Brussels Attack: Looking At the Big Picture

FEATURING JEAN BRICMONT – Thirty-one people were killed in the Belgian capital of Brussels earlier this week by two suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) – brothers named Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui. Brussels, which is home to the head quarters of the European Union, has been in mourning over what is being called the worst attack in its recent history.

European authorities think the incident is related to the November 2015 attacks that took place in Paris. In fact, a man named Salah Abdeslam was arrested in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek just last week in connection with the Paris killings. Abdeslam is to be extradited to France and claims no knowledge of the Brussels incident.

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Jean Bricmont, a mathematical and statistical physicist at the University of Louvain, and author of Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War. He is based in Brussels but joins us now from Paris.