Gunman kills 4, including himself, in attack on Belgian city

Gulfnews/AP ^

[nuconvert]

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The man, named by Belgian press agency Belga as 32-year-old Nordine Amrani, opened fire and threw explosives on a city centre square which was hosting a Christmas market.

[Truth29]

Nordine Amrani - is he or isn't he?

[jiggyboy]

Well it’s not a common name — I googled for it and the first six pages were just versions of today’s story.

Interesting angle via gawker: was it a jailbreak attempt?

http://gawker.com/5867582/fatal-bus-stop-hand+grenade-attack-may-have-been-attempted-jailbreak

[rogue yam]

Nordine Amrani - is he or isn't he?

I looked up the name on FaceBook and all the other ones seem to be.

[BuffaloJack]

> Nordine Amrani - is he or isn’t he?
I think they said he was Pakistani.

[Justa]

Is.

[null and void]

Nordine Amrani - is he or isn't he?

Only his terror dresser knows for sure...

[Old Sarge]

AP is deliberately supressing any mention of his background.

Therefore, he’s Muslim.

[Cicero]

Who else would be throwing grenades at Christmas shoppers and trying to kill two-year-olds.

There was also a suggestion on Drudge that it has to do with a Pakistani honor killing. My guess is that maybe the honor killer was involved with the judicial court mentioned in another article. Giving the Belgian judge a heads-up, maybe, to leave honor killers alone, because they are only following sharia law.

All speculative, but it’s typical that you have to read a dozen articles to figure out what the leftist press refuses to tell you.

[Cicero]

I should have mentioned that the article Drudge links to says absolutely nothing about Pakistanis or honor killings, suggesting that somebody may have wiped that information from the article shortly after Drudge linked to it.

[WOBBLY BOB]

works for me.

kinda like the AP rule for Corzine stories.

[yank in the UK]

It’s amazing how much press coverage this ISN’T getting here in Europe.. It was a huge story that never goes away when it happens in Norway

[Charlespg]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073578/Belgium-grenade-attack-4-killed-75-injured-Liege.html#comments

[Cicero]

In the initial chaos, reports said up to three men had taken part in the attack, but the Interior Ministry later confirmed only one was involved, adding the incident was not terrorism-related.

Amrani was on his way for police questioning. . . .

Hmm. Police questioning about WHAT? Maybe about the "honor killing" that Drudge mentioned?

I googled for the guys name + honor killing, and found this article, which claims that the perp was a Pakistani honor killer, according the the Karachi Times. I can't find the Karachi article itself, presumably because it's not in English, but I did find several references to it, including this one:

http://sheikyermami.com/2011/12/13/belgium-honor-killing-trial-causes-jihad-with-hand-grenades/

[Godwin1]

Local Liege paper reports dead included two young students and a 75 year old woman. Local paper puts the number of wounded at 125.
Killer is described as a “Liege man” (Liegeois)on parole from a 58 month sentence on arms offenses. He was convicted after numerous arms and “parts of arms” were found at his residence. Marijuana was also found in the home.
No mention as to whether the killer is Muslim. But the surname is not European. And the Euro media is—if you can believe it—even more PC than ours.

[EyeGuy]

“It was a huge story that never goes away when it happens in Norway”

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It was a huge story that never goes away when it can be pinned on a white “Christian” “Conservative”.

I predict Leftist, media-milking, Watergate/Matthew Sheppard longevity for the Norway killings.

[Mitch86]

It’s the lead story on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 news to be fair

[Godwin1]

And the story on the BBC website has the Belgian police “ruling out terrorism.” Shooting and bombing more than a hundred random Christmas shoppers—Liege local paper puts number at 125—must be like shoplifting, or jaywalking then. Nothing to see here.

[Captain Rhino]

Or, to take a clue from the US Government’s definition of the religiously-motivated Fort Hood shootings as “workplace violence”, let’s call it “shopping violence” or “marketplace violence.”

[SunkenCiv]

thanks nuconvert, additional:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2819730/posts