Belgium on “Red Alert”: Gov Suspects Terrorist Attack including Chemical Weapon

nsnbc : The Belgian OCAM Crisis Center and the government raised the country’s “terror alert” to the highest level, warning about the imminent risk for a terrorist attack. The measure comes one week after the attacks in Paris that claimed 129 lives and injured hundreds. Experts warn about the possible use of a chemical weapon.

Brussels resembles a ghost town as police guards the erection of a Christmas tree at City Hall.

Brussels resembles a ghost town as police guards the erection of a Christmas tree at City Hall.

The OCAM and the Belgian government announced a “red alert” for Brussels and the region around Brussels, warning that a serious terrorist attack may be imminent. The Belgian Interior Ministry issued a statement, saying:

“The analysis shows a serious and imminent threat requiring specific security measures as well as detailed recommendations to the population.”

The Belgian capital resembles a city under siege with police and military deployed while a large number of citizens have been scared into staying at home and avoiding public places as much as possible.

The OCAM, in fact, called on residents in Brussels and the region around the city to avoid crowded places including transport hubs.

Several Belgian security analysts warned about the risk of the possible use of an improvised chemical weapon. Within this context it is noteworthy that chemical weapons attacks in Syria, especially that in the Damascus suburb East Ghouta, has been proven to have been carried out by the Saudi Arabian intelligence asset Liwa-al-Islam. The attack implicated the highest levels of Saudi and US governments, military and intelligence services. Belgium hosts the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO / OTAN) as well as the European Union (EU).

Belgian officials declined to provide additional information about the alleged imminent threat, stating that there was a need for time to allow for the ongoing police and judicial investigation to take its course. Hours before the announcement of the “red alert” authorities charged a third “unnamed” suspect who had been arrested the day before for involvement in the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13.

Earlier this week a Hamza Attou and a Mohammed Amri were charged with aiding fugitive Paris attack suspect Salah Abdesalam on the night of the attacks. The brother of Brussels resident Salah Abdelsalam was one of the Paris attackers who was killed when he exploded a suicide belt during the Paris attacks.

The fugitive Salah Abdelsaman is allegedly closely related to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind and ringleader of the Paris attacks. Abaaoud came from the Brussels suburb Molenbeek.  Abaaoud was fighting with the self-proclaimed Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or Daesh in Syria before he returned to Europe. It is noteworthy that the perpetrators of the Paris attacks were known to French, Belgian and other intelligence services.

Abaaoud was killed in Paris earlier this week. Considering known ties between NATO member States intelligence services and Daesh, it is noteworthy that neither the alleged Paris attack mastermind Abaaoud, nor the terrorists who participated in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and the young Danish – Palestinian “Copenhagen Shooter”

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