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@Northwest

It's not just the British Press.

[quote]A source close to the investigation told AFP that the gunman was on a special police watchlist because of his contacts with radical Islamists.[/quote]
http://www.thejournal.ie/liege-attack-4043788-May2018/
AFP ~ Agence France-Presse

[quote]The attacker was not on a terrorism watch list, nor on a list of people suspected of being at risk of radicalization. But he was cited in two reports by Belgium’s civilian intelligence service, and one by the police, on a radicalized individual with whom Mr. Herman had been in contact.[/quote]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/world/europe/belgium-liege-gunman-radicalized.html

[quote]Justice Minister Koen Geens told RTBF radio he was having pangs of conscience over whether the man should have been allowed the furlough.

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“There are signs he was radicalized in prison but is it that radicalization which drove him to commit these acts?” [Interior Minister Jan] Jambon said, adding that although Herman was flagged up in security reports in 2016 and early 2017, he had been a fringe figure.

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It was the 14th time since his detention that he was granted temporary leave, Geens said. “Everyone in Belgium is asking the same question: how is it possible that someone convicted of such serious acts was allowed to leave prisons?” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander de Croo was quoted as saying.[/quote]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-shooting/prison-day-release-practice-under-scrutiny-after-killings-in-belgian-city-idUSKCN1IU2WI

The PM is going to be criticized for the furlough program.

It's been over 30 years since Willie Horton was let out under a prison furlough program under Gov. Michael Dukakis and politicians still haven't learned from it.

@beckyromero From your post:

[quote]The attacker was [b]not[/b] on a terrorism watch list, [b]nor[/b] on a list of people suspected of being at risk of radicalization[/quote]

Just responding to the title of your thread:

[quote]See What Happens When You Release Terrorists From Jail?[/quote]

If you want to talk about furlough programs, let's change the topic.

@Northwest

And from my post.

[quote]"But he was cited in two reports by Belgium’s civilian intelligence service, and one by the police."[/quote]

The PM is doing his hardest to make it sound as though there was no justification to prevent the killer from going out on a day-released program.

What I am saying is that there are reports from multiple news sources quoted Belgium officials to indicate that the killer WAS on reports, just not Belgium's terrorist watch list.

Many countries, including ours (U.S.), suffer from having too many different criminal databases, watch lists, whatever you want to call them, etc., that lets violent criminals slip thru the cracks and then all of a sudden when they commit yet another violent crime, officials start covering their asses.

But inevitably in many such instances, it gets eventually reported that they WERE on some kind of list(s) that should have raised all kinds of red flags.

Time will tell with this incident, too.

@beckyromero Afghanistan does have some serious natural wealth that they've never been able to really exploit. And a lot of it is only going to become more valuable as we shift towards electric.

But that's definitely not why we got involved.

@beckyromero comments are to justify america as biggest terrorist than any other country.

@Addie [quote]comments are to justify america as biggest terrorist than any other country.[/quote]

Oh, go ahead and be an apologist for the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.