Brussels Terrorist attackers were originally targeting nuclear plant, but changed their minds after arrests.

Brussels Terrorist attackers were originally targeting nuclear plant, but changed their minds after arrests. (Naharnet).

Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.

Referring to an incident in December that prosecutors confirmed in which militants covertly filmed the home of an unidentified senior official in the nuclear industry, the paper quoted a police source as saying that two of the suicide bombers, brothers Khalid and Ibrahim Bakraoui, had filmed the daily routine of the head of Belgium's nuclear research and development program.

A 10-hour video from a camera hidden in front of the nuclear official's house was found in December during a police raid in Belgium, linked to the Paris attacks a month before.

Any plans for an assault on a nuclear site might have been foiled by a police operation last week in the Brussels borough of Forest, the newspaper said. In that raid, officers unexpectedly stumbled upon armed men in a flat that was searched in connection to the Paris attacks investigation.

The arrests may have forced the hand of the attackers who decided to shift to targets in Brussels, focusing on the airport and metro: "There is no doubt that they rushed their operations because they felt under pressure," the police source was quoted by DH as saying.

"Even if one couldn't prevent these (Brussels) attacks, one can say that their magnitude could have been much bigger if the terrorists had been able to implement their original plan and not opted for easier targets," said the police source. Hmmm........Any nuclear fallout would have probably affected the Netherlands or other neighboring country. Read the full story here.

ISIS, oil & Turkey: Russian news film trove of jihadist docs detailing illegal trade with Ankara.

ISIS, oil & Turkey: RT films trove of jihadist docs detailing illegal trade with Ankara.(RT).

 An RT Documentary crew filming in northern Syria has seen Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) documents abandoned by retreating terrorists and found by the Kurds that, along with captured IS recruits, provide a stunning insight into the alleged Turkey-IS oil trade links.

Turkey, which has been actively engaged in the Syrian war since the outset, has repeatedly denied claims that it is aiding IS. However, while Ankara insists that it is the jihadist group’s sworn enemy, facts on the ground often tell a different story.

RT has spoken to several witnesses who were involved in Islamic State’s trade activities and accessed the terror group’s documents, which provide insight into how and where foreign militants enter Syria to join the terrorist “state.”

The RT Documentary team did most of its filming in the town of Shaddadi, located in the Syrian province Hasakah, which has been partly overrun by IS jihadists.

RT filmed Kurdish soldiers walking around what used to be the homes of IS fighters and examining piles documents that had been left behind.

Some of the files seized at the scene turned out to be detailed invoices used by IS to calculate daily revenues from their oil fields and refineries, as well as the amount of oil extracted there. All the documents had Islamic State’s symbol at the top.

The files showed that “IS has kept very professional records of their oil business,” said the author of the new RT Documentary on Islamic State filmed in northern Syria, who chose to remain anonymous for security reasons.

RT spoke to local residents who had been forced to work in the IS oil industry about what it was like working at the terrorist-controlled oil refinery and where the extracted oil was sold.

The locals attested that “the extracted oil was delivered to an oil refinery, where it was converted into gasoline, gas and other petroleum products. Then the refined product was sold,” the RT documentary’s author said. “Then intermediaries from Raqqa and Allepo arrived to pick up the oil and often mentioned Turkey.”

Important information revealing the connection between IS and Turkey was provided by a Turkish militant previously captured by the Kurds. The IS recruit said on camera that the terrorist group does, in fact, sell oil to Turkey.

“Without even us asking the fighter directly, he admitted that the reason why it was so easy for him to cross the Turkish border and join IS was, in part, due to the fact that Turkey also benefited. When asked how, he said that Turkey gets something out of it – something such as oil.”

Turkey’s logistical support for extremist fighters trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, or at least its non-interference with their cross-border movements, has been widely reported, but little has been said about the ideological support coming from Turkish soil.

Among the documents left behind by the terrorists at an IS-run hospital, RT’s crew discovered an Islamist propaganda leaflet printed in Arabic titled “How to wage a perfect battle against the criminal Assad’s regime,” which described ways to combat the Syrian government.

Curiously, the brochure was printed in Turkey, with the cover openly displaying the postal address and phone number of an Istanbul printing house, supplemented by Facebook contacts.

Turkey benefits from Islamic State because the terrorist group provides it with cheap oil and is fighting both Syria’s government and Kurdish population.

This is an opinion shared by both Kurds and their mortal enemies from the jihadist organization. The IS documents obtained by RT may provide additional evidence revealing the dirty game being played by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Syria.Read and see the full story here.

Four major attacks that were blamed on #ISIL in #Turkey in over a year, but none of them were claimed by #ISIL in contrast to attacks in EU.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 23, 2016

Turkey did not extradite El Bakraoui to Belgium they put him on plane to the Netherlands, informed Belgium a week later!

Turkey did not extradite El Bakraoui to Belgium they put him on plane to the Netherlands, informed Belgium a week later! (HLN)[GoogleTranslated].

Turkey did not inform our country on the return of Ibrahim El Bakraoui, the terrorist who blew up Tuesday at Zaventem airport. "But it informed us a week after the facts," said an anonymous source at the VRT.

Yesterday, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Ibrahim El Bakraoui arrested in the summer of last year in Gaziantep, a Turkish city near the border with Syria. The man who was paroled in our country for robbery with Kalashnikovs, was sent back to the Netherlands at his own request.

Turkey warned then the embassies in Belgium and the Netherlands. The source confirms to the VRT that Belgium was informed, "but only a week after El Bakraoui had arrived in the Netherlands."

One of the conditions for El Bakraoui's parole was that he no longer than 30 days would stay abroad. That condition was thus violated.

July 2015: on July 14 - El Bakraoui is put on the plane . According to information from the federal prosecutor that happened towards the Netherlands and not towards Belgium, says Justice Minister Koen Geens. 

Moreover, it was according to Geens "It is more than likely a rejection at the Syrian border." "It is certainly was no extradition."

Geens also stressed that El Bakraoui at that time was only known for banditry not for terrorism with the Belgian services. On other contacts between the Belgian, Dutch and Turkish authorities around El Bakraoui is still much uncertainty . At some point, the Belgian and Dutch embassies were informed by Ankara of the fact that El Bakraoui was put on the plane, but an exact date has not been confirmed yet. Read the full story here.

Four major attacks that were blamed on #ISIL in #Turkey in over a year, but none of them were claimed by #ISIL in contrast to attacks in EU.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 23, 2016

Terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud was leader of group of 90 Jihadi who came to Europe as refugees.

Terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud was leader of group of 90 Jihadi who came to Europe as refugees.(HLN)[GoogleTranslated].

Terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who died in the police action on 16 November in an apartment in Saint-Denis, told a girlfriend how he got in Europe.

He would have hid himselve among a stream of migrants in the Mediterranean.

Along with 90 other terrorists they reached safe and well in France.

He was the leader of the group, they chose France because the chance of success there was the greatest.

Abaaoud along with an accomplice had planned other attacks, according to his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen.

He could plan attacks with 5,000 euros that was transferred via Western Union by the IS network.

They also took advantage of an informal system to transfer money, hawala.

In the apartment where Abaaoud was shot dead on November 17, police found the ingredients to make the same TATP bombs, in addition to many other weapons. They found an empty shot gun with Abaaoud's DNA, suggesting that he has fought until the end. In the apartment police found several boxes of unused smartphones. Hmmm.......How many such groups came in to Europe? Read the full story here.