US intelligence officials pulled no punches yesterday in their criticism of their Belgium counterparts. They say they had constantly wanred Brussels about the terrorism in their midst and that authorities had no clue how to address the problem. Daily Beast: A senior U.S. intelligence officer likened the Belgian security forces to “children.” “It’s really shitty tradecraft,” the agent told The Daily Beast. Brussels has become a hotbed of terrorism—concentrated in  the Molenbeek district near the city center—and yet the Belgians have made little progress in disrupting a network of violent extremists linked to last year’s Paris attacks that killed 130 people. Even before the arrest last week in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, a suspected terrorist behind the Paris attack, there were worries among many U.S. counter terrorism officials of an attack in Belgium. The Belgian authorities had long struggled to...(Read Full Post)