Brussels bombmaker Najim Laachraoui - known as the 'Man in
white' - has been arrested in a suburb of the Belgian capital, it has been
claimed today.
Laachraoui is a master bombmaker suspected of rigging up the
suicide vests used in the Paris massacres and has been found in the Anderlecht
district of the city.
Belgian brothers Khalid El Bakraoui, left, Ibrahim El
Bakraoui, centre, have been named by the Belgian media as the two airport
suicide bombers - their accomplice the 'Man in White' Laachraoui, right,
remains at large having walked out of the airport
Najim Laachraoui, left, one of the suspects of the Paris
terrorist attacks, is believed to be the man in white on the run - and is a
close associate of Salah Abdeslam, right, who was arrested on Friday - an act
said to have sparked yesterday's bombing by his terror cell
Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui were today
named as the two airport ISIS suicide bombers who murdered 14 people – eight
days after escaping a shoot-out with police in Brussels.
The jihadists were named as police linked the atrocities in
the French capital that killed 130 and the bombings at Brussels Airport and a
Metro station that left 34 dead yesterday.
Laachraoui went on the run after leaving a suitcase packed
with explosives and calmly walking from the terminal moments before the
massacre at 8am.
Just 79 minutes later a suicide bomber detonated his vest on
a Brussels Metro train at Maelbeek station killing 20 people. It is not known
if he raced across the city to blow himself up.
Today it emerged there could have been a fourth airport bomb
but the ISIS fanatics couldn’t fit all their explosive-packed suitcases into
the taxi and refused to let the driver touch them so left one behind at their
safehouse.
Laachraoui was already one of the world's most wanted men,
having built the suicide vests that helped kill 130 in Paris last November and
went on the run with Salah Abdeslam before hiding in Brussels for four
months.
And one of the brothers, Khalid El Bakraoui, rented the apartment
where Paris terror attacker Salah Abdeslam was captured by anti-terror police
last Friday, according to respected Belgium news organisation RTL.
Yesterday's twin terror attacks on the Belgian capital that
left at least 34 people dead are believed to have been revenge for Abdeslam's
capture - experts believe the jihadists launched the Brussels attacks because
the net was closing in on their terror cell.
All of the men were 'well known' to detectives and had been
on the run since Tuesday March 15 following a shoot-out in a terrorist hideout
in the Belgian capital's Forest suburb. They opened fire on police and fled.
Yet they still managed to find another address to stay,
where they stored the explosives and guns used in Tuesday's attacks.
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