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European authorities are scrambling to avert further terrorist attacks across the bloc in the wake of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels that killed nearly three dozen people and wounded hundreds more.

14 months after the January 2015 raid in Verviers that left two men with links to Paris mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud dead, Belgian authorities are apparently still no closer to dismantling the ISIS cell responsible for the attacks in France and the bombings that unfolded in the Brussels airport and metro earlier this week.

With all of Europe and the Americas closed for holiday, what little market action there was overnight came out of Asia, where China once again was engaged in its last hour "National Team" market manipulation, which saved the SHCOMP from a red close after the now traditional last hour buying spree, pushed the Shanghai Composite from red on the session an hour before close to near the highs of the day.

In 2011 Gaddafi, his son, and his cousin all warned the world about the troubles Europe would face in the coming years – but nobody would listen.  Gaddafi warned about the migrant crisis and about the trouble ISIS would pose to the West. Below are a selection of quotes from Gaddafi and his family taken from various mainstream news sources: Gaddafi himself: “They [jihadis] want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe.” “The Mediterranean will become a sea of chaos.” “I am shocked at the attitude of my European friends.

Few would deny that the recent horrors in Brussels demand action, beginning, certainly, with a thoroughgoing purge of Belgian security and intelligence agencies. Other proposed remedies are shambolic, meaningless, or simply farcical, such as the idea of police patrolling “Muslim areas” in the U.S. (Which areas? Where? With what goal?) I would suggest, though, that one urgent priority is for the U.S. and its European allies to consider immediate political and diplomatic recognition of the Islamic State. Let me explain the grounds for that proposal.

Submitted by Alex Newman via TheNewAmerica.com,