Posted on 03/24/2016 1:44:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s no surprise that a pair of brothers was among the suspects believed to have carried out the deadly attacks in Brussels Tuesday, terror experts say.
This is hardly the first time that brothers have been part of such a plot.
In addition to the El-Bakraoui brothers -- Khalid and Ibrahim -- who died in Tuesday's suicide bombings, other sets of brothers were involved in the November terror attacks in Paris, the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January 2015, the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and even in the Sept. 11 attacks, where three sets of brothers were among the group of hijackers.
"Typically, what we're seeing is someone in a family will be drawn to a cause or drawn to a terrorist organization and they will then, ultimately -- as they are becoming more and more focused in doing something in furtherance of that cause -- they'll bring in someone who they have a close connection to," said John Cohen, an ABC News consultant and former acting Homeland Security undersecretary.
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Another common thread is they are all Muslim
By keeping things within the family, it’s much harder to infiltrate such cells.
I have observed that as well.
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