Brussels bomber was deporte back to Belgium with warning
Mar 23, 2016 22:30:40 GMT -5
Post by PurplePuppy on Mar 23, 2016 22:30:40 GMT -5
Sent back to bomb Brussels: Outrage as Turkish president reveals they arrested ISIS fanatic in June and deported him BACK to Belgium - and even warned authorities he was a militant
Turkish president reveals Ibrahim El Bakraoui was detained in Gaziantep in southern Turkey near the Syrian border
Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui named as suicide bombers who struck in airport and Metro train
Najim Laachraoui originally thought to be 'Man in White' but tonight dramatically revealed as other airport bomber
It means the 'Man in White' - now Europe's most wanted man - remains a mystery and he is still thought to be on run
Brussels airport bomber Laachraoui was explosives expert who also made suicide vests for the Paris massacres
Twin ISIS attacks killed 34 people - 14 at Brussels airport at 8am and 20 more at Maelbeek station 79 minutes later
Driver who took terrorists to airport reveals that fourth suitcase bomb was left behind because it wouldn't fit in taxi
Cabbie was suspicious after attacks and led police to safehouse containing fourth bomb, ISIS flag and suicide note
By Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter and Simon Tomlinson and Emma Glanfield for MailOnline
Published: 02:08 EST, 23 March 2016 | Updated: 19:05 EST, 23 March 2016
One of the Brussels bombers was arrested in Turkey and deported back to Belgium in June with a warning that he was a militant, it has sensationally been revealed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who yesterday blew himself up at Brussels Airport, was arrested in Gaziantep in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border last summer. Officials said he was deported to Holland before being passed back over to Belgium.
The president said Belgian authorities had failed to confirm the suspect's links to terrorism 'despite our warnings that he was a foreign fighter'.
The revelation came as it was dramatically revealed this evening that the identity of the 'Man in White', who was previously thought to be explosives expert Najim Laachraoui, remains a mystery. He is now Europe's most wanted man and a major international manhunt to find him remains ongoing.
It emerged as it was revealed that Laachraoui was actually the other airport suicide bomber, who was pictured on the left-hand side on CCTV footage showing the three ISIS suspects wheeling their suitcases into the terminal prior to the deadly bombing which occurred at 8am local time yesterday.
Ibrahim and Laachraoui killed 14 people and injured dozens of others when they set off suicide vests and explosives-packed suitcases at the airport. They were accompanied by the 'Man in White' who abandoned his suicide mission and fled the terminal when his nail-shrouded bomb failed to explode.
Just 79 minutes later, Ibrahim's brother - Khalid El Bakraoui - detonated his suicide vest on a Brussels Metro train at Maelbeek station killing 20 people.
Earlier today, it emerged that Ibrahim left a suicide note telling how he was desperate to blow himself up because he did not want to go to prison like his friend, the Paris logistics chief Salah Abdeslam.
The typed note, found next to 15kg of homemade explosives, an AK-47 and an ISIS flag during a raid at a property in the Schaerbeek area of the city, said: 'I don't know what to do. I'm in a hurry. I'm on the run. People are looking for me everywhere. And if I give myself up then I'll end up in a cell.'
The latest twist came after it was revealed the Belgian El Bakraoui brothers escaped police in a gunfight during an anti-terror raid just eight days ago.
Carnage: There were scenes of devastation at the main terminal at Brussels national airport today as rescue workers and officials continued to pick through the rubble following the two bomb blasts yesterday morning which killed 14 people and injured scores more
Devastating: Workers continued to pick through the debris at Brussels airport today as the windows of the terminal remained heavily shattered from the twin attacks on the Belgian capital which has rocked Europe. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the horrific bombings
Brussels bombers: Khalid El Bakraoui (left) detonated his suicide vest on a Brussels Metro train at Maelbeek station just 79 minutes after his brother Ibrahim El Bakraoui (centre) blew himself up with an explosives-packed suitcase at Brussels airport. Ibrahim was accompanied by another suicide bomber, who was dramatically identified this evening as explosives expert and bombmaker Najim Laachraou (right)
Web of terror: MailOnline can reveal how an ISIS terror network from across Brussels first took murder to the streets of Paris killing 130 before members of the cell who survived returned to the Belgian capital. In the past week, as police closed in, some members including Salah Abdeslam were either arrested or killed before the team of four bombers launched twin attacks yesterday, killing 34
Laachraoui - now revealed as the second airport suicide bomber - was already one of the world's most wanted men, having built the suicide vests used in the Paris attacks and went on the run with Salah Abdeslam, one of the other Paris massacre masterminds, before hiding in Brussels for four months.
He is suspected of rigging up the suicide vests that helped kill 34 in twin attacks yesterday and is believed to have done the same for the Paris attacks.
Today it emerged there could have been another suitcase bomb set off in the airport but the ISIS fanatics couldn't fit all their explosive-packed bags into a taxi outside their safehouse. They refused to let the driver touch the bags - prompting him to later contact the police about their suspicious behaviour.
Investigators are now desperate to track down the 'Man in White' - the third ISIS suspect pictured at the airport - as well as Mohamed Abrini, who was thought to be a close friend of the 'Man in White' and Abdeslam, for his possible involvement in the mass slaughter in the Belgium capital on Tuesday.
Yesterday's twin terror attacks on the Belgian capital left at least 34 people dead and are believed to have been revenge for Saleh Abdeslam's capture. Experts believe the jihadists launched the Brussels attacks because the net was closing in on their terror cell.
Belgium's prosecutor said this afternoon that Ibrahim El Bakraoui's suicide note, found in a bin, said he was 'on the run' and did not 'know what to do' - but added he was 'in a hurry' and 'didn't want to end up in a cell like him' - a reference to his friend Abdeslam.
All of the men named as bombers today were 'well known' to detectives because of their links to ISIS and all had significant criminal records. The El Bakraoui brothers had been in jail recently for gun smuggling, burglary and car crime.
Most recently they had been on the run since March 15 following a shoot-out in a terrorist hideout in the Belgian capital's Forest suburb. They opened fire on police and fled.
The raid carried out last Tuesday on a flat in the suburb of Forest saw a sniper kill terror suspect Mohamed Belkaid while the El Bakraoui brothers managed to escape police.
There was initial speculation that the raid had aimed to capture Paris-terrorist Abdeslam, but he escaped through a loft window, but this was later denied by a police spokesman.
Full story, lots more pictures, and video at the link.
Turkish president reveals Ibrahim El Bakraoui was detained in Gaziantep in southern Turkey near the Syrian border
Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui named as suicide bombers who struck in airport and Metro train
Najim Laachraoui originally thought to be 'Man in White' but tonight dramatically revealed as other airport bomber
It means the 'Man in White' - now Europe's most wanted man - remains a mystery and he is still thought to be on run
Brussels airport bomber Laachraoui was explosives expert who also made suicide vests for the Paris massacres
Twin ISIS attacks killed 34 people - 14 at Brussels airport at 8am and 20 more at Maelbeek station 79 minutes later
Driver who took terrorists to airport reveals that fourth suitcase bomb was left behind because it wouldn't fit in taxi
Cabbie was suspicious after attacks and led police to safehouse containing fourth bomb, ISIS flag and suicide note
By Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter and Simon Tomlinson and Emma Glanfield for MailOnline
Published: 02:08 EST, 23 March 2016 | Updated: 19:05 EST, 23 March 2016
One of the Brussels bombers was arrested in Turkey and deported back to Belgium in June with a warning that he was a militant, it has sensationally been revealed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who yesterday blew himself up at Brussels Airport, was arrested in Gaziantep in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border last summer. Officials said he was deported to Holland before being passed back over to Belgium.
The president said Belgian authorities had failed to confirm the suspect's links to terrorism 'despite our warnings that he was a foreign fighter'.
The revelation came as it was dramatically revealed this evening that the identity of the 'Man in White', who was previously thought to be explosives expert Najim Laachraoui, remains a mystery. He is now Europe's most wanted man and a major international manhunt to find him remains ongoing.
It emerged as it was revealed that Laachraoui was actually the other airport suicide bomber, who was pictured on the left-hand side on CCTV footage showing the three ISIS suspects wheeling their suitcases into the terminal prior to the deadly bombing which occurred at 8am local time yesterday.
Ibrahim and Laachraoui killed 14 people and injured dozens of others when they set off suicide vests and explosives-packed suitcases at the airport. They were accompanied by the 'Man in White' who abandoned his suicide mission and fled the terminal when his nail-shrouded bomb failed to explode.
Just 79 minutes later, Ibrahim's brother - Khalid El Bakraoui - detonated his suicide vest on a Brussels Metro train at Maelbeek station killing 20 people.
Earlier today, it emerged that Ibrahim left a suicide note telling how he was desperate to blow himself up because he did not want to go to prison like his friend, the Paris logistics chief Salah Abdeslam.
The typed note, found next to 15kg of homemade explosives, an AK-47 and an ISIS flag during a raid at a property in the Schaerbeek area of the city, said: 'I don't know what to do. I'm in a hurry. I'm on the run. People are looking for me everywhere. And if I give myself up then I'll end up in a cell.'
The latest twist came after it was revealed the Belgian El Bakraoui brothers escaped police in a gunfight during an anti-terror raid just eight days ago.
Carnage: There were scenes of devastation at the main terminal at Brussels national airport today as rescue workers and officials continued to pick through the rubble following the two bomb blasts yesterday morning which killed 14 people and injured scores more
Devastating: Workers continued to pick through the debris at Brussels airport today as the windows of the terminal remained heavily shattered from the twin attacks on the Belgian capital which has rocked Europe. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the horrific bombings
Brussels bombers: Khalid El Bakraoui (left) detonated his suicide vest on a Brussels Metro train at Maelbeek station just 79 minutes after his brother Ibrahim El Bakraoui (centre) blew himself up with an explosives-packed suitcase at Brussels airport. Ibrahim was accompanied by another suicide bomber, who was dramatically identified this evening as explosives expert and bombmaker Najim Laachraou (right)
Web of terror: MailOnline can reveal how an ISIS terror network from across Brussels first took murder to the streets of Paris killing 130 before members of the cell who survived returned to the Belgian capital. In the past week, as police closed in, some members including Salah Abdeslam were either arrested or killed before the team of four bombers launched twin attacks yesterday, killing 34
Laachraoui - now revealed as the second airport suicide bomber - was already one of the world's most wanted men, having built the suicide vests used in the Paris attacks and went on the run with Salah Abdeslam, one of the other Paris massacre masterminds, before hiding in Brussels for four months.
He is suspected of rigging up the suicide vests that helped kill 34 in twin attacks yesterday and is believed to have done the same for the Paris attacks.
Today it emerged there could have been another suitcase bomb set off in the airport but the ISIS fanatics couldn't fit all their explosive-packed bags into a taxi outside their safehouse. They refused to let the driver touch the bags - prompting him to later contact the police about their suspicious behaviour.
Investigators are now desperate to track down the 'Man in White' - the third ISIS suspect pictured at the airport - as well as Mohamed Abrini, who was thought to be a close friend of the 'Man in White' and Abdeslam, for his possible involvement in the mass slaughter in the Belgium capital on Tuesday.
Yesterday's twin terror attacks on the Belgian capital left at least 34 people dead and are believed to have been revenge for Saleh Abdeslam's capture. Experts believe the jihadists launched the Brussels attacks because the net was closing in on their terror cell.
Belgium's prosecutor said this afternoon that Ibrahim El Bakraoui's suicide note, found in a bin, said he was 'on the run' and did not 'know what to do' - but added he was 'in a hurry' and 'didn't want to end up in a cell like him' - a reference to his friend Abdeslam.
All of the men named as bombers today were 'well known' to detectives because of their links to ISIS and all had significant criminal records. The El Bakraoui brothers had been in jail recently for gun smuggling, burglary and car crime.
Most recently they had been on the run since March 15 following a shoot-out in a terrorist hideout in the Belgian capital's Forest suburb. They opened fire on police and fled.
The raid carried out last Tuesday on a flat in the suburb of Forest saw a sniper kill terror suspect Mohamed Belkaid while the El Bakraoui brothers managed to escape police.
There was initial speculation that the raid had aimed to capture Paris-terrorist Abdeslam, but he escaped through a loft window, but this was later denied by a police spokesman.
Full story, lots more pictures, and video at the link.
