Breaking - explosions at Brussels Airport Mod warning in post 1

Spudmonkey · 22-03-2016 11:40AM

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Well that's me having several straight vodkas before the flight from Dublin to Zaventem for the Euros anyway!!!

What the hell is wrong with people!

Dublin Airport is actually fine. No TVs showing sky news. If this was any other country it would be plastered everywhere.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-03-2016 11:40AM

Sky News reporting deaths at a Brussels police station.

screamer · 22-03-2016 11:40AM

nullzero wrote: »

Terrorism is the ultimate proof that humans are incredibly stupid creatures.

Nope its proof that thousands of years of evolution has ensured that even the thickest amongst us can become the ultimate killing machine.

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:42AM

Confirmed a suicide attacker for at least one explosion.

Boom_Bap · 22-03-2016 11:42AM

Deleted User wrote: »

The brother is over there at the moment. Arrived yesterday. Anyone got any idea on how he'll get home? Or is the airport still gonna be functioning properly once they've cordoned off the affected areas?

Anyone know where I'd get an update on that kinda thing? First time anyone I know has been in an area of such an attack.

He needs to contact his airline.
Aer Lingus have already said they are moving flights of people that are due to fly today for free. I've also heard of flights being moved to Amsterdam, but his airline is the only place he can go.
I'm sure there will be emergency numbers circulated, I heard one earlier on the radio.

EDIT: HeidiHeidi posted it a few posts back - +353 01 408 2000

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:42AM

Are we sending the lads from our Army over to help them?

screamer · 22-03-2016 11:43AM

Wonder how long it will be before they try an attack on the EU headquarters?

Kerrydude1981 · 22-03-2016 11:44AM

Just spotted this on the Journal.ie live blog

Irishman Eoin Walsh, who has also been speaking with RTE’s Sean O’Rourke this morning, said he left the Maalbeek Metro station just minutes before this morning’s explosion.
He had just dropped his daughter at the creche before getting on the Metro system, and said he felt a “sense of unease” about getting on public transport.
Eoin said after he got back to the office “somebody came in and said there’d been another explosion at Maalbeek train station, which is about 500 metres from our office”.
His office building and the entire street are now on lockdown, and security and military are out on the streets, he added.
Authorities and employers have been telling people to “stay indoors,” he said.
“There’s no way of getting home either.”

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:45AM

No trains, no planes going to brussels, french borders closed

dav3 · 22-03-2016 11:45AM

Straight Edge Punk wrote: »

I didn't say kill anyone. I said who is responsible for this morning. I know who it was and so does every rational thinking person on the planet.

If you know who did it and are privy to that information you need to get in touch with the relevant authorities.

screamer · 22-03-2016 11:46AM

stoplooklisten wrote: »

Are we sending the lads from our Army over to help them?

Well Edna tweeted that we stand with Brussels so we're right there at the back helping with crowd control id imagine.

Straight Edge Punk · 22-03-2016 11:46AM

dav3 wrote: »

If you know who did it and are privy to that information you need to get in touch with the relevant authorities.

I'm sure the authorities are fully aware of who is responsible, just as I am.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-03-2016 11:47AM

stoplooklisten wrote: »

No trains, no planes going to brussels, french borders closed

Closed or just not allowing everything to go through completely unchecked?

Knex* · 22-03-2016 11:47AM

Apparently there are some deaths reported at the Maelbeek police station near EU headquarters and more blasts heard, and a bag of weapons found at the airport just a few minutes ago.

Christ.

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:47AM

screamer wrote: »

Well Edna tweeted that we stand with Brussels so we're right there at the back helping with crowd control id imagine.

Do we all have to get on twitter with a sign? :rolleyes:

:mad: Send in the lads Enda

Easca Peasca · 22-03-2016 11:47AM

It will be an incredible period of history to look back on, whatever will be the result of all this. Such random, needless killing of completely innocent and everyday people. RIP.

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:48AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Closed or just not allowing everything to go through completely unchecked?

Closed on the french side, completely for the moment

22-03-2016 11:50AM

Cheers for the replies folks. I'll give him a heads up to ring the airline (not sure who he flew with, to be honest).

I think he's supposed to be back on thursday. I'd say he'll be grand, but just wanted to ask and that number is handy. Cheers guys.

inforfun · 22-03-2016 11:50AM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

1 persons hearsay is evidence now?

Where can I go? Care to tell me what my beliefs are?

Molenbeek.

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:51AM

News conference -
too early to say how many victims at this point
German federal police confirm they will increase security
they want to normalize the situation and progress.

jmayo · 22-03-2016 11:51AM

murpho999 wrote: »

Really some perspective.

These attacks are awful and tragic, 23 dead so far which is terrible, but at the same time 10 million Belgiums and 600m Europeans are all fine.

Looked at this way it's a small attack no need to over react and persecute all muslims.

Good lad keep playing it down.

Just highlighting this one single attack makes the situation look ok.

But why not add in
Paris Nov 2015 (137 dead)
Paris Jan 2015 (21 dead)
Tunisia 2015 (28 dead)
Toulouse 2012 (7 dead)
Moscow 2010 (40 dead)
London 2005 (53 dead)
Bali 2005 (20 dead)
Moscow 2004 (10 dead)
Madrid 2004 (191 dead)
NY/Washington 2001 (3,000 dead)

And this did not even include all the attacks in Turkey, the Middle East Indian subcontinent, Africa, etc.

Look up these for saltatory truth of what exactly those in the name of islam have contributed over the last number of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

Ah but sure you will probably drag up the numbers killed in car accidents to lessen the toll. :rolleyes:

Atlantic Dawn · 22-03-2016 11:51AM

The lawyer representing Salah Abdeslam used the term that his client was "worth his weight in gold" yesterday, could that have been some codeword for the attack? Seems a rather odd term when I heard it yesterday.

The only suspected participant in Nov. 13 Paris attacks to be captured alive has been cooperating with police investigators and is "worth his weight in gold", his lawyer said today.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/captured-paris-attack-suspect-abdeslam-worth-weight-in-gold-to-police-lawyer-34558612.html

dav3 · 22-03-2016 11:51AM

Straight Edge Punk wrote: »

I'm sure the authorities are fully aware of who is responsible, just as I am.

I doubt they are, they may have a list of suspects. If they know who was responsible they would have stopped them.

When you say you know who it is, do you mean Belgian nationals carrying out these attacks against their own people, similar to the Paris attacks?

Timberrrrrrrr · 22-03-2016 11:54AM

inforfun wrote: »

Molenbeek.

You're making no sense whatsoever

Explain why I would want to go there

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:55AM

What has Mama Merkel to say about this?

Ave Sodalis · 22-03-2016 11:56AM

Straight Edge Punk wrote:

I'm sure the authorities are fully aware of who is responsible, just as I am.

Yet unlike you, they are not acting based on who is responsible because they know they do not have enough information to confirm it. You don't see them scrambling to make plans to close borders or declaring marshall law or making any knee jerk reactioms based on who they think it is. They are acting as they would, no matter who caused it and will decide what to do about those responsible when they know for sure who is responsible.

BoJack Horseman · 22-03-2016 11:56AM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Explain why I would want to go there

There may be some sort of islamist cuckold exchange programme?

banned

Atlantic Dawn · 22-03-2016 11:56AM

Sky News going on and on about failure of security at the airport... what possible measures could they have done to prevent it? If they moved additional security checks to the airport entrance the crowded area would then start there and still be a target for terrorists.

Straight Edge Punk · 22-03-2016 11:57AM

sup_dude wrote: »

Yet unlike you, they are not acting based on who is responsible because they know they do not have enough information to confirm it. You don't see them scrambling to make plans to close borders or declaring marshall law or making any knee jerk reactioms based on who they think it is. They are acting as they would, no matter who caused it and will decide what to do about those responsible when they know for sure who is responsible.

France have closed their border.

stoplooklisten · 22-03-2016 11:57AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Sky News going on and on about failure of security at the airport... what possible measures could they have done to prevent it? If they moved additional security checks to the airport entrance the crowded area would then start there and still be a target for terrorists.

So was ALjazerra, their coverage is brutal, the presenter keeps cutting across everyone. There's an irish guy on it now.

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