UK: Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at official statement of condemnation of Belgium attacks

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"We are shocked and saddened to hear of today's terror attacks in Belgium. The innocent victims of these barbaric attacks and their families are in our thoughts and prayers."

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Source/Credit: AMJ International
By Statements | March 22, 2016

Statement by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community:

"We are shocked and saddened to hear of today's terror attacks in Belgium. 

The innocent victims of these barbaric attacks and their families are in our thoughts and prayers.

We hope the perpetrators of these evil attacks are swiftly brought to justice."

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Context:  A series of deadly terrorist attacks struck Brussels on Tuesday, with two explosions at the city’s main international airport and a third in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the headquarters complex of the European Union. (NY Times)

At least 34 people were killed — 14 at the airport and 20 at the subway station — and many more wounded, including 92 at the airport and 106 at the subway station. (NY Times)

Only days ago in Brussels, as Western leaders celebrated the arrest of a key terrorist suspect, Salah Abdeslam, Belgian officials warned that there were dozens more jihadists at large in the city and that more attacks were being planned. (Chicago Tribune)

Belgian authorities had been on alert after Abdeslam, Europe's most wanted man, told investigators he had been planning an attack on Brussels. (Expetica)

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Brussels attacks. (Washington Post)



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