Three people have been killed and 75 people have been wounded
after a man fired a machine gun and threw grenades
outside a courthouse in Liege, Belgium. As of this writing,
a two-year old girl is fighting for her life. The man,
identified as Nordine Amrani, has also died. It was initially
believed that Amrani acted with two other assailants but Belgian
authorities say he acted on his own. Apparently, Amrani (who had a
lengthy criminal record) had been en route
to be questioned by police when he launched the attack.
Belgian authorities also deny it was a
terrorist attack. However, yesterday
a Belgian court in Mons sentenced four members of a family to
prison sentences ranging from five to twenty-five years for the
2007 honor killing of Sadia Sheikh. She was killed after refusing
to consent to an arranged marriage with a cousin in Pakistan and
instead living with a Belgian man. It was the first time anyone in
Belgium had been put on trial for committing an honor killing.
Given the timing of the attack and where it was carried out,
this certainly cannot be discounted.
Ed| 12.13.11 @ 12:49PM
As Ron Paul would say, the Belgians (Flem or Walloon, I can think of nothing more insulting than Belgian) should have just stepped aside and let them fulfill their cultural imperatives on honor killing. After all, the sentence invited this pushback. Belgians out of Belgium. If they didn't have boots on the ground in their own country, they wouldn't have this problem.
Truth to Power| 12.13.11 @ 12:54PM
Nice.
sorry| 12.13.11 @ 5:18PM
Except that was a full of bovine excrement rumour...
DRed| 12.13.11 @ 5:58PM
But no post on the right wing Italian terrorist who murdered two Senegalese in Florence today? How very odd!