"Leave Abdeslam alone--he's tired"

Abdeslam to suicide bombers: "You go first, I'll follow later"

Salah Abdeslam, the alleged Islamist mastermind of the attack that killed 31 and injured hundreds in Brussels, had been in Belgian police custody four days prior to the attack. Rather than grilling him effectively, Belgian law enforcement spent about an hour, (3600 seconds) questioning him . . .  because the poor guy was "tired."

The hour-long interrogation (LOL) at a Brugas prison produced even less strategic intelligence as a DNC discussion on how to defeat ISIS. 

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

The interrogators, pleasant folks who didn't want to interrupt Abdeslam's TV time in the Rec Room, didn't initially ask him about impending jihad plans, but rather asked chronological questions such as: "Please tell us about the Paris attacks, if you will, sir."

And the Belgian authorities knew about the bomb-making supplies and his fingerprints at the safe house in Schaerbeek days before the attack, and other evidence that an attack was imminent. 

"Damn the iceberg, full speed ahead!"

They actually stopped questioning Abdeslam because he had been shot in the leg when he was captured and his boo-boo still hurt.

"He seemed very tired and he had been operated on the day before," an official told Politico.

"They were not thinking about the possibilities of what happened on Tuesday morning," another person said. (I would have stopped after the fourth word in that sentence.)

The chicken's lawyer, Sven Mary, a guy who obviously had it tough in grammar school with a name like that, agreed that Abdeslam was treated delicately by police, and that they missed a golden opportunity to prevent the Brussels attack had they actually asked him probing questions while punching him in the bad leg.

Belgian public broadcaster VRT said that Abdeslam was planning a multiple shooting and suicide bomb attack in Brussels like those in the November Paris attacks. 

But the "mastermind" would have likely had other people die rather than him. That's what Islamic masterminds do--they get the expendable jihadists to do the wet work.


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