Startled awake on March 23rd 2016 at now 2:27 AM,
the voice on the radio doing a live interview in Brussels,
the pitch of that Anchor with cheer and glee saying:
"Whats the mood like their right now?"
The response from his Associated Press Journalist
"Well the streets are very quiet and people seem to be staying inside . . . ."
the spooky readiness of practiced shore was morbidly disturbing.
This was all I was able to stomach,
I managed to in quick fix turn the Radio Station playing abc News Reporting off,
already though the words are haunting me.
Now its just the absorption of how such questions would be asked so privately in such sprite,
people here in America go and walk the minds of disaster with a glad sort of fill,
the shock and terror not even out of numb,
than the microphones are springing grout to waists saying the deck of resistance is an interview please.
However Reality T.V. in America really talks better with the pictures as the shadows,
this is the search results per pixels and script,
included you will see that I typed the fall^Low^EAN into the google search bar,
"abc reporting on the mood in Brussels March 23rd 2016"
a picture truly is worth 1000 Words??,
rather these results on the scroll showing reality is the horror of what terrorism defines.
Stunned citizens come together for a vigil after Brussels terror attacks
ELEANOR HALL: Our Europe correspondent, Barbara Miller, is in the centre of Brussels where many locals have gathered.
I spoke with her earlier.
Barbara you're at a vigil in the centre of Brussels. How many people are there and what's the mood - fear, defiance?
BARBARA MILLER: Well there's probably still a good couple of hundred people here Eleanor. It has thinned out a little bit.
It's of course getting very late here in Brussels. The mood is really pretty peaceful.
A lot of people just coming, standing in quiet contemplation. The focal point of this square is an area where people have laid flags down and lit many, many candles, some of them in the shape of hearts.
There's a couple of men sitting a few metres away from where they've made a peace sign out of candles and they're just sitting there with a tin of beer, sitting there chatting. So it's been actually quite a nice atmosphere here over the past few hours.
I would say that people are defiant, that they have said that they want to come and show that they won't be cowed by terrorism - but I think also a sense of course that people want to pay tribute to the victims - more than 30 people who died in this attack, and of course the many, many more injured.
Let's just hear now from a couple of people who've come here tonight to the Place de la Bourse telling us why.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Well it's a terrible thing that's happened so it's difficult and on the other side, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be feeling. But it's a terrible thing which happened and it's a lot of people died, so that's terrible.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: I think we've all come here together to firstly show support to people who lost people they know. But mainly, we rallied here together to show that, in my opinion, that we're not afraid.
For me personally, mainly the reason we're here to just give out a strong message that we're united and we're not afraid.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: Belgium is probably not the country that is being publicised today around the world. It's not a place where terrorists only live.
It's a place of tolerance, it's a place of progress, it's a place of social welfare where many people have been welcomed for many years. So I want to say that Belgium and Europe is together today to try to be together against this violence.
ELEANOR HALL: Some of the people there at that vigil. Barbara are there a lot of police on the streets as well?
BARBARA MILLER: There is definitely presence of course, and every now and then you hear sirens somewhere in the city and that flares up for a couple of minutes and then is gone. I think as we're speaking now the Interior Minister Jan Jambon has come to this square.
He's speaking now to a large group of reporters and just members of the public surrounding him. And even though that's a government minister, there's not a huge police presence around now.
There are police officers standing around but they're pretty relaxed. I just went over to one to ask who that was speaking and she (inaudible) didn't seem at all uptight.
Now when we came into the square we did go through a police check. We were asked to show our bags, to open up our jackets - it's of course still cold here, people are wrapped up in big jackets.
But that police check has been disbanded, as far as I can say. I'm looking over at one of the entrances to the square now and people coming in are not being checked.
So I guess, you know, it's a city that has been in lockdown. It's a city where of course the terror threat is very, very high still.
But police right here, right at this moment, are appearing pretty relaxed and just not imposing I guess a kind of threatening, tense mood on this scene here.
ELEANOR HALL: Now Belgian security forces did carry out another raid hours after the bombings. Have they revealed anything about what they've found - or indeed what they were looking for?
BARBARA MILLER: Well, we couldn't assume that this was linked to the search for the third person they think was involved in those airport attacks. So there were two explosions at the airport, one at the metro. And police have released an image from CCTV footage of three men they believe were directly involved in these attacks.
And what they're saying is two of those men they now believe to be dead in a suicide attack, but they believe that the third man is still alive and on the run. Now of course raids are carried out in Belgium on a pretty regular basis because it is a, sort of, known hot spot for jihadi activity.
So it's not unusual to see a police raid like that. But what they did find in the Schaarbeek district when they carried out that raid was a explosive device they say and a flag with Islamic State imagery on it.
But certainly as far as we know, this third person is still on the run and I think we're going to see more raids in and around the Belgian capital over the next couple of days.
ELEANOR HALL: And Barbara, are people there raising concerns about how these attackers managed to get a bomb into the airport?
BARBARA MILLER: Look people are, of course, and I think that the intelligence services here will have very difficult questions to answer. It's been known for some time that an attack was very likely here, as of course in many European capitals at the moment.
And people will of course say, "Well, what was known about these assumed perpetrators of the attack?" But then, on the other hand, it's an airport where any of us can walk in with luggage, with large bags, for example, and not be checked.
The security doesn't take place of course until afterwards in airports like this. So, I think there'll also be a sense that it's very difficult to prevent that kind of attack.
What I guess is key is, were these men on some kind of watch list and should police have been monitoring them more closely?
And some reports are starting to emerge suggesting that intelligence services here don't, for example, share enough information with the police and that things here are still a little bit chaotic on that front.
And yes, of course there will be very tough questions for authorities over the next days and weeks - in particular because it's only been a few days since that key suspect from the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was finally arrested here. And that put the city, I guess, on an even higher terror alert.
So there must have been a sense that something was coming and, of course, now what most people are desperate to know is could authorities have prevented it?
ELEANOR HALL: That's our Europe correspondent Barbara Miller speaking to me from Brussels.
The Latest: French PM Calls for Action on Passenger Register
The Latest on attacks in Brussels (all times local):
9:55 a.m.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is urging the EU parliament to get going on authorizing a passenger name record (PNR) covering Europe.
He says: "It is urgent to adopt the European PNR. The European Parliament has waited too long to adopt this text. It must examine and adopt it in April, it's time."
Valls is going to Brussels today and says he will express his "full solidarity" with Belgium's people.
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9:45 a.m.
As Brussels woke after its worst violence in decades, joggers ran loops and dog walkers chatted as usual in Brussels' 18th-century Warandepark across from the country's parliament. But gardeners on duty said the atmosphere was different, and the mood around town was jittery as sirens frequently wailed.
"It was black day. A very black day," said Jean-Marie Vrebos, 58, who was cleaning the park's playground. "We should punish those who commit terrorism. We don't deserve terror. We should punish them, GRAB them" — he yanked a piece of trash off the ground with a clasper — "and bring them to justice."
His colleague Kevin Engels, 24, said, "Behaviors have changed. Even our bosses seem stressed. They asked us to empty all the trash cans. We pay close attention to everything. And you can hear the sirens."
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9:30 a.m.
Germany's top security official says he wants European security agencies to be able to exchange information more easily.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told RTL television late Tuesday that the Brussels attacks "and the security situation, the terror situation, should make us put the data protection arguments last."
De Maziere also says a soccer friendly match against England will go ahead despite the Brussels attacks. He says authorities "have no indications of a security threat" targeting the match in Berlin on Saturday.
In November, Islamic extremists tried to enter the stadium where Germany was playing France as part of a series of attacks in Paris. Days later, a friendly against the Netherlands days was canceled because of a security warning.
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8:30 a.m.
Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after 34 were killed in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station.
Police conducted raids into the night and circulated a photo of three men seen in the airport suspected of involvement in Tuesday's attacks.
Belgian state broadcaster RTBF has identified two of the attackers as brothers Khalid and Brahim Bakraoui. They are believed to have blown themselves up in the attacks.
The third man is at large and has not been identified.
The report Wednesday says the brothers were known to police for past crimes, but nothing relating to terrorism. RTBF says Khalid Bakraoui had rented an apartment which was raided by police last week in an operation that led authorities to top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam.
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