #Turkey court in the largest #ISIL case ever because he poses no danger to the society. GO FIGURE!

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 24, 2016

#Turkey president #Erdogan now says bombs will explode in #Russia because it allowed #PYD to open an office there.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 25, 2016

Video - Brussels - Shaerbeek: masked police shoot suspect & drag him through street

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Opération à #Schaerbeek: le suspect neutralisé à un arrêt de bus serait "un gros poisson" https://t.co/41mobJHS61 pic.twitter.com/TXIhpXHjxn

— RTL info (@rtlinfo) March 25, 2016

US and Europe created terror in Brussels, says spokesman for PA Security Forces.

US and Europe created terror in Brussels, says spokesman for PA Security Forces. (Palwatch).

Following the terror attacks in Brussels yesterday, in which at least 30 people were murdered and hundreds were injured, PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri wrote in a post on his Facebook page that the US and Europe are the ones who created international terror.

He claimed, for example, that Europe and the US are responsible for "exporting Jewish terror to Palestine," and therefore Europe is directly responsible for the terror that strikes it:

"Those who prepare the poison will taste it themselves, and today Europe is having a taste of what it prepared with its own hands." [Facebook page of PA Security Forces spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri, March 22, 2016]

Today, the official PA daily expressed the same message in the cartoon above - a person whose head is the globe representing the Western world is shown attempting to blow up the Middle East, but inadvertently blows up himself. [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 23, 2016]

The following text was posted by PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri on his Facebook page on March 22, 2016, following the terror attacks in Brussels:

"While we condemn and denounce terrorist acts everywhere in the world, we Arabs are the ones who have been most severely burned by the fire of terror, which has been created and exported by the US and Europe since the Arab Jihad fighters in Afghanistan, and before that by exporting the Jewish terror to Palestine, supporting it and justifying it. Today, Europe is being burnt by its [the terror's] fire in its airports and squares. I do not gloat but feel pain over every innocent soul that was killed, but those who prepare the poison will taste it themselves, and today Europe is having a taste of what it prepared with its own hands. Unless you fight terror everywhere, first and foremost in Palestine, since the [Israeli] occupation is the ugliest form of terror, as well as in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan - you will be burnt by its fire, and terror has no religion." [Facebook page of PA Security Forces spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri, March 22, 2016

Purely by coincidence Erdogan said the following today:

In a public rally speech in central province Yozgat on Friday , #Turkey president #Erdogan says #Belgium had it coming on terror.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 25, 2016

Canada - Ontario Teachers Pension Plan owns nearly Forty percent stake in Brussels Airport.

Canada - Ontario Teachers Pension Plan owns nearly Forty percent stake in Brussels Airport. (Observer).by Larry Fedoruk.

The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan owns 39% of the recently attacked Brussels Airport. They acquired the hefty stake in 2011.

On their website they offered a statement of sympathy and added that they are in close contact with the Belgian government, providing whatever support they can. It's unclear what that support might entail.

The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) has been around since 1990 and claims assets over $150 billion. They administer the pensions for approximately 182,000 teachers and school administrators and pay pensions to about 130,000 retirees.

It will be interesting to see how investors react in the future. Hmmm......Trudeau: 'Canada is not at war with ISIS'.Read the full story here.

This Government is a joke.
No one Isis calling out BOLD-faced lies.
Canada not at 'war' with ISIS, Trudeau say https://t.co/AxCTPmXxb4

— Manny Montenegrino (@manny_ottawa) March 24, 2016

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan owns 39% of terror-ravaged Brussels Airport. ISIS at war with us too. @MFS001 https://t.co/t1HT1NBPgn

— Senator Linda Frum (@LindaFrum) March 24, 2016