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To: Taro who wrote (259036)	11/10/2005 5:40:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584007

Re: For sure Gus may have some "explication" to make about the riot inroads into Belgium. Some "Brazzaville Effect"?... LOL... Don't make a meal of it! So far, the Brussels incidents are merely copycat, isolated arsons --not "riots". But then again, if the Belgian police can copycat the French one, why Belgium's street urchins couldn't do likewise? I remember back in 1995 when Paris was hit by a bombing wave() and the French government compelled to set up its "vigie pirate" anti-terrorist plan... It was immediately assumed that the perpetrators were Algerian and that the whole terror campaign was one way or the other related to the French-Algerian relations. So the Paris bombings were not part of a worldwide pattern like today's al-qaeda/bin-laden terrorism. But Belgian authorities at the time nonetheless deemed it necessary to crank up security in the Brussels subway. The most conspicuous measure being that all the subway's trash bins got sealed off with a sticker "For Your Security"... Now, six months after the French had relaxed their own anti-terrorist measures and no bombs were discovered, the Brussels subway trash-bins were STILL sealed off --for our security. Of course, not even a damp squib ever disturbed Brussels' subway traffic.... () emergency.com