Thursday, March 24, 2016

Intel Chairman: Brussels Attacks Appeared To Target Americans


By Julian Hattem, March 23, 2016 The Hill

The terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday appear to have been designed to hit Americans, according to the head of the House Intelligence Committee.

“From my vantage point, it does look like an attack on Americans,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters off the House floor on Wednesday. “It looks like it was targeted towards Americans to some degree.”

Nunes said he drew that conclusion based on location of the twin bombing sites: next to stands for U.S. airliners United, American and Delta at Brussels’s Zaventem airport, and at a downtown metro station less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy.

“With all that said, if you’re going to pick some locations where you might hit Americans, those would be the locations,” Nunes said.
Nunes cautioned that the conclusion is his own, and not necessarily that of U.S. intelligence agencies.

“We may never know, but from my vantage point, this looks like those locations, to me, look like places where you would hit Americans,” he added. “It looks suspicious.”
 

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