Posted on 03/23/2016 7:03:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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 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.
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I said last night I had no sympathy for the Belgians. But now I do have derision.
That’s what happens when less than 1% of your GDP is spent on protecting your citizens.
I wonder how much of OUR GDP is spent on protecting their citizens....
Hey, we did the same thing with the older brother that bombed the Boston Marathon. Russia warned us about him, but we let him do his evil deed anyway.
That’s basically what happened in Boston with the brothers Tsarnaev. Russia gave us a heads up on them, and we gave them welfare dollars.
Now that would make the Belgians the laughingstock of the planet, wouldn't it?
You were hitting post while I was typing. GMTA.
I said last night I had no sympathy for the Belgians. But now I do have derision.
That’s an excellent way to put it. They deserve contempt. I feel the same.
And they certainly don’t merit American help. But I don’t see that happening anyway.
I bet the Belgians get a better return on their investment.
And his widow, who had to have been an accomplice considering the small apartment, is running free, doing who knows what kind of mischief.
“Hey, we did the same thing with the older brother that bombed the Boston Marathon. Russia warned us about him, but we let him do his evil deed anyway.”
That’s right..I forget, who was fired for that?
They assume because they're a member of NATO, the US will protect them from external threats. While that may be true, it's obvious that they lost control of their internal affairs and couldn't tell where all the bad guys live.
Apparently they had specific info on this attack, but not enough resources to follow up. They are busy rounding up islamaphobics.
GOOD point people.
Maybe we ought to elect a POTUS who might listen next time.
I have spoken against moslems for over 30 years.
IMO they are filth that need to be cleansed from the planet and memory.
I'd best be for staying out of Belgium then.
Rubberstamped “TERRORIST” on his passport and no one even noticed till he blew himself up.
I feel sorry for the victims, but it’s hard to feel for a. Country that sat back and Allowed this to happen.
Per the Hillary, and Dem, logic - this "Terrorist" labeling is what set the poor lads off. If not for Islamphobia, everything would be peaceful. We need to ask how we can better ingratiate ourselves to these murderers, to prevent them from murdering.
That's the ticket.
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