TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – News emerged earlier on Thursday that Khalid and Ibrahim Bakraoui, two of the three identified suicide bombers in the March 22 Brussels attacks, initially targeted Belgian nuclear plants but opted to attack public transport after the arrest of a Paris November attacks suspect.
"What we clearly see from reports of intelligence agencies around the world is that al-Qaeda and Daesh major efforts are focused on how to obtain weapons of mass destruction," Liberman said in Thursday’s interview with Israel’s Russian-language Channel 9.
Comparing anti-terrorist efforts to "catching mosquitos" instead of "drying up swamps," Liberman argued in favor of a 70,000-strong NATO force deployment "to clear the area from Raqqa to Mosul by destroying all Daesh fighters."
"Europe is moving at full speed toward a disaster. You need to understand what the next stage of terror is," the two-term minister and leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party asserted.
At least 31 people were confirmed dead and 300 wounded in two suicide attacks at Brussels Airport and one explosion at the Maelbeek subway station claimed by Daesh.
